will do! thank you for joining us! it was amazing and I plan to follow up with a longer conversation as well. join us next week if you can, the next conversation with Olympia Kazi will unfortunately some similar threads

What is city design when design is envisioned as a process of political emancipation? What new collective processes can foster the imaginaries that empower people to take back their cities? Why does every city need a Ministry of Space?

The lack of effective ways to acquire knowledge and engage in planning processes to make a meaningful difference adds to exhaustion and disillusionment. What does it mean to practice in such a context and put public spatial knowledge at the core of the practice?

In cities run by private interests, everyday life for most of their inhabitants gets harder by the day as the privatisation of services, endless construction, and the reorganisation of traffic make life more expensive and even more exhausting.

How to fight for the city when successive public administrations have been running it for decades with only one goal: to maximise the private interest and make planning processes as undemocratic and opaque as possible?

sending you love Shannon