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159I_Trailer_Michael Browne, manager at Melbourne Water

14 september 2023 · 2 min
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Trailer for episode 159 - the interview with Michael Browne, manager at Melbourne Water. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, aboriginal and indigenous ideas, what water means to country, resilience, and many more. Lees meer

Find out more in the interview!

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157R_Ontological review of smart city research (research summary)

12 september 2023 · 10 min
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Are you interested in both smartness and the city in the smart city concept? Lees meer

Summary of the article titled Ontological review of smart city research from 2017 by Arkalgud Ramaprasad, Aurora Sánchez-Ortiz and Thant Syn, presented at the Twenty-third Americas Conference on Information Systems.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how academic research investigated smart cities in 2016. This article investigates how smartness is very much interesting for the research community, but the city seems largely unexplored in the smart city term.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

The introduced ontological framework approaches smart cities from smartness with structure, functions, focus and semiotics and city with stakeholders and outcomes which can be used to investigate any smart city initiative or research.

In the investigated research, the authors found more focus on the structure aspect with systems and IT than on stakeholders and outcomes.

Researchers should consider the interdisciplinary nature of the smart city research and must integrate technological, social, and urban aspect of the smart city with the aim to achieve the desired outcomes in a more unified approach.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: The meaning of the word “city” has evolved since the first urban civilization was labeled as such more than 5,000 years ago. The concept of Smartness in Cities appeared initially because of the advancements in information technology; now cities are working diligently towards being considered “Smart”. However, the term Smart City is still conceptually vague and sometimes biased towards the use of information technology, and not on the city. This article a) presents an ontological framework of Smart City which is logically constructed but grounded in the literature of Smart Cities, and b) maps 373 journal articles—published in 2016 on the topic “smart city”—onto…
156I_Fanni Melles, future of cities researcher and podcast host

7 september 2023 · 1 uur 25 min
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"We are architects of our life, not victims of it" Lees meer

!!!!Book giveaway details at the bottom!!!!

Are you interested in the city as the emergent property of the urban agents? What do you think about collective responsibility? How can we create better urban futures?

This is a very special celebratory birthday episode because I am interviewed by a very special guesthost – Ben Vass, Graph Shaman. Ben interviewed me because I finished my PhD and thought it is time to share my knowledge with you guys – using the birthday celebration as well. We talk about my vision for the future of cities, smarter cities and smarter approaches, collective responsibility, Vitruvian and many more.

Fanni Melles is a future of cities researcher, an architect by profession, and a project manager by experience, born in Hungary and now living in Melbourne, Australia. Her enthusiasm for the future of cities led her to create the WTFforCities? podcast (What is The Future for Cities?) where she summarises research articles and interviews people who are actively and consciously working for the better future of our cities. Fanni is completing her PhD studies at Swinburne University of Technology about the future of cities, smart cities, and their operationalisability in practice. Her unique ability is creating practical and orderly systems from chaos and ambiguity to answer questions and improve systems. Fanni firmly believes that cities are the emergent properties of the people living in them so she is working on helping people to have better urban influence. She is also convinced that each city needs a specific future and she wants to facilitate their transformation.

Ben Vass is the kind of person who wants to build a Dyson swarm and explore the stars, while in the meantime wants to understand how this consciousness thing works. He is always standing between 2 worlds and trying to connect them. Due to his strange brain he sees everything as a network of networks, and tries to find the next int…
155B_#2 Birthday Special - summary of WTF's second year

5 september 2023 · 11 min
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What action will you take to create a better future for cities, thus humanity? Lees meer

The celebration of the second year of the podcast!

I would like to thank you all for joining me on this adventure. I am really grateful for your support. And I am especially thankful for my interviewees who took the time to appear on the podcast and share their ideas and insights. And stay tuned to learn what's ahead of us!

You can enter the giveaway to get one of the books very connected to this podcast:

Antifragile from Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

What we owe the future from Will MacAskill or

Brighter from Adam Dorr

You only have to answer at least one of these questions on LinkedIn or twitter below the birthday episodes’ announcements.

What did you learn this year from these episodes?

What was the most interesting and important for you?

What would you like to learn more about in the future?

What action did you take after these episodes?

After a week, I will draw the winners and let you choose from the books whichever you prefer – very exhuberant audience members could even ask for my thesis if wanted, but the give-away is more about the books not my thesis. So answer at least one of the questions on LinkedIn or twitter in the coming week and you can enter the draw!

Let me know on LinkedIn or on Twitter @WTF4Cities to enter the giveaway or on the wtf4cities.com website where the transcripts and shownotes are available.

I hope this was an interesting summary for you as well, and thanks for tuning in during this year, I highly appreciate all of you!

And a final question for today: what action will you take to create a better future for cities, thus humanity?

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156I_Trailer_Fanni Melles, future of cities researcher and podcast host

31 augustus 2023 · 2 min
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Trailer for the celebratory episode 156 - the interview with yours truly, Fanni Melles. Lees meer

I am interviewed by a very special guesthost – Ben Vass, Graph Shaman. Ben interviewed me because I finished my PhD and thought it is time to share my knowledge with you guys – using the birthday celebration as well. We talk about my vision for the future of cities, smarter cities and smarter approaches, collective responsibility, Vitruvian and many more.

Find out more in the episode!

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154R_Smart City? Smarter City? Smarter Approach? The Smarter City Flywheel

29 augustus 2023 · 20 min
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Are you interested in why the smart city is complete rubbish? Lees meer

We are starting our 2nd birthday celebration today!!!

Our summary today works with the presentation titled Smart City? Smarter City? Smarter Approach? The Smarter City Flywheel from 2023 by yours truly, Fanni Melles, presented at several companies as a result and evolution of my PhD research.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the smart city idea can be useful for practice. This presentation investigates the history of smart cities and the potential evolution from there.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 things:

There is no the smart city definition and shouldn’t be one.

Smarter cities imply the always evolving nature of cities,

while smarter approaches can be even more useful for practice. Since cities are already present, our approaches can be smarter, establishing a smarter approach or smarter city flywheel.

What can we do today toward the better and smarter future for our cities, and consequently our grandchildrens’ grandchildrens?

Let’s help everyone understand that we don’t need THE smart city because cities are different in nature and one global idea cannot cover and assist cities in their quest to improve.

Let’s expand our thinking from smart cities to smarter cities and smarter approaches which depend upon each location and direction – for example, extending our thinking from resilience to antifragility on that spectrum.

Let’s help each city find its flywheel and smarter approaches. In this way, we can create the better future for our cities and humanity.

You can find the presentation through this link.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

⁠⁠⁠No.003I - Interview with Frans-Anton Vermast⁠;

⁠⁠⁠No.156I - Interview with Fanni Melles, about the future of cities⁠;

You can find the transcript through this link.

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let …
153I_Ana Enache, overall sustainability enthusiast and Chief of Staff at AppScore

24 augustus 2023 · 39 min
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Are you interested in how to talk about sustainability for people to care? What do you think about education about sustainability? How can we become more connected and more data-driven at the same time? Lees meer

Interview with Ana Enache, overall sustainability enthusiast and Chief of Staff at AppScore. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, not taking actions, technology as a neutral tool, smart and educated citizens, and many more.

Drawing on over a decade of experience delivering large scale banking technology projects, Ana has seen first hand the transformational power that successful digital implementations have on an organisation’s employees and customers. At Appscore, Ana’s central focus is on continuous business improvement. She works with all department heads to ensure processes drive smooth and efficient running internally and first class servicing of their clients. Quarterly and annual organisational goals are set and special projects executed as part of Appscore’s culture of active, positive change. Ana is passionate about how technology changes lives and is excited that we are only seeing the start of how digital will improve how the world functions. The belief that at Appscore they take an active role in shaping this change, means she loves connecting all parts of the business to deliver consistent, ongoing improvement for their people and customers.

