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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

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

"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 -------------------------------------------------------- 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

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. --- 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.  -- 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/

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. --- 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. -- 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/

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. --- 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. -- 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/

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. --- 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. -- 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/

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

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.

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.

Delighted to Andrew Grieve & Kayla Schulte from Breathe London onto the show to discuss community ownership of air pollution monitoring, collection and research design. Andrew's interests lie at the intersection of emerging digital technologies and air quality communication. He is the Senior Air Quality Analyst for Breathe London based at School of Public Health at Imperial University, London. Kayla is an environmental social scientist. This involves researching and communicating my findings on how humans build knowledge about the environment/nature through engagements in digital space (ex. the internet, apps, internet-connected tech, smart sensors). Please visit https://www.breathelondon.org/apply to learn more about the programme they're running for communities in London to access monitoring devices. Kayla's Twitter: https://twitter.com/kaylloquial Andrew's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndyGrieveAir As ever, please consider supporting the production of these podcasts through our Patreon page patreon.com/centriclab or by supporting the Urban Health Council: https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/support

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 SUBURBAN 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

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.

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.

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

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

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 [ ] 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.

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

This episode is the second 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 intellectual, social and practical needs in decolonising healthcare in the 'west'. 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

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

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).

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

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

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.

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 Please do leave a rating and review if you can, thanks!

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.

Meet Sufiyan Abdul-Qayum, one of the UK's youngest clean air campaigners at 19 years old, who's been campaigning since he was 16. Sufiyan is part of CASH, Clean Air for Southall & Hayes, who are a community group from west London fighting against toxic chemicals being leaked into the air they breathe. This conversation focuses on Sufiyan's experience and interaction with urban development; + Interacting with public authorities + Bringing communities together + Responding to London's housing crisis, and + How it has shaped his views on urbanisation. To support Sufiyan and CASH please head to their website: https://southallandhayescleanair.org.uk/ Become a Patreon member to support this podcast and get additional access and content to the work from our lab: http://patreon.com/centriclab

This episode is the first of a three part series in which we interview 3 integral members of the Clean Air for Southall & Hayes (CASH) campaign group based in west London, close to Heathrow Airport. The group started in 2017 when neighbours began noticing a putrid, gasoline like smell in the air and people reported breathing problems. They also noticed that this coincided with construction works beginning on a contested former gasworks site close to their homes. What has developed is a case of environmental injustice and suffering for one of London's communities. It highlights the failures of national and local government regulations for construction and community protection, as well as the apparent community neglect or care in favour of business interests. This conversation is with one of the campaign's leads Angela Fonso. Please support the CASH campaign however you can: https://southallandhayescleanair.org.uk/ https://twitter.com/CASHcampaigners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlrjWw88YDI&t=3346s We can be reached at hello@thecentriclab.com if you have any questions about our work and campaigns.

The Centric Lab team come together to discuss the difference between data and the lived experience, namely around health. As authorities clamour for more data as the route to success it feels that decisions become determined by what data is collected rather than what is actually happening. Decisions are being made by data rather than a framework to solve the problem using data. It's very easy to make associations by data and so we sat down to cover how the overt nature of quantification leads to inequities, particularly in health. If you like our research and work and believe in supporting work like it please donate whatever you can per month via Patreon.com/centriclab. Any questions/ideas please email us at hello@thecentriclab.com.

This episode features the team discussing our Urban Health Index, a visualisation tool for showing how areas compare for their levels of biological inequality. The conversation is led by Araceli Camargo who was the inventor of the tool alongside Elahi Hossain, our long standing researcher and author of the term biological inequality, and Dan Akinola-Odusola who led the development of the digital tool and all data analysis. We designed the urban health index to start giving data and evidence led answers to the health inequities that are rife in cities. It's there for policy makers, health professionals and built environment practitioners the insights they need to improve systemic health outcomes. Check out London's Index here - https://www.thecentriclab.com/urban-health-index By signing up to our Patreon page and donating whatever you can per month you get these podcasts a week in advance, access to our reports, discounts to workshops and events and support the lab's mission - www.patreon.com/centriclab. Follow and share via: https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab https://www.linkedin.com/company/centriclab https://instagram.com/thecentriclab Thanks for your support.

