Issue 1 of “Living Urbanism” is now available online here.

Discounted registration is available for full-time students* and recent graduates* for CNU XVI in Austin. 5-discounted registration is $245.

Discounted full registration offered to full-time students*, recent graduates**, non-profits*** and international attendees.

Register for CNU XVI Here

NOTE: You DO NOT have to register for the full Congress in order to attend NextGen 5. NextGen 5 is free to attend the day prior to the Congress.

*Student must provide copy of ID or class registration.
**Recent Graduate within the last 5 years, documentation required.

Looking for housing for NextGen 5? Post on the NextGen Forum and let others know what you’re looking for.

Click here for more information.

The first issue of the NextGen Newsletter is now online here. Read more about SNU and what else is happening with CNU NextGen.

Hosted by a panel of SNU and Next Generation leaders, this session will feature an open discussion about the organization of the SNU, its relationship with the Next Generation and CNU, and the prospects for a SNU II Conference, 104 Bond Hall.

http://architecture.nd.edu/news_and_events/snu/snu_congress_schedule.shtml

The Students for New Urbanism-Notre Dame (SNU-ND) is organizing the first international SNU Congress October 5 - 7 at the University of Notre Dame. Check here for more information.

SNU Congress I

Videos of the NextGen4 Opening, Discussion, and Closing Sessions are now online and streaming from cnunextgen.org. Please let us know if there are any bugs to work out with the streaming video. Thanks to Matt Lambert for recording and editing them.

Opening Session

Discussion Sessions

Closing Session

NextGen4 Condensed Schedule

8:30 AM Registration and Project Showcase
9:30 AM Opening Speaker Panel: Charter Priorities
11:00 AM Small Group Breakout / Responses to Morning Session
12:00 PM Lunch
1:20 PM Open Space Technology
4:30 PM Closing Speaker + Talk Show Panel: The Evolution of NextGen
5:30 PM NG4 Concludes

Happy Hour - Independence Brew Pub, 1150 Fibert St
9:00 PM Official NextGen Reception: Dark Horse, 247 S 17th St

During CNU XV
Friday, May 18 - NG Organizational Structure Meeting
12:45 PM - Tubman Room, Loews Hotel

CNU XV NextGen Nightly Gathering Spots
Thursday - 10:00p: Black Sheep, 247 S 17th St
Friday - 10:00p: Chaucer’s, 1946 Lombard St
Saturday - 10:00p: Eulogy Bar, 136 Chestnut St

We are just a week away from NextGen4 and have several great things in
store for you.

First, a little more about the day itself.

The morning session will consist of three speakers addressing topics of
special interest and priority to NextGen. Over the next three days, each
of the speakers, Jonathan Ford, Russell Preston and Faith Cable, will be
emailing along position papers as a lead-in to their presentations next
week. We hope you enjoy this preview of the material and will be ready
to engage the speakers during the 45 minutes of discussion time you will
have with them in small groups at the end of the morning.

The afternoon will mark the return of a NextGen anchor activity, Open
Space Technology. The Open Space format allows participants to generate
their own agenda of topics and dynamically organize in small groups to
share, network and collaborate. Anyone can suggest a topic to be
discussed and then simply be the ring leader for starting that
conversation during one of the three windows of time we will establish
for the group. Please take this next week to think about what topics or
questions you would like to discuss with your fellow NextGeners.

To help facilitate the timely and accurate recording of all of our
simultaneous discussions throughout the day, we ask you to bring the
following with you to NextGen4 if you have them:

1. Laptop for taking notes during small groups
2. Camera, for taking impromptu photos throughout the day
3. Small audio recording devices

We will be collecting digital formats of all kinds to post on our
Website, the CNU XV Blog and the NextGen Wiki site. The more content,
the better.

Enjoy the thoughts of your morning speakers and expect a final logistics
message late this weekend.

Jim Kumon
NextGen4 Chairperson

The theme of NextGen4, New Challenges and the Old Principles: Urbanism’s Next Regeneration, is a twist on the CNU XV focus, New Urbanism and the Old City. The question is: What does the next iteration of urbanism look like and how will these challenges be overcome to accomplish it?

PROGRAM:
Using the Charter as a point of departure, a panel of speakers chosen from the ranks of NextGen will present their questions and thoughts during the morning session of NextGen4. Leading off will be Jon Ford, P.E., Principal of Morris Beacon Design, followed by Russell Preston of Cornish Associates and concluding with Faith Cable, a Masters of Regional Planning student at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

The afternoon will feature the return of Open Space Technology, a dynamically organized facilitation style for small groups to share ideas, network and collaborate. Concluding the day is Senen Antonio, Business Development Director at Duany-Plater Zyberk, who will share his observations on the role of NextGen within CNU and moderate a panel discussing NextGen’s future.

To cap off the day’s events, NextGen is hosting a joint happy hour with the Associates Committee of AIA Philadelphia at 6:30 PM and then a full reception at 9:00 PM. More details on the evening activities will be available soon.