Commonplace-Traverse City

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Commonplacing is an early modern European tradition dating back to 5th century BCE. It is the art and science of creating a space (a commonplace book) to collect others’ ideas, knowledge, observation, and art for future reference, reflection, and adaptation. The perfect inspiration for our collaborative space here in northern Michigan, commonplaces created the architecture for serendipitous collisions of people and ideas — to connect your thoughts with other people’s ideas in order to spark unique innovation and practices. We grow our adjacent possible through commonplacing. The adjacent possible is the network of ideas and practices at the edge of our reach, limited by our current capabilities, but where innovation can be born. In order to

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