Using Futures to Generate Innovations for the Informal City Dialogues

This piece is cross-posted from the official project page hosted by Next City Last week in Chennai, we asked a roomful of citizens, community leaders, researchers and government officials what they think their city will look like about thirty years from now. We heard a variety of answers, but perhaps most telling were from the wastepickers present. Essentially, they said they can't (and don't) think about decades in the future because they're busy simply trying to survive day-to-day. Photo courtesy of McKay Savage via Flickr (CC) In the face of such uncertainty, how can we plan for the future? read more