CIRCLES OF SOCIAL LIFE

Circles of Social Life is an approach that guides engaged and collaborative practice in making our cities, locales and organizations more sustainable, resilient, adaptable and liveable. As part of this overall approach Circles of Sustainability provides practical tools for creating sustainable cities and communities. For example, instead of designating a pre-given set of indicators, the approach sets out a process for deciding upon indicators and analysing the relationship between them... We are a research association, collaborating across a number of universities, cities and international organizations. Our aim is to make cities better places to live by developing and applying the Circles approach... Process Circles represent the key stages of a sustainability project. In our approach a project is guided through seven such stages: commit, engage, assess, define, implement, measure and communicate - all the way back to commit, and the cycle begins again. Each of the seven stages is..