Provisional asset · built from session photos · conditions, barriers and dimensions per the group's own placement · pending David's transcription for the final version
Conditions & Barriers Hub Asset · TNN Retreat

Place & Built Environment

One of the seven neighborhood components · Activity 3 (what makes it viable) and Activity 4 (what undermines it)

This board mapped what has to be present for place and the built environment to serve a neighborhood, the conditions under which physical space, housing, and infrastructure are shaped at a human scale and held in common. The group named the barriers that undermine those conditions, working from the Activity 2 dimensions carried in below. Read from the session photos and provisional until David's transcription.

Carried in from Activity 2

The dimensions these attach to

InfrastructureDesign and human scalePublic spaceHousingNature
Enabling conditions

What has to be present

01Organizing for shared stewardship and mutual responsibility
02Accessibility and equitable access that is intentionally protected, fought for, and designed for
03Adequate financial resources (solvency)
04Co-creation among neighbors of what spaces are needed and how they are used
05Experiential knowledge and recognition of need, to gain community buy-in
06Alternatives to current markets and financial products
07Jobs with live-able wages
08Financial trainingpartly hidden; possibly “transparency”
09Countering over-policing with community engagement and shared responsibility
10Publicly-owned land
11Intentional spaces and time to dismantle human-centric and colonial thinking
12Dismantling of ideas around poverty, public housing, and meritocracy
Barriers

What undermines it

B1Mistrust of our neighbors
B2Isolation: social, economic, and geographic
B3Complexity is uncomfortable, inefficient, and expensive
B4Scarcity mindset drives competition and over-emphasis on safety and risk mitigation, hoarding resources
B5End-stage capitalism: privatized common goods like healthcare and housing, billionaires with no limits
B6Fear of being “counter-cultural,” of what we may lose
B7No activators or narrative-builders during emergencies or moments of mass attention
B8Few embodied ways of non-supremacy
B9Institutional path-dependency
The board at a glance

Around the component

Place and the built environment at the center, the enabling conditions around it, and the barriers the group named set apart in rose. The five Activity 2 dimensions are the anchors these attach to.

barriers PLACE &BUILT ENV.
Open, and worth carrying forward

Threads

T1

The dimensions carry forward

Infrastructure, design and human scale, public space, housing, and nature are the anchors. No vote was visible on this board. Confirm in revision.

T2

Barrier or driver

End-stage capitalism, scarcity, and isolation were placed in pink as barriers here, while a sister board placed capitalism as a green driver. Worth reconciling across boards.

T3

Shared seam with Story

This board shares a sheet with Story, Memory & Identity. The systemic notes near the seam, including Christian white nationalism, were a judgment call. David's transcription settles attribution.

T4

Reading uncertainties

A few notes were partly hidden, including the financial-training note. David's transcription settles the wording.