Social Tapestries is a Proboscis research programme developed as part of our SoMa research initiative. It builds upon Proboscis' projects, Urban Tapestries (2002-2004) and Private Reveries, Public Spaces (2001-2002), broadening the scope to explore specific social and cultural uses of knowledge mapping and sharing in partnership with other civil society, industry and academic partners.

The key areas we are exploring are:

• education and learning
  developing knowledge mapping and sharing techniques and tools as new forms of associative learning and teaching methods for schoolchildren, lifelong learners and teachers.
• people & environment
  staging creative interventions with local areas and communities that engage with regeneration and environmental issues to increase issue ownership and people’s sense of agency and empowerment to act.
• citizenship, neighbourhoods and public services
  exploring how mapping and sharing knowledge and experiences within geographic communities can enable new forms of neighbourliness to emerge. By stimulating and inspiring habits of participation these informal knowledges can assist in transforming relationships with key stakeholders such as local authorities and public service providers to develop reciprocities of trust.
  

For details on actual projects please go to the projects section.