Gesa Ziemer talks about New Forms of Collaboration and how to create people-centered digital cities. Gesa Ziemer (Prof. Dr. phil.) directs the CityScienceLab at HafenCity University, a collaboration with the MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, MA, USA), which conducts research on the future of Cities (with a particular focus on digitalization). HCU's CityScienceLab researches the transformation of cities in the context of digitalization with partners from civil society, politics, business, and science. Furthermore she is academic lead of the technology and innovation lab UNITAC Hamburg for the United Nations which deals with the use of data in informal settlements.

In addition Gesa Ziemer is currently a fellow of the Humboldt Foundation (Feodor-Lynen Program) at the Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA and holds a Guest Lectureship at the Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx