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It was then we realised it was crucial to build something more long term, a more permanent way to showcase possibility, build, create, prototype and scale solutions as we worked on the pressing challenges facing our city.’
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
It was then we realised it was crucial to build something more long term, a more permanent way to showcase possibility, build, create, prototype and scale solutions as we worked on the pressing challenges facing our city.’
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Our current instruments and infrastructures are struggling to cope. Traditional employment contracts enforce rigidity, property rights are divisive and major institutions like the International Monetary Fund only consider narrow, money-centred definitions of value.Developing civic infrastructures such as food forests would reduce strain upon global... See more
Dark Matter Labs • Radicle Civics – Unconstituting Society 071022.pdf
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Involves six principles to encompass nature and non-human beings; zoom in and out across time, scale and self; and embrace circularity, existing assets and re-use, rather than an emphasis on new.
Cat Drew • Developing our new Systemic Design Framework
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emblematic ideas to take forward could include: * resilient and diverse communities as essential foundations; * the value of trust in government and civic institutions; * recognising the agility and capability latent within the public sector; * and the enormous value of inefficiency and redundancy in systems; * an understanding that there are essen... See more
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
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Re-envisioning it means ensuring that every place is a part of a bounded neighborhood with a clear start and end and a commercial center, primary school, parks, civic associations, nonprofits, small businesses, and other physical assets and institutions that promote bonding relationships. Adjusting the tax system to favor local volunteerism and giv... See more
Neighborhoods that Nurture: Why The Play-Based Childhood Requires More Than Just Putting Down the Phone
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has gone beyond lip service by actively promoting investment in ‘upstream’ capacity such as community facilities, volunteering and social support networks.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
Regenerative structures that start with looking after our own local shared needs are based a lot off of Ostrom’s eight principles:
Coindesk • DAOs Are the New Way of Impact Work
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