Magali is one of the 3rd cohort of Public Practice associates and has been placed at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she is Project Lead for Placemaking. She will be leading a transformational approach to public realm as an integral part of the planning process for Great Ormond Street's new Children's Cancer Centre.

Her work at The Children's Trust, which provides rehabilitation, education and community services for children with brain injury, focuses on assisting them with looking at their masterplan.

Magali is studying at the London School of Economics, carrying out an MSc in Cities, which complements her Public Practice placement, and is a step towards following her passion for cities, and spaces in between buildings, especially in relation to children and older people.

Previously Magali worked for 14 years at Marks Barfield Architects where she was a director and specialised in education projects, leading a successful education team. 

This is a great conversation on data analysis, the lived experience, air pollution, and urban equity.

You can follow and chat with Magali via https://twitter.com/magalitt.

We can be reached at www.thecentriclab.com.

Child Friendly Urban Planning With Magali Thomson of Great Ormand Street Hospital

This is a new format introducing audio summaries from the roundtables held through the Urban Health Council. We have taken snippets from the conversation and weaved them together into a short summary.

This conversation was on the theme of Air Pollution x Race x Health. In December 2020 a UK court ruled that air pollution made a material contribution to the death of 9-year old Ella Kissi-Debrah, marking her the first person in the UK to have air pollution as their cause of death. This is technically game changing, creating the road for health and environmental justice. 

Specifically, it should lead to changes in the living environments of Black, Asian, and Indigenous communities in the UK and US who are disproportionately exposed to air pollution. 

This roundtable will be discussing and covering the following
+ How air pollution affects all of our biological functions.
+ Over 20 years of data and history of air pollution as environmental racism.
+ How the exposure of environmental racism leads to disparities in respiratory and cardio-vascular diseases in Black, Asian, and Indigenous communities in UK and US.

We've purposefully kept attendees anonymous but if you like what you hear then you can attend more by becoming a member of the Urban Health Council - www.urbanhealthcouncil.com

Urban Health Council - Air Pollution x Race x Health

This episode we’re joined by Priya Shah from BAME in Property. The conversation centres around the additional burden people of colour or those from marginalised background face through work stress from the real estate industry and the need to decolonise its behaviours, frameworks and language. This show was made possible by our Patreon subscribers who we thank dearly…if you do enjoy this show and want to support its production and gain access to the Urban Health Council head over to www.Patreon.com/centriclab and help however you can. 

Priya's information:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Priyalala93
Work: https://www.bameinproperty.com/

Our information:
www.thecentriclab.com
www.urbanhealthcouncil.com
www.patreon.com/centriclab

Decolonising Real Estate For Mental Health Change With Priya Shah

This episode is a special summary from a recent Urban Health Council talk and roundtable titled 'Living Symbiotic with Nature'.

We are delighted to be joined by

JOSINA CALLISTE (https://twitter.com/Jo_zinaC)
Josina runs Land In Our Name (LION) a grassroots Black-led collective committed to reparations in Britain by connecting land and climate justice with racial justice.

JAKE ROBINSON (https://twitter.com/_jake_robinson)
An ecologist and interdisciplinary PhD researcher. He is currently investigating nature-based interventions and the relationship between the environment, the microbiome, and human health.

MARIE MÜLLER (https://twitter.com/marie_ahoi)
Marie is a PhD candidate at University College London on the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme for the Ecological Study of the Brain and part of the Centric Lab research team.

CHARLOTTE KEMP (https://twitter.com/kemp_char)
Charlotte is a neuroscientist and head of research at The Fred Company a research and production studio with a focus on immersive technologies.

If you have enjoyed this show and want to support more independent research like it, that is for the people, free from prejudice and politics then please head over to www.Patreon.com/centriclab and donate to become a Patron and benefit from access to the Urban Health Council  (www.urbanhealthcouncil.com).

Urban Health Council - Living Symbiotic With Nature

This episode is the first of a 3-part mini series recorded with 3 medical students from University College London on Covid-19 and the vaccine process.

