The public rooms
Belonging
Who is welcomed in?Essays on the difference between being admitted to a place and being permitted to help shape what happens within it.
Filed principally under Belonging
2 essays in this room
Sins of the Family: The Scripts Written About Us
How family names, postcodes and institutional memory decide who we are before we arrive
Institutions inherit scripts about us. Family names, postcodes and survival adaptations can become a master status through which every future action is read.
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Gentrification, belonging by permission and the right to shape the places we call home
The failure of gentrification is not that places improve, but that improvement is too often owned by some and endured by others.
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