#41: Lifehouses and Power with Adam Greenfield & Maria Herron

For this week's episode we're joined by Adam Greenfield and Maria Herron in advance of the gathering Woodbine will host this May May, "Lifehouses, Resilience Hubs, and Dual Power". We discuss our evolving understandings and relationships to radical spaces, the meaning and importance of in-person encounters and relationship-building, and our expectations around crisis and emergency management. We end with a pitch for why you should join us in NYC this May.LINKS:Lifehouses, Resilience Hubs, and Dual Power: https://www.woodbine.nyc/lifehousesLifepod: https://lifepod.transistor.fm/Mil Mundos Books: https://www.milmundosbooks.com/Mil Mundos En Común: https://milmundosencomun.org/Bushwick Ayuda Mutua: https://bushwickayudamutua.com/Adam Greenfield is a London-based writer and urbanist, who’s been involved with autonomous, self-organized movements from ACT UP to Occupy Sandy. He is the author of Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World On Fire (2024), as well as Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life (2017), and is currently Visiting Professor at the Sociology department of the London School of Economics. He’s the host of Lifepod, a podcast based on the book. Maria Herron is the founder & co-director of Mil Mundos Books, a bilingual bookstore that curates to celebrate Black, Latinx, and Indigenous heritage. In 2021 Maria co-founded Mil Mundos en Común, a nonprofit working to provide essential goods, digital connectivity, and literacy access to neighbors in Bushwick and beyond. Preceding en Común, Maria worked with other organizers in April 2020 to form Bushwick Ayuda Mutua, a mutual aid coalition providing framework for our community to access food, essential goods, and social services via individual & organization partner participation. Maria has been with Woodbine since 2017, using it as a coworking hub to launch many of her projects, and currently support with Operations at the new location. For her day job, Maria works as a camera technician.READINGS:--Beyond Hope - Adam Greenfield, 2024: https://illwill.com/beyond-hope--This Spanglish Bookstore In New York Is Reclaiming Bushwick’s Sense Of Latinidad - Victoria Mortimer, 2025: https://nacla.org/spanglish-bookstore-new-york-reclaiming-bushwicks-sense-latinidad/--The Tetrad: Value in a More-than-Human World [excerpt] - Adam Greenfield, 2026: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dispatch-for-14-153024519--From Churches to Lifehouses - Adam Greenfield, 2023: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/from-churches-to-lifehouses