Category: Celebration
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From sustaining the fragile to building the antifragile
If you step onto your street in the morning, it is easy to feel like the city is a finished object. Traffic, zoning, the next crane on the skyline: they can look as if they were decided somewhere else, long before you arrived. This week’s episodes of What is The Future for Cities? take that…
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462B_Reflections with Ben Vass and Fanni Melles
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “The future is here, just not evenly distributed.” Are you interested in urban conscious evolution and a hopeful future? What do you think about the saying: the future is here just not evenly distributed? How can we move towards better urban futures? Special reflective episode with Ben…
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358B_Looking ahead – What’s in the future for “What is The Future for Cities?” Podcast?
Check out the episode: Welcome back to What is The Future for Cities? Podcast! In our last episode, we took a moment to reflect on a year of incredible conversations. Now, with that wisdom in our sails, I want to look forward, to chart the course for what’s next on our shared journey. The conversations…
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357B_transcript_A year in urban futures: Reflecting on 101 episodes of “What is The Future for Cities?” Podcast
Check out the episode: You can find the shownotes through this link. [intro music] Welcome to the fourth birthday episode of What is The Future for Cities? Podcast! First and foremost, thank you very much for my interviewees who took the time and shared their knowledge, skills, experiences and expertise about the future of cities…
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357B_A year in urban futures: Reflecting on 101 episodes of “What is The Future for Cities?” Podcast
Check out the episode: You can find the transcripts through this link. Welcome to the 4th birthday episode of What is The Future for Cities? Podcast! As we celebrate another year of “What is The Future for Cities?”, it’s a fitting moment to pause and reflect on the incredible journey we’ve taken together over the…
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254I_transcript_Emil Melles, civil engineer and my father
Listen to the episode: Check out the shownotes through this link. Are you interested in individual steps as strengths for the future of cities? What do you think how we can be brave in political decisions for thinking long term? How can we create the right to live in the city for everyone? Stay tuned…
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253B_transcript_#3 Birthday episode – last year and the coming one
Listen to the episode: Check out the shownotes through this link. Welcome to What is The Future For Cities podcast; my name is Fanni, and today we will celebrate the third birthday of the podcast! First and foremost, I would like to thank you all for joining me on this adventure. I am really grateful…
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253B_#3 Birthday episode – last year and the coming one
Listen to the episode: Check out the transcripts through this link. What did you learn this year from these episodes? What was the most interesting and important for you? What would you like to learn more about in the future? What action did you take after these episodes? #3 birthday of the podcast! First and…
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179_Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
Listen to the episode: 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…
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156I_Fanni Melles, future of cities researcher and podcast host
Listen to the episode: Check out the trailer: “We are architects of our life, not victims of it” Are you interested in the city as the emergent property of the urban agents? What do you think about collective responsibility? How can we create better urban futures? !!!!Book giveaway details at the bottom!!!! This is a…
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