June, 2024
EVENT
CONGRESO DISTRITO CREATIVO COSTA RICA 2024
Last June 20th our director Ken Fallas had the opportunity to share the Rurban Group perspective and the Korean experience on creative and smart cities with an amazing panel: Rodrigo Martínez Suárez , Alejandro Balanzó-Guzmán and Luis Miguel Usuga Samudio during the 5th international congress Distrito Creativo organized by Fundación Fil-armonía .
💡We discussed the need for tolerant, diverse and culturally attractive cities were we value proximity and the advantages of 15 minutes cities a; the urgency for creating “third spaces” that “encourage doing nothing” and help us fight the Burnout pandemic as part of the VITA CONTEMPLATIVA described by the German-Korean philosopher Byong-Chul Han. And lastly, the need for translating all this vision into effective budgets and financing for cities since this is key for implementing any long term plan.
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💡We discussed the need for tolerant, diverse and culturally attractive cities were we value proximity and the advantages of 15 minutes cities a; the urgency for creating “third spaces” that “encourage doing nothing” and help us fight the Burnout pandemic as part of the VITA CONTEMPLATIVA described by the German-Korean philosopher Byong-Chul Han. And lastly, the need for translating all this vision into effective budgets and financing for cities since this is key for implementing any long term plan.
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