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flourishing communities

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I n c l u s i v e M a p p i n g

Inclusive Mapping aims to awaken the ‘consciousness of places’, that which economist Giacomo Becattini talks about. It proposes to reveal the stories of places, those that are hidden in the memory of citizens or in the least visible spots. The narrative of places/people infuences the way in which they develop; human fourishing - an integral approach to personal and community happiness - is also linked to narratives. Inclusive Mapping, therefore, proposes to make the stories of places and their people visible, and in the process of collecting these stories, inviting the people to connect - after all, if maps can also tell stories and through them shape narratives, how about maps beginning to indicate connection points instead of dividing lines? Mostly, Inclusive Mapping looks out for stories that, when shared, create opportunities for connection and human fourishing, fostering a shared happiness where each person experiences happiness as part of a common good to be treasured collectively. Would you like to join us?

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With yourself

This level is an invitation to access all that resides in the deepest of your heart and memory, connecting and refecting about your own story.

With friends and neighbours

This level is an invitation for a group of friends to talk about the local knowledge in their own community, sharing ideas and feelings to discover how different people perceive and sense life.

With the community

This level of the game invites you to discover and connect to your own community, observing its places and talking to both known and unknown people.

U R B A N

C O M M O N S

u r b a n c o m m o n s

Urban commons are spaces of belonging. They can be goods or services, produced and governed collectively within communities aimed at stimulating human fourishing through the right of access to resources. he proximity between citizens and goods, and collective ways of governance, stimulates wellbeing through access to quality resources, sustainable economies, sociability, elements that are central to both individual and collective wellbeing.

With yourself If present, how is your sense of belonging rooted to the place where you live in? How do the ways you interact with your community, neighbourhood or city contribute to your sense of belonging, or its lack?

With friends and neighbours efect within a group of friends what makes you feel part of a common ‘place’? What do you create in daily life, be it spaces or events, and what do you govern collectively? And what directly impacts your life which you feel no control over? Register what goes well and what would need a collective intervention for a better quality of life where you dwell.

With the community Look around. Who are the people you see? Are they familiar or unfamiliar? It seems to you there are more things in common or more differences? Reconnecting to the topics that emerged in the refection about what could be improved in the place where you dwell, talk to the unknown people in your community and try to understand if these intentions are shared. If so, discuss what would be possible paths to walk in this direction.

Remember: this is your place. Belong!

C R E A T I O N

c r e a t i o n

The existing world as a gift of God, or the Universe, where each element exists in relationship to all others, to a unity. It differs from the more secular notion of “nature” by recognizing in the created an origin of divine or otherwise transcendent initiative, and seeing in creation not a simple “closed system”, but an interdependent organism, oriented to good and to full expression of each of its components.

With yourself What relationship do you have with the creation around you? How do you perceive it? Do you feel a personal call to actively and proactively be its custodian? How?

With friends and neighbours Are there initiatives that see you involved with others in valuing creation? How does attention to creation emerge in the dialogues you commonly entertain with friends or people close to you? What is the perception on the subject of custody of creation?

With the community What projects would you think might be useful to involve your community in raising awareness towards forms of integral ecology, of valorisation of creation, of greater environmental and social sustainability? Pope Francis speaks of creation as our “common home” in which “everything is connected”: to what extent is this awareness experienced at the level of lifestyles (personal and community), economic and social policies?

T H E

I N G R E D I E N T S O F H A P P I N E S S

t h e i n g r e d i e n t s o f h a p p i n e s s

Happiness has always been one of the most debated topics in philosophical thought (and beyond). Among the most discussed issues is the question of ‘objective’ or ‘subjective’ happiness. In simple terms, the individual is always the best judge of what will lead him to be happy (subjective or subjectivistic vision), or perhaps there are ‘objective’ elements, valid for everyone, without which the human being cannot never be happy, regardless of his personal inclinations and assessments. Happiness is a delicate balance between what people value and what they should value. Let’s try to ask ourselves about it.

