INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES

In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures , recorded live at the World Urban Forum , we had the pleasure of speaking with Antonio Campagnoli , lawyer, real estate expert, and World President of FIABCI – the International Real Estate Federation. Our host Dr Orna Rosenfeld , and Antonio reflect on one of the greatest challenges facing cities today: how to rebuild communities in an increasingly frag...

In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures , recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Ali A. Alraouf, architect, urban thinker, researcher, and educator, whose work is driven by a profound commitment to social justice, cultural identity, and more inclusive cities. Throughout the conversation, Professor Alraouf reflects on the experiences that shaped hi...

In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures , recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Pietro Elisei, urban and regional planner, founder of URBASOFIA, and former President of ISOCARP. As cities around the world face growing pressures from housing shortages, climate change, social fragmentation, and economic uncertainty, Pietro invites us to look beyond individua...

In this opening episode of Season 2, recorded following the 13th World Urban Forum (WUF13) in Baku, Dr Orna Rosenfeld reflects on one of the most significant shifts in international urban policy in recent years: the growing recognition of housing as a strategic system shaping economic resilience, social cohesion, climate adaptation, territorial development, and the future of cities. Drawing on ove...

In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, we had the honour to interview Professor Amira Osman , a Sudanese/South African Professor of Architecture at the Tshwane University of Technology and the 70th President of The South African Institute of Architects (SAIA).  What is the most inspiring about Professor Osman’s work is her unshakable commitment to building inclusion in some of the most challe...

Understanding the dimensions, ramifications and dynamics of systematic exclusion and discrimination is fundamental to raising awareness about it, educating about it, changing culture, and most importantly, addressing it. As painful as exclusion is, understanding it and deconstructing it is a fundamental first step if we are to move towards inclusive futures.  Inclusive Urban Future was honoured to...

Our collective ideas and aspirations touch the ground and are cast in stone through urban design, planning and real estate development. The question of whether we are building inclusive urban futures or not is answered then and there and decided for generations. This question is critical in peacetime but even more so in the aftermath of an armed conflict.  The Inclusive Urban Future was delighted...

Ideas and policies are as good as their implementation. There may not be a policy sphere where this is truer than in the cities' pursuits of inclusive urban futures.  The poly-crisis the world has been exposed to since 2020 has exacerbated inequalities across people and places, especially in large cities, where vulnerable groups such as migrants, the poor, women, and the elderly, among other...

The world of scientific research and education is crucial to exploring ways of inclusion and implementing it. Scientific research deepens understanding, education broadens views, but most importantly, academic institutions can act as an essential vehicles for societal transformation needed for ataining inclusive futures. To this end, Inclusive Urban Futures is honoured to launch the 2023 series wi...

To celebrate the end of the first mini-series of the Inclusive Urban Futures podcast we have decided to expand the visions of inclusion even further, to go beyond cities and individual disciplines, to national and supranational levels of European diplomacy.  To this end, we are honored to introduce our special guest Eva Srnová Diplomat at the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the E...

In this episode of INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES with speak with Dr. Wiktor Szydarowski ESPON EGTC Director.  The ESPON - The European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion -aims at promoting and fostering a European territorial dimension in development and cooperation by providing evidence, knowledge transfer and policy learning to public authorities and other policy actors at al...

Today, some 55% of the world’s population – 4.2 billion inhabitants – live in cities this proportion will continue to increase rapidly to reach 70% by 2050, according to the World Bank. Urbanism and architecture are disciplines hat have a direct link and defining impact on people’s lives. The critical question that we must ask, is how to ensure cities are inclusive today and ensure inclusive urban...

COVID-19 has had far-reaching consequences for how we live, work, connect with one another as well as nature and other living things. In this episode of the Inclusive Urban Futures, we speak with Shraman Jha Director of Fund Raising, Marketing and Communications at World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF India).  In 2020 Director Jha left the corporate world and dedicated his career to the common go...

COVID-19 crisis has changed the way we use and think about our cities. In many ways, the pandemic has brought people closer together, emphasising the importance of our neighbourhoods and communities. It has changed the way we work. However, Covid- 19 has also exposed the inequality that has existed before the pandemic and raised the matters of inclusion high on the recovery agenda. These issues ha...

There are more than 200 million people in the world who do not live in the country of their birth, and if you are one of them you already discovered that belonging is easy as long as you are in your nation state. But what happens if you leave your country of birth for better or worse?  What about belonging? Inclusion?  What about those who due to dire circumstances had to leave their countries as...

Inclusion can take many forms and shapes. The world of work is one of them and an important one. COVID-19 crisis has changed the way we work and where we work. These trends will inevitably change the way the cities and territories are planned and built in the future. Therefore, discussing the meaning, opportunities and challenges related to inclusion in the world of work is of crucial importance w...

#Inclusiverecovery , #inclusivegrowth , #diversity and #inclusion are some of the key light motives cities, organisations and businesses across the globe aspire to in recovering from the #covidー19 crisis as well as addressing equity challenges that existed well before the pandemic. But what does it mean to be #inclusive ? For whom and where? How to achieve inclusion while addressing seemingly ins...