Impact Trust • Working glossary

Bricolage

Making do with whatever is at hand – improvising creative solutions from available materials, skills, and relationships rather than following pre-designed plans. From French: ‘tinkering’.

Details

Context introduced

Gerry raised this from his anthropological fieldwork: ‘we’re underestimating the capacity of people to do a lot of bricolage and learning by doing.’ Powerful counterweight to top-down planning assumptions. Connects to Kirsten’s point about grassroots innovation.

Source

Anthropology, Lévi-Strauss, Gerry Salole

Source / First Appears In

Risk & Risk Perception TDT session

Authors

Impact Trust team