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Kai Böhmekai_boehme@c.im
2025-09-15

As Europe debates the shape of post-2027 policies, one question looms large: how can we reconcile competitiveness with cohesion in an age of transition? Time to revisit place-based policymaking! Read our new blog post 👉 steady.page/en/spatialforesigh

Regional disparities are widening — with many territories still trapped in cycles of low productivity, fiscal stress, and outmigration. Market forces alone are not correcting these divides; in fact, they are often deepening them.

This is where place-based policymaking comes in:
🔹 deliberate, spatially targeted interventions,
🔹 long-term transformation over marginal adjustment,
🔹 integration across sectors and governance levels,
🔹 and foresight capacity to future-proof decisions.

The lesson? Effective place-based policies are not “nice-to-haves” — they are vital tools for navigating systemic transitions, from climate neutrality to digitalisation. But they must be well-designed, properly resourced, and embedded in adaptive governance systems if they are to deliver real change.

The blog post is inspired by a recent publication by @oecd

#PlaceBased #RegionalPolicy #Governance #Cohesion #Foresight #EU

Revisiting place-based policymaking
@economyandspaceeconomyandspace@sciences.social
2025-07-02

OnlineFirst - "From platform capitalism to strategic place-based platformisation?" by Mike Hodson, Andrew McMeekin and Andy Lockhart:

#Placebased #platformisation #strategic

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/

Chiara Portinarichiaraportinari@pixelfed.social
2025-02-15
📸 The use of #streetphotography as an exploration method can bring so much awareness on the context of your research.

Above all when working on place-based projects, going around and shooting allows you to live the territory, experience the spirit of the area, meet its people.

🔍 Moreover, street photography is #research and #documentation at the same time. Which is very handy when you have many tasks in your hands.

🖌️ #Peckham, with its #graffiti and #colours, is very photogenic.

Ph. by Abbey Lew

#researchmethod #placebased #territory #people
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-18

"Conventional economic wisdom is a dictatorship of capitalist fictions presented as unassailable reality." ― Nesrine Malik Image of Pacific Northwest field in winter, grasses laying down and heavy with rain, a line of evergreens fading into the mists on the horizon. @lifeboatacademy
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-17

“If we take care of nature, nature will take care of us.” — Sir David Attenborough Image of a Douglas fir in a hedgerow with a tumble down rail fence.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-16

Nature and psychology work the same way.

Nature and psychology work the same way. "Don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots down there are riotous." — Rumi Image of a hazy Pacific Northwest dawn, the sky coloured in pastels and a dewy gray and brown field stretching to a near horizon of Douglas firs in the mist. @lifeboatacademy
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-15

“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of ‘critical mass.’ It’s always about critical connections.” — Grace Lee Boggs Image of the cut face of an old stump, grey with age and weathering. Growing out of the stump is a turkey tail mushroom and a few bits of fresh green mosses.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-14

“The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.” — N. Scott Momaday Image of a pool of water with tree roots wrapped around it and ferns and grass peppered about. The pool reflects the plants around it and the sky and canopy of evergreens above it. @lifeboatacademy
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-13

"I don't know what word in the English language - I can't find one - applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets; the word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it." — Noam Chomsky @lifeboatacademy
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-12

"The climate crisis reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightenment narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not." ― Jason Hickel Image of a Pacific Northwest winter sky, grey and overcast, looking through bare tree branches across a wet field to the edge of an evergreen forest.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-11

“Imbalanced systems, whether internal or external, will tend to polarize.” ― Richard C Schwartz Image: close up of a head of January King cabbage.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-10

We create as we speak because words make worlds within us. If you doubt this, try saying the word “waterfall.” What do you see, hear, smell, taste, experience? How do you feel? Now try on the word “supermarket,” or worse, “traffic.” What do you see, hear, and feel now? A single word is powerful enough to create an entire sensory experience in someone who hears, reads, or thinks it. If you were in a laboratory with electrodes attached to your head, a neuroscientist could track your brain’s response. If a single word can do that much, think of the possibilities of a line, a sentence, a paragraph, a page—or a sequence of pages! ― Leslie Davenport Image of a sky peppered with small clouds of different colours. Likely a sky at dusk or dawn.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-09

"Societies are living things and they are subject to the same evolutionary selection pressures as any other creature. When they no longer fit within their environment, there are two options: adapt or die."

emotusoperandi.medium.com/your

The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-09

“Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.” — Parker J. Palmer Picture of the moon shining through a canopy of cedars.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-08

“Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity – creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.” — Bill Plotkin. Background is a moss-covered fallen tree with dry leaves covering it in a deep forest, photo taken in a dramatic perspective - width of the trunk at the bottom of the image tapering dramatically to a point at the top of the image.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-07

"The metacrisis is not a technical challenge, it is an adaptive challenge." — Erik Fernholm in interview with Nate Hagens Detail of the base layer of a hugelkultur bed comprised of thick alder stick ends meeting, all in various stages of desiccation and decay.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-06

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by- moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects. — Gabor Maté @lifeboatacademy Evening winter landscape, Douglas firs and cedar trees festooned with snow drenched in blue crepuscular light.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-05

Nous avons réalisé que, lorsque l'on touche à la terre, on se relie à tout ce qui fait la vie des Hommes : l'alimentation, bien sûr, la santé, les paysages, l'emploi, l'économie, l'art de vivre ensemble et même ce que nous portons de plus intime - nos émotions, notre présence au monde, notre rapport à la vie. ― Perrine Hervé-Gruyer (Individu vêtu de vêtements d'été accroupi dans des lits de jardin paillés plantant des graines.)
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-05

We realized that when we touch the earth, we connect to everything that makes up human life: food, of course, health, landscapes, employment, the economy, the art of living together and even what we carry most intimately - our emotions, our presence in the world, our relationship with life. ― Perrine Hervé-Gruyer (Individual dressed in summer clothing crouched among mulched garden beds planting seeds.)
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-04

“Be curious, not judgmental.” — Marguerite and Marshall Shearer @lifeboatacademy Against a grassy background, between a naked forearm and a dirty hand, a dozens garlic scapes being worn like bangles.

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