The MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning together with the Center for International Studies is organizing a vision competition and problem-solving project to envision Jerusalem anno 2050:

By bringing together Palestinian and Israeli scholars, activists, business leaders, youth, and others, it seeks to understand what it would take to make Jerusalem , a city also known as Al Quds, claimed by two nations and central to three religions, a place of diversity and peace in which contending ideas and citizenries can co-exist in benign, yet creative, ways.

The project uniting in a sense creative thinking, design thinking (hopefully not only top-down spatially) and futures thinking, is described as a challenge for all to move beyond today’s binary logics often employed to address and assess the city of Jerusalem. As such one might describe the project also as a search for ‘third alternatives’, an approach not uncommon in futures thinking.

Via Archinect

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