You are kindly invited to our next PEM/MUI Research Seminar taking place on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm at ALB, G.035/35.
Dr Joe Ravetz, lead, Future-Wise Cities Programme at the MUI, will deliver a presentation on an interesting concept entitled "Future-wise cities: towards a ‘collective urban intelligence’ in planning and environmental management". Please find the attached abstract.
Abstract:
Cities are the hubs of transformations such as low carbon, social justice and economic resilience. Such changes are generally inter-connected (social, technical, economic, political, cultural): complex and dynamic (beyond simplistic solutions): and often controversial (multiple actors with conflicting agendas).
In response, an agenda for the ‘collective urban intelligence’ has emerged – broadly, mutual learning, communication, co-creation and co-production: with a wider community of interest, deeper layers of value, and further horizons of transformation. This is an agenda for ongoing research / development in the interactive Mind-Lab, with a source text in Deeper-City: Collective-Intelligence-and-the-Pathways-from-Smart-to-Wise
This presentation sketches the concept and demonstrates the application with three topical cases:
• Peri-urban futures: the UKRI-funded project Peri-cene explored the nature of the ‘space between and beyond’, and co-created ‘adaptive pathways’ with 21 cities around the world.
• Learning loop futures: the JPI funded project Looper (with follow-ons), developed models for experimental co-design and participative governance, for local problems such as air quality, safety, health, crime and greenspace.
• Net-zero futures: the Green new deal 3.0 program explores how to generate the synergies between economic, social and net-zero goals in UK cities and elsewhere.
Each of these shows viable pathways for not only one-off solutions, but the potential of ‘collective urban intelligence’ for the urban challenges ahead.
