Tactics in the foprop project

Here we describe the way we mean to get started in developing the foprop narrative. We select a number of foci from within the broad foprop weave, spanning the four zones of reach, and also the three landscapes of practice. The aim is to foreground the particular way foprop focuses on activist practice in making the living economy. Category: Community

# A pattern language of activist practce

It will take plenty of time, plenty of diversity in experience 'across the fragments' of our movements, and plenty of engaged and respectiful conversation, to determine what patterns are really solid and pivotal. Developing a pattern language happens in evolutionary time; it's not a sprint.

But joining-up across fragments of knowhow, influence, insight and locale is urgent business in a time of deep social, economic and aesthetic crisis. So some bootsrtapping strategy is called for. Let's make a tactical selection of fields, to begin to learn how to do the conversations across such a large and pluriversal community-of-communities. Conversations and evolution

# A tactical selection of issues Rather than attempt to jump in with patterns, we'll start with exploring the framing, and the nature of cross-linking across families, zones and landsacpes: as a matter of conversational and small-p political practice.

A number of broad narrative themes will be adopted for starters: eight of them, below. They map closely on to anticipated pattern families, but some gather together a number of families. Each selected theme is the focus of its own wiki. Links across themes will be handled as (clickable) links across wikis.

The wikis - together with three overview wikis - are:

Overview wikis

Here we describe the foprop weave - a framework for recognising and mobilising activist capability in making a living economy.

Here we assemble the narrative flow of foprop: a pattern language for activist practice in making a living economy.

This wiki.

Eight thematic wikis

Here we develop the narrative frame of college(ing) - a practice of formación in Making a living economy. The practice is grounded in curating and mobilising the foprop pattern language frame. This is one of eight tactical wikis.

Here we develop the perspective of making a living economy through activity in the commons, as a practice of dual power. The powers are dual because the practice embodies altered relations of production in economic, cultural and aesthetic landscapes.

Here we engage with the means of visioning and enacting pluriversal relations in making a living economy. A framing of 'seven Rs' of activist commitment underpins a commitment to design justice in the cultivation of infrastructure and tools.

Here we develop a perspective on altered relations of cultural production - practices of knowing and capability - in terms of tools for conviviality. These oppositional forms of cultural production have emerged historically in struggles under capitalism, patriarchy, hijacking by professionals, colonisation, extractivism, consumerism, statism and other modes of supremacy.

Here we develop a perspective on contribution in the commons, as a basis for making a living economy that escapes dominant relations of property, ownership and value-extraction. This includes issues of livelihood and also appropriate recognition of contributions.

Here we develop the perspectives of curating (provisioning) and enjoying (mobilising) as fields of practice that jointly constitute the commons. Both aspects embody altered relations of aesthetic production, part of making a **living** economy. Zone: 1inhere Landscape: 2culture Family: Curate&enjoy

Here we develop the core principle of infrastructuring in the commons as a basis of a living economy. Infrastructuring is an 'over the horizon' perspective, to be placed alongside - and in parity with - the matching principle of care work: meeting the clear and present needs of actual people, 'here'. Also we highlight federating as a basic way of provisioning infrastructure.

Here we explore crucial roles - positive and negative - of digital means in making a living economy in the 21st century. We develop an activist perspective on the challenge of living well among golems.

The schema below shows the selected themes, distributed across ¿zones of reach (or Faculties, in a college).

The wikis involved are here. ROSTER mhresources.wiki.cafe/foprop-projects-roster

# Design justice The schema below shows these same selected themes distributed across the **Seven Rs** of activist commitment. The Seven Rs are the basic pluriversal framework in foprop, used in engaging matters of design justice.

A framing of 'seven Rs' of activist commitment underpins a commitment to design justice in the cultivation of infrastructure and tools.

# Rationale The rationale for this selection of themes is constructed in terms of: A living economy - Rationale Formación - Rationale An intention of justice - Rationale An aspiration for peace - Rationale

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