Sublime

La redistribution du travail a été opérée en dépossédant les prestataires de travail de tout pouvoir sur leur temps : les uns, dont la firme a besoin en permanence, travaillent à horaires flexibles, selon la conjoncture et les saisons ; les autres, temporaires, précaires, temps partiels, télétravailleurs, vacataires, travaillent par intermittence,

Sociologist Elijah Anderson’s work on the “cosmopolitan canopy” showcases Rittenhouse Square and Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia—places that foster civil interactions among people from very different backgrounds. In these places, individuals change their behavior, often acting differently than they would in their own neighborhoods.

Can we organize and specialize our people in innovative ways, so that they become particularly skilled and valuable to the market because of their focus on a particular market segment’s needs?

The displacement of the old working class has many explanations: globalization, financialization, automation, but also the concentration of economic activities (and most jobs) in large cities. ● Cities as the new factory floor aggravate problems that were previously overlooked. Improving the condition of the new urban working class is the main

Bernard Rudofsky’s Streets for People;

The great ambition of modern societies has been to institute a comprehensive reversal of the equation, to strip away both inherited privilege and inherited under-privilege in order to make rank dependent on individual achievement – which has primarily come to mean financial achievement. Status now rarely depends on an unchangeable identity handed

In a world of atomization and disconnection, where the Age of Average surrounds us and dampens our spirit, we believe this approach is how we reverse the tides. We can choose the path of  less, but better.  We can reject the incentives nudging us to behave more like machines and factories. We can reclaim our humanity, approach our work as artisans,