Organising-primitives
What it is
A process-oriented approach to accounting for organisational development.
We define primitives based in time as opposed to matter.
Where object-oriented approaches model organisation-as-an-entity, making visible assets, we model organisation-as-a-process, to make visible formation.
How it worksFor organisers
When to use
When multi-stakeholder initiatives need to coordinate, evidence and learn from time-bound interventions - at network scale.
When continuous re-alignment is needed, across multiple levels, from within highly emergent and unpredictable collective processes.
When local actors need to be able to publish their stories to non-local partners without losing ownership or reversing their narratives.
See stakeholder archetypes- HubsCommunity centres, live-in DAOs, regional nodes, and hackerspaces.
Cohering local actors, integrating perspectives, and implementing contextually-relevant indicators.
- NetworksCoalitions, federations, and communities of practice with local anchors.
Integrating hubs and re-presenting value from network edges whilst maintaining depth of context.
- PartnersTechnology providers, institutions, funders, and agencies.
Contributing enabling resources and mutual interest agreements.
Where this comes from
This work comes from a variety of practices: dMRV, social innovation, regenerative design, narrative-led systems change and distributed systems design.
Protocol design is the culmination of 3 years with the same facilitator team organising transformation-oriented events.
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