Community

Social connection needs time and effort, but crucially it also needs meeting places, and our Map of the Month highlights that not all Melburnians have equal access to these ‘bumping spaces’

‘Social prescribing’ is a growing area where health professionals connect patients to non-medical services and activities to benefit their wellbeing

Taylor Swift has redefined fan engagement in the digital age, but that fandom comes with a responsibility to call out Swifties behaving badly

Rio de Janeiro is one of Latin America’s most unequal cities; a new project uses urban farming to improve conditions in one of Rio’s most disadvantaged zones

A new framework aims to celebrate and generate opportunities for cultural exchange and the expression of new cultural identities through shared music

Noronha is a remote archipelago off Brazil’s coast, but it could provide insights into the challenges to building community and urban resilience

While all schools are part of their local community, some are developing partnerships and sharing spaces to become hubs for school-community connections

How a Melbourne community’s mission to reduce waste is building a kinder and more sustainable society, enabled by social media

COVID-19 has reinforced the vital nature of friendship and community – not just with other humans but also our connections to nature, algorithms, animals and art

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need for policies and programs to support older people’s desire to live and thrive in their own healthy community