Place-Based System Change
The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
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“Network theory suggests that what a system becomes emerges from the complex, responsive relationships of its members, continuously developing in communication.”
–Esko Kilpi (sociologist, process management consultant)
Why Weave Networks Now?
This means building a participatory civic state capable of operating with
complexity, not denying it. A civic state that hosts plural desires, plural
truths, and plural capital flows — and can convene them into durable
agreements. A civic state that supports deliberative intelligence at scale,
augmented by machine systems, but rooted in civic legitimac
complexity, not denying it. A civic state that hosts plural desires, plural
truths, and plural capital flows — and can convene them into durable
agreements. A civic state that supports deliberative intelligence at scale,
augmented by machine systems, but rooted in civic legitimac
Let me be very clear, the Warm Data Lab is ideal for bringing a group together to raise the level of questions, and understanding of a given topic. It does not provide solutions. The WDL is an exercise that gets a group to address their concern within the complexity needed. But it does not spit out answers. (That is part 2.)
Nora Bateson • Digging into Warm Data, The Warm Data Lab, and Certified Training.
It is easy to generalize “community” as any group of people with shared interests, or as structures, digital tools, or events. For us, the essence of community is relationships of care, held together by a sense of kinship and mutual support.