What if cities are the greatest opportunity we have to redesign the rules we live by? On this episode of the Podcast we speak with Pia Mancini, co-founder of Democracy Earth and Open Collective. Pia is an activist, technologist and serial impact entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology and policy making. Pia speaks with us about how we can reorganize how we govern so we are not bound by old rules tied to the places we are born and how decentralizing funding gives us the agility to ...
Jan 31, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast What would a city be like if citizens were emotionally aware of themselves and how they impacted others? On this episode of The Future City podcast, we speak with Futureye Consultancy Founder and Managing Director Katherine Teh. Katherine is a corporate executive, management consultant and specialist in social licence to operate. Katherine shares stories about how we can be more acutely aware of how our decisions affect people in our cities, why the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 were a uni...
Jan 24, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast What happens when there is no more water? On this episode of The Future City podcast, we speak with Professor Sarah Bell. Sarah is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers who has worked across a number of cities on their water issues. Sarah speaks with us about our complex yet simple relationship to water, why engineers need to roll-up their sleeves and get involved with water users when desi...
Jan 17, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Imagine a city where corporations used their brands for public good? On this episode of The Future City Podcast, we speak with expert brand strategist Sergio Brodsky. Sergio is a corporate leader, marketing guru and founder of the concept of Urban Brand Utility. Sergio shares his own story of getting robbed over 10 times in his hometown of Sao Paulo as well as examples of how brands are lighting up dark alleyways, filtering polluted waterways and fixing potholes so we can live in safe, healthy a...
Dec 27, 2020•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast What does it mean to have a city which regenerates itself? On this episode of The Future City Podcast, we speak with City of Sydney Councillor Jess Miller, an environmental activist and equity advocate. Jess shares about the power of urban ecology, why diverse representation matters and how equity is the lens to look through when studying our cities. Councillor Jess Miller was first elected to Council in 2016, and is one of the youngest people to hold elected office at the City of Sydney. Jess s...
Dec 20, 2020•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast How do you feel right now? Understanding and regulating emotions is one of the key aspects to living a good life, and in fact it’s never been more important than at this moment in our human history. This week we doing something different as we share an episode from our friends at The Learning Future Podcast, a podcast on all things learning hosted by Louka Parry. In this episode, he speaks with Professor Marc Brackett, the Foundation Director of the Centre for Emotional Intelligence at Yale Univ...
Dec 13, 2020•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast How do cities attract and retain the best talent, and therefore the best industries? On this episode of The Future City Podcast, we speak with Shelley Danner, community activator, Adjunct Professor of Design Thinking, and Co-founder and Program Director of Challenge Detroit. Shelley shares with us the dynamic talent generation and urban impact model she’s been working on for the last 9 years. Her model has proven a new way for cities to develop economically while tackling urban social and enviro...
Dec 06, 2020•33 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast How do we truly discover and showcase the different cultures in our cities? On this episode of The Future City Podcast, we speak with Anya Shani, The most recent CEO of Hansen House, Jerusalem’s Public Cultural Center. Anya is a convenor of creatives and embodies the essence of entrepreneurship in our cities. Whether we are going to a community-led theater performance or just getting lost in our cities, Anya shares the importance of experiencing hyper local, raw and real cultural experiences. An...
Nov 29, 2020•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast What would it be like to design a city from the perspective of justice? On this episode of The Future City Podcast we speak with Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a London-based, Sudanese-Australian writer, engineer and award-winning social advocate. Yassmin shares her thoughts about forgiveness, inclusive leadership and what it means to live in a city where each resident feels self-expressed and without fear. Yassmin trained as a mechanical engineer and worked on oil and gas rigs around Australia for years...
Nov 22, 2020•40 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast How would you describe the way you experience your city? On this episode of The Future City Podcast we speak with Dominic Regester about the benefits of leveraging a city’s ecology and what happens when city makers take the time to consider the emotional experience city dwellers have when they trounce around their favorite parks and gallivant in their beloved city pockets. Dominic is Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar where he is responsible for designing, developing and implementing prog...
