Flow

Co-creating places start with collecting stories, sensemaking: A community’s health is often measured by explicit outcomes (e.g. income, jobs,
‘Emergence’ is the ‘why’ of collective impact: What is the why behind collective impact? Yes, by definition, collective impact
Enabling joy, bliss, flow, ecstasis in our communities: Joy, bliss, flow… these are often words used to describe one’s personal

Tactical Urbanism

Why Tactical Urbanism is key to revitalizing cities: Tactical Urbanism is a fundamental placemaking tool for including citizens in shaping
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term action for long-term change: See updated version of this article here. Why wait for neighborhood change
Learning from the Burning Man principles in our cities: This is the ultimate demonstration of crowdsourced placemaking in the world: 70,000

Economic Gardening

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Catalysts hubs as a pathway for regenerative development What is regenerative development?’ Let’s start with a vision inspired by Bill Plotkin, author of Soulcraft: “When a sufficient
A model for cooperative community development When you hear about models for a better society, it is often in the idealistic form of utopian cities
The rise of mutual stakeholding When it comes to understanding what humanity needs to thrive, it may help to understand what it (or any
Co-creating places start with collecting stories, sensemaking A community’s health is often measured by explicit outcomes (e.g. income, jobs, crime) over intrinsic outcomes (e.g. belonging, compassion,
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Crowdsourced Placemaking

A model for cooperative community development When you hear about models for a better society, it is often in the idealistic form of utopian cities or villages. One neighborhood project in a small city is defining a new cultural and
The rise of mutual stakeholding When it comes to understanding what humanity needs to thrive, it may help to understand what it (or any species) needs to survive. Inclusive fitness, also referred to as kin selection or kinship, is
A collection of terms associated with co-created change When explaining the movement to evolve how we develop and steward the places we live, work and play, it’s sometimes easier to allow each of us to look at the components of this ecosystem

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If given the opportunity to crowdsource a vision for
This is a follow up story to “Bristol crowdsources
What is crowd-invested placemaking and why is it the