Hi Devin, and all, Thanks for your reply https://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/p2p-foundation/2011-November/004291.h... You say "How about the occupation management game - or the DIY ecovillage game..." * * Yes, I like this take. An attempt to collaborate in this direction : http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis If interested, feel free to list yourself, or list projects you know. Within the next months, I wish to find solutions for a more attractive platform, inviting people to participate and create their profiles. // *What priorities do you see* ? What are you currently focusing on ? What do you want to work on together ? Modular tent designs ? Legal and financial configurations ? Real time / Stigmergy tools ? ( https://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/p2p-foundation/2011-October/003943.ht... ) ... ... ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:13 PM Subject: What are (Y)our Priorities in co-creating Shared Living Systems? To: *I wish to provide an experimental ground for our interests,* *and learn together by creating more autonomous, self organizing, emergent, local yet globally networked* *viable systems*. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model ) Feel free to share with other groups / mailinglists, mutually facilitating design theory solutions for "Emergent Synthesis". * * *I wish to ask for feedback,* *and converge such feedback on a specifically allocated wiki* / website / or drupal platform, for which support is also needed. for now - *feel free to add your name and contact here ( or send me an email ) :* http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis Various groups and mailing lists already exist. Feel free to share url's to projects, mailinglists, or the location of informal groups of people and possibly the name/nickname of such groupings ( and their contact ) on the emergent synthesis page. Priorities can go into *providing visibility towards solutions for shared living experiences* ( such as meetings, collectives, living spaces - static and/or nomadic - ... ) // I wish to find an easy way to converge such data about people's pledges, and visualize a "value network" map of inter-dependencies. I also wish to find people who feel enthusiastic about translating the following message into a more attractive way. ( asking for any inspiration and contributions from people who write, draw - comics ? - , can produce short videos, ... ) /// How do you position yourself in relation to defining and building up a viable systems project ? I propose, as a test for further projects all over the world, to *use Leipzig / Leipzig Projects* *as an experiment.* http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project The aim is to inspire and engage people to collaborate, progressively providing a sense of shared , visible accomplishment. and at first, to draft/define aims and needs, *set up a list of priorities* * * /// Based on your own interests, where would you like to position your contributions if you like to contribute to such visions, and what do you need to collaborate in specific objectives, which themselves can fit within such larger picture ? If I create a map ( or if I map it out on a wiki ), would you be willing to be included into it, and what information can you provide? : availability, sweat equity contribution capability and its needs or conditions, current geographical situation or potential future situation, financial support and its conditions, other available resources and/or existing networked collaborations working on specific topics ( ? ) , ... /// General Description : It can ask pledges ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pledge ) , in the form of engagements and equity / sweat equity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_equity ) , even short term - measurable, combined with subjective mutual interdependent objectives based evaluations. This includes : - people collaborating on various tasks on the terrain ( Leipzig , and surrounding land ), - people collaborating in their respective regions to converge engagements and further needed resources ( answers to specific questions : legal, financial, architectural, etc ) - alternative financial products, which are set into the commons ( using this commons crowdfunding mechanism ? http://www.goteo.org/?lang=en ) in exchange of long term measurable use value. - such recognition and/or use value related guarantees can also be earned through participation. //// Interdependent Priorities : For Collective Housing / Development Phase : 1a) Individuals in support of communication : drawings, leaflets, wiki-drupal-net platform, ... expressing a general vision, setting up tools for easily converging needed data, tools for coordinating pledges, mapping resources-questions-needs-contributions-interdependencies, ... 1) Setting up a centrally located base/aggregator in Leipzig which is comfortable to live in, and big enough to enable each individual to self organize in their own space, based on their affinity/relation/collaboration preferences, with defined temporary collectives. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective ) 2) Supporting the development of "decentralized" bases in and around Leipzig, and all over the world, through proposing *modular living structures*, light weight, inexpensive , locally producible, co-developing open source research and development with a open copyleft / hardware license. aka : *Tensegrity Tents, with components that enable parametric design*. see : http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe 3) Have a collective intelligence aggregator / team of people supporting each other in the definition of "code" and "legal solutions", itself supporting "financial solutions", in transparency of interdependencies of the "Value Networks" ( ? ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_network For example : - set up of a not for profit organization in Germany for converging local support towards defining and building a viable system regionally. ( in Berlin and/or Leipzig ? ) - set up of a international not for profit organization in support of open source collaborative design of modular living structures ( in Brussels ) - set up of a Limited Liability Partnership structure ( in the UK - London ) for investment purposes. - defining a combination of legal structures , as to enable a commons, interdependent oriented approach regarding ownership, such as separating land from buildings, studying various existing legal models such as Mietshauser Syndikat ( combination of cooperative, corporation and not for profit ? ) , ... - *definitions of contracts* ( access to use value, visibility of contributions and recognition within gift economy, managing investments of capital in support of commons, conditions of usage and/or property holders, conditions related to usage of regional economic IOU's and their architecture, etc ) 4) Set up recognition by means of measurement based on objectives 5) use web based solutions in development ? "Global Survival" collaborations with tools including Netention , ... : visualize current or future intentions, visualize interdependencies, visualize pledge future contributions, present contributions, past contributions, ... 6) reach out to organizations and movements who may benefit from a similar approach thanks ! Dante-Gabryell Monson /// graphic from http://www.race.u-tokyo.ac.jp/uedalab/mirai/overview/overview-e.html