A provocative meditation on the value of place
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Laurie Sommers
Mar 18, 2024, 8:54:42 AM3/18/24
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From Steve Zeitlin, the director of New York's City Lore, originally posted on the Publore listserv.
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 07:46:58 -0600
From: Steve Zeitlin <st...@CITYLORE.ORG>
Subject: Place Coins: Contemplating an Alternate
As preservationists, we sometimes speak metaphorically about “cultural capital” and “social currency.” But what if there were an actual currency of memory and meaning to prevent places with deep roots in a community to be sold or displaced. What if memories, associations, and values were transformed into units of meaningful exchange?
In 2008 – 2009, Bitcoins, an imagined cryptocurrency took the world by storm. Bitcoins have value because people agree they have value, and they function as currency. In that spirit, let’s imagine “Place Coins” to assess the human attachment to places. In his new Poetry of Everyday Life Blog, Steve imagines just how that might work in both urban and rural settings.
Read the blog here: https://citylore.org/place-coins-contemplating-an-alternate-currency/
Steve
City Lore
From: Steve Zeitlin <st...@CITYLORE.ORG>
Subject: Place Coins: Contemplating an Alternate
As preservationists, we sometimes speak metaphorically about “cultural capital” and “social currency.” But what if there were an actual currency of memory and meaning to prevent places with deep roots in a community to be sold or displaced. What if memories, associations, and values were transformed into units of meaningful exchange?
In 2008 – 2009, Bitcoins, an imagined cryptocurrency took the world by storm. Bitcoins have value because people agree they have value, and they function as currency. In that spirit, let’s imagine “Place Coins” to assess the human attachment to places. In his new Poetry of Everyday Life Blog, Steve imagines just how that might work in both urban and rural settings.
Read the blog here: https://citylore.org/place-coins-contemplating-an-alternate-currency/
Steve
City Lore
Laurie Sommers, PhD
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Laurie Kay Sommers Consulting, LLC
4292 Tacoma Blvd.
Okemos, MI 48864
517-899-6964
email: folkl...@gmail.com
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