The Informational City 2011

London is a city full of visible and invisible layers of information and of digital and analogue spaces. Now in its fourth year, this lecture programme explores the ways in which designers, architects and policymakers have informed and influenced our understanding of the contemporary cityscape.

We are pleased to welcome Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas as this year's guest speaker. A former leader of the City of London Corporation, a director of Merryl Lynch and chair of the New West End Company, Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas was a key figure in London life long before Mayor Boris Johnson appointed her this year to spearhead the city’s partnership with the private sector as chair of London Partners. In March 2011 she co-chaired the Apeldoorn Conference, a biennial government-sponsored dialogue involving business, government, academia and the media drawn from across the UK and the Netherlands, on the theme of “Making Successful Cities”. This year’s keynote Informational City Lecture will attract interest in many quarters because few people are better placed today than Dame Judith to comment on the importance of information in the economic, social and civic life of modern cities.