Videos – ka-au

KA-AU in FAV

Marite Guevara — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:59:59 +0000

Responsive Cities Symposium

Marite Guevara — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:58:52 +0000

KA-AU Metropoles du Sud Symposium 2018

Marite Guevara — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:22:53 +0000

Best practices in the field of Public Space Activation

Marite Guevara — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:20:05 +0000

KA-AU Presentation at the European Week of Cities & Regions

Marite Guevara — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 15:24:50 +0000

This video was presented on October 11th at the European Week of Cities & Regions.

KA-AU presentation at University-Business Forum

Marite Guevara — Wed, 03 May 2017 15:53:46 +0000

Video summary about KA-AU (Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism)

This video was prepared for the 7th University Business Forum
(UNIVERSITY-BUSINESS COOPERATION – FOR INNOVATION AND MODERNISATION) that took place in Brussels, 6-7th April 2017.

Saskia Sassen – Responsive Cities 2016

Marite Guevara — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 09:03:31 +0000

What are we talking about when it gets to technology?

Entering the inners of technology

What are we really talking about when it gets to technologies? Technology itself has a dual nature. It can both provide tools for a positive contribution as well as the opposite, according to its use. However, the digital phenomenon presumes and orders the space we live in, it routinize our habitat when we need to recognize creativity, to exit the loop by inventing new possibilities, new languages to understand the city. Constantly we are guided by the technical capabilities rather

Janet Sanz – Responsive Cities 2016

Marite Guevara — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:18:55 +0000

How can we establish the common city?

Barcelona requires us to fight against inequalities.

Ecology and the challenge against climate change are the elements we want the municipality to work on, side by side with its citizens, because what makes smart a city are people not sensors. Therefore, we consider neighbourhoods as main pivots to bring a change in the city and we have been guaranteeing the right to a home to everybody, expanding the social housing stock. Besides, we encourage the use of public transports developing a new bus system and connecting nine cities from the metropolitan area by a new tramway, in avinguda Diagonal, for a more sustainable mobility. Again, with the Superblock project, we managed to bring life back to the streets, supporting spaces for neighbourhood’s activities as well as green areas. Finally yet importantly, the energy consumption issue

Albert Cañigueral – Responsive Cities 2016

Marite Guevara — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 08:14:41 +0000

How can cities exploit citizens potential?

Living better with sharing

People gather in cities with different needs of services or interests while city’s resources, nowadays especially with the crisis, remain flat if not decreasing.

It is time to be smart: to find a smart way to reduce this gap.

The concept of Smart City has failed to achieve its purpose because it did not consider the unexploited potential of citizens, deploying technocratic systems from top to bottom by both the municipality and big corporations. The power of the new city relies in the low cost of coordination. With apps like Whatsapp or FixMyStreet, massive participatory operations concerning mobility, economics, politics and city’s life can emerge from residents: shaping actively their habitat for their needs.

Tomás Díez – Responsive Cities 2016

Marite Guevara — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 07:08:11 +0000

How to solve issue locally to influence the globality?

FabCities for global improvement

More than 200 years since the Industrial Revolution, global urbanisation keeps accelerating. United Nations projections indicate that 75% of the human population will be living in cities by 2050. We are losing livelihoods through both offshoring and automation, and this in turn leads to the demise of dynamic hubs of practical and cultural knowledge, where things are made. Extreme industrialisation and globalisation have turned cities into the most voracious consumers of materials.