You can find out more about Ana through these links:

Ana Enache on LinkedIn;

Ana Enache at Appscore;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.057 - Interview with Amélie Uhrig about individual steps we can take;

⁠No.060 - Interview with Gala Camacho about responsible technologies and steward ownership;

⁠No.120 - Interview with Matt Ferrell⁠ about renewables;

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode f…
152R_Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins (research summary)

22 augustus 2023 · 12 min
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Are you interested in where the three pillars of sustainability came from? Lees meer

Summary of the article titled Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins from 2018 by Ben Purvis, Yong Mao and Darren Robinson, published in the Sustainability Science journal.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the three pillars of sustainability – social, economic and environment – came about. This article investigates the origins of sustainability and the gradual emergence of these pillars due to critics.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Sustainable ideas have been emerging since the 17th century but gained more aspects during the 20th century to include economic, environmental and social aspects and economic growth can be a solution to environmental and social challenges.

Sustainable development was clearly defined in the 1987 Brundtland report as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Even though the origins of the three pillars are unclear, each of them is vital for sustainability and a clear understanding is crucial for proper implementation and decreased political nature.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: The three-pillar conception of (social, economic and environmental) sustainability, commonly represented by three intersecting circles with overall sustainability at the centre, has become ubiquitous. With a view of identifying the genesis and theoretical foundations of this conception, this paper reviews and discusses relevant historical sustainability literature. From this we find that there is no single point of origin of this three-pillar conception, but rather a gradual emergence from various critiques in the early academic literature of the economic status quo from both social and ecological perspectives on the one hand, and the quest to reconcile e…
153I_Trailer_Ana Enache, overall sustainability enthusiast and Chief of Staff at Appscore

17 augustus 2023 · 2 min
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Trailer for episode 153 - interview with Ana Enache, overall sustainability enthusiast and Chief of Staff at Appscore. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, not taking actions, technology as a neutral tool, smart and educated citizens and many more. Lees meer

Find out more in the interview!

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151R_Aesthetics of sustainability and architecture: An overview (research summary)

15 augustus 2023 · 10 min
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Are you interested in the aesthetics of sustainable architecture? Lees meer

Summary of the article titled Aesthetics of sustainability and architecture: An overview from 2020 by Aurelija Daugelaite and Indre Grazuleviciute-Vileniske, published in the Urban Studies journal.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see whether the aesthetics of sustainable architecture is distinguishable. This article investigates the question of sustainability aesthetics and the ways that it is expressed in the field of architecture.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

It is important to investigate how important are social, psychological and especially, aesthetic aspects of the sustainability architecture.

Aesthetics is supposed to sense and eternalise the identity of the historical period and the society and newer concepts of aesthetics combine beauty, harmony, grandeur, tragedy, heroism, irony, etc.

It is possible to create architecture as an attractive carbon free product which can literally be an advertisement for the alternative lifestyles and show that reduction in consumption does not necessarily mean a reduction in quality.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: Sustainable development ‒ development that meets the needs of the present-day societies without compromising the possibilities of the future societies to meet their needs – became the predominant paradigm of planning policies. This concept with its environmental, social, economic and cultural dimensions has been applied to the field of architecture since the end of the 20th century. However, numerous researchers still notice techno-logical and ecological orientation of sustainable architecture and the lack of attention to its cultural, place-based and aesthetics aspects. The ques-tion may be asked if it is possible to distinguish the aesthetics of sustainable architecture. Thus, this research analyses the question of sustainabil…
150P_What is academia's role in establishing the future of cities? Panel discussion with previous interviewees

10 augustus 2023 · 54 min
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Are you interested in academia’s role in establishing the better future for cities? What do you think is not academia’s role? How can we improve academic research for the better future for cities? Lees meer

This episode is a panel discussion where I invited back previous interviewees to answer some questions together and let them discuss the different viewpoints. The panellists were Professor Jeni Paay, Professor Richard Manasseh and Associate Professor Magnus Moglia about their understanding of academia’s roles, responsibilities, and opportunities in establishing the future of cities, the distinction between R&D and academic research, multidisciplinarity, academic needs, and many more.

Previous interviews with the panelists:

No.027 - Interview with Richard Manasseh;

No.036 - Interview with Magnus Moglia;

No.093 - Interview with Jeni Paay;

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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149R_Urban futures: systemic or system changing interventions? A literature review using Meadows’ leverage points as analytical framework (research summary)

8 augustus 2023 · 9 min
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Are you interested in what is the role of academic researchers in establishing the better future of cities? Lees meer

Our summary today works with the article titled Urban futures: systemic or system changing interventions? A literature review using Meadows’ leverage points as analytical framework from 2020 by Corina Angheloiu and Mike Tennant, published in the Cities journal.

This is a great preparation to the following Panel discussion in episode 150 with Jeni Paay, Richard Manasseh and Magnus Moglia conversing about academia’s role and responsibilities for the better future of cities.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what needs to be changed to achieve sustainability through academic literature. This article presents the need to rethink not just outcomes but processes for urban transformations including the roles and agency of urban researchers.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

In academic research, there is a need to focus on processes as much as on outcomes and this article cautions against solely focusing on parameters while disregarding the feedback loops, system structure and mental models that are legitimised.

The disproportionate focus on parameters poses the risk of supporting long-term target setting or infrastructural decisions that are not systemic which can result in falling short of acknowledging and interrogating the dominant worldview, values and paradigms underpinning them – only strengthening the status quo.

When intervening in complex systems characterised by wicked problems, there are not good or bad interventions, but better or worse ones.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: Urban-led change for sustainability is a key site of intervention in delivering the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals. Within this broad discourse, four umbrella concepts have emerged in recent decades: urban sustainability, urban transitions, urban tra…
148R_Interstitiality in the smart city: more than top-down and bottom-up smartness (research summary)

1 augustus 2023 · 11 min
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Are you interested in how smart city can be more than just top-down or bottom-up? Lees meer

Our summary today works with the article titled Interstitiality in the smart city: more than top-down and bottom-up smartness from 2023 by Ryan Burns and Preston Welker, published in the Urban Studies journal.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how smart city can be more. This article investigates the interstitial actors that influence the ways in which the smart city manifests, through the case of Calgary, Alberta.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Smart city concepts have traditionally focused on the top and the bottom of the landscape, however, they have been influenced by the middle, the interstitial actors.

These interstitial actors are neither passive recipients nor mere conduits for smart city policies, rather, they actively shape smart city programmes even if they are physically absent from the arenas of formal planning.

This understanding opens new avenues for activists, policymakers and interstitial actors to intervene in smart city politics, towards more just cities.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: The critical research agenda on smart cities has tended to assume a largely top-down orientation in which powerful actors like the state and corporations enact programmes to embed Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) in the urban landscape. Because of the way research has framed this relation of power, the dominant response has been to seek social justice by either contesting these top-down exercises of (digital) power or by reconceptualising the smart city ‘from below’. In this paper, we join a growing chorus of voices recognising the importance of interstitial actors that influence the ways in which the smart city manifests. We draw on a five-year ongoing study in Calgary, Alberta, to examine two actor groups that are, properly, neither top-down nor bo…
147I_Damian Hewitt, Head of Smart Cities and Future Mobility at SAGE Group

27 juli 2023 · 33 min
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Are you interested in how focusing on disability needs in technology can enhance the whole user experience? What do you think about smartness meaning simplification? How can we use AI for the better? Lees meer

Interview Damian Hewitt, Head of Smart Cities and Future Mobility at SAGE Group. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, cities as lifestyle centres, agility for technology, collaboration, urban mobility, and many more.

Damian Hewitt is the Head of Smart Cities and Future Mobility at SAGE Group. He is responsible for developing and executing the strategic plan for delivering innovative technology to digitally connect communities as an important next piece of future mobility, people, and place. SAGE’s Smart Cities delivery model is supporting a whole of network approach by providing benefits like connected Public Transport, MaaS, Tourism, Emergency Services, Councils and Community, and the opportunity to focus on key initiatives, such as equitable transport supporting disability and age care needs, safer communities and other exciting initiatives that really make a difference in people’s lives.

