The Penang State Government recently announced the top prize winners of the Penang Bay International Ideas Competition. Launched in August 2020, the competition was designed to invite innovative ideas from around the world to transform the Penang Bay area into a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) compliant city zone and economic area. ...
Apps like Clubhouse celebrate innovation and the innovators while overlooking the vast army of maintainers that allow those systems to run. Programmes like Think City’s K2K Aktif Bersama are trying to change that conversation, focus on the people and the communities we all rely on to keep the world moving. ...
Period poverty is defined as a menstruating person’s lack of access to safe and hygienic use of sanitary menstrual goods. This issue then leads to problems such as missing out on school, being exposed to a health risk, and facing shame within their communitie...
Stories are a starting point, a feedback mechanism that can help us to build better cities. Imagineers, both professionals and ordinary citizens, are the citymakers of tomorrow....
Last week we featured an update on the forthcoming anthology of KISAH Futures competition winners. This week Maya and Matt look at some of the ways that reading and writing stories can help to liberate ideas and shape cities and societies, and discuss the upcoming release of Think City’s COVID-related business confidence survey....
As we trade a harrowing 2020 for a hopeful 2021, we look at one of the few bright spots of the last year: the renewed sense of conversation between the...
For the past few weeks we’ve been focusing on sustainable urbanisation as outlined in the World Cities Report 2020, launched by UN-Habitat at the end of October. The Citymaker spoke to one of the report’s early contributors, Think City’s Programme Director, Dr Matt Benson, about the urgent need for cities to be more reflexive and to cope with the pandemics and shocks that are expected in the future. ...
Why do we behave like noisy neighbours online? The solution is a radical one: that we make the digital world more like the physical one. That we slow it down and introduce friction....
On today’s episode of The Citymaker podcast we talk to Charles Landry, founder of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2020, about the social innovation, community and generation of trust that are...