Engaging cogs

An email was sent to the Cycle Cardiff inbox promoting an event at The Gate on Wednesday 21 February (next week).

The event is called Transforming the city - Changing spaces, changing lives. Despite the name of the organization -- Engaging Cogs --  it's not a cycling event. Nevertheless, if you've got an interest in urban planning, it might be worth going. I probably will.

There's more info on their website Engaging Cogs where you can register. They've also got more details about speakers.

Here are all the details from the email:

Transforming the city - Changing spaces, changing lives?

February 21st, 7:30 - 9:00pm. The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch Street,
Cardiff . Register online at <http://www.engagingcogs.org/ >
www.engagingcogs.org or email info@....
We shape our environment around human needs and desires. But do the
places we build then mould the way we live?
In 2007, for the first time, over half the people in the world will live
in cities. But a city-dweller of 200 years ago would scarcely recognise
modern Cardiff. How do we want to live in the 21st Century? How should
our cities continue to change, to make possible the lives we want? Or
does trying to predict the way humans might respond to the world we make
only limit our visions of the future?
Speakers TBC, but including:
James Woudhuysen is Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De
Montfort University, Leicester. Among his consultancy projects he was
asked to help develop a vision of where Cardiff might go over the next
decade.