Co-Create Hylo with Terran Collective
When it comes to building an accessible & inclusive technology, it is important that it is created by many perspectives and backgrounds. At Terran Collective, we want to build with others — not just for them. To succeed with this objective, we attempt to acknowledge and dismantle unconscious and structural biases in all that we create.
You’ve heard us talk about the five scopes of practice we focus on:
- Regenerating the Commons
- Community Weaving
- Mapping the Ecosystem
- Storytelling for Cultural Evolution
- Technology for Thriving
As we experiment in these areas of practice, we notice that the toolsets and systems we wish we had to transition to the more regenerative future don’t exist. Some of our inquiries as we imagine those tools include:
- How do we involve our community in the most transparent and ethical ways?
- How can we create technology that strengthens relationships and unites rather than divides?
- How can technology help create resilient communities?
- How can we design technology to help us transcend extractive, competitive dynamics and facilitate the decentralized, ground-up coordination that is needed for this moment?
In March, we announced that Terran Collective is stewarding Hylo to build the collaboration platform for the regenerative future. This platform must be shaped by those who will use it to create a world that works for all. All beings play a vital role in the direction of this technology.
Terran Collective is committed to providing flexible and accessible ways for you to be in dialogue with us about the shape Hylo takes. We invite you to be in co-creation with us to brainstorm functionality, design features, and shape the philosophy of a platform that allows us to be in deeper relationship with our neighbors, community, and land.
Today, our evolving technology design principles include:
- Seven-generation thinking: building tools needed for the long term success of the planet
- Relationship-centered design: working in deep partnership with all stakeholders
- Data interoperability: using open standards and protocols wherever possible
- Privacy and user sovereignty: we will never sell your data or share it without permission
- Inclusivity: ensuring these tools work for diverse communities
- Transparency: our operations, decision-making, code, and governance is open to all
- Cooperative stewardship: transitioning Hylo to a platform cooperative so all users benefit
We want to embody these principles from the very beginning. This means incorporating them into the creation process.
To ensure transparency and accessibility, we have open-sourced our code, outlined a transparent product journey, and created a form for anyone to submit their feature ideas: view our Github, see our Product Journey, submit ideas in our Feature Form.
To ensure relationship-centered design and seven-generation thinking, we seek guidance from organizations and individuals who understand our interdependence and how important it is to have the right set of tools to get our hands back in the soil, care for others, and collaborate on impactful projects. You can view notes and recordings from past Co-Creation Sessions here .
To work towards cooperative stewardship, we want to begin with inclusive, cooperative creation. This is where you come in:
We invite you to join our Co-Creation Sessions.
Each Co-Creation Session will be an opportunity to dialogue with us about the dream tools you need to live your mission on this planet. We will do our best to listen, understand, and make those dreams a reality. We will meet once a month on a community-generated topic shared before the session. We will bring a few key questions to the table. We invite unfiltered thoughts on what *you* would like to see. We will approach this time together with facilitated emergence.
The first few topics we’ll cover include:
- Decentralized Organizing: Nested Networks,Communities, Groups, and Subgroups
- Platform Cooperatives: Hylo as a Commons
- Design of the Ecosystem Map
To join the conversation, you can join us in the Building Hylo Community, sign up for our newsletter, or like us to watch the livestreams. You can see notes and recordings of previous Co-Creation Sessions here.
To build a collaboration platform for the regenerative world, we need to be in collaboration with our regenerative allies. We must include beings who represent a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and colors.
In summary, if you want to create with us, there are many ways to get involved:
- Join Building Hylo
- Sign up for our email list
- View our product journey
- Submit your ideas in this form
- Check out the Github
- Like our page
