Changelog

The course pages, News & Notes, the reading list, the fund archive and Network now match the September redesign, with each course opening on its own painting. The wiki keeps its file tree and the rest of the site no longer shows one.

The site is now called Conscious Communities, and it has a new design to match. The address is the same, developmentalspaces.org, but the front door now uses the words most people use for the places we write about. Developmental spaces stays the name of the idea, the whitepaper, the manifesto and the network. The About page explains the two names.

The new look replaces the parchment-and-serif theme from July, which was warm but generic. The page is now near-white with one flat yellow, headings are set tight in a serif with an italic second line, and the pictures are watercolours rather than photographs or ornament, so the site looks like something made by the people behind it. The illustrations are by Jennifer Chan, from Life Itself's Awami Conscious Food book, and stand in until we have a set of our own.

What is new:

• A new home page: the road from field to kitchen to bowl, then three ways in.
• Learn, Build, Fund and Find rebuilt in one layout: a single painting, plain lists in place of cards, and one yellow section carrying each stream's main idea.
• The whitepaper and manifesto open with a cover and a headline. The argument itself reads exactly as before.
• What is a developmental space? opens with a catalogue of painted things a developmental space is made of.
• A rebuilt About page, restyled course signup forms, and a new mark and icon: a brushed spiral, carrying on the spiral from the whitepaper cover.

Everything published before is still there at the same addresses, including the courses, the fund archive and the wiki. Still to come: illustrations of our own, a redesign of the definition page around the whitepaper, and a pass on the words.

A new Find page brings together examples of developmental spaces already underway, deal-flow for projects looking for capital, and the Archipelago map of real places.

Four separate sites came together at developmentalspaces.org, the single home for this work. consciouscoliving.org and tealestate.net moved in and their old addresses redirect here. The site is organised into three streams: Learn for anyone exploring conscious community living, Build for people creating a space or working on the field, and Fund for the capital side. The full story is in the announcement post, A new home for Developmental Spaces.

What arrived with it:

• The three email courses, Conscious Coliving 101, Conscious Coliving in Action and Transforming Conflict in Community, readable online in full: about 27 lessons, free. Signup now runs through our own mailer with a double opt-in.
• The fund archive: the prospectus, the original strategic analysis, the project application questionnaire and the rest of the 2019 to 2021 work on a real-estate fund for conscious community, with the story of why it did not launch.
• A wiki of about 65 working notes on inner development and developmental science, and a vision and strategy page with talks and decks.
• A new warm, parchment-toned look, with the spiral from the whitepaper cover as the site's mark, and a News & Notes section that began with the announcement post.

This design was replaced in September by the Conscious Communities look.