1.2 Social Structure

Social structures form the organizational framework of our societies, shaping how we interact, make collective decisions, and distribute resources and power. These structures are the manifestation of our superstructural ideas and values, and they directly influence how we engage with our physical and digital infrastructures. Transitioning towards a regenerative paradigm requires transforming the underlying social structures that have entrenched unsustainable practices and worldviews.

In this section, we’ll examine various aspects of the social structure:

1. Social Contracts: The implicit and explicit agreements that govern our interactions, forming the basis of societal cohesion and cooperation.
   • Social Contracts
   • Ecological Social Contract
   • Design Criteria - Eon V
   • Institutions
2. Knowledge Production: The sense-making processes by which knowledge is generated, validated, and disseminated within a society, shaping our collective understanding and decision-making.
   • Unprotocolized Knowledge
   • Planetary Countersimulation
   • More-Than-Human-Centered Design
   • A new vision of artificial intelligence for the people
3. Governance Structures: The various forms of organizing decision-making and power distribution, from local to global scales.
   • Crypto’s Three Body Problem
   • Dispatches from Cascadia
   • Humble Governments
   • Towards Decentralized Civic Infrastructure: Transforming Civics with Web3
   • Democracy Next
   • 3D Wise Democracy
   • Open Civics
   • Third Spaces
   • Decidim
   • Polis
   • The Ecological Intelligence Agency
   • Taiwan Model
   • Liquid Democracy
   • Citizens’ Assemblies
   • 3 Design Principles for Protopian Governance
   • Radicle Civics
4. Community Power: The ways growing movement rooting decision-making and economic power in local communities.
   • RePermissioning the City
   • Participatory City
   • Participation At Scale Can Repair The Public Square
   • CIVIC SQUARE (2020-2030)
   • Community Tech
   • Neighborhood organizing
5. Ownership & Property: The concepts and practices surrounding ownership and property rights, and how they influence resource distribution and societal dynamics.
   • Commons & Public Goods
     • Theft of The Commons
     • Tragedy of The Commons
     • Self-Governance of The Commons
   • Cooperatives & Community Exits
     • Mondragon
     • Zebras Unite
     • DisCO
   • Universal Property
   • Cities copy Cleveland’s prosperity model
6. Existing Economic Systems: An examination of current economic models, their strengths, limitations, and impacts on society.
   • The Three-Faced Interface
   • Corporate AI
   • Criticism of Market Societies
   • Data & Surveillance Capitalism
   • Extractive Investment
   • Prevailing Economic Systems
   • Accumulation, Extraction & Abstraction
7. Alternative Economic Systems: Emerging and potential economic models that aim to address the shortcomings of existing systems and align more closely with regenerative principles.
   • Zero is the Future of Money
   • Regenerative Economy
   • Regenerative Capitalism
   • Regenerative Business
   • Regenerative Investment
   • Forms Of Capital
   • Towards multivalent currencies, bioregional monetary stewardship and a distributed global reserve currency
   • Contextualization, Instantiation & Distribution

What’s next?

Trunks

1.0 Technology & Complex Systems 1.1 Superstructure
1.3 Infrastructure

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