Nurturing Ecologies is a worldview and rationale that centres the carework and infrastructure required for supporting place-based ecologies of practice. 

This was piloted in August last year with a week-long residency in Sheffield that brought together Black, POC and marginalised group-led organisations who champion radical approaches to community world-building through creative practice. The programme utilised peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange to enable collective development through workshops, events and activities delivered by participants.

This document recounts the week of activity: it reflects on the knowledge exchanged, shares the tools we used, and explores the infrastructure required to nurture our ecologies of practice.

The 2023 residency was the first pilot of this evolving strategy and it wouldn’t have been possible without the tireless work of our co-conspirators in the field.

The 2023 residency programme was funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and our work at RESOLVE Studios has been supported by additional partners below: