Rhonda Phillips is the Dean of the Honors College at Purdue University. She studies the professional and educational trends toward more interdisciplinary natures, and how strong communities are formed.
In this episode, we discuss how communities are built and strengthened and how community might be built in the first vertical city.
In this episode, we discuss how communities are built and strengthened and how community might be built in the first vertical city.
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"How do we live in our urban settings in a way that builds community and connection to each other?" - Rhonda Phillips
Show Notes:
- How we are in a new era of sustainability and communication
- What Rhonda’s students are most excited about for the future
- Why the college generation today grew up with sustainability
- Why interdisciplinary education and work is becoming very popular again
- How we can measure progress in community and sustainability
- Why sustainability depends on community well-being and ability for people to have fulfilling lives
- What the happiness index of different nations tell us and what history’s view on this is
- Why intergenerational living and strong relationships tends to lead to happiness in many countries
"Potential solutions exist at the nexus of different ways of viewing a problem and different ways of thinking." - Rhonda Phillips
- How to develop a community where there wasn’t one before
- How communities can transform themselves when they have hope
- How to design communities in a way that brings people together
- What causes a lack of strong social connections
- What social bridge capital is
- How the food movement builds sustainability and community
- Why people are resistant to change unless they are part of it
- How you would need to design a Vertical City so that people could connect and build community
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"The basis of so many cultures is food." - Rhonda Phillips