Why ‘Belong’….?

We are really interested in the human need for belonging - that is the need we feel to be a part of somewhere, a place in which we have a stake. Modern forms of procurement and development have often achieved the opposite and left people feeling isolated, reduced to passive consumers rather than engaged and empowered as active citizens. Lots of writers, artists, psychologists and sociologists have written about belonging and what it means, and we’d like to share some of those thoughts with you below.