After Dennis Galucki asked me to do a lunchtime presentation on the topic “Imagining Buffalo Niagara in the 21st Century,” we wondered what might result if we tried a slightly different model than a formal lecture?
After all, everyone in the room will already be in Buffalo in the 21st century. What do they think about the future they’ll be helping create?
If it’s true what the Spanish poet Antonio Machado says, that “We make the road by walking,” then
- What are some interesting steps people in Buffalo are taking today?
- Where might they lead?
And since we’re a Great Lakes city… what if we asked others in similar cites to join in?
So, we want to do an experiment. We are calling on people from a range of places, people who are living in Buffalo Niagara and beyond, who are thinking about the futures of such Great Lakes cities and people who are doing things right now to build that future to address:
How might what you are doing today influence our “Imagining Buffalo in the 21st century?”
- new connections being made?
- places being created or re-envisioned?
- how we view assets ?
- Or, or, or…
To start the dialogue you can join the discussion I started on Facebook or respond to my call for tweets on Twitter.
You can also email me at brianreilly14 at gmail.com, comment on this blog, call me at 716.851.4972, fax me at 716.851.4242. Whatever works for you.
If you’re going to express yourself on the internet, try using the hashtag #imagineBuffalo21 so your contributions can be easily searched for online.
With everything I receive by December 4th, I will try to compile a presentation that reflects what people are doing and what that might say for where Buffalo seems to be going in the 21st century just a decade into it.
I encourage you to join us in person as well
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Noon
@ Buffalo and Erie County Downtown Public Library
Organized by the Center for the Study of Art, Architecture, History and Nature, as part of its Fall and Winter Lecture Series
Tags: Buffalo, development, imagineBuffalo21
Roger Schroeder 
