daolabs | for conscious culture

explorations in weaving (k)new cultural fabric 


insight, inspiration and resources for culture-creation aligned with the intelligence of life

CURRENT TOPICS 

· Living Narratives

· Living Literacies

· Material Resonance
· Embodied Intelligence
· Language as Lens
· Lifeways > Lifestyle
· Ancestral Tech & Systems
· The Commons
· Consumer Sovereignty
· Institutional Actualization


DOMAINS

· BEING: Relationship & Context
· MEANING: Curation & Perception
· NAVIGATION: Territories & Wayfinding
· DESIGN: Archetypes & Pattern Languages


CORE PILLARS 

· Imagination

· Enchantment
· Agency



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DOMAIN 01

BEING:
Relationship & Context



we are never alone. interconnection is reality. mirror neurons, the observer effect, quantum entanglement, and the simple and absolute process of organic becoming and decay demonstrate this to us with elegance and clarity. we come from and we return to.  we are learning that we are because of what is around us, and that we influence everything we contact. we are inseperable from our world.
relationship is primarily direct and individual. it is how one engages with another, and the quality of presence, receptivity, and response, over time.

context is the web of direct and degreed relationships that create, shape and influence. it includes the seen and the unseen, across space/time. immediacy determines influence.



a bay is a bay when the land offers its hug,
and the water accepts in graceful acquiescence

see: Learning the Grammer of Animacy, Robin Wall Kimmerer


 

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