Daniel Coyle

And this thing has taken on this incredible life of its own where now these, these groups are sort of, they have a ton of agency.

They're inventing new programs for the city.

When there was a woman there who broke her wrist and there were like 15 people who contacted her.

And she said, life feels like I'm in a village.

It feels like I'm in a village now.

And so, um,

I think the lessons of that are, I think first that it's closer than we think because the way we're pre-wired for this, because there aren't too many things in life that you can say, Oh, you can kind of flip a switch, but our brains tend to happen to be one of those things.

And, um,

And the other lesson is it's kind of about design.

What Patrick did there was sort of create these spaces, these channels for people to collide and bump into each other and some kind of sense of direction.

And then he let people free to do however they wanted.

It wasn't like you need to do this.

It was like do whatever you want, organize however you want.

So high agency, high sense of you can't go here, sort of like in the Norwich town.

Like you cannot bring the politics in here.

You have to stay in this channel.

So a beautiful bit of design.

And I think it kind of gives us a possibility and an insight into –

I think those spaces, they're always repeating those same factors.

They've got some horizon, they've got some constraint, and they've got a ton of agency to give you a flow.