The Place Collective

The Place Collective by @ennovatelab
Advancing redemptive place-based leadership, enterprise, and capital across Africa's secondary cities.

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What if being placed is not incidental to human flourishing, but the ORIGINAL DESIGN?

In our first Place Conversation, Emplacement as the Original Design, we return to the beginning to consider the cost of placelessness.

Show Interest: https://t.co/LAiu4ffsvk

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What could our cities become if we designed their spaces with more intention?

Properly designed spaces elicit beautiful things.

#placemaking #urbandesign #architecture #spacedesign #design

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why can’t you leave?

what if the place you cannot stop caring about is calling you to build?

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#placemaking #placedevelopment #africancities #urbandevelopment #communitybuilding #africa

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What approach does your city or place require for transformation?

Whether you are a government, institution, business, organisation, community, or individual, we can help you diagnose your place and discern pathways toward its renewal.

Explore our work
https://t.co/QmfY37LBnT

[The Place Collective @the_placeco]

What approach does your city or place require for transformation?

Whether you are a government, institution, business, organisation, community, or individual, we can help you diagnose your place and discern pathways toward its renewal.

Explore our work
https://t.co/QmfY37LBnT

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Understand the difference.

Neglected vs Broken.

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READ YOUR PLACE’S STORY

Creation. Fall. Redemption. Consummation.

Learn to read your place differently.

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REDEEMING PLACES is an online journey for people who believe places can be renewed and want to understand their part in that work.

If you carry a place in your heart, this is your invitation.

Answer the Call → https://t.co/mzokllc28c

#placemaking #urbanplanning

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Most people arrive in a place asking, “What’s missing?”

Placemakers should begin with a different question:

“What is this place already saying?”

Every city has a grammar. Learn to read it before you try to change it.

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“I’ve Never Felt Like an Outsider Here.”

Greg Bertsch’s first visit to Ogbomoso, Nigeria.

His story drops this weekend.

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#storiesofogbomoso #ogbomoso #theplacecollective #nigeria #southdakota

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What if “secondary” was never about size, but about how a city was seen?

Swipe through for a different way of seeing the cities the world too often overlooks. →

#secondarycities #placemaking #africancities #theplacecollective

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The Sleeping Giant

A campus can be the most valuable institution in a city and still contribute almost nothing to its future.

The question isn't whether the asset exists.

It's whether we'll finally activate it.

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Read. Share. Start the conversation.

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What city are you planting yourself in?

Share below, then visit https://t.co/3vh57nRmxZ to read the full article.

#africa #placemaking #secondarycities #leadership #theplacecollective