by Halina Brown | Feb 22, 2022 | Blog
This blog is a part of the Frontier Series, a collaboration between SCORAI and the Hot or Cool Institute that brings you lessons learned, personal experiences and insights from the cutting edge of climate and sustainability research and practice. I live in Newton,...
by Ginnie Guillen-Hanson | Nov 29, 2021 | Blog
This quarter in Play (Q4) The last month of the year usually comes full of reflections and resolutions, and, after a second year of uncertainty, partial or full lockdowns, unrest and fear, the prospect of a new year, may bring the hope that things will get better....
by Ginnie Guillen-Hanson | Aug 24, 2021 | Blog
Part 2 – Play within the city The previous entry to this blog was an invitation to enjoy our cities, play with them, change the meaning of the objects and spaces around us. A couple of readers kindly noted that (COVID-19 regulations aside) doing such a thing may...
by Ginnie Guillen-Hanson | Jun 3, 2021 | Blog, This Quarter in Play
Part 1 – Play with the city “Say you don’t know me or recognize my face Say you don’t care who goes to that kind of place Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight Too many runaways eating up the night“ (Starship, 1985) The lyrics of the mid-eighties...
by Georgina Guillen-Hanson | Jan 31, 2021 | This Quarter in Play
Do you check your steps on your cellphone’s in-built health app and feel great when realizing you met the daily goal? Do you smile when your energy bill comes with a colorful graph showing your consumption is lower than the year before, and you’re doing...
by Ashley Colby | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog
Dirty fingernails. Thick work boots. A hat and long sleeves. Clothes smell like soil and animals. A shed full of tools. A day spent caring for animals and plants. An encyclopedic knowledge of the life that populates the land he or she lives on. Sees nature everywhere....
