Resources, Approaches and Key Concepts for Integrated Approaches to Building Better Communities

As you explore the ideas below, can you identify where they fit on the matrix below? Which place on the matrix are you most comfortable working? How could an idea or activity be redesigned so that it fits into a different place on the matrix? How could these resources, approaches and key concepts be applied to practical activism in your home community?

 

 

Using Art / Culture

Using Research

Using an Environmental Project

Healing the Natural World

 

 

 

Expressing Personal Creativity

 

 

 

Building Better Communities

 

 

 

 

Activism as Art

Affordable Housing

Appreciative Inquiry

Bioregionalism

Community Cultural Development

Community Economic Development

Conscientization

Deep Ecology

Ecofeminism

Ecological Art

Ecological Debt

Ecological Design

Ecological Restoration

Engaged Research

Environmental Racism

Legislated Poverty

Narrative Inquiry

Open Architecture

Resilience

Spiritual Activism

Systems Thinking

Viral Design

Visual Research

Web of Life