CultureCraft: commons design collective

Purpose:

To open a door for anyone with a passion for design & learning into a miniature peer-to-peer, commons-based economy.

One Sentence Synopsis:

An open, opt-in, space for anyone where we practice collaborative crafting (of anything!) for cultural transformation.

Current Phase:

Seed

Dream Big: What does this project make possible in the world?

For me, here's where it starts: 
There is no employer in Kitchener-Waterloo, to my knowledge, that would hire me based on my currently 4058 tweets. But if there is anything which I feel begins to represent me in my fullness, and represents my calling on this planet, it could at least be glimpsed in my twitter feed, in ways that are many orders of magnitude beyond what a resume can show for me. 
 
I have a great, even amazing, day job doing web design. I don't want it, I think it sucks. And all that I mean by that, is that when I work there, I have the feeling, "I could do so much more." Through various interactions with many young (and older!) people, I've gotten the feeling that many of us share that restlessness in our lives, the burning passion to *do more*, to not settle for the "McJobs" that we've been offered. 
 
The possibility:
I have the desire to co-create the infrastructure for us to *do more*, to build what Umair Haque calls a 'betterness' not a 'business'. The project will move forward as a means of providing myself, at the very least, with a deeply meaningful livelihood, and it's a desire deep in my heart to create that possibility for and with many other people as well, with any and all of you being the very welcome first people to join together on this journey. 

Coherence Holder:

Connor Turland

 

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Over the last few years, I've realized, like many others, that if what we want is a new and better human 'operating system' then the best place to start is within myself. To deconstruct my own patterns and assumptions is something which I have not just sat down and done once, but adopted as a process to continually revise and polish my own capacities. My gifts include:

Hosting, making others feel seen and safe.

Empowerment to employ many disciplines of thinking including design, systems, computational, creative, and critical thinking, and the discernment to tell what's needed when.

Pragmatically, my main area of skill is in technology, ranging from video production, to image manipulation, to web development, design, and hosting server knowledge and experience, to web application development using frameworks like Ruby On Rails.

My gratitudes include:

The ongoing support and connection to an intentional learning community of practice, which makes all else more possible.


Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

 

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Connor Turland+Image

Over the last few years, I've realized, like many others, that if what we want is a new and better human 'operating system' then the best place to start is within myself. To deconstruct my own patterns and assumptions is something which I have not just sat down and done once, but adopted as a process to continually revise and polish my own capacities. My gifts include:

Hosting, making others feel seen and safe.

Empowerment to employ many disciplines of thinking including design, systems, computational, creative, and critical thinking, and the discernment to tell what's needed when.

Pragmatically, my main area of skill is in technology, ranging from video production, to image manipulation, to web development, design, and hosting server knowledge and experience, to web application development using frameworks like Ruby On Rails.

My gratitudes include:

The ongoing support and connection to an intentional learning community of practice, which makes all else more possible.


Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

 

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