What is The Future for Cities?
Episodes
316I_Don Weatherbee, CEO of RegenX Tech
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Urban mining is a necessity for future cities!"Are you interested in urban mining? What do you think about differentiating reuse, recycling...
315R_Potential and relevance of urban mining in the context of sustainable cities (research summary)
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested urban mining? Summary of the article titled Potential and relevance of urban mining in the context of sustainable cities from 2017,...
316I_Trailer_Don Weatherbee, CEO of RegenX Tech
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban mining? What do you think about differentiating reuse, recycling and regeneration? How can we make our material use more e...
314I_Andrew Vass, financial market expert
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I think people underestimate human ingenuity."Are you interested in nuclear energy? What do you think about Australia’s leading research ...
313R_What is nuclear energy? What about the waste? Safety, security and safeguards (research summary)
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in nuclear power for clean energy? Summary of the articles titled What is nuclear energy, What about the waste, and Safety, securit...
314I_Trailer_Andrew Vass, financial market expert
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in nuclear energy? What do you think about Australia’s leading research agency’s investigation on nuclear energy? How can we re...
312I_Gilbert Rochecouste, Founder and Managing Director of Village Well
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I think we've become smaller, we've become less human as consumers, compared to active participants."Are you interested in regenera...
311R_Nature Positive: Guidelines for the transition in cities (research summary)
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in transitioning cities to be nature positive? Summary of the report titled Nature Positive: Guidelines for the transition in citie...
312I_Trailer_Gilbert Rochecouste, Founder and Managing Director of Village Well
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in regenerative placemaking? What do you think about urban participation and its consequences? How can we reimagine our place in ci...
310I_Dr Stuart Cowan, Executive Director at Buckminster Fuller Institute
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Cities can be the places that were how we do our metabolism as a spieces." Are you interested in ecological design? What do you think about...
309R_Ecological urban planning and design: A systematic literature review (research summary)
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in ecological design? Summary of the article titled Ecological urban planning and design: A systematic literature review from 2019,...
310I_Trailer_Dr Stuart Cowan, Executive Director at Buckminster Fuller Institute
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in ecological design? What do you think about bioregions in our planning? How can we avoid defuturing? Trailer for episode 310 - in...
308I_Chiara Marletto, Scientific Researcher at University of Oxford
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Cities are part of the extended phenotype for the kind of knowledge that is produced by human civilisation."Are you interested in how quant...
307R_The Science of Can and Can’t – A physicist’s journey through the land of counterfactuals (book summary)
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in what is possible based on physics? Summary of the book titled The Science of Can and Can’t – A physicist’s journey through...
308I_Trailer_Chiara Marletto, Scientific Researcher at University of Oxford
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how quantum physics is influencing the future of cities? What do you think about the connection between knowledge and urban evol...
306I_Tom Petty, co-founder of CarbonTrace
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The decarbonisation efforts really need to boil down to dollars."Are you interested in embodied carbon accounting? What do you think about ...
305R_Measuring embodied carbon in the residential sector: Barriers and opportunities (research summary)
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in embodied carbon accounting? Summary of the white paper titled Measuring embodied carbon in the residential sector: Barriers and ...
306I_Trailer_Tom Petty, co-founder of CarbonTrace
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in embodied carbon accounting? What do you think about choosing lower emission building materials? How can we make business sense f...
304I_Nick Bray, VP of Global Defence and Security at VANTIQ
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The plan needs to accommodate constant change, because it's constantly adapting."Are you interested in different levels of AI agents as...
303R_Agentic AI: The future is now (research summary)
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban progress with artificial intelligence? Summary of the white paper titled Agentic AI: The future is now from 2025, by VANTI...
304I_Trailer_Nick Bray, VP of Global Defence and Security at VANTIQ
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in different levels of AI agents assisting human decision-making? What do you think about open architecture technological systems? ...
302I_Darren Murphy, CEO and founder of Core Integrity
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I think there is a bit of community / social imperative that we should be standing up for what we want, demanding more."Are you interested ...
301R_A framework for assessing the accountability of local governance arrangements for adaptation to climate change (research summary)
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban governance accountability? Summary of the article titled A framework for assessing the accountability of local governance ...
302I_Trailer_Darren Murphy, CEO and founder of Core Integrity
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in institutional accountability? What do you think about starting from taking pride in your own community? How can we take responsi...
