Gosto de pensar nas centenas de ativações, publicações, conversas, dissertações de mestrado e teses de doutorado, manuais, encontros, entrevistas itinerantes, intervenções e conferências oficiais sob o tema ‘mulheres e cidades’ como um movimento rizomático emergente.
Read MoreGosto de pensar nas centenas de ativações, publicações, conversas, dissertações de mestrado e doutorado, manuais, encontros, caminhadas e conferências oficiais sob o tema "mulheres e cidades" como um movimento rizomático emergente.
Read MoreLate in July, a diverse group of Architects, Planners, Urbanists, Academics and Developers wrote to the Prime Minister, highlighting the critical need to adopt a gender-sensitive approach in the upcoming wave of housing developments and planning reforms across the United Kingdom.
Read MoreAI and quantum computers have the potential to revolutionize our approach to climate change by optimizing energy distribution, ensuring water security, and enhancing regenerative agriculture. These technologies can greatly reduce carbon emissions and increase human resilience to environmental challenges. By harnessing these innovations, we may one day fulfill Teilhard de Chardin's vision: “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love.”
Read MoreOn a windy twilight evening in Langside, Glasgow, a group of Scottish Young Planners joined the local community to embark on a unique journey – a twilight walk where they were encouraged to observe and understand the intricacies of the area through a gender-sensitive lens. Convened by the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council, the walk was part of a three-part Design Class, which had taken place earlier that day, aimed to equip the early career professionals with practical skills to enhance their capacities in gender-sensitive placemaking.
Read MoreWe are writing to draw your attention to the critical need for adopting a gender-sensitive approach in the forthcoming wave of housing and developments and planning reform to enable growth across the United Kingdom.
Read MoreThis week I am engaging in a conversation with financial expert Russell Napier, founder of The Library of Mistakes to discuss my book What if Women Designed the City? We will explore how the post-war double motorisation-modernist mistake continues to influence our built environment and the role of women in pursuing an urbanism of proximity.
Read MoreEnsuring that the right to open green space is more evenly distributed, requires those who hold power within local government to measure the area dedicated to male dominated sports, and formulate policy and planning guidelines to address the gendered imbalances in green space planning and use. There is also need to allocate budget lines to widen the repertoires of activities catering for women and girls’ needs.
Read MoreEncouraging cycling amongst women isn’t enough, we also need to enable it. Bike seats, while advancing new materials and designs, have historically been the same for men and women. In an active travel world designed with women in mind, ergonomically-appropriate saddles should respond to different women’s anatomies and be easily available in bike shops and communities everywhere.
Read MoreFor so long, favelas have been a byword for gang violence, drug dealing and deprivation. A collective of women writers, poets and ‘artivists’ of Rocinha are rewriting their timeworn story. In place of fear and despair, their chapter headlines… potential and hope.
Read MoreNature-positive companies are gaining momentum. They include and transcend conventional and incremental corporate social responsibility and ESG strategies. They challenge us to move beyond mere damage control in our economic activities and ask: what if we not only minimize harm but actively improve natural ecosystems that support our businesses?
Read MoreOne would not expect to find a masterful tutorial in regenerative thinking and engagement in a book titled What if Women Designed the City? Yet that is exactly what May East delivers. She invites the reader into a journey through a dynamic, multilayered, multidimensional living matrix that requires continually weaving inner and outer worlds..
Read MoreIn people-centric Curitiba being smart isn't simply about integrating the latest technologies into urban infrastructure. Celebrated for its innovative public transportation, waste management, urban food production and entrepreneurial spirit, Curitiba’s cumulative success demonstrates how urban systems can co-evolve with social and ecological systems.
Read MoreEdinburgh has set an ambitious target to become a net zero city by 2030. This means that by 2030, the city will remove the same amount of greenhouse gases that it releases into the air. The iconic George Street is set to play a significant part in enacting this strategy. Alongside the active travel plans, trees will be planted for the first time. Which species will be planted, why does it matter?
Read MoreA year ago, Glasgow City Council passed a motion declaring Glasgow as the UK's first feminist city in terms of city development. The intention to make Glasgow a city that works better with and for women and girls originated from the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). Head of Planning Sarah Shaw believes that good design for women is good design for everybody.
Read MoreSer humano é estar conectado com tudo que respira e transpira. A forma como conectamos é o território da cooperação. Mas a cooperação sozinha talvez não consiga criar a transformação necessária para o redesenho da presença humana no planeta vivo.
Read MoreNature positive companies are gaining momentum.. Going beyond the sustainability paradigm – viewed as a stepping stone but not enough – they include and transcend conventional and incremental corporate social responsibility and ESG strategies by placing nature at the heart of business decision-making in parity with financial returns and human wellbeing.
Read MoreEducators are invited to grow sensitivities and competences to develop lesson plans where meaningful encounters can take place between children and other forms of life, providing a continuous and enriching experience for students of all ages to nurture love for living things. When this happens, the notion of living systems can be internalised not as an intellectual idea, but as a way of being nurtured from child to adulthood.
Read MoreWorld leaders in New York yesterday adopted a high-minded new declaration underscoring the need to reenergise the SDGs — the 17 targets aimed at ending world poverty and acting for climate change.
While some SDGs are going backwards the intersection between SDG 5 and SDG 11 is moving forward. This was purposively stated in the session “What if Women Designed the City?’ hosted by UNITAR at the UN Headquarters marking the launch of my book of the same title.
Read MoreThe 2023 SDG Summit, which mark the midpoint of the 2030 Agenda and a new phase of accelerated progress towards the SDGs has started! It is bringing together political and thought leaders from governments, international organisations, private sector, civil society, women and youth and other stakeholders in a series of high-level meetings.
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