City Centric Podcast

Welcome to a new episode of Healing Futures, part of the Urban Health Council. This conversation is between neuroscientist and health activist Araceli Camargo, data ethics and facilitator Daniel Akinola-Odusola, and medical student and climate campaigner Amit Singh. It is based on a body of work being produced within the Urban Health Council on what it means for children to grow up in states of cr...

“I am the extension of my territory, that’s healing” - Angela Camacho -------------------------------------------------------- Healing Imaginations is project that provides a time and space to Peoples to think about healing. In time this space will turn into a robust digital library of healing practices rooted in Kinship and Solidarity. You can read more about this project and the contributions fr...

"Every time we take a breath, we really must be grateful to these microbial life forms. They've produced the oxygen, allowing us to breathe" Dr. Jake Robinson -------------------------------------------------------- Healing Imaginations is project that provides a time and space to Peoples to think about healing.  In time this space will turn into a robust digital library of healing practices roote...

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, w...

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, w...

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, w...

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, w...

Sarah Le Brocq is a person living with obesity and is the founder of All About Obesity http://allaboutobesity.org, is a Director & Lay Member at NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and member of the All Party Parliamentary Group of Obesity in the UK. Charlotte Kemp sat down with her to speak on her experience with the disease as well as how she is moving towards health justic...

Welcome to our first audio report as part of the Healing Futures programme This is a discussion on the history of disease, part research and part discussion, between Araceli Camargo, Elahi Hossain, Hannah Yu-Pearson, and Rhiannon Osborne. When we look at the history of human health and disease, research suggests there have been three epidemiological transitions - that is, changes in the patterns o...

Welcome to a new series on the City Centric channel: Healing Futures. Healing Futures are various futures created by all Peoples in Kinship with Nature for equitable access to various healing practices and knowledges. We launch with Amit Singh, a medical student and climate justice advocate, he is also part of the Punjabi community. All of these factors contribute to how he frames health, healing,...

Delighted to Andrew Grieve & Kayla Schulte from Breathe London onto the show to discuss community ownership of air pollution monitoring, collection and research design. Andrew's interests lie at the intersection of emerging digital technologies and air quality communication. He is the Senior Air Quality Analyst for Breathe London based at School of Public Health at Imperial University, London. Kay...

Episode #5 of (slightly more than) 15 Minutes with features architect turned good client real estate developer Martin Prince-Parrott. Martin is an award-winning Architect and Development Director for SUB\URBAN WORKSHOP. An innovative ESG led developer + consultancy. Martin believes that property should enrich lives. He enthuses his projects with these ideas as well as advocates for them. As a resu...

This episode is a conversation between Centric’s Araceli Camargo and Juwairia Rafique Quazi & Suwen Chen, both PhD candidates at University of Edinburgh on how they see equitable engagement with communities as researchers and practitioners. Juwairia Rafique Quazi is a PhD candidate in Global Health at the University of Edinburgh and is the co-founder of the Planetary Health Lab - https://www.plane...

This episode is a conversation between Centric’s Araceli Camargo and Prof Ilan Kelman, of University College London on how he sees equitable engagement with communities as researchers and practitioners. Ilan is a Professor of Disasters and Health, researching islands, disasters, health, migration, inclusivity, polar areas, development, and sustainability (all including climate change). @ILANKELMAN...

Episode 4 is with Professor Nick Tyler CBE of University College London. Nick Tyler is the Director of the UCL Centre for Transport Studies and Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, and investigates the ways in which people interact with their immediate environments. He is involved in projects in several countries in Latin America, Japan, China and continental Europe, as well as in London and e...

Episode #3 of 15 Minutes With features architect and founder of Matter Architecture, an award winning London based architecture practice. A big focus of Matter Architecture's work is research, which has drawn them to join the Urban Health Council. Roland has more than 20 years experience working as an Architect, an urban designer and as a public sector client. He also teaches and researches part-t...

Episode #2 is with Becka Hudson, a doctoral researcher and campaigner around issues related to criminal justice institutions, racism and inequality based in London. Becka is currently an Associate of the End Solitary Confinement campaign, and have previously worked as Lead Coordinator at the Radical Housing Network, co-founder of the Reclaim Holloway Coalition, Communications Consultant at the 4Fr...

15 minutes with [ ] is a new series interviewing members from the Urban Health Council about their work. Episode #1 is with Jake Heitland, Commercial Manager & Urban Strategist at Lendlease. Originally from small-town Wisconsin Jake landed in London a few years ago and supports multi-disciplinary teams to apply new models of thinking and working to large urban regeneration projects in the UK that...

This episode is the 3rd of a 3-part mini series recorded with 3 medical students from University College London on Covid-19 and the vaccine process. The vaccine has been a disputed and politicised issue, and to our belief this could have been avoided with better communication, better relationships with medicine and decolonised frameworks of healthcare. This episode discusses the need for informed...

This episode is the second of a 3-part mini series recorded with 3 medical students from University College London on Covid-19 and the vaccine process. The vaccine has been a disputed and politicised issue, and to our belief this could have been avoided with better communication, better relationships with medicine and decolonised frameworks of healthcare. This episode discusses the intellectual, s...

This episode is the first of a 3-part mini series recorded with 3 medical students from University College London on Covid-19 and the vaccine process. The vaccine has been a disputed and politicised issue, and to our belief this could have been avoided with better communication, better relationships with medicine and decolonised frameworks of healthcare. This episode tries to explain what a vaccin...

This episode is a special summary from a recent Urban Health Council talk and roundtable titled 'Living Symbiotic with Nature'. We are delighted to be joined by JOSINA CALLISTE (https://twitter.com/Jo_zinaC) Josina runs Land In Our Name (LION) a grassroots Black-led collective committed to reparations in Britain by connecting land and climate justice with racial justice. JAKE ROBINSON (https://twi...

This episode we’re joined by Priya Shah from BAME in Property. The conversation centres around the additional burden people of colour or those from marginalised background face through work stress from the real estate industry and the need to decolonise its behaviours, frameworks and language. This show was made possible by our Patreon subscribers who we thank dearly…if you do enjoy this show and...

This is a new format introducing audio summaries from the roundtables held through the Urban Health Council. We have taken snippets from the conversation and weaved them together into a short summary. This conversation was on the theme of Air Pollution x Race x Health. In December 2020 a UK court ruled that air pollution made a material contribution to the death of 9-year old Ella Kissi-Debrah, ma...

Magali is one of the 3rd cohort of Public Practice associates and has been placed at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she is Project Lead for Placemaking. She will be leading a transformational approach to public realm as an integral part of the planning process for Great Ormond Street's new Children's Cancer Centre. Her work at The Children's Trust, which provides rehabilitation, education and...