Living Metrics - summation report

What happens when you give a roomful of culture, community and place-based practitioners the time and space to rethink evaluation from the ground up?

You get Living Metrics – a summation of insight, practice, and principle for evaluation grounded in people and place.

This report captures the outcomes of a day of deep, generative work held at the Marine Workshops in Newhaven – not just surfacing frustrations with extractive evaluation models, but imagining what a creative, human-centred and justice-focused practice could look like instead.

It was an absolute pleasure to co-hold this space with the brilliant Lizzie Lower and Ellie Johnson-Bullock from Hospitable Environment, whose creative and inspired thinking, making, and facilitation ran through the day. This couldn’t have happened without them.

Huge thanks as well to our funders, Sussex Co-Lab at the University of Sussex, and especially to Nora Davies for her trust and support in helping us shape this work. And of course, thank you to everyone who participated – your honesty, clarity, and collective commitment made this report the compelling read it is.

Read the full Living Metrics report here.

Let’s keep building an evaluation culture that is mutual, creative, and rooted in place.