On Social Innovation and being human

Ive just been to the first summer school of the Social Innovation Exchange and met some extraordinary people doing incredible work. It struck me that one of the themes underlying much of their discussion was that they were trying to address significant social failures that were partly the result of the incomplete picture of the human that the current institutions of public, private and voluntary sectors suffer from. Consumer/producer, manager/employee, teacher/student, etc. I'm going to think and write some more about this but meanwhile it put me in mind of the cafe because past faltering top down efforts at peacemaking fail to address the way people really are; their desire to have social interractions, their need for respect and recognition, their love of food and music and games and desire and jokes and so on and on. See here http://www.socialinnovationexchange.org/