What’s at stake if we don’t do this?

Coming from the Sussex Co-Lab Playback session, a gathering of place leaders from across East and West Sussex councils, joined by colleagues from the Brighton and Hove socially engaged art sector, to discuss what Co-Lab specifically, and social practice more generally, can do to support and shape local placemaking, public health, transport and culture and heritage policy.

I framed the day around two of the most important questions we need to surface in such an ideas space – what are our hopes and fears, and what is at stake if we don’t do this? Without this, we don’t face up the issues, we don’t get ambitious, and we lose track of what is at stake in what we do.