Attention redirection requires grounding in specific public places

Evidence

After that, I decided to ground the talk in a specific place: the Morcom Amphitheatre of Roses in Oakland, California, otherwise known simply as the Rose Garden. I did that partly because it was in the Rose Garden that I began brainstorming my talk. But I had also realized that the garden encompassed everything I wanted to cover: the practice of doing nothing, the architecture of nothing, the importance of public space, and an ethics of care and maintenance. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 47

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: One of the reader’s requested redirections: toward specific place and public space.