The 2009 SIX TelePresence theme ‘Recovery Through Innovation’ will allow those participating to explore a wide range of global problems and innovative solutions to fight the global economic crisis. By collaborating, sharing ideas and experiences, and innovating we can both find more effective responses to the immediate crisis, and develop much broader strategies for global recovery and a long tem investment in the future.

The creative cities presentation will be presented by Tonya Surman and Eli Malinsky from Toronto's Centre for Social Innovation. The questions that are to be explored will be: 1) What is the role of urban design in fostering social innovation? 2) How do community events, hosted in certain spaces, create the conditions for social innovation emergence?