benjamin on coordination ness
benjamin life @omniharmonic on coordination ness via michel bauwens tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1954125141417644256]:
Haven’t read it yet, but knowing @omniharmonic ‘s clarity of mind and grassroots engagement, this should be a milestone publication: * Bioregional Coordination: A Hybrid Framework for Network Commons Governance “Benjamin Life at OpenCivics has just published a brilliant paper on bioregional coordination and is inviting comments to turn this into a living document. This is vitally important work that can be of great value to the bioregional movement. ” Paper here, open for comments: https://lnkd.in/gg9bPjHB
then also found in benjamin’s thread [https://x.com/omniharmonic/status/1953876645213016349]:
new essay: Bioregional Coordination: Sacred Work in a Time Between Worlds This essay explores institutional & extitutional strategies for bioregional organizing, identifying the “paradox of bioregional organizing” as the struggle of transcending a paradigm from the inside out.
gratitude to r3.0 for hosting the conversation and big appreciation to my colleagues and peers exploring this design space with me: @kosmicgardener, @lizbarry, @metagov_project, @andrea_is_a, @regenavocado @CascadiaDept, @MontyMerlin, @gregory_landua, and many others!
Replying to @omniharmonic [https://open.substack.com/pub/omniharmonic/p/bioregional-coordination-sacred-work]:
What follows is a presentation given yesterday for the r3.0 Bioregional Confluence event series. The talk is based off of my recent report: Bioregional Coordination: A Hybrid Framework for Network Commons Governance. I was honored to present following Liz Barry, MetaGov’s Executive Director, as she shared real world case studies creating new forms of participatory democracy.
I look forward to exploring the inquiries in the talk and the corresponding paper with bioregional organizers from around the world.
notes/quotes from benjamin’s report – Bioregional Coordination: A Hybrid Framework for Network Commons Governance:
Abstract
The bioregional movement represents a critical evolution in how human communities organize themselves in relationship to place-based ecological systems. *Moving beyond traditional governance models that privilege territorial control and hierarchical authority, bioregional coordination offers a framework for distributed decision-making that honors both ecological boundaries and community-driven autonomy. **This paper presents a dual-structure model for bioregional organizing that addresses the fundamental tension between the need for institutional legibility within existing legal and financial systems and the imperative for truly self-organizing, commons-based coordination. Through an analysis of blockchain-enabled governance mechanisms, credible neutrality protocols, and comprehensive coordination across eight forms of capital, we propose a pattern language for bioregional coordination that can be adapted across diverse ecological and cultural contexts while maintaining fidelity to core principles of regenerative practice. ***Drawing from Elinor Ostrom’s principles for governing the commons and contemporary innovations in decentralized governance, this framework presents both theoretical foundations and practical implementation strategies for what we term “extitutional” organizing—coordination mechanisms that operate alongside and through existing institutions ****without being captured by their limitations.
*how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us.. so to me.. not ‘beyond traditional govt models’.. rather.. same song.. may seem better/kinder.. but not getting to the root of problem.. so will still perpetuate the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
**need for legibility ness.. is control.. so this part is whalespeak.. for legit org.. need 1st/most: means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening as global detox so we can org around legit needs
***ostrom 8 doesn’t get to the root of problem either
****will be ‘captured’ as long as any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
guess i won’t read paper.. boulder is close.. but mindset still distant
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