This event will be hybrid in Niagara C0826 and Zoom.
All are warmly welcome to a special edition in our Brown Bag Seminar series: a book talk on Flux Cities: Ontological Design for a Regenerative World featuring author Gregor Mews.
About Flux Cities (from Springer): As our larger life-giving systems that sustain livelihoods continue to erode at an unprecedented rate, and urban complexities continue to increase, this book presents a refreshingly unconventional, creative, and radical meditation on urbanism and city living. Greg Mews proposes the idea of ‘Flux Cities’ and offers provocative new ways to inquire into non-linear relations to the city, through questions such as: How can we design from the heart? How to approach the real city and produce for (co)existence? How to navigate the intangible city? How to improve well-being through Flux Cities?
Full of agency, Mews presents deep and personal insights on informal settlements, public space, and the role of Do-It-Yourself Urbanism in enabling spatial justice and regenerative practices towards well-being. A compelling read for anyone willing to shake up the normative existential foundations of cities.
About the author: Gregor H. Mews (PhD) is an environmental designer and urban planner based at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning book Transforming Public Space through Play (2022) and an international champion for public space and urban health.
This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series. Bring your lunch! If you have any questions, please contact Defne Kadioglu and Julie Goodrich.