Every now and again I come across word conjunctions that stick in my mind and don’t let go. I live in the Victorian Central Highlands, the Goldfields region of Victoria, and in my EV conversion wanderings I came across a number of people who I began affectionately referring to as “solar punk hillbillies”. These people …
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The experimentation podcast
The experimentation podcast is an idea for a podcast series that interviews people in real labs from around the world, to find out what experimentation means for them. Labs are a worldwide phenomenon. They exist in many countries and for many purposes. They vary from labs that are dedicated to the hard sciences, to social …
Pacifica Means Peace
Comment Pacifica Means Peace (PMP) is a project to use participatory futures methods to envision a peaceful coexistence between the USA and China. Images of the future have the power to shape the imagination of the public and policymakers. As well, images of the future come with cognitive bias, for example a military think tank …
FuturesLab Enterprise Model 2.0
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 …
Commons Hospitality Network
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 …
Empower West: Citizen Policy Action Platform
Empower West is a platform for citizens of Maribyrnong and surrounding area to propose policy ideas to to be enacted as law. Once a proposal is put forward Empower West members can deliberate on the idea and vote on the idea. If the idea is voted on and passes, then people are invited to meet in …
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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 …
Beyond the machine: Making ecological organisations real
The Idea (What if it was easy?) While organisations in the 19th century were principally designed around a patriarchal family model those in the 20th century (in the spirit of Max Weber and Frederick Winslow Taylor) were essentially mechanistic in design. Their ethos has been and is to ensure that a ‘idealised normality’ of simple, …
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Vision Mapping Using Causal Layered Analysis
Vision Mapping is the conjunction of foresight and visioning techniques with online geo-spatial mapping technologies (such as Open Street Maps). This event is an experimental workshop where we are going to use the cultural exploration and reframing method Causal Layered Analysis, developed by Prof. Sohail Inayatullah, leveraging an open and editable visual artefact, map of Footscray or …
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Democracy Commons Project
The Democracy Commons Project (DCP) is a platform to publish resources, articles, videos, collaborative networks, to act as a catalyst in stimulating the social innovation of new democratic forms and projects. We live in a time where a new generation of political activist call for participatory democracy, and where a new generation of technologies potentiate …
Futures Lab 