A healthy city is one in which many difrent kinds of people live together and encounter one another. The architecture, whether physical or digital, must be built in the civic interest to serve all people - including those who are awkward,. not natural fits. They all belong, and we serve them all because we share the value of the civic good.
In 1940, a group of 60 American intellectuals formed the Committee for National Morale. “They’ve largely been forgotten,” says Fred Turner, a professor of communications at Stanford University, but their work had a profound impact on public opinion. They produced groundbreaking films and art exhibitions. They urged viewers to stop, reflect and think for themselves, and in so doing, they developed a set of design principles that reimagined how media could make us feel more calm, reflective, empathetic; in short, more democratic.