THE VISION

We're working towards a world where people are better connected to each other and to their place. 
​We work to build their capability to identify their own strength and power.
We animate communities to be the agents of their OWN change.

​A LITTLE HISTORY

In 2014 JoJo, an ex-archaeologist, spent best part of the year researching, meditating, theorizing on how it would look if you brought elements of the new circular, gift-economies together with socially connected Creative Placemaking and in early 2015 the first community-led Squilometre launched.

Now there are six Squilometres plus the wonderful Devon Voice Group and a new, young and dynamic Board, working sociocratically, to create policy and strategy. We're learning and growing all the time. 
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​who we are

Interwoven is, in fact, a network of volunteer participants each offering their best skills and passions to the endeavour.  We are incredibly grateful to each of them.  


OUR CURRENT BOARD

Anna Matthews 

I first joined Interwoven in 2021, as a Place Champion and I'm pleased to continue my support as a Board Member.

 I am very interested in how people shape places and vice versa, and I am passionate about distributing power to those who are denied it - social justice, in other words. My other interests include making music, and getting outside as much as possible.

 I love the Interwoven approach to building connections, empowering people and making change that lasts.

Dr Claire Davies

I first got involved with Interwoven back in 2017 for Heavitree Squilometre’s “Park in the Dark” series where I took visitors on a tour of the stars. 

I’m employed as a Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Exeter and I’m passionate about science education. I’m also an award-winning diversity and inclusion advocate and run PRISM Exeter, a network for LGBTQ+ professionals and students across the city’s science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEM) sector. 
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The amazing engagement people throughout the city showed with our Great Conjunction events back in the winter of 2020 was fantastic and I was so proud of everyone who came together to put on such an amazing series of activities for that once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event. 

Megan Dowsett

Hello, I’m Megan!  I’m a Community Artist, and came to Interwoven when the Heavitree Squilometre landed on my road. 

After beginning as a teacher, life has taken me through art, community, museums and nature.  I’ve worked with schools, families, young people and adults to explore all things creative.  After eight years of Project and Programme Management while my children were young, I’m back on the ground working with real people, and it’s great!   My current project, Nature Doodles, explores collaboration and connection with people, place and nature.
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In a world of continuous, often tumultuous change, underpinning everything is the feeling that we should never stop talking (and listening) to people who think differently to us.  How else can we remember our common humanity?  It is for this reason – and the authenticity of Interwoven’s methodology – that I have become ‘interwoven’.

JoJo Spinks

Hi, I’m JoJo Spinks, founding member of Interwoven Productions CIC.  I started the very first Squilometre neighbourhood project based on my experience as an archaeology tutor.  I’d always loved reading the history in our landscapes through the features that we can all see and I realised that every street, every tree, every house, even car park(!) has a story.  A story that can be shared to bring people together – connecting people to people and people to place.  Now I train others to do the same in their own neighbourhoods, and so the network grows!
 
I love working with people, shoulder-to-shoulder, for the common good and take encouragement from the fact that there’s a whole movement of people now who are turning their backs on profit for profit’s sake. I’m incredibly proud that Interwoven is growing as a largely voluntary network of people who have come together with a shared vision of a more connected world.

Paul White

Hi I am Paul White, my career for the last 30+ years has been in  technology consulting and with a specialist focus on digital development of the public sector.

My son and daughter are both creating their own great life stories in what I consider for them to be difficult times by comparison to that when I left school, and my daughter has provided me with two exceptionally fabulous grandchildren that I am also very proud of.
 
I am a passionate champion of 'tech for good' digital social innovation and for what this means for people in everyday work / life situations, and for enabling organisations such as Interwoven to achieve greater benefit and social value delivery aided by the use of “tech for good” focused digital solution.


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