<aside> 🗓️ I had first shared this on May 14, 2021
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The people of Earth's response to Covid-19 has shown that we can mobilise as one in 2020.
We realised that our cultural & social patterns can be interrupted and stopped with good reason. We needed to mobilise our efforts to change the informational layer and reinforce societal norms. Then, we adapted our spaces for our new needs (laneways became outdoor dining, bike lanes opened up to where cars drove before). We started to really question our underlying systems.
In these slides, Tim Tompson and I reflect on what we saw, in the intersection of Cities & Tech. And we ponder on what could be (re)built better in the future.
Technology & Cities in the age of social distance
The things we built in yesteryear focused on hype at the top of our hierarchy of needs.
But once we had to pause, we realized there are fractures at all the layers beneath, for us individually (ex. we could be a vector of transmission), familial (ex. reaching out to socially distant loved ones) for our society systemically (ie. co-sensing), we explored what could happen if we redeployed energies.
“Tackling racism requires a new level of co-sensing from us all. The point of co-sensing is not to project your own point of view, or what you are feeling, but rather to curiously seek to broaden your perspective, and to change based on what you hear, how you see the world, and your role in it. Co-sensing acknowledges the validity and reality of other’s perspectives and by doing so, creates a bigger, more informed container for your own thinking.”
Deb Bubb, ex-Chief Leadership, Learning and Inclusion Officer at IBM
