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Tom Rivard
Thomas Rivard is an artist, urbanist, activist, storyteller and educator, engaged in creating speculative cities, re-imagining the relationships between cultural acts and their natural and urban environments. He has made artworks, films, installations, events, books, buildings and city precincts. He leads urbanism and environmental city-making for REALMstudios, one of Australia’s leading urban design practices, integrating ecologies, communities and infrastructure. He is the founder of Urban Islands, a global workshop curating narratives about the contemporary city, and teaches, lectures and writes regularly in Australia and internationally. He received a BA degree from Dartmouth College, a Master of Architecture from University of Pennsylvania and is currently working on a Ph.D. exploring the relationships between civic space, urban society and narratives of interdependence. His diverse interests in global cities, media, culture and environment have taken him to organizations and opportunities as diverse as Burning Man, Al Gore’s Climate Reality project and untouched mountainsides next to Silicon Valley, united in pursuit of new radical co-existences, combining empowered narratives, cultural diversity and the re-integration of natural and man-made ecologies, remaking our cities and the ways in which we choose to live in them, together. He divides his time.