300P_Urban Food Production with Adam Dorr, Nadun Hennayaka, and Simon Burt
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban in...
300P_Trailer03_How can we utilise urban infrastructure better for food production? Simon Burt
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban in...
299R_Validating the City Region Food System Approach: Enacting inclusive, transformational City Region Food Systems (research summary)
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban food production approaches? Summary of the article titled Validating the City Region Food System Approach: Enacting inclus...
300P_Trailer02_Why healthy food choices matter for better urban futures? Nadun Hennayaka
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban in...
300P_Trailer01_What is cellular agriculture for urban food production? Adam Dorr
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban in...
298I_Carina Gormley, senior associate at the Centre for Public Impact’s Climate Change Initiative
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"[The city] is a system that is difficult to map, but it is evolving."Are you interested in allowing governments to fail? What do you think ...
297R_Harnessing social imagination in the era of the climate crisis (research summary)
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in hallucinating to solve urban challenges? Summary of the report titled Harnessing social imagination in the era of the climate cr...
298I_Trailer_Carina Gormley, senior associate at the Centre for Public Impact’s Climate Change Initiative
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in allowing governments to fail? What do you think about systems thinking? How can we help governments be bold? Trailer for episod...
296I_Sally Capp, Non-Executive Director of Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and the former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"You can't waste a crises!"Are you interested in cities as places for experiments? What do you think about respectful disagreements? How...
295R_Critical success factors for public-private partnerships in urban regeneration projects (research summary)
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in public-private partnerships for improved urban futures? Summary of the article titled Critical success factors for public-priva...
296I_Trailer_Sally Capp, Non-Executive Director of Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and the former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in cities as places for experiments? What do you think about respectful disagreements? How can we create good partnerships between ...
294I_Erick A. Brimen, CEO of Honduras Próspera and NeWay Capital
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"You can' have a choice if you don't have opportunities."Are you interested in the 3 tasks governance should do? What do you think a...
293R_Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations: a synthesis of emerging approaches (research summary)
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the changing governmental roles in urban transformations? Summary of the article titled Rethinking the governance of urban infr...
294I_Trailer_Erick A. Brimen, CEO of Honduras Próspera and NeWay Capital
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the 3 tasks governance should do? What do you think about service-based governments? How can we create good governance and gover...
292I_Anthony Acciavatti, Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at Yale University
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"It's less interesting how technology changes people than how people change technologies." Are you interested in urban water management?...
291R_Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions (research summary)
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban water management? Summary of the article titled Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions from 2021 by C...
292I_Trailer_Anthony Acciavatti, Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at Yale University
18 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"It's less interesting how technology changes people than how people change technologies." Are you interested in urban water management? What do you t...
290I_Jen Borrero, a Colombian-Mexican Impact Entrepreneur and Community Developer
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Urban living is very dense, that lands it being more resource efficient." Are you interested in housing affordability projects? What do you think abo...
289R_A fresh look at contemporary perspectives on urban housing affordability (research summary)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban housing affordability? Summary of the article titled A fresh look at contemporary perspectives on urban housing affordabi...
290I_Trailer_Jen Borrero, a Colombian-Mexican Impact Entrepreneur and Community Developer
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in housing affordability projects? What do you think about successful cities? How can we make the 2nd and 3rd order consequences as...
288I_Dan Hill, the Director of the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"[Cities are] multiple systems, threaded together, nested inside each other, interacting with each other in different complex ways." Are you intereste...
287R_Essay: On the smart city; Or a ‘manifesto’ for smart citizens instead (research summary)
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in smart citizens instead of smart cities? Summary of the article titled Essay: On the smart city; Or a ‘manifesto’ for smart ...
288I_Trailer_Dan Hill, the Director of the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the city as tangle of systems and flows? What do you think is the connection among nature, technology and culture? How can we cr...
286I_Junaid Islam, a secure communication expert
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The future of cities is really something that is in our power to shape it if we are really getting involved."Are you interested in how tech...
285R_Nature futures for the urban century: Integrating multiple values into urban management (research summary)
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban nature futures? Summary of the article titled Nature futures for the urban century: Integrating multiple values into urba...
286I_Trailer_Junaid Islam, a secure communication expert
28 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how technology and non-technology fuses in an ideal urban future? What do you think about hard and soft infrastructure? How can ...
284P_Emerging Young Leaders about the future of cities
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how emerging leaders see the future of cities? What do you think about youth engagement for better urban futures? How can we uti...