You can find out more about Damian through these links:

Damian Hewitt on LinkedIn;

Damian Hewitt at SAGE Group;

Smart Cities and Future Mobility at SAGE Group;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.048 - Interview with Professor Hussein Dia about urban mobility;

No.138 - Interview with Luis Natera about electrification of urban mobility;

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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146R_Including marginalised communities in urban development and smart cities

25 juli 2023 · 12 min
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Are you interested in the right to the city? Lees meer

Summary of the article titled Human rights and the city: Including marginalised communities in urban development and smart cities from 2019 by Tina Kempin Reuter, published in the Journal of Human Rights.

This is a great preparation to our next interviewee in episode 147, Damian Hewitt, where we talk a lot about the need to include the marginalised groups into city development.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what the right to the city means. This article focuses on the questions of how to build inclusive, fair and accessible cities and how to eliminate inequalities seen in urban communities.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

The localisation of human rights is a relatively new trend with two distinct narratives: first, rights in the city focuses on human rights implementation in cities, second the right to the city calls for all inhabitants to be able to fully enjoy and contribute to the city life with all of its services and advantages.

To achieve a human-centred modern urban environment, cities need to involve marginalised communities, like people with disabilities, in urban planning, train the industry and policy-makers about the needs of marginalised communities and engage them actively in product development, design solutions, and problem solving.

Cities can gain new knowledge and insights and become hubs of innovation, sites for new markets and models for other cities in the world and thus they will become key actors in the promotion, protection and implementation of human rights.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: The idea that the city belongs to all individuals inhabiting the urban space is grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the New Urban Agenda, and it is referred to as “right to the city” or “rights in the city.” This article discusses how human rights relate to the cit…
147I_trailer_Damian Hewitt, Head of Smart Cities and Future Mobility at SAGE Group

20 juli 2023 · 1 min
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Trailer for episode 147I - the interview with Damian Hewitt, Head of Smart Cities and Future Mobility at SAGE Group. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, cities as lifestyle centres, agility for technology, collaboration, urban mobility, and many more. Lees meer

Find out more in the interview!

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145R_Smart city and simplicity? Modular business models for smart cities (research summary)

18 juli 2023 · 9 min
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Are you interested in how to reduce complexity of the smart city business models? Lees meer

Summary of the article titled Smart city and simplicity? Modular business models for smart cities from 2020 by Sari Peratalo, Petri Ahokangas, and Saara Pekkarinen, published on the EU’s Futurium platform.

This is a great preparation to our next interviewee in episode 147, Damian Hewitt, where we talk a lot about the smart city as simplicity.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what business models can do to reduce complexity of smart cities. This article presents the modular business model as a required approach to smart city development and implementation.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Urban governance is the moderating and influencing factor in how our society works but it is often seen as underperforming for the citizens – thus it needs improvement which can be smart city with modular approach.

Modularity is building complex products and systems from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole.

The modular business model approach in smart cities brings together the different knowledge pieces and skills via lowering the boundaries of urban silos.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: This paper discusses a modular business model approach in the public smart city context. Up to date, the implementation of smart city business models has been challenging due to the complexity and fragmentation of the created models. This study aims at contributing to research by introducing a modular and simpler business model approach for smart cities.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.003 - Interview with Frans-Anton Vermast about Amsterdam's smart urban governance;

No.138 - Interview with Luis Natera about consciously choosing where to live;

You can find the transcript through this link.

What wast the most interesting pa…
144I_Morley Muse, cofounder of iSTEM Co and renewable energy consultant

13 juli 2023 · 26 min
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Are you interested in renewable technologies? What do you think about thinking inward and using present opportunities? How can we accept problems to improve them? Lees meer

Interview with Morley Muse, cofounder of iSTEM Co and Renewable energy consultant. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, cities accommodating technology, equity, open-mindedness, and many more. So, let’s start with a proper introduction.

Dr Morley Muse is a Chemical, Environmental and Renewable Energy Engineer with expertise in wastewater treatment. She has worked across academia, government, and industry including in consulting and construction. As the co-founder of iSTEM Co, a research, consulting, and talent sourcing business that enables employment for women in STEM, Morley continues to encourage women, including women of colour and women from CALD backgrounds to further their careers in STEM. iSTEM Co. was nominated as a finalist for the Women in Digital awards and has recently launched DEIR, a recruit-tech platform that eliminates recruitment bias for women in STEM. DEIR has also received recognition in STEM and won the Lift women social impact award.

You can find out Morley through these links:

Dr Morley Muse on LinkedIn;

iSTEM website;

Dr Morley Muse at iSTEM Co.;

DEIR website;

'Be the change you have not seen' - profile on Dr Morley Muse at Women's Agenda;

Dr Morley Muse as Elevate Advisory Group Member;

Dr Morley Muse - the winner of 2022 Women's Agenda Leadership Awards;

Dr Morley Muse at The Interacademy Partnership;

A voice for women in STEM - Q&A with Dr Morley Muse at the APAC Outlook;

Opportunities from treating wastewater with microalgae - Dr Morley at The Royal Society of Victoria;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.006 - Interview with Daniel Prohasky about improving current solutions;

No.119R - Pessimism and Optimism in the debate on climate change;

No.120 - Interview with Matt Ferrell about renewable energies;

What wast the most interesti…
143R_Extraction of microalgae as a form of wastewater treatment: Opportunities in biodiesel, biogas, biohydrogen, and volatile fatty acids production (research summary)

11 juli 2023 · 10 min
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Are you interested in how to use microalgae to treat wastewater? Lees meer

Summary of the summary titled Extraction of microalgae as a form of wastewater treatment: Opportunities in biodiesel, biogas, biohydrogen, and volatile fatty acids production from 2023 by our next interviewee in ⁠episode 144, Morley Muse about their current work.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what we can do to treat wastewater better. This summary presents the use of microalgae in wastewater treatment for the production of other resources.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Wastewater is basically any used water and its treatment is a public health and environmental issue which can be sustainably solved with microalgae.

Letting microalgae consume the nutrient pollutants from the water results in microalgae waste which then can be used to create other resources, like biodiesel and biogas.

The use of microalgae waste for wastewater treatment and energy production offers a range of benefits and opportunities for a more sustainable and resilient future.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.023 - Smart cities and disaster resilience⁠⁠;

No.027 - Interview with Richard Manasseh⁠⁠ about urban water treatments;

You can find the transcript through ⁠⁠this link⁠⁠.

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter ⁠⁠@WTF4Cities⁠⁠ or on the ⁠⁠wtf4cities.com⁠⁠ website where the ⁠⁠shownotes⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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142R_Becoming future-proof STEM teachers for enhancing sustainable development: A proposed general framework for a capacity-building programs in future studies (research summary)

4 juli 2023 · 10 min
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Are you interested in how to future-proof STEM education? Lees meer

Summary of the article titled Becoming future-proof STEM teachers for enhancing sustainable development: A proposed general framework for a capacity-building programs in future studies from 2022 by Hanaa Ouda Khadri, published in the Prospects Journal.

This is a great preparation to our next interviewee in episode 144, Morley Muse, where we talk a lot about the need for STEM education.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see why it is important to include future studies to STEM education. This article presents why STEM needs to prepare students for an unpredictable future and the skills and basic knowledge that can be useful.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

In post-normal times, science, technology, engineering and mathematics, also known STEM fields need to prepare the students and the educators for the uncertainties and ambiguity of the future.

Futures Studies, which could be involved in STEM education, is an application in strategic planning field that considers distinctive possibilities of the future, like possible futures, plausible futures, preferable futures and probable futures.

Individuals and groups engaging in future studies or foresight explore the future from various perspectives in order to inform the current process of decision-making.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: Post-normal times and post-normal science are characterized by contradictions, unknown unknowns and uncertainties, and complexity. These global grand challenges require a revolutionary shift in thinking and mindset on the part of teachers and students Therefore, there is an urgent need to identify new roles for STEM education that will prepare students for this post-normal world and the sustainability mindset it requires. STEM education supports sustainable development by building the capacities of future generations…
141I_Soheil Sabri, Digital Delivery Lead for Urban Digital Twin at the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration at the University of Melbourne

29 juni 2023 · 41 min
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Are you interested in the difference between prediction and forecasting? What tools do you think can improve urbanisation? How can we use digital twins better for improvements? Lees meer

Interview with Soheil Sabri, Digital Delivery Lead for Urban Digital Twin at the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration at the University of Melbourne. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, cities as interconnected systems, migration, data types, prediction and forecasting, and many more.

