In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, our host Dr Orna Rosenfeld had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Teri Okoro MBA ChPP FRIBA FAPM, architect, project management expert, and founder of TOCA London, whose work is dedicated to embedding diversity, inclusion, and social value into the way we plan, design, and deliver projects. Drawing on the ideas behind her new three-book series on inclusive project management (links to the first book below), Dr Okoro challenges us to rethink inclusion—...
Sep 9
54 min
In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Keith Thorpe, an internationally recognised expert in housing, urban development, and public policy, whose career spans more than five decades of public service and international collaboration. Drawing on his extensive experience in housing policy, planning, and local government—including senior leadership roles within the UK Government and his work with the OECD—Keith refl...
Jul 15
36 min
In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Antonio Campagnoli, lawyer, real estate expert, and World President of FIABCI – the International Real Estate Federation. Our host Dr Orna Rosenfeld, and Antonio reflect on one of the greatest challenges facing cities today: how to rebuild communities in an increasingly fragmented world. While our cities continue to grow, many people feel more isolated than ever before.&nbs...
Jul 8
33 min
In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Ali A. Alraouf, architect, urban thinker, researcher, and educator, whose work is driven by a profound commitment to social justice, cultural identity, and more inclusive cities. Throughout the conversation, Professor Alraouf reflects on the experiences that shaped his professional journey and inspired his lifelong commitment to creating urban environments where p...
Jul 1
21 min
In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Pietro Elisei, urban and regional planner, founder of URBASOFIA, and former President of ISOCARP. As cities around the world face growing pressures from housing shortages, climate change, social fragmentation, and economic uncertainty, Pietro invites us to look beyond individual challenges and consider the city as a complex and interconnected system. While housing remains o...
Jun 24
33 min
Can We Deliver Inclusive Urban Futures? Reflections from the World Urban Forum by Dr. Orna Rosenfeld
In this opening episode of Season 2, recorded following the 13th World Urban Forum (WUF13) in Baku, Dr Orna Rosenfeld reflects on one of the most significant shifts in international urban policy in recent years: the growing recognition of housing as a strategic system shaping economic resilience, social cohesion, climate adaptation, territorial development, and the future of cities. Drawing on over two decades of work across 56 countries, Orna explores why housing has become one of the defini...
Jun 17
20 min
In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, we had the honour to interview Professor Amira Osman, a Sudanese/South African Professor of Architecture at the Tshwane University of Technology and the 70th President of The South African Institute of Architects (SAIA). What is the most inspiring about Professor Osman’s work is her unshakable commitment to building inclusion in some of the most challenging places in the world where in her words, 'separation in the built environment was engine...
Apr 20, 2023
55 min
Understanding the dimensions, ramifications and dynamics of systematic exclusion and discrimination is fundamental to raising awareness about it, educating about it, changing culture, and most importantly, addressing it. As painful as exclusion is, understanding it and deconstructing it is a fundamental first step if we are to move towards inclusive futures. Inclusive Urban Future was honoured to interview NGO Monitor Vice President Olga Deutsch. A leader in her own right Olga Deutsch i...
Mar 9, 2023
58 min
Our collective ideas and aspirations touch the ground and are cast in stone through urban design, planning and real estate development. The question of whether we are building inclusive urban futures or not is answered then and there and decided for generations. This question is critical in peacetime but even more so in the aftermath of an armed conflict. The Inclusive Urban Future was delighted to interview Dr Haris Piplas, Senior Consultant, Co-Directing Urban Design and Planning Init...
Feb 23, 2023
1 hr 2 min
Ideas and policies are as good as their implementation. There may not be a policy sphere where this is truer than in the cities' pursuits of inclusive urban futures. The poly-crisis the world has been exposed to since 2020 has exacerbated inequalities across people and places, especially in large cities, where vulnerable groups such as migrants, the poor, women, and the elderly, among other population groups, were hit hard. As a response to the growing gap between the rich and the...
Feb 9, 2023
59 min
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