This year’s INCLUDE+ event is all about exploring what comes next. In addition to exploring the curated, created, imagined and lived changes the INCLUDE+ projects have already enacted, we focus on the future: specifically looking at how we might carry work forward into everyday practice beyond current funding cycles. Through the event, we want to create space to reflect on the journey so far, including how ideas were developed, what might be learned from the process, and how those insights could shape future actions.
At its heart is a consideration of the possibilities for long-term change: we plan to look at how other people and organisations across policy, practice and community contexts might adopt the knowledge and partnerships built through INCLUDE+. As we enter the final year of our Network+, we’re keen to explore if/how this transition would remain grounded in real, lived experiences.
Our findings clearly show that the most meaningful digital equity legacies may not be formal outputs but rather the trust, relationships, and communities that could continue to evolve.
We will also touch upon the core INCLUDE+ Principles, opening up conversations around sustainability, collective care, and the conditions needed for ethical digital futures. This might involve looking at complex tensions, such as how good intentions can sometimes inadvertently create extra labor, and how we might avoid short term[ism] or extractive approaches to impact.
A central hope for the event is to think about how to keep key elements alive, such as:
- Knowledge generated through co-production and lived experience
- Methods and approaches developed across diverse projects
- Networks of peer support and collaboration
We will close the day with a creative workshop where participants will have the opportunity to consider how these elements might move forward as shared practices or infrastructure, rather than potentially fading when individual projects conclude.
The goal is to start exploring how lasting change actually happens and how individuals, organisations, or partnerships might best support it.
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