Hi, I'm from Venus, what is it you folks do round here? aka barefoot doc. Here's some current orientation, a little back catalogue. Evolving.
About us . . - In elder years, learning to live in relationship with people and stuff, and to speak (but striving less) with a voice from Somewhere ('here'), in a teeming, empty cosmos.
- Travelling under the worldly winds, on oceans, in wild landscapes, setting out each day, perhaps making landfall at some points.
- Organic intellectual, libertarian socialist, concerned with legacy: making the Living Economy, in the commons (in emotional commons, cultural commons. material commons), in deep time.
- Theory-&-practice (theory in practice, theory of practice, practice-of-theory) methodology nerd, believing that pattern-language(ing) helps.
- Living as well as possible the balance of a life, in a world that's burning. Grandiose? Realism, I would say!
Contact: mikemh AT conviv DOT mayfirst DOT org Location: Bermondsey, London.
> Here is The old bft home page. Replaced 24apr2024.
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Mike Hales biographical stuff.
CURRENT
We are concerned with making and sustaining the activist capability to make 'a living economy' in the commons, via the cross-generational curating and mobilising of a pattern language. Here we introduce the foprop project as a pattern language(ing) project, and the foprop weave as a frame for the pattern language.
Here we assemble a series of blogs on pattern language(ing), language of struggle, making a living economy, and travelling/travelogue/making landfall as aspects of activist life and work.
Here we present resources on pattern language - history, examples, how-to.
EARLIER
Here we describe how to be creative with federated wiki - reading (navigating) the wiki page lineup, writing in wiki and collaborating through wiki.
Commoning is at the centre of pattern language for making ‘new economy’. It's not just that commoning is something **described in** the language, but it also is the form of pattern language **practice** itself. Commoning contains three constitutive dynamics or modes - curating, stewarding, and enjoying - and curating, stewarding and mobilising a *cultural commons* of pattern language is at the core of the proposal.
Here is an assemblage of story-stuff around skill, both poetic and practical. These pieces engage skill as being at the heart of living life well and, especially, laying down for future others a legacy of-and-for good life and wellbeing. The life we're engaging here is an activist life, of making a Living Economy. This is a work about (and from) skill as foundation, as outcome, as intention.
This site holds a long draft article 'in conversation with' Robin Murray, and a review of related constructs and projects, including a Trellis Foundation project for 'a college of conviviality'. It can be seen as an exploration of **the practice of theory**.
[From economics to organising](https://share.mayfirst.org/s/WTdTTCx4ArAK6k) - A shorter draft 2024, focused around the practice of meet.coop, a digital infrastructure coop.
ROSTER mhresources.wiki.cafe/mh-2024-roster