Small, Local, Open and Connected
= (SLOC)
Description
From the Wikipedia:
"Italian design and social innovation educator and academic Ezio Manzini describes Cosmopolitan Localism as having the potential to generate a new sense of place. Manzini also developed the idea of SLOC to describe how communities can thrive in a sustainable and interconnected way. It is closely tied to cosmopolitan localism and emphasizes that places are not isolated, but part of wider networks that balance local richness with global exchange.
With cosmopolitan localism, places are not considered isolated entities, but nodes in short-distance and long-distance networks which globally link local communities in distributed networks of shared exchange, bringing production and consumption closer together. The short-distance networks generate and regenerate the local socio-economic fabric and the long-distance networks connect a particular community to the rest of the world."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitan_localism?)
More information
- Manzini, E. (2013) Small, Local, Open and Connected: Resilient Systems and Sustainable Qualities in Design Observer