Vision & Description of the Project

Vision

By systemically and semantically marking up and relating different kinds of knowledge, and by enabling navigation within this networked knowledge, collective intelligence can be operationalized and collective action (whether co-operation or co-laboration) enhanced in a way that ensures that intentions, action and the effects they produce can be compared through systemic stories and reoriented when needed.

Description of the project

The major objective of the PLAST project is to bring together communities of practice from multiple disciplines and domains around an open knowledge repository of shared sustainable and socially innovative practices, federated into a commons. The project will leverage pattern languages to make knowledge accessible and reusable across domains, turning knowledge and ‘know-how’ into repeatable results and coherent systemic outcomes. The key operating principle of PLAST is to make communities of practice aware of each other’s solutions and achievements in a language that they can understand, so that successes can be explained, remixed, applied, and evaluated for their effectiveness across domains.

We seek to build a open knowledge platform that encourages systemic inquiry and collective exploration of adjacent possibilities by providing the ability to document, discuss and deliberate the intentions and outcomes of systemic interventions and change initiatives. Most importantly, by capturing and analysing the social process of deliberating effective sustainable practice, PLAST will allow reflexive improvement in the process of transformation itself.