Coalitions, cultural themes and a world of collaboration ahead
There are seven overarching interconnected themes that underlie Unstitution’s collaborative work. We are co-catalyzing and supporting a variety of communities, initiatives and coalitions around the world, with unstitutionists, coalitionists and activationists — as we sometimes provisionally describe these roles. These are underpinned by our living operating system, evolutionary navigation system and the FairShares Commons governance framework — always evolving works-in-progress.
Each theme is multi-layered and multi-faceted, co-catalyzing and building upon — in some new ways — many initiatives that are already doing important work.
With overlapping synergies between and among us all, we can spawn wide and deep, connecting additional coalitions and initiatives — a pattern already underway and observed.
Unstitution’s own driving theme is a linchpin for the others. A reciprocal and symbiotic interdependence is at play. Multiple coalitions and initiatives, over time — and beyond our own work and lifetimes — will collectively contribute to rebooting society’s operating system — a big hairy mission that is bigger than all of us combined.
Activating an abundance mindset toward flourishing on a finite planet needs us all with gifts differing reconstituting the commons in a variety of ways.
The regenerative and resilient health of Unstitution, in turn, contributes to the integrity and resilience of all living lab pilot initiatives and coalitions and within our nested and interconnected ecosystems.
The descriptions for coalitions and themes are not carved in stone. Since coalitions spawn organically AND by design, we’re always balancing strategy thinking with co-creative emergent learning. As people co-catalyze and engage in collaborative coalition work, they will help to shape and adapt the trajectory in more granular and tangible context-based and place-sourced ways that bring it to life.
Yeah it’s complex and complicated, but we gotta cut through…
To find out more about each of the themes click on these links:
Elementally sustaining people and planet — earth, air, fire and water.
Shifting economics for societal value.
Two of the overarching themes intersecting across all our work underscore the importance of learning, diversity and creativity. These are vital to supporting and sustaining human spirit and ongoing development — integral to humanity’s future.
Education, learning, arts and culture — joyfully creative and mobilizing
Unstitution was birthed and patterned as a collective creative commons and nested ecosystem. We (co-)catalyze and support collaborative communities, initiatives and coalitions where people from across sectors, disciplines, cultures, generations and walks-of-life work together on mission critical issues. From readiness through to regenerative progress — moving beyond polarization — is how we roll. The links embedded in this article are a warm invitation to go a bit deeper, at any time. For more insights reflecting our ongoing journey, our suite of Unstitution articles are published here on Medium. They reflect a small sample of the ways we are adapting and contributing among ever-expanding commons-based communities and initiatives inspired and fuelled by citizens — perhaps better described as denizens — anywhere in the world — living into the principles and spirit that govern our collaborative work. Each article is a fractal-like glimpse into the unstitutional ethos.
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