This week's Living Room Sessions: The New Collective Narrative; The Post-Pandemic City; How to Journal; Book Reading
Tim Leberecht
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, House of Beautiful Business; author, The Business Romantic and The End of Winning; speaker, curator, advisor
In the House of Beautiful Business' virtual Living Room last week, we discussed whether the future is Asian, explored opportunities in adversity, and made encouragement signs for neighbors, strangers, and the world.
Tomorrow, Sunday, we will premiere the House Concert, followed by an invitation to co-write "The New Collective Narrative" together with our friends from More in Common – an effort that is more about sensing than sensemaking, as I argue in this piece about the stories we all need to write now.
And there are more Living Rooms Sessions all week for you to learn, listen, and discuss! Attendance is free.
Take a look at the full upcoming program
Check out this week's line-up:
Sunday, April 19, 4:00 – 5:00 pm CET
House Concert
Tune in for our first virtual House concert, from living room to living room, with live performances by our musician-in-residence Mark Aanderud and friends from Barcelona, New York, and Seoul: Chris Gibbs, Frederico Vannini, Jungran Cho, Marta Cascales Alimbau, Rick Parker, and the duo Still Life.
Sunday, April 19, 7:00 – 8:30 pm CET
The New Collective Narrative
Explore, Debate, and Co-Write It
The COVID-19 pandemic has only created greater urgency for what research by the nonprofit organization More in Common has shown: that members of Western societies are longing for a new aspirational project, a new collective narrative that helps us overcome social and political polarization and unites us in building a better future after the crisis. What might that narrative look like? Join Mathieu Lefevre, co-founder and CEO of More in Common, and Gemma Mortensen, chief navigator at The New Constellation Project, for a discussion and collective writing exercise to get us started.
Wednesday, April 22, 7:00 – 8:00 pm CET
The Post-Pandemic City
Rapid urbanization, climate change, and a hyper-connected society offer space for a new way of understanding and designing urban spaces, and at the same time, they invite infectious diseases, such as the coronavirus, to spread much faster and emerge more often. How will the pandemic reshape cities and neighborhoods? Together with architect and researcher Itai Palti, founder of Conscious Cities and Hume, a science-informed architecture and urban design practice, and Kristina Palovicova, co-founder of Secret City Trails, we will explore the utopias of cities and neighborhoods that deserve a place in the world.
Thursday, April 23, 4:00 – 5:00 pm CET
Journal Your Way Through Anything
Abraham Lincoln, Leonardo Da Vinci, Maya Angelou – some of the most acclaimed creative souls have kept private journals. In a digital world shaken by a global pandemic, returning to pen and paper, and exploring your own personal way of visual thinking will help you focus, day by day. Facilitated by Sophie Kleber, the head of UX Spaces at Google, you will learn about the beauty of journaling, followed by a do-it-yourself exercise to start what might become a new habit. Bring a fresh journal (ideally with dots, not lines), your favourite pen or pencil, and a small ruler.
Sunday, April 26, 7:00 – 8:30 pm CET
An Author A Day: Book Reading
Who would we be without books and movies to escape to, biographies to marvel at, and photographs to treasure beyond lifetime? Together with House Resident, photographer, and author Beowulf Sheehan, and inspired by his initiative "An Author A Day," you are invited to a book reading with authors Jessica Rotondi, What We Inherit, Maya Lang, What We Carry, and Stephen Kiernan, Universe of Two.
Take care and see you in the Living Room!
Tim
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Living Room Sessions are part of a Residency at the House of Beautiful Business, a global think tank and community with the mission to make humans more humans and business more beautiful. In response to the global coronavirus crisis, we’ve opened up Living Room Sessions to the public until the end of April.
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