283_Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today would be a research episode, but since it is 2024 Christmas time, I want to just wish you all relaxing holidays with or without celebrating Chri...
282I_Keygan Huckleberry, Emergency Management Officer in Christchurch
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Some people are aware of the hazards, but unaware of the consequences." Are you interested in disaster resilience planning? What do you think about 1...
281R_Misfortunes never come singly. A holistic approach to urban resilience and sustainability challenges (research summary)
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how to manage multiple disasters at once? Summary of the article titled Misfortunes never come singly. A holistic approach to u...
282I_Trailer_Keygan Huckleberry, Emergency Management Officer in Christchurch
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in disaster resilience planning? What do you think about 15-minute cities as a tool for disaster resilience? How can we create safe...
280I_Hudson Worsley, co-founder and director of Presync
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"At the theoretical level, the discipline of resilience is very human-centric, and I think the discipline of sustainability is more nature-centric." A...
279R_How ecosystem services drive urban growth: Integrating nature-based solutions (research summary)
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban ecosystem services? Summary of the article titled How ecosystem services drive urban growth: Integrating nature-based sol...
280I_Trailer_Hudson Worsley, co-founder and director of Presync
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the difference between sustainability and resilience professionals? What will you answer to your grandkids when they ask what yo...
278I_Nadun Hennayaka, founder and CEO of Gaia Project Australia
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"The world is a city on its own, we are not really disconnected." Are you interested in technology which enhances urban food production? Wha...
277R_Future food-production systems: Vertical farming and controlled-environment agriculture (research summary)
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in vertical farming as a future food production system? Summary of the article titled Future food-production systems: Vertical far...
278I_Trailer_Nadun Hennayaka, founder and CEO of Gaia Project Australia
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in technology which enhances urban food production? What do you think about the world as a city on its own? How can we be responsib...
276I_Beth McDaniel, President of Reactive Surface Partners at McDaniel and Associates
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"What we can't do is be an ostrich and put our head in the sand and expect [climate change] to go away." Are you interested in carbon ca...
275R_Trends in research and tevelopment for CO2 capture and sequestration (research summary)
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in carbon capture and sequestration? Summary of the article titled Trends in Research and Development for CO2 Capture and Sequestr...
276I_Trailer_Beth McDaniel, President of Reactive Surface Partners at McDaniel and Associates
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in carbon capture technologies? What do you think about the opportunities within our collaborations? How can we shake off our boili...
274I_Richard Gill, CEO of RethinkX
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"[In] societal change we need to protect people, not jobs or industries." Are you interested in transformational technologies? What do you t...
273R_Rethinking Humanity (research summary)
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in rethinking humanity and its trajectory? Summary of the report titled Rethinking Humanity – Five foundational sector disruptio...
274I_Trailer_Richard Gill, CEO of RethinkX
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in transformational technologies? What do you think about cities being in competition? How can we embrace change even if it is mess...
272I_Frank Elavsky, accessibility and data interaction researcher
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Our job is to imagine a future that is hopeful." Are you interested in the difference among hope, knowledge and prediction? What do you thi...
271R_Experimentation or projectification of urban change? A critical appraisal and three steps forward (research summary)
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the controversy between experimentation and projectification? Summary of the article titled Experimentation or projectification...
272I_Trailer_Frank Elavsky, accessibility and data interaction researcher
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the difference among hope, knowledge and prediction? What do you think about our responsibility in imagining better futures? How...
270I_Lucas Gil Nadolskis, PhD student at the Bionic Vision Lab
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"I think when you say someone is disabled, there is an assumption that that person is not functional - which could not be more wrong!" Are y...
269R_The use of the smart technology for creating an inclusive urban public space (research summary)
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how smart technology can enhance accessibility? Summary of the article titled The use of the smart technology for creating an in...
270I_Trailer_Lucas Gil Nadolskis, PhD student at the Bionic Vision Lab
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the difference between inclusion and integration? What do you think about the disability of people or the environment? How can a...
268I_Dr Tiffany Williams, an action-focused public health professional
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Children are the future, but they are also current." Are you interested in involving the young generation into decision-making? What do you think abo...
267R_Actualising children’s ideas for health-promoting neighbourhoods through impactful co-design: insights from children and adult decision-makers (research summary)
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in involving the next generation in urban decision-making? Summary of the thesis titled Actualising children’s ideas for health-...
