On the necessity of recording community narratives: “all communities tell stories about themselves, about the distinctive nature of their formation and achievements. These stories can have a powerful role in constituting our identities, and so in defining and sustaining our common life. But they are also subject to endless manipulation, for it will always be in the interests of the powerful — rulers and opinion-formers alike — that certain stories should be remembered, and in certain ways, and that other stories should be forgotten.”
Community Funded Journalism
I am concerned with ways that communities can reclaim and redefine what “news” is. I think this is the future.
Another Perspective on “City Revitalization”
I’m involved in a project which seeks to energize the city core of Dayton, Ohio- DaytonCREATE. One team of the project has been productive in securing a (previously) vacant first-floor space on a largely empty block. The idea is that creating spaces “high bohemians” (Richard Florida’s term) can live and work and play in is [...]