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What is The Future for Cities?

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"Cities can be the places that were how we do our metabolism as a spieces."

Are you interested in ecological design? What do you think about bioregions in our planning? How can we avoid defuturing?

Interview with Dr Stuart Cowan, Executive Director at Buckminster Fuller Institute. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, futuring and protopia, Spaceship Earth, reciprocity, experimentation, and many more.

Dr. Stuart Cowan is the Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, advancing design science for systems change. He leads initiatives like the BFI Design Lab, fostering innovation to address critical planetary challenges. With 25 years’ experience in regenerative design, finance, and systems, he co-founded Autopoiesis LLC, regenerating communities, ecosystems, and organizations. Stuart was the founding convener of the Regenerative Communities Network, supporting 15 bioregions, and has served as Chief Scientist at the Smart Cities Council. Co-author of Ecological Design, he earned a PhD in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley, focusing on Complex Systems and Ecological Economics.

Find out more about Stuart through these links:

Stuart Cowan on LinkedIn
Stuart Cowan website
Buckminster Fuller Institute website
Buckminster Fuller Institute on LinkedIn
Buckminster Fuller Institute on Youtube
Ecological design - book by Stuart Cowan and Sim Van der Ryn
Operating manual for a Spaceship Earth - book by Buckminster Fuller
Children of a modest star - book by Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman
Design for the pluriverse - book by Arturo Escobar
Designing from an abundance perspective - Stuart Cowan on the Ma Earth program

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.101R - What we owe the future? (book summary)
No.186 - Interview with Tom Bosschaert about Orchid City
No.220 - Interview with Simon Burt about the importance of bees
No.309R - Ecological urban planning and design

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