We are honoured to have Dr Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani as our second Keynote. Gabrielle is the founder of interdisciplinary design studio Buscada and she is the author of The Cities We Need (MIT Press, 2024).  

Drawing from over two decades of research and practice in New York, Oakland, London and Buenos Aires, Gabrielle reveals that the: 

• Everyday places in our neighbourhoods and cities are essential for discovering our sense of self
• People that manage and operate everyday places play a significant but often overlooked role in fostering community and belonging 
• Building of social capital in multi-cultural, multi-faith, multi-lingual, hyper-diverse cities depends on the ability of different people to have frequent opportunities for low-stakes interactions

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What are the Keynotes? These are the episodes where we zoom out from our city-to-city voyage to meet global expert voices from a range of different disciplinary vantage points (e.g. from history, to theology, to genetics, to archaeology, to design) to understand the place of cities in their work. We want to know how they would approach and investigate the relationship between cities and human experience and evolution. 

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Bass Vibes - Rollin at 5 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Sound design by Dainius Kacinskas.