Social Spaces
I am on the Advisory Board of Social Spaces.
Social Spaces aims to transform society at community level through surfacing new emergent knowledge, using a transdisciplinary approach to analyse and understand that knowledge, and developing innovative approaches to spread these new ideas and methods.
It consists of 3 different work spaces:
A space for collaborating with people from varying disciplines to understand and spread creative community culture. Social Lab connects with innovative people and organisations around the globe, to share practices, test new ideas, research community projects, and create tools and techniques.
Community Lover’s Guide to the Universe
Following the fantastic response to the collaborative book Hand Made (60,000 online readers), which was published in Autumn 2010, the idea evolved to produce local versions of Hand Made – which are now known collectively as Community Lover’s Guide to the Universe
Since announcing the project in June 2011 there are 35 confirmed voluntary editors, across the globe with an ambition is to publish about 50 editions in the next 12 months!
It operates as a Collaborative Innovation Network, setting up an organisational structure which gives ownership to all contributors.
This is where the knowledge, experiences and tools developed and tested in the Social Lab are put into wider practice, to help develop creative and collaborative work.
Social Spaces Studios work as a partnership, currently comprising of Tessy Britton, Laura Billings and Maurice Specht, working predominantly in the UK and The Netherlands … but also worldwide.