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James Hillman on Sustainable City, Sustainable Suburb |
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The community conversation, A Year in Providence and the Region began in the fall of 2005. Its original and lasting aim is to explore innovation of place through a diverse dialogue of engaging questions, images, ideas, and dilemma’s – especially about cities, towns, villages and the region. We are not convening to take collective action. We are convening to engender thinking out of which participants take actions that matter to them, individually, as projects or through combining projects. Our commitment to collectively explore and innovate will continue into 2007.
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November 10, 2006 program featuring James Hillman
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James Hillman helped kick-off A Year in Providence and the Region last November 2005, with ideas, questions, and stories about the city, both ancient and modern. It was a community conversation based on questions.
This November the community conversation continued around five of James Hillman’s 2005 questions, but with a twist as Hillman responded to essays from AYPR participants The submissions recieved are below.
The four criteria for writing an essay:
Root it in the sense of place that matters to you in this region – where you work or live; in this way the essay will be less abstract
Talk to sustainability by addressing one of Hillman’s five questions below
Ground it in some of Hillman’s thinking
Stay, for the most part, in the realm of conditions and ideas; if you propose a practice be sure to describe the conditions that are driving it
To help with your essays, click here to download select papers from City and Soul, Volume II of the Uniform Edition of James Hillman, edited by Robert Leaver. The reader will be published by Spring Publications in early 2007. Also, do consider the below questions:
How do we green a city? What is the “green” fantasy?
Does aesthetics cost more?
What kind of bridges can be built between sections and classes of the city? Who comes to meetings about the city?
How do we know when a city is working? Promoting “good” news on the media: What is real local news?
What is typically Providence? How to characterize the essence of this city? Who are Providence’s ancestors and ghosts whose presence is still shaping Providence?
Essay Submissions:
Fragments to Seed by Robert Leaver
Rambles in Providence and Online by Mark Binder
Sustainable Providence by Stephen Corey and Mark Motte
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NC-Media
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Click below to listen to Hillmans unique take on the Sustainable City and Sustainable Suburb.
Hillman Returns - James Hillman
James Hillman responds to the 5 essays submitted and asks futher:
What is the cost of Ugly?
How do we create bridges to where people are?
and more.
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