The vaccine has been a disputed and politicised issue, and to our belief this could have been avoided with better communication, better relationships with medicine and decolonised frameworks of healthcare. 

This episode tries to explain what a vaccine is, what the Covid-19 vaccines are, how they work.

Our 3 brilliant speakers who gave their time were 

Selina Aziz
Meryam Benaichouche
Manasvini Moni

We hope you enjoy this show and if you believe in supporting independent research please become a Patreon supporter for the price of a fancy coffee per month - www.patreon.com/centriclab

Informed Consent, Decolonisation, And The Covid - 19 Vaccine | Part 1

This episode is the 3rd of a 3-part mini series recorded with 3 medical students from University College London on Covid-19 and the vaccine process.

The vaccine has been a disputed and politicised issue, and to our belief this could have been avoided with better communication, better relationships with medicine and decolonised frameworks of healthcare.

This episode discusses the need for informed consent to become more prevalent in healthcare. Informed consent means 'permission granted in full knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.' This episode discusses the failures of the current system in relation to past ignorances and why there are lags in healthcare treatment.

Our 3 brilliant speakers who gave their time were

Selina Aziz
Meryam Benaichouche
Manasvini Moni

Centric Lab is an independent health research lab specialising in neursoscience that create solutions to population health problems. We hope you enjoy this show and if you believe in supporting independent research like it that's free from politics and prejudice please become a Patreon supporter for the price of a fancy coffee per month - www.patreon.com/centriclab

Informed Consent, Decolonisation, And The Covid - 19 Vaccine | Part 3

15 minutes with [  ] is a new series interviewing members from the Urban Health Council about their work. 

Episode #1 is with Jake Heitland, Commercial Manager & Urban Strategist at Lendlease. Originally from small-town Wisconsin Jake landed in London a few years ago and supports multi-disciplinary teams to apply new models of thinking and working to large urban regeneration projects in the UK that have health, climate and equity at their core.

Links from the show:
3 Peers
Indy Johar - https://twitter.com/indy_johar
Choked Up - https://twitter.com/chokedup_uk
Rosamond Adoo-Kissi Debrah - http://ellaroberta.org/

Other
Loneliness Lab - https://www.lonelinesslab.org/
Write to the City - https://www.instagram.com/writetothecity/
Jake's Twitter - https://twitter.com/JakeHeitland

Centric is a neuroscience research lab and consultancy working to improve Public Health. We are a citizen funded lab, which means that we are able to guide our science outside the influence of governing bodies. If you would like to be a citizen funder please donate to our and support independent research for a few £$€ per month via www.patreon.com/centriclab.

15 Minutes With [ Jake Heitland ] - Episode #1

Episode #2 is with Becka Hudson, a doctoral researcher and campaigner around issues related to criminal justice institutions, racism and inequality based in London. Becka is currently an Associate of the End Solitary Confinement campaign, and have previously worked as Lead Coordinator at the Radical Housing Network, co-founder of the Reclaim Holloway Coalition, Communications Consultant at the 4Front Project, lead of the Free Drill campaign and co-founder of cultural activist networks for young people, including 'Fck Boris' and 'Grime4Corbyn'.

Links from the show:
3 Peers

Dalia Gebrial - https://twitter.com/daliagebrial
Temi Mwale - https://twitter.com/temimwale
Abolitionist Futures - https://twitter.com/ReclaimJustice / https://abolitionistfutures.com/
11 Too Many - https://twitter.com/hashtag/11TooMany

About Centric Lab
Centric is a neuroscience research lab and consultancy working to improve Public Health. Being independent and citizen focused means that we are able to guide our science outside the influence of governing bodies. If you would like to be a citizen funder please donate to our and support independent research for a few £$€ per month via www.patreon.com/centriclab.

15 Minutes With [  Becka Hudson  ]

Episode #3 of 15 Minutes With features architect and founder of Matter Architecture, an award winning London based architecture practice.

A big focus of Matter Architecture's work is research, which has drawn them to join the Urban Health Council. Roland has more than 20 years experience working as an Architect, an urban designer and as a public sector client. 

