Sharing an Understanding of Urban Complexity
The digital revolution brings about a changeover akin to that of the Renaissance, embodying, according to Cécile Maisonneuve, a new manifestation of human genius. Beyond catastrophism, she considers that the environmental crisis is a challenge we give ourselves that we must address head on in order to invent a new humanism. She chairs the Fabrique de la Cité, an international, multidisciplinary observatory/school of urban good practices, investigating the city in all of its complexity in order to share a level of understanding of today’s key challenges and to build a shared vision. The challenge is to invent new forms of democracy and to provide proof by example of what collective intelligence can tangibly achieve in cities.
