Urban Innovation - a PhD journey

Creating electricity from the water pipes!! Portland (Oregon) 💥💕🥇

Portland Installs Turbines in City Water Pipes To Create Free Electricity Leave it to Portlandia to figure out how to create hydro-power without building a dam! Portlandians are now generating free electricity every time they turn on the tap! If you live in Portland, Oregon, your lights are now powered in part by the water flowing through your pipes. The city …

We need more of these benches! 1 = 275 trees. 🌿😻🌴

London’s New Artificial Trees Guzzle As Much Pollution As 275 Regular Trees Say hello to the capital’s new City Trees! The world is, finally, awakening to the imminent threats posed by climate ...

Civic innovation has always been at the centre of my practice and research interest!! Yesterday I went to see a great talk about prototyping for cities by Matthew Claudel a MIT PhD + research + writer + all around urban innovation master! He compares Boston, Montreal and Amsterdam in his PhD research and made me proud of La Pépinière I Espaces Collectifs, of Montreal and of Quebec society in general! Watch his TEDx from last year!! Its worth it! 👌🤓🦸‍♂️🌇🤖🏙🧠

Civic Innovation: A Future For Cities & Technology | Matthew Claudel | TEDxCambridgeSalon How can we use technology to improve cities? Business-as-usual, especially startup-style “move fast and break things” doesn’t work and government-as-usual do...

These days I write about global trends and how people living in 2050 will be '🤬🥵☠️💩🥶' if we don't change our behaviours.

Here are 4 crazy scary trends:

OVER CONSUMPTION: At the moment, we need 1.75 planets to sustain our consumption and we will need 3 planets to feed the 9.8 billion humans in 2050;

GLOBAL WARMING: Since the industrial revolution, humans have caused a 1°C increase in temperature, a 2°C increase will cause serious disruption and a 5°C would be catastrophic for human existence;

POLLUTION: In 2018, 37 billion tones of CO2 were release by burning fossil fuel. This represent the highest level of CO2 in the last 3 million years. Moreover, in 2050, plastic will be in 99% of all animals.

6th MASS EXTINCTION: We lost more than 60% of Earth’s biodiversity since 1970. In Central America, South America and the Caribbean the problem is even worst as they lost 89% of their vertebrate species during the same period (WWF, 2018:6)

Usually I am a very optimistic person. But more I read and understand global dynamics, more I get scared. Changing our behaviours is hard since we don't want to lose our comfort. The question I have at the moment is: Will humanity be able to prioritise the planetary needs instead of their own before it is too late? Will you?

I am! 💪 and urge you to be proactive while there is still hope. 🙏

Who would have thought that 👉Kansas City👈 would do it first?! 😁🤗👌

Kansas City is first major U.S. city to make public transit free Will free bus rides boost ridership?

So excited by the Media Archi Biennle 2020!! Looking forward to take part in the 'tech reality-check' about citizens platforms in January!! You should join!! :)

Call for participation MAB Winter School Promises Promises: Tech http://archis.org/events/promises-promises/?fbclid=IwAR3dE1bSal6J6rJe4adFtvlVLa1XEwIax6JZmJAVVQEo7R06m2kLdW_qMgg

Here is your chance to get involved in imagining the future of our society!! This great project by Edgeryders brings Sci-fi writers, economists and citizens together to think about new socio-economic systems! The event is in Brussels on the 11th and 12th of Novembrer.

Let's make a more humane, greener society. Top-notch science fiction authors and economists get economic thinking out of its current box | Check out 'Sci-Fi Economics Lab' on Indiegogo.

My favourite building in the world. Clean energy + for all! ❄️🏂⛷

BIG opens Copenhill power plant topped with rooftop ski slope in Copenhagen BIG has completed the "cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world" in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is topped by an artificial ski slope that is open all...

Today, it is more important than ever for cities develop a strong vision and implement restrictive regulations to reduce Co2 emissions. Amsterdam is an amazing example as the city will ban all gas and diesel powered cars in the city by 2030. 🥳That's being audacious AF! Looking forward to see which other European cities will follow! 😎

Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture The Dutch capital is slashing car access in the center of the city, as it expands public transit hours.

FREE public transit is a reality!!! Props to Luxembourg!! 🤩🥳👊

Luxembourg Becomes First Country to Make All Public Transit Free Luxembourg is set to become the first country to make all of its public transportation free.