Reimagined Community

this was probably amongst the biggest challenges to helping US neighborhoods come together: most people don’t have good reasons to meet their neighbors.

“Incubation” is a term often used to describe how innovative, risk-taking experiments are protected from regime norms and have the opportunity to take root and sometimes destabilize the Regime.

GatherFor, at the core, believes that in community, we have everything we need. We organize neighbors into teams to support each other and to bring forth the type of neighborhood they want. We then build a self-governance infrastructure in that network of Neighbor Teams, that allows neighbors to lead themselves.

“It’s not just about density and walkability. It’s about fostering a sense of place and uniqueness.”

Urbanists often discuss mixing uses and designing a public realm that promotes social interaction. If that’s robust neighborhood hardware, it can’t properly function without the software.

This model is an ongoing process of negotiating our interdependence based on six coordinates: survival, surplus, transactions, consumption, commons, and investm

One way of enhancing interaction is by enabling multi-user shared displays, which allows people to share experiences at the same time. A good example of this is in-person gaming, where users are engaged in a game together and the device acts as a tool to improve the quality of their experience through enjoyment. Another example is interactive insta... See more

We define belonging as a combination of role and fit.

A challenge for any mutual aid platform will be privacy, surveillance, and ethics — building in safety to protect the most vulnerable communities.