How do you shape different possible futures for cities?

Social Innovation Exchange(www.socialinnovationexchange.org)SIX is a global organisation focusing on accelerating learning and exchange across borders and sectors, in order to help organisations better solve and prepare for the societal challenges we face. Since 2008, we have worked with dozens of partners from governments, companies, foundations and NGOs, across 6 continents. We’ve hosted hundreds of events, fed into policy agendas and developed programmes to advance new agendas.

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This Open Duet, we are bringing together two global thinkers/doers from North and South America. #SIXWayfinder

As part of SIX Wayfinder Movement No. 2 — Ensembling, we are bringing together two leading thinkers and doers in a public global dialogue, ‘Open Duets’. In this session, we are inviting Javier Guillot from Bogota City Government and Jayne Engle from McConnell Foundation to reflect and have conversation on how we can shape different possible futures for cities and what is the role of citizens in them. How can we as citizens imagine culture and nature in different ways and take action and decisions differently in our daily lives? How do we create experiments that guide us to different futures for cities, which are more resilient and livable? Contributors <ul><li>Javier Guillot currently works at Bogota City Government as the Environmental Culture Lead at the Directorate of Citizen Culture. In his previous role, he has led the Public Innovation Team at the National Planning Department in Colombia, striving to catalyze innovation in the Colombian public sector by facilitating human- and community-centered experimentation spaces. </li></ul><ul><li>Jayne Engle is the Director, Cities &amp; Places Portfolio at the McConnell Foundation. Cities for People aims to test new ways of working and building networks to create more resilient and livable cities. </li></ul>Session type: Open duet ABOUT SIX WAYFINDERWe are facing a unique moment in history with COVID-19, the climate crisis, global migration and populism — so local and global in nature. This moment reveals how vulnerable we are as human beings and how we belong to the whole. It also shows us how interconnected we are in space and time. It demands that we listen and learn, that we remember why we are here, and reimagine and demonstrate what is possible.During 2020, SIX is on a ‘Wayfinding’ journey, devising a metaphorical symphony — four movements that will help us grasp meaning and shape action. We are tuning in to how we are renewing our relationships with each other and the earth.Our Wayfinder World 2020 symphony started with our first movement, No. 1 — Tuning, uncovering, hearing and understanding what social innovation is happening now and how it is happening in different local contexts around the world.The rich stories and new found relationships from the first movement are now our compass.They guide us into our second movement, No. 2 — Ensembling.In this movement, we will learn together to help embolden the actions we saw around the world by ‘ensembling’ globally: trying out different sounds, instruments, methods, approaches and arrangements to play together and to be in relationship with each other and the earth.This is where the global exchange begins. People come together from different contexts to delve deeper into examples and actions, exchanging knowledge, resources, and insights, uncovering lessons from each other, and working out: What is timely now? What is having its time now? What is influencing our future?

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