Doug
How groups organise or govern themselves has been a fascination for over 10 years. The work Elinor Ostrom did on the Commons is big inspiration which computer science and other disciplines help me implement. I co-founded a residential, action centre in 2017, called Kanthaus, where my great ideas have to stand up to the cold light of day.
Session
We will explore a few ways to make community governance visible to itself and put different models into communication with each other.
We will combine formal statecharts that model who holds what role and how power transitions, and structured "Talk to the Stewards" interviews that surface a community's living knowledge as narrative maps, needs assessments, and opportunity catalogs. These two models shown side by side act as a toolkit any group can fork for their own governance work.
We will also explore two other governance visualisation models including Nathan Schneider's Community Rule and Sohyeon Hwang's Governance Cards.