<div dir="ltr"><div><div>This is a good idea Daniel<br><br></div>To use material from 
ecology. I like it.  I even went online to search for some Journal 
articles that talk about the different cultural aspect with intervention 
programs. There is a Critical Review on two grand intervention by Blaikie and Muldavin (2014) one in the eastern Himalayas and the other across the border in eastern India.<br><br></div>As I was reading this, I see that there is selfe-organization at work all the time. At one instance the work happened in harmony and flexibility with the imposed system and in the other instance the self-organization happened despite the system ridged closed and toxic structure and undermined its interventions objectives.<br><div><div><br>Blaikie P and Muldavin J (2014). Environmental justice? The story of two projects. Geoforum 54. 226–229. (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718512002850">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718512002850</a>).<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 November 2014 at 12:20, Daniel Mezick via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    There are many well-established words that are used to more
    precisely discuss self "organization" in the biological and social
    sciences. I wonder if actively using some of these well-defined
    words might be helpful in the discussion.<br>
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    Example: stigmergy<br>
    <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=define+stigmergy" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?q=define+stigmergy</a><br>
    
    <b>Stigmergy</b> is a mechanism of indirect coordination between
    agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the
    environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next
    action, by the same or a different agent.<br>
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    More details<br>
    <a href="http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/Stigmergy.html" target="_blank">http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/Stigmergy.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/StigmergyAndSelf.html" target="_blank">http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/StigmergyAndSelf.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/FourPrinciples.html" target="_blank">http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/FourPrinciples.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/IntertwinedPrinciples.html" target="_blank">http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/IntertwinedPrinciples.html</a><br>
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    <div>On 11/26/14 8:25 PM, John Baxter via
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        <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Hello facilitators of self
          organisation</div>
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        <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Let's take a moment to consider
          self organisation, as 'field' or 'practice'.</div>
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        <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I am scoping a summer project at
          the moment (in the southern hemisphere!).</div>
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        <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I have been reading and learning
          all I can about self org.  There is less than I expected at
          the heart of self org practice, but much more than I realised
          in intersecting fields (e.g. in governance, democracy,
          community organising, management, change, systems...).  There
          are also unanswered Qs about what 'self org' <i>is</i> (indeed,
          if it is anything at all).</div>
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        <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">It might be worthwhile
          formalising this, through a focused research project, and
          sharing the results in a report or the like.</div>
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        <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Possible focus questions that
          come to mind for me are</div>
        <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">- what does someone need to know
          to say "I do self organisation"?</div>
        <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">- what would someone need to know
          to be an 'expert' in self org?</div>
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        <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Would appreciate your
          perspective, as a practitioner-facilitator-fellow wave rider:</div>
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        <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">What (if anything) do you think
          deserves to be done?</div>
        <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Who should be involved in doing
          it?</div>
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