What metaphors, tools, and projects are needed to imagine ways of building and repairing our cities more collaboratively, asks Shannon Mattern. Shannon is a theorist and professor of media, design, urban architecture, and anthropology based in New York. In this lively episode, she shares her expansive interests—from computation, interconnection, and urban intelligences to thinking with trees, refusing technosolutionism, writing as grafting, and redesigning the academy. A lifetime supporter and theorist of libraries and archives, Shannon also calls attention to the critical role public libraries play as "epistemological universes," as sites of long-term exchange, community building, intergenerational learning, and civic engagement amidst rapidly changing media, environments, and politics. Enjoy!