CHID2022

We all share mother earth and what one person does, for better or worse, affects the rest of us. Commoning provides benefits that corporations can’t provide such as healthy ecosystems, economic security, stronger communities and a participatory culture.

"What is the good life?" An answer to that question has so many variations today that the competition between answers can often paralyze the imaginations of people who want to implement positive social change. How can one break through the noise and violence of such competition and begin moving global society in a positive and deliberate direction?

Humankind has altered the world socially and materially incredibly over the years. This has created a chasm between our present status and our "roots" which are closer to nature and closer to the source and sustenance of our lives. Going Back to the Roots is not intended to be a nostalgic trip: discovering, cultivating and building on our “radical center” can be a wellspring for creative preparations for the future.

Radical transformations require revisiting our fundamental assumptions; cleaning up unnecessary confusion and re-establishing the beauty and wonder in the world that had been nearly forgotten.

People who speak different languages cannot understand each other without benefit of Translation. And sometimes people think they're speaking the same language when they're not. Translation takes place when any two worlds of discourse are bridged. Think about the critical role of Translation and, if possible, become a translator or — when the need arises — a person who can help bridge a gap of understanding.

Dematerialization was meant to diminish resource use by finding digital alternatives, rematerialization means promoting an understanding of the resource use of digital infrastructure, designing it so fewer natural resources are used and wasted.

Students identify with good teachers and value their knowledge highly. This might mean, however, that students might be reluctant to “go against” the teaching of their mentor/hero/professor. Teaching to Transgress actively questions and tests society's “received wisdom.” Teaching to Transgress helps instill the idea that societies must change and that we all have responsibility for promoting that change.

Production, trade and retailing of goods and services worldwide are increasingly concentrated under the control of a few corporations. The growing Fair Trade movement is based on reciprocal benefits and mutual respect; fair prices paid to producers; workers have the right to organize; national health, safety, and wage laws are enforced; and products are environmentally sustainable and conserve natural resources.

The art and practice of design must recognize sustainability as both ends and means in designing the objects, systems, and services we need. The ethic of Sustainable Design suggests that future existence — as well as justice and beauty for humans and for the rest of nature —should be possible.

Efforts to improve societies are hindered by privilege, fear, and prejudice across race, caste, and ethnic divisions. As with gender divisions, other hierarchies intertwine to erode the effectiveness of organizations. Anti-Racism has two dimensions: Anti-Racism through awareness and Anti-Racism through action. An anti-racist orientation to social change can help organizations challenge policies and practices that mask power, exploitation, and resource grabbing.

We leave our mark on the world through the clothes we buy, the food we eat, the cars we drive, the way we dispose of our waste, or how we work or play. The price tag on a product can hide environmental abuse, or aspects that are harder to quantify such as the loss of cultural heritage. The amount on a price tag doesn't represent all the present or future costs. Knowing the Whole Cost of a good or service can be educational and it can inspire action.

Opportunities are critical as they help determine possible paths to the future. Opportunities can include classes and seminars, volunteer positions, jobs, timely announcements, contests, access to the media, mentoring, scholarships, grants and others. It is imperative to devote attention and resources to help create new (and improve existing) Opportunity Spaces for people and communities who need them.

Conversion is the process of efficiently transferring people and facilities from military-oriented to civilian-oriented activity. Given the urgent need to redirect attention and resources to new economic and security realities, Economic Conversion has never been more important.

As problems become more and more intractable, more—and more diverse— people much work together. While diversity is a necessity and can be a source of strength, it introduces problems that can worsen if we don't address them effectively. We must acknowledge the importance of Open Action and Research Networks while resolving the issues and building on the incipient wisdom.

Economic indexes that measure the well-being of nations, markets, corporations, individual people, and society as a whole are expressed only in monetary terms and miss several important factors; they need to factor in information on positive factors such as volunteering and housework and negative factors such as pollution and crime.

Simulations can help illuminate long-term consequences of major public decisions on land use, transportation, and the environment. Citizen Access to Simulations can provide powerful capabilities for informing community discussions, particularly if the results are presented using the same indicators that were used in a participatory community and civic indicators project.

Because wicked problems can't be solved through universal or precise approaches for all times, think about "interventions" not "solutions" and be aware that further actions will always be necessary.

Despite the significant effort that goes into decision making and design, bad decisions and designs are often made because a critical and relevant perspective was not heard. This is especially true if the perspective is that of a stakeholder. Remind people of voices that aren't present through procedures, diagrams, or, even, songs.

The purpose of Future Design is to get people actively engaged envisioning better futures and making plans on how to get there. Through "rehearsing for the future" we hope to create possible scenarios that could become the positive "self-fulfilling prophecies" of tomorrow.

Schools with unchanging assumptions can't meet society's changing needs. This is unfortunate now when the need for public problem-solving is most acute. An Experimental School attempts to accomplish positive aims while adopting experimentation as a guiding orientation. The key concepts are respect for learning, reflection, and faith in the importance of reasoning and, especially, reasoning together.

Positive images of the future lead to positive actions. Consistently build positive expectations for the future on the basis of positive attributions to what has been achieved in the past. Constantly learn the value of others, and be prepared to change cherished assumptions if they undermine the larger life of the group.

A vision should express values, purpose, and aspirations for a better future in simple terms that everyone can understand as the basis for participation in the group. Developing a Shared Vision may be the single most important task for the group to accomplish at the outset. It will guide strategy development, decision-making and goal-setting of the group or organization and for individual projects that the group undertakes.

Stories have the power to link many threads into a coherent whole that can animate and reveal hidden purposes. To link many threads into a coherent whole we must weave words and images, scientific information and poetic inspiration, and incorporate multiple voices to tell multi-faceted stories of our earth communities.

