The Future City
Louka and Eyal reminisce about the first 50 conversation of The Future City Podcast.
info_outline Adoption of a New Market FocusThe Future City
We've all heard about affordable housing, but what is affordable retail? Charlie and Anthony say that entrepeneurial start ups are creating immense value by creating businesses and organisations that are focussed on affordable retail, leading to fulfilled sustainable communities. Charlie has over 30 years’ experience of advising on commercial property investment development and asset management. Clients include owner-managed property companies, international trustees/private offices and prominent UK institutions including charities and livery companies. Charlie’s practice particularly...
info_outline Episode 49: Gardens in Urban Evironments with Elizaveta FakirovaThe Future City
Are green gardens allowed, or encouraged on rooftops in most metropolitan areas? In a high-density low-parkland environment; are there really no spaces for greenery and plant-life? Elizaveta Fakirova says that parks, natures, and green spaces can be on walls, rooftops, inside, and designed into other creative areas. Ingenuity and policy can enable a city of smart gardens, and will hopefully increase as we have more free-time. Elizaveta is the 2020/21 German Chancellor Fellow with the Humboldt Foundation, where she is conducting a research-based project about green roof and facade policy...
info_outline Episode 48: Mindful Construction with Nitin GovilaThe Future City
How valuable is the purpose of a space? What happens when you combine a meditation trainer and an engineer? Nitin Govila says that the importance and design of spaces for reflection, meditation, and just to unwind are extremely important human-centred considerations in design, capable of being achieved efficiently by being a part of practical planned construction and supply. Nitin is a management leader, entrepreneur, engineer, and meditation trainer. He is the APAC MENA MD for the French manufacturing group Serge Ferrari, a leader in the flexible composite material sector. His scope of...
info_outline The Public Art City by Samuel MayzeThe Future City
Architect and public art strategist Samuel Mayze says every city needs an Artist-in-Residence.
info_outline Episode 46: The Commuter City with Will FisherThe Future City
Will Fisher encourages people to experiement and explore different ways to get around our cities.
info_outline Episode 45: The Post-Growth City with Donnie MaclurcanThe Future City
Economist Donnie Maclurcan says there are ways city dwellers can be encouraged to share more readily. In this episode of The Future City Podcast we speak with Executive Director of the Post-Growth Institute Donnie Maclurcan. Donnie has spent over 15 years investigating how to re-teach people in cities to feel safe enough to share their offers and needs. Donnie says capitalism has traumatized us but that there are powerful ways many people are rebuilding a more just economic system from the ground up. Donnie speaks with us about how we are conditioned to feel like consumers rather than...
info_outline Episode 44: The Untold City with Dominique SomdaThe Future City
The Untold City with Dr. Dominique Somda Slave trade researcher Dr. Dominique Somda says monuments which honor colonisers should not be removed from our cities. They should be spectacularly subverted. In this episode of The Future City Podcast we speak with anthropologist and author Dr. Dominique Somda about why keeping slave histories a secret suppresses the evolution of our cities and their inhabitants. Somda outlines how people in cities interact based on what they know and ignore about each other and secrecy and hidden memories make city dwellers uncomfortable to engage in their shared...
info_outline Episode 43: The Healing City with Dr. Melissa Lem & Jennie McCaffreyThe Future City
What if doctors and educators prescribed nature?
info_outline Episode 42: The Space-based City by Michael McCormackThe Future City
How does our space influence us?
info_outlineWhat is the magic solution to revive human vitality?
On this episode of the Future City Podcast, we speak with global behaviour change expert Dr. Ting Jiang.
Dr. Jiang was a Principal at the Duke University Center for Advanced Hindsight, founded by best-selling Professor Dan Ariely. Ting coined the term "Behavioral Tech" and claims it will become the next innovation breakthrough after AI and IOT.
Dr. Jiang guides us through a meditative conversation about why science-driven lifestyle change is the key to human vitality in our cities. Take a slow breath and enjoy.