[The Prometheus Shot – E011 :: The City’s Alchemy : Systems of Innovation, Disparity, and Creativity]
This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series.
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“Cities are places with pollution, crowds, and inequalities…
Yet most people on the planet fight for a chance to live in one. Many artists write elaborate love songs to cities.
What is special about them?
They are a typical example of the power of plurality… Density… multitude.
They are generators of knowledge… They accumulate wealth, and allow for wasteful, amazing, experiments, and are great platforms for innovation and creativity.
This is an exploration of the interesting relationships between cities, innovation, creativity, and the individual destiny.
Throughout the discussion, we will be guided by the Awareness – Intent – Creativeness model as introduced in The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom (https://ahijazi.website/atlas-worldly-wisdom/)
#urbanism #cities #innovation #ecosystems #creativity #genius #courage #prometheus #plurality #experimentation #creativeindustries #inequality #greatwork
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Some comments from this episode:
Are cities an invention or an inevitability?
Why do they support creativity?
The History of Cities
Why do poets / artists / writers love cities?
Is the City a personal test?
Do Cities Shape people’s personalities?
How does density become economic creativity?
What is ‘Dark’ about cities?
How about the future of cities?
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Chapters:
- The City: an Inevitability?
- Knowledge: Stories of Cities
- Courage: Cities & Individual Destiny
- Innovation & Economic Creativeness
- Why don’t we leave?
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Podcast (Substack) :
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