Week 2: Third place

Week 2, Oldenburg's home/work/third-place trichotomy, and why it matters for coexistence

1 March 2027

Outline#

• Oldenburg’s trichotomy: home, work, third place
• what a genuine third place needs (low stakes, no fixed rank, regulars)
• what happens to coexistence when someone has no third place at all
• reading before Week 3: civil inattention in public space