Ep. 79: Regenerative Culture and Cities with Rob Roggema

Great episode with the one and only Rob Roggema! Prof. Dr. Rob Roggema is Faculty of Excellence Professor of Regenerative Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, and director/founder of Citta ideale, office for adaptive design and planning. He is one of the lead-authors of the Architecture, Urban Design and Planning chapter of the third assessment report of the UCCRN (Urban Climate Change Research Network).  He is a Landscape Architect and an internationally renowned design-expert on sustainable urbanism, climate adaptation, nature-driven design, and urban agriculture. He held several professorship positions in Mexico, the Netherlands and Australia, as well as visiting professorships in Northern Ireland, Australia and Japan, and has written multiple books on nature- and landscape-driven planning and design of landscapes and cities and is series editor of ‘Contemporary Urban Design Thinking’ (Springer).  He was the leader of the climate adaptive design 2021 team for the Groningen region (‘Moeder Zernike’), initiated the Food-Energy-Water-nexus project ‘the Moveable Nexus’ (SUGI/JPI-Europe), lead the design team of ‘Nature-Rich Netherlands’ and Greening NEOM. For his PhD, he developed the Swarm Planning concept, a dynamic way of planning urban landscapes for future adaptation to climate change impacts. He designed and led more than 30 design charrettes around the world, involving communities, academics, governments, and industries in design processes for more resilient communities. In this episode we talk about: I. How did he arrived to Monterrey City and his view of the city.II. What makes a good city. III. About Regenerative Culture and Regenerative cities.IV. About their work Regenerative Culture’ with TEC de Monterrey.V. How to convert a city in a Green Metropolis. VI. Prepare our students for co-create a Regenerative Culture. A wonderful conversation that we really enjoyed and we are sure you are going to do it too! *You can know more about the work of Rob Roggema here. ** ¡Reinventándonos! Podcast is directed by Luis Salas and produced by Polymath a network of consultant that co-creates ambidextrous organizations