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Weaving art, story, science, policy, life
Joe RavetzCentre for Urban & Regional Ecology
University of Manchesterwww.manchester.ac.uk/cure
www.urban3.net
FACING EXTINCTION CONFERENCE
CONTENTS
1. Why pictures & conversations
2. WTF Workshop: “Synergistics 101”
3. Ecolo-poly & Ecolo-polis4. Civil-opoly & Civil-opolis5. The Large Thinkonomic
Synergizer6. Beyond sustainability 7. draw your dreams
The objectives
The clients
Work in progress www.urban3.net
www.urban-energy.org
Urban 3.0Creative synergy & shared intelligence for the one planet city
“World’s largest feasibility study” – linking spatial, economy, environment,
society, governance.
URBAN 3.0 –
“Local / global transition strategy” – mapping & design of post-complex
challenges & opportunities
“Environment and the City” - critical
perspectives on the human urban
environment around the world
Town & Country Planning special
issue: October 2013
URBA
N 3
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Creative synergy & social intelligence for the one planet century
Introduction:
(1 technical slide only)
Weaving ecology & biodiversity with pressing human concerns
FINANCE & MACRO-
ECONOMY
LIVELIHOODS & CONSUMPTION
ECOLOGY & BIODIVERSITY
PRODUCTION & SUPPLY CHAINS
Entrepreneur, innovation,
Primary / resources
Industrial manufacturing &
processing
Service & knowledge
sectors
Financial credit &
investment, Social finance, pensions etc
Money / exchange systems
Macro-economic & fiscal policy
Mineral resources
Food & renewable resources
Water, energy
Biodiversity habitat & species
Waste & recirculation
Ecological & social values
Basic needs, survival & security
Social equity, welfare,
prosperity
Culture & heritage
Social & community enterprise
Higher needs, identity & meaningFixed assets &
property
This session • This session is about the weaving
together – not just of ecology, industry, sociology etc….. But of art, stories, science, policy, life – to explore futures dark & light.
• The medium here is the graphic storyline…. one way to help creative and deliberative thinking – ‘under the skin’ / ‘out of the box’ / ‘beyond linear’ – to navigate the impasse of extinction and alienation, towards some place beyond.
• Here are some graphic storylines on these themes, both old and new.
• The storylines invite feedback as ‘collective visual wisdom’ – where to go, how to use, what emerges.
• Actually I need your collective help to complete the storyline for the book.. (which is way overdue)
• An interactive graphic wall continues through the day in the Refectory – you are invited to think & respond with visuals, poems, stories, objects or anything else
• (Background to this visual thinking is on - http://urban3.net/visual-thinking/
Weaving
So why do we need pictures and
conversations? I thought this was a heavyweight book about the future.Yeah well,
conversations reveal certain
truths, which are more
complex than saying A=B & maybe
more interesting
And pictures can reveal certain perspectives
They can show visions
Or certain moments which
cannot be defined
Background - why pictures & conversations?
Pictures can show alternative realities &
discourses of resistance A picture is another form of map, or mapping
useful if you lose
your way in
the inter-
connected-ness
of things
Conversations can be
arguments, mis-understandings, or deep seated
rage I can’t believe
you just said
that!!Sometimes you have to draw them yourself
Pictures & maps can be a guide to
the future
Hmm..
Yes!! we could invent
the ‘Fut-Nav’ & make a million With pictures &
conversations we can explore the inter-connected-ness of Thinking
I thought you were gonna say “Drinking”
, ha ha
With pictures we can
notice tiny details
With conversation
s we can debate their
meaning
And with both together we’re ready for anything
welcome to this WTF *
workshop
“Synergi-stics 101”.
Ok here’s the plan... We have
3 Challenges: 3 cases: 4 future scenarios
Then, hands-on “creative
synergy & social
intelligence”
And G-TEC has sent a
demo ‘Sphere’ to inspire us
WTF workshop:
Synergistics 101
* Note – WTF is the World Thinkonomics Forum, set up in 2024 after ‘economics’ was formally discredited and disbanded
The workshop
Then, it’s methods, tools, concepts… & the elephant
effectWhat d’you mean,
elephant? It’s a tree!You’re joking, it’s a
snake!!
Not at all, it’s a
rope, innit
Basically it’s about “synergistic co-evolution” – as easy as “1-2-
3”
1.0 is a
mecha-nical
system
2.0 is a biological
system
3.0 is the human side - synergy & social
intelligence
But Urban 3.0 & the others, are more than simple
cause+effect, you have to play the 3.0 Games
Now if you play Monopoly – it’s very ‘2.0’ –everyone
loses except the winner who takes all.
In the 3.0 Games the
basic aim is to live together
on One Planet... So
you play ‘ECOL-OPOLY’
starting with 1.0 or 2.0 rules – then work out
how to collaborate, to build the 3.0
‘ECOL-OPOLIS’.
But each game contains a
mighty struggle .... The rational
brain now has knowledge so
powerful it cannot lose.
But the creative brain designs the game so it can only win.
On that paradox hangs our future
Hi, I’m Benito. My
family were
rancheros. Hunger was our
main hobby
To eat you had to
take land from the forest...
