I like this but I think it needs a single word to describe the experience of it. Kind of like the danish word ‘hygge’—you can feel it before you can describe it.
Nick Shaw
“Joy is increasingly being named within urbanism and public life discourse, and that is a good thing…I’ve taken it further. I’ve come to understand that public joy is more than a fleeting feeling…
My friend @jaypitter.bsky.social is kicking walls down joyously, changing the way we see public life.
The award-winning public space practitioner and researcher introduces a methodology that positions public joy — in all of its varied dimensions — as an essential right that should be built into the fa...