In 2014, JoJo, an ex-archaeologist, spent the best part of the year researching, meditating, and theorizing about what would happen if you combined elements of the new circular gift economies with socially connected Creative Placemaking. In early 2015, the first community-led Squilometre launched.
We’re working towards a world where people are better connected to each other and to their place.
We work to build their capability to identify their own strength and power.
We animate communities to be the agents of their OWN change.
Interwoven has been refining and implementing the Quiet Voice methodology since 2014, partnering with a diverse range of community-led initiatives and fostering collaborations across the charity, voluntary, and public sectors.
We believe that “Quiet Voice” is a more appropriate term as it captures both of these groups, including those experiencing more recognisable barriers to participation. It is, therefore, a more accurate reflection of the granularity of the 21st-century community.
It’s main benefit is that we do not seek to engage residents in our idea of what they should do or what needs to be fixed. Rather it means standing shoulder to shoulder with them, long-term, and asks “what would you like to do?” In this way we seek to encourage residents to become the active agents of their own change.
Many initiatives don’t require an understanding of how “community” breaks down into already animated voices and Quiet Voices so the question “Who’s NOT here?” largely goes unasked. Yet we know, don’t we? “Engagement” doesn’t reach the Quiet Voice.
We’ve concentrated our approaches on the very front end of the conversation and refined the approach to animate those normally resistant to community action.
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