Let’s Make Civic Love

2021

Join us virtually for this interactive event! Participants will be paired with a stranger to ask and answer as many questions as possible in the allotted time on the theme of Civic Love. Learn and get to talk with a stranger- the cornerstone of democracy.

This program was inspired by the National Public Housing Museum’s (NPHM) 36 Questions for Civic Love, which was recently updated to include a focus on questions of housing, self-care, and community healing. In 1997, psychologist Arthur Aron explored whether intimacy between two strangers could be accelerated by asking each other a set of 36 questions. NPHM adapted his questions for use in a new kind of social experiment, aimed at helping us all fall in civic love.

Facilitators

Lisa Lee

Executive Director, National Public Housing Museum

Tiff Beatty

Program Director of Arts, Culture, and Public Policy, National Public Housing Museum

Partners