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Seven Principles For Cultivating Communities Of Practice

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Tom Collins
29 March 2002 - 12:00pm

While this Harvard Business School article addresses "communities of practice", many of the lessons are applicable to physical community-building.

Although communities of practice develop organically, a carefully crafted design can drive their evolution. In this excerpt from a new book, the authors detail seven design principles. The payoff? Knowledge management that works... These design principles are not recipes, but rather embody our understanding of how elements of design work together. They reveal the thinking behind a design. Making design principles explicit makes it possible to be more flexible and improvisational."

Full Story: Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice
Source: Harvard University, March 26, 2002
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Planners, architects, artists, and other community members can make the exploratory walk a key tool in re-making places, stemming from the emotions and atmospheres perceived by people who live there or visit them, and plan outward from the experiential, toward trajectories, shapes, and physical structures.
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