What is The Future for Cities?

"If you don't know where you are heading, you can end up in a completely different place." Are you interested in policy-making for sustainability? What do you think about the UN Sustainable Development Goals? How can we break the siloes for systems to talk to each other? Interview with Alison Scotland, Executive Director at Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council. We talk ab...

Are you interested in what is needed for decision-making regarding urban energy retrofit? Summary of the article titled Decision-making approach to urban energy retrofit – A comprehensive review from 2023 by Lei Shu and Dong Zhao, published in the Buildings journal. This is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Alison Scotland in episode 192 talking about policy-making for better urban fut...

Are you interested in policy-making for sustainability? What do you think about the UN Sustainable Development Goals? How can we break the siloes for systems to talk to each other? Trailer for episode 192 - interview with Alison Scotland, Executive Director at Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, advising policy-making, optimism as a...

"We can ride this wave of decarbonisation to reach prosperity." Are you interested in biourbanism? What do you think about Earth as a spaceship? How can we learn systems thinking for a more holistic approach? Interview with Adrian McGregor, the founder and Chief Design Officer at McGregor Coxall. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, biourbanism, prosperity, adaptability, cl...

Are you interested in understanding cities are nature? Summary of the book titled Biourbanism: Cities as nature – a resilience model for anthromes from 2022 by Adrian McGregor, published by Biourbanism Publishing. This is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Adrian McGregor, talking about biourbanism in episode 190 . Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be i...

Trailer for episode 190 - interview with Adrian McGregor, the founder and Chief Design Officer at McGregor Coxall. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, biourbanism, prosperity, adaptability, climate forecasting with digital twins, and many more. Find out more in the  ⁠episode⁠ . Music by  ⁠Lesfm ⁠ from  ⁠Pixabay⁠

Are you interested in microgrids? What do you think about decentralising cities and their services? How can we use our brainpower for the better urban future? Interview with Rod Matthews, the Co-Founder and CEO of Brevian Energy. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, microgrids, resource management, efficiency, urban experiments and many more. Rod Matthews is an experienced business t...

Are you interested in the sustainability of future energy systems? Summary of the article titled Microgrid communities: disclosing the path to future system-active communities from 2022 by Martin Warneryd and Kersti Karltorp, published in the Sustainable Futures journal. This is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Rod Matthews in episode 188 talking about community microgrids. Since we a...

Trailer for episode 188 - interview with Rod Matthews, the Co-Founder and CEO of Brevian Energy. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, microgrids, resource management, efficiency, urban experiments and many more. Find out more in the  interview ! Music by  Lesfm  from  Pixabay

"Make things that both work for today while they can become the bricks in the foundation of how we operate our cities of tomorrow." Are you interested in sustainability as resilience, harmony, and wellbeing? What do you think about integrated sustainability? How can we learn from the past for a better future? Interview with Tom Bosschaert, the founder and director of Except Integrated Su...

Are you interested in a paradigm shift for sustainability transformation? Our summary today works with the article titled Systems thinking as a paradigm shift for sustainability transformation from 2022 by N. Voulvoulis, T. Giakoumis, C. Hunt, V. Kioupi, N. Petrou, I. Souliotis, C. Vaghela, WIH binti Wan Rosely, published in the Global Environmental Change journal. This is a great preparation for...

Trailer for episode 186 - interview with Tom Bosschaert, the founder and director of Except Integrated Sustainability. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, stages of grief in sustainability, Orchid City, the City of Hope, and many more. Find out more in the episode . Music by  Lesfm  from  Pixabay

"24-hour city embracing density and buzzing always" Are you interested in the 24-hour city? What do you think about technology helping us being creative? How can we learn better from history? Interview with Alby Bocanegra, the Chief Future Officer and Founder at The Urban Futurist Inc. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, collaboration, AI and smartness, human connections,...

Are you interested in the 24-hour city? Summary of the policy paper titled 24-hour cities network: Policy and strategy recommendations from 2023 by Andreina Seijas. This is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Alby Bocanegra in episode 184 talking the 24-hour city and its advantages. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see whether we are m...

Trailer for episode 184 - interview with Alby Bocanegra, the Chief Future Officer and Founder at The Urban Futurist Inc. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, collaboration, AI and smartness, human connections, and many more. Find out more in the episode ! Music by  ⁠⁠Lesfm ⁠⁠ from  ⁠⁠Pixabay

"We have the most expensive construction industry but not the best quality." Are you interested in urban retrofitting? What do you think about the materials used in the built environment? How can we provide better urban services? Interview Ted Baillieu, the former Premier of Victoria and architect. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, affordability, cities with split p...

Are you interested in how to make prototypes for the built environment? Summary of the article titled Built environment prototyping for design-value from 2023 by Darcy Zelenko and Duncan Maxwell, published in the Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2023. This is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Ted Baillieu in episode 182 talking about why experimenting with the built environment...

Trailer for episode 182 - Interview Ted Baillieu, the former Premier of Victoria and architect. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, affordability, cities with split personalities, getting families back in cities, regreening cities, and many more. Find out more in the  interview ! Music by  Lesfm  from  Pixabay

Are you interested in city consciousness? What do you think about knowledge and knowledge-creation? How can we remove bad stuff to improve the good stuff? Interview with Ben Vass, senior research engineer. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, space and time, threshold for bad experiences, opportunities in tools for improvements, and many more. Ben Vass is a senior research engineer,...

Today would be a research episode, but since it is 2023 Christmas time, I want to just wish you all relaxing holidays with or without celebrating Christmas, Merry Christmas if you do celebrate it, and a very Happy New Year! We will have many interesting topics to discover and further discuss in 2024. I am already preparing those episodes and I am very excited about what will come! First, this epis...

Are you interested in city consciousness? What do you think about knowledge and knowledge-creation? How can we remove bad stuff to improve the good stuff? Trailer for the episode 180 - interview with Ben Vass, senior research engineer. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, space and time, threshold for bad experiences, opportunities in tools for improvements, and many more. Find out m...

Are you interested in a brighter future for our cities and humanity? Summary of the book titled Brighter: Optimism, progress, and the future of environmentalism from 2022 by Adam Dorr, based on my reading experience and other summaries, linked in the shownotes. Great preparation for our interview with Adam Dorr in episode 222, and just a refreshing outlook on the future. Since we are investigating...

Are you interested in intergenerational equity? What do you think about the younger generation fighting for a better future? How can we use our own voices to inflict change on the urban environment? Interview with Amelia Gaskell, an environmental science student. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, sustainability, intergenerational equity, climate anxiety, her origin story, and...

Are you interested in how young people change their fields of study? Summary of the article titled Major transitions: how college students interpret the process of changing fields of study from 2023 by Blake R Silver published in the Higher Education journal. This is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Amelia Gaskill in episode 177 talking about how and why she changed her major to focus...

Trailer for episode 177 - interview with Amelia Gaskell, an environmental science student. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, sustainability, intergenerational equity, climate anxiety, her origin story, and many more. Find out more in the  ⁠⁠⁠⁠episode⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Music by  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Lesfm ⁠⁠⁠⁠ from  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠⁠⁠