05Six ways to participate

Create.

New answers, alternatives, and experiences.

Creation carries possibility beyond imagination. It gives an idea a form that can be encountered, tested, changed, shared, and experienced.

Give possibility a form

Make an alternative possible.

Critique can reveal what no longer works. Creation asks what could exist instead. A new answer may begin as a sentence, practice, relationship, design, policy, tool, project, work of art, or lived experiment. It need not be complete to become available for participation and improvement.

SELF

Imagine beyond the inherited answer.

Use your attention, experience, knowledge, and imagination to consider what you might choose, make, practice, or become.

SYSTEM

Design another way to work.

Translate Human purpose into structures, processes, technologies, policies, and decisions that can produce different results.

SOCIETY

Create conditions Humans can experience.

Move ideals beyond promise by creating collective arrangements that expand agency, participation, expression, relationship, and possibility.

Make the next answer.

  1. What possibility deserves a form?
  2. What is the smallest version I can make encounterable?
  3. What will I learn by allowing someone to experience it?

You do not have to begin with a finished answer. Begin by making the next possibility real enough to encounter.