Ms. Dipl.-Ing. Josephine Yilan Liu is a founding partner of URBAN FUTURE Global Conference (UFGC) – the world’s largest meeting point for City Changers and the biggest event focusing entirely on how to make cities more sustainable. Her role has been to focus on initiating futuristic thinking, as well as to develop visionary ideas and collaborations increasing change in existing industry practice, and to identify and invent new opportunity for growth.
Josephine studied Environmental Design in Beijing, China, and took a master course in Graz, Austria majoring in Architecture and Project Management. She has been living in Austria since 2008.
As an urban planner and architect, Josephine works diligently to promote a holistic and integrated ‘design thinking’ approach (as an alternative to analytical thinking) in the practice of sustainable urban development. She connects and leverages knowledge, resources and capital to realize innovative, sustainable and resilient urban solutions, in order to solve pressing social and environmental issues.
By planning, implementing and show-casing the approach of using design thinking to solve problems across industries, she hopes to create positive social impact at scale with technology, and provoke positive social cycles instead of resistance or fear in our ever more connected and rapidly changing environment.
