The success of humankind on Earth is to a large degree a function of our ability to socialise and to collaborate in performing tasks such as hunting and building shelter. The African proverb ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ recognises the necessity of multiple inputs and collaboration in nurturing and raising children for the mutual benefit of all members of the community.
When telling the story of collaborative charrette processes, historians often refer back to the Amish tradition of barn raising – events in which community members cooperate to build a barn, or other structure, in a day. Typically, ...
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