{"id":740,"date":"2020-06-14T13:31:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T12:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2020-06-14T14:04:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T13:04:55","slug":"amid-protest-simple-community-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/14\/amid-protest-simple-community-on-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Protest: Simple Community, on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

People blend with their surroundings in cities. Today, in our dual pandemic<\/a> world of disease and social justice (including a new tragedy in Atlanta<\/a>), we see just what protest looks like against urban landscapes. The systemic injustice on display is both disheartening and tragic, through whichever lens we select to filter the view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through my own lenses, I’ve sought comfort<\/a> through straightforward themes that might transcend protests and marches, masks, and distancing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many community-based discussions to follow will incorporate unjust loss of life–whether to prejudice or the disproportionate impact of COVID-19–with a broader sense of community entitlement. I believe that we are learning the basic rights of all people to live lives to their fullest. In everyday vignettes, I see an undercurrent of simplicity that illustrates basic needs amid long, now easing lockdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other entries, I have written about<\/a> lockdown-flouting, adaptation, and many professionals’ understandable needs to spin expertise and solutions. Today, I’m sharing something of an update to the effortless urbanism<\/a> I first noted in Puglia, Italy, and through a self-organizing alley movie night in Seattle over ten years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In one showing of underlying culture, an English pub replicates in a new form<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s not all confrontation or violence in local venues amid standard fare. A month before pubs will return with COVID-proof outdoor gardens to save the English summer, the cultural undercurrent is already on full display. Yesterday, I saw a mostly orderly, guideline-abiding queue for takeout pints, along a busy street. Most were consumed across the street, in a small green space, by an ethnically-diverse assemblage who were watching passers-by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If sitting in a garden, or a de facto<\/em> pub in public space may seem trivial in disruptive times full of critically important messages. But, beyond a naive “Kumbaya<\/a>,” these vignettes reveal an underlying human relationship with surroundings and a quest for community. We need more reminders of moments people crave, whether the examples shown here or through other forms of cultural expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People blend with their surroundings in cities. Today, in our dual pandemic world of disease and social justice (including a new tragedy in Atlanta), we see just what protest looks like against urban landscapes. The systemic injustice on display is both disheartening and tragic, through whichever lens we select to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,339,5,31],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-cities","tag-equity","tag-lifestyle","tag-pandemic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sustainingplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_1657.jpeg?fit=1386%2C924&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc03Hh-bW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}