Introducing Donna Haraway I’m pretty sure Donna Haraway isn’t an octopus. Donna Haraway isn’t a canine either but she does have some interesting things to say about where the delineations exist (or not) between her and her dog. Donna has a relationship with her dog. They exchange looks, feelings, smells and touch. Her…

Post in progress — Working out loud. I’m very interested in the potential that exists at the community level to effect social, environmental and economic change. If you read the reports or follow the organisations and projects which work in this area then you’ll see the same language and terms…

Note: I haven’t posted in a while. I made a start on this set of thoughts and became quite stuck. All of my other writings have come from a title written on a post-it. I’ve been able to pick these up as I’ve gone along and use them to pull…

There are a quite a few exciting things happening in Bridgwater and the local area at the moment. The town has been quite fortunate lately in that it won a bid for the Government’s Town Fund and Sedgemoor is also a Creative People and Places (Arts Council England) area. For…

Continuing on from my last post which included: spirals, nature and representations. There is a run that I take at the weekend which travels along a local canal. Last week I paused on one of the bridges and at the side of the canal there was another small waterway which…

“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.” ― Barry H. Gillespie Putting together Socially Enterprising has been no short journey. My personal path of learning, exploration and discovery has meandered far and wide and…

“All my teachers have been women. Though several men have taken me aside for an hour to tell me things they know.” — Don Paterson, The Book of Shadows I’ve worked in a few different places and with many different people. I was always interested in what was going on…

In a previous post I connected place-based working to the concept of an Islamic garden and also how the basic fundamental principles within Islamic geometric art can help illustrate how layering and collaboration can be thought of. The Common Garden: An Architecture of Intersections What is it that is in front of you? No, not the thing. The other thing.weshinckes.medium.com Here I’m going to introduce some archetypes which you may find when working…

Last year I applied, unsuccessfully, to Nesta’s ‘Future News Pilot Fund’. The purpose of the fund was to support innovation related to Public Interest News. Public interest journalism/news is: - About matters that concern society as a whole, including those who have been historically or systematically under-represented in society or…