268I_Trailer_Dr Tiffany Williams, an action-focused public health professional
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in involving the young generation into decision-making? What do you think about meaningful involvement? How can we differentiate be...
266I_Alison Whitten, the Director of the Systems Lab at Regen Melbourne
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Regeneration is about how we leave things better than the way we found them." Are you interested in urban regeneration? What do you think a...
265R_Regeneration towards suitability: A decision-making framework for determining urban regeneration mode and strategies (research summary)
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in suitable urban regeneration? Summary of the article titled Regeneration towards suitability: A decision-making framework for de...
266I_Trailer_Alison Whitten, the Director of the Systems Lab at Regen Melbourne
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban regeneration? What do you think about the role of citizens, governments and the designers in urban futures? How can we pla...
264I_Robert Pradolin, director of Housing All Australians
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Success for me is making an influence on society in a beneficial way." Are you interested in housing as economic infrastructure? What do yo...
263R_Why affordable, social and public housing must be redefined as economic infrastructure (research summary)
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in housing as economic infrastructure? Summary of the article titled Why affordable, social and public housing must be redefined a...
264I_Trailer_Robert Pradolin, director of Housing All Australians
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in housing as economic infrastructure? What do you think about the developer sector? How can we be more aware of our effects throug...
262I_Ishara Sahama, human geographer
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"How we come together as people for the betterment of our social lives as well as the quality of our lives living in urban regions?" Are you intereste...
261R_Place and City: Toward a Geography of Engagement (research summary)
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the connection between sense of space and civic engagement? Summary of the article titled Place and City: Toward a Geography of...
262I_Trailer_Ishara Sahama, human geographer
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how you connect to the city and place? What do you think about human geography? How can we build trust within the local communit...
260I_Dr Haydn Read, a specialist practitioner in systems thinking and action
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Pitch it high and don't take your eyes off the prise!" Are you interested in distributed well-being? What do you think about density as...
259R_Lessons from nine urban areas using data to drive local sustainable development (research summary)
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in data-driven local sustainable development? Summary of the article titled Lessons from nine urban areas using data to drive loca...
260I_Trailer_Dr Haydn Read, a specialist practitioner in systems thinking and action
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in distributed well-being? What do you think about density as a measurement for affordability? How can we use the why-how-what ques...
258I_Matt Gijselman, Director of Infrastructure Policy Advancement for the APAC Region at Bentley Systems
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"What are cities on the human scale? Are they great places to live, work and play?" Are you interested in translating the city to the human ...
257R_Formal Model for Green Urbanism in Smart Cities (research summary)
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the different stakeholders of public space? Summary of the article titled Formal model for green urbanism in smart cities from ...
258I_Trailer_Matt Gijselman, Director of Infrastructure Policy Advancement for the APAC Region at Bentley Systems
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in translating the city to the human scale? What do you think about the green and blue urban infrastructure? How can we direct urba...
256I_Marcus Foth, Professor of Urban Informatics at Queensland University of Technology
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Science has already fixed climate change. We know what's causing it, we know what to do about it. The fact that there is paralysis is not th...
255R_Participation, co-creation, and public space (research summary)
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the different stakeholders of public space? Summary of the article titled Participation, co-creation, and public space from 201...
256I_Trailer_Marcus Foth, Professor of Urban Informatics at Queensland University of Technology
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in listening to scientists? What do you think about the urgency of actions after scientific proof? How can we use the planetary ind...
254I_Emil Melles, civil engineer and my father
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in individual steps as strengths for the future of cities? What do you think how we can be brave in political decisions for thinkin...
253B_#3 Birthday episode - last year and the coming one
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What did you learn this year from these episodes? What was the most interesting and important for you? What would you like to learn more about in the ...
252I_Allison Duettmann, the president and CEO of Foresight Institute
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"You are the product of the city you grew up in, but you can accurately shape it and move to different cities." Are you interested in existe...
251R_Existential risk and existential hope: Definitions (research summary)
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in existential hope instead of existential risk? Summary of the article titled Existential risk and existential hope: Definitions ...
252I_Trailer_Alison Duettmann, the president and CEO of Foresight Institute
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in existential hope? What do you think how are you influenced by the city around you? How can we use foresight to peak into the fut...
250P_Space cities with Dr Anders Sandberg, Xavier de Kestelier and Thomas Gooch
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in space cities? What do you think about cities versus communities? How can we create great space communities? The panellists, Dr ...