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. - Evolving a pattern language - .. of activist life and work - .. making the living economy - .. under radically altered social relations - .. both in-here and out-there - .. right now, and over the horizon, giving scope to our grandchildren’s grandchildren’s living
# About - foprop - meta - rationale and methods of the foprop project. Geography of this wiki. - Why ‘foprop’? - foprop practice - Evolving the pattern language, the college - Whose project is this? [Mike Hales](https://foprop.org/doc/mike-hales-convening-foprop-HlwbX16caj) (`mikemh`)
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/.
# The pattern language
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.
- **Narrative frame** - The overall ‘story’: making the living economy in a well-considered, skilful, ‘architectural’ way. A dance of commoning, a pluriverse. An activist life. - [🍎 ¿1 Care work](https://foprop.org/doc/1-care-work-mdTC0HQunQ) \- Cultivating the heart-mind, affiliations and relations, desires & impulses, expectations - The **aesthetic landscape** of activist life. - [🍎 ¿2 Subsistence work](https://foprop.org/doc/2-subsistence-work-fABTjPlali) \- Provisioning and accessing material means of subsistence & wellbeing,. Dependence & addiction, machineries - The **material landscape** of life and work. - [🍎 ¿3 Formación work](https://foprop.org/doc/3-formacion-work-vCYDPo2gZQ) \- The **cultural landscape** of making the living economy. Systematically and gracefully weaving a commons of intellectual labour power in the mutual sector, communities of organic-intellectual peers engaged in transformative, prefigurative practice as ‘a bodhisattva class’. [Beyond the fragments](https://foprop.org/doc/beyond-fragments-LM1gDHegkW). - [🍎 ¿4 Stewarding work](https://foprop.org/doc/4-stewarding-work-qnR0bLXLF5) \- Cultivating relations over the horizon, across commons and bioregions, generations and formations, across aesthetics, in a pluriverse. For the grandchildren’s grandchildren.
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