Technology, place, and local resilience
This page explores challenges that often go unexamined at a national level - the digital divide, structural exclusion, the loss of cultural identity in online spaces, and the growing tension between technological expansion and ecological regeneration.
The articles here examine how digital systems interact with place - helping regions, policymakers, and organisations understand how technology can be a force for long-term prosperity, equity, and regeneration rather than extraction and exclusion.
Understanding Systems Collapse: Biodiversity Loss, Ecological Overshoot, Climate Disruption, and the Sixth Mass Extinction
What the science of planetary boundaries tells us — and what it means to be alive at the moment when the systems that sustain all life are under simultaneous, compounding pressure. · 16 min read
Understanding Loss of Cultural Identity
Why cultural identity matters for wellbeing, how its conditions of transmission are changing, and what is at stake when communities lose the thread connecting them to who they are. · 16 min read
Understanding the Lack of Grassroots Funding
How the geography of money determines which communities can act on their own best ideas — and what is lost when local civic life runs short of the resources it needs. · 14 min read