Welcome to Generation Shift
Exploring Societal Complexity and Innovation for a Sustainable Future
After months of deliberation, tossing various ideas around, I decided to start Generation Shift. At a fundamental level, I want to establish a space to share research, analysis, and opinions at the intersection of urbanism, emerging innovation, and sustainability. I want to create a discourse on solving societal challenges using technology, systems thinking, and/or sustainable design. And most importantly, I want others to join in sharing their views, projects, and ideas on our generation’s pivotal shift towards sustainable societies.
In addition to perspectives, the intent of Generation Shift will be to provide editorial content into the innovations, ideas, and companies building a sustainable future:
Analyzing Societal Ecosystems —Developing a better understanding of the parameters needed to become sustainable by analyzing and researching the complexities that cities and other societal entities face: from consumption to affordability to safety.
Identifying Future Societal Challenges — Research and analysis that connect the dots and identify the greatest levers of change using modeling and mapping tools such as Kumu, InsightMaker, and CartoDB. This includes understanding infrastructural and societal challenges with the built environment, energy, food, mobility, waste, water, and climate change.
Mapping Urbantech Innovation — Exploring potential opportunities, innovations, and solutions that improve urban mobility (e.g. traffic optimization, pedestrian and bike safety), environment (e.g. air quality, water consumption, noise pollution), infrastructure safety (e.g. maintenance, design), resilience (e.g. emergency planning, coastal protection), and planning (e.g. development, food security, energy, census reporting) among others.
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Creating the NYC Urbantech Ecosystem — How strong civic support, emerging private sector collaborations, the proliferation of urban science academia and research, and the growing startup scene have led to NYC being one of the leaders of the Urbantech pack.
