[Pattern-language] New Pattern Language project // Wise Democracy

[Robert Jacobson]

Hi Doug,

The Wise Democracy project reiterates themes familiar from progressive activities in the civil and civic spheres.  This isn’t a bad thing, but it’s not necessarily a good thing.

Reiteration is redundancy.  If we feel the need for it, in my opinion, that generally means we are treading water because our problem definitions and solutions have not worked for us before.  

As someone who has championed co-governance in many policy domains — occasionally, with positive results (which remain rare across the board in the policy realm, despite co-governance’s evident sensibility) — I’m seeking forward-looking advice.  Patterns from the past are our legacy, for better or worse; like any legacy, as much burden as blessing.  

What’s incumbent on us as change agents is to persuasively describe and prototype revisions and wholly new patterns for the future that can bring about actionable, favorable social change in response to conditions in our fast-changing present that in so many ways critically threaten our futures.  In the immediate moment, this requires taking risks, proposing pattern-based and pattern-centric solutions that are truly novel, resisting falling back on comfortable nostrums that ipso facto need revision, replacement, or abandonment.  Hard work but worth the effort, in my experience.

Bob

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> On Mar 21, 2017, at 10:31 AM, Doug Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org> wrote:
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> There's a new pattern language in the land....
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> The Wise Democracy Project, http://www.wd-pl.com/ <http://www.wd-pl.com/>
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> Interesting to see how these various projects are similar and different.
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> Ideally (to my mind) the existence of lots of them would surface interest in pattern languages in general — and in using them!
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> Thanks!
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> Douglas Schuler
> douglas at publicsphereproject.org <mailto:douglas at publicsphereproject.org>
> Twitter: @doug_schuler
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> A Mobilization Story: Patterns for the Impending Emergency <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/content/patterns-impending-emergency>
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> Public Sphere Project <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/>
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> Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Mailing list <http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce>
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> Creating the World Citizen Parliament <http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament>
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> Liberating Voices!  A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (Project <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv> / Book <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601>) 
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> Three patterns:
>    Back to the Roots <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/content/back-roots>
>    Demystification and Reenchantment <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/content/demystification-and-reenchantment>   Translation <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/content/translation>
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