communities of practice
The process identified the following areas of need: * Building new infrastructure of belonging through community engagement * Developing infrastructure for social repair through lifelong learning * Creating new systems of care and sharing the skills for making meaning
Farah Elahi • Belonging Care and Repair
The Relationship Is the Richness
Critical connections between future-builders matter more than critical mass in long-term transformative work: without these, nothing new can emerge. Networks are the lifeblood of emergence, and yet so much of the way life is organised gets in the way of pioneers connecting
Sophia Parker • Emerging Futures at JRF - Two Years In, the Story So Far
Creative Communities
What Is Community?
Social scalability is the ability of an institution –- a relationship or shared endeavor, in which multiple people repeatedly participate, and featuring customs, rules, or other features which constrain or motivate participants’ behaviors -- to overcome shortcomings in human minds and in the motivating or constraining aspects of said institution
... See moreRichard Kim • From Nothing to Something with R.N.G.
these are all types of relational infrastructure too:
• Peer-to-peer journeys and learning crews - topic as focus
• Communities of practice - practice as a focus
• Participatory ecosystems - place as a focus
• Labs - social, living, innovation and more - process as a focus
Sam Rye • On Relational Infrastructure
People are an essential ingredient of social infrastructure.