Reimagined Community
The Illustrated Guide to Participatory City
Participatory City promotes community engagement through practical projects, fostering collaboration and improving neighborhoods by creating accessible participation opportunities that address social issues and enhance well-being for all residents.
oidp.netWe have a networked structure. In other words, we’re not an organisation. (We are hosted by Dudley CVS).
There are three layers to our networked structure which we carefully tend:
There are three layers to our networked structure which we carefully tend:
- There is a team leading the lab, who share the role of Network Guardians.
- Our team convene a network of organisations and local people.
- We work within a wider field or eco
About — CoLab Dudley
In his book Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg reiterates what we already know widely: that outcomes and life expectancy can vary greatly depending on the services and social infrastructure you find in your community.
Klinenberg gives the example of a lethal heat-wave that struck Chicago in 1995. He asked how two adjacent poor neighbourhoods on... See more
Klinenberg gives the example of a lethal heat-wave that struck Chicago in 1995. He asked how two adjacent poor neighbourhoods on... See more
Endowing The Future
she sought to identify ten subsystem variables that affect the likelihood of successful self-organization of efforts to achieve a sustainable socio-ecological systems by the communities involved. Summarized in a simple form the ten variables were:
The size of resource system – a moderate territorial size is most conducive to self-organization.
The pr... See more
The size of resource system – a moderate territorial size is most conducive to self-organization.
The pr... See more
Elinor Ostrom’s work on Governing The Commons: An Appreciation - LSE Review of Books
Nearly every challenge of building a community can be met by asking yourself, “How do I achieve this by working with my people, not doing it for them?”
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
Growing a community isn’t about management. It’s about developing leaders. With their help, your community will affect more people and sustain itself longer than you could have managed on your own.
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
Through intentional policies and elite “dream hoarding,” we’ve allowed this formative period to sort our lives by class. This was a choice. But we can also make another choice: to rebuild the adult transition to promote the connection and flourishing of all our neighbors, not just the ones we went to school with.