Category: Interview
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366I_Ryan Short, author of ‘The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place’ and co-founder of CivicBrand

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Place isn’t optional, we have to have a place. So we have to constantly figure it out.” Are you interested in place branding? What do you think about participating in the civic brand at your place? How can we involve the next generation to create urban futures?…
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362I_Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Resilience is not going back to the original levels… It’s not possible. It’s actually about going forward.” Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Interview with Sam…
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360I_Barry O’Reilly, software architect and creator of Residuality Theory

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Residuality Theory is the idea that a random simulation of stress is more efficient than precision and prediction in a complex environment.” Are you interested in creating antifragile systems? What do you think about the utilisation of residuals? How can we pivot smartness from the marketing to…
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356I_Allan Savory, President at Savory Institute

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “You either address the [root] cause, or in the future must pay the price of violence and suffering the world has never seen before.” Are you interested in the future of agriculture? What do you think about holistic contexts for better urban futures? How can we manage…
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352I_Petra Hurtado, Chief Foresight and Knowledge Officer at the American Planning Association

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “If we talk about the future, we need to have the future [a.k.a. the next generation] at the table.” Are you interested in upcoming urban trends? What do you think about the need for investigating multiple futures in foresight? How can we utilise different timeframes to prepare…
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348I_Nicholas Lalla, urbanist and author of the book Reinventing The Heart Land

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Are you engaging the community to build solutions to their problems to build the culture of accountability?” Are you interested in the economic powers of mid-sized cities? What do you think about cities as urban laboratories? How can we build a culture of accountability? Interview with Nicholas…
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346I_Dr Mina Sartipi, founding director of the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) and Guerry Professor at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga (UTC)

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Smart City should be proactive. That before anything [bad] happens would identify areas that need more attention.” Are you interested in the proactive nature of smart cities? What do you think about the need for infrastructure to create adaptability? How can we utilise public-private-academic partnerships for better…
