Design thinking and placemaking approaches to UN Women’s ‘Safe cities and safe public spaces’

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 11 ‘Sustainable cities and communities’ that aims to “make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” has great potential to transform cities and communities globally. With 10 targets and 16 indicators, SDG 11 encourages innovative and bold ideas that solve problems in cities and communities. A target that immediately drew my attention … Continue reading Design thinking and placemaking approaches to UN Women’s ‘Safe cities and safe public spaces’

Sustainable cities and communities through design thinking

The UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’ provides broad approaches, frameworks and goals that gives guidance for cities and communities to improve their livelihoods through innovative and creative solutions. This can be achieved effectively through an elaborate participative design thinking process. To this effect, the UN system coordinates and leads global consensus, through … Continue reading Sustainable cities and communities through design thinking