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Pattern Library

Our community design pattern library offers ideas for approaches you might try, singly or in combination. It's a work in progress (currently version v0.4): help us to build it

Tr

The quintessential human patterns. Derive their power from the rich traditions and layers of meaning that they have accrued over millenia

1 Campfire

2 Feasting

3 Revelry

4 Seasonal Festival

5 Food Cycle Festival

6 Spiritual Service

Af

Highlights the ways in which we're the same: whether that's identity, interest, profession or something else

21 Online Community Platform

22 Member Club

23 Thematic Salon

24 Professional Community Of Practice

25 Grassroots Community Of Practice

Pl

Derive their strength from the unarguable affinity of place. Act as beacons and anchors within a neighbourhood

7 Trade
8 Neighbourhood Art
9 Interactive Street Object
10 Household Decoration
11 Nature Space
12 Community Cleanup

As

Highlight the existing strengths of a community:
what it can build on

13    Resource Bank
14    Lending Location
15    Workshop
16    Circular Economy

Cd

Ways in which people can be brought together, and given permission to interact

17 Community Hub
18 Street Gathering
19 Event App
20 Lifestage Connection

Py

Emphasises the active, creative things we do together, that bring us closer through the principles of accompaniment, repetition, shared struggle, safe sharing and the rest.

26 Collective Cultural Experience
27 Crafting
28 Making Music
29 Movement Assembly

30 Team Sports
31 Gaming
32 Walking
33 Performing
34 Story Sharing

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Derives from the shared striving towards a common goal that expresses our values

35 Food Growing
36 Procession
37 Protest
38 Symposium

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