Here is what I've stumbled upon... or evolved into. I believe we can see communities as living organisms that are made up of interlinked systems that interact with people, animals, and plants, and the result is something tangible in human experience, tied to quality of life, but also to how place is experienced, and how perception is experienced. Central to this, is how we develop, define, and value aspects of economies, with differing results emerging from how we weight or emphasize particular elements. With, of course, the idea that a healthy community is one with a rich array of diverse economies and that the performative nature of emphasizing and investing in these diverse economies, allow the communities to participate in and benefit from the production of these economies.
One of the challenges with the creative economy discourse, at least at my level, is all the aspects that are not measured, that are othered by standard metrics, and it is here that the diverse economy concept really rings as a path to pursue.
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