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’ […]
Democracy is an imagined order and it’s being wrecked by Trump
Thanks to my friend and colleague Remon Rooij I am reading the book “Sapiens: A brief history of humankind” , by Yuval Harari. The author argues that, from an evolutionary […]
Don’t call me a liberal, I’m just looking for truth and justice
I am tired of the worldwide ideological war between right and left. Many have exposed what they call a Conservative Revolution, characterised by the deceitful dismantling of the democratic state […]
Comunismo X Nazismo (in Portuguese)
No Brasil, símbolos do nazismo são proibidos por lei. Deveríamos então também proibir a foice e o martelo? Ai ai ai, vocês conhecem aquele ditado: dou um boi […]
