“It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.” DoneArtistSocialCommunitySpaceRoomsDesignBuildingColorPrideTasteSpotsGatheringHistoricLiving RoomRestoringBad Taste Author:Genevieve Gorder
“In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.” IfsHomeCertainNextCommunityRoomsCitiesBabyShapesFunctionPatternsBreatheStreamsDistinctionHospitalsTrafficChamberGroceriesRecreationCorridorsTrolleys Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike” ArtistCommunityRoomsAudienceStrangeTraditionClassicSongwritersNashvilleAustinBluebird Author:Christopher Cross
“What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.” PeopleWantGivingMightCommunityRoomsMistakeAttitudeCompanyExperimentsSan Francisco Author:Ed Lee
“A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of people can only leave their homes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. So basically, public life has to be lived in these shifts, in order for everyone to fit on the streets because there's just no more room for any more infrastructure, any more highways. So it polarizes the community into day people and night people, and it becomes sort of a metaphor for racism and classism.” PeopleHomeNightCertainOrderCommunityRoomsNumbersStreetsFitRacismMetaphorHighwaysInfrastructurePublic LifeClassism Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in the room, there is humor, there is shorthand. That is about community.” KnowsHomeCommunityRoomsLaughterIntimateShorthand Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.” ChildrenStoriesFeelingsPainYoungCommunitySpaceRoomsEgoConnectionsOutletsYoung Children Author:Tom Hiddleston