He also teaches and researches part-time at the University of East London. In 2017 he led a project with the Ministry of Justice to improve prison design for wellbeing which won an RIBA President's award for research. He is also a Design Council CABE Built Environment Expert, a High Streets Task Force Expert, a member of several design review panels, and a member of the RIBA Planning Advisory Group.

We hope you enjoy listening to Roland.

Links from the show:
http://rachelaldred.org/
https://www.powertochange.org.uk/the-team/vidhya-alakeson/
https://drmm.co.uk/people/sadie-morgan/
https://www.blackcyclistsnetwork.cc/race-squad/mania/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazons-killing-high-street-streets-us-josh-artus/

If this is your first listen please consider supporting Centric Lab's research and join the Urban Health Council via our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/centriclab

15 Minutes With [ Roland Karthaus ]

Episode 4 is with Professor Nick Tyler CBE of University College London.

Nick Tyler is the Director of the UCL Centre for Transport Studies and Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, and investigates the ways in which people interact with their immediate environments.

He is involved in projects in several countries in Latin America, Japan, China and continental Europe, as well as in London and elsewhere in the UK.

He is also a Co-Director in the Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Training Programme on the Ecological Brain, where he works with neuroscientists, psychologists, architects, computer vision, education and data analysts to create a multidisciplinary programme to discover how people navigate in the urban environment.

Links from the show:
http://www.dementia-friendly-japan.jp/en/author/makoto-okada/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-frye-3267653
https://spierslab.com/
https://www.pearl.place/
Nick's Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickTyler4

If you enjoyed this show please consider supporting future productions and gain further benefits from within the Urban Health Council via our Patreon set up: https://patreon.com/centriclab

15 Minutes With [ Nick Tyler ]

This episode is a conversation between Centric’s Araceli Camargo and Prof Ilan Kelman, of University College London on how he sees equitable engagement with communities as researchers and practitioners. 

Ilan is a Professor of Disasters and Health, researching islands, disasters, health, migration, inclusivity, polar areas, development, and sustainability (all including climate change). @ILANKELMAN on Twitter and Instagram.

This conversation is part out the Urban Health Council’s latest stream of work on Communities, Lived Experience & Health. Two reports on this topic have been produced which are open to be read online at urbanhealthcouncil.com. Please do go check them out after this conversation if you haven’t already.

How To Equitably Engage With Community Expertise With Prof. Ilan Kelman Of UCL

This episode is a conversation between Centric’s Araceli Camargo and Juwairia Rafique Quazi & Suwen Chen, both PhD candidates at University of Edinburgh on how they see equitable engagement with communities as researchers and practitioners. 

Juwairia Rafique Quazi is a PhD candidate in Global Health at the University of Edinburgh and is the co-founder of the Planetary Health Lab - https://www.planetaryhealthlab.com/

Suwen Chen is a PhD candidate in Impact Investing at the University of Edinburgh - https://www.suwen-chen.com/aboutme

This conversation is part out the Urban Health Council’s latest stream of work on Communities, Lived Experience & Health. Two reports on this topic have been produced which are open to be read online at urbanhealthcouncil.com. Please do go check them out after this conversation if you haven’t already.

Equitable Engagement With Community Expertise w/ Juwairia R. Quazi & Suwen Chen of Uni of Edinburgh

Episode #5 of (slightly more than) 15 Minutes with features architect turned good client real estate developer Martin Prince-Parrott.

Martin is an award-winning Architect and Development Director for SUB\URBAN WORKSHOP. An innovative ESG led developer + consultancy. Martin believes that property should enrich lives. He enthuses his projects with these ideas as well as advocates for them. As a result he has earned local + national recognition; Locally he was recognised as a, Birmingham Young Professional of the Year; Nationally he was recognised by PropertyWeek as a Resi Trailblazer and by EG as a Rising Star.

