“We are all participants and observers in the emergence of a reality…the Observer is the Observed. Bohm shows us that we are all co-producers of a possible future in which personal and global transformation is possible.”

Making the connection between language diversity and biodiversity.

Mark Wagnon shared the Gene Keys during our World Weavers meeting.

Simon Fraser University Applicant sign in

“Decentralization is the transfer of control of an activity or organization to several local offices or authorities rather than one single one.”

— Oxford Dictionary

Mark Wagnon mentioned RTG in our recent World Weavers meeting.

Sandy Hinden is a member of the core team for the Stop Reset Go project.

I learned about this book during the orientation meeting for the latest Trimtab Space Camp offered by the Buckminster Fuller Institute focusing on regenerative agriculture.

This idea of family orchards is featured in Rupert Sheldrake’s book, Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative experiences and their effects on our bodies, brains and health.

The latest Trimtab Space Camp offered by the Buckminster Fuller Institute is focusing on regenerative agriculture.

Builders Collective

So, they put together a team of individuals who could collectively imagine the possibilities of building the kind of world where they could all live together in peace. They made a simple declaration:

We are exploring how we imagine, design, and build the future together.

Design Science Studio artists and (r)Evolutionaries.

Note the download available for the spoken word and musical performances.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson writes of all her relations with living beings, the land, and the water. She explores the disconnection that results from the building of lift locks, canals, and hydro dams in her stories of Nogojiwanong in her book, Islands of Decolonial Love.

In our recent Stop Reset Go meeting, we discussed the goal of connection. Leanne Simpson has much to say about connection in her collection of stories.

To be trauma-informed, it is essential to know what lies at the root of depression and anxiety: a lack of connection.

In our Stop Reset Go meeting on Tuesday, Ferial Puren focused on the goal of connection. “We can leverage our technological advancements to scale our natural human technology of communication, collaboration and connection.”

The contrast between love and knowledge expanded from 1 Corinthians 8:1.

There is a common theme that contrasts knowledge and love.

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.”

This brings to mind the song by Switchfoot, Adding to the Noise.

“…does the universe have a way of pushing people towards careers that reflect their names?”

“The interface for navigating metaphysical gravity is the physical bodies and metaphysical beings in the present awareness of a reality in which we are members of a living universe.”

At the beginning of my experience with the Design Science Studio, I met Ganga Devi Braun. She asked me, Have you heard of nominative determinism?

Ganga connected me with the concept of metaphysical gravity. For me, this helped me to answer the question I have about the meaning of my last name, which in German means to build. Since I first named my company in 1991, Bauhouse Visual Communications, I have been associating the word “build” with love (1 Corinthians 8:1).

Love is metaphysical gravity.

As Brad Jarvis pointed out to me, this sounds a lot like WeMakeStuff, which is the project that connected Brad and me. I had the privilege of working on WeMakeStuff Volume 02.

Now that we are working together on the builders collective with the Design Science Studio, it is very interesting that Rachel Kehler and The Young Society are focusing on the theme of resilience, as design for resilience has been the focus of the builders collective.

Design for Resilience was the project I submitted in my application to the Design Science Studio on June 12, 2020.

I was wondering if anyone had thought to explore the idea of podcasts as a source of ethnographic or user experience research. Instead, I found a case study about the user experience of podcast listening.

In our second meeting as a team, I introduced the idea of inviting people into a story where they were protagonists in an adventure. I proposed that this could be a way to include everyone in the process of imagining the kind of world that we might want to live in.

Mythopoeia

This is a writing prompt or design brief for building a world that we want to live in. You can find the original article on Medium.

This is the second meeting of the STOP-RESET-GO Group, for November 1, 2021, the first day of COP26, to help transform Earth and humanity to be a thriving, sustainable planet based on wellness and wisdom.

At around 1:46:00 I talk about a shift in mindset from competition to cooperation. I introduce the idea of storytelling as a prototype of the future and the Mythopoeia project.

Richard Ramsay brought this session to the attention of our World Weavers group.

About Isaac Asimov. He is credited with helping bring about the “golden age” of science fiction in the mid-20th century.

Entering Gien’s mind.

The foundation is the necessary knowledge to be preserved to rebuild civilization after an apocalypse.

