IS: Seeing like a scene
Upcoming events:
- Sunday Oct 26: Community Hub call 20.4
- Tuesday Oct 28: 2ndRen: The Oasis
- Friday Nov 1: IS Connection Call
Last week's newsletter was "For such a time as this" and the Community Hub session title was "Fractal truth and love".
Frankly, there's just too much going on to tell you even half of it in a weekly newsletter. And if you read this one IS-related blurb each/most weeks (hi! glad this is you!) then the most valuable thing I can do in writing is to transmit a bit of the spirit of Intentional Society, more than the details. If you want more (details), well... come closer and make deeper contact! The movie trailer exists to attract people to the full movie, not to be fully satisfying in itself.
Yet there's a gap between this — passive consumption of a short newsletter — and the regular face-to-(video)face contact of being in ongoing companionship. An unserved concentric circle in the middle between (loosely) fans and members. I'll call this the "scene" because a scene can be hoppin' while still containing a diverse set of relationships in how much people participate in or identify with the scene. This already exists, but it's not very visible and not very valuable compared to its potential IMHO.
So design thinking is underway to evolve the ways in which people can relate "to IS", which is not just a community these days. "Membership" is a useful concept for a community, but then how do we make the scene valuable to the scene? How does that system see itself? What labels best represent the relationships? How can the web of trust be leveraged to power up the agency and energy of everyone involved? Will this take more/new tech? (ugh, says the former software developer)
If you have any brainstorms about how to serve a liminal scene with lots of aligned values and paths and dreams, especially how to serve and strengthen YOU in this loose fabric of connection, send them my way...
Cheers,
James