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Urban CommunityCommunity takes practiceThe UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In this final episode (for now), our community of practice expert and network weaver, Duncan, explains what these terms mean. He shows us how local initiatives, like our previous UrbanCommunity experiments, can be connected over great distances, leading to a more united effort to make this planet a better place. 2024-11-0924 min
Urban CommunityCommunity takes practiceThe UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In this final episode (for now), our community of practice expert and network weaver, Duncan, explains what these terms mean. He shows us how local initiatives, like our previous UrbanCommunity experiments, can be connected over great distances, leading to a more united effort to make this planet a better place.2024-11-0824 minUrban CommunityCreating city commonsThe UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In this episode, originally recorded in 2023, Giulia from The Space_coolhaven in Rotterdam talks about why commons in cities are places of connection, creativity, and civic engagement. She shares her own experience creating them, the fun and unexpected things that arise, and how to help others create more urban commons spaces. Learn about The Space here: https://www.instagram.com/thespace_coolhaven/2024-05-0717 min
Urban CommunityCreating city commonsThe UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In this episode, originally recorded in 2023, Giulia from The Space_coolhaven in Rotterdam talks about why commons in cities are places of connection, creativity, and civic engagement. She shares her own experience creating them, the fun and unexpected things that arise, and how to help others create more urban commons spaces. Learn about The Space here: https://www.instagram.com/thespace_coolhaven/2024-04-2217 min
Good FoodBaking with Nancy Silverton, chili crisp, extractsWith a competitive spirit, Nancy Silverton sets out to make the best versions of classic baked goods. James Park grew up on kimchi, but when he discovered chili crisp, his world changed. Paul and Jill Fulton embarked on a vanilla voyage, learning to make extracts in their home kitchen. At the farmers market, everything's coming up roses (and snake gourds) for floral designer Sophia Moreno-Bunge.2023-12-0848 minUrban CommunitySustainable Food and TransportUrban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.2023-09-2736 minUrban CommunityTransition GovernanceUrban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this second episode, we discuss transition management as a governance approach. To help us do so, we travel to a real live urban arena in Rotterdam and meet Derk Loorbach director of DRIFT - The Dutch Research Institute For Transitions - and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam.2023-09-2735 minUrban CommunityTextile RecyclingUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this third episode, we discuss the potential of textile recycling as part of a circular economy. We’re lucky to get to speak to Hilde van Duijn from EigenDraads, a Rotterdam based initiative that wants to take our non-reusable clothes and transform them into something new.2023-09-2732 minUrban CommunityShippingUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this fourth episode, we discuss shipping. We were lucky to speak with Elisabeth Schober, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the upcoming “Ports”-project, which will be funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 851132.2023-09-2733 minUrban CommunityFabLabsUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're talking with Rafael Calado about FabLabs. Ian is joined by special guest podcaster Lucia Di Paola for the trip to Lisbon's best FabLab. Rafael Calado is the Programme and Operations Manager FabLab Lisboa. An architect by trade, he also co-founded Repair Café Lisboa and BioHacking Group Lisboa 2017.2023-09-2731 minUrban CommunityNature Based SolutionsUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're talking with Panagiota Kotsila, a political ecologist who works at the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability and is part of the editorial collective with Undisciplined Enviroments. She'll be talking about the article "Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes" that she co-wrote with Isabelle Anguelovski, Francesco Baró, Johannes Langemeyer, Filka Sekulova and James J.T. Connolly for the journal Environment and Planning E.Foto2023-09-2732 minUrban CommunityIntegral CitiesUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we’re speaking with Marilyn Hamilton the founder of Integral City and author of the Integral City book series. This month we also launch a new feature - the Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Our first...2023-09-2736 minUrban CommunitySocial EntrepreneurshipUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. Kate is on interview duty and the moment and she caught up with Kemo Camara, founder and CEO of Omek, a new digital and physical platform dedicated to the social and professional advancement of the African diaspora community. Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message...2023-09-2736 minUrban CommunityNetworks for Sustainable and Just CitiesUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian get lost in the voices of people who have helped sustain, build and critically assess networks that aim to create just and sustainable cities: Matthew Bach, Flor Avelino and Tom Henfrey.Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it ove...2023-09-2726 minUrban CommunityUrban Design ProcessesUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate talks with Florian Strenge - an urbanist fascinated by spaces, people and processes.Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton. Would you like to follow in her footsteps? If so, please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice togeth...2023-09-2737 minUrban CommunityRacial and Environmental JusticeUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Meera Ghani, ECOLISE Policy Coordinator, and Tamara Steger, Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at Central European University. The topic? Environmental and racial justice.Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to y...2023-09-2742 minUrban CommunityDrivers of Urban InjusticeUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Jonathan Luger from the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability.We're talking about drivers of urban injustice: https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_drivers_of_injusticeIan was searching the following stat whilst rambling: the richest 10 percent of the world produces more than half its carbon. Thanks Oxfam.!!READ THIS!!Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on...2023-09-2746 minUrban CommunityParticipation and the Distribution of Urban SpaceUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian take a break from interviewing as Sophia Silverton chats with Isabell Eberlein and Denis Petri from Changing Cities. They talk about the role of participatory actions in trying to bring about more just distributions of urban space. The conversation is framed around the notion of ‘governance arrangements’, which you can read more about here: http://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_governance_arrangementsDo you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod...2023-09-2736 minUrban CommunityVenture Capital and Climate TechUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate speaks with Heidi Lindvall from seed stage ClimateTech VC company Pale Blue Dot. Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sus...2023-09-2750 minUrban CommunityFood SharingUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Romane Joly from the University of Freiburg speaks with Kaja Zimmermann and David Bachmann from foodsharing Freiburg.2023-09-2739 minUrban CommunityCity PoliticsUrban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability. This time we're talking with Tom Meeuws, Vice Mayor for Social Affairs and Environmental Affairs, in the city of Antwerp.Photo by Bobo Boon2023-09-2729 minUrban CommunityGender Equality and the CityUrban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability. This time we're talking with Linda Gustafsson, Gender Equality Officer, City of Umeå.Image by Arnica Bäckström from Pixabay2023-09-2739 min
Urban CommunityFrom UrbanArena to UrbanCommunity: A handoverIan and Kate are off on new adventures, but the podcast continutes! Sophia Silverton introduces its new focus: sharing the stories of community initiaives for sustainable and just cities.Image by Lucia Di Paola2023-06-1903 min
Urban CommunityArt and culture in climate conversationsThe UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Amy from HubRen in London shares her thoughts on the interconectedness of all things, how hope is a verb, and the power of art and culture in climate conversations.Learn about the Hub here: https://www.hubren.org/2023-06-1917 min
Urban CommunitySnacking on food solidarityThe UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Filippos from Pervolarides in Thessaloniki shares his experience with creating a social solidarity net through food and beyond. He gives an honest take on the personal strain of community work, tips on how to lessen it, and a surprising account of how the Covid-19 pandemic boosted support and engagement.Learn about Pervolarides here: https://www.facebook.com/PervolaridesThessalonikis/2023-06-1916 min
Urban CommunityYouth participation now!The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Sıla from Roof Coliving in Turkey convinces us that civic engagement, especially from young people, is what puts the 'just' in 'Just Transition'. She also tells us about a quirky project in Maltepe that's poking people to think about climate change, and shares her mindset around hopefulness in activism. Learn about Roof Coliving here: https://www.roofcoliving.org/ https://www.instagram.com/roofcoliving/2023-06-1915 min
Urban CommunityJust neighbourhood planningThe UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Tatiana and Honorata from JUSThood turn traditional city planning on its head by sharing their creative neighbourhood planning method. We ponder what women, fish and children have in common, and ask a group of men to step into the shoes of pregnant women - all with the goal of creating urban spaces that are suited for the diverse needs of people and hedgehogs that inhabit them. Learn more about JUSThood here: https://www.justhood.net/Like t...2023-06-1924 min
Urban CommunityWhen cities and communities collaborateThe UrbanCommunity podcast normally elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.However, in this episode I am joined by Kieran McCarthy, a city councillor in Cork, Ireland, and an Irish member of the EU Committee of the Regions. We talk about the importance of collaboration between cities and community led initiatives and Kieran explains how important it is to have a plan! The Pure Cork Action Plan pulls actors together to smash silos and get the whole city working together to address its headline issues.2023-06-1913 min
Urban CommunityWhen cities and communities collaborateThe UrbanCommunity podcast normally elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.However, in this episode I am joined by Kieran McCarthy, a city councillor in Cork, Ireland, and an Irish member of the EU Committee of the Regions. We talk about the importance of collaboration between cities and community led initiatives and Kieran explains how important it is to have a plan! The Pure Cork Action Plan pulls actors together to smash silos and get the whole city working together to address its headline issues.2023-06-0213 min
Urban CommunityJust neighbourhood planningThe UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Tatiana and Honorata from JUSThood turn traditional city planning on its head by sharing their creative neighbourhood planning method. We ponder what women, fish and children have in common, and ask a group of men to step into the shoes of pregnant women - all with the goal of creating urban spaces that are suited for the diverse needs of people and hedgehogs that inhabit them. Learn more about JUSThood here: https://www.justhood.net/Like the topic? Listen to the ICLEI Europe...2023-03-0124 min
Urban CommunityYouth participation now!The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Sıla from Roof Coliving in Turkey convinces us that civic engagement, especially from young people, is what puts the 'just' in 'Just Transition'. She also tells us about a quirky project in Maltepe that's poking people to think about climate change, and shares her mindset around hopefulness in activism. Learn about Roof Coliving here: https://www.roofcoliving.org/ https://www.instagram.com/roofcoliving/2023-01-2315 min
