Micro interactions are the glue that create and hold community together. And you can design for it.

Living in community isn't about being best friends with everyone, or inviting everyone into your home, or even having arranged dinners in the park. Programming can be additive, but it's not what makes a community.
Community happens when low-friction interactions can happen, small touch points, with many people, multiple times a week and month, just going about daily life.

Running into a parent in the walk to school or dropping off your kids. Ordering from the same barista a couple times a week. Seeing other families or people while out on a Friday night, and stopping and chatting.
Yes, it's the small chats. The loose connections. Not everything needs depth. In aggregate, it creates a sense of belonging, knowing and being known, and really sense of identity and place.

And how we DESIGN our neighborhoods decides whether these low friction interaction can occur or not it. Check out the full episode with Rob Parker, president of Trilith!
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