Erica Dorn

Transition Design, Carnegie Mellon University | @suburbcivics | Landecker Democracy Fellow

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

Can we talk more about suburbs?

'Social services have not caught up with the needs of residents in sprawling suburbs. #Aurora is addressing auto-oriented dev. w/ mobile 'public spaces'

Advancing equity in suburbs w/ https://t.co/YRdpFgCflB + @BrookingsMetro

#mobilityjustice

[Brookings Metro @BrookingsMetro]

.@eldorn: Aurora, Colorado’s racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity is largely representative of the present and future of U.S. suburbs, which have seen a significant rise in residents of color over the last two decades. https://t.co/8SXHdhmBIH

[CMU School of Design @cmudesign]

Is there a doctor in the house? There is if you're currently next to Erica Dorn! Yesterday, Erica successfully defended her dissertation and became our newest PhD in Transition Design. Congrats, Erica!!! https://t.co/iNTcbBFXqt

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

@fredvanamstel @mr_tumnus thank you!

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

what are your preferred terms or phrasing instead of saying non-human or other-than-human?

I often use more-than-human (thank to @mr_tumnus during our Wassan Island trip in 2015?) but also don't like the hierarchy implied.

#earthlings

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

@anthronoah @mr_tumnus Oh nice! Thanks Noah. I'll check out the book too

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

@Henryz_mom @NHTSAgov @USDOT @SecretaryPete The other day in PDX a truck like this pulled with and also had massive flood lights attached and a speaker and started militia style harassing pedestrians.

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

@SalzburgGlobal @fayehosbon @ArtsCouncilMLT @martinoweiss @BenjaminGlahn @ThomasBiebl @dominicregester @pmihailidis @Mhpombo @JennDunn11 @supermombartz

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

@hillarydesres @AmandaTatts @research_la Thank you for sharing @hillarydesres

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

This campaign @Marcano4Aurora makes me so proud to be from Aurora!

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

I am often asked 'what exactly do you mean by no borders"

So I wrote on what borders are, why we need to abolish borders, and how movements are defying & dismantling borders.

w/thanks to Robin Kelley, Adom Getachew, Deborah Chasman, Hannah Liberman.

https://t.co/78rdgB5K2u

[🐝🌹Aurora_Activist 🌹🐝 @AuroraActivist]

People who are sick… need health care.
People who are homeless… need homes.
People who are poor… need money.

If the “free market” does not provide that, the answer is *not* a series of nonprofits. The answer is universal health care, housing, & income.

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

@KinoshtaKen and @cailindz :)

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

In 1791, the Second Amendment was written.

In 1847, the bullet was invented.

Thus, the Second Amendment only applies to muskets.

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

@Sean_Hertel oh the vitriol towards suburban realities and potentials

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

@kiangoh We have a sad version in PDX https://t.co/60OtaGsWWk

[Tina Kotek @TinaKotek]

I am honored and humbled to serve Oregon.

I promise to be a Governor for all of Oregon.

And I’m ready to get to work and move Oregon forward.

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

A class I'd love to take with you @federicovaz and @statefree_world

[🐝🌹Aurora_Activist 🌹🐝 @AuroraActivist]

Arapahoe County won all the things. #FYeah #ArapahoeVotes

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

we will continue to have many spaces that no amount of money can activate as public since the design was married to the money, already divorced from community imagination. Hence investing in relationships as precursors to design actions...

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

Yes and... I was reminded after a recent trip to a high rise suburban development outside of Toronto that, unless we shift capital sources/structures for profit-driven projects that lack civic and social infrastructure...

[Ethan Kent @ebkent]

@eldorn Investing in relationships & inclusivity without changing the designed spaces that perpetuate polarization & the breakdown of relationships, isn't enough.

#Placemaking can enable (pluralistic)relationships & designed spaces to build each-other up in a virtuous cycle.

[Erica Dorn @eldorn]

What we invest in, we design, and what we design, perpetuates our lived experiences. Invest in relationships, invest in depolarization, invest in plurality.