Radical architect Indy Johar and renowned community leader Immy Kaur share their understanding of the vital importance of neighbourhood-scale work in the face of the realities of our time. Sometimes brutal in their realism, they force us to stare hard at the challenges and not shy away from painful truths. But they're also insistent about what becomes possible when we work at a human scale: the scale of our lives and the places we live, where we all have a role to play in building the future we need.

• (00:00:01) - The freedom of the streets
• (00:00:47) - How to Save British Democracy
• (00:13:19) - The Home Retrofit: reimagine it
• (00:17:23) - In the Elevator With Imi
• (00:21:37) - The Retrofit of the House
• (00:30:46) - The 6 fundamentals of sustainable housing
• (00:37:07) - Indie and Immi on the Need for Community
• (00:42:38) - Predictions of degenerative volatility
• (00:45:15) - Community and the future of freedom
• (00:50:38) - The Alternative to Dictation
• (00:52:22) - The Need for More Money in Climate Science
• (00:55:32) - Community ownership in the UK
• (00:58:37) - John Oliver on the Future of Democracy
• (01:02:06) - On the future of science democracy
• (01:04:36) - How to Save Democracy

For our first live recording, we host Turkish writer and political commentator Ece Temelkuran to discuss her brave and beautiful new book, Nation Of Strangers. In a world unmaking our sense of safety and belonging, Ece offers something we desperately need: a vision of the future we can create together and requiring all of us. Her most powerful insight? The unhomed among us aren't simply victims of our times. They're pioneers, already carrying the know-how we need to build our new home together.

• (00:00:03) - How to Save Democracy
• (00:07:19) - How To Lose A Country
• (00:11:49) - Where Are We Now?
• (00:14:31) - NATION OF STRANGLERS
• (00:21:37) - Turkish intellectuals' struggle for freedom of speech
• (00:22:52) - The Beauty of Exiles
• (00:25:17) - How did we get to this?
• (00:30:20) - The Light and the Darkness
• (00:33:49) - The Right to Be Beautiful
• (00:35:30) - I Am Being Unholed
• (00:42:43) - Watching the Reality
• (00:45:32) - Ajay's Favorite Words
• (00:46:29) - The End of The Odyssey
• (00:52:29) - A message for the stranger
• (00:55:58) - How to Save Democracy

Trust in government has been collapsing all over the world over the last decade - but one country has bucked the trend. Fewer than 10% of the population trusted government in 2014, but by 2024, that figure had climbed above 70%. Spurred on by a collective of civic hackers calling themselves “Gov Zero”, Taiwan has trusted its people, opened its institutions, and even crowdsourced what was arguably the world’s most successful Covid response. In this episode, we draw out the lessons every nation can learn from this story with the help of one of its key actors, Audrey Tang.

Audrey is Taiwan’s “Cyber Ambassador” and former Minister of Digital Affairs. A prominent member of the Gov Zero collective, she became a reverse mentor to Minister Jaclyn Tsai in the aftermath of the peaceful Sunflower Revolution in 2014, before joining government herself in 2016 - and becoming the world’s first transgender minister in the process.

• (00:00:01) - A prayer for the Internet
• (00:00:43) - How to Save Democracy in 2030
• (00:04:27) - Protesters and the Tunisian Revolution
• (00:08:33) - The 'GoV0' movement in Taiwan
• (00:11:25) - The Sunflower Revolution and the Occupy Movement
• (00:22:07) - Taiwan's vaccination response: Fast, Fair and Fun
• (00:26:38) - Taiwan's growing trust level
• (00:34:22) - Audrey's Singularity: The Future of Collaboration
• (00:40:51) - Citizen Story: Building a Bridge
• (00:50:45) - The Time for a Demonstration
• (00:52:51) - How to Save Democracy