Paid opportunity: ‘Seed Librarians’ for the Collective Imagination Practice Community

We’re looking for 2–3 community members to collaborate with us to create our Seed Library.

• Apply by 10am Monday 30th September via this short form
• £1500 compensation per Librarian

Since the start of the Collective Imagination Practice Community we’ve used metaphors of seeds and seed planting instructions to speak about practices, and we’ve imagined a ‘Seed Library’ where we can collect things, together. Now we’re getting serious about making it!

The Seed Library will be a directory of people, projects and practices. It will document the community and make it navigable and visible to itself.

Another way of saying this is that the Seed Library will help you if you’ve been thinking:

• “I want to know who else in the community is working on similar themes as me”
• “I want to browse members of the community to find people to connect to or meet up with”
• “I want to learn from the imagination practices other people in the community are using”

The Seed Library will also meet the needs that we’re feeling as stewards of the community (e.g. “if only people could easily connect with one another without having to ask us!”) and some of the needs of our funders (e.g. “we want to select some projects that will help us convey the value of the community to our trustees!”).

Who we’re looking for

We’re seeking 2–3 community members to collaborate with us to create our Seed Library. We’re looking for someone who is:

• An engaged member of the community (by engaged we mean participating in some aspect/s of our activities, not that you have to be participating in everything)
• Able to spend up to 5 days of your time between October and mid-December, and have some flexibility over when you spend this time
• Confident working with ‘messy data’, working out how to simplify it and find patterns
• Experienced creating useful resources and assets that support a community to function well or connect more
• Happy to get stuck in with the practical work of putting together the Seed Library
• A collective imagination practitioner with enough experience to be able to help synthesise and curate some practices
• Able to collaborate with others and create something in an agile and resourceful way

Don’t worry if you don’t have everything on the list, if you’ve got lots of energy for this that’s a big plus!

Bonus: we’d love it if at least one of our Librarians brought some semi-technical skills into the mix! If you have some experience with Notion, databases, integrating tech tools — or even some development experience — we’d love to hear from you!

Activities

The precise activities will depend somewhat on who we bring together and how we decide to work, but will include the following:

• Synthesising and collating of practices, learnings and other content, e.g. from our shared scrapbook
• Some creative ideation and curation of the overall architecture of the Seed Library
• Contacting of members of the community to request information or input
• Some writing and content creation
• Some data entry
• Check-ins with Collective Imagination Practice Community stewards, Seed Librarians, and community members

Notes

Some more information that might be relevant to your decision about whether or not to apply:

• At this stage we imagine the Seed Library will be created in Notion.
• The Collective Imagination Practice Fund has funded the Institute for Relational Being to do a project to connect the community better. Amongst other things they will be creating a Hylo space for the community — we are working together with them to make sure everything is aligned and mutually beneficial!
• So, we want the Seed Library and the Hylo space to be two things that can work really well alongside each other.

Please send any questions to zahra@huddlecraft.com