Pedagogy for the city as an emergent cognitive system for sustainability

Mitchell, A, Mazhar, MU ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2749-6408, Ayesh, A, Lemon, M and Painter, B, 2022. Pedagogy for the city as an emergent cognitive system for sustainability. Sustainability Letters, 1 (1). ISSN 2950-5941

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Abstract

In this short paper, we develop the case for moving away from the concept of a smart city in which the focus tends to be on shifting managerial responsibility onto computers. We offer the alternative conception of the city as an ecosystem, a complex adaptive system, and draw upon the biology of cognition to construe cognition as the skilful adaptation to living sustainably. Such skilful adaptations necessitate human operators and managers themselves to both develop necessary systemic redundancy to withstand future shocks, but also to acquire skills in multi-faceted domains and disciplines, including the use of Artificial Intelligence, to simulate future scenarios and to plan accordingly. To attain such skills and competencies, we briefly outline a viable and relevant transdisciplinary pedagogy for future city managers to develop smart sustainable cities.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Sustainability Letters
Creators:	Mitchell, A., Mazhar, M.U., Ayesh, A., Lemon, M. and Painter, B.
Date:	5 July 2022
Volume:	1
Number:	1
ISSN:	2950-5941
Identifiers:	Number Type 1874642 Other
Rights:	Copyright (c) 2022 Andrew Mitchell, Muhammad U. Mazhar, Aladdin Ayesh, Mark Lemmon, Birgit Painter. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	18 Mar 2024 10:33
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2024 10:33
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/51100

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