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Digging For The Future: An English Radical Manifesto by Charles Leadbeater
England is not a free people till the poor that have no land have a free allowance to dig and labour the commons, and so live as comfortably as the landlords that live in their enclosures.
Holding power to account, the environment, religious fundamentalism, collaborative innovation and social cohesion might sound like the specific concerns in today's world. However as exposed by Charles Leadbeater (@wethink) the social challenges that we are currently facing draw a close parallel with those that were present in mid 17th century England. In this essay Leadbeater reflects on the happenings and events from the second half of the recently past decade as the beginning of a new economic model for future societies. Rather than a dramatic [and possibly unfeasible] search for a completely new model, Leadbeater proposes a re-organisation of the capitalist model, a social capitalism.
With a preface written by Geoff Mulgan from the Young Foundation, Digging For The Future is a very compelling and reflective attempt to look at our society and the challenges ahead with renewed eyes but applying the learnings from the past.
Generating Social Innovation: Design Methods
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This is a short presentation by Geoff Mulgan, economist Robin Murray and Julie Caulier-Grice from The Young Foundation for the Social Innovation Exchange' Festival of Ideas in Lisbon this year.
This process of Social Innovation is discussed from different perspectives putting special attention to the design methods as a means to achieve innovation in the social sector.
Geoff Mulgan at TED
A great talk with Geoff Mulgan from the Young Foundation where he explores the effects of the economic crisis in the development of new future political, culturan and economic models post-crash. Mulgan makes a call to re-think the credit crunch as an opportunity to reflect on the changes that need to be done and start investing in social innovation to prepare ourselves for the changes ahead in the capitalist society.
We are in a moment of choice where we have to decide whether we want to invest and make the effort of getting back to where we were before the crisis; or whether this is a moment to jump ahead, reboot and start doing some of the things that we probably should have been doing anyway.
Geoff Mulgan
Thoughts on Social Innovation by Geoff Mulgan
via dontstop01.com
This extract of the Young Foundation's summary posits a very interesting approach to social innovation. In a very interesting way Mulgan links the innovation cycle to Schopenhauer's 3 stages model (ridiculed/opposed/self-evident). However in this case it seems to have started backwards. From the beginning the concept of social innovation has become self-evident and the supposed opposition has only generated attention and genuine interest across many different industries. This has yielded to stimulating collaborations and engaging projects between the bees (individuals) and the trees (organisations).
More on the Young Foundation's postulate here.
