Community
A Co-Operating Manual
As citizens, we have been conditioned to believe that we are powerless against institutions, governments, and corporations. There is power in numbers. The interests of the many outweigh those of the individual.
Stephen Bau
Culture
Humans
This form of communication, they speculated, was all that was necessary to claim the territory for the leader of their group, the human who wears a symbolic circle of purified metal and semi-transparent rocks on its head.
Culture
What is Resilience?
What is resilience? Through our observations of natural, living systems, humans have been learning about the evolutionary adaptations of community, collaboration, and cooperation.
Culture
Re:design
The tradition of learning through play (from Froebel through Dewey) could harness play for education, because it recognised both the element of learning which is always present in play, and saw education not as a training process, but as the nurturing of the child’s own capacities.
Culture
Life and Death
To change our minds, to shift our consciousness is to change the world. Once people see reality, they will not be able to unsee it.
Culture
Risk
Poetry works by contradictions, qualifications by metaphor, wherein there are overlappings, discrepancies, and contradictions. Paradox is related to irony and to figurative language.
Art
The Systems View of Life
My work in environmental education has convinced me that there’s hardly anything more effective than the arts—the visual arts, music, or the performing arts—for developing and refining our natural ability to recognize and express patterns.
Art
The Art of Data Science
It is possible to become blinded by the rate of change, the frequency of the data, and the limitations of our cognitive and emotional abilities to be able to discern the patterns and to see the big picture.
Community
One
We are the medium. We are the message. We are the interface. We are a creative, collaborative, self-organizing learning community. We are exploring how we imagine, design, and build the future together. We are the builders collective.
Social Architect
Whether I earn the title and position in the Buckminster Fuller Institute or not, Community Builder & Systems Designer for the Co-Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth is already an identity that I aspire to and that I am trying to live into.
Culture
Shift
Recognizing that we are experiencing a shift, how might we collaborate to create an app to daily monitor the shift? Would it be possible to quantify and map the shift in values, perceptions, states of mind, and relationships?
Culture
Violation
(Content warning: sexual assault and violence.) There is no viable path forward together. If there is any hope for the relationship, the man would need a complete change of heart: admission of a problem, remorse, contrition, a commitment to therapy and behavioural change.