Communiuty Building / Community of Practice

Community Building(Wikipedia)
- Scott Peckmodel
  - In his book The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace^[7], Peck says that communityhas three essential ingredients:
    Based on his experience with community building workshops, Peck says that community building typically goes through four stages:
  - Pseudocommunity: This is a stage where the members pretend to have a bonhomie with one another, and cover up their differences, by acting as if the differences do not exist. Pseudocommunity can never directly lead to community, and it is the job of the person guiding the community building process to shorten this period as much as possible.
  - Chaos: When pseudocommunity fails to work, the members start falling upon each other, giving vent to their mutual disagreements and differences. This is a period of chaos. It is a time when the people in the community realize that differences cannot simply be ignored. Chaos looks counterproductive but it is the first genuine step towards community building.
  - Emptiness: After chaos comes emptiness. At this stage, the people learn to empty themselves of those ego related factors that are preventing their entry into community. Emptiness is a tough step because it involves the death of a part of the individual. But, Scott Peck argues, this death paves the way for the birth of a new creature, the Community.
  - True community: Having worked through emptiness, the people in community are in complete empathy with one another. There is a great level of tacit understanding. People are able to relate to each other’s feelings. Discussions, even when heated, never get sour, and motives are not questioned.
- Robert Putnum

Block, Peter (2008) Community: The Structure of Belonging (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. San Francisco).
- Peter Block in the book Community: The Structure of Belonging (pg. 29)^[3] states “The context that restores community is one of possibility, generosity, and gifts, rather than one of problem solving, fear, and retribution.” This context allows a new conversation to take place. It requires its citizens to act authentic by choosing to own and exercise their power rather than delegating to others what is in the best interest of that community. Focus must be inclusive for all, not just the leaders but each and every citizen of that community.

David Brain
- David Brain, “Placemaking and Community Building,” Presentation at the University of Miami School of Architecture (Coral Gables, Fl: March 2004)
- Infrastructure, roads, water, sewer, electricity and housing provides the shell within which people live. It is within this shell that people do the things together that allow them to sustain livelihoods. these include but are not limited to education, health care, business, recreation, and spiritual celebration. People working together with shared understandings and expectations are what provide a place of strong community.

Community of Practice
コミュニティが持っているメンタルモデルとは、何か？
- コミュニティが持っている習慣、コミュニティが持っている物語？
  - 物語というのも、エンタメというのも、今の段階では、おおげさに感じる。
  - 習慣＋emotion
    - 社会のエンターテイメント？
    - Online social entertainment [wikipedia]
    - Geosocial networking [wikipedia]
    - Welcome to Social Entertainment – Annual Report 2011, by GlobalWebIndex [slideshare]