City making, the weaving of city building and city caring, only happens when we have a social habitat in which we choose to weave these perspectives together.
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We only organize together if we are in the push and pull of conversation, wrestling with the action we feel we need to take. If not, we are being organized, passive participants in the status quo doing others’ bidding.
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An impromptu check-in invited awe in self, others and a beautiful place.
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In my quest to figure out how planners and everyone else in the city can work better together, I’ve learned the magic of finding the minimal critical structure that enables new possibilities.
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Think about an activation like a guided meditation. You can listen to them in order or in response to your intuition--which one catches your eye?
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Radical honesty with my ski patrol colleagues makes me feel less scared. And more capable, too.
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There are two kinds of inconceivable: 1) the one I tell myself isn’t possible and 2) the one I can’t imagine.
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Beth has landed in perimenopause, asking herself the question she asks others everywhere she goes: How do I make my way through this transition with care and compassion? The answer is in thinking not of The Change but of changing. Change as a verb.
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What on earth are intersectionality and GBA+? And what do they have to do with city making? Beth Sanders and Soni Dasmohapatra explore intersectionality and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) in their work as city makers; they land on this understanding: GBA+ is a means to be in a conversation about improvement.
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