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Adam Greenfield on the Dangers of Smart Cities

What are smart cities anyways? Where are they? For whom are they intended? By whom were they developed? Adam Greenfield challenges the popular...

Obstacles to Building Equitable Cities with Enrique Peñalosa | reSITE Small Talk

For Enrique Peñalosa, improving cities means increasing the quality of life in public spaces that create equality between citizens. He argues that inequality is...

Hiroki Matsuura on Prioritizing People in the Shared Landscape

Hiroki Matsuura talks about the importance of designing with the goal of maintaining as much green space as possible, rather than asking where green...

Enrique Peñalosa on Why Equality Begins with Well-Planned Public Spaces

"Nowadays, it seems to be much clearer what ideal environment for a happy gorilla looks like than what it is for a happy child,”...

Yosuke Hayano Architecture's Emotional Connection to Nature

Yosuke Hayano speaks on how the idea of designing a building in congruence with the environment has become central to MAD’s architectural practice. Five...

Leona Lynen on the Collaborative Urban Regeneration of Haus der Statistik

With the city of Berlin selling out more public property, the most vulnerable groups of Berliners are being pushed outside the inner city, endangering...

There Grows the Neighborhood with Emmanuel Pratt

Emmanuel Pratt, artist, architect, and community organizer tells the story of his co-founded non-profit: Sweet Water Foundation. Emmanuel discusses the deep-rooted inequalities of Chicago's...

East Meets West Panel Discussion with Yoko Choy, Beatrice Leanza, Jee Liu + Wallace Liu

reSITE invited Yoko Choy, the editor of Wallpaper* China, to discuss recent regenerative developments with London-based studio WallaceLiu and curator Beatrice Leanza. They cover...

Ravi Naidoo on Creating a Better World Through Creativity

Ravi Naidoo, the founder of Design Indaba, speaks to and questions the purpose of design. He believes that design can be the ultimate toolkit...