Publish a story with Enlivenment
General terms of publishing your story with Enlivenment.
What is Enlivenment?
Enlivenment is a Systemic Design community publication. This is the place for practitioners to contribute and share their ideas, reflections, and experiences in order to add to development of the Systemic Design domain. Together with that, this is an ‘entry point’ which makes this domain more well known to a wider audience. Although Systemic Design is the main watercourse, topics related to Systems Thinking, Futures Thinking, Sustainability, or Regeneration are also welcome.
What we are particularly interested in is place specific stories that reveal local peculiarities. This publication is meant to foster the diversity among voices of practitioners from different parts of the world, facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences as well as reveal interconnections.
The name “Enlivenment” refers to the German philosopher Andreas Weber’s book where he contends that “we may have forgotten what it means to be alive” and that “we have to reconsider ‘life’ and ‘aliveness’ as fundamental categories of thought and of practical actions.”
Why publish with Enlivenment?
To participate, exchange, and stay alive in and as a community. As Weber puts it, aliveness is “the desire for participation and connection”. Life unfolds through participation, exchange, and reciprocity; we are “alive-in-connectedness”. We invite you to contribute by sharing and publishing your stories.
What stories you can publish?
Although we admire the proverbial saying “variety is the spice of life”, there are certain restrictions as to the stories that we publish:
- The topics covered can be as follows: Systemic Design, Systems Thinking, Futures Thinking, Complexity, Sustainability, Regeneration. It could be something emerging that is not tangible and well defined currently. The story might shed light on interdisciplinary realms involving, for instance, Art or Self-Development.
- The topics can belong to any layer: society (macro), community or organisation (meso), and individual (micro).
- The topics can explored in detail through any dimension: psychological, ecological, economical, and social.
- Stories should be written by humans. If part of a story was generated by means of AI, please mention it explicitly in the disclaimer in the beginning of the text.
- Stories are supposed to reflect a personal perspective, not a vague corporate point of view. For this reason, we accept stories made by individuals, not business profiles.
- Stories should not sell anything.
As for the format, we do not have limitations, rather, we encourage authors to use any that seems appropriate: article, essay (both written or visual), interview, open letter, or something in the middle of those or even experimental. Big genres — like monograph— is also appropriate.
We are open to publish both free stories and those submitted to the Medium Partner Program. It is up to an author to decide whether to place their work behind the metered paywall, and we respect this decision.
How to publish with Enlivenment?
There is a simple process we invite you to follow:
- Send a link to your Medium story via email apryshyvalka@proton.me
- We’ll take 2–3 business days to peer-review a story
- If needed, we’ll get back with reviewers remarks
- If a story is a good fit for publication, it gets accepted and added to the queue to be published. We’ll keep you informed along the way.
Important remarks
Finally, a few remarks that we’d like authors to bear in mind:
- Publishing stories with Enlivenment is voluntary, we do not offer any reward.
- Once published, a story is still available for editing, updating, and deletion. However, we kindly ask to keep a story published for at least 1 year.
- The author remains the only owner of his or her story.
If you have any questions or proposals, do not hesitate to reach out via email: apryshyvalka@proton.me
