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We can have a conversation, and I can build a narrative around that so I know where we've been and where we're going and how to contribute to this conversation.
For me as an architect, it has become a fundamental narrative, because it begins to teach me that this micro-community not only designed another category of public space but they also designed the socioeconomic protocols that were necessary to be inscribed in that space for its long-term sustainability.
Now, since Darwin's day there's been what Cacilda and I have called the standard narrative of human sexual evolution, and you're all familiar with it, even if you haven't read this stuff.
I finally allowed myself to accept what was really most important to me, not what I was conditioned to want or maybe what I conditioned myself to want, and that decision led to a reassessment of the feminist narrative that I grew up with and have always championed.
Right now there is also a person who has an entire audience rapt with attention, a person that is weaving a powerful narrative about a world that the people who are listening have never imagined or seen before, but if they close their eyes tightly enough, they can envision that world because the storytelling is so compelling.
The reality is, the folks I described as the master teachers, the master narrative builders, the master storytellers are far removed from classrooms.
I can hear something that I love in a piece of media and I can co-opt it and insert myself in that narrative, or alter it, even.
But the thing is, they were sampling those records because they heard something in that music that spoke to them that they instantly wanted to inject themselves into the narrative of that music.
We don't know how to follow the narrative.
You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.
And it has this constant voiceover narrative in your stream of conscious thinking.
I want you to write a narrative, a narrative from the future of your city, and you can date it, set it out one year from now, five years from now, a decade from now, a generation from now, and write it as a case study looking back, looking back at the change that you wanted in your city, looking back at the cause that you were championing, and describing the ways that that change and that cause came, in fact, to succeed.
What you'll be doing when you write that narrative is you'll be discovering how to read power, and in the process, how to write power.
Once the forensics and doctors and lawyers are done with these objects, they become orphans of the narrative.
They shape their lives according to the narrative of your life, as I did with my father and my mother, perhaps, and maybe Bageye did with his father.
So the first lesson is: Change and control the narrative.
It may seem obvious, but a key ingredient to civil society diplomacy is first changing and then controlling the narrative.
As for gun control, we were successful in changing, but not so much in controlling, the narrative.
When I was eight, my parents and I moved to the U.S., and ours became the typical immigrant narrative.
When we think about mapping cities, we tend to think about roads and streets and buildings, and the settlement narrative that led to their creation, or you might think about the bold vision of an urban designer, but there's other ways to think about mapping cities and how they got to be made.
But there was another conflict, the one I believe that's more important here to make my point that it was a narrative conflict.
It's a narrative spread across a number of different disciplines, in which cooperation, collective action and complex interdependencies play a more important role.
The other major narrative of social dilemmas is the tragedy of the commons.
In 2009, I cofounded Mejdi Tours, a social enterprise that aims to connect people, with two Jewish friends, by the way, and what we'll do, the model we did, for example, in Jerusalem, we would have two tour guides, one Israeli and one Palestinian, guiding the trips together, telling history and narrative and archaeology and conflict from totally different perspectives.
And as you use them to tell your story, they become part of your personal narrative, and what you're doing is you're short-circuiting all of our collective memory, and you're making these charged symbols for us to understand.
With its lush, detailed sentences, large cast of characters, and tangled narrative, One Hundred Years of Solitude is not an easy book to read.
Time to stop tiptoeing around my past, time to stop living a life of opprobrium and time to take back my narrative.
The head says there is a policy framework, there's a common narrative, there's a mechanism through regular summitry to do these things and to make them better.
Now, this idea goes against the fixed narrative that we developed over the past 20 years over what security is and how to get it, but that narrative is flawed, and worse, it is counterproductive.
The tradition and grand narrative of Braddock is mostly comprised of stories of industrialists and trade unions.
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