Student event: Radical Imagination for Future-fit Urban Policy
In the second event in the听鈥淧olicy Disruptors鈥� speaker series,听hosted by the听听(PPAGS),听Dr. Jayne Engle will be discussing how challenging our deep code assumptions can听allow us to听redefine civic infrastructure and the policies required to create equitable, regenerative cities.
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About the Speaker
Dr. Jayne Engle leads the Cities and Places portfolio at the McConnell Foundation, where her team has built an ecosystemic approach to inclusive urban innovation. The portfolio includes Cities for People, Participatory Canada, Civic-Indigenous 7.0, RegX, and Community Wealth / Civic Capital, and recently they co-founded the Emergence Room, an 鈥榓nti-war room鈥� for the new context created by Covid.
Prior to McConnell Jayne worked globally at the intersection of insurgent city planning, long-range policy innovation, participatory research, and economic and social change. Her experience ranges from urban regeneration in cities of North America and Western Europe, to contexts of deep societal change, including directing an entrepreneurship centre in Slovakia following the fall of communism, and post-disaster community research in Haiti following the catastrophic 2010 earthquake.
Jayne is passionate about bridging transformative community action on the ground with policy and systems change, particularly in ways that foster freedom and flourishing of people. She is Adjunct Professor at 黑料不打烊 University and holds a PhD in Urban Planning, Policy and Design. She lives in Montreal, Canada with her two wonderful teenagers and is excited to be working on a new collaborative book project called 鈥�Sacred Civics, e鈥媥ploring how to value differently what matters now, in society鈥檚 great reset.
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