Business Community Canvas
Design your community — one intentional step at a time.
A guided journey through six chapters. Answer at your own pace. Your progress saves automatically. At the end you'll receive a Community Design Report.
Step 1 · Context
Start with the context.
Before designing the community, understand the ground it grows on.
Question 1
What opportunity or challenge is this community designed to address?
This is the starting point of the design process.
Question 2
What type of community are you designing?
Click the quadrant that best fits your intention. You can revisit this later.
The Communities Matrix
Four forms of intentional community, positioned along how they share value and how they evolve over time. Select the quadrant that best fits your intention.
Improving
Sharing
Exchanging Adapted from the work of E. Kaats & W. Opheij (2012)
Renewing
Prompts & examples
- ·Start with the challenge or opportunity, not the solution.
- ·The four community types come from the Communities by Design framework.
- ·Functional & Transactional focus on improving what exists.
- ·Entrepreneurial & Exploratory focus on renewing what is possible.
- ·Most communities are a blend — choose the primary form.
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