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Common Ground was founded in England in 1983 by Sue Clifford [essay] , Angela King and the writer Roger Deakin to seek imaginative ways to engage people with their local environment [their 'placedness'] – their idea of themselves in their place. The idea of Local Distinctiveness is at the heart of everything Common Ground does, and for the last thirty years Common Ground has captured the imagination of people all over England and further afield by creating PLACEprojects like Apple Day, Parish Mapping and New Milestones, all of which continue to inspire new projects and unearth the strong connections that communities have with their CULTURALlandscape that surrounds them – and that they individually and collectively are a component of.
Common Ground in many was is an . exemplar of a NETWORK OF NETWORKS and of a concept that has more than survived but has grown organically, in England, over time and that embraces AND celebrates the interrelating concepts of 'placedness', PLACEmaking, PLACEmarking – cultural geography if you like. The operation is unashamedly 'English' rather than anything that might be imagined as anything like intentionally 'global'.
A Tasmanian TAMARfocused manifestation of something operating in this kind of 'Common Ground paradigm' would an should look quite different – be locally distinctive. Nonetheless, there would be a need to work cooperatively and collaboratively towards celebrating Tamar/Esk 'distinctiveness' in the variously networked precincts, localities, communities, places, whatever, but in accord with their particular imperatives being not only respected but also celebrated – revived, preserved & celebrated .
That said, Common Ground identified a mechanism to define 'local understandings' of 'placedness' relative to a village, a street, a valley, a 'parish' whatever. It turned out that an early project was the Common Ground's 'Parish Mapping Project' that assisted in the articulation of place/s and their values.
Common Ground in many was is an . exemplar of a NETWORK OF NETWORKS and of a concept that has more than survived but has grown organically, in England, over time and that embraces AND celebrates the interrelating concepts of 'placedness', PLACEmaking, PLACEmarking – cultural geography if you like. The operation is unashamedly 'English' rather than anything that might be imagined as anything like intentionally 'global'.A Tasmanian TAMARfocused manifestation of something operating in this kind of 'Common Ground paradigm' would an should look quite different – be locally distinctive. Nonetheless, there would be a need to work cooperatively and collaboratively towards celebrating Tamar/Esk 'distinctiveness' in the variously networked precincts, localities, communities, places, whatever, but in accord with their particular imperatives being not only respected but also celebrated – revived, preserved & celebrated .
That said, Common Ground identified a mechanism to define 'local understandings' of 'placedness' relative to a village, a street, a valley, a 'parish' whatever. It turned out that an early project was the Common Ground's 'Parish Mapping Project' that assisted in the articulation of place/s and their values.
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