HAND MADE

Editor: Tessy Britton

@tessybritton

This collection was put together in 2010, was the first crowdsourced book that led the Community Lover's Guide project.  It was a result of two years research into new types of community projects. As these new projects started to emerge, it soon became apparent that they were really different.  Most striking was that they were not a nostalgic return to traditional images of ‘community’, but rather they were single-mindedly creating imaginative new opportunities for people to come together and contribute.

As Jerry Stein from Learning Dreams describes ‘it is not about activism and protest, it's about applying tools, strategies and new forms of power’. 

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