"If architecture is frozen music and planning is composition, then Placemaking is improv street performance."
Fred Kent - quoted by Ryan Smolar
Hopeless to Hotspot
with Sandra Poelman

How can we use Improv to make Placemaking more authentic, effective, and unique?

In this episode of the Hopeless to Hotspot Podcast, we speak with , a dynamic leader wearing many hats, as the director of Thrive Asheville, the co-director of , and the co-director of .

With his unique blend of expertise in community building, food systems, improv, and Placemaking, Ryan brings a lot of fascinating insights into creating places where people truly thrive. And he is such a passionate and funny guy!

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Ryan Smolar

I work to reconnect people with each other and the living systems that sustain them. Drawing from years of collaboration with communities across the U.S. and abroad, I create food experiences and cultural programming that connect people to their terroir, their neighbors, and the traditions that make a place worth living in.

My projects weave together local economies, regenerative land practices,

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