Sarah Wong

‘ orchestrating collaborative activities ’ . Here, the design approaches of providing information about others or topic suggestions could help nurture or enrich an ongoing encounter.

thing we do most, which is shop and browse. These privatized solutions fit into that consumptive way of being more than what we don't practice — going to a new place, creating our own mechanisms for connection, encountering a lot of unknowns, and having to talk to people we don't already know. Those are not practices that we’re literally spending h... See more

The illusion of knowledge: We can't learn things when we believe we already know, so this illusion of knowledge hinders our effort to discover. Recall the bull: beauty is in the simplest outcome (and often we’re stuck amidst the higher complexity phases, and so we actually don’t really know until we get to the simplest form of the bull or can expla... See more

We protect each other. . . . Do we socialize? No. But we’re neighbors! And we’ll help each other if we need to help each other.

The Involve Foundation (‘Involve’), Sortition Foundation, and mySociety

solidarity without proximity, civic renewal without economic renewal, and democracy without participation.

The first pattern of public realm interaction (Lofland 1998:29) refers to the habit-ual practice of “cooperative motility” among strangers in public. That people are mindful of each others’ bodies and spaces while moving around