In this episode we talk with a Carl Brooks who’s a UK director of sustainability at the global real estate services firm CBRE. Our conversation focuses on the impact of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance, and what this is meaning to how large commercial real estate assets and portfolios are managed given the impending climate crises and rising concerns on health. There’s a long way to go with ESG and it has its critics but it’s also a hugely effective tool at getting change to happen. --- Please do support the production of this podcast and the non-profit intersectional health research our scientists fo via patreon.com/centriclab. Follow us on Twitter / @TheCentricLab Find Carl on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-brooks-76341517/ For more on the Urban Health Council please head to https://www.thecentriclab.com/urban-health-council

This episode centres on a conversation with Kushal Sood, a human rights solicitor working with marginalised groups, particularly those deprived of their liberty. We recently supported a successful case of his in rights to grant a dying man compassionate release from prison, which we’ll cover in this show. Somehow in society we’ve accepted the dehumanisation of ourselves. This is seen evidently in the prison system where people’s dignity is stripped away. Our conversation with Kushal focuses on abolition of the prison system in its current form with our focus on the inhumane health impacts it causes. In his own words you can hear Kushal rant on Twitter via https://twitter.com/KKSoodLaw & his LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushal-sood-65b612129/. You can find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab and do drop us an email at hello@thecentriclab.com if you have any questions, ideas or comments. Thanks!

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.

COVID-19 & Biological Inequality; a London Data Study ABSTRACT It is now well understood that poorly designed and planned environments heighten the risk of health issues due to systemic deprivations and stressors. Our recent paper investigates how COVID-19 is interacting with these environments and their communities, specifically Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities in the London. As COVID-19 continues to spread through the British population a trend has emerged, poorer ethnic minority communities are the ones being most affected, both in hospitalisations and death rates. This is an audio extraction from a virtual Townhall we hosted where we invited members of the public to ask questions and interact with us. For more information please visit the study: https://www.thecentriclab.com/covid-19-poverty-a-london-data-study

In this episode we're joined by Tom Lindsay, Senior Strategy Delivery Manager at 100 Resilient Cities, a civic and social organisation powered by the Rockefeller Foundation helping cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that a growing part of the 21st Century. Tom joined us on Wednesday 15th May to share his views on the impact research is having as it impacts policy to ensure that cities can adapt in time to protect day to day life. For more info check out www.100resilientcities.org. https://twitter.com/100ResCities https://twitter.com/TomCLindsay Any questions drop us a line at hello@thecentriclab.com.

In this episode we're joined by Dr. Daniel Slade, Research Officer at Royal Town Planning Institute. Dr. Slade leads the Institute's work on climate change, resilience, and climate justice. Daniel joined us on Wednesday 15th May to share his views on what improvements are needed from local planning to ensure that cities can adapt in time to protect day to day life. You can find info on Daniel here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielslade/ https://twitter.com/_DSlade https://www.rtpi.org.uk/ Do leave a review if you can, it all helps. To get in touch please email us at hello@thecentriclab.com. Thanks!

On 15th May Centric Lab are partnering with [S]City, Connected Places Catapult, and University College London for a 1/2 day conference on climate change and its impact on daily life in cities. | Cities for Future Humans | There is no greater challenge to our habitats than climate change. This man-made phenomena is creating social, biological, geo-political and economic challenges, which at the moment our cities are not equipped to handle or solve. A city that cannot respond to climate changes from a human lens is destined to exacerbate human problems in an era where we are collectively trying to create solutions. This podcast is the first of a short series with the programmers and contributors to the conference. www.thecentriclab.com

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.  ------- 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

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.

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. ------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: ------------------------------------------- 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.

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.

On this show I’m delighted to welcome Kwende Kefentse who I met through a very random and chance encounter. We recently met at a roundtable discussion organised by two creators of an illustrated book called Out of Nothing with the lead being Daniel Locke. The evening was focused around how Daniels love of hip-hop and space exploration led his creativity in the way he looked at this book. After sitting next to Kwende for five minutes at this event it was evident why he traversed across the city to attend. Born and raised in the Greater Toronto Area, Kwende is currently living in London and working on his masters at The Bartlett's Space Syntax Lab (UCL). Fascinated by cities, his various professional ventures reflect different explorations and investigations into how they function, with a particular focus on culture, space, and music. Most recently Kwende worked in the Arts and Heritage Development unit at the City of Ottawa, on a small but mighty award-winning Cultural Development and Initiatives (CDI) team. He also runs his own label Memeplex, so quite clearly he doesn’t like to sleep! So let’s hear some more about his own story. To get hold of Kwende and ask him a question of follow up with his work head over to https://about.me/kwende.kefentse. 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. Bye bye….

