Inclusive city

When: 17 from October 2020 from 12:30 to 13:30

Where: Doctor Pla i Armengol gardens

Type: In person (by prior registration)

Cities shape our species’ ecosystem. They are both the container for and backdrop of our lives and the highly complex way humans interact. Even so, they are usually designed for producing, not for living, running the risk of being dissociated from their own essence: to improve the lives of people, no matter how different and how varied their circumstances.

In contrast, a city that listens and observes carefully and empathetically earns people’s trust, understands them, and takes care of them. It generates cooperation and community. This viewpoint is multidimensional and it depends largely on urban development and architecture.

Keeping in mind the true innate needs of the human being, understanding that public spaces must provide places for a myriad of people with different realities and viewpoints, incorporating the experiences of different groups when building the environment, and ensuring universal accessibility are some of the steps on the road towards an inclusive city that foments social cohesion, equality, diversity, and safety.

We want cities to live in, cities that take care of us. It may be a question of listening.