Imandeep Kaur – Growth, Inclusion and Integration

Designing Democratic Cities Imandeep Kaur

@ImmyKaur

AoU Congress, Cork 1

There is only one design idea that you really need – democracy.

In the most literal sense, ‘demos – kratos’, which means ‘people – power’. ~ Alastair Parvin

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Knowle West Media Eagle House Pop Up Bristol

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Participatory City Barking & Dagenham London

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https://www.ted.com/talks/devita_davison_how_urban_agriculture_is_transforming_detroit

Detroit Food Lab Detroit, USA !14

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DemoDev Birmingham

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Democratising the power to create society & our cities.

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https://www.ted.com/talks/david_r_williams_how_racism_makes_us_sick

Research has found that higher levels of discrimination are associated with an elevated risk of a broad range of diseases from blood pressure to abdominal obesity to breast cancer to heart disease and even premature mortality. Strikingly, some of the effects are observed at a very young age.

- Dr David R Wiiliams !26

Our current economy treats humans as overheads

Our current economy treats humans as overheads

We need one that treats humans as the source of creative value

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RISING URBANIZATION

RAISING CHRONIC DISEASES GROWING MIDDLE CLASS IN EMERGING ECONOMIES

CHANGING CLIMATE

Spread of infectious disease Man-made environmental disasters

Extreme weather events

Failure of urban planning

DEGRADING ENVIRONMENT Water crisis

AGEING POPULATION

Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse

Profound social instability

Failure of climate change mitigation & adaptation

Natural Disasters

Food crisis

SYSTEMATIC RISKS

Ethical crisis

Humanity is struggling to understand and mitigate and deal with complex risks in systems characterized by feedback loops, tipping oints and opaque cause-and-effect relationships that can make intervention problematic.

Failure of regional or global governance Failure of financial mechanism or institution

Unmanageble inflation

RISING GEOGRAPHIC MOBILITY Failure of critical infrastructure

RISING INCOME AND WEALTH DISPARITY

Unemployment or underemployment

Energy price shock Data fraud or theft

Large-scale involuntary migration

Deflation

Fiscal crisis

Failure of national governance State collapse or crisis Terrorist attack

Interstate conflict

Cyber attacks

Weapons of mass destruction

CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE

Asset boubles in a majour economy

SHIFTING POWERS

Illicit trade Critical information and infrastructure breakdown Fourth estate crisis

Dark matter Labs

Adverse consequences of technological advances

United Nations Development Programme

RISING CYBER DEPENDENCY

INCREASING POLARIZATION OF SOCIETIES INCREASING NATIONAL SENTIMENT

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