Nov 15, 2020•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast How do we know if the air in our cities is clean enough to breathe? On this episode of The Future City Podcast, we speak with Reecha Upadhyay, an international clean air activist based in one of the most air-polluted cities on earth, Delhi, India. Reecha is a campaigns and program leader at the Clean Air Fund, which is dedicated to building and strengthening the global clean air movement. Reecha’s work is about backing a range of interventions such as air quality monitoring and supporting ambiti...
Nov 08, 2020•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast What does the future of flight mean for our cities? Drones already deliver items to consumers at home, and as we are the midst of the third aviation revolution. Where might this technology take us? On today’s episode we speak with Dr. Newton Campbell Jr., a NASA computer scientist and cyber security expert that is working on self-driving aircraft. Dr. Campbell Jr. currently serves as an Artificial Intelligence expert with the NASA Langley Research Center and leads the development of several prog...
Nov 01, 2020•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week’s episode of The Future City Podcast we speak with Dr. Julian Waters-Lynch about how remote working in response to the COVID19 pandemic is changing us and our cities. Dr. Waters-Lynch is a lecturer at RMIT University. He is an expert in the future of work in this “new normal.” Julian shares with us how work-life balance is evolving and that a migration of workers from major cities to second tier cities and regional areas may not be such a bad thing. Dr. Julian Waters-Lynch is a lect...
Oct 25, 2020•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast How are we celebrating, catalyzing and amplifying black joy? This, in itself, is a radical act. On this week’s episode of The Future City podcast we speak with Kyra Assibey-Bonsu, a Brooklyn based urbanist and storyteller who is on the board of Black Space Urbanist Collective - an organization which demands a present and future where Black people, Black spaces and Black culture matter. Kyra shares about how focusing on a manifesto and staying curious about food are key for marginalized groups to...
Oct 18, 2020•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast What does it mean to have a city which is truly self-sufficient where the only thing coming in and out is people? On this episode of The Future City podcast, we speak with Ross Harding, a designer, engineer and finance guy with a special power - designing self-sufficient cities. Ross shares his financial and technically-sound design for a self-sufficient capital city, which was endorsed by the local mayor.
Oct 11, 2020•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast How can we increase people’s connection to nature, and make our cities greener, healthier and more sustainable? In today’s episode we speak with the Honorable David Speirs MP. He is the Minister for Environment and Water and serves as a Member of Parliament in South Australia, Australia’s 4th Largest state. As you’ll hear, Dave is a passionate advocate for the environment and we discuss practical ways to change our cities for the better. As one of Australia's youngest Government Ministers, he ha...
Oct 04, 2020•47 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we speak with Lucinda Hartley, an urban designer, entrepreneur and co-founder of Neighbourlytics, a social analytics platform for neighbourhoods that measures the quality of life and wellbeing in cities using big data. Named as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 most influential people, Lucinda is redefining how we measure what makes cities successful and we explore how we can evolve our neighbourhoods towards social prosperity.
Sep 27, 2020•36 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Daniel Raven-Ellison is a Guerrilla Geographer, National Geographic Emerging Explorer and is leading the campaign to make London the world’s first National Park City. A former secondary school Head of Geography, Daniel’s work focuses on exploring and thinking about places in creative ways, including our urban environments. Daniel shares brilliant insights from his adventures having explored some of the world’s largest cities to understand critical themes including violence, depression and green ...
Sep 20, 2020•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast What makes a city livable? Transport? Splendid Coffee? Hip people? On this episode of the Future City Podcast we speak with Clare Shine about how access to the natural world inside our cities is what makes them desirable, equitable and even commercially successful. Clare speaks about the importance of trees, how London is becoming a National Park City and the unexpected benefits of a “new normal.”
Sep 20, 2020•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast What’s the difference between a good night and a wicked night? Incredible food and amazing cocktails. On this episode of The Future City Podcast, we speak with Ryan Chetiyawardana about how to design magical culinary experiences, where the future of restaurants is heading and why being weird is the key to being cool.
Sep 20, 2020•45 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast The future of living in cities is in question. How will we experience our cities in the future? In this episode we introduce the Future City Podcast and the big questions we will explore as the episodes unfold.
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