How can care for the living world become a sustaining part of how we live, work and organise the economy?
A place may hold fertile soil, water, species and knowledge carried across generations. Their continuity also depends on human work, access, time and the possibility of a viable life. These relationships are the starting point of this inquiry.
Stewardship economy asks how care can emerge, develop and find durable economic and institutional conditions. This may concern a livelihood, shared tools, habitat protection, paid learning or a changed public arrangement. Money can finance necessary functions without expressing the full value of life.
Ecological change, people's opportunities and shared agreements need to remain separately examinable and connected. Experience can change both local practice and the categories, methods and forms of support that meet it.
The texts gathered here approach the question from different positions. They offer arguments, working forms and provisional understandings that can be used, challenged and developed further.
The extended inquiry
Stewardship Economy and the Life We Make Room For
Ecological foundations, the beginnings of care, learning, work, funding and institutional responsibility, developed through a clearly identified illustrative example.
Four ways in
Possible beginnings, not a syllabus. Short reads offer a self-contained entrance; full texts and tools give room for further work.
What life needs room to continue?
Species, habitats, ecological foundations and scale.
How can care become viable work?
Work, livelihoods, resources and the distinction between payment and the value of life.
How can experience become consequential knowledge?
Situated knowledge, participation, evidence and pathways to institutional response.
How do people and institutions learn through practice?
Practical capability, shared questions and support that can itself change through experience.
Bring your own question
Do you work with nature, food, economics, democracy, technology or learning? Begin with a question from your own practice, examine a claim or place another understanding beside the material. A research method, situated experience or institutional possibility may open something the texts do not yet hold.
Use the material independently and develop your own inquiry through Café Sofia. For a possible collaboration with the Association, Build a bridge opens the institutional conversation. Write to [email protected] with your question, its context and what you would like to explore together.
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