ICPI Interlock Design Issue 4 2018

2 David R. Smith interlockutor Change Agents Continues on page 3 T here are four things that change people: books read, people met, beauty, and pain. Sometimes two, three, or four of these converge on a person’s experience at the same time, and that often accelerates change, hopefully in a positive rather than a negative direction. What have you read that crystalized or changed your thinking, beliefs and behaviors? What people have you met that brought inspiration, direction, or just simple and salty advice that you Change agents: ports and patios followed? What beauty have you seen in other people or provided it to others, as well as seen it in nature or in the built environment? What pain has wounded or purged you? Many of these change agents arrive when we least expect them, or when we are expecting a particular outcome and it turns into something else, and often outside of our control. A great part of the segmental concrete paving industry is it creates beauty, intentional or not. In the early 2000s,