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In collaboration with Paloma Villegas, Valerie Berseth, Muzna Ahmad, and 38 students, we finished the last listening...

At the Adaptation Futures 2025 in Christchurch, New Zealand, we explored how participatory research can foster...

We completed three days of intensive listening sessions with approximately 85 residents in San...

We’ve just concluded another round of listening sessions, this time in Barrio La Santísima, Mexico City, where we...

CERC NEST recently launched “Moving the Youth,” a three-city initiative focused on envisioning more equitable and people-centred mobility systems. In collaboration with students from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco (UAM-X) in Mexico City, the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) in Canada, and California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) in the U.S., this initiative engages Gen Z participants in imagining alternative urban futures.

Through a series of cross-cultural “listening sessions,” college students are reflecting on how mobility intersects with climate, equity, and urban development. These dialogues are not only amplifying youth perspectives but also strengthening their capacity to navigate the multi-crisis landscape through creativity, collaboration, and community-based solutions.

At ISA 2025, Paty presented CERC NEST’s Research on Climate Action and Equity to a Global Audience #UTSC  The 5th ISA...

Paty presented CERC NEST research program at the IST 2025 in Lisbon. They facilitated two sessions on equitable...

Moments from GSD congress in Istanbul where Paty presented our UTSC sustainability research. Go #UTSC The Global...