Dark Matter Laboratories
Our goal is to apply complex systems science to value chain innovation, management and relationships; turning what is generally perceived as a threat of our time — spill-over effects across borders, boundaries and silos — into a resource to solve the wicked challenges.
Building Social Objects
Playbook4 principles for making social objects ¶ 1. Design your social objects to be systemically social – both in outcome and social in process as a fractal reality from the beginning to the future ¶ 2. Design and build your social objects as engines for stories – communicating your values in every action. ¶ 3. Remember a social object is a medium building a community of purpose – which includes staff, co-founders, non executives, customers, producers and supply chains – where all are important and…
Indy JoharFeb 1
The need for a Civic Economy…
Whilst there has been much talk recently of how local people should be at the heart of improving places and economies, too little is said…… ¶ Whilst there has been much talk recently of how local people should be at the heart of improving places and economies, too little is said about the accompanying change that is needed in our ‘massive’ state and corporate institutions. In this 2011 essay we explore this question. ¶ Clearly, big vs. small is too easy a contrast. The truth – and the real need for institutional reform – lies not so much in the middle as in the interface.Indy JoharFeb 27
The Open Sector
Draft for Comment & Discussion.The social contract between business and society is breaking down evidenced in the falling levels of trust in Big Business [US data — now residing at below 20% — below banking in a Gallop US survey — http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/05/trust.html . The breakdown is palpable in a growing citizen discontent with big business and their large social & environmental externalities and tax mitigation strategies, a reality articulated by growth of the groups like UKuncut and flashmob activism as…Indy JoharFeb 1
Future of the City
A City Fit for the Future ¶ The Future City debate has been the driven largely by generations of technocrats, often from within technology…A City Fit for the Future ¶ The Future City debate has been the driven largely by generations of technocrats, often from within technology companies and iconic architects; one half obsessed by the power of technology and the other by the literal vision of the future. ¶ But history actually teaches us something more; a meaningful city for our future will perhaps require us to invest in and innovate our institutional economy at all spatial scales more fundamentally; from neighbourhoods and…Indy JoharJul 21, 2014
There is no Public or Private….
Systemically going beyond the Public Private divide…There is no Public or Private… ¶ Systemically going beyond the “public private divide” ¶ A few reflections and provocations from an interesting few days in Zurich discussing financing for public good! ¶ Let us work through a thought experiment — What if: ¶ 1. The state does not automatically represent public interest — in fact a good case can be made of Government increasingly representing the interest of the electing minority demography (pensioners, political party funders, the interest of…Indy JoharMar 20, 2015
Dark Matter Laboratories
Our goal is to apply complex systems science to value chain innovation, management and relationships; turning what is generally perceived as a threat of our time — spill-over effects across borders, boundaries and silos — into a resource to solve the wicked challenges.
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