Events

Mumbai Dreams: Beyond Chaos to Common Ground through Experience Improvement Districts (XID)

India’s cities are growing and evolving rapidly—and invariably struggling under the pressure. Mumbai for example is the 17th wealthiest city in the world, but ranks 118th for Quality of Life—for various reasons. Achieving cities that are both liveable and sustainable demands urgency and fresh, systemic, collaborative thinking. The Donut Economics Model and Experience Improvement Districts (XID) offer frameworks to help Mumbai and other fast-growing cities realise their social, economic, and environmental potential. They highlight strategies to raise quality of life and well-being while minimising pollution, using resources efficiently, enhancing circularity, and staying fiscally responsible. The seminar will focus on how to apply these approaches in rapidly evolving urban contexts.

Speaker: Manas Rath, Founder of LEAP Cities and Mumbai Donut CoLAB
Moderator: Aidan Wong, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies (Education); Urban Fellow (Urban Experiences), SMU Urban Institute, Singapore Management University



 

Intergenerational Educational Mobility During the Twentieth Century

Intergenerational educational mobility, capturing the extent to which children’s education is associated with their parents’ education, has become a major global policy discussion. Studying its long-term patterns across countries remains difficult, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), due to limited early twentieth-century data. Analyzing about 53.7 million observations from 92 countries using mainly IPUMS census data, we find that recent cohorts exhibit increasing educational mobility across various world regions, with post-Soviet countries as exceptions.

Speaker: Hossain Mobarak, Assistant Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science

Moderator: Liu Jaiqi, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Singapore Management University

Spread your wings

Climate conversation

Join Project Rhize 4 for a hands-on wind chime workshop and chat about changes in our environment through the lens of our winged friends. 

✨ What to Expect:

• Create your own windchime to take home
• Learn how butterflies adapt and thrive in a changing climate
• Relaxed, interactive session—no lectures, just vibes and discovery
• Tea & Cakes 😊