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The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Tatiana and Honorata from JUSThood turn traditional city planning on its head by sharing their creative neighbourhood planning method. We ponder what women, fish and children have in common, and ask a group of men to step into the shoes of pregnant women - all with the goal of creating urban spaces that are suited for the diverse needs of people and hedgehogs that inhabit them. Learn more about JUSThood here: https://www.justhood.net/Like the topic? Listen to the ICLEI Europe podcast episode on 'Cultivating the gender equal city' here: https://iclei-europe.org/podcast/

The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Sıla from Roof Coliving in Turkey convinces us that civic engagement, especially from young people, is what puts the 'just' in 'Just Transition'. She also tells us about a quirky project in Maltepe that's poking people to think about climate change, and shares her mindset around hopefulness in activism. Learn about Roof Coliving here: https://www.roofcoliving.org/ https://www.instagram.com/roofcoliving/

The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Filippos from Pervolarides in Thessaloniki shares his experience with creating a social solidarity net through food and beyond. He gives an honest take on the personal strain of community work, tips on how to lessen it, and a surprising account of how the Covid-19 pandemic boosted support and engagement.Learn about Pervolarides here: https://www.facebook.com/PervolaridesThessalonikis/

The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Amy from HubRen in London shares her thoughts on the interconectedness of all things, how hope is a verb, and the power of art and culture in climate conversations.Learn about the Hub here: https://www.hubren.org/

Ian and Kate are off on new adventures, but the podcast continutes! Sophia Silverton introduces its new focus: sharing the stories of community initiaives for sustainable and just cities.Image by  Lucia Di Paola

Urban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability. This time we're talking with Linda Gustafsson, Gender Equality Officer, City of Umeå.Image by Arnica Bäckström from Pixabay

Urban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability. This time we're talking with Tom Meeuws, Vice Mayor for Social Affairs and Environmental Affairs, in the city of Antwerp.Photo by Bobo Boon

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Romane Joly from the University of Freiburg speaks with Kaja Zimmermann and David Bachmann from foodsharing Freiburg.

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate speaks with Heidi Lindvall from seed stage ClimateTech VC company Pale Blue Dot.  Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban ArenasPhoto from here.

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian take a break from interviewing as Sophia Silverton chats with Isabell Eberlein and Denis Petri from Changing Cities. They talk about the role of participatory actions in trying to bring about more just distributions of urban space. The conversation is framed around the notion of ‘governance arrangements’, which you can read more about here: http://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_governance_arrangementsDo you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban Arenas

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Jonathan Luger from the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability.We're talking about drivers of urban injustice: https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_drivers_of_injusticeIan was searching the following stat whilst rambling: the richest 10 percent of the world produces more than half its carbon. Thanks Oxfam. !!READ THIS!!Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban Arenas

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by  Meera Ghani, ECOLISE Policy Coordinator, and Tamara Steger, Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at Central European University. The topic? Environmental and racial justice.Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban ArenasPhoto credit: News Oresund, CC BY 2.0 .

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate talks with Florian Strenge - an urbanist fascinated by spaces, people and processes.Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton. Would you like to follow in her footsteps? If so, please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban ArenasPhoto from here

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian get lost in the voices of people who have helped sustain, build and critically assess networks that aim to create just and sustainable cities: Matthew Bach, Flor Avelino and Tom Henfrey.Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban ArenasImage from here.

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. Kate is on interview duty and the moment and she caught up with Kemo Camara, founder and CEO of Omek, a new digital and physical platform dedicated to the social and professional advancement of the African diaspora community. Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban Arenas

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we’re speaking with Marilyn Hamilton the founder of Integral City and author of the Integral City book series. This month we also launch a new feature - the Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Our first correspondent is Marcelline Bonneau CEO and founder at Resilia Solutions.

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're talking with Panagiota Kotsila, a political ecologist who works at the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability and is part of the editorial collective with Undisciplined Enviroments. She'll be talking about the article "Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes" that she co-wrote with Isabelle Anguelovski, Francesco Baró, Johannes Langemeyer, Filka Sekulova and James J.T. Connolly for the journal Environment and Planning E.Foto

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're talking with Rafael Calado about FabLabs. Ian is joined by special guest podcaster Lucia Di Paola for the trip to Lisbon's best FabLab. Rafael Calado is the Programme and Operations Manager FabLab Lisboa. An architect by trade, he also co-founded Repair Café Lisboa and BioHacking Group Lisboa 2017.[[{"fid":"706","view_mode":"full","fields":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"attributes":{"class":"media-element file-full","data-delta":"1"}}]]

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this fourth episode, we discuss shipping. We were lucky to speak with Elisabeth Schober, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the upcoming “Ports”-project, which will be funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 851132.

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this third episode, we discuss the potential of textile recycling as part of a circular economy. We’re lucky to get to speak to Hilde van Duijn from EigenDraads, a Rotterdam based initiative that wants to take our non-reusable clothes and transform them into something new.

Urban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this second episode, we discuss transition management as a governance approach.  To help us do so, we travel to a real live urban arena in Rotterdam and meet Derk Loorbach  director of DRIFT - The Dutch Research Institute For Transitions - and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Urban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport.  To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.