Vol. 5 Presenter: Carlos Gemora
Presenting
Rampant Curiosity, Benevolent Chaos and Beautiful Failure
Urban planner, Carlos Gemora, believes in disorganization and curiosity as a working method to releasing possibilities and growth. He will share personal stories, landscape metaphors and concepts of seed dispersal to exhibit strategies of embracing curiosity, chaos and failure that facilitate growth.
He currently works for the City of Santa Fe as a Senior Land Use Planner and enjoys volunteering with educational non-profits. Prior to moving to Santa Fe, he studied regional, community-based, and facilitating planning practices at Cornell University.
Summary
Strategy can be the clean adherence to a planned and organized path aiming for success. We are all born with a dangerous curiosity but often strive to control our future and our environment – learning to fear chaos and avoid failure. I believe in a beautiful, messy, disorganized strategy that often results in failure. Curiosity releases possibilities, benevolent chaos facilitates growth, and acceptance of failure empowers us. Strategies embracing curiosity, chaos, and failure will be told through personal stories, landscape metaphors, and concepts of seed dispersal.
Bio
Carlos Gemora is an urban planner working to facilitate creative changes in the built environment. He currently works for the City of Santa Fe as a Senior Land Use Planner and enjoys volunteering with educational non-profits. Prior to Santa Fe he studied regional, community-based, facilitative planning practices at Cornell University and has gained unique experiences working across a plethora of different industries.