Yes/no, left/right, in/out, us/them. Hands up who’s tired of the binary bollocks! Clare’s talk
will set out the thinking behind ‘A Fourth Way’, a new and holistic growth paradigm which
rejects the polarisation of our social, economic and democratic structures to instead
respond to and support the current groundswell of movement toward collaborative and
collective social action. Specifically looking at the potential for connectivity as a key metric
for future growth, Clare will explore the relationship between individual agency, place and
global sustainability, drawing on examples from across the world to demonstrate how ‘A
Fourth Way’ can work in practice. Productivity is dead! Long live connectivity.
Clare Devaney is founding Director of Citizen-i Ltd, a citizen-led think tank based in
Manchester, UK. She is co-founder of Impact Hub Greater Manchester, an open
collaborative workspace and social impact incubator, and co-founder of M4, a civic
innovation platform which works with people as innovators in driving ‘whole-self’ growth
and social change. Clare is a former Research Fellow and Associate at the Royal Society of
Arts (RSA), where she led its 2014-17 ‘Heritage, Identity and Place’ programme and its
‘Citizens and Inclusive Growth’ project (2017). She is a Research Associate of the MAPS-LED
International Research Partnership (University of Salford) and a Senior Research Fellow at
the Agirre Centre for Social and Political Studies (University of Basque Country/Columbia
University, New York). She is a two-time TEDx speaker, a proud trustee of Manchester
Histories and has a lifelong but seemingly unreciprocated love for Everton Football Club.