Placemaking
“When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back”– Rebecca Solnit
On Motivation | Are.na Editorial
Community offers the promise of belonging and calls for us to acknowledge our interdependence. To belong is to act as an investor, owner, and creator of this place. To be welcome, even if we are strangers. As if we came to the right place and are affirmed for that choice.
Peter Block • Community: The Structure of Belonging
You can turn a space into a place by arranging it so people know what to do there.
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
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.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
Look, feel, and sound are not “of a place,” rather they rhetorically construct a place.
“Place is not fixed. It is a an emergent process of assemblage is social, material, and discursive relationships come into being through the interdependence and interrelation of other geographical process such as the social, cultural, economic, ecological, and
... See moreEcological Belonging is an emerging idea centered on developing a new narrative around how we connect ourselves to the world.
We start with a simple question: “ How do we live? ”
We are inviting people to remember , renew and reweave the stories, rituals and practices that root us in a deep interconnectedness between ourselves, our communities, our... See more
We start with a simple question: “ How do we live? ”
We are inviting people to remember , renew and reweave the stories, rituals and practices that root us in a deep interconnectedness between ourselves, our communities, our... See more
Ecological Belonging
of the beauties of place is that it has the ability to imprint itself upon us in an instant. Many will have known that immediate, electrifying symmetry upon arriving somewhere that seems to fit so perfectly with your life as to be predetermined, the place you were always meant to find.