Economic Architecture The Podcast
The need for audacious goals [Episode 20]
In this week’s episode, Shalini Vajjhala, Executive Director of PRE Collective, explains her three-pronged approach to designing infrastructure projects with a higher capacity for long-term success: vision, capacity, and money. In Shalini’s view, the potential limits to capacity and funding, should not be the sole determinate of the scale of a vision. And for Economic Architecture, an audacious goal should be central to the mission of structural innovators. Host Stuart Yasgur and Shalini Vajjhala discuss the fashionable nature of critique in structural innovation work, why the nature of infrastructure development…
In this week’s episode, Shalini Vajjhala, Executive Director of PRE Collective, explains her three-pronged approach to designing infrastructure projects with a higher capacity for long-term success: vision, capacity, and money. In Shalini’s view, the potential limits to capacity and funding, should not be the sole determinate of the scale of a vision. And for Economic Architecture, an audacious goal should be central to the mission of structural innovators.
Host Stuart Yasgur and Shalini Vajjhala discuss the fashionable nature of critique in structural innovation work, why the nature of infrastructure development involves passing the baton, and how every individual has the agency to participate in both small and large-scale change.
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