The Sensed Governance Initiative is conducting open research towards a suite of collaborative techniques for managing commons infrastructures using collective-sensing methodologies rooted in the sensing body.
Learning from a wealth of experience from the literature on embodied facilitation, systemic constellation work and beyond, we are developing a conceptual framework around physical presence and sensory sensibility that creates emergentproperties and realities for decision-making. In our experience, this can connect physical spaces with their online counterparts, enhancing the warmth, meaning, and sense of belonging that come from being an active part of these communities.
The initial outcome of this research is a pattern-book with practices for meaningful body-based interaction, including a suite of workshop tools for use within civic spaces to transform idealism into tangible impact through actionable solutions for local issues.
Cosmo-local communities from diverse backgrounds are experimenting with socio-economic changes that require a body capable and ready to respond to the complexity in which it is immersed.
The new systems we are building must include that which is harder to quantify - beauty, love, emotional depth. Without these, the systems will continue to optimise for profit and growth, rather than systemic resilience.
The Sensed Governance Initiative is conducting open action research towards a suite of collaborative practices for managing commons infrastructures using embodied collective-sensing methodologies.
Our hypothesis is that the body - meaning the full individual in relationship to its environment - is the provider and maintainer of a system’s subjective input and the regulators of its health. An opinion or desire becomes more granular as it moves further away from the body, to a word, to a pen, to a keyboard.
The body is an under-appreciated sensing device within collective space and as a result our disembodied practices make commons stewardship a greying procedure.
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