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Designing playful participation into our public and digital spaces, our civic processes, and our wicked problems.

Offshoots of our work:
Understory (www.understory.community)
Relational Mapping Toolkit (www.relationalmapping.co.uk)
Take 30 mins to read this from @onioncollective.bsky.social and experience that little rush of excitement and hope that maybe, actually, there are lots of people bravely and relentlessly building hopeful & alternative futures all over the place: medium.com/onioncollect....
Reclaiming Hope for Alternative Futures
Part 1 — Transition Models and Metaphor: Proposing a new model for systems transformation
medium.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Demo'ing a prototype workshop tool to the Public Map Platform team. Collaborative map to get teens talking about places they go, and what those places give them in terms of wellbeing. Exploring relationality within that.

(very much still in dev (so ignore labelling and floating node issues!)
December 4, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Want something lovely and hopeful to end the week? Here's a short film of our Understory project, created with the @onioncollective.bsky.social. There are some exciting things coming down the line with this project :)

#socialcapital #ecologicalthinking #community #mapping
Understory
Understory maps the social capital of civil society in communities of place. This video captures some of the early work from 2022-2024. Understory is the creation…
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November 29, 2024 at 5:38 PM
IGLAB (Berlin Edition) will be back tonight! Into testing experimental games? We have room for a couple more players: www.meetup.com/iglab-a-play...
November 28, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on the other place 1/
November 6, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Lovely piece of good news. The UN is recognising that we need to move beyond measures of GDP. Only wish @kateraworth.bsky.social had a mention. weall.org/towards-a-su...
Beyond GDP – Rethinking Economic Success for a Sustainable Future  : Wellbeing Economy Alliance
Beyond GDP - Rethinking Economic Success for a Sustainable Future (Press Briefing) For decades, economic success has been measured by a single number—Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Financial institutio...
weall.org
September 27, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Into relationships? communities? communities making change? complex systems? Occasional Newsletter here: eepurl.com/iO7cHQ
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September 6, 2024 at 2:12 PM