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| === The Flotilla === | === The Flotilla === |
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| Scenario 2 of 4 in response to the question: How do we work together on interesting things? | Scenario 2 of 4 in response to the question: How do we work together on interesting things? (as part of a [[scenario planning]] exercise at FoAM) |
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| (axis: collective vision and full availability) | (axis: collective vision and full availability) |
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| | {{http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1246/5133600371_41b4e25515.jpg}} |
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| | Image link: [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/carthalis/|Carthalis Rossini's Flickr page]] |
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| The world around the flotilla: There are people on the move, migrating across continents and towards mega-cities. The world is awash in information, although proliferation of technology keeps getting into bubbles and crises depending on the oscillating availability of physical resources and cheap labour needed to produce the necessary hardware. A whole range of syndromes (or abilities) keep appearing, as a result of information overload and attention deficit. The insecurity and turbulence are paired with a continued rise in conservatism and an ever increasing bureaucratisation of life and culture. The security theatre keeps adding new props in its effects-range and performing its brutal, splatter-punk scenes on the streets of major cities. More and more people work from home, either due to their environmental concerns, or astronomically expensive fossil fuels, or because a disfunctional infrastructure (that is either overly crowded or non-functional). The technologies for distributed collaboration and augmented reality are getting better each day. Many people outsource menial tasks to either virtual assistants, crowds or artificial companions. Culture and politics are increasingly dominated by rampant consumerism and capitalism, causing a hollowing out of opportunities for experimentation and alternatives. | The world around the flotilla: There are people on the move, migrating across continents and towards mega-cities. The world is awash in information, although proliferation of technology keeps getting into bubbles and crises depending on the oscillating availability of physical resources and cheap labour needed to produce the necessary hardware. A whole range of syndromes (or abilities) keep appearing, as a result of information overload and attention deficit. The insecurity and turbulence are paired with a continued rise in conservatism and an ever increasing bureaucratisation of life and culture. The security theatre keeps adding new props in its effects-range and performing its brutal, splatter-punk scenes on the streets of major cities. More and more people work from home, either due to their environmental concerns, or astronomically expensive fossil fuels, or because a disfunctional infrastructure (that is either overly crowded or non-functional). The technologies for distributed collaboration and augmented reality are getting better each day. Many people outsource menial tasks to either virtual assistants, crowds or artificial companions. Culture and politics are increasingly dominated by rampant consumerism and capitalism, causing a hollowing out of opportunities for experimentation and alternatives. |
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| Responsibility is shared through a clear (bottom-up) governance structure, which helps making the processes and activities effective and contributing towards the emergent vision and assuring its coherence. Leadership exists, but it isn't 'in-your-face'. Locally (in small cells of the flotilla) the governance resembles workers' socialism, globally the leadership is there as the steward of the long term vision. The leadership role is a service to the collective and the vision. It consists of a small group people who are able to 'hold the vision' (and its context) and facilitate its translation into the life and work of the flotilla, are willing to listen to and sense the needs of the collective, as well as coordinate the activities. Leadership is meritocratic, it is rotational and redundant (the tasks and responsibilities are always overlapping, never dependent on just one person). There is a sense of collective intelligence that makes the flotilla operate almost like a large organism. | Responsibility is shared through a clear (bottom-up) governance structure, which helps making the processes and activities effective and contributing towards the emergent vision and assuring its coherence. Leadership exists, but it isn't 'in-your-face'. Locally (in small cells of the flotilla) the governance resembles workers' socialism, globally the leadership is there as the steward of the long term vision. The leadership role is a service to the collective and the vision. It consists of a small group people who are able to 'hold the vision' (and its context) and facilitate its translation into the life and work of the flotilla, are willing to listen to and sense the needs of the collective, as well as coordinate the activities. Leadership is meritocratic, it is rotational and redundant (the tasks and responsibilities are always overlapping, never dependent on just one person). There is a sense of collective intelligence that makes the flotilla operate almost like a large organism. |
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| | Images on http://pinterest.com/deziluzija/resilients-the-flotilla/ |
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| Notes from design session: | Notes from design session: |
| * there is no (cultural) funding for the whole, but there might be some for the projects, where we partner with funding bodies along the way | * there is no (cultural) funding for the whole, but there might be some for the projects, where we partner with funding bodies along the way |
| * artist status doesn't matter, as the community and the vision generate income for all | * artist status doesn't matter, as the community and the vision generate income for all |
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maja