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When Melbourne meets the doughnut
INTERVIEW with Kaj Lofgren. Many voices call for a transition of our societies and systems. But where to start from? With whom? And how? Kaj Lofgren relates the story of Regen Melbourne, a movement committed to “reimagining and remaking Melbourne, together” that he contributed to launch and using the doughnut methodology to move forward.
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"We have become too fast for nature"
INTERVIEW with Hartmut Rosa. From climate breakdown to repeated burnouts, the world keeps on telling us that we are going to fast. So why don’t we slow down? How could we reconcile ourselves with the world and the others, enjoying a more relaxed life? An insightful discussion with the sociologist Hartmut Rosa.
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Design for relationships, not for solutions
INTERVIEW with Hilary Cottam. Welfare states are broken. Inequalities are on the rise and social workers are burning out. How can we design welfare states for the 21th century ? Can we move from standardized social help to distributed capability building? That’s what English designer Hilary Cottam invites us to do in this interview.
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To understand poor families’ food choices, look beyond economic rationality
INTERVIEW with Priya Fielding-Singh. How do poor families make food choices? How can we explain the « Nutella riots » that happened in France a few years ago? And the fact that kids eat salty snacks all the time in the US? Sociologist Priya Fielding-Singh tried to understand the deep roots and processes at the core of food inequalities in the US. Policymakers should listen to her findings.
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Govern by numbers to rule better
INTERVIEW with Thomas Berns. "We have entered the age of transparency. The opacity of norms has given way to the clarity of facts. Acts of government no longer require a decision but claim to be imposed from reality. But is this a new phenomenon?”
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Artificial Intelligence and Man
INTERVIEW with Paola Tubaro. Health, food, work, etc. There is not even one domain in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not presented as the big revolution of the future. Behind the fantasy of a new and unprecedented form of automatic intelligence, however, lie behind-the-scenes games of power and actors against a backdrop of hidden work. Researcher, Paola Tubaro spoke to us more in depth about these shadow workers without whom all "Artificial Intelligence" would be incapable of functioning.
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Doughnut Economics is neither about scale nor time. It’s all about design.
INTERVIEW Ouishare Fest with Kate Raworth. Doughnut Economics aims at ensuring that “no one falls short on life’s essentials while ensuring that collectively we do not overshoot our pressure on Earth’s life-supporting systems, on which we fundamentally depend. [...] It acts as a compass for human progress.” But how does it work? Where do we start? Kate Raworth answers our questions.
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Understanding our digital environment is the very condition of our freedom
INTERVIEW with Pierre-Antoine Chardel. In the age of the spectacle and infobesity society, we must develop a culture of commentary. Learn to read and interpret the information that assails us, so as not to suffer it anymore but to regain our free will and our long-term vision. Explains, the philosopher Pierre-Antoine Chardel.
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Globalisation is the work of colonisation
INTERVIEW with Alain Deneault. Second part. Words can make us ignorant of certain realities. In this sense, they politicise us. What about the word “colon”? What does it say about our world and its balance of power? Alain Deneault tells us more in the second part of our interview.
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Our liberty lies in the choice of words we use
INTERVIEW with Alain Deneault. First part. Anglicisms, Newspeak, etc. What do words mean today? And what don't they say? To what extent is the choice of words the site of an often-elusive power? Philosopher Alain Deneault answers in a two-part interview.
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"We need more medium-sized cities"
INTERVIEW Ouishare Fest with Saskia Sassen. In a context where Covid-19 drastically changed the way we experience our cities, it may be time to reflect on the past and future of our urban environments. That’s what we discussed with sociologist Saskia Sassen.
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Civic Tech vs Big Tech: how citizens can reclaim agency
INTERVIEW Ouishare Fest with Bianca Wylie. In 2017, Sidewalk Labs, one of Alphabet subsidiaries along with Google, launched Quayside, a gigantic project to transform Toronto’s waterfront into a smart neighborhood. But what was actually behind the futuristic pictures of this high-tech project? An attempt to privatize the governance of a public space, says Bianca Wylie. She led the opposition movement to this project and tells us more about what happened behind the scenes.
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