Dr. Soheil Sabri is an Urban Planner and a Senior Research Fellow in Urban Analytics at the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration at The University of Melbourne. He leads research and development in Planning Support Systems and Urban Analytics. His research, practice, and teaching interests are about developing Urban Digital Twins, Multi-dimensional (3D/4D) Planning Support Systems, and analytical tools enabling planners and decision makers for evidence-based and data-driven future smart cities’ developments. He is co-chair of the Academic and Research Working Group in the Digital Twin Consortium, a member of PlanTech National Advisory Committee in the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA), and a member of the Spatial Digital Twin working group in Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) Australia.

You can find out more about Soheil through these links:

Soheil Sabri on LinkedIn;

@soheilsabri as Soheil Sabri on Twitter;

Soheil Sabri at The University of Melbourne;

Soheil Sabri on Facebook;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No015 - Interview with Luke Housego about data and knowledge;

No.075 - Interview with Gavin Cotterill about digital twins;

No.139R - The landscape and evolution of urban planning science;

No.140R - Creating digital twins to save our cities;

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website whe…
140R_Creating digital twins to save our cities

27 juni 2023 · 9 min
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Are you interested in the benefits and challenges of digital twins? Lees meer

Summary of the article titled Creating digital twins to save our cities from 2023 by Soheil Sabri, Stephan Winter and Abbas Rajabifard, published on The University of Melbourne website.

This is a great preparation to our next interviewee in episode 141, Soheil Sabri, where we talk a lot about the digital twin technologies.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what digital twins are capable of. This article presents insights to digital twins, their benefits and current boundaries with the hope of overcoming current urban challenges.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Digital twins can be used to improve urban sustainability, resilience, and efficiency.

Digital twins can be used to monitor and analyse the performance of physical assets, simulate the effects of different scenarios, and improve collaboration between different stakeholders.

Digital twins have the potential to transform the way we manage our cities.

You can find the article through this link.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.027 - Interview with Professor Richard Manasseh about urban brains;

No.075 - Interview with Gavin Cotterill about digital twins;

You can find the transcript through this link.

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139R_The landscape and evolution of urban planning science (research summary)

20 juni 2023 · 9 min
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Summary of the article titled The landscape and evolution of urban planning science from 2023 by Milad Haghani, Soheil Sabri, Chris De Gruyter, Ali Ardeshiri, Zahra Shahhoseini, Thomas W. Sanchez, and Michele Acuto, published in the Cities journal.

This is a great preparation to our next interviewee in episode 141, Soheil Sabri, where we talk a lot about the urban planning science.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what urban planning science is. This article presents insights how the science of urban planning has historically transitioned and where it is headed.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Urban planning is a multidisciplinary technical profession, and endeavour that aims to create better places and public spaces for people by balancing the built and natural environment.

The current trajectories towards resilience, smart cities and urban green spaces reflect global concerns about climate change, natural disasters, and the influence of technological developments in smart urban planning and management.

Urban planning science is evolving to help urban challenges, so should its education too: for example. urban resilience and smart cities are very specific and distinct domains that need a multi-disciplinary training approach to prepare urban planners and policy-makers in addressing climate change issues and leveraging emerging technologies for sustainable, productive and liveable cities.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: The science of urban planning has drawn on a wide range of disciplines and research perspectives. This makes it challenging to define the boundaries and directions of the field. Here, nearly 100,000 articles on urban planning are analysed to objectively determine divisions, temporal trends and influential references and actors of urban planning. In ter…
138I_Luis Natera, software developer and geospatial network scientist

15 juni 2023 · 40 min
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Interview with Luis Natera, a software developer and geospatial network scientist. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban improvements, car electrification pros and cons, urban choices, and many more.

Dr. Luis Natera is an architect-network scientist focusing on understanding cities from the complex system perspective. He earned a Bachelor in Architecture and Master in Communication of Science and Culture at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Guadalajara, Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. in Network Science from the Department of Network and Data Science at the Central European University. He was a visiting research fellow at Center for Civic Media at the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Luis has experience working in the private and public sectors. His academic research interest revolves around urban mobility in multiplex urban networks, bridging urban planning and complex systems. Luis currently works as a software developer focusing in Climate Tech. On his free time he enjoys writing a newsletter about cities and technology.

You can find out more about Luis through these links:

Luis Natera on LinkedIn;

@natera as Luis Natera on Twitter;

Luis Natera website;

Luis Natera newsletter subscription;

Luis Natera on Instagram;

Luis Natera at CEU;

Luis Natera at ANETLAB;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.048 - Interview with Professor Hussein Dia about urban mobility;

No.137R - Quantifying life quality as walkability on urban networks;

No.147 - Interview with Damian Hewitt about importance of autonomous vehicles;

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I hope…
137R_Quantifying life quality as walkability on urban networks: The case of Budapest (research summary)

13 juni 2023 · 9 min
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Summary of the article titled Quantifying life quality as walkability on urban networks: The case of Budapest from 2019 by Luis Natera, David Deritei, Anna Vancso, and Orsolya Vasarhelyi, presented at the International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications.

This is a great preparation to our next interviewee in episode 138, Luis Natera, who talks a lot about urban mobility systems in the interview as well.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how we can quantify urban walkability. This article presents how to measure urban network walkability and its impact on quality of urban life, through the case of Budapest.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Investigating urban walkability can highlight important factors to consider for urban decision-makers and designers for improving the quality of life.

Since the walkability of a neighbourhood is highly correlated with its liveability, both long distances and the lack of amenities affects suburban habitat lives negatively.

Designing compact, liveable neighbourhoods, considering also the upcoming environmental crises is the number one priority of many cities worldwide.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: Life quality in cities is deeply related to the mobility options, and how easily one can access different services and attractions. The pedestrian infrastructure network provides the backbone for social life in cities. While there are many approaches to quantify life quality, most do not take specifically into account the walkability of the city, and rather offer a city-wide measure. Here we develop a data-driven, network-based method to quantify the liveability of a city. We introduce a life quality index (LQI) based on pedestrian accessibility to amenities and services, safety and environmental variables. Our computational ap…
136R_An analysis of the legal framework influencing walking in Australia (research summary)

6 juni 2023 · 9 min
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Summary of the article titled An analysis of the legal framework influencing walking in Australia from 2022 by Tracy Nau, Adrian Bauman, William Bellew, Billie Giles-Corti, and Ben J Smith, published in the Public Health Research & Practice journal.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how one potential urban mobility method, walking is influenced by legal frameworks. This article presents the shortcomings and opportunities for Australian legislation in encouraging walking.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Walking offers a vital policy target for governments seeking to increase populate physical activity because it is a prevalent and easy access behaviour across social groups and can be incorporated into daily life such as recreation or transport.

Although much is known about the built environment design elements that promote walking, and tools have been developed to assess walkability, there is limited understanding about the statutory components of the system that direct and regulate changes to the built environment in Australia.

More studies are needed to help decision-makers and advocacy groups to fully understand and utilise walkability, like longitudinal or cross-section investigations across the different jurisdictions.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: Although walking is a priority in many strategic plans in Australian cities, there is limited understanding of the statutory components for delivering this. Confusion still exists despite substantial evidence about the built environment elements that promote walking and the availability of tools to assess walkability outcomes. This paper examines the characteristics and components of the legal framework that influence the walkability of built environments in Australian states and territories. We audited the form and na…
135I_Paul Satur, research fellow and lecturer at Monash Water Sensitive Cities and co-founder and CEO of Our Future Cities

1 juni 2023 · 51 min
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Are you interested in prosperous cities? What do you think about urban pessimism? How can we be more punk music tragic for the better future of cities? Lees meer

Interview with Paul Satur, research fellow and lecturer at Monash Water Sensitive Cities and co-founder and CEO of Our Future Cities. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban status quos, sustainability, institutional mini-meism, and many more.

