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RE: https://aus.social/@oscarjiminy/116966632849982993
My local library in Port Philip's always been a real pride of the community. Was designed by a bit of a rockstar architect and it's a kind of keystone community structure in the way that all libraries are but the design really embeds that dynamic in stone and glass.
This place was always, in my memory, really busy. Folks walking the shelves, sitting reading, standing reading, studying etc etc, all the things folks do in libraries.
Lately, someone decided to redesign the layout and part of that redesign was to allocate restricted areas. There is now (I would estimate) about 50% of the seating restricted and if you sit there unknowingly (signage is really minimal) you will be asked to move within about ten minutes of having sat down.
I may be cynical (it's been said before) but it strikes me as pandering to rate payers in an area with a population lousy with renters, though with the massive density developments happening here over the past 20 years I guess we're becoming a minority.
The point is (for me) that libraries can't afford to be alienating their demographic and I can say anecdotally that ever since the layout adjustments the traffic in this library has fallen off a cliff
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RE: https://aus.social/@oscarjiminy/116966632849982993
My local library in Port Philip's always been a real pride of the community. Was designed by a bit of a rockstar architect and it's a kind of keystone community structure in the way that all libraries are but the design really embeds that dynamic in stone and glass.
This place was always, in my memory, really busy. Folks walking the shelves, sitting reading, standing reading, studying etc etc, all the things folks do in libraries.
Lately, someone decided to redesign the layout and part of that redesign was to allocate restricted areas. There is now (I would estimate) about 50% of the seating restricted and if you sit there unknowingly (signage is really minimal) you will be asked to move within about ten minutes of having sat down.
I may be cynical (it's been said before) but it strikes me as pandering to rate payers in an area with a population lousy with renters, though with the massive density developments happening here over the past 20 years I guess we're becoming a minority.
The point is (for me) that libraries can't afford to be alienating their demographic and I can say anecdotally that ever since the layout adjustments the traffic in this library has fallen off a cliff
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RE: https://aus.social/@oscarjiminy/116966632849982993
My local library in Port Philip's always been a real pride of the community. Was designed by a bit of a rockstar architect and it's a kind of keystone community structure in the way that all libraries are but the design really embeds that dynamic in stone and glass.
This place was always, in my memory, really busy. Folks walking the shelves, sitting reading, standing reading, studying etc etc, all the things folks do in libraries.
Lately, someone decided to redesign the layout and part of that redesign was to allocate restricted areas. There is now (I would estimate) about 50% of the seating restricted and if you sit there unknowingly (signage is really minimal) you will be asked to move within about ten minutes of having sat down.
I may be cynical (it's been said before) but it strikes me as pandering to rate payers in an area with a population lousy with renters, though with the massive density developments happening here over the past 20 years I guess we're becoming a minority.
The point is (for me) that libraries can't afford to be alienating their demographic and I can say anecdotally that ever since the layout adjustments the traffic in this library has fallen off a cliff
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RE: https://aus.social/@oscarjiminy/116966632849982993
My local library in Port Philip's always been a real pride of the community. Was designed by a bit of a rockstar architect and it's a kind of keystone community structure in the way that all libraries are but the design really embeds that dynamic in stone and glass.
This place was always, in my memory, really busy. Folks walking the shelves, sitting reading, standing reading, studying etc etc, all the things folks do in libraries.
Lately, someone decided to redesign the layout and part of that redesign was to allocate restricted areas. There is now (I would estimate) about 50% of the seating restricted and if you sit there unknowingly (signage is really minimal) you will be asked to move within about ten minutes of having sat down.
I may be cynical (it's been said before) but it strikes me as pandering to rate payers in an area with a population lousy with renters, though with the massive density developments happening here over the past 20 years I guess we're becoming a minority.
The point is (for me) that libraries can't afford to be alienating their demographic and I can say anecdotally that ever since the layout adjustments the traffic in this library has fallen off a cliff
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RE: https://aus.social/@oscarjiminy/116966632849982993
My local library in Port Philip's always been a real pride of the community. Was designed by a bit of a rockstar architect and it's a kind of keystone community structure in the way that all libraries are but the design really embeds that dynamic in stone and glass.
This place was always, in my memory, really busy. Folks walking the shelves, sitting reading, standing reading, studying etc etc, all the things folks do in libraries.
Lately, someone decided to redesign the layout and part of that redesign was to allocate restricted areas. There is now (I would estimate) about 50% of the seating restricted and if you sit there unknowingly (signage is really minimal) you will be asked to move within about ten minutes of having sat down.
