Anil Gupta & Sonja Miokovic - Putting marginalized communities at the heart of urban innovation
Channel: Ouishare TV
Date: 2017-09-06

How to help city managers to engage with those who are on street, work in shacks but are highly skilled, even if markets for their talents  have not evolved as yet. Open common spaces, create solidarity and communities.  Motivating private entrepreneurs and social innovators to invest in common creativity lab, art, culture and literary spaces even under flyovers, can help disadvantaged children to get coaching for academic studies but also arts, culture, skills and craftsmanship. Immigrants should not be enculturated in dominant culture but also expected to contribute their own folk culture, meanings, tales, fables, art forms, nutritious foods, elderly care networks, and technological skills. Community creativity and food labs may be created so that every poor person gets more nutrition and value out of every cent she spends on food or living. Various enterprises can create circular economy lab in their vertical so that poor rag pickers can add value to transformative value addition by blending informal and formal knowledge systems. Because minds on the margin are not marginal minds. 

Moderation : Kushboo Balwani