Thought provoking questions
Question raised: Can non-religious forms of community foster the same sense of commitment and obligation as religious communities?
Introducing: Connective Tissue
we are made for more community and more relationships than we currently have
- What are some of the dominant narratives and frames that are connected to wicked problems in your country, region or city? In what ways are they contributing to/exacerbating the problem or keeping it entrenched?
- Can you think of counternarratives and frames that might destabilize the problem and help to resolve it?
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
- Globalization defines wealth in terms of monetary measures, discuss what an alternative definition of wealth might be.
- If growth is the indicator for economic health what would the indicator(s) be for an alternative economic system?
Designing for Transitions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
“Infrastructure, at its most fundamental level, is not about roads and bridges, cables and concrete. It’s about who we are, what we value, and what kind of society we want to create.”
— Eric Klinenberg
Physical Infrastructure Design
does encountering others across class in the same spaces lead to connecting with people across class in those spaces?
Eric • Introducing: Connective Tissue
Who's going to maintain the technology? Who's going to evolve it? Who gets paid or who has to pay for it? These questions led me down an exploration of what we can broadly call “governance.” How do people make decisions and take actions together? How do they build social fabric in order to make those decisions? How do they trust each other enough... See more
If democracy is this challenge of people coming together to figure out the kind of shared lives they want to forge, then the behaviors that they use to negotiate difference are going to flow from the commitments they have to each other.
What is the ground on which you're standing to make those deeper commitments? And is that ground sturdy enough and resilient enough to bear the weight of the messiness of it all?”
As anyone who's been in a relationship or family unit knows, it's really messy work. The question facing us now is: “How do we build societal structures that can hold that... See more
As anyone who's been in a relationship or family unit knows, it's really messy work. The question facing us now is: “How do we build societal structures that can hold that... See more