Massive Small Stories Kelvin Campbell & Liam Black

Kelvin Campbell and Liam Black talk to Jonathan Smales, executive chairman at Human Nature (Places), a unique development company that is crafting, prototyping, building and learning from work on urban blocks, mixed-use buildings, street types, landscape treatments, energy and mobility systems.
Jonathan was MD of Greenpeace (UK), a sustainability advisor to the government, and developed some of the UK’s first major sustainability projects, such as the Earth Centre and Greenpeace HQ. Hands-on with all aspects of the project from masterplanning to policy, engagement and structuring, Jonathan transfers his experience leading and advising on some of the UK’s largest development and regeneration projects to his leadership of Human Nature; he is a champion of deep collaboration and its role in shaping the social imagination – our purpose.

Kelvin Campbell talks to Darshana Gothi Chauhan, founder and CEO of Co-Plug, - architect, urban designer and urban data analytics expert with 14 years of experience of working in the public, private and academic sector linked to the planning and designing of cities.

Darshana founded the DesTech Challenge, a unique design and tech competition that brings together creative thinking and digital advancements in the built environment sector. The competition has an outreach of over 200 colleges and universities in South Asia and has helped to upskill students from over 40+ colleges in spatial data analytics. The challenge, supported by the WorldLabs platform has helped to crowdsource geospatial data of open spaces of over 35 cities in South Asia to support the development of data driven design and technical solutions for the planning of healthy cities.

Kelvin Campbell and Isaac Barbosa talk to Jason Roberts, founder of the Better Block, artist, civic activist, and urban designer whose life’s work has been dedicated to the creation of healthy, vibrant, and sustainable neighbourhoods.

Kelvin Campbell and Richard Ingleton talk to Yolande Barnes - researcher, commentator and consultant - Professor at the new Bartlett Real Estate Institute (University College London) - looking at the social, environmental and economic value of the built environment.

Kelvin Campbell and Isaac Barbosa talk to Jeff Siegler - a writer, speaker, and consultant concerned with the powerful role place plays in our lives.

Kelvin Campbell and Liam Black talk to Michael Mehaffy - an urbanist, architectural theorist, urban philosopher, researcher, educator, and executive director of Sustasis Foundation, based in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Mehaffy is the author of Cities Alive: Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander and the Roots of the New Urban Renaissance.[2] The book explores the ideas behind the United Nations’ “New Urban Agenda” to which Mehaffy contributed as a consultant to UN-Habitat.[3]