Inhabiting Urban Research
2025-07-06
There have for sure been ‘bumps in the road’ and hand-wringing moments, however, overall, I would say my ‘return to academia’ (in my mid/late 40s!) has beenContinue Reading
SLOW CITY: A reflection
2025-06-28
Slow city…. Whoooooa! We recently left the capital city of Warsaw (after living there for 3 years) to move to the smaller city of Radom, about anContinue Reading
Neighborhood Reflections
2025-06-02
Neighborhood. A place. A local space. A feeling. A community. This is, in brief, how I perceive what a neighborhood is, or can be. How do youContinue Reading
MORDOR: Change + It’s Complicated
2025-05-28
As the inside of my home gets a bit crazy with the chaos of moving, the surrounding blocks are also completely frenetic with change and construction activity!Continue Reading
Popping Out To The Bakery
2025-05-06
There are approximately 4 bakeries within an average of a 2-minute walk from my apartment building. This morning, as everyone in my family bustled to prepare for theContinue Reading
Inhabiting the Field
2025-05-04
I had a somewhat familiar and peculiar (but not unpleasant) feeling as I enjoyed these scenes in this post on this chilly evening in Warsaw. The ‘somewhatContinue Reading
15-MINUTE CITY, GREEN SPACE & PLAY
2025-03-05
In my first urban lab approach, which consisted of multiple workshops and ‘walking labs’, I did an exercise asking participants to ‘time travel’ not so long inContinue Reading
Roots & Routes
2025-03-03
My maternal grandparents immigrated from Barbados to the USA, settling in Harlem, New York, where my mother was born and raised. My father is from Malmö andContinue Reading
Setting the seeds…
2025-02-25
Here we go! 🌽 My corn growing – urban garden 2025 experimentation has begun 🌽 I am tracking this particular group of seedlings as ‘CORN X’ (seedsContinue Reading
Reading Insights from the Week
2025-01-10
Rounding off the week, sharing some of the diverse mix of reading I completed the past couple of days. 📰 TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNITY & THE COMMON GOOD IContinue Reading