Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #livingsystems, aggregated by home.social.
Rain falls, rivers carry, forests breathe, bodies return to soil, and new life rises from what came before.
Further reading: https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/how-can-i-help-part-1-4142df8a3cf1
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #Reciprocity #LivingSystems #RobinWallKimmerer
Living things endure through renewal, not invulnerability.
Further reading: https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/how-can-i-help-part-1-4142df8a3cf1
A civilization that forgets what feeds it has mistaken dependence for independence.
Further reading: https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/how-can-i-help-part-1-4142df8a3cf1
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #Topsoil #Humility #LivingSystems
A tree spends years growing what almost no one will ever see, and only then can it begin offering shade, shelter, and seed to the world around it.
Further reading: https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/how-can-i-help-part-1-4142df8a3cf1
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #WangariMaathai #Groundedness #LivingSystems
The hardest truths aren't difficult because they're complicated. They're difficult because they include us.
Further reading:
https://medium.com/collaborative-action-network/is-that-the-best-you-can-do-7f4781486e96
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #DavidSuzuki #LivingSystems #Reckoning
Balance is something the body keeps renewing, one step at a time.
Further reading:
https://medium.com/collaborative-action-network/is-that-the-best-you-can-do-7f4781486e96
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #RightRelationship #LivingSystems #Reckoning
A fallen leaf doesn't return to the tree, yet nothing about its life has stopped belonging.
Further reading:
https://medium.com/collaborative-action-network/is-that-the-best-you-can-do-7f4781486e96
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #RachelCarson #LivingSystems #Reckoning
Robustesse du vivant : contre la tyrannie de l’optimisation
Le vivant ne tient pas par la performance maximale, mais par les marges, les redondances et les « contre-performances » qui lui permettent d’absorber les chocs. Une leçon précieuse pour penser les sociétés dans un monde fluctuant. #Robustness #Degrowth #LivingSystems #Commons #Resilience #Biology #CriticalTheory Un organisme robuste n’est pas un organisme optimisé à l’extrême. Il fonctionne au contraire grâce …
A body learning to walk without armour begins noticing things certainty tended to hurry past, until even the unfamiliar starts feeling less like a threat than an invitation to pay closer attention.
Further reading:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/a-waking-dream-43fbf5c25327
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #MasanobuFukuoka #Belonging #LivingSystems
Walking beside someone, there's a moment when your stride quietly matches theirs without either of you deciding to do it.
Further reading:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/a-waking-dream-43fbf5c25327
A life no longer carrying yesterday's weight begins meeting tomorrow differently. The first thing that changes isn't the world outside you, but the quality of your next step.
Further reading:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/a-waking-dream-43fbf5c25327
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #BenKadel #LivingSystems #Rehumanizing
A life no longer carrying yesterday's weight begins meeting tomorrow differently. The first thing that changes isn't the world outside you, but the quality of your next step.
Further reading:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/a-waking-dream-43fbf5c25327
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #BenKadel #LivingSystems #Rehumanizing
The most durable things don't look built — they look like they couldn't have been otherwise, like a life in right relationship becoming, one ordinary day at a time.
Further reading: https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/lifeboats-the-backstory-c793bc4c501d
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #RightRelationship #LivingSystems #Belonging
The body often notices belonging before the mind does — somewhere between wet soil and a slower breath.
Further reading: https://medium.com/@emotusoperandi/lifeboats-the-backstory-c793bc4c501d
#LifeboatAcademy #RobinWallKimmerer #LivingSystems #Reciprocity #StayHuman
"For 30 years, we've argued that #livingsystems are the foundation of all economic #value. The world listened — but then returned to quarterly returns.
Something has changed.
Not the urgency. Not the moral argument. What's changed is the arrival of new instruments, new computational capacities, and a new #institutionalimagination.
The window has opened."
https://ernestopvanpeborgh.substack.com/p/the-window-has-opened-on-the-institutions
The world keeps offering itself through weight, texture, weather and time, and the stories that separate us from it often dissolve the moment our hands have something real to do.
This cycle's reflection:
https://medium.com/@emotusoperandi/lifeboats-the-backstory-c793bc4c501d
#LifeboatAcademy #BenKadel #LivingSystems #EmbodiedPractice #Reckoning
Neighbouring trees draw water through different roots and still feed the same forest, leaving the patient observer with fewer certainties and a much larger world to inhabit.
This reflection:
https://medium.com/@emotusoperandi/lifeboats-the-backstory-c793bc4c501d
#LifeboatAcademy #RobHopkins #LivingSystems #CommunityResilience #SystemsThinking
The old story doesn't break — it just keeps failing the test of what's actually happening, until the gap itself becomes the teacher.
The reflection:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/lifeboats-the-backstory-c793bc4c501d
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #BenKadel #Reckoning #LivingSystems
The oldest knowledge often lands as something almost impossible to notice because it's never stopped being true: the ground keeps answering whatever relationship we bring to it.
For the full reflection:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/so-be-it-resolved-948b9fe948be
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #AtharvaVeda #LivingSystems #EarthCare
The work that keeps a place alive has always been more interested in participation than consensus, which is why shared necessity teaches a deeper belonging that shared certainty never quite opens into.
This week's reflection:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/so-be-it-resolved-948b9fe948be
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #BenKadel #CommunityResilience #LivingSystems
What returns after certainty falls away isn't an answer but a different quality of attention, and the familiar world begins revealing itself as something that was never ordinary.
