Theme: Story as Method and Healing

Focus: Cities need new myths. Storytelling through Art and Culture. Story as civic ritual, planning tool, healing practice, and infrastructure of meaning. Narrative approaches as reconnection, healing, and pathways to civic transformation. Reclaiming civic identity through collective memory and story.

Research Basis: Resilience through Collective Meaning-Making; Co-Creation through Story.

Thematic Action Ideas: Story circles, memory mapping, speculative design exhibitions.

Key Question: Who gets to tell the story of the city, and how can storytelling reweave civic life?

Expected Outcomes: Story-based methods for social cohesion, city healing, and transformation through collective narrative