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
Richard Kim • From Nothing to Something with R.N.G.
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
What Is Community?
Naming things can mobilize - investment, attention, and capital. Naming things can create identity and a sense of collective purpose and pride.
New_ Public • Celebrating the labor that holds up our democracy: the community entrepreneur
Relational infrastructure refers to the social connections, interactions, and collective intelligence that underpin a community, network or group's ability to collaborate, solve problems, and drive change. It is an emergent framework of trust, shared values, and common goals that allows individuals, groups, and organizations to work together
... See moreSam Rye • On Relational Infrastructure
In practice, it is not possible for the technical layer to be resilient while the social layer is not, as the social and technical dynamics of infrastructure are co-constitutive.
Kelsie Nabben • Decentralised Technologies as “Self infrastructuring”
People are an essential ingredient of social infrastructure.