Space & Place

by Peter Block From News for a Change In one way or another, we are all trying to make the transition from the industrial era of predictability and control to the service/information era of choice and participation. One obstacle is that most of the rooms in which we come together were designed … [Read more...]

by Peter Block From News for a Change Large conferences where hundreds of people come together for  a few days are important. They are a public way of affirming a set of beliefs.  They give us the experience of being part of a larger community and they remind  us that we are not alone in … [Read more...]

by Peter Block From News for a Change Christopher Alexander is an architect who, for thirty years, has been arguing to bring feeling, humanity and beauty into construction of the built environment. His writing about buildings is really a set of beliefs about the way we construct the world … [Read more...]

by Peter Block From News for a Change This is part two of a three part series about the importance of how to bring people together in a way that creates an accountable and committed culture. The previous column discussed how casual we are in the way we engage people when we bring them together. … [Read more...]

by Peter Block, From News for a Change In one way or another, we are all trying to make the transition from the industrial era of predictability and control to the service/information era of choice and participation. One obstacle is that most of the rooms in which we come together were designed for … [Read more...]