Mimie Laurant
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Mimie Laurant
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Mimie Laurant
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Belonging, made legible.
What does it take for an institution to be worth belonging to? That question is the through-line — through my scholarship, my consulting, my public writing. I study the structural conditions that make belonging possible, and the mechanisms that quietly erode it. This is the work of making those conditions visible. Because you can't build a different future if you can't first imagine one.
WHO I AM
My name is Mimie Laurant, and I am a civic design architect. I developed the Four C's Governance Framework to help organizations diagnose themselves and rebuild the structures that communities are supposed to enter and thrive within. I write about structural belonging: how it shapes the texture of daily life, and how it surfaces in the stories we tell ourselves through popular culture.
SLOW SOCIOLOGY
Structure is always the subject.
These essays sit at the intersection of public sociology and civic life. Structural analysis written for anyone trying to understand what's actually happening in the institutions around them. Not commentary. Not hot takes. Considered pieces that take their time.
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