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Joe Ravetz is the Leader of the Future-Proof Cities theme for the Manchester Urban Institute, and Co-Director of the Centre for Urban Resilience. He is author of 2 agenda setting texts: the new ‘Deeper City: collective intelligence and the pathways from smart to wise’, and the previous ‘City-region 2020: Integrated planning for a sustainable environment’.
As director of the global project Peri-cene (peri-urbanization and climate-environment), this takes to practical application the ideas from 2 decades of studies: sustainable cities and regions, foresight and transition management, climate / environment policy, social technology and economic development. From this Joe Ravetz developed the Synergistics mapping methods for collective intelligence, and design of transformative pathways.
He has advised policy (UNIDO, UN-Habitat, European Commission, many UK government & regional public agencies): and also works with business and the third sector, as a Principal of the non-profit strategy / foresight firm SAMI Consulting. As a former architect-planner he is a keen advocate of creative visual thinking, and foresight / futures methods for strategic planning and transformation. Joe Ravetz provides review and evaluation services for many academic bodies, together with keynotes and interactive workshops in many countries around the world. He is currently on the editorial boards of Urban Planning & Design & the Foresight journal, and visiting professor at the University of Baja California, Mexico, and the University of Brawijaya, Indonesia.
Joe Ravetz has now set up the Collaboratorium for collective intelligence, a global online community, working at the frontiers of human systems development to map and design pathways ‘from smart to wise’.
In all this the over-arching theme is about inter-connection: the reality of cities, not as boxes labelled ‘economics’ or ‘environment’, but rather as whole systems which evolve and interact. To respond to this we need new kinds of whole-system thinking. The CURE programs have to date included spatial development, resource modelling, environmental policy & management, energy / climate change studies, land / landscape studies, policy evaluation and participation. But the strategic agenda is more about the inter-connections between them: this can be explored via complexity science, transition and innovation studies, futures and foresight methods. These and similar methods have informed a 2-decade intellectual journey, which began with exploration of the ‘inter-connectedness of things’, and ended with the landmark publication City-Region 2020. Experience from practice then shifted the focus towards the ‘inter-connectedness of thinking’: the process of multiple value-generation between multiple stakeholders, and the potential for ‘creative synergy and urban intelligence’ in response to global challenges. All this is set out in the new book ‘Deeper City: collective intelligence and the pathways from smart to wise' (Routledge).
The Synergistic City-Region programme runs an active portfolio of UK and EU funded research, with 5 main strands:
• Foresight, futures and information studies: including foresight and scenario methods, information technology applications, science policy / knowledge management, and innovation studies.
• Environment-development studies: urban-regional modelling, alternative economic strategies, resource flows and externalities, business-environment issues:
• Spatial development studies: spatial frameworks, landuse & infrastructure planning, urban design and policy analysis at local, regional and national levels.
• Sustainable production & consumption studies: business-environment issues, heterodox economics, cultural consumption and place identity.
• ‘Urban Synergistics’: an innovative and trans-disciplinary approach to understanding and mapping the evolution of complex inter-connected and multi-layer systems of social learning and intelligence, which combine economic, environmental, social, cultural, political and spatial relationships.
DATES From |
To |
SPONSOR / CLIENT
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PROJECT TITLE |
ROLE |
2019 |
2021 |
UKRI – ‘Towards a Sustainable Earth’ |
PERI-CENE – Peri-urban climate & environment |
P.I. |
2018 |
2018 |
EPSRC Smart Cities Global South |
Smart Wise Cities in India |
P.I. |
2018 |
2018 |
GMCA |
Natural Course Water Governance |
P.I. |
2017 |
2020 |
JPI Urban Europe |
Learning Loops in urban environment |
Co-I |
2017 |
2018 |
Manchester-Melbourne Collaboration |
Fire & Flood: toward resilient cities |
P.I. |
2016 |
2019 |
Academy of Science Finland |
BEMINE: – integrated visioning |
Partner |
2016 |
2018 |
ESRC Impact Acceleration |
Metropolitan INnovation & Intelligence Lab (MINI-LAB) |
P.I. |
2015 |
2015 |
EC – DG Research & Innovation |
Foresight study on Horizon 2020 Third Strategic Programme |
Partner |
2015 |
2015 |
DEFRA |
Environmental Futures Horizon Scanning |
Partner |
2014 |
2015 |
Government Office of Science, Foresight Unit |
Future of Greater Manchester |
Partner |
2014 |
2014 |
