‘I am a citizen as well as an individual soul and one of the things citizenship teaches us, over the long stretch, is that there is no perfectibility in human affairs.’

Smith, Z. 2018. Feel Free: Essays, Penguin Books 

All co-creation projects fail, in different way and to different degrees because I always hope for more, but if they are good what the achieve far exceeds their failures and those failures become learning for next time.