Keynote: how we need to rebuild our thinking about cities from the ground up
Presentation by Wouter Veldhuis
The challenges we face are big. Really big. Rather than more, and bigger, we should aim for different and better. But where to start? Breaking through the current impasse requires thinking far ahead. Not in search of beautiful, utopian visions, but so that we can reason backwards: what is needed at this moment? Once we do that, it will show that we need to back to basic. To the soil, to the networks and to the citizens whom shape and give meaning to our cities. That way, the contours of a new narrative about our society and the role of our cities will emerge.
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