Dr. Paul Satur is the Co-Fonder and CEO of not for profit Our Future Cities (OFC). OFC seeks to broaden the dialogue in city shaping, encouraging people of diverse backgrounds, skill-sets and experiences to play a role in fast tracking sustainable transitions, through building deep and diverse connections with people and places. Paul is also an early career environmental and social science researcher within Monash Sustainable Development Institute’s Water Unit. His expertise is regularly sought for guidance on transformative systems processes, pathways and practices that best enable an empowerment and capacity building of diverse stakeholder groups in place-based and Integrated Water Planning and Management processes. Recently, Paul was recognized as the 2020 Australian Young Water Professional of the Year and through his work with OFC received the Stormwater Australian Award for Impact in Education and Policy. Paul currently sits on the International Water Resource Associations Task Force for Water and the SDGs, is a member of the National SDG6 Reference Group and continues to lead a number of multi-stakeholder initiatives that offer a voice to marginalized and traditionally less-heard groups in spaces of complex socio-ecological change. In his spare time, Paul is a punk music tragic, keen surfer and volunteers as a community radio broadcaster.

You can find out more about Paul through these links:

Paul Satur on LinkedIn;

@PaulSatur as Paul Satur on Twitter;

Paul Satur at Monash University;

Paul Satur at UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab;

Our Future Cities w…
134R_Social inequality and water use in Australian cities: the social gradient in domestic water use (research episode)

30 mei 2023 · 10 min
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Summary of the article titled Social inequality and water use in Australian cities: the social gradient in domestic water use from 2021 by Paul Satur and Jo Lindsay, published in the Local Environment – The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability.

This is a great preparation to our next interviewee, Paul Satur who deeply cares about water use and social inequality.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the social gradient influences domestic water use. This article presents the complex social and environmental dynamics that shape water use in urban areas, and highlights the need for more equitable and sustainable water management strategies.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Sustainable, resilient and liveable water-sensitive cities should not just be for those with the capacity and resources to access them, but for everyone.

Variability in economic, social, cultural and material resources profoundly influences the nature of water use practices and there is a social gradient in water use where community levels of advantage and disadvantage have an impact on the meanings, materials and competencies associated with water use.

To ensure socially inclusive progress to water-sensitive cities and sustainability development in general, future implementations and initiatives will need to more effectively address the social gradient in water use.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: This paper explores the impact of social inequality on household water use in urban communities in first-world contexts, an under researched field. We report on an in-depth qualitative study of six communities in two Australian cities to determine the connections between levels of social advantage and household approaches to water use. The different meaning…
133R_Multifunctional Urban Spaces – a solution to increase the quality of urban life in dense cities (research summary)

23 mei 2023 · 10 min
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Summary of the article titled Multifunctional Urban Spaces – a solution to increase the quality of urban life in dense cities from 2020 by Atieh Ghafouri and Christiane Weber, published the Manzar journal.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how urban spaces can be designed and managed to promote social inclusion, community engagement, and sustainable development in the face of rapid urbanization and increasing density. The article presents the potential of these spaces to provide a range of social, cultural, and recreational amenities that meet the diverse needs of urban residents.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

The main goal is to improve the quality of life in densely populated cities and this can be achieved through efficiency but we must be able to create spaces for new functions – we must create multifunctional spaces.

A multifunctional space could be identified with these two characteristics: allow different functions, actors and different users to use it and fulfill the different roles a space might have in line with the environmental, economical and social sustainability.

When multifunctional cells are put together with a comprehensive vision, the benefits are much more significant than the sum of the advantages each cell could achieve individually.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: As urban population increases, cities face a dilemma on one hand, the horizontal growth causes devastating effects on the environment, and on the other hand, vertical growth leads to a decrease in the quality of life of citizens and causes a variety of mental illnesses. This dilemma has left city managers with a complex puzzle: a city that must be able to accommodate more people with minimal interference ensuring their optimum quality of…
132I_Michael Batty, Bartlett professor of planning - What are cities and and their futures?

18 mei 2023 · 58 min
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Are you interested in inventing the future of cities? What do you think about urban evolution? How can we predict the future of the city? Lees meer

Interview with Michael Batty, Bartlett professor of planning. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, history and future urban evolutions, city as a way of life, the urban machine, and many more.

Michael Batty is a British urban planner, geographer and spatial data scientist, and Bartlett Professor of Planning in The Bartlett at University College London. He has been Director—now Chairman—of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, set up when he was appointed to UCL in 1995. His research and the work of CASA is focused on computer models of city systems. He was awarded the William Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2011 for his book Cities and Complexity, the same prize a second time for his book The New Science of Cities in 2017–2018, the University Consortium GIS Research Award in 2012, and the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, the so-called 'Nobel for geography', in 2013. In 2015, he was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and in 2016, the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute. He also received the Senior Scholar Award of the Complex Systems Society in September 2016.

You can find out more about Michael through these links:

Michael Batty on LinkedIn;

@jmichaelbatty as Michael Batty on Twitter;

http://www.complexcity.info/ Michael Batty's website;

Michael Batty's address: University College London, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TJ

Michael Batty at UCL;

Inventing Future Cities (book) on Amazon;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.027 - Interview with Richard Manasseh about the urban brain;

No.087 - Interview with Paul Brookbanks about organic urban evolution;

No.108 - Interview with Dr Anthony Kent, economic geographer;

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know…
131R_Inventing Future Cities (book summary)

16 mei 2023 · 8 min
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Are you interested in how can we create better, more sustainable cities for the future? Lees meer

Summary of the book titled Inventing Future Cities from 2018 by Michael Batty, published by The MIT Press.

This is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Michael Batty as the books present how he thinks about the future of cities.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how interdisciplinary collaboration and technologies can transform urban life. The book presents the opportunity and call for us to create cities that are more efficient, equitable and liveable for all.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Cities are complex systems that can be understood and improved using a scientific approach, because we can gain a better understanding of the relationships between different urban systems and make more informed decisions that can help create more efficient and sustainable cities.

Collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches are key to creating better cities and innovative solutions to complex urban challenges which also includes engaging with local communities, and empowering citizens to participate in the planning and design of their cities.

The future of cities is not predetermined, but by working together and embracing new ideas and technologies, we can create cities that are more sustainable, equitable, and liveable for all.

You can find the book through this link.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.037R - Big data, smart cities and city planning;

No.130R - A new framework for very large-scale urban modelling;

No.132 - Interview with Michael Batty data use in urban areas;

You can find the transcript through this link.

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130R_A new framework for very large-scale urban modelling (research summary)

9 mei 2023 · 10 min
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Are you interested in how large-scale urban modelling going beyond the usual land use and transport interactions? Lees meer

Summary of the article titled A new framework fro very large-scale urban modelling from 2021 by Michael Batty and Richard Milton, published in the Urban Studies journal.

This is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Michael Batty as he is an expert on urban data management.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the urban models can be expanded. This article presents a new framework including extensive spatial systems, population, employment, and distributed social interactions, which allows the running of hundreds of ‘what if?’ scenarios.

As the most important things, , I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

As technology progresses, our abilities to model urban scenarios widen to test and investigate different ‘what if?’ scenarios in urban decision-making.

The models enable us to create evolutionary design processes that continually improves the search for ever-better urban futures.

The models need to be embraced by users who have enough skill and awareness to be able to use them in planning support to generate plans to test ‘what if?’ style predictions.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: The generation of ever-bigger data sets pertaining to the distribution of activities in cities is paralleled by massive increases in computer power and memory that are enabling very large-scale urban models to be constructed. Here we present an effort to extend traditional land use–transport interaction (LUTI) models to extensive spatial systems so that they are able to track increasingly wide repercussions on the location of population, employment and related distributions of spatial interactions. The prototype model framework we propose and implement called QUANT is available anywhere, at any time, at any place, and is open to any user. It is characterised as a set of web-based…
129I_Alan Donegan, founder at Rebel Business, Entrepreneur and Finance School

4 mei 2023 · 54 min
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Are you interested in creating your own future? What do you think about urban stability and entrepreneurship? How can we charge into the future? Lees meer

Interview with Alan Donegan, founder at Rebel Business, Entrepreneur and Finance School. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, people and collaboration, healthy competition with abundance mindset, governments doing less of stupid things, and many more.

