Cities After Covid

Dr Elizabeth Lomas (UCL) - e.lomas@ucl.ac.uk

Research our future post Covid-19: Canadian and UK perspectives - a UCL hosted event

This event will present the first findings from an international interdisciplinary research programme Cities After Covid (https://citiesaftercovid.wordpress.com/) that is investigating the COVID crisis and longer-term recovery in terms of its impacts on London and Toronto. The work focuses on unpacking what kind of crisis this is moving forwards, what is ‘in crisis’ and what is changing potentially for the better taken though the context of an information/ICT lens. The sessions will probe and reflect on the benefits and possibilities that technology delivers, as well as the dangers and opportunities caused by new modes of working in a range of settings from commercial enterprises through to non-profit organizations and educational institutions already reconsidering their strategic and operational models. For example, if the office is dead and we are all digital nomads, what does that mean for the economy, for individuals, and for society? If we are not all to be digital nomads, how has Covid altered the transition to the ‘new economy’ that was already underway? What will happen to cities and their residents? What have we learnt about education and digital exclusion?The work is an interdisciplinary investigation which is being supervised by academics from across the Departments of Anthropology and Information Studies at UCL and Information, Statistical Sciences, and Economics at the University of Toronto. The research is being further driven by academics and students from across UCL and the University of Toronto. 35 students are participating.Due to a censure at the University of Toronto, this is a UCL hosted event being run in line with censure guidance https://censureuoft.ca/how-to-censure/#howshould .

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