Designing Resilience Showcase Event blog
Q: What do you get when you put academics, designers, young people, practitioners, students, trainers, parents, digital geniuses, cups of tea and biscuits all in one room?
A: Read on!!
ENMESH Conference 2015 in Spain blog
Angie reporting from the basement of a hotel in Málaga whilst the sun is shining outside. I’m at a mental health conference organised by the European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation – ENMESH 2015. The conference is teeming with medical researcher types and psychologists. Granted they are hard workers.
Imagine Conference 2015 Huddersfield blog
I began to understand the power of Imagine that first day – how projects in Rotherham and Huddersfield were helping restore community practice and relations, in two towns whose souls had been blighted in recent years through xenophobia. Imagine seeks to connect universities and their local communities through collaborative research. It completely ushers away the traditional notion of the haughty ivory tower doing research on others.
Connected Communities Festival 2015 blog
Bringing different people together, with different skills, interests, knowledge and experience is my day job. Often there are 2 or 3, sometimes a few more and all of them are interested in the same topic. A few weeks ago, I found myself in a room with 30 people: university students, academics, creative professionals, parents, community groups, young people, artists. Together we were looking at the Resilience Framework to see in what ways we could bring it to life.
CCFest 2015 – Co-production and communities blog
We are at a friendly but sweltering Connected Communities Conference (CCFest 2015) to learn from others and present our work on the Imagine project. Our work is about using resilience approaches to imagine better futures and make them happen. And we’re doing this in loads of different countries and loads of different settings.
Resilience Conference Halifax Canada continued blog
After Ann Masten’s lecture we are more than ever convinced of the importance of campaigning for the next step in resilience research and practice, which explicitly addresses the political nature of poverty and discrimination and tries to tackle inequalities, that which is consistent with the Boingboing resilience approach.
