Thank you for this analysis, Sarah. You are so right and it’s so easy to slip into fearfulness. It’s really not been helped by the government/media-fuelled alarmism of the past three years, further increasing our collective hyper-sensitization to threats of all kinds. We live in our heads, worrying about all that could go wrong. Look around and take in how safe (or not!) you really are in this specific moment.
yes I love this so much!!
I was reminded of one of the examples/case studies in this book by Kees Dorst https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3450414&Entt=RDM3450414 on designing cities to address this type of problem by focusing on and enabling more positives
I just came across this event that might be of interest https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-public-space-20-x20-tickets-606658731597?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1 (unfortunately too far via ttc for me)
Thank you for this analysis, Sarah. You are so right and it’s so easy to slip into fearfulness. It’s really not been helped by the government/media-fuelled alarmism of the past three years, further increasing our collective hyper-sensitization to threats of all kinds. We live in our heads, worrying about all that could go wrong. Look around and take in how safe (or not!) you really are in this specific moment.