[Pauliina Helle]

Thanks Lucia, I’m happy for this thread. I’m curious to get to know more of the people behind UrbanA. I also work for ECOLISE (as a Network and Outreach Officer) and have a small role in supporting the UrbanA CoP. I have not been around for very long yet, so still learning about UrbanA and curious to follow this group.

I’ve been long active in the ecovillage movement (GEN) and my focus has been more on rural areas, but I’m interested in community building and sustainability in all contexts. In fact, this year in GEN Finland we are starting to introduce the Transition Movement too (which is quite nonexistent in Finland) and broaden our work in supporting sustainable communities to urban contexts too. There is a seed for an emerging Community of Practice on city communities/ urban co-housing (particularly projects in their initial phase) and I try to keep my senses open for any resources that I could share with them for supporting their process. So if you have anything to share with me on that, I’m all ears 🙂 When it comes to social justice, it’s another very interesting topic for me, so I feel that I’m in the right place. Thanks for reading, looking forward to reading about YOU. Best,Pauliina

[Pauliina Helle]

Hey all! I’m Pauliina from the ECOLISE team that is working on developing this CoPs Ecosystem that Duncan mentioned above. For giving you an update, we have a work group that has been coming together regularly since the first event that we held in December. We are co-designing the first steps for a conscious evolution of this Ecosystem of various Communities of Practice, that all work for an eco-social just transition. Obviously an ecosystem already exists, as there are many Communities of Practice working passionately on their specific subject (such as UrbanA), but they are not all conscious of each other or at least not actively benefitting from each others work. What we wish to do, is bringing these groups together for mutual exchange, support, collective impact and a more systemic view.

We are now starting to implement our ideas and experiment by preparing an open event for this Spring, where representatives from different CoPs can meet and share. Hopefully we’ll meet many of you there! The work group is also open for more participants with a low threshold.

[Pauliina Helle]

Thanks Duncan for inviting us (ECOLISE) to this event! It’s really important that we go out, join other circles and engage in dialogue with different audiences. Thanks for your active approach on this!

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