The Power of The Infra-Ordinary
When we understand ourselves as Citizens, we embrace a different story of humanity. When we recognise this, we see that we all have power, and we see tremendous potential for change. In order to unleash this, what we need to do now is understand the stories we are telling ourselves, take deep care with our language, and build from there.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Such contemplative practice has undoubtedly been therapeutic, even psychologically essential, for many of us as we’ve grappled with tumult and trauma: nothing as escape from the too-muchness of it all.
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
The ongoing work of making the spaces in which we live cultivates a kind of alchemy, in which stronger links between people and place can arise.
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
Infrastructure for sense-making because what gets imagined needs collectively interpreting and translating. […]
Infrastructure for sites of practice. We have town halls and community centres and forests and public parks — how can our social infrastructures and our natural world infrastructures be used for collective imagination activities. […]
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... See morePatrick Tanguay (Sentiers) • No.249 — ‘If You Win the Popular Imagination, You Change the Game’: Why We Need New Stories on Climate ⊗ Imagination Infrastructures ⊗ AI and the Big Five
The ongoing work of making the spaces in which we live cultivates a kind of alchemy, in which stronger links between people and place can arise.