Global monitoring projects reveal stubborn progress on sustainable and equitable urban development goals, such as reducing inequalities and carbon emissions, leading to increased calls for urban transformation.
The Change Stories project aims to spark dialogue and learning through storytelling about sustainable urban development. Researchers and community-based partners from five global cities have partnered to shift common practices of how stories about successful urban change are told and who tells them.
I am the principal investigator on this project. We started with a conceptualization and development grant based at University College London. This allowed us to explore where, how and with whom to conduct this research to embed equity into our approach. We wrote about this experience and the theory that informed our work in Wellcome Open Research, here.
We started the larger project, based at University of Washington, in September 2023. You can read more about our latest activities via our social media accounts on X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and Facebook.
