“UM OUTRO PROBLEMA”
Brasileiros: No meio dessa batalha moral pela nossa democracia, há um outro problema. 8,5 milhões de pessoas no Iêmen estão prestes a entrar numa das maiores crises alimentares da história. […]
Author Archives: Roberto Rocco
“FAZENDO COISA ERRADA”
Amigos, como vocês, eu tenho acompanhado a evolução dessas eleições com raiva e, por vezes, desespero. Perco meu tempo debatendo com pessoas que têm os argumentos mais furados. Umas das […]
“Petista”
Há alguns anos atrás, estava discutindo uma política social qualquer com uma amiga muito querida, quando ela exasperada me disse: Ah, Rocco! Mas você só pensa assim por que […]
Truth is an exploration that is done through dialogue
Truth is an exploration that is done through dialogue. Education should follow that. These are 1st year urbanism students in a debating session about ethics and the role of planners […]
SDGs and Neo-liberalism
I want to sympathise with the person who defaced the exhibition on the Sustainable Development Goals I set up at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the […]
Every city needs a Climate Plan. São Paulo, where is yours?
For a very long time, I was convinced by arguments left and right that climate action was a distraction from more pressing issues. Poverty, war, crime, they are all more […]
The World Urban Forum 9 in Kuala Lumpur
The World Urban Forum has happened. 22.000 people took part in the World Urban Forum 9 in Kuala Lumpur in February 2018, plus more or less 4.000 support staff. 48% […]
Nobody is a bystander now
Hannah Arendt died on this day in 1975. More than ever, we need enlightened people like her to guide us in these very very strange times. Nobody is a bystander […]
Seville
I was invited by the University of Seville to be part of the PhD commission of @Irene Luque Martin. I had the opportunity to visit the old city, where the […]
Seeing like a State in the time of Trump
Today at the AMS (Amsterdam Advanced Metropolitan Solutions) course METROPOLITAN INNOVATORS, I had the pleasure to listen to my friend and colleague Clemens Driessen explain how States are also a ‘technology’ […]
Roberto Rocco 