b'MUDD 24 URBAN NETWORK|URBAN GATEWAYGlobal Networks and Urban Climate Innovation: challenging business as usual We cannot influence what were in Sydneys West not connected to. Parag Khanna 2016Introduction: Innovative Networks the initiative aims to bring together the combined intellect of Innovation and networks are frequently used words thata large number of people,who are broadly educated .about attempt to make sense of messy processes and realities. Whenthe state of the world and specifically about the analytic and used well such concepts help society to focus in the face ofsynthetic methods required for the betterment of society and the complexity, uncertainty and massive change. When reducedenvironment in the face of likely global change (IGC 2019). The to marketing catchphrases they deny genuine transformationcollaboration adopts the viewpoint that the most effective way and lock society into conventional ways of operating. Thisto do this is to educate the university students of today, about article presents a brief discussion on two types of innovativeclimate change and other wicked problem. The educational infrastructural networks that engage with such open-endedapproach involves techniques that fosters knowledge and messy realities and reject the neat studio project typified bycapacity to collaborate and work cooperatively at different scales polished renderings and superficial plans. The two networksfrom the studio to professional and peer groups and between are linked and by necessity contrast with each other. The first isuniversities globally. For such a large-scale project to succeed predominantly social and global in nature and has been nameda common methodology and communication standard is the international geodesign collaboration. This initiative seeksnecessary and has been progressively established throughout to establish new knowledge networks and methods of global2018. Such an approach highlights, the tension between the collaboration and understanding. The second is predominantlyneed for common standard in planning and design and the need physical and local - and has been branded Western Sydneyfor creative expression and individual experience to generate Aerotropolisa new urban centre that seeks to fundamentallydiversity and alternative ideas.change the physical connections within western Sydney andAll global participants, including UNSW Sydney, adopted reimagine the area as a gateway to Australia and the world.a common geodesign framework. Geodesign is a method Current plans envision achieving this through the establishmentdeveloped over many years by various geographic, spatial and 65 of new connections and a rebalancing of Sydneys currentinformation systems experts including the leading academic 61transport and communications network. Prof Carl Steinitz (2012). The geodesign approach is unique in that it provides the opportunity for participants using the method The International Geodesign Collaboration to generate rapid, continuous, model-based feedback on The first of these networks involves a global collaborationvarious aspects of performance to advance designs. The global between leading universities to address the most pressingcollaboration adopted a geodesign workflow that mandated issues of our age. A range of wicked problems may bethe production of three related scenarios. Each participating addressed in the future but the first on the agenda is climateinstitution was to select an area at a specified scale and change and its impacts on diverse landscapes and socialdevelop three scenarios for that area, at three points in time. contexts. Named the international geodesign collaborationEach scenario was to engage with the challenge of climate and after the geodesign method which participants must follow,innovative approaches to spatial and environmental planning.MUDD 24 - Urban Gateway & Urban Network - Sydney Introduction studio 2 8pt.indd 4 26/11/2019 4:59:32 PM'