With yourself Do you feel that you are the best judge of your own happiness? Have you ever confronted limitations in your choices towards what you thought would make you happy? What obstacles to your happiness have you met along the way?

With friends and neighbours Are the ingredients of the recipe for your happiness the same? If so, have you ever thought that others might value other things before their own happiness (eg: the happiness of others, freedom, dignity ? iet sche said it is super cial to think that people tend to their own happiness; according to him, everyone instead wants ‘the effort’ that leads to happiness. Do you see yourself in this way of thinking?

With the community What are the barriers hindering your happiness? Which are the insurmountable ones and which are the removable ones? Who, if any, should remove them? You, your fellow citizens, local politics, national politics? Would you be willing to give up something that makes you happy if all your fellow citizens were asked in the name of the ‘common good’?

S O C I A L

N A R R A T I V E S

s o c i a l n a r r a t i v e s

Man is also made up of words. here are narratives that infuence our lives and the way we behave: one above all, it is the narrative of money. ince when did e changing pieces of paper start to have a value ? It is a value-creating convention that we commonly believe in.

With yourself What are the narratives of your reality? You can start from the history of your family, but how is this intertwined with the history of, say, your neighbourhood or your city? How do these narratives serve you, both positively and negatively?

With friends and neighbours efecting among friends and neighbours, what are the narratives that belong to you - both as individuals and as inhabitants of society? What do you like and dislike about these narratives? How do they make you/society comfortable? Can you think of someone who questions them? Talk about it!

With the community What are your community’s narratives? How do these block or act as a stepping stone for community members? Go around talking to the local inhabitants and try to understand which points are common to most people. What frustrations and what dreams emerge? You can start by asking them about their community: “What is your biggest dream?” or “What is your biggest frustration? . efect on these aspects both individually and collectively.

R E L A T I O N A L G O O D S

r e l a t i o n a l g o o d s

We all know what goods are: they are products and services that we consume every day and which are now part of our way of life. But there is another type of goods, the relational ones, which come to life and have meaning only when shared. These goods nourish us and strengthen bonds with those we share them with, whether they are strangers or close friends. Research on happiness says they are the most important ingredient. Interesting, right?

With yourself Are there different activities you do with other people? Which are they? What feelings do they leave you with? If this happens, what is stopping you from getting closer to other people and sharing experiences?

With friends and neighbours What activities do you practice together? What kind are they and how much do they mean to you? How do these activities make you feel? Do they strengthen or diminish the bond of community? Discuss it among yourselves!

With the community You are on the road. Try to observe people on the street. What are the moments of exchange? What do people talk about? Do people talk a lot or little? Where do they stop to talk: in the middle of the square, to one side, near a bench, sitting? Stop and talk to people and ask them “What is a relational good for you”? Experiment!

S O C I A L

P A T RI M O N Y

s o c i a l p a t r i m o n y

All places have their heritage, even when they are not printed on postcards or travel guides. Heritage comes from human values, from local histories, spaces defended against adverse forces; they are loved places, and for this reason, the great custodians of cultural heritage are the (local) people. More than buildings, heritage is a form of belonging to the place where one lives.

With yourself What are the places in your neighbourhood that have a special meaning for you, that tell your story? Are these spaces important only to you or to your entire community? Draw these spaces and / or write the reason why they are important to you.

With friends and neighbours Ask your friends and neighbours what they consider an asset in your neighbourhood/ where they live. Sitting in a circle, share the stories that have taken place in these places that you consider heritage.

With the community Walk together, the same group of friends / neighbours around these places that you think are part of the heritage. Imagine what these places will be like in many years ... will the next generation also consider them as heritage? What should be done to retain the value that these places have for you?

