Actors of Urban Change Magazine

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Translating passion into action

TRANSLATING PASSION INTO ACTION By Sebastian Schlueter and Agnieszka Surwiłło-Hahn

“Compatibility should be an achievement of love, not its precondition”, writes the philosopher Alain de Botton in his novel The Course of Love. De Botton’s wise observation about relationships sums up our very own leitmotif. To make our cities better places for people to live in, we need the commitment of a variety of people working collaboratively for a greater cause. This sort of collaboration between people, we believe, asks for experimental spaces and time for playfulness to actually work.

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Actors of Urban Change Magazine

Published on Jul 1, 2019

Actors of Urban Change

This magazine serves two purposes: it documents the work that has been done in the past 18 months in the Actors of Urban Change program. It sheds a light on how engaged people from Chisinau, Hamburg, Kherson, Lecce, London, Oslo, Rijeka, Timisoara, Valencia and Vilnius are shaping the future of local neighborhoods–thinking across institutional as well as national boundaries to advocate for long-lasting social change in cities. In addition, this magazine also gives you a deeper insight into the urban topics these projects are working on–and can hopefully serve as a source of inspiring examples to adapt and to learn from. The three sections of this issue represent the topics that the projects we supported are working on: How can communities be activated to co-shape their urban environments? How can nature be an inspiration and solution for the future of our cities? How can abandoned spaces be re-imagined as vital and conscious hubs for cities under pressure? More information at actorsofurbanchange.org

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Translating passion into action

4min

pages 12-17

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