What does a bitter refreshing drink from Barbados have in common with the field of urban planning? The answer is Tamika Gauvin and a vision for social justice.  She is part planner and part founder for Looen Teas. But trust me when I say that those parts add up to more than the whole.

Closet Entrepreneurialism + Planning Career = Blood Sweat and Delicious Tea:  Tamika Gauvin of Looen Teas | #10

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The court system is by nature designed to be slow to change, dependable, predictable. Yet the courts are charged with tackling challenges that don’t stand still. Courts have evolved tremendously over the centuries to adapt, even as we think of them as relatively stable and un-moving.  Today, William DeLisio provides us a window into how he has effected positive change within the court systems by introducing risk and growth, in fair measure of course.

Balancing Risk and Growth in The Courts with William DeLisio #25 | Growth Mindset | Innovation | Drug Addiction | Opioid Epidemic | Truancy | Juvenile | Family

All of us must work our way through the empty page, the blank screen, writer’s block, confusion, chaos, and doubt. Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. Like a storm, the creative process slowly begins to gather and take form until it overtakes us—if we are willing to let it.

Storm of Creativity with Kyna Leski of Rhode Island School of Design #24 | Creative Process | Unlearning | Brainstorming | Art | Science | Problem Making | Gathering and Tracking

“From pulp magazine origins to recent cinematic triumphs, superheroes mirror our culture. Uniquely American and reflecting enduring values, these characters are a window on inspiration and aspiration defining our society."

Today, Dr. Julian Chambliss of Rollins College explores the real and imagined city through superheroes and the pages of comic books over the course of the last century.

Superheroes in Real and Imagined Cities with Julian Chambliss | Comic Books | World Fair | Science Fiction | Urban Identity | Race | Gender | #23

Water is in every cell of our body. Factories, cities, and forests all depend on it. Practically invisible when we have it, yet catastrophic when we don’t. 

We humans have a long history of fighting over water. Joe Whitworth sees a better way than idealism and finger pointing.  His approach - quantified conservation -  blends environmental and economic metrics to produce transaction-based strategies to realize environmental, social, and economic gains.

Quantified: Redefining Conservation with Transactional Strategies with Joe Whitworth of Freshwater Trust | Environmental Conservation | Environmental Movement |Economy | Finance | Social Innovation | 

Hip-hop architecture. Is it a paradox? Or is it inevitable? On the one side: structured formality by necessity. On the other: a powerful counterculture defying formality.  Sekou Cooke puts hip-hop within the historical context of other cultural movements and their influence on architecture. He suggests that as a dominant cultural movement of our generation, hip-hop is poised to produce its own architecture.

Hip-Hop Architecture with Sekou Cooke of Syracuse University and Sekou Cooke Studio | Grid Disruption| Urban Culture | Graffiti | Art | Social Organization | Bottom-up Planning | #20

Closet Entrepreneurialism + Planning Career = Blood Sweat and Delicious Tea: Tamika Gauvin of Looen Teas | #10

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