Government Office of Science, Foresight Unit |
Future of Cities Foresight: commissioned report on ‘Urban Ecosystems’ |
P.I. |
2014 |
2017 |
European Commission, DG Research, FP7 |
CASI: Common Assessment for Sustainability Innovation |
Partner |
2013 |
2013 |
European Commission, DG Energy (CEPS / GOPA) |
Smart Cities & Communities Stakeholder Platform |
Partner |
2012 |
2013 |
EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Action |
Manchester Energy Foresight |
Lead |
2012 |
2013 |
EPSRC KTA |
Manchester Security Foresight |
Lead |
2012 |
2013 |
EU Occupational Safety & Health Agency (coord.SAMI) |
Green Jobs scenarios project |
Partner |
2011 |
2013 |
Mauritius Research Council |
Mauritius National Research Foresight Exercise |
Lead |
2011 |
2012 |
Natural England (coord.SAMI) |
Scenarios for the Natural Environment 2060 |
Partner |
2010 |
2012 |
European Commission, DG Research, FP7 |
IKNOW – interconnecting knowledge |
Partner |
2010 |
|
UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) |
Foresight for Low Carbon Automotive Sector in Turkey & Eastern Europe |
Lead |
2010 |
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DEFRA (coord.SAMI) |
Future proofing for CAP reform trade negotiations |
Partner |
2010 |
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European Commission, DG Trade |
Trade impact assessment for the Andean & Libyan trade agreements |
Partner |
2008 |
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Rockefeller Foundation / Institute for Alternative Futures |
Foresight for Smart Globalization |
Partner |
2007 |
2012 |
European Commission, DG Research, FP6 |
PLUREL – ‘peri-urban land use relationships’ |
UK lead |
2007 |
2009 |
Environment Agency (England & Wales) |
Application of futures methods to policy intelligence |
Lead |
2007 |
2008 |
Welsh Assembly Government (WWF-Cymru) |
One Planet Wales |
Lead |
2007 |
2008 |
World Wildlife Fund UK |
Sustainable communities in the West Midlands |
Lead |
2006 |
2007 |
World Wildlife Fund UK |
One Planet West Midlands |
Lead |
2006 |
2007 |
Yorkshire Forward (Regional Development Agency) |
Leeds 2050 |
Partner |
2006 |
2010 |
UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) |
Technology Foresight: training & capacity building |
Lead / Partner |
2006 |
2011 |
EPSRC (SUE-2 program) |
SUREGEN – Sustainable Urban Regeneration |
Partner |
2005 |
2009 |
WWF-UK |
OPEN - One Planet Economy Network |
Lead |
2005 |
2008 |
South East England Development Agency / DEFRA |
One Planet Economy Regional Assessment (OPERA) |
Lead |
2005 |
2008 |
World Wildlife Fund UK: Biffaward |
Eco-Budget UK / One Planet Economy |
Lead |
2005 |
2007 |
Sustainability North West for Biffaward |
Eco-Region NW: An interactive toolkit for resource productivity |
Lead |
2005 |
2007 |
European Commission 6th Framework Programme |
EUROCOOP: European Cooperation for regional innovation strategies |
UK lead |
2005 |
2006 |
SE Regional Assembly |
Stabilizing the Ecological Footprint in the SE Strategy |
Lead |
2004 |
2007 |
European Commission 6th Framework Programme |
INTELCITIES: ‘Intelligent Cities’ |
Partner |
2004 |
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University of British Columbia, Canada ,SDRI |
Georgia Basin Futures Project |
Expert |
2004 |
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Stockholm Environment Institute / North West Regional Association |
A Preliminary Ecological Footprint of the NW Region |
Partner |
2004 |
2005 |
Ecosys / White Young Green Environmental Ltd / |
ASSESS: benchmarking for env. business & waste management |
Partner |
2004 |
|
ONS (Office of National Statistics) |
UK Material Flow Accounts: methodologies for TMR & overburden |
Partner |
2003 |
2006 |
European Commission 6th Framework Programme |
INSURE: regional sustainability indicators & systems dynamics model |
UK lead |
2003 |
2005 |
European Commission, 5th Framework Programme |
REGIONET – evaluation of regional sustainable development |
UK lead |
2003 |
2004 |
Environment Agency (England & Wales) |
‘Scenarios’: futures studies methodologies & applications to policy& management |
Lead |
2003 |
2004 |
DEFRA (Department of Environment Food & Rural Affairs) |
DEFRA science Forward Look 10 year strategy |
Partner |
2003 |
2004 |
Stockholm Environment Institute / Ecosys / SEEDA |
Taking Stock: a mass balance & footprint analysis of the SE Region |
Lead |
2003 |
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NWRA - climate |
Spatial implications of climate change |
Lead |
2003 |
|
ESRC & Institute of Alternative Futures, |
Scenarios for rural economies & landuse |
Sub/c |
2003 |
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Manchester City Council |
Building Schools for the future: Ecological footprint appraisal |
Lead |
2002 |
2005 |
Environment Agency: with Cambridge Econometrics |
REWARD - Regional & Welsh Appraisal of Resources & Development |
Partner |
2002 |
2004 |
Enviro-Centre / Biffaward |
Intermodal transport for waste & recyclables |
Lead |
2002 |
2003 |
Irish Environmental Protection Agency |
National Spatial Strategy: sustainable settlements modelling programme |
Lead |
2002 |