Alan founded Rebel Business School in 2012 with Simon Paine after they thought there must be a better way to start a business, without debt and without formal business plans. Since then, Rebel Business School become a global movement in Colombia, Morrocco, New Zealand and more. Alan went on to launch The Rebel Entrepreneur podcast and then Rebel Finance School with his wife Katie. Alan and Katie reached financial independence in 2019 and now travel the world writing, playing and eating everything!

You can find out more about Alan through these links:

Alan Donegan on LinkedIn;

@AlanDonegan as Alan Donegan on Twitter;

alandonegan.com website;

Rebel Business School website;

Rebel Entrepreneur podcast;

Rebel Finance School website;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.003 - Interview with Frans-Anton Vermast about Amsterday Smart City;

No.030 - Interview with Ville Sirviö about Estonia and Finland's e-governance;

No.120 - Interview with Matt Ferrell about pessimism and resources;

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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128R_Entrepreneurship in cities (research summary)

2 mei 2023 · 11 min
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Are you interested in how cities and entrepreneurship are connected? Lees meer

Summary of the article titled Entrepreneurship in cities from 2021 by Sam Tavassoli, Martin Oschonka, and David B. Audretsch, published in the Research Policy journal.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how cities influence entrepreneurship and vice versa. This article presents which are the best performing cities in terms of knowledge spillovers and economic performance.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

The extent of density and diversity matters greatly in shaping economic vitality – meaning quality entrepreneurship.

It is not just firms and industries that matter for knowledge spillovers, but ultimately the people who differ from one another not just in terms of human capital but in their personalities too, which is a key ingredient driving knowledge spillovers.

What may really matter is how people in cities unlock their agentic tendencies to help turn a favourable city environment into economic outputs.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: Impactful, growth-oriented entrepreneurship is a major research and policy focus. Building on arguments put forward by Jane Jacobs more than 50 years ago, we propose that local knowledge spillovers in a city are enhanced by human agency in that city (e.g. local psychological openness). This effect is critically amplified by the catalyst function of a favorable structural city environment that not only connects these agentic people (via urban density), but also facilitates the production and flow of new knowledge for these connected agentic people (via a diverse industry mix). This three-way interaction effect was confirmed in our empirical investigation of quality entrepreneurship across the MSAs (cities) in the US, using a large-scale dataset of the psychological profiles of millions of people. Local openness shows a robust positive effect on th…
127R_Urban futures – Idealization, capitalization, securitization (research summary)

25 april 2023 · 13 min
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Summary of the article titled Urban futures – Idealization, capitalization, securitization from 2022 by Austin Zeiderman and Katherine Dawson, published in the City – Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action journal.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how our imagination has changed regarding our cities’ futures. This article presents insights into forms of urban future-making and thinking, which lays the groundwork to identify what is at stake in imagining the future of cities in one way or another.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

A consensus has emerged in the first decades of the 21st century: the global future is an urban future, but the urban future is a centrally important problem.

The urban future probably will remain a strategic terrain of social and political struggle and the authors hoped the presented knowledge will support the efforts of urban scholars, practitioners, activists and citizens alike to engage, critically, creatively and constructively – with the city of tomorrow today.

By taking stock of both historical perspectives and contemporary possibilities, we can learn to better understand the imaginary and material processes that bring cities into being and perhaps even how to shape them in widely beneficial and truly inclusionary ways.

You can find the article through this link.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.021 - Interview with Bridgette Engeler about questioning cities;

No.072 - Interview with Tamás Mezős about the importance of urban history;

No.135 - Interview with Paul Satur about the term city;

You can find the transcript through this link.

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126I_Corey Gray, engineer and Global CEO of the Smart Cities Council

20 april 2023 · 49 min
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Are you interested in beauty as a sustainability element? What do you think about people being pragmatic for change and transformation? How can we create successful cities? Lees meer

Interview with Corey Gray, engineer and director of the Smart Cities Council by Everyone. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, successful cities in the past and future, human pragmatism in regards to climate change, smartness vs intelligence, and many more.

Since 1992 Corey Gray, a qualified Illumination Engineer, has been a prominent figure in the Smart City and IoT space. Founder and now Global Chairperson of LVX Global, Corey is an active member of global industry groups including Australian Smart Communities Association, Institute of Public Works Engineers Australasia and Silicon Valley based global technology industry group LMI, as well as multiple charitable boards. Fuelled by a deep passion for place and our collective future on this planet, Corey currently serves as Global CEO of the Smart Cities Council driving cross-sector collaboration, capacity and capability.

You can find out more about Corey through these links:

Corey Gray on LinkedIn;

Smart Cities Council website;

Corey Gray at LVX;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.015 - Interview with Luke Housego about data, information and knowledge;

No.090 - Interview Professor Matthew McCartney about economics and governance;

No.117 - Interview with Colin Chee about beautiful living and people as urban strengths;

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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125R_Aesthetics of Sustainability: a transdisciplinary sensibility for transformative practices (research summary)

18 april 2023 · 11 min
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Summary of the article titled Aesthetics of Sustainability: a transdisciplinary sensibility for transformative practices from 2011 by Sacha Kagan, published in the Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how transdisciplinary and complex approaches can inform aesthetics of sustainability. This article presents aesthetics of sustainability and its importance for a global environmental transformation process towards more sustainable societies.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Specific artistic expressions and aesthetic practices can enhance our selves of belonging and sustainability.

We need aesthetic sustainability to learn not to be afraid of complexity and the aesthetics of sustainability must include complexity and the interconnectedness of social, political and economic aspects of modern societies.

We all can experience our environment in this paradigm shifting way through simple walking when we become more conscious of our environment, probably leading some transformation in our surroundings.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: Contemporary western societies are marked by symptoms of a culture of unsustainability, rooted in problematic modes of knowing the reality, across social systems, whether in the sciences, arts or other fields. Transdisciplinary researchers across the world are already aware of these issues and working on resolving them. To contribute to these efforts and focus on a perspective which potential may have been receiving too little attention so far, this article is introducing how a sensibility to transdisciplinarity and complexity can inform aesthetics of sustainability, and why this matters for a global (environ)mental transformation process. The relevance of this approach is discussed with the field of ecological art and t…
124R_Smart cities: Utopia or neoliberal ideology (research summary)

11 april 2023 · 11 min
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Are you interested in whether smart city is a utopia or a neoliberal ideology? Lees meer

Our summary today works with the article titled Smart cities: Utopia or neoliberal ideology from 2017 by Giuseppe Grossi and Daniela Pianezzi, published in the Cities journal.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into the smart city concept’s values and ideas. This article presents that smart city is a neoliberal ideology and not a utopia through the example of the Italian city Genoa.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

The paper suggests that, despite private corporations and cities promoting the smart city as a revolutionary utopia, this paradigm is an expression of the neoliberal ideology.

The emphasis on fancy technological solutions risks diverting attention away from issues that require a long-term urban-planning based approach driven by the political and ethical willingness of municipalities.

A democratic-inspired utopia is needed, and cities have a role in creating such utopia in enabling counter-discourses through a wider discursive engagement of citizens.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: This paper develops a critical understanding of the smart city by investigating the values and ideas that underpin this concept and how they are translated into practice. It suggests that, despite private companies and municipalities promoting the smart city as a revolutionary utopia, this utopia is, on the contrary, an expression of the neoliberal ideology. The case study of the Italian city of Genoa shows that the smart city utopia acts as a generator of a collective imaginary while promoting the interests of business elites and diverting the attention away from urgent urban problems, such as urbanization. The neoliberal ideology influences the framing of these problems by favoring business-led technological solutions rather than political and long-term urban plann…
123I_Alex Louey, managing director and co-founder of AppsCore Digital

6 april 2023 · 30 min
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Are you interested in sustainable urban transport and development? What do you think about urban sustainability in Australia versus the world? How can we lead by example? Lees meer

Interview with Alex Louey, the managing director and co-founder of AppsCore Digital. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban sprawl, urban mobility, responsibilities, and many more.

