I am Dr. Shima Beigi, resilience scientist, Smart city researcher and investor and author of Mindful Smart Cities: Rethinking Smart Cities with Mindfulness Engineering.

Following the positive feedback I received on the episode of giftedness in women, for this new episode of SHE TECHS, I have invited Lotte van Lith again to speak about the very deep process of facing internal faces in highly gifted people. Lotte is a coach and educator for gifted and high potential people. She has won numerous awards and her work is celebrated by many educators around the world. She is also an author, he latest book although in Dutch, explores a mindful and contemplative approach to the experience of giftedness.

In this episode, we will explore the complexities of gifted experience, ways to reconnect with the body and learn how to re-conceptualise internal fears as potentialities waiting for actualisation.

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About Lotte van Lith

Lotte van Lith, a specialist in giftedness and humanistic psychology, is the founder of A Lot Of Complexity. Lotte works and creates together with diverse experts, artists, trainers and lecturers in order to broaden the range of services within this initiative.

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contact details: [email protected]

In this episode of SHE TECH BY DR. SHIMA BEIGI , I invited Lotte van Lith to discuss a very important topic of giftedness in girls and  women.  In my book Mindful Smart Cities, I speak about the current existing gap in tech ecosystems, specially in the envisioning the future of urban systems, privacy issues, design of algorithms, and design process of smart cities. The majority of work being presented in this domain is heavily proposed by men. Very few female, visionary and technology futurists work in this domain. This gender gap does not limit to smart cities design, rather it extends to the majority of top level leadership positions and decision making roles. In this series, my aim is to create a safe container for both men and women to speak about these issues, to share their ideas on how we can aim for more inclusive, gender diverse and equal smart cities. 

Part of solving this issue is to understand the reasons why very few girls and women consider careers in science, engineering, technology, mathematics (STEM) fields. Earlier this month, two great female scientist, Prof. Jennifer Doudna and Prof. Emmanuelle Charpentier were honoured with the prestigious Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code of life. This the first time in the history of Nobel Prize that the award is given to two women which sends a great, loud message to young girls and women that great science does not have a gender and women also are fully capable of achieving their dreams. The emotional and psychological challenges women go through and experience to realise their dreams,  nevertheless is less understood,  appreciated and publicly spoken about.  

Today, with this prestigious award offered to these two great female scientists, a wave of conversation on the importance of encouraging women to consider scientific careers has started and for this reason, in this episode, I invited Lotte to share her expert advise on how a shift in the education system and how we understand the nature of human being can help promoting a more nurturing environment. 

About Guest: 

Lotte van Lith is a founder of A Lot of Complexity a Netherland based coaching institute devoted to helping gifted adults and adolescents make sense of their giftedness. She also works as a teacher and senior trainer on the developmental psychology of giftedness (School of Thinking at Free University of Brussels, Novilo talent guidance). In her own company, A Lot of Complexity, she regularly organises vivid seminars on topics ranging from gifted women and creative giftedness to emotional development. Furthermore, she often gives presentations and is known for her work with the theory of positive disintegration. In 2016, she received the Mensa Fonds Awards for her contribution to the talent development of gifted people. You can contact Lotte on [email protected]

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Hi I am Dr. Shima Beigi, Founder of Mindfulness Engineering, and Mindful Smart Cities Academy, She TECHS Series Podcast and author of Mindful Smart Cities. In this episode of SHE TECHS, we discuss the very important topic of women, architecture and technology. According to Harvard Business Review, having a great culture can be a make or break factor in designing new businesses. But, what is a culture and how can we make sure our organisation does have the right culture? In this episode, I invited Shiva Pouryousef an Iranian interior designer, entrepreneur and educator to discuss these questions. We also discuss the challenges women face when launching new businesses in Iran.

About Shiva Pouryousef:

Shiva is one young rising stars of Iranian interior designers. She has won multiple awards for her work and International collaborations. She has studied at the U.K Oxford Brookes University and and Pratt Institute in New York. She started her journey from the U.K , continued her learning in the U.S and finally decided to return to her homeland Iran to start her career. When they left the U.S , with her sister Mona, they decided to build their own design studio and offer the highest quality teaching materials and designs in the Iranian Market. Upon their arrival, they faced multiple challenges from education gaps to cultural norms, Shiva had to find a way to create her own cultural model. Currently, Shiva own her Tehran and New York based design studio www.p-designstudio.com and work along the best in design industry.

