Kirsten Stevens-Wood

Kirsten's research focuses on the formation, lived experience and the experimentality of intentional communities. She is particularly interested in the ways in which intentional communities foster and engage with social and practical experiments and testing ways of living which can potentially influence wider social practices. This work includes a focus upon the process that enable experimentality, and the way in which being ‘alternative’ can facilitate and action utopian thoughts and ideas. She is also the lead for the Intentional Communities research group at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Kirsten is a qualified Community Development worker who has worked in a wide variety of community based organisations including the City Farm movement and Prisons with young people leaving custody. She is also an editor for the Diggers and Dreamers collective.