This Series links up to the global political process of Habitat III – the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. It addresses topics of central importance to Habitat III from 1) an unconventional angle and 2) an ‘on the ground’ perspective to identify practical, yet effective, entry points for a more realistic agenda.

The Walking Debates are about much more than obtaining factual information. They are all about meeting the agents forging the agendas of change, the understanding of subjectivities, and the exposure and ability to read different layers of information when one is in an actual and specific site of socio-spatial production.

This reference blog on resources, urbanisation and transformation provides inspiration for a transition in thinking and different approaches to ‘living’, ‘moving’, ‘using’, ‘creating’. Many designers, urban planners, architects and other creative people are frontrunners for change and frontrunners need to be appreciated and shared.