foprop is a pattern-language based college project initiated by Mike Hales in 2023. [Why ‘foprop’?](https://foprop.org/doc/why-foprop-ftaIFSKW7K) In this wiki, Mike is `mikemh`. Mike is also [in the fediverse](https://social.coop/@mike_hales/).
This follows from several years convening a network of friends and colleagues of radical economist Robin Murray (‘Robinistas’), thinking increasingly about movement capability and a pattern language of 21st century activism, and three years’ contribution as an operational member in the digital infrastructure coop, [meet.coop](https://foprop.org/doc/meetcoop-qiXkpbPu3i), including convening the [commons.hour](https://forum.meet.coop/c/reportage/commonshour-sessions/60) forum.
> Writer, culture hacker, designer-maker, anthropologist . . I'm from Venus, what is it you do round here? aka barefoot doc. There's some story, some reflections, some back catalogue, [in federated wiki](https://bft.wiki.cafe/mike-hales.html)
From the 80s - A politics of living documentation
The **foprop** wiki project has some precursors: - *[Paths of skill](http://skill.federated.wiki/view/making-it-up---paths-of-skill/view/the-present-assemblage)* \- Federated wiki (2021): This is the beginning of a work of narrative writing and map-making. It follows 1980's *Living Thinkwork* and maps the business of journeying towards a living economy . . on paths of skill, in the foothills of the future. - *[From economics to organising (2021)](https://owncube.cloud/index.php/s/eGS7qiiDkowmzRo)* \- in draft, for Robin Murray - *[Location - Some explorations of power and landscapes of design](https://owncube.cloud/index.php/s/xM36ekSEE6ac6RD)* [(2016)](https://owncube.cloud/index.php/s/xM36ekSEE6ac6RD) - *[Where are designers?](https://owncube.cloud/index.php/s/REGYjfRcQ566dng)* [(1994)](https://owncube.cloud/index.php/s/REGYjfRcQ566dng) - *[Science or society - The politics of the work of scientists (1982)](https://owncube.cloud/index.php/s/iXxQgQAitZCr5Nr)* \- An intro to themes in the 70s’ radical science movement - *[Living Thinkwork - Where do labour processes come from? (1980)](https://owncube.cloud/index.php/s/Kjo5mwiNzRfe3nz)* \- Theory and practice, in-and-against the professional-managerial class