The Boston Chapter brings together a diverse group to promote a healthier, sustainable public realm. It offers a venue for architects, planners, entrepreneurs. biotech experts, students and the public at large to get together and collaborate in new ways. The chapter encourages inter-disciplinary thinking and bridge building between the arts and sciences. It looks at bringing greater understanding of how humans function to the general community, to encourage healthier and happier place-making.
The CDMX chapter emerges from the necessity to have a space for dialogue
between experts, civil society, policymakers, and local communities.
Where research, analysis, and proposal of ideas and projects where
science/practice-based design are the drivers to reach an inclusive,
equitable and healthy city, that interacts and responds to all its
voices, a Conscious CDMX.
Conscious Gurugram is an investigation into becoming a conscious city, a city that promotes wellness and equity for all. As a multidisciplinary think-tank, we research and advocate the use of human-centered approach to designing the future of cities that is more livable.
The land of the 'produced public', Mumbai keeps on swallowing the crowds pooled in by the lucrative economical standards of the city. In this very first Event, Conscious Mumbai gasps to keep breathing above the waves, voice itself and find a platform to concentrate on the urgent issues relating to spaces, people and their minds.
As the first African chapter on the Conscious Cities platform, Conscious Accra’s goal is to spark intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversations, exploring how the decisions made by adults today are impacting the young people poised to become tomorrow’s urban caretakers. While many of the issues facing Accra are global, we also aim to highlight ideas, experiences, and exchanges that are specific to urban Africa.
Conscious Toronto is an interdisciplinary chapter of the Conscious Cities movement that invites people focused on the future of cities to step out of their silos and start a conversation. We are passionate about the role of urban initiatives and research to shape the city, and the people in it, for the better.
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Conscious Monterrey aims to engage policy makers, designers, researchers, artists, students and enthusiasts alike towards a productive outcome for the common good.
Conscious Monterrey tiene como objetivo involucrar a los legisladores, diseñadores, investigadores, estudiantes y entusiastas hacia un resultado productivo para el bien común.
We are the London chapter of the Conscious Cities Movement. As fellows of the Centre for Conscious Design (CCD), we are a multidisciplinary team focused on human-centred, socially-conscious and science-informed approaches.
The CCD is an international grassroots think tank focused on using conscious design to alleviate complex social and urban issues. The “conscious design” concept emerged out of the Conscious Cities movement which advocates for a healthier, more socially-aware and democratic built environment.
The CCD consists of an international network of experts, researchers and practitioners across a range of fields, including architecture, design, science, technology, engineering and planning. We strive to promote the mission of the Conscious Cities movement by encouraging dialogue, supporting research and hosting events.
Conscious Lahore Chapter is a multi-disciplinary think tank that focuses on the city-wide challenges of Lahore. We create urban awareness through research and explore design strategies aiming to address the unprecedent combination of complex urban issues we face today. We promote people-centric development that leads to healthy, resilient and sustainable urban environment.
Welcome to Conscious LIMA!
As one of the chapters that shape the Conscious Cities Movement, we are convinced that every and each of us is essential to the creation of architecture and cities that emanate well-being. We believe cities of well-being are conscious cities: cities that function as platform for human beings to bring to fruition their full potential, cities designed by conscious architects with the purpose to generate equal opportunities for everyone to create and live in a just, safe, healthy and sustainable world.
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Tel Aviv-Jaffa chapter of the Conscious Cities Movement. A multi-disciplinary team advocating for the design of a healthy, thriving, and equitable Tel Aviv.
What does conscious design mean in a modern desert city in the Southwest US? How can we channel conscious design in Phoenix to better address both local and global challenges? Conscious Phoenix looks to tackle these issues, while utilizing conscious design applied locally as a lens to add insight to the global discourse.
Conscious New York is an interdisciplinary, grassroots, think-tank based in NYC. We work with experts and local communities across New York to create human-centric socially conscious design that addresses complex social and urban issues.
Adelaide is built on an ancient place, on the plains between pristine oceans and an ancient mountain belt. It is a unique geographical, ecological and cultural place, that has been to home Kaurna people for many thousands of years, as one of humanity's longest living cultures. It has a thriving arts and cultural festivals and great universities - all surrounded by parkland, pristine coastline and productive food and wine regions.
As part of Global Conscious Cities Festival, Conscious Adelaide will focus on bringing the voice of young people to conversations about the identity, mood, mindsets and meanings of the place, in a festival of questions and conversations about what it means ‘to be’ Adelaide, now and into the future.
Conscious Milan is a panel of scholars, architects, planners who share their vision on the future of our cities, establishing new foundations for a new and shared conscious planning.
Conscious Paris is led by [S]CITY, a team of experts in urbanism and cognitive science. Our mission is to reflect on how urban environments can better address individuals' cognitive, affective and social needs, and help communities face upcoming challenges. We believe that embracing multidisciplinarity is an essential step in this direction.
Conscious Denver welcomes cross-disciplinary engagement to accelerate progress in developing greater urban awareness and adaptation for the purpose of optimizing person-environment interactions using Denver, Colorado, USA as a case study city.
Join us for a webinar Sensing Our City! It is organized to discuss some of the topics around how people experience space and how it affects their attitudes, behaviours, health and wellbeing.
Contemporary cities don’t always enable us a multimodal experience of space, they are not always designed with human scale in mind, they don’t always consider our biological and psychological. What is the ultimate meaning of human-centred spaces? Is it that in future urban and architectural decisions could be influenced by interdisciplinary teams including specialists who understand the complexity of human perception and cognition?
Conscious Bengaluru is a cross-disciplinary think tank that engages with the city through investigative research in urban neuroaesthetics and science-informed design practice.
