Professor Sohail Inayatullah, Inauguaral Unesco Chair in Futures Studies,, Professor at Tamkang University A true contribution in helping create a deeper transformative Gaian polity. And the cherry on top is that it easy to read, and packed with wonderful images. Professor Geci Karuri-Sebina, South African Cities Network / African Centre for Cities, Johannesburg, South Africa A valuable resource for all re-imaginers, re-educators and re-makers. Just what is needed to invite the collective to participate in growing new wisdoms in troubling and uncertain times. The combination of traditional foresight techniques with gaming, wordplays and Ravetz’s ever-evocative visualisations, is rich and compelling. If there were ever a time to foreground a plurality of knowledges from all over the world for common purpose, it would be now - to advance Deeper City’s proposition of shifting crisis towards transformation. Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation, University College London, and author of ‘Big Mind’ This book is packed with frameworks and ideas applying these ideas to the future evolution of cities: literally, a mind-expanding book. Some of the most fascinating work underway worldwide is exploring the frontiers of collective intelligence and collective wisdom - how communities and cities can think together and get beyond the often banal promise of ‘smart cities’. Pam Warhurst, CBE, Chair of Incredible Edible Network, Chair of Pennine Prospects, former Chair of the Forestry Commission Great Britain, former Co-chair of the Countryside Agency, etc Postscript: From crisis to transformationĬollective intelligence combined with collaborative action are, for me, the hallmarks of a society determined to adapt with hope… #WE NEED TO GO DEEPER LOCAL COOP HOW TO#This book will be indispensable for those seeking a sustainable future – students, politicians, planners, systems designers, activists, engineers and researchers.Ī new postscript looks at how these methods can work with respect to the 2020 pandemic, and asks, ‘How can we turn crisis towards transformation?'ġ.1 What’s the big idea? Deeper questionsġ.2 What’s the big picture? Wider visionsġ.3 What’s a Deeper City? Concepts and FAQsĢ.1 Here there be dragons: Think-onomics-IIIĢ.2 The future starts now: Nexus-connexusģ.1 Where to start: Synergistics-LandscapeĤ.6 Where not to build: Anti-city-region-IIIħ.3 On the value-chain: Smart-Services-IIIħ.4 On the platform: Smart-Communities-IIIĨ.2 Where to take control: Multi-level-IIIĨ.4 How to be well-fair: Public-Service-IIIġ0.1 From personal to political: Societal-III From a decade of development and testing, Deeper City combines visual thinking with a narrative style and practical guidance. The key is in synergistic mapping and design, which can move beyond smart ‘winner-takes-all’ competition, towards wiser human systems of cooperation where ‘winners-are-all’. Forty distinct pathways ‘from smart to wise’ are mapped in Deeper City and presented for strategic action, ranging from local neighbourhoods to global finance.Īs an atlas of the future, and resource library of pathway mappings, this book expands on the author’s previous work, City-Region 2020. The author provides a new framework for the collective intelligence – the capacity for learning and synergy – in many-layered cities, technologies, economies, ecologies and political systems. Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on ‘deeper complexity’, applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change and rising inequality.
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