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About us

Humankind is specialized in accelerating urban change towards cities that are human and kind to ourselves, others and our planet.
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This is our opportunity. For the first time in history, the majority of people are living in urban areas. A transition that happened at an incredible speed, never seen before. Human beings clearly need each other, but we could do so much better at living and working together. Our cities are facing significant challenges due to rapid urbanization, and besides amazing architecture and infrastructure, we created a life-threatening climate crisis.
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Our vision

Facing these challenges, we often focus too much on technological solutions, trying to be  ‘smart’, efficient, and in control. We seem to forget that there are billions of human beings living in cities who have all their own desires, dreams, and defects. Many people have difficulty coping with the accelerating speed of urban change. They feel anxious, always online but still alone, out-of-sync, disconnected from nature. We created a climate crisis, but it really is a crisis of humanity. 

 

Let’s not be too hard on ourselves. As the great urbanist Jane Jacobs already said, being human is itself difficult, so when many humans live and work together it results in complex cities with various complex challenges. Cities are the result of the people living in them, with all their good and bad habits. To create better cities, we need to embrace our human complexity, putting the well-being of each citizen central. If we do, we have a great future ahead.

 

Human beings have the potential to learn from mistakes, reflect, and do things better. We have the opportunity to create cities that are human and kind to ourselves, others and our planet. Really sustainable places in which our individual and collective well-being is the most important purpose, living in harmony with other species on this green-blue spaceship we call our home.

 

At Humankind, we are passionate about the opportunity we have to reinvent ourselves and create great cities for human beings. Join us!

Our team

We work in a holistic approach with a multidisciplinary team of urban planners, creatives, transition theorists, communication specialists, social entrepreneurs, psychoanalysts, etc.

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Lior Steinberg

Co-founder & Urban Planner

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Mario Raimondi Pruss

Partner & Urban Change Specialist

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Pedro Gil Farias

Design Research & Speculative Design

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Jorn Wemmenhove

Co-founder & Creative Strategist

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Nuria Ribas Costa

Communications Officer & Researcher

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Marta Nosowicz

Urban Planning Assistant

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Our network partners

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George Liu

Online Education Strategist & Mobility Researcher

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Luisina Perassi

Architecture & women in public spaces

Freelancer

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Hugo Pilate

Design Research & Speculative Design

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Join us

Want to join Humankind?​

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We are always happy to meet people that want to make human and kind cities. If you are interested in a collaboration or you are a student looking for an internship, you can send us an email at joinus@humankind.city.

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