What if we thought about the foundation of human experience to avoid the apocalypse? Stop Reset Go

How do we engage people in an immersive story? Can we relate what we are doing with the sort of storytelling that Apple TV+ is exploring with Foundation? A computer company draws inspiration from science fiction to create a world where math nerds and creative outsiders can be empowered to change the world. Apple becomes the largest corporation in the world, then they focus on media and storytelling that is about the power of science, technology, engineering, math, art, and creativity to change the world. https://hypothes.is/a/fsveDCBiEey6SwubLsgSJA

Storytelling as a Prototype of the Future

In our second meeting as a team, I introduced the idea of inviting people into a story where they were protagonists in an adventure. I proposed that this could be a way to include everyone in the process of imagining the kind of world that we might want to live in.

The Apple TV+ series, Foundation, has an official podcast.

The show also has an unofficial fan site with a forum.

The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov. First published as a series of short stories in 1942–50, and subsequently in three collections in 1951–53, for thirty years the series was a trilogy: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. It won the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966. (Wikipedia)

Transcript

Gaal: When I was a child, at the edge of the galaxy...

Gaal: I heard stories about a man who could forecast the future.

Gaal: But the story remained dark to me until many years later.

Gaal: Until it became my story.

Gaal: Until it became the only story.

Hari: You're familiar with my work, psychohistory? Every mathematician has read your theory. -It's not a theory.

Hari: It's the future of mankind expressed in numbers.

Hari: And the empire won't like the future I predict.

History is littered with charlatans and false messiahs.

We should kill them.

Brother Day: We can murder the man, but what about the movement, brother?

Martyrs tend to have a long half-life.

Gaal: His math was right.

Gaal: The empire is dying.

Wars will be endless. (Men yelling)

Hari: A thousand worlds reduced to cinders.

Hari: Change is frightening.

Hari: Especially to those in power.

Hari: But we can soften the fall.

So what's the plan?

Hari: Many years from now,

Hari: if humanity is to climb from the ashes,

Hari: the coming generations will need the knowledge to build upon, a foundation.

Gaal: We must preserve only the most

Gaal: essential pieces of civilization.

Gaal: Deciding what is remembered,

Gaal: what is forgotten.

Man: We are now staring down the barrel...

Man: ...of a crisis.

This is the plan.

Gaal: We're not turning around now.

Visions of Earth

On Christmas Eve 1968, Bill Anders looked out his window and saw something no one had ever seen before. Against a pitch-black sky, framed by a bone-dead, mottled-gray landscape, hovered a hazy half-dome of swirling white and brilliant blue, the only bit of color anywhere in sight. It was a stark scene, a solitary figure floating in “a vast lonely expanse of nothing,” as one of his two companions described it, yet it overwhelmed them all with emotion, a kind of awe perhaps previously unfelt by anyone in history. “It was the most beautiful, heart-catching sight of my life,” one later recalled. Anders did what every sightseer does—he took a photograph. That quick snapshot became, in the words of biophysicist John Platt, “one of the most powerful images in the minds of men today.”

The crew of Apollo 8—Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell—not only were the first people ever to leave orbit and the first to see the dark side of the moon but also were the first to witness Earth intact, not as a fragmentary arc of horizon but as a complete being, an entire world. “We came all this way to the Moon,” Anders later recalled, “and yet the most significant thing we’re seeing is our own home planet.”

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Overview effect

Mike Monteiro references Victor Papanek’s book, Design for the Real World, in his article, Design’s Lost Generation.

The Anti UX UX Club will be discussing Mike Monteiro’s article on Clubhouse.

Maxi Cohen from the Design Science Studio invited us to the Climate Impact panel discussions.

The video was live on Facebook Live.

The Pirate Book Club will be discussing this article in the Anti UX UX Club room of Clubhouse, according to today’s post on Twitter.

Priests of Modern Culture

Designers hold the office of priests in our culture. In the days of the pharaohs and kings, the priests had the magical ability to read and write. Literacy was a closely guarded secret of the intelligentsia and the elites in the courts of the ancient monarchs. The tools of the trade have improved over the years: tablets, hieroglyphics, papyrus, alphabets, paper, printing presses, books, newspapers, radios, televisions, computers, and smart phones. Now, we have come full circle, back to tablets again.

The Discord discussions for the Anti UX UX Club.

The Clubhouse room for the Anti UX UX Club.