Physical Infrastructure Design
Fixing retail with land value capture
worksinprogress.newsFor example, how might a small community food growing
project both enhance and benefit from new housing being led
by the public or private sector? How might local businesses
and community interest groups work together to activate and
manage an underused space? And how can a design process
help reveal such opportunities?
Shouldn’t we be thinking about
... See moreOur current instruments and infrastructures are struggling to cope. Traditional employment contracts enforce rigidity, property rights are divisive and major institutions like the International Monetary Fund only consider narrow, money-centred definitions of value.Developing civic infrastructures such as food forests would reduce strain upon global... See more
Dark Matter Labs • Radicle Civics – Unconstituting Society 071022.pdf
The decisive factor becomes not the magnitude of investment but the resilience and reversibility of the system over time.