Designing Democratic Cities Imandeep Kaur
@ImmyKaur
AoU Congress, Cork 1
There is only one design idea that you really need – democracy. In the most literal sense, ‘demos – kratos’, which means ‘people – power’. ~ Alastair Parvin
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Knowle West Media Eagle House Pop Up Bristol
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Participatory City Barking & Dagenham London
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https://www.ted.com/talks/devita_davison_how_urban_agriculture_is_transforming_detroit
Detroit Food Lab Detroit, USA !14
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DemoDev Birmingham
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Democratising the power to create society & our cities.
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https://www.ted.com/talks/david_r_williams_how_racism_makes_us_sick
Research has found that higher levels of discrimination are associated with an elevated risk of a broad range of diseases from blood pressure to abdominal obesity to breast cancer to heart disease and even premature mortality. Strikingly, some of the effects are observed at a very young age. - Dr David R Wiiliams !26
Our current economy treats humans as overheads
Our current economy treats humans as overheads
We need one that treats humans as the source of creative value
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RISING URBANIZATION
RAISING CHRONIC DISEASES GROWING MIDDLE CLASS IN EMERGING ECONOMIES
CHANGING CLIMATE
Spread of infectious disease Man-made environmental disasters
Extreme weather events
Failure of urban planning
DEGRADING ENVIRONMENT Water crisis
AGEING POPULATION
Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse
Profound social instability
Failure of climate change mitigation & adaptation
Natural Disasters
Food crisis
SYSTEMATIC RISKS
Ethical crisis
Humanity is struggling to understand and mitigate and deal with complex risks in systems characterized by feedback loops, tipping oints and opaque cause-and-effect relationships that can make intervention problematic.
Failure of regional or global governance Failure of financial mechanism or institution
Unmanageble inflation
RISING GEOGRAPHIC MOBILITY Failure of critical infrastructure
RISING INCOME AND WEALTH DISPARITY
Unemployment or underemployment
Energy price shock Data fraud or theft
Large-scale involuntary migration
Deflation
Fiscal crisis
Failure of national governance State collapse or crisis Terrorist attack
Interstate conflict
Cyber attacks
Weapons of mass destruction
CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE
Asset boubles in a majour economy
SHIFTING POWERS
Illicit trade Critical information and infrastructure breakdown Fourth estate crisis
Dark matter Labs
Adverse consequences of technological advances
United Nations Development Programme
RISING CYBER DEPENDENCY
INCREASING POLARIZATION OF SOCIETIES INCREASING NATIONAL SENTIMENT
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