Martin's details are:
https://twitter.com/MPrinParr
https://www.wearesuburbanworkshop.com/

3 Peers mentioned in the show:
Alex Notay - https://twitter.com/aknotay
Ben Cross - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-cross-aa138131/
Phil Sturgeon - https://twitter.com/philsturgeon

If this is your first time listening to the series please consider supporting it via patreon.com/centriclab

15 Minutes With [ Martin Prince - Parrott ]

Welcome to a new series on the City Centric channel: Healing Futures.

Healing Futures are various futures created by all Peoples in Kinship with Nature for equitable access to various healing practices and knowledges.

We launch with Amit Singh, a medical student and climate justice advocate, he is also part of the Punjabi community. All of these factors contribute to how he frames health, healing, and justice. We sat down with him for a long conversation on ecological health which is our Urban Health Council research theme for Q1 2022. We cover the Indian Farmers protest, the role of love in healing, and the sacred nature of water.

If you liked this podcast please consider supporting it via our Patreon: www.patreon.com/centriclab

Do check out the report on Ecological Health at https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/health-as-ecological.

Healing Futures | Discussing Ecological Health & Disease With Amit Singh

Welcome to our first audio report as part of the Healing Futures programme

This is a discussion on the history of disease, part research and part discussion, between Araceli Camargo, Elahi Hossain, Hannah Yu-Pearson, and Rhiannon Osborne.

When we look at the history of human health and disease, research suggests there have been three epidemiological transitions - that is, changes in the patterns of death and disease - across the human timeline.

+ The first transition was the age of pestilence and famine - this occurred around 10,000 years as human societies moved away from a nomadic, hunter gatherer lifestyle to embrace the agricultural revolution and form agrarian societies.
+ The second transition was the age of receding pandemic - which occurred in tandem with the industrial revolution.
+ The third transition is the age of degenerative and human-made diseases and ageing populations which we are currently within.

And what's becoming clearer is that our modern environments are not suited to our biological architecture. 

Listen, enjoy, subscribe and please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/support to keep this series going.

Healing Futures | The History Of Disease

Sarah Le Brocq is a person living with obesity and is the founder of All About Obesity http://allaboutobesity.org, is a Director & Lay Member at NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and member of the All Party Parliamentary Group of Obesity in the UK.

Charlotte Kemp sat down with her to speak on her experience with the disease as well as how she is moving towards health justice.

To read more about our work on chronic disease and urban living please go to www.urbanhealthcouncil.com

Please consider supporting the non-profit Urban Health Council via our Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/centriclab

Healing Futures | All About Obesity With Sarah Le Brocq

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice.  As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines 

*Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural. 

**The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges.

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In this episode, Araceli Camargo will be providing a working definition of health, breaking down the factors of planetary dysregulation and the physiological links to health.

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LINKS
Centric Lab | thecentriclab.com / https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab
Araceli Camargo | https://twitter.com/aracelicamargo_
Joshua Artus | https://twitter.com/Josh_Artus
Guppi Bola | https://twitter.com/guppikb
Rhiannon Osborne | https://twitter.com/rhiannon_osborn

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/the-planetary-dysregulation
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-nature-health
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/health-as-ecological

For more work on this topic please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/

Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, And Healthcare | Episode 1 - Definitions

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice.  As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines 

*Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural. 

**The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges.

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In this episode, Guppi will be covering the epistemologies of supremacy and how they are used to imagine policies, understandings of health, and economies. This will be followed by Rhiannon who will be discussing the individualised perspective of health - where it comes from and who it serves. 

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LINKS
Centric Lab | thecentriclab.com / https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab
Araceli Camargo | https://twitter.com/aracelicamargo_
Joshua Artus | https://twitter.com/Josh_Artus
Guppi Bola | https://twitter.com/guppikb
Rhiannon Osborne | https://twitter.com/rhiannon_osborn

https://decolonisingeconomics.org/
https://nimralph.com/
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/organized-abandonment-with-ruth-wilson-gilmore
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/gender-care-equity
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/the-need-to-move-from-care-to-healing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Verg%C3%A8s

For more work on this topic please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/

Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, And Healthcare | Episode 2 - Epistemologies

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice.  As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines 

*Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural. 

