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 …
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Commons Hospitality Network meets AnyShare
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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The Commons Game Proposal (version 3+) for Feedback
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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Using Neeboz and Co-budget to Run the Commons Game
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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Livelyhood: designing through narrative experience
FuturesLab will be running a design/connect session with the Livelyhood community, to test their Livelyhood System with friends, colleagues and the interested public. The event will be held at Ross House off of Lt. Flinders Lane on October 11th at 6PM. RSVP here. Introduction Livelyhood is a utopian community economy project. The aim is to build an …
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Designing a Melbourne Assembly of the Commons
Over the past several years a number of calls have been made to develop better coordination and advocacy for promoting and building a commons economy and cities as commons. A few years ago David Ronfeldt put out a proposal to create “Chambers of Commons” which would be commons based business coalitions / networks similar to …
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Futures Action Model Interactive Game
In Feb 2016 Gareth Priday and Jose Ramos were working on a project together and thought, wouldn’t it be great to have a live interactive game for the Futures Action Model (FAM) that we could use in their facilitation work? So they took and long walk and each of them came up with a version …
Futurescaper for the Pax Pacifica
A few months ago I was contacted by Giorgos Georgopoulos from the Futurescaper team about the Pax Pacifica research proposal. Futurescaper is a crowd based peer to peer foresight platform, a significant social and technical innovation and advance in the futures studies field. In its own words: Futurescaper builds upon decades of research about how people …
Vision Mapping – Design Update
I’m excited to announce that I’ve been given the opportunity by my good friend Darren Sharp (Social Surplus) to develop and apply the vision mapping method as part of the City of Melbourne’s Future Melbourne 2026 process. Over the last couple of years Darren ran various map jams for the city of Yarra and Melbourne and I initiated the Maribyrnong Maker …
Commons Game – Initial Design Schematic
the commons game idea is to enact a creative ecosystem of commoners to learn about the commons and commoning.
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