Understory_Community

Dynamic, real time mapping of relationships and connections in place-based communities. Exploring community resilience. From @itsfic and @onioncollective

[Understory_Community @_Understory_]

@bazhsw8183 @betterwaynetwrk @SystemsHuman @CormacRussell @CFNorthumbria @NewSystemAlly @CollaborateCIC @angelafell @Rships_Project @tobyjlowe @socfuture @PaulIanTaylor @ProfDonnaHall Hello! asset based systems thinking happening here (by network mapping community action)

[Understory_Community @_Understory_]

Love this write up! @RacheLocal deeply connected with what we were doing from the very beginning-we were talking about understories/Mother Trees/ biomimicry for a while before working together under @Make_shiftAV and we continue to have convos full of possibility and hope

[Make/Shift @Make_shiftAV]

The relationships we're inside of matter. How can we make them more visible? Excited to be working with @OnionCollective @itsfic @Make_shiftAV @_Understory_ on our first Community Network Map. Read a bit more here👇👇https://t.co/qW5BWqivzz

[Understory_Community @_Understory_]

Yes! This is the infrastructure we are working to restore with https://t.co/GgcyLds0pX

[@jesstud.bsky.social @jesstud]

When community power lost out to state power, and bureaucracy won out over relationships, in the formative years of our welfare state.

Key passage on Beveridge’s forgotten third report from the brilliant Radical Help by @HilaryCottam…

[Understory_Community @_Understory_]

🎺🎺🎺Our first Understory blog: #mapping for the new world, why #socialcapital matters and how we can build it. A collaboration between @onioncollective and @itsfic and supported by @nationallottery
https://t.co/sFp1hbzOAy

[Understory_Community @_Understory_]

@RacheLocal Can confirm: streets still very grey

[Understory_Community @_Understory_]

Now that we have our first tranche of communities up and running with @_Understory_ maps, we'll start working in the open/sharing our findings as we go. Mailing list sign up here to keep in touch: https://t.co/ovMR1rzpit

[Rachel Smith @RacheLocal]

Super interesting day mapping web of relationships between people, orgs, purpose with @_Understory_ @OnionCollective . Can’t wait to dive deeper & explore how making relational infrastructure more visible might help us work together in new ways to make change more possible.

[Understory_Community @_Understory_]

@Skinner_M @adamjlent @jesstud We map relationships between people and between people and purpose in communities of place as an ongoing investigation into what these maps can tell us about resilience, inclusivity, equity (and much more as we go on!)

[Understory_Community @_Understory_]

@sam__rye @OnionCollective @itsfic Yes, exactly- the mapping process maps and builds the social capital simultaneously. And the community gets to collectively decide who should be in the map. (oh also useful to know that we don't use Kumu- we build our own mapping software)

[Understory_Community @_Understory_]

@sam__rye ah yes we also take the collective approach to mapping relationships like SumApp. Similar/Diff: We are community-led tech (@OnionCollective & @itsfic) and so lots of further expertise on community development and community-led foresight that wraps around the basic mapping

[Understory_Community @_Understory_]

@sam__rye @RacheLocal @seannalee Hi! you can see our first iteration website here: https://t.co/ldA9KJi3av to see what we're about.