As one of Appscore’s founding partners, Alex leads a team of more than 150 Australian-based digital experts. Even with 300 product builds on the market – accessed by millions of people around the world – Alex remains true to why he moved into digital technologies. Specifically; to make the lives of Australians a little easier, to make Australian businesses more productive and to help Australia grow and evolve in the digital world. Alex’s work at the helm of Appscore is driven by the chief principle of “continuous innovation”. He consistently mentors his team toward industry excellence. Whether it’s the technology Appscore works with, the way customers are serviced or how projects are delivered, as the digital landscape continues to move at breakneck speeds, so does the evolution of Appscore.

You can find out more about Alex through these links:

Alex Louey on LinkedIn;

AppsCore website;

Alex Louey archive on The PR Hub;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.048 - Interview with Hussein Dia about mobility and urban transportation;

No.120 - Interview with Matt Ferrell about leading by example;

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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122R_Urban sprawl and its impact on sustainable urban development: a combination of remote sensing and social media data (research summary)

4 april 2023 · 9 min
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Are you interested in how urban sprawl affects sustainable urban development? Lees meer

Summary of the article titled Urban sprawl and its impact on sustainable urban development: a combination of remote sensing and social media data from 2021 by Zhenfeng Shao, Neema S. Sumari, Aleksei Portnov, Fanan Ujoh, Walter Musakwa and Paulo J. Mandela, published in the Geo-Spatial information Science journal.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how urban sprawl affects urban services. This article presents the case of Morogoro in Africa, and the results that sensing and population data can be useful for interpreting urban sprawl and access to urban services.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Urban sprawl generally refers to the unrestricted growth in many urban areas of housing, commercial development and roads over large expanses of land with little concern to urban planning.

Urban expansion has had significant impacts on poverty, living conditions and environmental quality within the sprawl areas of the Morogoro urban municipality, and with that, ecosystem services supporting human and natural populations also declined.

Planning and regulation need to lead to a planned and sustainable future that will be ecologically sensitive, support conservation and biodiversity and provide a safe habitation for urban dwellers.

You can find the article through this link.

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121R_Smart City appropriation by local actors: An instrument in the making (research summary)

28 maart 2023 · 8 min
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Are you interested in smart cities as a functional instrument to influence public debate and policy? Lees meer

Our summary today works with the article titled Smart City appropriation by local actors: An instrument in the making from 2019 by Jonathan Desdemoustier, Nathalie Crutzen, Mario Cools, and Jacques Teller, published in the Cities journal.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the different urban actors understand and appropriate the smart city concept. This article presents that smart city, indeed, can be an instrument and that each actor follows their own logic.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

The smart city emerged as a new way of imagining, organising, and managing the city and its flows.

The smart city can be considered an instrument that could be appropriated by actors as either a functionalist instrument or as a public policy instrument.

Urban actors – politicians, public servants, private actors, members of the civil society and researchers – appropriate the smart city through both types of instruments without a homogenous view, which means that smart city approaches need clarity when established.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: The literature on Smart Cities lacks of research on how actors understand and appropriate the Smart City. This paper questions in an innovative way their appropriations of the phenomenon. Smart City is considered as an instrument, following the theory of Lascoumes and Le Galès (2007). Is the Smart City a functional instrument: a kind of evidence and a pragmatic solution at disposal or a public policy instrument: not neutral, provoking debates and influencing policies? An empirical analysis is carried on based on a survey among 193 Belgian actors active in the domain. The results show that the Instrument theory is relevant to analyse the actors' appropriation, which do not follow a homogeneous trend. In fact, each ac…
120I_Matt Ferrell, Youtube creator specialising in sustainable and renewable technologies

22 maart 2023 · 44 min
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Are you interested in sustainable and renewable technologies? What do you think about urban sustainability and its implementation? How can we create even better future for the next generations than we have? Stay tuned for the answers from Matt Ferrell! Lees meer

Interview with Matt Ferrell, YouTube creator specialising in sustainable and renewable technologies. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, being stuck on Earth, sustainable solutions and their availability, human pessimism and how to tackle it, and many more.

Matt Ferrell lives in the Boston area and is a UI/UX designer by trade, but has always been obsessed by technology and how it works. In 2018 he started his YouTube channel, Undecided with Matt Ferrell, to focus on sustainable and smart technologies, which has gained over 1 million subscribers. He’s spoken at Fully Charged Live among other industry conferences while also advising multiple sustainable tech startups.

You can find out more about Matt through these links:

Matt Ferrell on LinkedIn;

@mattferrell@mastodon.social as Matt Ferrell on Mastodon;

mattferrell.com website;

Undecided with Matt Ferrell website;

Undecided with Matt Ferrell on Youtube (special recommendations based on the conversation: Solar panels plus farming?; How the CO2 battery could be the future of energy storage?; 2 Brearkthroughs that could solve the fresh water crisis; The future of solid state wind energy - no more blades);

@UndecidedMF as Undecided on Twitter;

Matt Ferrell's journey with their prefabricated home - YouTube video (1st episode);

Connected episodes you might be interested in:

No.027 - Interview with Richard Manasseh about holistic approaches yet small actions;

No.119R - Pessimism and optimism in the debate on climate change;

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.

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119R_Pessimism and optimism in the debate on climate change: A critical analysis (research summary)

20 maart 2023 · 8 min
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Are you interested in why we have pessimistic and optimistic views on climate change? Lees meer

Summary of the article titled Pessimism and optimism in the debate on climate change: A critical analysis from 2021 by Anders Nordgren, published in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how our attitudes can influence this debate. This article presents why such attitudes, concerns and opportunities are present.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

There is an observable pessimism and optimism in the debate on climate change, and a person can be pessimistic in some aspects and optimistic in others.

Pessimism and optimism were found in a varying degree in climate change as an unmitigated or poorly mitigated process, mitigation of climate change or specific measures of mitigation.

The diversity of approaches can be due to the uncertainty of scientific climate models and the political and ideological assumptions on the measures taken.

You can find the article through this link.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.007 - World scientists' warning of climate emergency;

No.093 - Interview with Professor Jeni Paay about pessimism;

No.120 - Interview with Matt Ferrell about tackling urban pessimism;

You can find the transcript through this link.

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.

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118R_Smart sustainable cities – Exploring ICT solutions for reduced energy use in cities (research summary)

13 maart 2023 · 10 min
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Are you interested in ICT solutions to reduce urban energy use? Lees meer

Our summary today works with the article titled Smart sustainable cities – Exploring ICT solutions for reduced energy use in cities from 2014 by Anna Kramers, Mattias Höjer, Nina Lövenhagen and Josefin Wangel, published in the Environmental Modelling and Software journal.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how ICT – information and communication technology – can help reducing urban energy use. This article presents an analytical framework for ICT opportunities to be combined with household functions that use energy.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

A city can become smart and sustainable by having climate targets and using ICT strategically to help achieve those targets – because ICT has great potential in highlighting potential issues with energy use for example.

In order to turn the potentials into real savings, cities need to explore the opportunities thoroughly and investigate how they can best support the implementation of different ICT.

Businesses need to learn how best to design and implement ICT solutions that decrease energy use.

You can find the episode through this link.

Abstract: This article explores the opportunities of using ICT as an enabling technology to reduce energy use in cities. An analytical framework is developed in which a typology of ICT opportunities is combined with a typology of household functions, i.e. all the activities that require energy. The energy used for household functions is calculated using a consumption-based lifecycle perspective. The analytical framework is intended to be of use to researchers, city and regional authorities and ICT companies interested in acquiring a better understanding of how ICT investments could contribute to reduce energy use in cities.

Connected episodes you might be interested in:

No.008R - What are the differences between sustainable and…
117I_Colin Chee, the creative director of the Never Too Small YouTube channel

8 maart 2023 · 52 min
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Are you interested in small footprint living? What do you think about the effects of good neighbour relationships? How can we create more compassionate designs? Stay tuned for the answers from Colin Chee! Lees meer

Interview with Colin Chee, the creative director of the Never Too Small Youtube channel. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, compassionate design, needed urban conversations, people as the urban strengths, and many more.

