communities of practice
by Keely Adler · updated 15d ago
communities of practice
- The role of informal, everyday interaction—sometimes unpredictable and serendipitous—should not be underestimated. But this requires a place-based social infrastructure that encourages such interaction. Neighbourhood churches (or other places of worship), religious activities, schools, butcher shops, markets, town squares, beauty parlours, taverns,... See more
from What Is Community?
Keely Adler added 15d ago
- Alongside technical tools, we need ways of defining and explaining social norms and expectations about contribution and value sharing. We need collective mechanisms for decision-making about shared assets, that make people feel heard while recognising the limitations, constraints and realities of their maintenance. We need people and organisations ... See more
from Creative Communities
Keely Adler added 15d ago
This infrastructure will be more than a set of foundations or a scaffold. It will look, in fact, more like a playground: which exists, not subordinate to or below some other, more important work, but as a structure in its own right, one which supports, co-creates, and constantly re-produces play, creativity, imagination. Not something which can be
... See morefrom Imagination Infrastructure — What Do We Mean? by Olivia Oldham
Keely Adler added 15d ago
In this place of transition - a place that feels disorienting, confusing, messy - we need to be learning from each other, plural in the possibilities we generate, and willing to let go of those mental frameworks that are no longer serving us well.
from Emerging Futures at JRF - Two Years In, the Story So Far by Sophia Parker
Keely Adler added 15d ago
- Those relationships can have intrinsic value for the individual members, creating a sense of belonging or being connected to others. But it can also have value fo r the larger society for three reasons: first, because one can draw on it as a resource for accomplishing some objective , such as partnering with other parents to improve the local schoo... See more
from Social Capital: Why We Need It and How We Can Create More of It by Isabel V. Sawhill
Keely Adler added 15d ago
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 focusfrom On Relational Infrastructure by Sam Rye
Keely Adler added 15d ago
- defined as “connections among individuals—social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them.”
from The Relationship Is the Richness
Keely Adler added 15d ago
- Theorists commonly identify two forms. There is “bonding” social capital created within existing social groups and “bridging” social capital created by relationships between existing social groups or across conventional lines of social segregation.
from The Relationship Is the Richness
Keely Adler added 15d ago
- And if communities are spaces for belonging, cohorts are spaces for becoming.
from LF11 - Cohort Futures by Brian Dell
Keely Adler added 15d ago