Architecture professor Rachel Armstrong, brand consultant Suzanne Livingston and transportation designer Paul Priestman discussed how people will deal with the increasing complexity of future cities at the Dezeen Day conference last year.
The panel of experts discussed the positive and negative impacts technology will have on cities and the difficulties in navigating these increasingly complex urban spaces.
"I think there's some serious ethical challenges with the way we go forward from here, and the world has become suddenly more complex," said Armstrong, professor of experimental architecture at Newcastle University.
"There's no good or bad decision," she continued. "We need to stay present with the decision making, whether that's technology or how our cities evolve." Paul Priestman, Rachel Armstrong and Suzanne Livingston discussed the future of cities at Dezeen Day
Livingston, who curated the AI: More than Human exhibition at the Barbican Centre, agreed that working out which technologies will have a positive impact, and which will have a negative impact, is extremely difficult.
"There's a habit in our culture to categorise technology and these advanced technologies as either good or bad," she said. "And the fact of the matter is, they're good and bad at the same time, and we're going to have to learn how to navigate this."

According to Livingston, this makes it hard to make broad decisions on what actions to take as ...