BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Midway X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Midway BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-1100 TZOFFSETTO:-1100 TZNAME:SST DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5385115:Event:137541 DTSTAMP:20260502T001931Z SUMMARY:Sustainable LA / Data Cosmopolis DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles, with four million inhabitants in the city alo ne and twenty-two million in the region, is a global megacity. If Los Angeles was a country, it would be the fifteenth largest by economy si ze in the world. By 2050 Los Angeles County is predicted to house 1.5 million more individuals, as the world’s population continues to mig rate to the economic and cultural epicenters of the globe. So how does a city like Los Angeles meet challenges related to its economic, cult ural, and environmental sustainability in the face of a growing popula tion and unprecedented climate change? Data, or aggregations of observ ations and evidence, is one tool for thinking about the sustainability of Los Angeles and Southern California at different scales and contex ts: parcel, street, neighborhood, town, city, county, state, Pacific R im, and the globe. Data is also a means by which we can retrospectivel y evaluate the state of the region and make predictions and suggestion s for transitioning to a more sustainable city. The goal of UCLA’s f irst Grand Challenge project is to find paths to bring Los Angeles Co unty to 100% sustainability in water and energy with enhanced ecosyste m health by 2050. This Grand Challenge is also a data challenge.When U rban Meets Data: What happens when urban meets data? Urban pertains to the city, implies sophistication, high culture, refinement, and world liness, resonating with its Greek counterpart, polis. What is cosmopol itan exceeds regionalism and national boundaries, connoting world citi zenship and a partiality for cross-cultural encounters. The other side of urbanity is pollution, poverty, and crime. But while urban implies grittiness, it also invokes grit and resilience: In the words of Jay- Z, since we made it here, we can make it anywhere.Data carries its own set of meanings. Data is cold, impersonal, factual, ubiquitous, big, and global. “Big data” joins with the other great technological cl ichés of the early twenty-first century but nevertheless poses challe nges and opportunities, particularly for the audience for this symposi um: Angelenos in their guises as citizen scientists, researchers, mana gers, and decision makers. This symposium explores what could happen f or a city’s sustainability when urban meets data. UCLA Library and U CLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge invite collectors, producers, curat ors, visualizers, and scholars of data and the city -- our city and ot hers -- to share theory and practice in a series of conversations that can inform new directions in data practice to meet the sustainability challenges of Los Angeles as a cosmopolis. At this meeting, participa nts will engage and offer provocations on the overlapping themes of ur ban data, open data, data sharing, and sustainability. How can we gath er, use, and share data to understand the many facets of Los Angeles a t small and local, large and global scales and meet the challenges of sustainability understood narrowly and broadly as we aspire to thrive from now to 2050 and beyond?\n\nFor more information visit http://lega cy.openaccessweek.org/events/sustainable-la-data-cosmopolis DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20151023T000000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20151023T235900 CATEGORIES:symposium LOCATION:United States of America WEBSITE:https://www.library.ucla.edu/sustainable-la-data-cosmopolis URL:https://www.library.ucla.edu/sustainable-la-data-cosmopolis CONTACT:310-206-9780 ORGANIZER:Scout Calvert, UCLA Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/3057567772?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Martin J . Brennan":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/MartinJBrennan END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR