Newham is a dynamic community, bringing together different ethnicities and individuals with diverse skills, experience and wisdom into a whole that is potentially much greater than the sum of its parts. Newham Mosaic seeks to help build that whole through supporting the development of a ‘dialogical community‘ – that is, a community where genuine listening leads to creative connections and collaborations.
The Newham Mosaic initiative with its website and WhatsApp groups aims to be the dialogical community it wants to see.
Newham Mosaic was set up in 2023 by Gavin Sealey of Netstorms Limited and Rose Small of Our Community Cares as a short ‘art in the community’ project. After funded from the Arts Council ended in early 2024. Gavin started continued the project, changing its focus to the ‘Art of Community’
The Negotiating AI as a Community, NAIC, initiative is a distinctive part of the Mosaic mission and its current focus. If I were to summarise NAIC’s purpose in the simplest way, I would say:
If I were to summarise NAIC’s purpose in the simplest way, I would say that it intends “To use Dialogue to increase our intelligence as individual human beings and as human communities, and to give AI and algorithmic systems a human heart.“
We are driven by DREAMS (Dialogue Reflection Ethics Awareness Meditation and Storytelling). These are human activities that keep us in touch with our humanity in a time when the machinery of our systems increasing deliver DREAD (Domination Repression Exclusion Alienation and Death)
We can bring human heart to our systems, organisations and intelligent machines but only if we learn what it is to open our hearts to each other. That is why we are here.