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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… Continue reading warmth

mapping the neighbourhoodA suburb on the north eastern edge of the city, the parish village of Pinhoe joined Exeter city in 1966. Following multiple major housing developments between 2011 and 2021, Pinhoe’s population increased by 50% to >9000 residents BOUNDARIES > LIVED / ECONOMIC / NEIGHBOURSDeveloping the idea of “Greater Pinhoe” To understand the porous… Continue reading finding tipping points

constellations: a civic-systems collaboration with Kate Jago and Julie McLaren, convening diverse fields of expertise to imagine and activate hopeful futures. Our aims:

WE ARE ALL THE IMAGINING > working to imagine a better future, together // Earth Day 2024 We invite you to join us: make one and take one to share! put ink on paper as your declaration : WE ARE ALL THE IMAGINING We publish our declaration as a global network of activators, in celebration… Continue reading declaration

COLLECTIVE IMAGINING > Stuart Crewes // posthuman LOST KNOWLEDGE Micha Colombo We’ve created the wrong kind of wilderness:slashed and hacked for growth,all corners and no hearth,we are a circle squared too far.Time to step back, let the saplings grow.Our dreams are children –they will move beyond us in bizarre directions.They know where to go.We must… Continue reading journal pages

The Collective Commons presented to the Global Tipping Points conference in collaboration with the Exeter Living Lab, part of the Global Systems Institute at University of Exeter (for closer detail, see Pinhoe as a Case Study)