**The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges.

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This episode will open with Rhiannon who will be discussing how the system of capitalism affects our health systems. The section will end with Araceli describing how the individualisation of health narrative erases both Indigenous and non-human Kin healing knowledges. 

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LINKS
Centric Lab | thecentriclab.com / https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab
Araceli Camargo | https://twitter.com/aracelicamargo_
Joshua Artus | https://twitter.com/Josh_Artus
Guppi Bola | https://twitter.com/guppikb
Rhiannon Osborne | https://twitter.com/rhiannon_osborn

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-gendered-health
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/health-as-ecological
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/the-history-of-disease
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/lived-experience-communities-health
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/living-symbiotic-with-nature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mis-Education_of_the_Negro
https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism


For more work on this topic please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/

Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, And Healthcare | Episode 3 - Health Systems

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice.  As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines 

*Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural. 

**The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges.

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Welcome to chapter 4, where Josh will open up with highlighting how “Right To Pollute” policies contribute to Planetary Dysregulation. This will then be followed by Rhiannon tracing the link between the practices of extractivism and health outcomes. 

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LINKS
Centric Lab | thecentriclab.com / https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab
Araceli Camargo | https://twitter.com/aracelicamargo_
Joshua Artus | https://twitter.com/Josh_Artus
Guppi Bola | https://twitter.com/guppikb
Rhiannon Osborne | https://twitter.com/rhiannon_osborn

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/placemaking-for-public-health-place-health
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/placemaking-for-public-health-creating-health-infrastructure
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/urban-poverty-ptsd-climate-change-risk
https://southallandhayescleanair.org.uk/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/27/londoners-claim-toxic-air-from-gasworks-damaging-their-health
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3785-abolition-geography
https://truthout.org/audio/ruth-wilson-gilmore-on-abolition-the-climate-crisis-and-what-must-be-done/

For more work on this topic please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/

Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, And Healthcare | Episode 4 - Capital Systems

"Every time we take a breath, we really must be grateful to these microbial life forms. They've produced the oxygen, allowing us to breathe"

Dr. Jake Robinson
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Healing Imaginations is project that provides a time and space to Peoples to think about healing. 

In time this space will turn into a robust digital library of healing practices rooted in Kinship and Solidarity with the Great Cosmic Energy and all Earthly siblings. 

You can read more about this project and the contributions from amazing, beautiful, and liberating voices from across the world at healingimaginations.org.

For this audio conversation we would like to welcome microbial ecologist Jake Robinson to Healing Imaginations. 

He will be guiding us to the tiny and yet abundant world of microbes.  

We will learn about how they heal us and the planet as well as why they are our "Invisible Friends". 

Jake also has a wonderful and expansive book about the microbial world called "Invisible Friends" if you are curious about taking a deeper dive into the vast world of microbes."

Jake's details
WEBSITE: https://www.jakemrobinson.com/
NON-AMAZON BOOK LINK: https://pelagicpublishing.com/collections/jake-robinson/products/invisible-friends-microbes-jake-robinson
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/_jake_robinson

Centric Lab details
https://www.healingimaginations.org/
https://www.thecentriclab.com/
https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab

Healing Imaginations | Our Invisible Friends With Dr. Jake Robinson

“I am the extension of my territory, that’s healing”
- Angela Camacho

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Healing Imaginations is project that provides a time and space to Peoples to think about healing.

In time this space will turn into a robust digital library of healing practices rooted in Kinship and Solidarity.

You can read more about this project and the contributions from amazing, beautiful, and liberating voices from across the world at healingimaginations.org.

For this audio conversation we’re welcoming La Bonita Chola Angela Camacho. Angela is a community organiser of Indigenous Aymara-Quechua Peoples. An Ancestor in the making. 

