About the project

This project brings together a decade of research exploring learning processes in cities in order to contribute to the better understanding of how learning and education can support the development of democratic processes to address what we see as urgent environmental, demographic and technological changes. We have brought this work together here because we are interested in collaborating with others in building sustainable cities where learning will play a central role. Such changes, we believe, will require a radical rethinking of modes of living and forms of cities that are transformative of identities, infrastructures and beliefs.

Our work here is concerned with understanding how people living in cities already learn with each other and with the resources of the city to adapt to change and initiate new ways of living. It is also concerned with how spaces of collective learning can be developed to put into dialogue different sets of expertise, knowledge and experience, and to invent new ways of living and working.