I may be cynical (it's been said before) but it strikes me as pandering to rate payers in an area with a population lousy with renters, though with the massive density developments happening here over the past 20 years I guess we're becoming a minority.
The point is (for me) that libraries can't afford to be alienating their demographic and I can say anecdotally that ever since the layout adjustments the traffic in this library has fallen off a cliff
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Needle cleanup coming to more public spaces in Winnipeg, including transit shelters, civic plazas
The City of Winnipeg is increasing the number of public spaces where crews will collect used needles and…
#Canada #Winnipeg #citycouncil #CityofWinnipeg #cleanupprogram #publicspaces #ScottGillingham
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/127613/ Open Days: Urban Projects in Vilnius, Haifa and Tokyo #Haifa #Lithuania #PublicSpaces #Tokyo #Urbanism #Vilnius
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Very interesting first hand account of breaking in Australia and how RayGun won the female breaking crown and went on to become an embarrassment that non-Dancers use to insult the sport.
It talks about how sports and hobbies that are not popular are difficult to do because they depend on the participants having money, and how lack of competition makes it difficult to reach world class levels.
#sports #dance #bgirls #breaking #olympics #poverty #publicSpaces -
Very interesting first hand account of breaking in Australia and how RayGun won the female breaking crown and went on to become an embarrassment that non-Dancers use to insult the sport.
It talks about how sports and hobbies that are not popular are difficult to do because they depend on the participants having money, and how lack of competition makes it difficult to reach world class levels.
#sports #dance #bgirls #breaking #olympics #poverty #publicSpaces -
Very interesting first hand account of breaking in Australia and how RayGun won the female breaking crown and went on to become an embarrassment that non-Dancers use to insult the sport.
It talks about how sports and hobbies that are not popular are difficult to do because they depend on the participants having money, and how lack of competition makes it difficult to reach world class levels.
#sports #dance #bgirls #breaking #olympics #poverty #publicSpaces -
Very interesting first hand account of breaking in Australia and how RayGun won the female breaking crown and went on to become an embarrassment that non-Dancers use to insult the sport.
It talks about how sports and hobbies that are not popular are difficult to do because they depend on the participants having money, and how lack of competition makes it difficult to reach world class levels.
#sports #dance #bgirls #breaking #olympics #poverty #publicSpaces -
Very interesting first hand account of breaking in Australia and how RayGun won the female breaking crown and went on to become an embarrassment that non-Dancers use to insult the sport.
It talks about how sports and hobbies that are not popular are difficult to do because they depend on the participants having money, and how lack of competition makes it difficult to reach world class levels.
#sports #dance #bgirls #breaking #olympics #poverty #publicSpaces -
Why the FUCK do SO MANY people feel entitled to have loud, lengthy (in some cases multiple) phonecalls, on a goddamn national bus route? #BusÉireann #PublicSpaces #Ireland
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Could an Olympian face a decade in prison? David Hearn, a three-time Olympian, has been indicted for allegedly ripping sealant from the Reflecting Pool, a project prioritized by President Donald Trump. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro states the pool belongs to all Americans, and Hearn faces up to 10 years if convicted, though he denies the charges. Learn more about this unusual case. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/reflecting-pool-indictment-david-hearn-destruction-pirro.html #LegalNews #PublicSpaces #Olympian
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Could an Olympian face a decade in prison? David Hearn, a three-time Olympian, has been indicted for allegedly ripping sealant from the Reflecting Pool, a project prioritized by President Donald Trump. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro states the pool belongs to all Americans, and Hearn faces up to 10 years if convicted, though he denies the charges. Learn more about this unusual case. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/reflecting-pool-indictment-david-hearn-destruction-pirro.html #LegalNews #PublicSpaces #Olympian
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During my visits it was heartening to see the library in active use by many people, to read the daily newspapers or to get out from under the hot sun for a while.
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During my visits it was heartening to see the library in active use by many people, to read the daily newspapers or to get out from under the hot sun for a while.
#PublicSpaces -
During my visits it was heartening to see the library in active use by many people, to read the daily newspapers or to get out from under the hot sun for a while.