Urban CommunitySnacking on food solidarityThe UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Filippos from Pervolarides in Thessaloniki shares his experience with creating a social solidarity net through food and beyond. He gives an honest take on the personal strain of community work, tips on how to lessen it, and a surprising account of how the Covid-19 pandemic boosted support and engagement.Learn about Pervolarides here: https://www.facebook.com/PervolaridesThessalonikis/2023-01-1216 min
Urban CommunityArt and culture in climate conversationsThe UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Amy from HubRen in London shares her thoughts on the interconectedness of all things, how hope is a verb, and the power of art and culture in climate conversations.Learn about the Hub here: https://www.hubren.org/2022-12-1417 min
Urban StudiesFrom UrbanArena to UrbanCommunity: A handoverIan and Kate are off on new adventures, but the podcast continutes! Sophia Silverton introduces its new focus: sharing the stories of community initiaives for sustainable and just cities.Image by Lucia Di Paola2022-12-0703 minUrban CommunityFrom UrbanArena to UrbanCommunity: A handoverIan and Kate are off on new adventures, but the podcast continutes! Sophia Silverton introduces its new focus: sharing the stories of community initiaives for sustainable and just cities.Image by Lucia Di Paola2022-12-0703 minCEU PodcastsFrom UrbanArena to UrbanCommunity: A handoverIan and Kate are off on new adventures, but the podcast continutes! Sophia Silverton introduces its new focus: sharing the stories of community initiaives for sustainable and just cities.Image by Lucia Di Paola2022-12-0700 min
The PackcastHousekeeping, Movies, & Dassit! - Minicast 4It's another busy week for the Blackwolves so this week we present you with Minicast #4! In this episode we take you through our regularly scheduled programming: Housekeeping (00:28), Movies of the Week (01:41), and Content We're Consuming (17:05). Keep an eye (or ear) out for our next full-length podcast coming next week! (Episode 60! Yay!)
Movies of the Week:
*Silverton Siege: Follows three young freedom fighters who seek refuge in a South African bank in Silverton, and take the bank and its customers hostage and would only release them in exchange for the release of Nelson Mandela. Starring Thabo Ra...2022-04-3024 min
Urban CommunityGender Equality and the CityUrban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability. This time we're talking with Linda Gustafsson, Gender Equality Officer, City of Umeå.Image by Arnica Bäckström from Pixabay2021-12-0139 min
Urban CommunityCity PoliticsUrban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability. This time we're talking with Tom Meeuws, Vice Mayor for Social Affairs and Environmental Affairs, in the city of Antwerp.Photo by Bobo Boon2021-09-1829 min
Urban CommunityFood SharingUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Romane Joly from the University of Freiburg speaks with Kaja Zimmermann and David Bachmann from foodsharing Freiburg.2021-05-1739 min
Urban CommunityVenture Capital and Climate TechUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate speaks with Heidi Lindvall from seed stage ClimateTech VC company Pale Blue Dot. Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice t...2021-03-3050 min
Urban StudiesParticipation and the Distribution of Urban SpaceUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian take a break from interviewing as Sophia Silverton chats with Isabell Eberlein and Denis Petri from Changing Cities. They talk about the role of participatory actions in trying to bring about more just distributions of urban space. The conversation is framed around the notion of ‘governance arrangements’, which you can read more about here: http://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_governance_arrangementsDo you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like t...2021-03-0136 minIan M. Cook and Kate McGinnParticipation and the Distribution of Urban SpaceUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian take a break from interviewing as Sophia Silverton chats with Isabell Eberlein and Denis Petri from Changing Cities. They talk about the role of participatory actions in trying to bring about more just distributions of urban space. The conversation is framed around the notion of ‘governance arrangements’, which you can read more about here: http://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_governance_arrangementsDo you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like t...2021-03-0136 minDepartment of Environmental Sciences and PolicyParticipation and the Distribution of Urban SpaceUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian take a break from interviewing as Sophia Silverton chats with Isabell Eberlein and Denis Petri from Changing Cities. They talk about the role of participatory actions in trying to bring about more just distributions of urban space. The conversation is framed around the notion of ‘governance arrangements’, which you can read more about here: http://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_governance_arrangementsDo you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like t...2021-03-0136 minUrban CommunityParticipation and the Distribution of Urban SpaceUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian take a break from interviewing as Sophia Silverton chats with Isabell Eberlein and Denis Petri from Changing Cities. They talk about the role of participatory actions in trying to bring about more just distributions of urban space. The conversation is framed around the notion of ‘governance arrangements’, which you can read more about here: http://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_governance_arrangementsDo you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like t...2021-03-0136 minCEU PodcastsParticipation and the Distribution of Urban SpaceUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian take a break from interviewing as Sophia Silverton chats with Isabell Eberlein and Denis Petri from Changing Cities. They talk about the role of participatory actions in trying to bring about more just distributions of urban space. The conversation is framed around the notion of ‘governance arrangements’, which you can read more about here: http://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_governance_arrangementsDo you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like t...2021-03-0100 min
