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Airtable | Everyone's app platform
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Connective Tissue’s database
Working on the Root System of Social Connections in a Community
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Greenway | Montford
montford.orgHow cities can cultivate a sense of "membership" among their residents
Sam Presslerconnectivetissue.substack.com
There are four systems in a community: one is the family system, one is the business and nonprofit system, one is the faith system, and the other is the school and government system. When those systems are working together well, you have a healthy, cohesive culture.
Sam Pressler • Putting the "neighbor" back in the neighborhood
One way to create a shared context is through shared struggle. This is why many organizations implement ritualized hazing3 to initiate new members, but the important thing is not the hazing, it’s the sense that you are working together with your fellow humans to achieve a super-human goal. Whether that’s to develop vaccines, to drywall a shelter,... See more
billmei.net • Friendships Form via Shared Context, Not Shared Activities
Digital intermediation could help offer this kind of access to what Zacka calls “the lively and diverse intermingling of strangers in the public arena” and what the urban planner Jane Jacobs described as the “great and exuberant richness of differences and possibilities, many of these unique and unpredictable—and all the more valuable because they... See more
Alex Pentland • Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers
close, but not too close; “unpredictable - and the more valuable because they are”