But the forest was a madhouse – police, agencies, farmers, loggers – all taking
what they could get
Many went to the cities, but I followed the trucks, across many borders, to the other
side of the worldHAPPY
MEALS GO LARGE
One day the police turned the
guns on us. It was time to leave
The people there were so fat, it was not a good sight
“ECOL-OPOLY”
The ONE PLANET game
Game #1: “Ecolo-poly”
For many years I worked & studied.
Then I got a job working on the new
Syn-Earth game module
CLIMATEFOODENERGY
HABITATS WATER
The so-called GLOBAL NEXUS was at the core of the system.
We tried all the options and settings... We monitored all the
results...
Development?
Markets??
Trade??
Finance ??
Regulation ??
Innovation ??
But we couldn’t get it into stability &
balance
Education ??
GMO?
But the system was imploding -
every 6 minutes another species
extinct. The devastation
was shocking
Then we realized – the humans were the
problem. Like with 5 stages of trauma
And the human species was also imploding – sadly, some suffered
more than others
GRIEF
DENIAL
BLAME
ANGER
GUILT
if I was a panda
would you help then??
squawkrrrrrr
After the deluge..
Sin & redemptio
n..
We can only go forward
So some will feel angry, but the fact is, the only
solution is growth & development ...
**** your
solution pollutio
n!!
Like a Conference
of the Species?
Then we’re into deeper myth & archetype
Cosmic justice
What if we could discuss the situation with everyone
involved?
Shiva the destroyer
ssssss
Greetings I’m Aisha. I grew
up in an African township.
Things were rough, but there was hope in the
streets
After a while I
got to be mayor, then a
UN delegate
“CIVILOPOLY”
The governance game
We worked for positive change, but instead there was more terror &
instability
We worked with G-TEC and the others, thinking that any system would be better than this
chaos
we kept the symbols of democratic
politics, while the
real business shifted to elsewhere
Game #2: “Civil-opoly”
So welcome to the game of CIVILOPOLY...
The object is to get ultimate power via
democratic elections. Don’t trust any
of them!!
A better
futureMeanwhile,
global investors
quietly make sure our national system is charged &
watered, so to deliver 10%+
returns to them & friends
A less bad future
But it looks like puppets on a house of cards,
cashing in votes from celebrity glitz & fashion swings
& what about the
“underclass”.. cyber-punks & rejects, misfits
& weirdos, abusers & abused,
freelancers & freeloaders??
Some call for an
alternative to the system -
they don’t last long, but
we admire their
ethical stand
Otherwise it’s a technical
task to net all the possible
voters
floating voters are a problem – lost in their
phones & profiles – they think politics has no
relevance… only wifi & coffee matters
Yeah we’d like to include them, but they just hide in
the cracks & destroy themselves
& there is
resistance
growing, from
inside & outside
the political spectru
m
So to build the CIVILOPOLIS we have to include
all these communities
I can’t believe you are seduced by expensive shiny phallic objects!!
Ok let’s get democracy back to its roots – not just
the town or village, but
anywhere that people come
together
But power is very power-ful... look at
that!!
‘Real’ power is
in the voice & energy of the people
Welcome to the G-TEC Living Labs and the LARGE THINKONOMIC SYNERGIZER. Here you see 100000 inter-connected spheres, each one a test site for the
co-evolution of ‘social intelligence”,
Look at that – spheres within spheres, and
smaller ones inside them. Maybe it
goes on for ever?
Impressive. so when do you expect to go
into commercial production?
Here we see 5 layers: global ecology at the
top, then economies,
cities, communities, & root ecology.
This one seems to be at the 2.0 stage – you can
see the elite, extracting the
value & leaving chaos & fallout...
Sorry I can’t tell you that. I can say that the Large Thinkonomic Synergizer is the most advanced
experiment ever in collective intelligence. Even we can hardly imagine where it’s going to end
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Game #3: “Thinkopoly”
So to get beyond
the impasse of “sustain-ability”,
we need to look at
how humans really work
Synergistics 101: beyond
sustainability But it’s not in a straight line,
it’s evolutionary. To
live on One Planet humans have to learn
the art. It’s not a technical fix
or even a ‘plan’
There are so many
directions &
levels to walk onLike a
labyrinth with
no exit.... so who has the map?
it’s about community – most of us
are confused & need a crowd to
follow
it’s about aspirations,
like a beautiful
garden seen through a doorway
Well they’ve been
working on that one for 3000 years.
But there’s new things.. We see the
Earth hanging in space. We
know we have complex
brains with multiple
intelligences
Coffee break
But the other is
where we’re at.. Where
cities & human
systems are all messed
up, fragmented, senseless, chaotic,
So there’s two different tracks
here. One is about ‘creative
synergy & social intelligence’
Ok so we all look for
patterns of collaboration, & learn how to do
it better
& chaos isn’t just ‘out there’ but ‘in here’ How many
forums, likes, feeds, streams, pokes, can you use?
What? Actually i’ve lost count
So before anything else, we have to
look for what makes us whole human beings... What is
this thing ‘social’, & what is
‘intelligence’??
Then we can start again with some
building blocks
Conclusion: draw your dreams