In May 2024, OCTOPI embarked on a project with a question in mind:“How can we better understand, document, and map existing practices of reciprocity, exchange, resource efficiency, and coordination in…
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Unraveling, Dis-Integration, and Fluttery Feelings: The Lesser Told Parts of the “Transformation Story”
As I’ve been coming more and more into “the second half of life,“ I have found that I pay more attention, or perhaps I pay attention differently and to different things. One particular area…
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Network mapping: Visualizing stakeholders in the global food system
A Kumu use case by Maria Balcazar Tellez & Alexis Rife of Meridian Institute.Nothing gets us more excited than seeing the endless number of ways in which our customers are…
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Love in Action: Embodying Love in our Organizing and Organizations
This piece was originally published by Root. Rise. Pollinate! on Medium with Inspirators Hope Chigudu, Rudo Chigudu, Julie Quiroz and Susimar Gonzalez Martinez.INSPIRATOR: one who invites and infuses our imaginations with practices…
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Design Foundations For Systems Capital
Designing an investment approach that fosters systems innovation and transformationThis piece was published in August 2022 in partnership with Hatched and reflects our thinking at this time.What would it look like to…
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Legal arrangements for networks
However they come into being, networks typically have to grapple at some point with the circumstances of their legal registration. This may take place at the outset of a network’s…
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Is a community’s purpose best communicated as a question?
Community = Living the questions togetherKey ideas by Chelsea Robinson, Erin Dixon, Sita Magnuson, Michel Bachmann. Written by Fabian Pfortmüller. Originally published at Together InstituteMany years ago, Chelsea Robinson, Michel Bachmann and I were…
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Uncolonizing the workplace using Indigenous Kinship building practices
As the late evening sun continued to shine on the mountains, our plane landed on the homelands of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, known very…
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Who Cares?
This piece is the first article in the Care series, a collaboration between System sanctuary and Turtle Island InstituteCare is a theme that has come up over and over again…
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The A to Z of Systems Thinking: A for AND
I loved Algebra at school. In particular, I loved arithmetic sequences, and practiced them so much that it became easy for me to see a group of numbers and extract a…
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