#PublicSpaces -
European festival goers banned from drinking alcohol amid heatwave alert
France is facing a partial alcohol ban amid a historic heatwave, leaving the country’s popular music festival with…
#Europe #EU #alcoholconsumption #concertvenues #European #FêtedelaMusique #Frenchgovernment #heatwave #MeteoFrance #publicspaces #redalert #temperatures
https://www.europesays.com/europe/75628/ -
European festival goers banned from drinking alcohol amid heatwave alert
France is facing a partial alcohol ban amid a historic heatwave, leaving the country’s popular music festival with…
#Europe #EU #alcoholconsumption #concertvenues #European #FêtedelaMusique #Frenchgovernment #heatwave #MeteoFrance #publicspaces #redalert #temperatures
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From 2023, the coming Marpole Transit Centre.
#transit #publicspaces #Vancouver -
From 2023, the coming Marpole Transit Centre.
#transit #publicspaces #Vancouver -
From 2023, the coming Marpole Transit Centre.
#transit #publicspaces #Vancouver -
From 2023, the coming Marpole Transit Centre.
#transit #publicspaces #Vancouver -
From 2023, the coming Marpole Transit Centre.
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Had a scan through the videos from the #PublicSpaces conference - this has been my subject for the last 30 years: https://video.publicspaces.net/c/pubconf/videos
My takeaway is that there is a lot of activity, but not much movement. A lot of discussion, frameworks and technical thinking, but no real questions - What kind of #openweb culture are we actually building?
Too often we end up with the same cycle of
more complexity → more infrastructure → more maintenance → more dependency → more #techshit.The problem is not that people are building things, building is good. The problem is when the culture keeps producing paths that push more mess into the commons, then the people build alternatives have to spend their energy cleaning up, mediating, and rebuilding the native social layer that was ignored.
The #OMN question is - Are we creating tools that strengthen communities, or are we creating more technical problems that communities have to carry?
The #openweb was never only about technology. It was about participation, trust, shared ownership and social infrastructure. Without that, we just keep producing more mess that someone has to compost later.
The work we need is growing the culture that makes better tech possible.
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Had a scan through the videos from the #PublicSpaces conference - this has been my subject for the last 30 years: https://video.publicspaces.net/c/pubconf/videos
My takeaway is that there is a lot of activity, but not much movement. A lot of discussion, frameworks and technical thinking, but no real questions - What kind of #openweb culture are we actually building?
Too often we end up with the same cycle of
more complexity → more infrastructure → more maintenance → more dependency → more #techshit.The problem is not that people are building things, building is good. The problem is when the culture keeps producing paths that push more mess into the commons, then the people build alternatives have to spend their energy cleaning up, mediating, and rebuilding the native social layer that was ignored.
The #OMN question is - Are we creating tools that strengthen communities, or are we creating more technical problems that communities have to carry?
The #openweb was never only about technology. It was about participation, trust, shared ownership and social infrastructure. Without that, we just keep producing more mess that someone has to compost later.
The work we need is growing the culture that makes better tech possible.
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Had a scan through the videos from the #PublicSpaces conference - this has been my subject for the last 30 years: https://video.publicspaces.net/c/pubconf/videos
My takeaway is that there is a lot of activity, but not much movement. A lot of discussion, frameworks and technical thinking, but no real questions - What kind of #openweb culture are we actually building?
Too often we end up with the same cycle of
more complexity → more infrastructure → more maintenance → more dependency → more #techshit.The problem is not that people are building things, building is good. The problem is when the culture keeps producing paths that push more mess into the commons, then the people build alternatives have to spend their energy cleaning up, mediating, and rebuilding the native social layer that was ignored.
The #OMN question is - Are we creating tools that strengthen communities, or are we creating more technical problems that communities have to carry?
The #openweb was never only about technology. It was about participation, trust, shared ownership and social infrastructure. Without that, we just keep producing more mess that someone has to compost later.
The work we need is growing the culture that makes better tech possible.
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Had a scan through the videos from the #PublicSpaces conference - this has been my subject for the last 30 years: https://video.publicspaces.net/c/pubconf/videos
My takeaway is that there is a lot of activity, but not much movement. A lot of discussion, frameworks and technical thinking, but no real questions - What kind of #openweb culture are we actually building?
Too often we end up with the same cycle of
more complexity → more infrastructure → more maintenance → more dependency → more #techshit.The problem is not that people are building things, building is good. The problem is when the culture keeps producing paths that push more mess into the commons, then the people build alternatives have to spend their energy cleaning up, mediating, and rebuilding the native social layer that was ignored.
The #OMN question is - Are we creating tools that strengthen communities, or are we creating more technical problems that communities have to carry?
The #openweb was never only about technology. It was about participation, trust, shared ownership and social infrastructure. Without that, we just keep producing more mess that someone has to compost later.