Angela's details
https://linktr.ee/thebonitachola
https://www.instagram.com/thebonitachola/
https://twitter.com/TheBonitaCholaa

Centric Lab details
https://www.healingimaginations.org/
https://www.thecentriclab.com/
https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab

Healing Imaginations | "I am The Extension Of My Territory", A Conversation With Angela Camacho

An Interview with Abdirahim Hassan of Coffee Afrik for the Traditional Ecological Knowledges living library.

Traditional Ecological Knowledges | An Interview with Abdirahim Hassan

An Interview with Hannah Yu-Pearson for the Traditional Ecological Knowledges living library.

Traditional Ecological Knowledges | An Interview with Hannah Yu-Pearson

An Interview with "La Bonita Chola" Angela Camacho for the Traditional Ecological Knowledges living encyclopaedia.

Traditional Ecological Knowledges | An Interview with "La Bonita Chola" Angela Camacho

Welcome to a new episode of Healing Futures, part of the Urban Health Council.

This conversation is between neuroscientist and health activist Araceli Camargo, data ethics and facilitator Daniel Akinola-Odusola, and medical student and climate campaigner Amit Singh. It is based on a body of work being produced within the Urban Health Council on what it means for children to grow up in states of crisis. 

This project is not intended to alarm, but to put the child to old age health trajectory into the context of planetary dysregulation and its secondary effects. Currently, children are experiencing multiple stressors or pathways of poor health; forced displacement, family separation, pollution of water, land, and air, acute weather events, malnutrition, poverty, and a global pandemic that is causing long term effects.

In June 2022 the Urban Health Council put out the following work [https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/growing-up-in-crisis] and through 2023 the Urban Health Council has been convening members of the public and practitioners for open roundtables about the topic.

A little bit about Healing Futures:
Healing Futures are various futures created by all Peoples in Kinship with Nature for equitable access to various healing practices and knowledges.

If you liked this podcast please consider supporting it via our Patreon via patreon.com/centriclab or supporting directly through our website urbanhealthcouncil.com

Healing Futures: Growing Up In Crisis

This episode was originally recorded in October 2017. In it I had the pleasure to speak with Patricia Brown, director of Central. Patricia’s day job is as Director of Central, a niche consultancy largely centred on the dynamics of cities and the process of achieving change. Central advises business and civic leaders on partnerships, developments and projects to create thriving places, economies and business. A significant element of her current and past work is building a shared vision and ambition to create a better outcome for all, building alliances between the public and private sectors. She is currently Chair of London Festival of Architecture, Vice Chair of the British Property Federation’s Development Committee and until May, was Deputy Chair of the Mayor’s Design Advisory Group, helping to lead its “Good Growth Agenda”. Patricia works across the UK, as well as New York where she is an adviser to Times Square Alliance and a consultant to Columbia University’s Centre for Urban Real Estate. 

Best place stay up to date with her actions, ideas and beliefs is via her twitter handle @patricialondon.

If you have any questions about the show, or even ideas for it please email us at podcast@thecentriclab.com and feel free to give us a follow on Twitter via @TheCentricLab.

// 7 // Talking Politics & Urbanism with Patricia Brown

Episode 9 of the podcast was recorded in February 2018. In this episode I welcome Nick Russell to talk about his experiences in the intersection of technology and real estate and what he’s up to now with his venture PropCoin. Nick and I go back around 5 years when we were, in theory, competition to each other. He was the co-founder of one tech startup, and I an early team member at mine. I must point out for clarity that Nick refers to me as a founder/starter of my former employer, the online marketplace appearhere.co.uk but technically I am not, although I gladly take home the title of Employee #1 after the sole founder, Ross. In recent years we’ve got back in touch and and it’s been a pleasure to sit and talk with Nick as he looks far and wide beyond his own business to dig deep into what’s going on laterally around his, or anyone else’s, business ideas and look for opportunity. It’s a long one this pod as we cover a whole host of issues from blockchain, to proptech, to traditional property, to urban planning, to the retail markets and home ownership, we even step into the mirky waters of ethics and freedom of speech briefly.

If you missed any of his contact details the best place to get hold of him is via his twitter handle @bettercity. 

