Talking Neighborhood Design

Arturo Minera, Charles Dudley, and I sat at a table and drank some coffee while talking about designing within communities like the Price Hill neighborhoods where Arturo (West Price Hill) and I (East Price Hill) live. One of the bigger takeaways from the chat was that folks that live their lives in the neighborhoods—including kids through older adults—are the neighborhood experts. As such, these are the experts—with their lived experiences—that need to be at the tables when designing within communities. There’s no recipe for making this happen, but it has to happen. When in doubt, invent new methods.

We cover a lot more, including how Price Hill used to be a place people moved to by necessity, but is changing into a place people choose to stay. There’s several minutes on the Nodes Project and my thesis work in Price Hill. Arturo and I attempted to call attention to the many laborers in the neighborhood by name and association — we couldn’t possible identify everyone.

Big thanks to Jeremy Griffin for the video work and Charles Dudley for promoting makers in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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