There is a poignant lack of possibilities in the narrative structures in the political-economic stories we tell ourselves. Our current cultural stories are a curious mix of hierarchical stories around government and corporations – presidents and CEOS are managing those below them, and non-hierarchical stories about the market – money and property self-organizes society to function best. [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Narratives and ontologies
Posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Designing a self-growing gift economy Part II
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Lets apply some of the ideas in Part I to some specific examples. Lets say you started your own neighbourhood tool library out of your garage. And its become quite well used. It will naturally inspire other related projects with other people, but there are some things one can do to improve the rate at [...]
Decision making vs choice creating : non-hierarchical governance part II
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We are used to thinking of governance as about decision making. However there is another model, that is of creating new choices and possibilities to the problems that there are. See this article that describes decision making vs choice creating in a facilitation process called Dynamic Facilitation. http://www.tobe.net/CC/choice-creating.html Dynamic Facilitation and Open Space Technology both [...]
How to govern non-hierarchically
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
How does one come to decisions in a non-hierarchical system? In coming to a decision the different sets of needs, skills, and worldviews of the people involved can be taken into account, and a analysis, a meaning system, a narrative of what is unfolding emerges. The emergence of the narrative, the analysis should take account as [...]