If you have any questions about the show, or even ideas for it please email us at podcast@thecentriclab.com and feel free to give us a follow on Twitter via @TheCentricLab.

// 9 // Talking Blockchain & Real Estate with Nick Russell

On this show I'm delighted to finally be sitting down with Robin Mazumder who's in London for the summer working with our scientific partners at UCL. This is the first of a few podcasts we're doing together as we embrace and embody the city as we discuss how neuroscience and technology is going to have impacts across all elements of city design. He has a huge passion for reducing opressiveness in cities with a particular focus on the psychological impacts of buildings and democratising public mobility space.

You can read more about Robin at his website - www.robinmazumder.com and via his twitter feed https://twitter.com/RobinMazumder.

Do stay in touch with The Centric Lab via our website, thecentriclab.com, via twitter https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab or just say hello via email if you have any questions hello@thecentriclab.com.

// 13 // Talking Neuroscience & Urbanism with Robin Mazumder

This track welcomes Alex Fefegha from Comuzi Lab and our very own Araceli Camargo from Centric as we discuss AI, racial bias and discussing some of Alex's projects concerned with ensuring that decision making form an urban and social perspective is inclusive and not one-directional.

Alex is founder + head creative technologist @comuzi_lab. which is an experimental R&D agency working at the intersection of emerging technology & humans. Some of their clients include the BBC and the NHS. On the side he also runs @_cretativehustle is an award-winning educational platform for young individuals from underrepresented groups. Alex is wise beyond his years, fiercely intelligent, incredibly patient and on a constant hustle to progress. Without any further due let’s get on with the who.

Best way to get in touch with Alex is at his website which hosts other links to his work - http://alexfefegha.com/. If you’re interested in getting in touch with Araceli then you can do so via our website, thecentriclab.com.

Thanks and if you do have the time please do give us a review on iTunes.

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In 2017 we started conversations with the Future Cities Catapult, a UK government related organisation that are on mission to advance urban innovation, to grow UK companies, to make cities better. They were interested in whether neuroscience is a field of research that can be a new evidence base and tool kit to make cities better. Sticking to their mission of bringing together businesses and universities to solve the problems that cities face, we were commissioned alongside our partners at University college London to produce a document on its potential. What started out as a report, became a playbook.

The playbook is there to give agency to practitioners to take into account more nuances of how the built environment effects experience. It is primarily set to establish what is the role of neuroscience in the built environment, where its limitations are, where its opportunities are right now, a framework for use but also where it’s going in the future.

To download a free copy head to the FCC website of futurecities.catapult.org.uk.

// 14 // Talking AI, Racial Bias, Diversity and Neuroscience with Alex Fefegha & Araceli Camargo

Episode 15 is with Robin Mazumder who's in London for the summer working with our scientific partners at UCL. We decided to record this podcast within a few hours so it's a little rough and ready but thanks to modern technology most things are possible! In it we discuss cycling and cities and what it represents to quality of life and its impacts on elements such as mental health and equity within a city.

You can read more about Robin at his website - www.robinmazumder.com and via his twitter feed twitter.com/RobinMazumder.

Do stay in touch with The Centric Lab via our website, thecentriclab.com, via twitter twitter.com/TheCentricLab or just say hello via email if you have any questions hello@thecentriclab.com.

// 15 // Discussing Cycling & Cities with Robin Mazumder

Episode 16 is with Sam Markey, who as the Future Cities Catapult's Head of Executive Office commissioned the ‘Neuroscience for Cities’ playbook, and it’s lead author our very own Araceli Camargo who is head of R&D for Centric. The purpose of this session was to invite them on to explain in their own words why such a venture was taken and where it’s direction lies. A first of its kind, the ‘Neuroscience for Cities Playbook’ is a close collaboration between Future Cities Catapult, Centric Lab and University College London. It brings forward a framework of how neuroscience research can be put into practice in cities. This has been presented as a set of new tools, methodologies and strategies for organisations big and small, to adopt neuroscience insights into their supply chain. 

