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  • To Trust or Not to Trust : Lessons to Learn from Covid-19 and Misinformation

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    Lessons to Learn from Covid-19 and Misinformation Defending Against Misinformation With Facts and Emotions With the risk of engineered pandemics in the future we need to be aware. To address this there are many lessons to learn from misinformation and Covid-19. Since the correct information can keep us safe from disease and healthy. But it…

  • Why I Call Myself Abrisham

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    چرا خودم را آبریشام می نامم A Prelude من در سفری به سوی دانش هستم. آیا دانش در محیطمان جای گرفته؟ چیزی ها در دنیامان می سوزد و از خودم می پرسم: آیا می توانم آن را به سمت تغییر هدایت کنم! به سوی دانشی برای مکان ها صلح تر. با صلح پشتیبان محیطی I’m…

  • The Power of Public Spaces. A Reflection to Process Trauma.

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    A Question “Is it possible to live in this world, psychologically without becoming anything?” (Krishnaramuti, 1980) In 2016 I asked myself this question. At the time I was in Sweden studying a course in software engineering and management. By 2018 I was preparing to leave Istanbul and meet an old friend in Tehran. A couple…

  • The Principle of Sustainability and Balance

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    The Principle of Sustainability and Balance The principle of sustainability is a balance between social, environmental and economic domains (Environment Agency, n.d.). To get a better grasp on the principle of sustainability and balance we start from the idea of oscillations in a state where dynamic systems find synchronisation across many different time scales within…

  • Community Well-Being: Safer, More Inclusive, More Resilient and More Sustainable Communities

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    Community Well-Being: Safer, More Inclusive, More Resilient and More Sustainable Communities​ A public survey distributed by Lismore council on ‘Housing and Growth for Lismore’s Future’ was thematically analysed for post-flood urban development to identify community supportedsolutions. Most of the comments struck at practical solutions like improving public transport, designing using evidence, constructing more community facilities…

  • Empathy is As Vital As Regeneration

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    Empathy Is As Vital As Regeneration Written by Abrisham Vincent Revised by Ally Zlatar When urban planning discusses the need for renewal and regeneration of cities a notable omission from these discussions is recognising “when hope of regeneration has to be abandoned, then there is no longer anything else to do but to forgive” (Jankelevitch,…

  • Sustainability and An Adequate Standard of Living

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    Sustainability and An Adequate Standard of Living The objective scientific realities of our world paint a bleak picture, but can human behaviour and innovation face up to avoid the catastrophic trajectory? Asking ourselves how we can align our society away from tradeoffs and conflict towards balance between the social, economic and ecological is a principle…