The work we need is growing the culture that makes better tech possible.
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Had a scan through the videos from the #PublicSpaces conference - this has been my subject for the last 30 years: https://video.publicspaces.net/c/pubconf/videos
My takeaway is that there is a lot of activity, but not much movement. A lot of discussion, frameworks and technical thinking, but no real questions - What kind of #openweb culture are we actually building?
Too often we end up with the same cycle of
more complexity → more infrastructure → more maintenance → more dependency → more #techshit.The problem is not that people are building things, building is good. The problem is when the culture keeps producing paths that push more mess into the commons, then the people build alternatives have to spend their energy cleaning up, mediating, and rebuilding the native social layer that was ignored.
The #OMN question is - Are we creating tools that strengthen communities, or are we creating more technical problems that communities have to carry?
The #openweb was never only about technology. It was about participation, trust, shared ownership and social infrastructure. Without that, we just keep producing more mess that someone has to compost later.
The work we need is growing the culture that makes better tech possible.
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At the #PublicSpaces conference there was a session on 'Growth and Sustainability of the Open Social Web' where I asked Rose Wang from #Bluesky a question about the $100M on VC funding.
Apparently it is a '3 year runway' that can pay for (only) 40 people and other expenses. Sounds like half a million dollar salary to me per person to me.
The other interesting part I got from this is that "they are focused on growth" and that is all. Where can I find the investors that are willing to pay millions and only have me focus on growth?
Nice thing about #PeerTube (which this is hosted on) is that I can give you exactly the link to the interesting part:
https://video.publicspaces.net/w/viCXYbYvkwrMaDF9EaZnsr?start=36m2s&stop=50m12s -
At the #PublicSpaces conference there was a session on 'Growth and Sustainability of the Open Social Web' where I asked Rose Wang from #Bluesky a question about the $100M on VC funding.
Apparently it is a '3 year runway' that can pay for (only) 40 people and other expenses. Sounds like half a million dollar salary to me per person to me.
The other interesting part I got from this is that "they are focused on growth" and that is all. Where can I find the investors that are willing to pay millions and only have me focus on growth?
Nice thing about #PeerTube (which this is hosted on) is that I can give you exactly the link to the interesting part:
https://video.publicspaces.net/w/viCXYbYvkwrMaDF9EaZnsr?start=36m2s&stop=50m12s -
At the #PublicSpaces conference there was a session on 'Growth and Sustainability of the Open Social Web' where I asked Rose Wang from #Bluesky a question about the $100M on VC funding.
Apparently it is a '3 year runway' that can pay for (only) 40 people and other expenses. Sounds like half a million dollar salary to me per person to me.
The other interesting part I got from this is that "they are focused on growth" and that is all. Where can I find the investors that are willing to pay millions and only have me focus on growth?
Nice thing about #PeerTube (which this is hosted on) is that I can give you exactly the link to the interesting part:
https://video.publicspaces.net/w/viCXYbYvkwrMaDF9EaZnsr?start=36m2s&stop=50m12s -
At the #PublicSpaces conference there was a session on 'Growth and Sustainability of the Open Social Web' where I asked Rose Wang from #Bluesky a question about the $100M on VC funding.
Apparently it is a '3 year runway' that can pay for (only) 40 people and other expenses. Sounds like half a million dollar salary to me per person to me.
The other interesting part I got from this is that "they are focused on growth" and that is all. Where can I find the investors that are willing to pay millions and only have me focus on growth?
Nice thing about #PeerTube (which this is hosted on) is that I can give you exactly the link to the interesting part:
https://video.publicspaces.net/w/viCXYbYvkwrMaDF9EaZnsr?start=36m2s&stop=50m12s -
At the #PublicSpaces conference there was a session on 'Growth and Sustainability of the Open Social Web' where I asked Rose Wang from #Bluesky a question about the $100M on VC funding.
Apparently it is a '3 year runway' that can pay for (only) 40 people and other expenses. Sounds like half a million dollar salary to me per person to me.
The other interesting part I got from this is that "they are focused on growth" and that is all. Where can I find the investors that are willing to pay millions and only have me focus on growth?
Nice thing about #PeerTube (which this is hosted on) is that I can give you exactly the link to the interesting part:
https://video.publicspaces.net/w/viCXYbYvkwrMaDF9EaZnsr?start=36m2s&stop=50m12s -
Schaamteloze zelfpromotie.
