Centering Community Visions: A Live Global Mapping Lab
About the session
What happens when we move beyond talking about community-led work and instead make it visible, in real time?
This participatory session brings together leaders working alongside and within communities across continents to co-create a live Community Vision Map. Together, participants will locate where they work and surface the priorities communities themselves have identified for their futures, across well-being, governance, livelihoods, culture, and the natural systems they depend on.
As patterns emerge, the group will reflect on what consistently rises across geographies, and where existing systems, funding, governance, markets, and policy, align with or fall short of lived realities.
Rather than a panel, this session acts as a live mirror for the field. It is a space to listen, learn, and articulate what thriving people and landscapes look like when defined by communities themselves.
The experience is designed and facilitated collaboratively by organisations rooted in Indigenous and community-led work across Africa, Latin America, Indonesia and beyond, bringing both lived experience and deep partnership into the room.
Who this is for
This session is for funders, practitioners, community leaders, and anyone interested in locally led development, systems change, and aligning resources with community-defined priorities.
What you will get out of it
A real-time view of community priorities across diverse geographies
Insight into where current systems align or fall short
A deeper understanding of what community-led futures look like in practice
The opportunity to contribute to and learn from a collective mapping exercise
Connections with others working to shift power and center local leadership
Hosted by
Legado, in collaboration with Dandelion Africa, Planet Indonesia, and Wild5.
Contributors and facilitators include
Wendo Aszed, Dandelion Africa
Novia Sagita, Planet Indonesia
Pamela Montero Alvarez, Alexandra Kennaugh, Pramudya Lazuardi, Walter Lolusu Lenolngenje, Raïsa Mirza, Agatha Ogada, and collaborators from across the network.
This session is an invitation to collectively surface what matters most, and to build shared understanding from the ground up.