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North West Regional Association |
Sustainability communications framework |
Lead |
2001 |
2002 |
UK Countryside Agency |
Sustainable Development in the Countryside Around Towns |
Lead |
2001 |
2002 |
Sustainability NW |
Application of the Atlas NW |
Lead |
2001 |
2002 |
United Nations University Tokyo, Institute of Advanced Studies |
Urban Environmental Transition – scaling from local to global |
Expert |
2001 |
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EU-DG Environment / JRC-ISPRA (Sustainable Towns & Cities) |
Review of Local Sustainability Indicators |
Lead |
2000 |
2001 |
RTPI (Royal Town Planning Institute) |
UK Spatial Planning Framework |
Partner |
1999 |
2000 |
Irish Environmental Protection Agency / University of Limerick |
National Spatial Strategy: methodologies for sustainable settlements planning |
Lead |
1999 |
2000 |
Yorkshire & Humber Regional Assembly |
Regional Climate Change Strategy Development |
Partner |
1999 |
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EU-JRC-Ispra |
Integrated assessment concepts & methods |
Lead |
1998 |
2001 |
EPSRC |
Regional interactive Sustainability Atlas |
Lead |
1998 |
2000 |
SNW / NCBS / Biffaward |
Regional resource flow audit |
Lead |
1997 |
2000 |
European Commission 4th Framework |
Integrated Visions for a Sustainable Europe |
UK lead |
1997 |
1999 |
ESRC (Global Environmental Change Fellowship) |
Integrated assessment & economic evaluation |
P.I. |
Although mainly focused on research and policy applications, Joe Ravetz delivers a stream of training courses, seminars, and lectures around the UK and EU. Recent examples are the Foresight training course for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, ‘Visualization Workshops’ for the International Centre for Social Science in Vienna: the ‘Sustainable Environmental Management’ Siberian course for IDPM: the United Nations Habitat conference in Naples 2006: the UNEP Man & Biosphere Programme, MA in Sustainable Urban Development at Chalmers in Goteborg: Urban Institute in Dublin: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London: and many other UK engagements.
He has also taught at undergraduate and post graduate level in Manchester, and is currently supervising 2 Phd students, and advisor on 3 others.
Emails - [email protected] – [email protected]
New book: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315765860
General site: www.manchester.ac.uk/synergistics/
Collaboratorium (Collective Intelligence Lab): www.manchester.ac.uk/synergistics/conversations/
COP26 – Climate-wise program: www.manchester.ac.uk/synergistics/climate-wise/
Creative visual thinking: www.urban3.net
Pursuits: visual thinking and drawing, running & tennis, camping, music.
Media availability: generally available for national / regional media. Contact [email protected] or (+44)(0)7719 233115
Experience: various press interviews, ranging from Guardian to Big Issue:
Expertise: future studies: climate change: One Planet agenda: sustainable cities and regions: sustainable regeneration, economic development: community participation, housing, transport, energy, waste issues.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Principal , SAMI Consulting
1 Jan 2010 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Commentary/debate
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Barker, A. (Researcher), Roberts, A. (Researcher), Snow, A. (Researcher), Gilchrist, A. (Researcher), Munoz Romero, G. (Researcher), Haughton, G. (Researcher), Mell, I. (Researcher), Thornhill, I. (Researcher), Carter, J. (Researcher), Tippett, J. (Researcher), Ravetz, J. (Researcher), Li, L. (Researcher), Black, P. (Researcher), Kerr, R. (Researcher), Zandieh, R. (Researcher), Zhu, W. (Researcher) & Sanderson, M. (Researcher)
1/01/10 → 31/12/30
Project: Research
Ravetz, J. (PI) & Pinto, N. (CoI)
13/02/19 → 12/02/21
Project: Research
Miles, I. (PI), Amanatidou, E. (CoI), Bleda, M. (CoI), Cox, D. (CoI), Popper Villarroel, R. (CoI), Randles, S. (CoI) & Ravetz, J. (CoI)
1/01/14 → 30/06/17
Project: Research
Pinto, N. (Speaker) & Ravetz, J. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Ravetz, J. (Other)
Activity: Internal positions, career professional development, other peer review and other › Other › Research
Ravetz, J. (Academic expert member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee › Research
Ravetz, J. (Secondee)
Activity: External visiting positions or secondments › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Ravetz, J. (Secondee)
Activity: External visiting positions or secondments › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Pinto, N. (Creator), Sahana, M. (Creator) & Ravetz, J. (Creator), University of Manchester, 25 May 2021
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Dataset
Carter, J., Sahana, M., Ravetz, J. & Pinto, N.
19/08/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
Anderson, K., Burman, E., Giordano, S., Jones, S., Kasmire, J., Pinkse, J., Ravetz, J., Rimmer, A., Sapin, K., Shuttleworth, J., Wood, F. & Joseph-Salisbury, R.
13/02/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment