“I believe in my fight against authority and for self-determination. That is my motivation", Jeanne said. "I believe in the value of relationships between people and places. I also believe in the necessity to enhance our conceptual toolkit in order to understand and improve those very relationships through the fight against authority and for self-determination.”

Jeanne lives and breathes this believe through her research on urban planning – she examines the relationship between places and people who use those places, and what values the people attach to them.

“I do not hold a believe in God”, she added. “I believe in certain values. I deem it important to believe in things that are bigger than my own subjectivity.

So, what I believe in is more about how I believe, not the thing itself so much?”, she laughed.

The night we talked, Jeanne was wearing beautiful golden earrings consisting each of two intertwined golden threads. “I got them for myself in Paris”, she said. “Actually replacing a pair of similar earrings I got from my ex. I lost them. They were flat. Flat rings, but those rings here are made of a rounded metal thread.”

Jeanne’s smallest shows her golden, intertwined earring. The ring could be interpreted as a halo. But is not a halo. No belief in God. It is an earring. The metal threads are intertwined, symbolising a just relationship between two parties that complement each other. The earrings are of value to Jeanne, attached to her, from a specific place, and, after all, a self-determined choice. The golden circle is reflected in a conceptual tool Jeanne and me talked about the other day. It is a tool describing the values people attach to places that you can use in urban planning. The golden circle shows how those values are circulating between people and places.