Cities and People (The Secret Ingredient - 15/10/14)

The Secret Ingredient

Musagetes Executive Director Shawn Van Sluys and Project Assistant Danica Evering co-hosts for a discussion about cities, art and resilience. How do we creatively navigate and experience the city and the spaces we hold in common? How we can we experience the overlap between the two in order to make the places we inhabit more resilient and livable? Cities for People, with its four focus areas—new economies, cityscapes, citizen spaces, and art and society—explores the how we can employ the virtues of improvisatory practice to the cultivation of flourishing urban spaces. We discuss how improvisation can create new forms of empathy and, foster experiences of deep and unexpected beauty in our everyday environment, particularly through the Sense Labs project: a series of workshops co-created with residents and citizens in the sensory re-exploration of their locale. Hear how memory can be an anti-museum, how buildings punctuate the city, and how walking is writing.