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What issues do you feel society gives too much attention to?
Inclusion
When was the last time you made a genuine connection with someone?
Connection
How do you express yourself?
Freedom
What are some things about the world that will never change?
Agency
What is your role in the community?
Inclusion
Are you part of a community?
Inclusion
What are some spaces that connect you to the past?
Attachment
Which groups do you feel most empathy for?
Inclusion
How important is it to live close to your closest friends?
Connection
Where do you get dressed up for?
Attraction
What happens to the already-there in an up-and-coming neighbourhood?
Attraction
Where do you go to catch your breath?
Attraction
Do you like the idea of people watching you?
Connection
How much do you relate to your culture’s history?
Attachment
How do you keep in touch with your friends?
Connection
Where does your neighbourhood begin and end?
Attachment
What are the opinions you keep to yourself?
Freedom
How willing are you to move to another city?
Attachment
Do you try to change yourself or change things around you?
Agency
Where do you go to get your breath taken away?
Attraction
How long have you called home, home?
Attachment
What happens when wildlife moves into town?
Attraction
Are there spaces that feel more like home than your place of residence?
Attachment
What is an activity you wish you had in your city?
Attraction
What is your relationship to your government?
Freedom
Are plants essential city infrastructure?
Attraction
Should the city cater to all tastes and lifestyles?
Attraction
How well do you think your culture cultivates a shared sense of history?
Attachment
Are you obligated to tolerate the smell of your neighbour’s cooking?
Inclusion
Is it customary in your culture to greet people you don’t know?
Connection
What is something about the past that you wish today’s generation knew about?
Attachment
When was the last time you experienced something new?
Attraction
When was the last time you encountered someone in your community whose lifestyle made you uncomfortable?
Inclusion
Do you feel like you have to hide anything about yourself?
Freedom
Do you have time for yourself?
Freedom
What is your community’s role in society?
Inclusion
In what ways has the pandemic created new relationships?
Inclusion
Do you like people watching?
Connection
Where do you feel free to be yourself?
Freedom
What issues or causes do we not pay enough attention to?
Inclusion
Whose faces do you encounter every day?
Connection
Do you look at buskers primarily as entertainers or people making what they like?
Attraction
How optimistic do you feel about influencing change?
Agency
What cause do you stand for?
Agency
When was the last time you felt like an outsider?
Inclusion
Freedom
How much should we tame nature?
Attraction
Inclusion
How does the aesthetic and the emotional interact at heritage places?
Attachment
Attraction
What is top of mind when you walk in the city?
Freedom
Attraction
Are rural aspirations urban opportunities?
Connection
Agency
Freedom
When was the last time you allowed someone to change your mind?
Connection
Attachment
Who has the most fun in your city?
Freedom
How old were you when you first discovered something unfair?
Agency
Should attractions be zoned neatly, or should they spill into each other?
Attraction
Which city do you love to visit but would not want to live in?
Attraction
How do nostalgia and novelty relate to each other?
Attachment
How much should we plan for non-human habitats in our city?
Inclusion
When was the last time you engaged in deep conversation with a stranger?
Connection
How have your thoughts around injustice evolved as you grew older?
Agency
Is there a shared sense of history in the place you live?
Attachment
How can we treat elders as assets rather than liabilities?
Inclusion
In what ways has your city surprised you?
Attachment
Could nature reserves tell us about our past as much as conserved buildings?
Attachment
Which building in your city would you do away with?
Attachment
Which groups struggle to engage in their culture in your city?
Freedom
Are there losing battles that you still fight?
Agency
Does measuring help make better unmeasurables?
Agency
Do you feel heard?
Agency
Can we eat our landscape?
Agency
How do we design a space for living, for those who are dying?
Agency
Could the final outcome be a work-in-progress?
Agency
How can we see the old with new eyes?
Agency
Can we keep half of earth, for earth?
Agency
How can we tell if our cities feel well?
Agency
Can environments evolve with us, so we never outgrow the place we call home?
Attachment
Who defines the reciprocity between the ecological and the sociological?
Attachment
Can a spirit survive without a body?
Attachment
Can we change the nature of a city?
Attraction
Can we like caterpillars as much as we like butterflies?
Attraction
Does encountering nature make human nature more humane?
Attraction
Can the nest we create for ourselves also be a nest for other living things?
Attraction
How can we cool ourselves without making the earth hotter?
Attraction
How can buildings act like rainforests?
Attraction
How nutritious is your garden?
Attraction
Can we find composure in chance and chaos?
Attraction
How can we make room for greenery in a dense city?
Attraction
Can a building breathe like a living being?
Attraction
Can a revolution grow from our gardens?
Connection
What do you gain by helping something grow?
Connection
How do you fit a village into a building?
Connection
Can a high-rise tower and human meet eye-to-eye?
Connection
Can we engineer connection?
Connection
What vantage point allows us to see our blind spots?
Connection
How do we build bridges, and not walls, between people?
Connection
Should we make difficult issues more palatable?
Freedom
Can designing for privacy enable more social connection?
Freedom
How can we design for misuse?
Freedom
How many languages can a community speak?
Freedom
Is there violence in care?
Freedom
What if one day, you forget your name?
Freedom
How might a learning environment serve all needs and speeds?
Freedom
Can we build and dwell authentically within constructs that are not our own?
Freedom
How many ways can you use a cup?
Inclusion
How can we make the word ‘inclusion’ obsolete?
Inclusion
Can a pavement crack be a greenhouse?
Inclusion
Can design play cupid?
Inclusion
How do we add not only years to life, but life to years?
Inclusion