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For further contact;
Sam's twitter handle: @SamMarkey
Araceli's twitter handle: @aracelicamargo_

A direct link for the 20% discount to CityX is - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cityx-the-future-cities-expo-cityx2018-tickets-47911784437?discount=NeuroCitiesDiscount.

The link to Human Spatial Navigation is here - https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11344.html

Do stay in touch with Centric Lab via our website, thecentriclab.com, via twitter twitter.com/TheCentricLab or just say hello via email if you have any questions hello@thecentriclab.com, or for ideas on the podcast itself to podcast@thecentriclab.com

// 16 // Discussing the 'Neuroscience for Cities' playbook with Araceli Camargo & Sam Markey

In this episode the Centric team come together to discuss the background, results and learnings from our recent study: COVID-19 & Biological Inequality; a London data study.

For more information on the study please follow this link https://www.thecentriclab.com/covid-19-poverty-a-london-data-study

The Centric team on this episode are:
Araceli Camargo, Sarah Aliko, Daniel Akinola-Odusola, and Josh Artus.

We're on a journey for Health Justice, using our research fields of neuroscience and cities to make change. Get in touch if you want to join our mission hello@thecentriclab.com.

Biological Inequality | Covid19, BAME Communities And Urban Stressors

Part 3 of our conversations with the CASH community is with journalist Jo Griffin who has been reporting what's been taking place for the Guardian.

Jo is a journalist/writer with more than 20 years' experience in national newspapers in the UK, including nine years on staff at the Guardian. Her articles have been published by the Guardian, Observer, BBC, Al Jazeera, Evening Standard, Big Issue, Middle East Eye, FT, LA Times and Reuters, among many others. Jo has also reported on several films and contributed to programmes on BBC Radio 4 and broadcasters overseas. Her main interests are social justice, human rights, criminal justice, global development, Latin America. 

In this episode we discuss with Jo the important role media has in not only reporting what's taking place but the use of language when covering issues of injustice.

Clean Air, Construction, & Communities Part 3 | In conversation with journalist Jo Griffin

This interview is with Kate Langford, The Impact on Urban Health’s Programme Director for health effects of air pollution. A ten-year programme focusing on mitigating the disproportionate effect that exposure to poor air quality has on the health and wellbeing of those most susceptible to it. The Impact on Urban Health is a specialist division part of Guy's and St Thomas' Charity.

For over 500 years, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity has been a constant in London’s ever-changing landscape, at the leading edge of health. Their endowment has allowed them to take a long-term view to help tackle the big health challenges of today and tomorrow. They invest and use assets, from property to a large arts collection, to produce in come that transforms lives locally in South London and in cities around the world.

Before joining the Charity, Kate worked at Innovation Unit, a public sector consultancy, where she led their work in health and social care, applying design-led methodologies to solve complex social issues. She started her career in academic health services research, specialising on health inequalities. Kate has a Master’s degree in Public Health from Imperial College London and a BSc in Human Sciences from University College London.

Needless to say you can understand why we’ve wanted to get Kate on the podcast for a while and enjoyed working with her team in 2019-20.

LINKS
The Programme: https://urbanhealth.org.uk/insights/opinion/lessons-on-the-health-effects-air-pollution
Kate’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/k_langford
Impact on Urban Health’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImpUrbanHealth

Centric Lab
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/centriclab
Website: https://www.thecentriclab.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/centriclab

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Health Effects Of Air Pollution & Equitable Solutions With Kate Langford Of Guys & St. Thomas's

City Centric is a podcast series from the Centric Lab, a neuroscience research lab working at the intersection of health x climate change x cities.

We believe that a person can only have agency over their health when they are part of a supportive ecosystem, which includes the places they inhabit.

The podcast focuses on conversations around how our understanding of health needs to improve in order to overcome present day health challenges and prepare our urban environments for future changes.

Centric is a small team based in London leading a civic movement on health justice. Centric aims to provide the tools and solutions to help policy makers protect our health as urbanisation becomes more complex.

For more information please visit www.thecentriclab.com

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