On this show I’m delighted to have Stefan Webb from the Future Cities Catapult. Stefan has a broad career in the world of urban planning and now has a particular remit in co-running the PlanTech strategy for Future Cities Catapult. FCC as I like to call them have a remit from the UK government to help identify the new business opportunities for cities of the future and how through early investment, testing and nurturing they can make that the journey smoother for UK business in the long run. They regularly cover some fascinating topics and it’s been a personal pleasure to talk with Stefan so I hope you’ll enjoy listening to him too. To find out more about what Stef and his great colleagues are up to be sure to head over the FCC website of futurecities.catapult.org.uk. 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.

In episode 10 I’m delighted to have Dinah Bornat on the pod to discuss her work as an architect with a specialism in designing for children, which has led her to be working on the Mayor of London’s Design Advocate board. Children have increasingly complex lives in cities. The youthful yearn for exploration and expression is being met with cities that are hectic dangerous, every changing and not designed for them. So to talk more about this. Dinah can be reached via https://www.zcdarchitects.co.uk/ 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

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.

Episode 8 was originally recorded in November 2017 and follows a slightly different format. In the quest to learn a little more about the state of artificial intelligence I’ve teamed up with Ben Byford, a technologist that runs the Machine Ethics podcast series. In this episode we interview each other. Amongst many things Ben’s career has focused on applying his theories to games designing, education for companies like Decoded where he is a Facilitator and Teacher, as well as a venture called Eulogy that was focused on connected academic studies to industry better - something I'm sure we can whole heartedly get behind. If you missed any of his contact details the best place to get hold of him is via his website benbyford.com. 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.

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.

Hello and welcome to the Centric Cities podcast from the Centric Lab. Some of this material will be familiar with listeners to the Conscious Cities podcast where it was previously hosted. However, we decided to bring things in house to further our intended direction. Centric are all about enhancing user experience in the built environment, one of our main things is mapping out ecosystems and looking for friction and tension points, well that’s what this podcast aims to explore by interviewing professionals working at the coal face of the businesses helping design, build, manage and dream of the cities of tomorrow. Episode 6 was originally recorded in September 2017 where I had the great opportunity to sit down with proptech CEO and founder Savannah de Savary of Built ID. Built-ID is Bringing word-of-mouth insight into the digital age. Built-ID is an online platform and professional community that connects real estate developers with consultants. They’ve had documented over 26,000 projects worldwide by over nearly 1000 member companies. Their aim is to help you discover the people behind your favourite projects and bring the word of mouth referral system into the digital age. One of the great things I like about Built-ID is the transparency it provides in quite a hidden and cloaked industry, it can give new opportunities to people who haven’t been a part of a scene, it’s helping remove favouritism and nepotism, and most importantly, helping great talent be exposed to people seeking great ideas. In the podcast we don’t really go on about the company but more to ask Savannah, as an entrepreneur in a progressive technology related company, about some of her views on the built environment in general. 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.

Episode 5 was originally recorded in June 2017. In this episode we're speaking with Ashley Perry, a Canadian calling London home. This show was first recorded when Ashley was at international property services firm JLL, or Jones Lang LaSalle, where he was specialising in providing services to large housing developers on how to deliver build-to-rent developments, something he’ll pick up on in the show. Ashley is now at LIV Consult after having been headhunted for the great work he’s been doing. With a broad view on the future of the construction industry through technological innovations he’s a great person to have on the podcast to teach us all a little bit more about what’s actually going on in the big bad world of the real estate development industry. Enjoy the show! Ashley’s an open guy so if you do have any ideas or questions to him, or want to follow what he’s up to you can find him on Twitter with the handle @ashleyperryuk. 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. Bye bye….

Episode 4 was original recorded in June 2017 and is the second of a two-part focus of financing innovation in the industry and what that might support. This episode is an interview with startup CEO Daneal Bassiouni of NativeFinance.com and an associated venture called Common Home (www.custombuild.co). These guys are up to some very interesting things where I feel they’re hitting on that triumvirate of a win-win-win in civic lead urban development. 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.