foregrounding the people-centered work of building community, growing empathy and understanding, celebrating human creativity, and cultivating engaged citizenship?
If the dynamic medium is to serve as the foundation for new modes of thought and communication, it must lift all people, not just those traditionally advantaged by technology. There is no product we can ship to achieve this goal.
Instead, we are building Dynamicland as a community space, where the people of Oak... See more
Creating high density of not only people, but ideas and energy = serendipity and aliveness. Lewis Mumford writes that the primary purpose of the city is “to permit—indeed, to encourage—the greatest possible number of meetings, encounters, challenges, between varied persons and groups, providing as it were a stage upon which the drama of social life... See more
Patricia Mou's The Commons, based in San Francisco, exemplifies the Fourth Space concept. It describes itself as “a place of pause between stimulus and response”, where individuals can explore meaning, question paradigms and grow within a supportive community fabric.