Nodes is an outdoor living room at St. Lawrence Square where neighbors can connect to library resources and the internet, meet one another, and be engaged in their community.
︎︎︎ Get a Library Card
︎︎︎ Borrow Audiobooks + More
︎︎︎ Neighborhood Info.
︎︎︎ Use The Square
︎︎︎ Traducir el sitio con Google
Nodes is an outdoor living room at St. Lawrence Square where neighbors can connect to library resources and the internet, meet one another, and be engaged in their community.
︎︎︎ Get a Library Card
︎︎︎ Borrow Audiobooks + More
︎︎︎ Neighborhood Info.
︎︎︎ Use The Square
︎︎︎ Traducir el sitio con Google
Q3: What should a welcoming place feel like?
Loved.
Peaceful and loved. Great place to raise your children without the guns and fighting and robbings all the time. Without the girls selling themselves on each corner.
Lovable. Fantastic. Friendly.
I love Price Hill.
Joy. Home is where the heart is.
I definitely use the the coffee shop as a major indoor node. I am very aware that it doesn't seem so welcoming to everyone. When I suggest an immigrant meet me there so I can help apply for a job on my computer, etc., they will often wait outside and call to make sure I am there before entering.
I think that there can be overlapping or at least touching nodes. Depending on what you want to do, have fun, discuss politics, work in peace, etc., might dictate which of several nodes you want to enjoy at a specific time.
A simple wooden bench.
Your grandmother’s house.
A small pavilion with benches.
A park pavilion.
Of course, the trick is that it feels welcome when there appear to be other people "like me" in the place, whether that means color, age, political persuasion, etc.
Our parks in PH serve as wonderful nodes to an extent. It is the one place I see lots of people of all races out recreating. They may not particularly overlap in terms of "neighbors meeting," although some of the efforts by some of PHW's CATs have helped with that—yoga, hooping, drumming, etc. And these spaces have some of what I thought about earlier—easy to get into and out of, also neutral in terms of being somehow seen as "belonging" to a particular group. People who shop at the convenience store aren't likely to come to the public house or coffee shop, same with people who shop at the supermercado, but the parks are different, they have a more democratic feel.
Paint a pretty mural on the concrete gathering spaces.
A church.
A monistary.
An Insane Clown Posse concert.
A welcoming place should be somewhere where someone feels safe and the surrounding area doesn’t look trashy. There area should be well lighted.
A place that tears down cultural, social, economic barriers. Somewhere clean, safe, well-maintained. Inclusive of all people.
Peaceful and loved. Great place to raise your children without the guns and fighting and robbings all the time. Without the girls selling themselves on each corner.
Lovable. Fantastic. Friendly.
I love Price Hill.
Joy. Home is where the heart is.
I definitely use the the coffee shop as a major indoor node. I am very aware that it doesn't seem so welcoming to everyone. When I suggest an immigrant meet me there so I can help apply for a job on my computer, etc., they will often wait outside and call to make sure I am there before entering.
I think that there can be overlapping or at least touching nodes. Depending on what you want to do, have fun, discuss politics, work in peace, etc., might dictate which of several nodes you want to enjoy at a specific time.
A simple wooden bench.
Your grandmother’s house.
A small pavilion with benches.
A park pavilion.
Of course, the trick is that it feels welcome when there appear to be other people "like me" in the place, whether that means color, age, political persuasion, etc.
Our parks in PH serve as wonderful nodes to an extent. It is the one place I see lots of people of all races out recreating. They may not particularly overlap in terms of "neighbors meeting," although some of the efforts by some of PHW's CATs have helped with that—yoga, hooping, drumming, etc. And these spaces have some of what I thought about earlier—easy to get into and out of, also neutral in terms of being somehow seen as "belonging" to a particular group. People who shop at the convenience store aren't likely to come to the public house or coffee shop, same with people who shop at the supermercado, but the parks are different, they have a more democratic feel.
Paint a pretty mural on the concrete gathering spaces.
A church.
A monistary.
An Insane Clown Posse concert.
A welcoming place should be somewhere where someone feels safe and the surrounding area doesn’t look trashy. There area should be well lighted.
A place that tears down cultural, social, economic barriers. Somewhere clean, safe, well-maintained. Inclusive of all people.