foprop is a pattern language, and pattern languages are design languages. Here we engage design as a practice of power, and of intentionally altered power(s). Thus also, patterns as containers and generators of altered social relations.
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Because pattern language is intrinsically a design language (for the continual design, review and remaking of radical practices), we are necessarily concerned here in foprop with design justice.
Power = relations of production & access; *altered* RoP
# Organising futures Design is a practice of organising futures. Especially via the organising of artefacts. And pivotally, the artefacts that constitute infrastructure. We'll explore each of these. Design of practice? - to be added xxx Organising a future - to be added xxx Organising artefacts - to be added xxx Infrastructuring - to be added xxx
Making a living economy centrally involves organising beyond the fragments (of our movements and regions) and over the horizon (in regional space and in time). Here we approach these challenges with regard to tools for conviviality, and specifically, the practice of college(ing).
We frame this in terms of the Seven Rs of activist commitment: a way of seeing the pluriversal movements that enact our collective 'blessed unrest' with oppression, ugliness and harm.
Activist commitment: Rescue - to be added xxx Reporting - storytelling, news from elsewhere, design global, rise up with the ancestors, back-story, pattern language: to be added xxx Reparation - Design justice to be added xxx
Here we describe what we mean in foprop by design justice, and why it matters in a practice concerned with pattern language and formación.
Design of design Mike Hales (author) 2016, *Location - Exploring power(s) and landscapes of design*, Seven Dials, Barefoot Documents. A family of patterns 310 Design of design - to be added xxx
# 'Politics' - is organising too Another way of organising a future is 'politics'. But our take on politics is: politics is the organising of practices under radically and intentionally altered relations of production. And thus, that poltics is organising too.
Thus we'll explore: From economics to organising - to be added xxx Design justice - to be added xxx
Here we offer a schema for commoning, derived from the commoning pattern language of Bollier & Helfrich.
Here we outline a series of emergent relations of cultural production, over a couple of hundred years. Making a living economy needs to discover how to systematically mobilise all of these, in a radically altered mode of cultural production: a practice of radical knowing.
It's a sideshow, but there should be some consideration of 'politics' in its commonplace, electoral-representative sense. No matter who you vote for . . - to be added xxx