May East
I have a portfolio career, combining multiple streams of interests. As international urbanist, consultant and educator I thrive by working at the edges of bio-cultural-spatial systems. Edge-work can be practised anywhere in the world.
One of my passions is to design learning trajectories supporting indigenous and migrant communities and their traditions to survive in rapidly changing environments.
I am the author of What if Women Designed the City? exploring how cities of the present and the future can become greener, wilder, more inclusive and poetic. See what those who shape cities say about my book.
The historic urban planning gender gap is not a problem to be solved but a potential to be unleashed. Check the events that are emerging from a rhizomatic movement unveiling the potential embedded in the uniqueness of place.
An educator, I create learning environments where the fire of curiosity towards new patterns of things to come is kindled. Students become the designers of their desired future.
As a reflexive practitioner I learned how to listen to the wisdom of the territory before co-evolving processes of change.
A creator of musical ideas I worked with the most restless and impatient musicians and poets of my generation. We did rock.
I coined the concept of sociotone - societies in tension - and apply its principles in policy, education and culture.
