Category: culture
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Digging into Regenerative Principles
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I just came across some notes I made from Nesta’s first Minister for the Future event back in June, which was on Food for the Future and the potential of regenerative agriculture. The original essay on the topic was written by Thomasina Miers, and she was joined by Tara Garnett (Director of TABLE) and Tom…
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Testing the Community Power Compass
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A year or so after first writing about the Community Power Compass, I was invited by Val Elefante to deliver a seminar on it for The Metagovernance Project this week. Metagov (for short) is an interdisciplinary research collective looking at standards and infrastructure for digital self governance. The video of the seminar will be up…
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How to use the Community Power Compass
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A practical walk through on how to use the Community Power Compass to evaluate and analyse communities in spaces like Web3.
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Introducing the Community Power Compass
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The background context for a beta version of a tool for investigating and evaluating different types of community, particularly those in the Web3 space.
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Salad days in the layers of Leather Lane
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I’ve been in London and Brighton recently, getting back out into the world. I’ve been uploading a bunch of pictures over here on Flickr, just gathering a bunch of things I’ve noticed in the layers of these places. It’s not ‘the new normal’, but a walk through a city today can be instructive in terms…
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Cosmic Ordering on the High Street
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From a London wander last week. Rather than letting shops look empty and dormant, a few management companies have put ups signs like these. They promise a great and wondrous experience within, from a yet-unknown mystery occupant. “Just imagine, in the future, this is what will be here…”
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Making the most of moments that matter
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As perhaps we all have, I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting in the last few months about how to make those precious moments when people are together really matter. For a lot of people, the working week has been transformed by the pandemic, of course. Moving into this year, it feels that businesses now…
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Practical starting points for a polymath
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I’ve been reading The Polymath by Peter Burke over the holidays. I make no pretence of being any sort of polymath in the sense Burke describes, but as a generalist who likes diving in and out of various disciplines the subject definitely appealed. It didn’t disappoint, and there are some things in particular I thought…
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Think of information as light, not liquid.
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In the recent Zenko Mapping video, I talked briefly about a new idea, a lens through which to see the world; we should focus on thinking of information as light, not liquid. It’s the fundamental philosophy at the heart of this year’s TENETS project, and will no doubt form the basis of Smithery’s work moving…
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Metastrategy – Movement, Loops and Layers – Video
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I was very excited to be invited to Oslo to give the final keynote of the Webdagene conference. It’s one of my favourite cities, and the speaker line-up was immense too – you should check out all of the talks. My talk was an updated version of the Metastrategy idea, with cleaner entry points into the…
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Metastrategy In Malmo: Adventures at The Conference
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I was honoured to be invited to give a keynote talk at The Conference in Malmo last week, to an audience of 1000 people. Which is a big room… Here’s the ‘before’ picture… …and here is the ‘after’… although technically ‘during’, now I think of it… The talk itself was on Metastrategy, the need for ‘a…
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How does #thechairgame work?
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We’ve had a good sign-up rate for The Chair Game tomorrow, Friday 22nd April, at the V&A Performance Festival. We gather at 1:45pm for a 2-4pm game, after which we’ll repair to a local pub. Come along if you can, and sign-up here so we have a sense of numbers. But how does it work…
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