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In this episode I invited Dr. Marios Kyriazis to discuss ways in which we can reconcile human intelligence with artificial intelligence. Given the rapid pace of technological integration with our lives, it is crucial to understand how a digitally divided society puts humans health and wellbeing at risk. As cities attract more and more people, it is also necessary to find ways in which technology can be directed toward enriching human lives. This friendly discussion explores various points of views on wellbeing and on technology and of the science of epigenetic. Epigenetic means ways in which genes are influenced by the changes of the surrounding environment. In my book Mindful Smart Cities I discuss through integration of artificial intelligence the epigenetic landscape is becoming smarter as well, which means smarter and more complex ways for changing our genes. Can we develop mindful ways to use technology for better health and wellbeing? What is the relationship between perception of technology and utilisation of technology? How can medical science help smart cities to have a wider perspective on technology and digitalisation? 

Join me in this episode and share your thoughts. You can also write to me to my email address [email protected] or directly visit my website at www.mindfulnessengineering.com

About my guest: 

Dr. Kyriazis is qualified as a medical doctor (MD) from the University of Rome, Italy, qualified as a Gerontologist with interest in the biology of aging, a Chartered Member of the academic organisation ‘Royal Society of Biology’ in the UK. His research is focused on transdisciplinary models and explores common principles between biology, complexity sciences, evolution, cybernetics, neurosciences, and techno-cultural elements.

Women are a very important part of the future of digitalisation. For an extended period of time, women were almost absent from the tech platforms and conversations. As a woman in the field, I felt I needed to do something about this and start the change myself. My mission has always been promoting gender equality everywhere I go. So, it was natural for me to want to give voice to women in this field. I wrote my new book Mindful Smart Cities having this vision in mind. After writing my book, I realised I need to go beyond my book. So, I launched the Mindful Smart Academy which is a digital platform for promoting building Mindful Smart Cities. While at the academy I am focused on the technical vision,at this podcast channel I am focused on heartful, mindful and vulnerable conversations with you. At the Mindful Smart City academy I aim to not only empower the emergence of a new digital world, but also the creation of a sustainable socio-technical system. I wanted the Mindful Smart City Academy to be a sanctuary for change. It is a practice of consciously held space which I call a “WE SPACE”. Join me in this first episode of SHE TECHS Series on the subject of Women in Tech Industry. I speak about my experience of being a woman in the field and how I manage to integrate my emotions and feelings with my work. I also share with you three reasons why consider studying for a STEM degree or even joining a smart city field.

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Rethinking Smart Cities with Mindfulness Engineering™ by: Dr Shima Beigi  The Artificial Intelligence fueled transition toward smart cities and network societies has tremendous impact on the future of humanity. The current narrative of smart cities and data enabled urban systems totally leaves out the components of human experience, feelings, emotions and real human relationships. However, what makes a city smart, is the degree and quality of human connections and social cohesion that individuals feel. Cities are more than just objects, buildings and fixed entities. They are about people and networks that encompass system of life as a whole. In turn, people’s behaviour shapes sustainability, resilience and inclusivity of the future of cities.  This Manifesto for the future design of smart cities explores the existing ethos of practice of smart cities around the world. Combining Eastern philosophies of change and a Western analytical scientific lens with the notion of the Internet of People and the Internet of We, in parallel to the utilitarian Internet of Things, Dr. Shima Beigi calls for a paradigm shift in this rapidly growing area of smart cities.  Spontaneity, empathy, love, resilience, inclusivity, sustainability, diversity, harmony, synergy, and similar higher level states of being, are those mystical and intangible parts of system of existence, humanity included, that cannot be manufactured, programmed, and engineered for by any kind(s) of artificial intelligence simply by virtue of being artificial. Mindful smart cities applies the analytical lens of Mindfulness Engineering™ and its interactive design toolkit. The main aim of its design protocol is focused on making people, places and interfaces mindfully smart.  

About the author Dr. Shima Beigi is smart city consultant, yoga teacher, and the founder of the Mindful Smart City Academy. Originally a resilience scientist, Shima has an impressive international academic track record (Islamic Azad University North Tehran Branch, University of Bristol, University of Oxford, Vrije Universiteit Brussel). In order to address the challenges of digitalization for urban systems, she developed Mindfulness Engineering™️, which connects STEM science and smart cities to neuroscience, Sufism and mindfulness. find out more about me on https://www.mindfulnessengineering.com/   

Experts Panel Discussion  

Dr Harry Halpin, CEO Nym Technologies 

Victoria Lee, urban development strategist, fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts 

Professor Pieter Ballon, director SMIT-VUB, holder Chair on Smart Cities (VUB) 

Dr Dan Mapes, author of The Spatial Web, founder of Verses Labs  Music and Artistic Performance by Stephen Spender  www.stephenspendermusic.com   

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