The second annual World Science Festival will be taking place in New York next month. I’ll be moderating a panel called, “Wall-E’s World: Designs for an Invisible Footprint.”

We’ll be talking about cities, trash, space travel, and the search for a sustainable future. Here’s the line-up for the panel, from the event page:

Mitchell Joachim: Architect and urban designer Mitchell Joachim is a partner in Terrefuge, a New York–based organization for philanthropic architecture and ecological design. His design of a compact, stackable “city car,” developed with the MIT Smart Cities Group, won the 2007 Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year. Joachim is on the faculty at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design.

Christopher McKay: Chris