This week's reflection:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/so-be-it-resolved-948b9fe948be
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #BlackElk #SacredEcology #LivingSystems #OglalaLakota
What falls away with certainty isn't necessarily direction, because living systems have always moved through conditions they couldn't predict, a momentum toward life that precedes explanation.
This week's reflection:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/so-be-it-resolved-948b9fe948be
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #JoannaMacy #Reckoning #LivingSystems
What falls away first is often the illusion that understanding and belonging are the same thing, because the world continues inviting participation long after it has exhausted explanation.
This week's reflection: https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/so-be-it-resolved-948b9fe948be
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #BenKadel #Reckoning #LivingSystems
Written at the threshold of 2017, this reflection asks whether becoming resolved begins not with adding another layer of certainty, but with letting one fall away.
This week's reflection: https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/so-be-it-resolved-948b9fe948be
#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #Reckoning #LivingSystems #RealityContact #BenKadelf
What the gift economy, the mycorrhizal network, the watershed, and the migratory bird have in common is that none of them ever mistook themselves for separate — and the experiment the Lifeboat Academy asks us to live is, at its root, the same one: to stop mistaking ourselves for separate, and feel what's already holding us.
This week's reflection: https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflection-2025-05-21
#GwendolynBrooks #LifeboatAcademy #Relationality #LivingSystems #StayHuman
The gift has always moved between living things without requiring a theory of generosity to do so — and what loosens in a person who receives something unearned isn't gratitude exactly, but the slow release of a story about the world that was never quite true.
This week's reflection: https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflection-2025-05-21
#RobinWallKimmerer #LifeboatAcademy #GiftCulture #LivingSystems #Reciprocity
On the infrastructure that makes conscience legible
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
I keep returning to Edgar Mitchell’s account of his return from the moon — looking back at Earth from beyond its sphere of influence, he found himself overwhelmed by an inner conviction as certain as any equation he’d ever solved: that this beautiful blue world is part of a living system, harmonious and whole, and that we all participate in a universe of consciousness.
Mitchell was a trained engineer and astronaut, not predisposed to mysticism. But something about the impossible perspective broke the Cartesian spell. He came home and spent the rest of his life trying to reconcile the difference between what he’d experienced and what the institutions of his world were capable of understanding.
How do we reconcile the parallax of perception from a distance, to the shortsighted view of global machinations at ground level...
https://intothedialectic.com/wiring-the-organism/
#commons #protocol #livingsystems #collectiveintelligence #decentralisation #governance #biomimicry #regenerative #commonsprotocol
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
https://intothedialectic.com/wiring-the-organism/
#commons #protocol #livingsystems #collectiveintelligence #decentralisation #governance #biomimicry #regenerative #commonsprotocol
Most of us were never asked where the landscape needed us — not in the career-advice sense but in the older sense, the bodily sense, of finding where in the web of relations you're woven from and discovering that the shape of your particular presence is what's been missing.
This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflections-2025-05-19
“Learning Gives Our Metamaterials the Ability to Evolve”: Scientists Invent Intelligent Materials That Learn, Change Shape, and Move on Their Own
University of Amsterdam researchers have unveiled a new type of human-made ‘metamaterials’ that can learn, change shape, and…
#NewsBeep #News #Physics #CA #Canada #intelligentmaterials #livingsystems #Metamaterials #Science #smartmaterials #UniversityofAmsterdam
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/607145/
“Learning Gives Our Metamaterials the Ability to Evolve”: Scientists Invent Intelligent Materials That Learn, Change Shape, and Move on Their Own
University of Amsterdam researchers have unveiled a new type of human-made ‘metamaterials’ that can learn, change shape, and…
#NewsBeep #News #Physics #AU #Australia #intelligentmaterials #livingsystems #Metamaterials #Science #smartmaterials #UniversityofAmsterdam
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/609801/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/437377/ “Learning Gives Our Metamaterials the Ability to Evolve”: Scientists Invent Intelligent Materials That Learn, Change Shape, and Move on Their Own #Éire #IE #IntelligentMaterials #Ireland #LivingSystems #Metamaterials #Physics #Science #SmartMaterials #UniversityOfAmsterdam
https://www.europesays.com/uk/896891/ “Learning Gives Our Metamaterials the Ability to Evolve”: Scientists Invent Intelligent Materials That Learn, Change Shape, and Move on Their Own #IntelligentMaterials #LivingSystems #Metamaterials #Physics #Science #SmartMaterials #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversityOfAmsterdam
“We’ve been studying fields for decades.
We just didn’t realize they were alive.”
#NewScience #RFTinSTEM #LivingSystems
On the 2nd day of #ReFi Barcelona we have @marycamacho presenting the history and status of Holochain.org and Holo.host.
#ReFiBCN #livingsystems
You can #observe complex systems.
You can #irritate complex systems.
You can #flip complex systems (by intervening on the system design).
Then you can observe again.
#betacodex #systemsthinking #complexity #orgdev #OrganizationalDevelopment #leadership #newwork #change #ChangeManagement #systemsthinking #futureofleadership #complexitools #livingsystems #organizeforcomplexity #red42 #openspacebeta #VFOT #agile #agility #lean #teal
I’ve been pondering the Constructal Law alongside my reading of Christopher Alexander’s _The Nature of Order_. That there doesn’t seem to be much written on the overlap of these two fields seems like a massive gap to me.
#ConstructalLaw #Thermodynamics #Architecture #LivingSystems
