‘Returns on social infrastructure’ and social R&D are topics that really resonate with me at the moment. Post covid renewal and recovery will depend on our ability to rebuild our social fabric in imaginative and creative ways. #SocEnt #socialinnovation
https://twitter.com/saldridg/status/1368095766770810883
If the 90s-2020s Digital Revolution was the era that transformed society through mass adoption of digital infrastructure, hoping the 20s-2050s will unlock an equivalent Social Revolution that increases wellbeing & inclusion through renewed social infrastructure & human connection
I’ve been pondering for a few years now what restorative public services might be like in a circular economy sense. Instead of being an extractive wasteful race to the bottom, being a multiplier of nascent social capital and restorer of dignity, diversity, community and belonging
Local gov has an important role here. Just one caveat on avoiding class-based white saviour syndrome that entrenches middle-class privilege through a well meaning but calumnious view of what it means to be working class. Being working class isn’t the problem, poverty is.
I’m proud of my #workingclass heritage, culture, values & ‘our’ contribution to wider society. As a child I was always called ‘our Andrea’ by family and neighbours in the council estate. It’s always stayed with me like being wrapped in a warm blanket. #community #partofsomething
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