What’s next for Armillaria in 2023?
TL;DR: We continue to believe in + build towards our theory of change, as outlined in From Billions to Trillions.
Specifically, we’re guided by three key hypotheses in the next phase of our growth and development:
1. Making it easier to share, discover, and reuse innovations that address social, environmental and economic challenges will rapidly accelerate their resolution.
A plethora of challenge platforms, solutions libraries, and internal knowledge management tools hold a wealth of knowledge on social innovations that if broken out of their respective silos would increase their adoption, adaption, and capitalisation. In 2023, we’ll be accelerating our participatory work on an open standards framework for sharing solutions and opportunities, to enable innovation and capital liquidity across the silos of the social change industry.
2. Co-designing capital products in deep cooperation with the communities most impacted by social, environmental and economic challenges is key to mobilising capital at the scale and speed needed to address them.
The multi-trillion dollar challenges represented by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are too vast and complex for any one organisation to address in isolation. We need participatory financial mechanisms focused on aggregation and dissemination of capital by community capital intermediaries. In 2023 we will be implementing and supporting new initiatives such as the Inclusive Capital Collective in a number of diverse sectors, geographies and demographics that exemplify our participatory approach to impact finance.
3. Designing innovative mechanisms for participatory culture and governance will help ecosystems more effectively and equitably collaborate, cooperate, and coordinate at scale
This year we’ll be in a period of deep applied research and practice in participatory community design, bringing our design principles to life through new methodologies, frameworks, and toolkits to help regional and global networks drive meaningful collective social change, together. This includes our continuing work as founding members of Zebras Unite, and also work we are doing internally as we expand Armillaria to include more partners and contributors from all over the world.
❤️ If you resonate with any of the above, we would love to connect and explore what we might learn with and from you!
The business of systems design and engineering in service to planetary change is a multi-generational, multi-national, multicultural, multi-disciplinary marathon. We’re in this for the long-haul, and are seeking long-term partners to work together with in service to the greater good.
In solidarity, the Armillaria Collective
