This episode of the Cities Reimagined podcast is all about urban future(s)… but actually also urban presents. With today’s guests, Jonas Bylund (Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and Josefin Wangel (Senior Research Officer at Formas), both from Stockholm, we will dive into urban utopias, science fiction, safe to fail urbanism, Detroit and much more.

Among other things, you will hear about:

• Why sports coaches might be well placed for long term urban transitions.
• Why the aim should be to build safe to fail instead of fail safe cities
• How cities are a collection of different past utopias.
• Why Jonas had the impression that there is no good future ahead (spoiler: he consumed too much Science-Fiction as a child.. or maybe too much IPCC reports more recently?).
• Why Josefin befriended a goat.

Get to know these amazing people and their work here:

Jonas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonas-bylund-urbanalys/

Josefin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josefinwangel/

Beyond Efficiency, a book Josefin (co-)edited: https://aadr.info/product/beyond-efficiency/

Find a collection of Jonas’ publications here: https://urbanalys.se/text.html

Photo of Jonas by Anna Ek.