In this section we describe the nature of the foprop project, its rationale and methods, and the geography of this foprop wiki.
Here we’re assembling and evolving a prototype pattern language, as a basis for a diverse inclusive collective designer-ish practice of making the living economy.
## Welcome - foprop - welcome - Mike Hales - Convening foprop
Welcome to the foprop wiki. In foprop we’re assembling and evolving a prototype pattern language, as a basis for a diverse inclusive collective designer-ish activist practice of making the living economy.
foprop is a pattern-language based college project initiated by Mike Hales in 2023. In this wiki, Mike is `mikemh`. Mike is also in the fediverse - https://social.coop/@mike_hales/.
## Living economy - Narrative frame - Making the living economy - ¿1 Care work - ¿2 Subsistence work - ¿3 Formación work - ¿4 Stewarding work
We are concerned with the making of a living economy. This is no small concern. The hegemonic economy - globalised, capitalist, extractive, enclosed and absurdly powerful - is appallingly and recklessly harmful. Forces of colonisation, fundamentalist purity and supremacy generate violence of many kinds, and intentions of boundless accumulation result in recurrent crisis and grotesque accumulations of personal wealth and power.
- `Commoning` - Stewarding, provisioning, mobilising. Resurgence - free, fair and alive, dual power - `Commitments in the mutual sector, pluriverse` - `Formación` - A college of conviviality, tools for conviviality
## The foprop weave - The foprop wiki - foprop - meta - Why ‘foprop’? - `In-here, out-there` - to be added xxx - Three Landscapes of (and in) practice - Four Zones of reach - The foprop weave architecture
In this section we describe the nature of the foprop project, its rationale and methods, and the geography of this foprop wiki.
## Pattern language(ing), principles, design justice - foprop practice - Evolving the pattern language, the college - [330 PATTERN LANGUAGE(ing) and WIKI(ing)](https://foprop.org/doc/330-pattern-languageing-and-wikiing-ZvXZQJcBgD) \- A design aesthetic: *intentional* transformation, system change - Grace, sufficiency, landscapes of the heart-mind. Singing, choreography. - [Design justice](https://foprop.org/doc/design-justice-0RChq5cvqk) - Principles, protocols, patterns, keywords - Pattern template - Affilated & resonating patterns, context, detail, schema - [foprop](https://foprop.org/doc/why-foprop-ftaIFSKW7K) \- Forces of production, relations of production, altered relations of production - [Dual power](https://foprop.org/doc/dual-power-UumFN3j02n).
## Tactical focus - Tactical focus - A subset of pattern families, to get started on a bigger task.
## The practice - A college of conviviality - The practice - A mutualist pedagogy, coproduction, a dance of distributed knowing - Formación - Skilfully cultivating and sustaining activist formations and relations in the mutual sector. Pluriverse. Learning in relation to one another, in practice. - Pods - Action learning projects - Schools - Curating patterns, mobilising patterns - Faculties - ¿Zones of reach - Schools - Families of patterns - Stewarding the college - A project across generations, the grandchildren - Federation - An ecology of cultural coops - Contribution economy in the college - Gift work, care work, contributions in kind, livelihood work
## Conventions - foprop wiki conventions - Landscapes, zones of reach, the weave - Faculties, schools - Work in progress - Publishing licence - Peer production licence (PPL)