…community-led initiatives, including housing co-operatives and community land trusts, as well as a commitment to ‘bringing more homes into common ownership’ in areas affected by high numbers of second homes….
Review: Sex on Toast by Tôpher Mills
…then picked up again later in the collection, allowing a sense of Mills’ poetic development to rise out of natural comparison. In his foreword, Mills states that he has ‘put…
Seedlings for Change: When is the right time to start talking about Climate Change in early years education?
…already written end-points, can replenish education as the seeking of existential wisdom. With the possibilities of the New Curriculum for Wales, with its commitment to wellbeing, community, and sustainability, we…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Land
I found it astounding that there is no place for the word ‘Land’ among the concepts explored in Keywords, Raymond Williams’ seminal ‘vocabulary of culture and society’. In that book,…
Mapping Wales with the welsh agenda in 2021
…in Wales how they would improve local democracy, community funding, data accessibility and town centres all across Wales. Andy Regan examines their answers in this IWA analysis. The placemaking agenda…
Issue 67: Coming Together
Issue Costs £6.95 for a digital copy (pdf via email) If you would like to join the IWA, and receive the most recent copy of the welsh agenda and all…
Tomorrow’s Artists Have Everything to Play for
…brilliant musicians with diverse backgrounds and influences, committed to immersion within communities. Rather than pursuing their music and then working out who the audience is, they flip it to ask…
What might a ‘national conversation’ look like?
…commission to consider Wales’ constitutional future, to be informed by a national civic conversation. The biggest challenge is that of involving people beyond the ‘usual suspects’ of politicians, political commentators,…
Labour-Plaid deal poses serious questions for the Welsh Parliament
…You’ll hear lots from me on this in the coming months. But firstly, I’d like to examine how this deal impacts the integrity of the Senedd, and the way it…