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Community organisations need community tech
Community organisations need community tech Three part series of short articles by Rachel Coldicutt, starting
The shifts needed for a transformation of food systems
The shifts needed for a transformation of food systems At Forum for the
Neuroscience as indicator of unequal cities
One could easily be forgiven for thinking that the only link between neuroscience and the urban landscape is that many research centres are set in cities. However, as this article on equitable cities and environmental neuroscience shows, there are actually multiple ways in which the growing understanding of the brain, how it interacts with the body (and vice versa), and urban design overlap.
Imagining a networked future for the manufacturing industry
A couple of years ago Radha Mistry, who leads foresight practice at Autodesk, presented a potential future for the manufacturing industry, a much more networked and flexible future. What if small towns impacted by local plant closures, with no jobs, no money, and a dying Mains Street were instead home to a new version of the industry? One modelled around “a network of configurable microfactories that leverages the manufacturing-as-a-service concept?”
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