Strong communities are made up of rich and complex relational systems of feedback and support that develop over time. This is the story behind Understory.
Through the portal we go; mapping for the new world
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Onion Collective
Onion Collective is a place-based social enterprise working to reconfigure economics from the perspective of our attachments to community, culture, nature and the future we hope for. Sharing insight and expertise around attachment economics, social capital, cultural delivery and systems change.
Attachment Economics: Everyday pioneers for the next economy
The challenge of creating a new economic story from the ground, rippling up from the ‘bottom’, from the experiences in communities but capable of reaching outwards and upwards.
Liminal Economics: Swimming at the Edge of the Economy
The very vulnerability and openness of liminal space allows room for something genuinely new to happen. We are empty and receptive—erased tablets waiting for new words. Liminality keeps us in an ongoing state of shadowboxing instead of ego-confirmation, struggling with the hidden side of things, and calling so-called normalcy into creative question.
Connecting Hope for Alternative Futures
The second essay in the Onion Collective series: the power of social networks in creating new worlds and an ecosystem map of the UK’s alternative future practitioners
Reclaiming Hope for Alternative Futures
Proposing a new model for systems transformation beyond capitalism. Part 1 — Transition Models and Metaphor.