Speaking + Workshops
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I speak about the travels we take of both the real and metaphysical kind. I have been speaking at keynote events, participating in panels, and leading workshops since the 1990s. My talks about my 14,000-mile road trip in my classic 1970 Porsche 911T cover a range of experiences and lessons learned while behind the wheel. I have a TED talk “Want Global Change? Get Local!” that grew out of my seminal MIT white paper on public space and community.
Selected Speaking Engagements
Porsche Club of America Green Mountain Region: Road Trip Reflections
What happens when you travel 14,076 miles in 105 days through 31 states and 10 National Parks? And you spend that time talking to yourself with the radio off? Susan Silberberg reflects on her Blue Car road trip with lessons for everyone, whether intrepid or armchair traveler.
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TEDx: "Want Global Change? Get Local!"
Global change doesn’t exist. All change is local. We begin the process of profound change in our backyard by engaging in local actions and collaborations that teach us how politics, social interaction, civic collaboration and negotiation shape our world. Susan Silberberg offers three cases in everyday places that illustrate how placemaking creates and sustains healthy, vibrant, civil society and shows you how to get started today. It all starts with the local!
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Chicago Ideas Week:
“Forming a Revolution from the Ground Up”
You're standing at the corner of State & Lake, walking down Michigan Avenue or riding your bike down the Lakeshore path. What makes these spaces transcend location and become places? Susan Silberberg describes the way city planners, architects and individuals are building a revolution from the ground up and making community-based, meaningful places.
And More...
“Open to the Public” Speaker and Panelist at event exploring security and public space, organized by the National Capital Planning Commission and the American Society of Landscape Architects, Washington, DC, September 2019.
“Community Engagement and Equity in Placemaking,” Royal Technical Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2017. Panelist for television program.
“Planning Ideas to Action: How to Make it Happen,” University of Oklahoma Placemaking Conference, Norman, OK, May 2016. Speaker.
“Placemaking – it’s all about the Local,” Second Annual Pyle Urban Lecture at the Mercantile Library, Cincinnati, OH, October 2015. Keynote.
“Vital Public Spaces,” United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva Switzerland, February 20, 2015. Speaker
