Public Art: A Path To Safer, Stronger Neighborhoods

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November 21, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace What art can do is start conversations. - Gina Reichert - Public Art: A Path To Safer, Stronger Neighborhoods Art that merges with the landscape brings human presence, safety, and physical activity into the city's spaces. This kind of art triggers more than one sense: it is something you move in, touch, and, in some cases, even eat. In Detroit, a spread-out city of single-family homes that is difficult to traverse and pockmarked by vacancy, these artistic interventions are an uncommonly powerful nexus of community life. They create welcoming traffic, as well as opportunities for neighbors to interact and work together. It is for a city with a future. { read more } Be The Change Do something to add an artistic touch to a community space in your life today. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity The Beautiful Fragility of Language The Difference Between Listening & Hearing On Navigating Stuckness 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From What School Doesn't Teach You: How To Learn Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Ladder to the Pleiades DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,969 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More