What matters in life? Life is beautiful, life is fragile, life is unrest. How can we talk about what matters in life without first addressing the question: what’s the matter with life? more
Do what your hands find work to do. This advice is meant to encourage you to not over think what you should do to make a living and contribute something to the world. It encourages patience in search of a vocation and discourages contempt for working in the weeds. more
A poll that asked UK residents if they subscribe to the following found a correlation between this statement and an opinion to remain in the UK:
Christians with a strong belief in the unique power of Jesus Christ to redeem humanity from the consequences of sin.
These are two different ways of bidding for the confidence of the users. In the old way, one says: “I don’t have a horse in this race. I don’t have a view of the world that I’m defending. I’m just telling you the way it is, and you should accept it because I’ve done the work and I don’t have a stake in the outcome…” In the newer way, the logic is different. “Look, I’m not going to pretend that I have no view. Instead, I am going to level with you about where I’m coming from on this. So factor that in when you evaluate my report. Because I’ve done the work and this is what I’ve concluded…”
Source: The View from Nowhere: Questions and Answers – PressThink – Jay Rosen
Sociality is not an active reaching out to others; it is mutual awareness instead of action together. Sociality thus contrasts to solidarity. [there two different kinds of solidarity: unity and inclusion] P 39
The good listener detects common ground more in what is another person assumes than says. (P.19, Richard Sennett’s Together)
Make definitions and functions, but what do we want to demonstrate? The lists I’m packing for the second project meeting. more
Designing a timeline to represent and connect cultural projects. more
Participating in a creative europe project from far across the pond requires a creative approach for working together. more
Bordr exhibition at Queens Museum in New York City. Explore methods of investigating and transforming political and metaphorical borders. Runs November 21st to December 31st, 2015. more
Platform for sharing methods and experiences for investigating and transforming borders.
[2015 — 2017] more
Why and how to address the disparity in a park system when financial and technical innovations have helped support an era of new and improved public parks. more
Retracing the place-making function of a lost river in the neighborhood. more
Can a road diet reduce the 17% vacancy rate along Seattle’s Rainier Avenue South? more
