Spring: A Social and Political Invitation

An emerging effort in Scotland from the people behind Alternative UK, which holds that “given enough time and space, we humans – in our full diversity – are enough to meet the demands of our own lives and societies. And not just to fix what’s broken, but to envision something far better — then build it.” In doing so, ‘Spring’ recognises “the need to answer our sense of powerlessness with experiences of real power, exercised in the places we live, within our communities;” leaning into a recognition of our ‘cosmolocality’ aka “the technological freedom to access worlds of ideas, practices, even blueprints without leaving our homes or locality;” and that this empowerment will answer “deep emotional needs”, ultimately helping us to “reset our attitudes to the future”. It is rooted in an awareness of emerging ‘ecocivilisation’ economic structures, and the “new forms of deliberating, participating and envisioning” that are “being tested daily” to support and enable them.