A Cooperative Guild Practicing Open Civic Innovation
A space for design experiments, participatory CoLabs, and prototyping concepts.
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/ About The Labs
A colaboratory for Collective civic Imagination and Practice
The Labs are a curated collective of open civic innovators — a cooperative guild experimenting with new ways of working together in service of the commons. Labs operate as applied research and development environments, translating theory into working prototypes and while creating reusable templates that communities can adapt and deploy.
Together, we shape approaches that ripple outward into broader civic life — supported by a trusted circle of practitioners working at the frontier of open civic innovation.
/ Project FOcuses
What we Create together
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Open Civic Systems
Designing and cultivating networked organizations that use shared governance and open infrastructure to self-organize.
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Open Civic Utilities
Creating and adapting public-good tools that enable collective coordination, decision-making, and shared resource stewardship.
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Open Civic Theory
Researching and publishing experimental approaches to open civic innovation — contributing insights to the evolving commons of practice.
/ Lab capacities
What We Bring to Collaborative Work
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Process Strategy & Facilitation
Designing and guiding participatory processes that help groups make sense together, align purpose, and act collectively.
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Systems Design & Deployment
Developing governance, economic, and communication systems — and embedding them in real social and cultural contexts.
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Research & Publication
Studying emerging questions and sharing insights in accessible, open formats — so that knowledge can circulate and grow within the commons.
/ Labs Projects
A portfolio of past collaborations
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Regen Commons / Governance Activation
2025 | SUMMARY (Subtack) | FULL (Wiki)
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Indigenous Commons / Governance Discovery
2025 | VIEW
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Center for Ethical Land Transition / Knowledge Hub
2025 | VIEW