Urban CommunityDrivers of Urban InjusticeUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Jonathan Luger from the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability.We're talking about drivers of urban injustice: https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_drivers_of_injusticeIan was searching the following stat whilst rambling: the richest 10 percent of the world produces more than half its carbon. Thanks Oxfam. !!READ THIS!!Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please an...2021-02-0346 min
Urban CommunityRacial and Environmental JusticeUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Meera Ghani, ECOLISE Policy Coordinator, and Tamara Steger, Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at Central European University. The topic? Environmental and racial justice.Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what...2020-12-0242 min
CEU PodcastsUrban Design ProcessesUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate talks with Florian Strenge - an urbanist fascinated by spaces, people and processes.Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton. Would you like to follow in her footsteps? If so, please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urb...2020-10-2900 minUrban CommunityUrban Design ProcessesUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate talks with Florian Strenge - an urbanist fascinated by spaces, people and processes.Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton. Would you like to follow in her footsteps? If so, please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urb...2020-10-2937 minUrban StudiesUrban Design ProcessesUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate talks with Florian Strenge - an urbanist fascinated by spaces, people and processes.Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton. Would you like to follow in her footsteps? If so, please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urb...2020-10-2937 minIan M. Cook and Kate McGinnUrban Design ProcessesUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate talks with Florian Strenge - an urbanist fascinated by spaces, people and processes.Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton. Would you like to follow in her footsteps? If so, please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urb...2020-10-2937 minGermanyUrban Design ProcessesUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate talks with Florian Strenge - an urbanist fascinated by spaces, people and processes.Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton. Would you like to follow in her footsteps? If so, please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urb...2020-10-2937 minDepartment of Environmental Sciences and PolicyUrban Design ProcessesUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate talks with Florian Strenge - an urbanist fascinated by spaces, people and processes.Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton. Would you like to follow in her footsteps? If so, please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urb...2020-10-2937 min
Urban CommunityNetworks for Sustainable and Just CitiesUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian get lost in the voices of people who have helped sustain, build and critically assess networks that aim to create just and sustainable cities: Matthew Bach, Flor Avelino and Tom Henfrey.Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to y...2020-09-3026 min
Urban CommunitySocial EntrepreneurshipUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. Kate is on interview duty and the moment and she caught up with Kemo Camara, founder and CEO of Omek, a new digital and physical platform dedicated to the social and professional advancement of the African diaspora community. Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we e...2020-07-0136 min
Urban CommunityIntegral CitiesUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we’re speaking with Marilyn Hamilton the founder of Integral City and author of the Integral City book series. This month we also launch a new feature - the Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Our first corr...2020-05-2536 min
Urban CommunityNature Based SolutionsUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're talking with Panagiota Kotsila, a political ecologist who works at the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability and is part of the editorial collective with Undisciplined Enviroments. She'll be talking about the article "Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes" that she co-wrote with Isabelle Anguelovski, Francesco Baró, Johannes Langemeyer, Filka Sekulova and James J.T. Connolly for the journal Environment and Planning E.Foto2020-04-2332 min
Urban CommunityFabLabsUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're talking with Rafael Calado about FabLabs. Ian is joined by special guest podcaster Lucia Di Paola for the trip to Lisbon's best FabLab. Rafael Calado is the Programme and Operations Manager FabLab Lisboa. An architect by trade, he also co-founded Repair Café Lisboa and BioHacking Group Lisboa 2017.[[{"fid":"706","view_mode":"full","fields":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":f...2020-03-2731 min
Urban CommunityShippingUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this fourth episode, we discuss shipping. We were lucky to speak with Elisabeth Schober, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the upcoming “Ports”-project, which will be funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 851132.2020-02-2933 min
Urban CommunityTextile RecyclingUrban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this third episode, we discuss the potential of textile recycling as part of a circular economy. We’re lucky to get to speak to Hilde van Duijn from EigenDraads, a Rotterdam based initiative that wants to take our non-reusable clothes and transform them into something new.2020-01-2732 min
Urban CommunityTransition GovernanceUrban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this second episode, we discuss transition management as a governance approach. To help us do so, we travel to a real live urban arena in Rotterdam and meet Derk Loorbach director of DRIFT - The Dutch Research Institute For Transitions - and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam.2019-12-1835 min
Urban CommunitySustainable Food and TransportUrban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.2019-11-2236 min