during the listening to the city conference last week, i was introduced to jennifer stoever’s work on the binghamton historical soundwalk project. the project is amazing for a ton of reasons, but the one that grabbed me the most was about soundwalks can help us see how others experience the same space.
Read more...the past two days, i’ve been a part of the listening to the city conference that was co-hosted betwen colab, the design studio for social intervention, and la listens. similar to my experience at the bridging health & communities conference, i was surprisingly engaged with the content. there were a number of phrases that sort of blew my mind:
Read more...so right now i’m reading an article by james clear (another one of my favorite productivity gurus) on the margin of safety. i book marked it a while ago, but it seems relevant to a friend i’m supporting via productivity coaching.
Read more...a few days ago i wrote a story for alternative futures about… well, i’m actually not totally sure how to describe what it’s about. in fact, i just sat for about a minute (i know because my writing timer was open) trying to find the words and couldn’t. the story is called benders of the arc and part of what it gets at is this phenomenon i’ve often experience where once someone mentions a resource or person, i hear about it repeatedly until i just dig into whatever it is/was.
Read more...yesterday, i caught up with one my dearest friends and collaborators, ross chanowski. we had, as usual, what i think is our most typical conversation: catching up on what’s gone on since we last saw each other and how those experiences relate to our individual and collective efforts towards making and building the world we want to see. gotta love it.
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