Futures Line: What if the Park Dreamed Back?
What if a park could dream?
At the Our Parks × TEN Baltimore Symposium, we invited participants to listen with the land and imagine Baltimore’s Leakin Park in the year 2075. Their future-voicemails became the first Futures Line recording—a layered soundscape and foresight artifact that carries themes of healing, belonging, and stewardship.
Composting What No Longer Serves: Organizational Lessons for a Time of Reckoning
In a moment of cultural rupture—where authoritarianism is rising, polarization deepens, and public trust frays—organizations across sectors are grappling with a hard truth: many of our strategies, structures, and assumptions no longer serve us. The world is changing, but the ways we work often aren’t keeping pace.
From Input to Interbeing
Despite good intentions, many public engagement processes remain transactional, time-bound, and symbolic. They ask people to show up, speak up, and then move on. These forms of participation tend to reinforce the illusion that listening has occurred, while leaving little space for transformation or relationship.
The Power of World Café: Fostering Engagement and Innovation in Charlotte
During the World Café Neighborhood Board Retreat, participants engaged in three rounds of structured conversations. Each round focused on critical questions about neighborhood engagement, community priorities, and collaborative solutions.