Welcome to Village Connections
Village-connections a space for collaboration between people interested in:
- local development that balances socio-cultural, economic and ecological (triple-bottom line) factors.
- developing a methodology: for all interested in these projects to communicate in order to see more – both the problems and possibilities.
New Creative Social Science for Chosen Quality Futures is a post-doctoral project. The research aims to further develop a new locally-grounded cosmopolitan, transdisciplinary methodology. This methodology focuses on communication within and between localities, policy and academia. It deploys a screen-based local development platform (film and Internet), one that blends European and Aotearoa/New Zealand concepts, and aims to engage diverse audiences in inclusive processes.
A developmental communication triangle symbolises the method: 
Click on the logo for an explanation of how this works
The project is funded by BRCSS and based at the Social Science Research Centre, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.