Urban Pastorals
Facilitating conversations among Somerville-area communities and individuals by building awareness of our shared environments
Facilitating conversations among Somerville-area communities and individuals by building awareness of our shared environments
Urban Pastorals aims to facilitate conversations about the past, present, and future of the city of Somerville by building awareness, reengaging the commons as a vehicle for inclusion, and contributing responses—reflections, poetry, photography, drawings, sound, and other media—to an interactive online map of the city.
What new ways of mapping the city can we imagine together? A map not of boundaries but of relationships.
By giving form to our experiences of shared space, might we collectively discover the city's potentialities, its possible futures, our relation to the city's history, and our capacity for building dialogue across our various perspectives?
Urban Pastorals asks:
Find more information and instructions for contributing work on our Google form.
“Urban Pastorals” is co-sponsored by the Racial Justice Collaborative (Diane Wong, founder and leader) and the Somerville Community Growing Center.
This project is supported in part by a Public Humanities/Community Engagement Grant from the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
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