This is why #CivicAssembly design work I did last year started with asking about what people had expected to exist now, what had been promised, what had never arrived. It’s hauntology (a cousin of psychogeography). The miasma of pasts.
What I learnt from #CivicAssembly work was the importance of being present with people in their places.
Being left behind by economics is alienation by systems.
Being abandoned by politicians with power and institutional capabilities feels worse.
What they are doing here is good.