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Making Weather Control a Reliable Part of “City Infrastructure”: A Tag Team of Technology and Social Systems
A dialogue between Project Manager of Moonshot Goal 3 and Tactical Urbanist

Department of Moonshot Research and Development Program

https://www.jst.go.jp/moonshot/en/index.html

The Department of Moonshot R&D Program has published an article on NOTE <https://note-moonshot.jst.go.jp/>, featuring a dialogue between Yohei Sawada, Project Manager (PM) of Moonshot Goal 8 and Rui Izumiyama, who specializes in urban planning and design, to discuss how weather control could one day become a reliable part of a city’s infrastructure.
They talked about how novel technology of weather control can be accepted in civil society, the necessary dialogue to have with citizens, and the future of urban planning and community development. Please take a look.

English:
Yohei Sawada x Rui Izumiyama Moonshot Dialogue: Weather Control Tech Could Dynamically Change Cities

Moonshot Goal 8: Realization of a society safe from the threat of extreme winds and rains by controlling and modifying the weather by 2050.