Future. Hi welcome to sophie visionaries and. My guest today is a true explorer someone who loves to paint the present in order to figure out the future im here with architect urbanist writer a thinker rand paul has in his office to talk about the future of the city and the future landscape. Graham its so good to have you here on our program ive been wanting to ask you all kinds of questions Big Questions i was essential ones ill try yes but like i want to start with your exhibit at the guggenheim thats opening. So its called countryside the future. And its really its funny you say that because most of the people ive spoken to big thinkers feature ologist most of them agree that the future is within big cities that want to win become trees just big city so when you name it like that do you is it just a concept or do you really believe the future is there and its of course provocation but its a very calculating provocation because in 2007 the un said that half of mankind for sleeping in
Cities the Living Conditions all of that but maybe something for your perspective maybe a solution that youre offering could reverse this in my country well i think that the people who leave because there is kind of little interest to nation opportunity with this city and that therefore everywhere the city drains people away from the countryside from villages to prince prince in africa to prince in europe but i think that if you got a very 1st indoctrination or 1st the propaganda of well actually that we are also making propaganda for it. I can come to show small evidence for instance in your for the were living working with the university of nairobi we had turned into architectural potential students and they said we. Are spending really weaken the countryside. 60 percent. So the future in the countryside and for us is africa where do you people you know typically have one foot in the countryside and one foot in the city so there are models of living in the countryside particularly wi
A 2020 u. S. Interaction. Disease. These forests is one of the most amazing places in the world. It is very very diverse. You can have a 1000000 questions every time that you go to the forest d. Even if you have all the ph d. s that you want and youre still level ciro when it comes to the forest. For me thats really cool in science that youre always learning. And this knowledge is very powerful this knowledge can change peoples lives can change a community. These forests if very threatened by a different station. And here we have an earth which is a spider monkey that is critically endangered that is the brown headed they call them brown headed by their monkey. It is estimated that theres less than 500. 00 individuals in the wild. All of them in the part of. People really important for them. I dont i cant. I. Could wind up going out by not going. To be and i want to right now when you look at them a. Minute ago you know our. Command 0. 0. 0000000000 extension 009. There are still a lot
Thing anyone has been looking at and cities has been what people have been kind of policing about doing studies about. Intellectual concentration is going to cities. The prediction is. Maybe 70 or 80 percent of mankind to live in cities and i think that to. Become a completely absurd situation. You know concentrating on. The kind of situations we leave the countryside to be its potential all its beauty all its history its. Its nature. To. Let it happen. Again that we have to be prepared to live in a country. Of course in a totally new. And showing some evidence of that also showing the need for it but is it a statement that actually offer some solutions ill tell you im so. Because like the country where khan from its a huge territory and i see that 17 villages every year disappear from the member of russia and im not i mean its understandable the where there are the monies and the city Living Conditions all of that but maybe something in your perspective maybe a solution that youre off
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