**Pattern Name:**
ReLocalize Creativity
**Introduction:**
Not so long ago almost all essential goods and services were produced locally.
**Illustration:**
The diagram below shows the components of Relocalize Creativity and how they work together.
Please click on any of the text in this graphic to explore each topic further.
See ReLocalize Creativity System for more of a process view.
**CONTEXT:**
In globalized consumerist societies we have outsourced and offshored creativity, leaving ourselves at the mercy of absentee landlords.
Where do we have an opportunity to make the biggest difference?
We believe the answer lies in the places where we live, our neighborhoods.
Relocalize Creativity is a big idea based on this opportunity. It is our chance (and challenge) to rebalance globalization with localization and rebuild resilient neighborhoods.
**PROBLEM:**
**We are rapidly losing our capability to take care of ourselves.**
**Forces:** Advertising Outside goods and services
Mentors Experience and skill
**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):**
**ReLocalize creativity, starting where you find the passion and the partners.** **Get help when needed.**
**Actions:**
Our ambitious aim is to take this one idea and bring it to one million neighborhoods globally.
We suggest website visitors explore the above illustration starting with the roof, RE LOCALIZE, then the foundation, CREATIVITY, before working upward through each section of the structure.
ReLocalize something in your neighborhood.
**Consequences:** Resilience. Self sufficiency. Community.
**Known Uses:**
See the Systems Mentors See SciO Relocalize Creativity presentation Jan 2024 by Kerry Turner, with discussion including Marc Pierson
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Our approach to Relocalizing Creativity is illustrated in the Diamond Diagram below. Diamond Diagrams are a tool used by an initiative called Qulturum which helped inspire our work.
Our key driver is local Learning and Development. Our methods are See the Systems and Collective Action coordinated through Neighborhood Development Cooperatives. Our aim is Local ReGeneration that leads to global regeneration of our planet, a planet that is already beyond its carrying capacity. We must behave in ways that regenerate the earth's lost capacity to support humans. To do that humans must support the planet, locally, each neighborhood's part of the earth, without harming distant parts.
# A Diamond Diagram: Philosophy at the top. Goal at the bottom. Critical methods are in the middle (Six or fewer).