Collaborative governance includes the variety of methods, strategies and knowledge necessary to work together to protect, nurture and create our commons. It includes approaches like “Collective Impact”, a method for creating systemic change, deep dialog and deep democracy processes for inclusive decision making, the use of cooperatives and mutuals in ensuring equity and trust for …
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The MFP is a course for creating hybrid and mutant methods, selves and futures. We all know that our world is going through tremendous and dramatic transitions. Old patterns are falling away, new ones must be born. We live in Epic and Messy times. Epic because we each play a part in a dramatic story …
The Futures Lab Academy is a learning space for exploring and experimenting with the critical ideas and practices needed to address our 21st Century challenges. The purpose of the Futures Lab Academy is to help people discover their unique powers and purpose in the service of navigating the great transitions and challenges we collectively face. …
“The Mutants program gave me an opportunity to develop the skills, theories and understandings I acquired during my time completing the Swinburne Masers in Strategic Foresight. Expertly and gently guided by Jose, we worked coherently, challenging my biases and exploring my own personal narrative, within a safe and supportive environment, to develop my pitch to …
Futures Lab presents the Cosmolocal Reader, over 40 cases and examples and 12 essays on planetary mutualization.
Over the past year I’ve been struggling with the future of FuturesLab. I started FuturesLab in 2015 as a new approach and strategy to getting ideas out of my head and allowing them to play within the field of collective social intelligence. The experience was amazing and life changing, leading me into new domains of …
Late last year I posted an idea for a commons hospitality network that Sharon Ede and I had discussed. It was just at the concept stage and we were just gauging interest and useful feedback. Then, a few weeks later, Eric Doriean visited me in Footscray to demo AnyShare for me – the new “build your own sharing platform” …
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Ever since being invited by the Commons Strategy Group to attend the Economics of the Commons conference in Berlin in 2013, I have been contemplating how the commons as a message and practice can be developed and extended. How can we encourage collective action and a ‘commons movement’ to better govern shared resources for the …
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This is an idea that Sharon Ede and I worked up earlier this year, but just posting now. The main idea of a Commons Hospitality Network is for an easy to implement and functional hospitality network that serves the purposes of: 1. lowering travel costs for commons activists and advocates 2. helps build relationships between people …
This post follows on from previous posts that have detailed the design of the commons game (and assumes some prior knowledge of the idea). The basic idea of the commons game is a social process that rewards people with credit when they produce a commoning act. Players can then use this credit in a ‘market’ …
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