" I am very excited to take part in the Millennium Fellowship because it brings people from all walks of life together and make them collectively work on innovative projects with a direct and concrete impact. I fell like students and more general the youth has a tremendous potential in imagining solutions to our future problems. My core belief is that there cannot be a 'we' without a 'where'. In a way, communities have to 'happen' somewhere and thus cannot be detached from the physical realm. Now more than ever, it is our role to help co-design sustainable cities and neighbourhoods for communities to thrive in. And in my opinion the one constitutive element that makes a place greater than the sums of its parts is its independent shops and merchants bursting with creativity and talent. "