The Power of The Infra-Ordinary
The ongoing work of making the spaces in which we live cultivates a kind of alchemy, in which stronger links between people and place can arise.
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
One of the basic problems with Non-Place is that it’s contagious. When you start introducing Non-Places into a city design, you tend to add more and more Non-Places to try to fix the problems caused by the original Non-Places. If you have two Places next to each other, like an apartment building and a store, then you can easily walk from the apartm... See more
Place and Non-Place
The ambition for CIVIC SQUARE is somewhere between Impact Hub, library, community centre and Roman forum: a place where local people will come together on an ongoing basis to invent and reinvent the place they live; where they will be equipped to own and lead their own community, rather than be told what to do.
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