Aanstaande donderdag 18 juni geef ik samen met @Digi_tien vanuit @publicspaces een workshop op het Nationaal Bibliotheek Congres in Utrecht:
https://www.hetnationalebibliotheekcongres.nl/sessie/f3f45018/
Ook geef ik een inleidende presentatie over digitale autonomie voor een panelsessie op dit zelfde event:
https://www.hetnationalebibliotheekcongres.nl/sessie/2d1e659a/
Helaas is het uitverkocht. Heb je al een kaartje, kom dan vooral langs!
#Bibliotheken #Bibliotheek #DigitaleAutonomie #Utrecht #NationaalBibliotheekCongres #PublicSpaces
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Schaamteloze zelfpromotie.
Aanstaande donderdag 18 juni geef ik samen met @Digi_tien vanuit @publicspaces een workshop op het Nationaal Bibliotheek Congres in Utrecht:
https://www.hetnationalebibliotheekcongres.nl/sessie/f3f45018/
Ook geef ik een inleidende presentatie over digitale autonomie voor een panelsessie op dit zelfde event:
https://www.hetnationalebibliotheekcongres.nl/sessie/2d1e659a/
Helaas is het uitverkocht. Heb je al een kaartje, kom dan vooral langs!
#Bibliotheken #Bibliotheek #DigitaleAutonomie #Utrecht #NationaalBibliotheekCongres #PublicSpaces
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Schaamteloze zelfpromotie.
Aanstaande donderdag 18 juni geef ik samen met @Digi_tien vanuit @publicspaces een workshop op het Nationaal Bibliotheek Congres in Utrecht:
https://www.hetnationalebibliotheekcongres.nl/sessie/f3f45018/
Ook geef ik een inleidende presentatie over digitale autonomie voor een panelsessie op dit zelfde event:
https://www.hetnationalebibliotheekcongres.nl/sessie/2d1e659a/
Helaas is het uitverkocht. Heb je al een kaartje, kom dan vooral langs!
#Bibliotheken #Bibliotheek #DigitaleAutonomie #Utrecht #NationaalBibliotheekCongres #PublicSpaces
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Schaamteloze zelfpromotie.
Aanstaande donderdag 18 juni geef ik samen met @Digi_tien vanuit @publicspaces een workshop op het Nationaal Bibliotheek Congres in Utrecht:
https://www.hetnationalebibliotheekcongres.nl/sessie/f3f45018/
Ook geef ik een inleidende presentatie over digitale autonomie voor een panelsessie op dit zelfde event:
https://www.hetnationalebibliotheekcongres.nl/sessie/2d1e659a/
Helaas is het uitverkocht. Heb je al een kaartje, kom dan vooral langs!
#Bibliotheken #Bibliotheek #DigitaleAutonomie #Utrecht #NationaalBibliotheekCongres #PublicSpaces
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Schaamteloze zelfpromotie.
Aanstaande donderdag 18 juni geef ik samen met @Digi_tien vanuit @publicspaces een workshop op het Nationaal Bibliotheek Congres in Utrecht:
https://www.hetnationalebibliotheekcongres.nl/sessie/f3f45018/
Ook geef ik een inleidende presentatie over digitale autonomie voor een panelsessie op dit zelfde event:
https://www.hetnationalebibliotheekcongres.nl/sessie/2d1e659a/
Helaas is het uitverkocht. Heb je al een kaartje, kom dan vooral langs!
#Bibliotheken #Bibliotheek #DigitaleAutonomie #Utrecht #NationaalBibliotheekCongres #PublicSpaces
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1027117/ Fondation Beyeler to Open Expanded Campus by Peter Zumthor in 2027 #Architecture #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #basel #BeyelerFoundation #Design #Entertainment #Exhibitions #Expansions #Museums #PeterZumthor #PublicSpaces #RenzoPianoBuildingWorkshop #Riehen #Switzerland #UK #UnitedKingdom
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1. Knitting
2. Public spaces
3. World Wide Knitting in Public Spaces Day!Yes, this exists:
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/worldwide-knit-in-public-day/
Sorry, it was yesterday apparently but now you know for next year!
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1. Knitting
2. Public spaces
3. World Wide Knitting in Public Spaces Day!Yes, this exists:
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/worldwide-knit-in-public-day/
Sorry, it was yesterday apparently but now you know for next year!
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1. Knitting
2. Public spaces
3. World Wide Knitting in Public Spaces Day!Yes, this exists:
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/worldwide-knit-in-public-day/
Sorry, it was yesterday apparently but now you know for next year!