If you've never read through the Nightingale Housing FAQ, or haven't done so recently, I encourage you to take half an hour and do so.
What's interesting is how deliberately organic connection and good outcomes for people have been structured-in, design-in, baked-in to the model.
Change doesn't happen spontaneously.
Or at least, the specific change we might be looking to see happen is highly unlikely to spring into being. The magnetic attraction of the status quo, loss aversion and general fear-dominance of the human mind means that change requires effort. It requires planning. It requires us to bring our best thinking, best practice, and broadest minds to the task of deliberately 'doing change'.
For some, the idea of a structured, organised, deliberate approach is confrontational, and at apparent odds of a people-first, people focussed purposed of being. This isn't necessarily an incorrect view.
But the answer is not to turn away, but to engage and be part of shaping the framework.
Shape the structure and make sure that there is still room to play. Baking in a learning cycle, that will become an organic growth of the system itself. Protect space for the spontaneous happenstances of life that occur where people come together to work together for each other, and their communities.
Planned and purposeful change-making systems include space for spontaneous play, organic growth and radical creation.
After all, that's just what happens wherever you find people.