An interactive session at LCOY 2022

1. Live Recordings:
What is my role in Smart Sustainable Cities for a
Climate-Friendly Future?
Dr. Mennatullah Hendawy ( Impact Circles, Germany & Ain Shams University)
and Eng. Lamiaa Ghoz (Impact Circles, German University in Cairo)
Local Conference of Youth Egypt (LCOY) 2022

2. This session is an interactive workshop aimed at
discussing and documenting the voices of youth
regarding their role in co-creating smart
sustainable cities.
The session will produce recordings to be shared
online.

3. Agenda
What is Impact Circles?
What are Smart Sustainable Cities?
Thinking about our role in climate action
Recordings

4. 1. What is Impact circles

5. Why Impact Circles
• New challenges require new
innovative approaches and
complex problems can only be
solved through multidisciplinary
solutions.
• Impact Circles is here to interlink
different circles of impact to
achieve wider and deeper social
impact.

6. An expert team collaborating with international
partners guided by the SDGs to drive societal
impact through multi-stakeholder partnerships
and powered by European and International
funding mechanisms.
https://impactcircles.org/

7. Who are we?
Dr. Mennatullah Hendawy
PI MOOC Urban AI and Lecturer
at Ain Shams University
Head of Research, Impact Circles
Eng. MSc. Lamiaa Ghoz
Project Coordinator, MOOC Urban AI
TA at the German University in Cairo
Research Asisstant, Impact Circles

8. 1. Smart Sustainable Cities

9. What is a sustainable city?
Image Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/171629435769664211/

10. Image Source: https://www.climateaction.org/images/uploads/documents/Schnieder_smart-city-cornerstone-urban-efficiency.pdf
What is a smart city?

11. What is a smart sustainable city?
A smart sustainable city is an innovative city that uses ICTs and other means to
improve quality of life, efficiency of urban operation and services, and
competitiveness, while ensuring that it meets the needs of present and future
generations with respect to economic, social, environmental as well as cultural
aspects.
Definition by UNECE and ITU
Source: https://unece.org/housing/sustainable-smart-cities

12. What is a smart sustainable city?
Image Source: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/3/3/52

13. What is a smart sustainable city?
Image Source: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/3/3/52

14. 14
Source: https://insightaas.com/world-map-of-smart-safe-sustainable-cities/

15. Examples of Smart Sustainable Cities
2018
Smart City Zurich
● Sensor-based smart metres.
● "Smart work centres".
● "co-working spaces" .
● Sensors in public facilities.
2009
Amsterdam
2016
Smart City Copenhagen
● Public transportation.
● Digital infrastructure.
● "smart participation".
● smart building management
system.
● GPS on buses
● sensors on sewers and
garbage cans
● Sustainable transportation.
Source: https://sustainabilitymag.com/top10/top-10-smart-cities-around-the-world

16. Global Challenges and limitations
● The techno-centric vision of the smart city.
● Unsustainable economic growth.
● Uneven distribution of smart city benefits.
● Disempower and marginalise citizens.
● Consumerism.
Source:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162518300477?casa_token=5CYfII_i9ecAAAAA:SC3QEcpM0iLS_Ambe
KQSu2ZsWd9irpuLBA1p0pwcnvG8zIqwJ_rAHVvfjNn9jP1wyk6Vp5fxtJU

17. Regional Challenges and limitations
Source: https://sustainabilitymag.com/top10/top-10-smart-cities-around-the-world
● no one-size-fits-all definition for smart cities.
● Infrastructure.
● Funding.
● Digital gap.

18. 18
Feb 2023

19. From your perspective, How to
create sustainable smart cities?

20. Time for Live recordings, but first
It is about co-creation
It is about our positionalities
It is about intersecting identities (intersectionality)

21. "Positionality is the notion that personal values, views,
and location in time and space influence how one
understands the world. In this context, gender, race,
class, and other aspects of identities are indicators of
social and spatial positions and are not fixed, given
qualities. Positions act on the knowledge a person has
about things, both material and abstract. Consequently,
knowledge is the product of a specific position that
reflects particular places and spaces.”
-Luis Sánchez, Positionality (entry in Encyclopedia of
Geography)
Image source:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.neigh
How can you voice your positionality/ multiple identities?

22. Vedio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6dnj2IyYjE
Intersectionality: How our Identities Shape Inquiry

23. Intersectionality Explained
Coined in 1989 by Crenshaw to explain the differences of Black women in the legal system compared
with White women and men.
A lens for understanding how individuals experience the social environment.
Individuals are shaped by their intertwined social identities.
Each identity has different levels of power and privilege in our society but the person
is shaped by the totality of this power.
The interdependence of your identity interacts with systems and structures of power.
These systems and structures of power help to create and perpetuate oppression of marginalized
groups.
Source: https://diversity.dom.pitt.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Intersectionality-Presentation.pdf

24. Live recording
- Please write down: 5 sentences on your
positionality + 5 sentences on your daily
climate action or actions you would like
to take
- Share your thoughts and record

25. Thank You for participation

26. Some extra slides

27. Examples of Intersectionality

28. Examples of Intersectionality

29. SOURCE: https://slideplayer.com/slide/17166066/
Positionality: How our Identities Shape Inquiry?

30. (Critical) Reflexivity

31. Part 1
Please Write down your positionality statement
(around 500 words)
by 16 May 202
How does my positionality work to give me power of
disadvantage in cities with regards to Ukraine war?

32. We are a group of European and
International members professionals.
We are experienced educator,
consultants and international
development practitioners with
complimentary skills that are finding
pathways to create social impact.
The team

33. Exercise
What are your ‘multiple’ identities?
How may intersecting identities clash or be in conflict with each
other?
Discuss a time your intersectionality was not valued and/or you
did not value someone’s intersecting identities?