Power of Place
The Power of Place is a personal essay series that explores the transformative power of places around the world. Written by creatives, writers, community organisers and activists, the series explores the way we connect with land and how places can be both transformative and sites of change, community building, dreaming and evolution.
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There is something in the water
Divya Narayanan writes about the power of community organising and the campaign to save the trees, neighbourhood and lake in her town in Bengaluru.
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Finding community at the food court
Australia based writer and organiser Jon Bellebono writes about the importance of food courts as spaces for community, action and worldbuilding.
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On displacement, reclamation and land
In this article spatial practitioner and artist, Amahra Spence discusses the impacts of dispossession and ‘regeneration’ on communities in Birmingham, and how Hood Futures is building spaces for connection, remembering and spatial justice.
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Finding a place in nature and rebuilding it for others
Birdwatcher and storyteller Nadeem Perera explores how spaces are being used to transform who gets to tell stories about nature and how this can transform our spaces, species and futures.
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Under the quiet of the moon
Land-based arts and the power of the communal for individual transformation
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Surely that’s the point of it all
Simmone Ahiaku explores how The Point in Lewisham provided a much needed space for organisers and community members to come together to resist gentrification and start building collective futures.
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From lighthouse to lighthouse
In this article Mai-Anh Vũ Peterson explores the power of radical bookshops for creating solidarity and activism and as sites already bringing into existence different models of community care.
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In the epicentre of ICE, a kernel of resistance
In this article US based writer Ning Chang, explores how activists in New York City are fighting against ICE and building support for migrant communities.
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We gather by the water: memories in Manila
Mitzi Jonelle Tan discusses how a plaza by the ocean in Manila has become the home of her family, community building and activism against corruption and climate injustices.
