228I_Dominique Hes, regenerative development thinker, educator, author and researcher

What is The Future for Cities?

"Everyone and everything has a contribution to make"

Are you interested in the city as a social construct? What do you think about the magic of the city? How can we use emotional intelligence for better urban futures?

Interview with Dr Dominique Hes, regenerative development thinker, educator, author and researcher. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, cities capturing people, social constructs, truth, fragility and many more.

Dr Dominique Hes has 25 years experience in green building and development innovation, she is chair of the board at Greenfleet and Zero Carbon Buildings Lead at the City of Melbourne which controls property assets valued at over $4.1 billion. She is also on the Circular Economy Ministerial Advisory Committee and previously helped found the board of the Living Futures Institute of Australia. Dominique mixes theory and thinking, with a demonstrated history of working in the building industries in the fields of sustainability, regenerative development, systems thinking, environmental issues, place-making, industrial ecology, LCA, Eco-Design and project management. She holds degrees in science, engineering and a Phd in architecture and is an author and editor of 6 books and over 100 papers and reports. Her main contribution is to think about how we can contribute to the well-being and thriving of place, people and planet.

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Find out more about Dominique through these links:

• Dr Dominique Hes on LinkedIn;
• @Dominique_Hes as Dr Dominique Hes on X;
• Dr Dominique Hes at The University of Melbourne;
• Dr Dominique Hes at Future of Cities;
• Dr Dominique Hes on Google Scholar;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• No.020R - Antifragile;
• No.171 - Interview with Nicole Garofano about circular economy;
• No.210 - Interview with Pearl Ng about regenerative economy;
• No.227R - Regenerative development and transition thinking;

What was your answer to her exercise in imagining yourself in the forest?

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter ⁠⁠@WTF4Cities⁠⁠ or on the ⁠⁠wtf4cities.com⁠⁠ website where the ⁠⁠shownotes⁠⁠ are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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