Warm data is information about the interrelationships that integrate elements of a complex system. It has found the qualitative dynamics and offers another dimension of understanding to what is learned through quantitative data”
The International Bateson Institute
Integrating citizens in the decision-making and governance processes of generating and disseminating local data is at the foundation of the proposition of Collective Commons. Qualitative frameworks can hold – can steward – the depth and range of experience, knowledge and expertise underpinning relationships between citizen and place.
This sense of indigenous data can be tethered to place and shared within adaptive networks. It comes from fresh eyes and long history – and belongs equally to both. The wisdom of generations gathered alongside vital progressive thinking of new modelling, research and data – as needed resources of detail and systems complexity at this time of polycrisis.