Understanding where things come from and how they are produced gives them greater meaning. We are living in an age that none of the various global economic approaches of high-income countries seems relevant to the reality of our relationship to time and to experience. On the other hand, for the first time, social change in Iran seems to be proceeding in advance of our theoretical capacity to understand it which could be seen as a prelude to reorganization at a new level of human organization involving new modes of social control over our institutional disorganization.
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Shadnaz Azizi is an urban thinker, deeply interested in management during the change. She is a Local Pathways Fellow at UN SDSN Youth. She was a consultant to UN Habitat’s National Urban Campaign in Tehran, having contributed to the release of the book “The City Iranians Need” and she has obtained her Ph.D. through her authorship of the book "Innovation and Urban Liveability". Shadnaz is currently involved in the project “Move Humanity” a new global initiative of UN SDSN to raise philanthropic funding for the SDGs while serving as the Lead Socio-Ecologist in Negin Shahr Ayandeh Consulting Engineer Co.
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Shadnaz Azizi is an urban thinker, deeply interested in management during change. She is Local Pathways Fellow at UN SDSN Youth. She was a consultant to UN Habitat’s National Urban Campaign in Tehran, having contributed to the release of the book “The City Iranians Need” and she has obtained her Ph.D. through her authorship of the book "Innovation and Urban Liveability". Shadnaz is currently involved in the project “Move Humanity” a new global initiative of UN SDSN to raise philanthropic funding for the SDGs, while serving as the Lead Socio-Ecologist in Negin Shahr Ayandeh Consulting Engineer Co. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx