The final residential
We ate delicious food, watched Twilight and experimented with new learning styles, in a collective journey towards better UK-based narrative change infrastructure.
PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE
Strengthening the Stories That Unite Us
PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE
Strengthening the Stories That Unite Us
Category Future Stories
Society is built on stories. These stories—of our past, present and future—are the scaffolding for our political systems, social structures, and our own thinking.
The old stories told us things would only get better; if we work hard, we’ll do well in life; and some of us are better than others.
These stories have failed us…
We need new stories, to help bring new worlds into being.
For over a decade PIRC has supported social movements to map, develop and strengthen the stories that unite us.
Our strategy is to transform, open-source, and democratise our movements’ crucial work on storytelling, narrative & framing
Confronting Far-Right Extremism in the UK
The recent wave of far-right extremism in the UK—manifesting as violent riots targeting mosques, places of refuge, Muslims, and people of colour—has been deeply troubling to watch. But for many, ourselves included, the events are unsurprising. These racist attacks resulted from years of divisive narratives pushed by the media and politicians, and repeated excessively throughout UK society.
Half way there!
It’s been five months since we officially launched Building Our Narrative Power (BONP) and began working with our cohort of 14 community organisers, campaigners, and activists. January We hosted our first residential in January, nurturing a space to build trust,…
Fourteen change-makers
Since launching Building Our Narrative Power last summer, we have had the incredible opportunity of working with 14 community organisers, campaigners and activists.