A worldwide network of Thinking Communities that brings people together in groups that build on common purpose and cooperative spirit will be critical as we search for sustainable solutions to the problems of our complex global society.

Around the world people have forgotten how to "hang out" with friends, a lost art that refreshes the spirit and sometimes leads to social action as well. People need places other than their home or workplace where they feel comfortable without spending much money. They can be cafes, plazas, community centers or simply places with chairs or benches. They can be privately owned but they must support community needs for them to serve as Great Good Places.

Although information and communication may seem abstract and immaterial, the systems that support them are built with solid things whose manufacture and disposal cause significant environmental damage that must be acknowledged and addressed.

Countries and other powerful entities sometimes ignore international law and other norms of acceptable behavior. NGOs and other groups face tremendous hurdles when challenging these actions. Citizens' Tribunals—which are part legal proceedings and part theater—can provide a public way to "speak truth to power."

The non-stop barrage of mass media promoting corporate messages is never far away. How can people even hear themselves think under such conditions? Engagement and retreat form an eternal cycle that we ignore at our own peril. People need time to think, to step back and to recharge their batteries. Retreat and Reflection are necessary complements to engagement; both are necessary in the struggle to create a better world.

Through the telling of stories that can't be told in other ways, the Arts of Resilience pattern can help build new worlds.

This pattern, itself an example of an appropriate mitigation action, can be used in communities, big and small, rich and poor to develop approaches that fit their specific circumstances.

Identifying and presenting Appropriate Mitigation Actions develops guidelines and provides examples that diverse communities can build on. (Inspired by UN Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions)

Social and environmental issues are inextricably intertwined. Neither can be addressed without addressing the other. This pattern focuses on how those linkages manifest and what can be done to address both effectively and simultaneously.

Some social change agendas and strategies can be derived from our cultural firmament, i.e. folklore, indigenous texts, religious doctrines and traditional spiritual practices. This pattern focuses on how grounding one's public engagement in this way can lead to productive and insightful action.

An anarchist approach to an environmentally friendly use of technology; decentralised, powered by renewable energy, non-coercive, adapted to specific local needs, small scale, multipurpose in order to avoid under-use and shared among communities.

A holistic approach to computing and sustainability, taking inspiration from permaculture. It values small and efficient software, as well as hardware maintenance, repair and planned longevity; it aims at only using computing when it has a strengthening effect on ecosystems.

Computing making use of locally available, discarded hardware, transforming it into a renewed resource. It involves hardware repair and maintenance, as well as the development and maintenance of open source software for older devices.

Constraints often spur creativity and innovation. A focus on limits helps replace some unwarranted notions with ones that promote deeper thinking about common purpose.

We all share mother earth and what one person does, for better or worse, affects others. Commoning provides benefits that corporations can’t provide such as healthy ecosystems, economic security, stronger communities and a participatory culture.

Local knowledge refers to the contextual knowledges of the people about themselves and their situations. Often times, they know more about the problem(s) than experts. Thus, by taking into account practices that exist at local/regional levels, this pattern could serve as a model for transition towards a sustainable circular economy.

A general design framework, inspired by appropriate technology, that aims at computing systems that are less likely to produce harm to the ecosystem and subsequently human society, by asking who benefits and who suffers from the drawbacks.

Software engineering taking advantage of today’s abundance in computing power to prepare for a future in which current infrastructures have collapsed.. The aim is to develop a set of methods, metrics and tools to design for collapse, which can already benefit us today.

A 'concept in the making' aiming at degrowing economies by reducing the throughput of energy and resources, which can be applied to the design of computing systems in order to reduce their energy footprint and resource consumption.

Enoughness challenges the cornucopian paradigm by emphasizing the positive consequences of limiting the use of computing and/or connectivity, such as the improvement of our relationships, digital wellbeing, productivity at work, and online privacy.

Repair of computing devices is a valuable pathway to energy and material conservation. It reduces the need for newly produced devices, thus reducing pollution and resource use in the entire production chain, requiring action in the arenas of design, manufacturing, policy, and practice.

The Social and Environmental Linkages candidate was originally proposed as a pattern for the proposed Green New Deal pattern language [34]. This linkage was present in the original GND that was proposed to the US Congress, but the thought was to formalize it because other people working in this realm might not realize that it is a core principle. We selected this pattern to begin work on at least partially because of the strong endorsement of those who participated in the online assessment (17 ins, 2 neutrals, 0 outs). The interesting thing to see was how much this focus on the linkage between the two perspectives was present in the Limits Within Computing papers — perhaps all of them. Finally, exploring this principle as a pattern helped promote thinking on how it might become more usable, but it is currently very much a draft.

The Great Good Place Mural pattern helps address _________________ (problem(s)). This is a problem / These are problems because..

The Project Conversation Starters pattern helps address _________________ (problem(s)). This is a problem / These are problems because...

The Community Barter Market pattern helps address _________________ (problem(s)). This is a problem / These are problems because...

The Eco Feminism pattern helps address issues of exploitation of both the planet and non CIS-gendered, straight men. Patriarchy, capitalism perpetual similar mindset that allows for exploitation, abuse, degradation.

The Being at home in the land pattern means Home beyond a built structure. And it addresses stewardship over extraction.

Kimmerer's concepts of Native vs. Naturalized; → Both feet on the land

The What is a home? pattern helps address _________________ (problem(s)). This is a problem / These are problems because...

The DIY (Do it yourself) and DIT (Do it together) pattern helps address _________________ (problem(s)). This is a problem / These are problems because...

The Making things by hand pattern helps address _________________ (problem(s)). This is a problem / These are problems because...

The Refurbishing old things pattern helps address _________________ (problem(s)). This is a problem / These are problems because...

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