The shifts needed for a transformation of food systems
The shifts needed for a transformation of food systems At Forum for the
Neuroscience as indicator of unequal cities
One could easily be forgiven for thinking that the only link between neuroscience and the urban landscape is that many research centres are set in cities. However, as this article on equitable cities and environmental neuroscience shows, there are actually multiple ways in which the growing understanding of the brain, how it interacts with the body (and vice versa), and urban design overlap.
Imagining a networked future for the manufacturing industry
A couple of years ago Radha Mistry, who leads foresight practice at Autodesk, presented a potential future for the manufacturing industry, a much more networked and flexible future. What if small towns impacted by local plant closures, with no jobs, no money, and a dying Mains Street were instead home to a new version of the industry? One modelled around “a network of configurable microfactories that leverages the manufacturing-as-a-service concept?”
Regenerative or regenerative?
Smart, green, renewal, sustainable, low-carbon, carbon neutral, fair. The list of words and concepts that are framed for good or marketing and reframed for other intents is ever-growing. Or, to be less cynical, are adopted by quite different crowds who interpret the words and concepts in different ways. As already mentioned in another post, regenerative is likely to be one of the next concepts to split off in different directions. Here are two articles on the topic, with differing tones and methods, but both interesting in their own way.
Nonprofits as infrastructure
An important idea and angle to a very real challenge, one that will be of growing importance: how do nonprofits and CBOs (Community-Based Organization) maintain and, when needed, scale their infrastructure to keep vital services going and respond to growing demand?