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Title: Relationship Infrastructure for Stronger Neighbourhoods: The Roles of Government and Social Leaders
Organizer: The Tamarack Institute
Date: October 18, 2023
This webinar recording features a conversation with Seth Kaplan, Ph.D, about his October 2023 book, Fragile Neighbourhoods, Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit....
Together, we discussed Canadian neighbourhoods and what the institutions that support them can do to develop relationship infrastructure and sustain themselves as strong neighbourhoods.
Speakers:
• Danya Pastuszek, Tamarack Institute (https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/)
• Seth Kaplan, Professorial Lecturer in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, Senior Adviser for the Institute for Integrated Transitions (https://sethkaplan.org/)
Have questions? Contact Danya Pastuszek (danya@tamarackcommunity.ca)
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Tamarack Institute Webinar: Relationship Infrastructure for Stronger Neighbourhoods (2023)
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Title: Relationship Infrastructure for Stronger Neighbourhoods: The Roles of Government and Social Leaders
Organizer: The Tamarack Institute
Date: October 18, 2023
This webinar recording features a conversation with Seth Kaplan, Ph.D, about his October 2023 book, Fragile Neighbourhoods, Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit....
Together, we discussed Canadian neighbourhoods and what the institutions that support them can do to develop relationship infrastructure and sustain themselves as strong neighbourhoods.
Speakers:
• Danya Pastuszek, Tamarack Institute (https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/)
• Seth Kaplan, Professorial Lecturer in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, Senior Adviser for the Institute for Integrated Transitions (https://sethkaplan.org/)
Have questions? Contact Danya Pastuszek (danya@tamarackcommunity.ca)
Learn about upcoming webinars at https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/even...
Overview of webinar:
0:00 Introduction to webinar and land acknowledgement (Connor Judge, Danya Pastuszek)
03:18 Introduction to Seth Kaplan (Danya Pastuszek)
03:32 Question 1: What life experiences or relationships have led you to where you are today? (Danya Pastuszek, Seth Kaplan)
07:36 Question 2: I’ve heard you describe the relationship crisis as being upstream from all the other crises our society faces. Can you say more about this? (Danya Pastuszek, Seth Kaplan)
12:55 Question 3: You have participated in dozens of homestays and spend time in dozens of neighborhoods around the world. Tell us about some of these places and what you’ve learned about how we can move to centring connection? (Danya Pastuszek, Seth Kaplan)
16:44 Question 4: You mentioned a couple of really practical ways of for how we can move into centring relationships. Anything else you can share with us about centring relationships in a way that we may not be used to here? (Danya Pastuszek, Seth Kaplan)
21:25 Question 5: Both of us believe deeply in the power of place, the outsized impact that a group of people who are of the same place can have when they build relationships and get to work together. Tell us what has led you to this. (Danya Pastuszek, Seth Kaplan)
27:27 Question 6: You introduced me recently to the language of “working sideways.” What is a “sideways” approach? (Danya Pastuszek, Seth Kaplan)
31:20 Question 7: We’ve spoken a lot about local work. To step back for a moment - In Fragile Neighborhoods, you offer that the neighborhood may be the most significant way to understand and address our growing social and political problems. Can you elaborate on this? (Danya Pastuszek, Seth Kaplan)
30:35 Question 8: Your book ends with some really practical guidance. For those of us who are working every day to stay in meaningful, community-centered action – can you explain some of these? (Danya Pastuszek, Seth Kaplan)
40:25 Question 9, from a participant: How do you navigate those sticky relationships when there is a fence and deep-rooted issues that can cause distrust when trying to build community resiliency and social cohesion? (Connor Judge, Seth Kaplan)
46:37 Question 10, from a participant: Can you speak more about the importance of mixed-income housing? And what is required to bring a mixed-income neighbourhood or building to life? (Connor Judge, Seth Kaplan)
50:55 Question 11, from a participant: Can you talk about what government and other civic leaders can and should do to nurture these sorts of relationships at the neighbourhood level? (Connor Judge, Seth Kaplan)
55:09 Concluding thoughts (Danya Pastuszek, Seth Kaplan)
57:50 Closing announcements (Danya Pastuszek)…...more