Urban Resilience Dialogues

This is the second episode from a series of student ‘take over’ – where students of the Master's Degree in City Resilience Design and Management at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya will be taking over the co-host mantle from Corina and Chiara, who initiated this podcast.   In this episode of Urban Resilience Dialogues, Abby Klein and Elena Kanellopoulou talk about heritage

This is the first episode from a series of student ‘take over’ – where students of the Master's Degree in City Resilience Design and Management at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya will be taking over the co-host mantle from Corina and Chiara, who initiated this podcast.   In this episode of Urban Resilience Dialogues, Arthur de Meulder and Amanda Marino talk about justice.

In this episode of Urban Resilience Dialogues we are talking about New-Cities. Our conversation so far has been focusing on the different aspects of urban resilience in existing urban settlements. But this time, we decided to consider new cities and their role in addressing contemporary urban challenges. It seems that, as we speak, about 150 entirely new cities are under construction worldwide in more than 40 countries, and particularly in the Global South. To explore this all with us, we’re joined by Heba Elhanafy. Heba is an urban researcher at the Charter Cities Institute, currently based in CCI regional offices in Lusaka, Zambia. Her research interests lie in the intersection of the history and the future of urban settlements. She has a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from Alexandria University and a master’s degree in Urban Development from the Technical University of Berlin. 

In this episode of Urban Resilience Dialogues, we are talking about learning. To explore this new topic, we discussed with Juan Carlos Uribe. Juan is working as a Learning Officer at United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), which is one of the largest networks of cities, local and regional governments and their associations. He shared with us his rich experience promoting decentralized cooperation, city-to-city learning, and developing learning resources for the localization of global agendas such as the SDGs and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

In the eighth episode of Urban Resilience Dialogues, we are talking about water. To explore this all with us, we’re joined by Eleanor Treadwell. Eleanor is project officer for World Waternet, coordinating Water Operator Partnerships with Amsterdam’s public water utility in West Africa. She works with utilities in public-public partnerships to improve operations and maintenance as well as securing investments for safe, sufficient and sustainable water. She participates actively in the global water community representing young professionals in the Valuing Water Initiative, Amsterdam and Stockholm Water Weeks. Continue the conversation on Twitter with the #URDialogues or tweet at the hosts Corina (@futuresforensic) and Chiara (@ChiaraNitza). Please email us at [email protected] for any queries, questions, or suggestions you may have.

In this episode of Urban Resilience Dialogues, we are talking about anticipation.  To explore this topic, we are joined by Joy Green. Joy is the Principal Futurist at Forum for the Future. She has fourteen years of specialist experience practicing futures at Forum with a sustainability and systems lens, contributing to flagship projects by providing expertise in horizon scanning, scenario building and futures techniques. She is also involved in running https://thefuturescentre.org.  Continue the conversation on Twitter with the #URDialogues or tweet at the hosts Corina (@futuresforensic) and Chiara (@ChiaraNitza). Please email us at [email protected] for any queries, questions, or suggestions you may have.

In this new episode of Urban Resilience Dialogues we are talking about collaboration. In this episode, we want to explore the different facets of this topic – what makes it work and what we can do about the challenges to collaboration. To explore this all with us, we’re joined by Jennifer Lenhart. Jennifer is WWF’s Global Cities Lead, which has engaged circa 600 cities in 50 countries. Continue the conversation on Twitter with the #URDialogues or tweet at the hosts Corina (@futuresforensic) and Chiara (@ChiaraNitza). Please email us at [email protected] for any queries, questions, or suggestions you may have.

In this fifth episode of Urban Resilience Dialogues we are talking about the role of tools to support communities and cities to build their resilience. We are joined by Evandro Holz and Mariano Rossi, co-founders of ClUrb, a startup developing and implementing digital tools on urban topics, such as disaster risk management and slum upgrading, focused on the least resourced cities and communities. For more information on ClUrb : https://www.clurb.net/ Continue the conversation on Twitter with the #URDialogues or tweet at the hosts Corina (@futuresforensic) and Chiara (@ChiaraNitza). Please email us at [email protected] for any queries, questions, or suggestions you may have.

In this fourth episode of Urban Resilience Dialogues, we talked about the role of experiments in urban resilience with Federico Savini, in partnership with the European Urban Knowledge Network (@EUKN_EGTC).  Continue the conversation on Twitter with the #URDialogues or tweet at the hosts Corina (@futuresforensic) and Chiara (@ChiaraNitza). Please email us at [email protected] for any queries, questions, or suggestions you may have.

In the third episode of URDialogues, we explored linkages between vulnerability and resilience with Mrudhula Koshy (@MrudhulaKoshy). Continue the conversation on Twitter with the #URDialogues or tweet at the hosts Corina (@futuresforensic) and Chiara (@ChiaraNitza). Please email us at [email protected] for any queries, questions, or suggestions you may have.