Work

Examples of the work

Intro

Here you will find a database of examples of work that might be considered to be working to reorient deep dispositions, categorised against the four Zones of our Canvas (Told, Breathed, Lived, Built).

Example work

The following examples are categorised according to the four Zones and Layers of our Canvas.

These Zones and Layers are not silos – each is a fluid category that is entangled and overlapping with the others.

So this categorisation is not intended to be definitive or finite, only as useful as it can be in identifying work that needs support, as well as gaps and opportunities for further work.

TOLDBREATHEDLIVEDBUILT
Explicit & symbolic — Articulated, shared and contested. e.g. education, culture, media, advocacy.Embodied — Deeply internalised practices through which culture becomes embodied. e.g. meditation, ritual, somatics, reflection.Implicit — Reinforced / modelled through social participation. e.g. community projects, institutional and legal change.Material, environmental — The infrastructures, technologies and designs that encode and reinforce deep dispositions. e.g. architecture, design, technology.
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41 examples

LivedBreathed Society

Amazon Union

USA

A 21st-century unionising success story.

LivedBuilt Community

Ambition Lawrence Weston

UK

A resident-driven organisation striving to make Lawrence Weston an even better place to live and work.

LivedBreathedBuilt Community

Civic Square

UK

Demonstrating neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social, ecological, economic, and climate transition.

Told Society

Climate Spring

UK

Working with the screen industries to tell compelling stories that resonate, inspire and reach global audiences.

ToldBuilt Society

Co-creational News Media Toolkit

UK

A toolkit distilling the experience of news media pioneers leading the development of the co-creational model in the UK and around the world.

BreathedLivedBuilt Community

Co-housing for Old People

UK

A realistic alternative to paternalism and benign neglect — involving the older person as citizen, not service recipient.

Built Society

Collective Abundance

EU

A movement-building initiative that engages philanthropic funding to strengthen the climate justice ecosystem across Europe.

Lived Community

Community Pantries

Philippines

Local food donation/provision that challenges authoritarian narratives about lazy poverty and competitiveness.

LivedBuilt Community

Cooperation Hull

UK

A Citizens' Assemblies-led effort to construct better systems that build us up rather than keep us down.

LivedBuilt Society

Decolonising Economics

UK

Building a solidarity economy rooted in racial justice principles.

Lived Society

Dreaming Beyond AI

UK

A space for critical & constructive knowledge, visionary fiction, speculative art and community-organising around Artificial Intelligence.

ToldBreathedLived Society

FrameWorks Culture Change Project

USA

An ongoing investigation into whether and how social and political turmoil is shifting the ways Americans make sense of the world.

BuiltLived Community

Free Breakfast for Children

USA

A community service program run by the Black Panther Party that focused on providing free breakfast for children before school.

ToldLived Community

Greater Govanhill

UK

Created by local residents to challenge negative stereotypes, break down cultural barriers, and bring people together while sharing resources.

LivedBreathed Society

Highlander — The Movement School

USA

Advancing multi-racial, intergenerational movements for justice in southern USA.

ToldBuilt CommunitySociety

Hood Futures Studio

UK

Addressing hood displacement through spatial, climate, and economic justice — supporting Black life, community wealth, and interdependencies.

Told Society

Impact Lounge (workshops)

USA

The leading space where visionaries, storytellers, and artists converge to harness the power of narrative and film to drive positive societal change.

ToldLivedBuilt Society

Inclusive Journalism Cymru

UK

A network to connect, support and campaign for those marginalised or excluded by the journalism industry in Wales.

LivedBuilt Society

Institut Noirs d'Encres

Haiti

Training spaces in Haiti and abroad, based on the conviction that the experiences and knowledge of Black worlds must occupy a central place in discussions on social justice.

Lived Society

Kids Of Colour

UK

An anti-racist youth work organisation committed to racial justice for young people of colour in Greater Manchester.

LivedBuilt Society

Land in Our Names

UK

A BPOC grassroots collective getting land through reparations, reimagining land stewardship towards climate and racial justice.

Built Community

Library of Things

UK

Rent useful household items from your local high street; learn DIY & repair skills to complete projects yourself.

BreathedLivedBuilt Community

Mommunes

UK

Single mums living together 'as a village'.

Told Society

Moving Mindsets

UK

Shares findings from new quantitative and qualitative research on emerging opportunities to shift culture on health, wealth and government.

LivedBuilt Society

Multitudes Co-op

UK

A design and technology co-operative building digital and material infrastructure for present movements and liberatory futures.

ToldLived Society

News Futures

USA

A future for news that is service-oriented, participatory, and reparative.

ToldBuiltLived Society

Noor Network

Global

A global feminist, movement-driven think-and-do tank building the power of gender justice and progressive movements.

LivedBuilt Society

Pan Africanist Sovereignty Movements

Pan-African

An idea that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous peoples and diasporas of African ancestry.

BuiltLived Community

People's Free Ambulance

USA

The Winston-Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party started an ambulance service in 1973 to provide better service to the black community.

Told Society

Pop Shift

USA

Bringing the world's most fascinating people together with Hollywood's most influential storytellers to imagine the future.

Told Community

Purpose Driven Church

USA

A book advising pastors and church leaders to base their ministry on shared purpose, not their own ideas of ministry.

Told Community

Radio Soap Operas

LATAM

Cultural intervention to gather and tell local stories that bring the community together.

ToldLived SelfSociety

Reclaim the Family / Faith

LATAM

Narrative strategy for reaching ordinary people about climate and gender justice, who have different priorities.

Lived Society

Rethink New Orleans

USA

Supporting youth of color to become thoughtful leaders by critically rethinking educational experiences and creating systemic change.

Breathed Society

Sacred Design Lab

USA

Soul-centred research and development lab, devoted to understanding and designing for 21st-century spiritual wellbeing.

BreathedTold CommunitySociety

SenseMaker

UK

Tool to surface real 'street narratives' to better inform decision-makers, and develop local interventions.

ToldLivedBuilt CommunitySociety

Shado mag

UK

A lived-experience led community of artists, activists, organisers, creators and writers united in the fight for social justice and collective liberation.

Told Community

Stone Soup

EU

Story to encourage coming together to coordinate and share resources in a community and foster interconnection, to resist authoritarianism.

LivedBuilt Society

Stop LAPD Spying

USA

A community group building power toward abolition of the police state.

LivedTold Society

Sunflower Student Movement

Taiwan

A protest movement driven by a coalition of students and civic groups in Taiwan in 2014.

LivedTold Society

Yes Scotland (2014)

UK

The organisation representing those campaigning for a Yes vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.