Colin Chee is the creative director of Never Too Small, a YouTube channel dedicated to showcasing the best in small footprint design and living. His videos interrogate how smart architecture and innovative design can be used to transform small spaces and the future of our cities, and have grown a fan base of almost 1.8million YouTube subscribers off of 110 million views in just 4 years. Never Too Small has recently published their first book, Never Too Small: Reimagining Small Space Living: a curation of their favourite designs from around the world. To get a copy head to their website www.nevertoosmall.com.

Find out more about Colin through these links:

Colin Chee on LinkedIn;

colinchee_nts as Colin Chee on Instagram;

NeverTooSmall website;

NeverTooSmall on YouTube;

nvtsmall as NeverTooSmall on Instagram;

@nvtsmall as NeverTooSmall on Twitter;

Interview with Colin Chee on the Medium;

NeverTooSmall on The Guardian;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.057 - Interview with Amélie Uhrig about steps you can take for a more sustainable urban living;

No.111 - Interview with Dave Hakkens about sustainable urban living;

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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116R_Small is beautiful? Stories of carbon footprints, socio-demographic trends and small households in Denmark (research summary)

6 maart 2023 · 10 min
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Are you interested in small footprint living? Lees meer

Our summary today works with the article titled Small is beautiful? Stories of carbon footprints, socio-demographic trends and small households in Denmark from 2021 by Tullia Jack and Diana Ivanova, published in the Energy Research & Social Science journal.

This episode is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Colin Chee in episode 117 talking about small foot print living with its advantages and disadvantages.

Plus, since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how household size is connected to carbon footprints. This article presents different Danish cohorts and opportunities to decrease their footprints with storytelling and policy-making.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Humanity is increasingly living in single or double occupant households but these lifestyles add greatly to our negative impacts on the environment.

Storytelling could be a way to help people understand their possibilities in decreasing their carbon footprint in an empathetic way, working toward socially and environmentally sustainable futures.

Policy-makers need to take into account the change in lifestyles and create requirements for city dwelling to be more sustainable in single and double occupant households.

You can find the article through this link.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.027 - Interview with Professor Richard Manasseh talking about more sharing opportunities;

No.117 - Interview with Colin Chee talking about small footprint living;

You can find the transcript through this link.

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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115R_Towards Post-Anthropocentric Cities: Reconceptualising smart cities to evade urban ecocide (research summary)

27 februari 2023 · 7 min
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Are you interested in post-anthropocentric cities after smart ones? Lees meer

Our summary today works with the article titled Towards Post-Anthropocentric Cities: Reconceptualising smart cities to evade urban ecocide from 2019 by Tan Yigitcanlar, Marcus Foth, and Md Kamruzzaman, published in the Journal of Urban Technology.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how to change current smart city approaches to evade a most likely urban ecocide. This article presents the next step in smart city evolution with post-anthropocentric cities.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Smart city have gone through the intelligent city, the smart city and the responsive city phase, and probably it is time for to evolve further for its fourth generation.

The biggest challenge now is to find a way to change our mentality and politics on urban transformation.

Urban evolution and smart cities arrived to cross road where the next decisions need to include more sustainable ideas and more-than-human elements.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: This short piece acts as a coda to this journal’s special issue on “Smart Cities and Innovative Technologies.” First, it provides a retrospective view of the origins of the smart city concept. The paper, secondly, presents the most recent perspectives on the new interpretations of the smart city notion. It then provides a commentary on the potential directions for a better reconceptualization of smart cities to evade a most likely urban ecocide. Lastly, the short communication concludes by asking two critical questions: (a) Will urban scholars, planners, designers, and activists be able to convince urban policymakers and the general public of the need for a post-anthropocentric urban turnaround? (b) How do the public, private, and academic sectors along with communities pave the way for post-anthropocentric cities and more-than-human futures?

Connecti…
114I_Kelly Boucher, a scholar, education consultant and breakthrough coach

22 februari 2023 · 43 min
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Are you interested in pedagogy as the agency of teaching and learning? What do you think about radical relearning about how we interact with our environment? How can we learn from children? Stay tuned for the answers from Kelly Boucher! Lees meer

Interview with Kelly Boucher, a scholar, education consultant and breakthrough coach. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, pedagogy, radical relearning, the need to slow down, and many more.

Kelly Boucher is an independent scholar, education consultant and a personal breakthrough coach. She helps organisations across the education sector activate collective critical dialogue to ‘think otherwise with the world’. By facilitating robust exchanges within theory and practice, Kelly nurtures and develops research culture within education settings. This in turn helps teachers reconceptualise what teaching and learning could be. Kelly’s recent publications focus on place and materials as relational learning opportunities for children. In 2019 her work was cited as a best practice scenario for children’s learning by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. Her book chapters Radical Collaboration: Flipping the Paradigm on Learning; (2021) and Radical Trust: Attending and Attuning to The World (2022) are Amazon #1 International Bestsellers. In the personal coaching space, she supports individuals (teachers or otherwise) to transform their everyday lives from burnt out to joyful by becoming curious life-long learners and active citizens of the now. Kelly thinks with concepts, lives slowly on Dja Dja Wurrung country and is cultivating her own inner ecology next to a huge eucalyptus tree.

You can find out more about Kelly through these links:

Kelly Boucher on LinkedIn;

@BoucherArts as Kelly Boucher on Twitter;

Kelly Boucher website;

Kelly Boucher's e-book for your use;

Dialogues with Materials with Kelly Boucher at Reggio Emilia Australia;

How to get through it - Leunig Cartoon (facebook link) mentioned in the dis…
113R_Radical collaboration: flipping the paradigm on learning (research summary)

20 februari 2023 · 11 min
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Are you interested in radical collaboration as an education form? Lees meer

Our summary today works with the chapter titled Radical collaboration: flipping the paradigm on learning from 2021 by Kelly Boucher, from the book titled Collaboration, visionaries share a new way of living.

This episode is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Kelly Boucher in episode 114.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how to think otherwise of life and place. This chapter presents radically collaborative ways of living well with the world and others in glorious multiplicity and complexity.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Pedagogy is a term usually used to describe the art of teaching and learning or the agency that joins teaching and learning, but it can evolve to an active dialogue and being in relation with the world.

Being in relation can mean, according to Aboriginals, that the boundaries between humans and nature are blurred because everything is animate.

Through being in relation and radical re-learning, we take up our responsibility and step into radical collaboration with the world.

You can find the book through this link.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.099 - Interview with Noel Tighe about leaving ego outside for the best outcomes in design processes;

No.114 - Interview with Kelly Boucher about radical collaboration and unlearning;

You can find the transcript through this link.

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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112R_Engaging with place – Foregrounding Aboriginal perspectives in early childhood education (research summary)

13 februari 2023 · 11 min
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Are you interested in how to embed Aboriginal perspectives in early childhood education regarding space? Lees meer

Our summary today works with the chapter titled Engaging with place – Foregrounding Aboriginal perspectives in early childhood education from 2017 by Catherine Hamm and Kelly Boucher, from the book titled Found in Translation: Connecting reconceptualist thinking with early childhood education practices.

This episode is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Kelly Boucher in episode 114.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the different aspects of how to engage with place, and in a broader sense with our environment. This chapter presents the Aboriginal worldviews which are in a relationship with space including human and non-human elements.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Pedagogy and curriculum can be situated as knowledge mobilization – ways to enact knowledge, rather than just storing content and in situating place as a pedagogical contact zone, we acknowledge that places are always in a state of entanglement of human and more-than-human others.

Being present opens spaces to rethink pedagogies as a way to think with concepts and ideas, rather than thinking about or consuming content.

Learning to be affected’ term can be useful to make room for understanding place as a generative pedagogical zone which attends to the ways in which places are entangled in all kinds of bodies and works to disrupt the linear thinking of place.

You can find the chapter through this link, and the book through this link.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.078 - Interview with Ammon Beyerle highlighting the importance of aboriginal ideas;

No.114 - Interview with Kelly Boucher about creating new pedagogical appraoches;

You can find the transcript through this link.

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