Holy Houses & The City
Heads-UP on Friday What a special initiative to reveal the everyday cultural and social layers of a city through its holy houses. This...
Re-Use Those Once-Significant Buildings
The LocHal is a new, world-class urban living room for Tilburg in an iconic former locomotive shed of the Dutch National Railways. It is...
How will the Middle East Manage its New Memories of Violence
“No One should delude themselves into thinking we all use it the same way. But just as we use words like love and hate without ever...
Exploring The Dark Side of Co-Creation / Co-Production
There are so many humanitarian and 3rd sector actors eager to advocate co-creative and co-productive approaches, I too think there is...
SIDA Conference at The Dynamic Earth Science Museum
A quick post to acknowledge and reflect on the SIDA’s Annual Conference at the Dynamic Earth Science Museum. An impressive venue is well...
To Talk About Hatred and Bias Crimes is to Get Close to Terror
Take a moment to reflect on the idea that, where we stand and who we are, influences what we assume - Our perspective influences our...
Owning our Imagined Communities
Should we work harder on taking ownership of our imagined community? A question that has intrigued me since reading Benedict Anderson's...
Working on HLP in The Middle East
This Article may help my peacebuilding colleagues understand and address HLP issues in the Middle East. I believe that developing a...
Adaptive Reuse aids Recovery
I think that the current approach to the adaptive re-use of buildings as a peacebuilding initiative suffers from many of the same...
Building A Reflexive practice
Kaufman states, “[I]n order to see the big picture you have to have an understanding of the more narrow view through which you see the...