Placemaking
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Placemaking
We [also] build our sense of civic identity and opinions about government through social interactions. […] Our social capital — which Putnam defines as the overarching belief about society that facilitates co-operation — diminishes when we lose opportunities to engage with people outside of our regular social networks.
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #38
The role of a successful place is to provide a catalytic context for missions.
Venkatesh Rao • Placemaking vs. Mission-Shaping - By Venkatesh Rao
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living by our motto ‘move slow & make things,’ our build out took a long time 😅… we built every table, bench, shelf, and bar surface with hand tools and a whole lot of... See more
instagram.comThe 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
I used to romanticize a nomadic existence. I used to think it was a requisite for “finding myself”—to travel around untethered until I stumbled upon a realness in me. It makes me wince to think that I thought I could learn myself by untethering.