Situating Community Wealth Building and Place Based Capital in the Australian context

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

By intertwining financial assets with social capital, we’re now witnessing a new type of asset class dominated by online community coordination.

to navigate the intersections between scale and regeneration, between growth and the commons. A principle of ‘many universals’ could provide the framework for balancing the tension between, on one hand, enabling community-led and governed projects to flourish, and, on the other, the need to then challenge massive and well-resourced centers of power... See more

This disruption will most likely open up new fields. It will demand new allocation practices—rooted in systemic investing, dynamic risk scaffolding, and multi-capital logics. It will catalyse the emergence of hybrid institutions that can operate across public, private, and civic domains, grounded not only in financial performance, but in stewardshi... See more

We are no longer headed toward a smooth or linear transition. What lies ahead is volatile, uncertain, and spiky—marked by rupture rather than reform. As our current economic engines collapse, we’re witnessing a deepening inability to allocate capital toward the future. Capital is increasingly being mobilised to preserve existing assets—assets under... See more