Culture
Invitation of Love
When the Western world accepted Christianity, Caesar conquered; and the received text of Western theology was edited by his lawyers.… The brief Galilean vision of humility flickered throughout the ages, uncertainly.
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Flow
Group Flow State
Together, we weave worlds. Through consciousness, we create worlds by accessing memory and projecting possibilities into the future.
Storytelling
Storytelling as a Prototype of the Future
In the Design Science Studio, we learned about world building and backcasting as a means of imagining the future and working backwards from that imagined world to think through the steps that we could go through to bring that imagined world into reality.
Collaboration
Stop Reset Go
We are a growing collective of change agents who are co-creating an open, digital framework for the commons to effectively share resources to build the future of humanity.
Imagination
Mythopoeia
What if we could imagine a future together through collaborative storytelling? What if we could go beyond imagination to engage in the process of design to prototype and build the world that we had imagined?
Imagine
Imagine
A balance between individual rights and collective responsibilities is achieved by understanding the interdependence and interconnections of human relationships, called social tensegrity, based on an equilibrium between entropy and syntropy.
Design
We are all designers
“Our purview of what design is, is anything that a human touches. And as long as we’re thinking about these things as the unintended and intended consequences of people’s decisions, you can’t run out of stories, really.”
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.
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
Question
When we realize we have been playing a game where the cards have been stacked against us, how do we respond? When things go wrong, how do we recover?
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.