open systems lab
intro’d via nika dubrovsky and museum of care and university of dgi ness in st vincent.. as ceo alastair parvin has been in museum of care meetings.. as well as 2025 summer session in st vincent
adding page when looked him up and his twitter profile reads @AlastairParvin:
Designer. Interested in better ways to make places. Director of Open Systems Lab.
@WikiHouse [An open source manufactured building system. Our aim is to put the knowledge and tools to build beautiful, zero-carbon homes into the hands of everyone.. an open systems lab project], Plan✕, #Fairhold Same username at the other place.
London opensystemslab.io
notes/quotes from site (team) [https://www.opensystemslab.io]:
indy johar is non exec director
(about) [https://www.opensystemslab.io/about]:
Most of the technology that we need to build a prosperous, fair, zero-carbon society is already here, we’re just not using it. The challenge of our time is to redesign our systems – our ways of organising.
no org-ing nor any tech to date has gone deep enough to get to the root of problem
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
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..
ie: imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. the unconditional part of left-to-own-devices ness.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
Systems are the invisible common *infrastructures that underpin our lives. They are society’s playing field – its operating platforms – its ways of doing. They are the frameworks we use to collaborate and to compete. **The problem is that many of the systems we use today are obsolete. ***They were designed for a different world, with different challenges, different technology and different values.
*need 1st/most: means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening as global detox so we can org around legit needs
**the problem is.. all orgs/systems to date have been cancerous distractions
***all designed for sea world
hari rat park law et al
We are a non-profit R&D lab whose purpose is to research, design, test and deploy the everyday infrastructure *for a new economy: to collaboratively **develop new ways of doing, and get them into the hands of every citizen, community, business and government.
*oikos (the economy our souls crave).. ‘i should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.’ – gaston bachelard, the poetics of space
**if legit new.. many things would become irrelevant s.. ie: citizenry ness.. business.. govt..
perhaps let’s try/code money (any form of measuring/accounting/people telling other people what to do) as the planned obsolescence.. where legit needs are met w/o money.. till people forget about measuring..ie: sabbatical ish transition
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