The Masterplan

Anastasia Sukhoroslova is the Founder and CEO of All Things Urban, a platform connecting urban professionals across the world and one of the largest communities for urbanists, architects and planners. She is also the Co-Founder of The GeoSpatial Hub, which brings GIS and geospatial data closer to urban experts. We discuss the importance of networking in urban careers, the skills shaping tomorrow’s professionals, and the connection between education, technology, and practice.For more info:https://www.allthingsurban.nethttps://www.geospatial-hub.com

Honorata Grzesikowska is an urban designer and researcher whose work dives deep into urban design and spatial equity. She’s the creator of a vast library of masterplans on Urbanitarian. She is a frequent voice on LinkedIn, where she shares insightful tips on how to be a better urban designer and what urban design truly means in practice. Alongside her design practice and collaborative projects, we explore how women’s perspectives are reshaping urban planning and what it means to design for equity in today’s cities.Find out more:https://honorata.iohttps://urbanitarian.com

Yohan Wadia and Parshav Sheth are India based urban planners and co-founders of @LABS, a platform that engages in education, consultancy and innovation on urban issues. Find out more:https://www.labsonline.in

Ramon is the CEO and Founder at Aretian Urban Analytics and Design and an Urban Design Researcher at Harvard University. He co-authored the book City Science: Performance Follows Form. Find out more:https://www.aretian.com/

Angelos Chronis is the CEO and Co-Founder of Infrared City, Co-Director of the Master in AI for Architecture and Business Innovation at IAAC, and Senior Research Engineer at AIT. More info at:https://infrared.city/https://iaac.net/https://www.ait.ac.at/

A conversation with Ocean Jangda and Firas Saffiedine. Ocean Jangda is a real-estate manager and urban technologist. His recent thesis at the MIT Center for Real Estate, titled Urban Technology: Rethinking Real Estate Development for the 21st Century, challenges how we build cities and argues for a development model that is deeply connected to biology, technology, and the biosphere. Firas Saffiedine is an author and founder of the architecture practice Spatial Forces. We explore questions about the future of development: What responsibilities do developers have? Can cities behave like living systems? How does information, matter, and energy shape urban futures, and what does it mean to design for the planetary scale? This episode dives into the mental models, ethics, and cosmic perspective required to rethink how and why we build.Find out more about Ocean and Firas here:https://oceanjangda.orghttps://www.spatial-forces.com

Ocean Jangda is a real estate expert, currently studying at the MIT, with a passion for technology and urban development. Find more about Ocean here: https://oceanjangda.org

Mario Gonzalez Nevarez is an urbanist based in Puerto Rico with a background in political science, architecture and climate adaptation. Find more about Mario here: www.linkedin.com/in/mjgn/

Jordi Vivaldi is an architect and philosopher based in Vienna.  PhD Architect (IOUD, Austria) and PhD Philosopher cand. (EGS, Switzerland), his areas of research include various forms of Speculative Realism and New Materialism, as well as 21st century’s theory of experimental architecture, art and technology. His current field of philosophical investigation puts in relation the notion of ‘reason’ with the concepts of ‘mimesis’, ‘finitude’ and ‘fortune’ in pursuit of plastic modes of rationality. From an architectural perspective, Jordi’s research focuses on mobilising the notion of limit as a spatial device of limitude, liminality and limitrophy in order to recreate the concept of hospitality in the context of the Anthropocene.  Jordi works or has worked as theory faculty/researcher in several international universities such as the University of Innsbruck (IOUD) and the Vienna University of Technology (TuWien – ATTP) in Austria, the UCL Bartlett in Great Britain, the IAAC-UPC in Spain and the Shenzhen University in China. In addition to several articles, essays and lectures, Jordi is the co-author of the book The Threefold Logic of Advanced Architecture (Barcelona: Actar Publishers, 2021). More information on Jordi's work: www.jordivivaldi.com

The following is a conversion with my friend and colleague Leyla Saadi from Urban Collabs. It's Leyla's 3rd time on the show in our recurrent series we like to call "From the Top". Join us while we catch up, figure out who actually invented the airplane, how one can be in Mali and the Senegal at the same time, talk about Leyla's latest projects and try to unpack Advanced Urbanism, Ancient cities and Social Transition.  To find out more about Leyla's work and Urban Collabs visit: https://www.urbancollabs.com