Sublime

filthy reality of belongingness?

what stories are told about design problems, solutions, contexts, and outcomes?

focuses on concrete mechanisms for community control, is linked to a disability justice analysis, and explicitly attends to the distribution of design’s benefits and burdens according to the matrix of domination.

Indy had founded an organisation called Dark Matter Labs as an architecture-practice-meets-think-tank- meets-innovation-consultancy (my summary) when he realised that the kind of housing projects he wanted to develop – projects that prized community and human connection – were virtually impossible within the framework of contemporary property right

People change as a result of shifts they make as: 1. Author of their stories so they can Cope at new levels (Situate phase) 2. Actor in stories with others so they can Connect in new ways (Search phase) 3. Agent in narratives around them so they can Create new options (Shift phase) 4. Activist for better narratives so they can Contribute to new out

Karpman Drama Triangle model of Persecutor, Rescuer, Victim.

Narrative coaching is a mindful, experiential, and integrative approach that helps people make real change in real time using their own stories.

Each might seem to embody a ‘type,’ a common label: Activist, perhaps, for Immy, or Aid Worker; Hacker-Entrepreneur for Bianca; Community Leader for Kennedy; Victim-Survivor for Reen; and Anarchist, perhaps, for Billy. I’d like to reframe these five people as practitioners of the Citizen Story: my emblematic Citizens. They are the force that makes

allowing the frame of organisation as hero to take hold (or servant, which can in practice be much the same) compounds the reduction in agency already inflicted by conditions like Parkinson’s