Walk anywhere in Amsterdam and you’ll sense a calm coherence: bricks, curbs, fixtures, benches, bollards and drains that look related. This isn’t accidental. It’s a product of the Puccini Method, the city’s standards—part design language, part playbook—for shaping every street.🧵

🤯 Most people seeking asylum are not allowed to work and are forced to rely on state support—as little as £6.43 a day. 🤔 What might be a good way to help asylum seekers out of hotels? 🤝 Maybe let them work, gain financial independence and contribute to their communities!

A case for multi-generational homes?

Adolescent education the Montessori way 😊🌱🪴 instagram.com/p/DNqsdE_S8J1/…

Council Tax is a nonsense.

Totally daft. Social care ought to be independent of local councils & be organised through regional authorities.

Putin’s handshake?

We need a map of no-go areas.

Plastic instruments? Beauty is important within the educational environment, children adapt to their environment and are very sensitive to it. That means real things, well made & inherently beautiful.

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Despots rely on getting control of the public purse in order to reward those who sustain them in power and persecute those who present a risk.

… ‘will’