Strange Field builds soft infrastructures for culture in Glasgow’s East End: the social, pedagogical and relational systems that sustain creative life. Shared learning, community memory, embodied practice and collective governance create the conditions for culture to thrive beyond buildings, events or single outcomes. This page has two parts: how we apply that thinking to ourselves, in how we pay, decide, work and use technology, and how it shows up across our programme.
How Soft Infrastructures tie Strange Field together.
Soft infrastructures are the social, relational and imaginative systems that allow culture to grow: shared knowledge, informal networks, mutual aid, pedagogies, community memories, peer-to-peer skills, and collective organisational behaviours. Unlike hard infrastructure (buildings, equipment), soft infrastructures are the conditions of trust, care, access, governance and learning that sustain long-term cultural life, especially in working-class and under-resourced contexts.
Our whole programme builds, tests and shares these soft infrastructures across disciplines, generations andcommunities.
Part 1: How we work. How we pay, decide, work and use technology: flat pay, sociocracy, neurodivergent and artist-led working, our safer space, digital ethics and AI policies, and how we think about buildings. These aren’t answers, but continuous learning from our own experience over more than a decade. We share them through our Open Handbook to start conversations and swap ideas across sectors.
Part 2: In our programme. Every project we run is a soft infrastructure in practice. From Strange Exchange and Kiln Klub to Murmuration and Nippy Sweetie, each builds shared knowledge, access, care or governance.
Contact Us
Telephone: +44 141 554 0563
E-mail: subs@strangefield.org
Address: 105-109 French Street, Glasgow, G40 4EH
Strange Field is a registered Scottish Charity SCIO number SC052132