C L U S I V E M A P P I N G

S O C I A L

I N N O V A T I O N

s o c i a l i n n o v a t i o n

Social innovation can improve the life of many. It was born by bringing together ideas and opportunities in a witty, creative and complex way (in the sense of connecting different ideas and networks). It serves to see things differently than how they are made, and brings surprising results! Let’s say that innovation escapes the rule in a rather clever way.

With yourself Is the way you are used to doing things in your daily life largely created by you or was it taught to you? Do you feel more comfortable doing things as most people where you live do, or inventing your own way of being and acting?

Bring some examples!

With friends and neighbours Are you happy with the way you live and relate to the people around you? Does everything work well in the places where you live or do you see yourself limited in some aspects? If there is something that bothers you, have you ever tried to change the situation? Talk to each other and nd out together if there are intentions, resources and ideas to implement some local change.

With the community Often, the more populous a place is, the more distant people are from the decisions that affect their lives. Nonetheless, if we learn to look around curious about ways to innovate our life, we would be amazed by the opportunities we had not seen in front of our nose. Find your own way to discover them, and invite those around you to do the same. In the end, share your ndings and, perhaps, create the innovations that serve you.

S P I R I T U A L I T Y

L U S I V E M A P P I N G

s p i r i t u a l i t y

Spirituality is a fundamental dimension of the being, expressed in symbols, actions, lifestyles, and decisions that are deeply rooted in natural, cultural, historical and religious aspectsand last but not least, clearly, faith, which is very personal.

With yourself What needs and desires does the spiritual dimension express in my life? How do I live my spiritual dimension? Which are the places where I can cultivate it the most?

With friends and neighbours What opportunities and places do we have to share the spiritual dimension of our life? If and when we nd opportunities for sharing on a spiritual level, what feelings remain deep within us? ow can the spiritual dimension infuence long relationships, that is, those relating to the world of work or institutions?

With the community We are witnessing a rebirth of the spiritual phenomenon, but mainly in private and individual forms. In what way that is, by inhabiting what human needs, uestions, and urges could the spiritual dimension help us to also become, think as, and create communities?

H A P P I N E S S

(E U D A I M O N I A)

h a p p i n e s s (e u d a i m o n i a)

There are two types of happiness; the hedonic one, which is individual and concerns pleasure, and the eudaimonic one, which is collective and concerns the common good - fowering together. Today, the happiness that is valued the most is linked to individual pleasure, despite being happiness as a common good which keeps our wellbeing for longer. This is the real element for ethical and inclusive opportunities.

With yourself Have you ever thought about these two types of happiness? For you, which is the most important? How central is the theme of happiness in your daily life and how much does it affect your choices?

With friends and neighbours Discuss what makes each one of you happy. Making yourself happy, from the eudaimonic point of view (happiness as a common good), should make those around you happy too. Do you see yourself on this last point? If not, what would you (if) do differently?

With the community Is common or shared happiness valued in the daily life of the places you live? If so, how does this happen? If not, think about how much making someone happier can make someone less happy on the other hand. Are there any changes you could/would like to make right away in your lifestyle that would bene t happiness from a eudaimonic perspective?

F O O D

f o o d

Since the 90s, with the birth of food studies in the United States, it has always been better understood that food is a complex sector made up of many actors and which involves many different visions: the farmer, the distributor, the certi cations, the nutritional aspect of food, but also environmental and personal aspects; not least that of environmental sustainability. With this card we will explore the various aspects of food!

With yourself What kind of food brings you joy? How do you eat it? When? What is so special about you? Try to describe the situation, but also the colours, the taste, the smells...both about the food itself and its enjoyment context!

With friends and neighbours Have you ever traded food with your friends? What food is it? What effect would it have on you to exchange food that has already been opened (for example, cans of corn that have already been opened, packets of un nished chips... ? Would you be willing to do it, and why? Discuss among yourselves.

With the community Find out where people shop and why. What are the elements of the community foodscape? That is, what shops, supermarkets etc in general places where you can get food are there? Talk to the people who are shopping in those places. Why do you come here to do shopping? What do you like / dislike about this place?