Abstract
Definitions
These terminology enable us to define the contribution Prisma makes toward creating the conditions for systems-change initiatives to take root.
- A transition-oriented project is defined as an intervention in and with place that is not only future-oriented, but also contains within it the stamina1 required to endure and evolve with unpredictable change.
- A prism is defined as an instrument which refracts light and spreads it in a spectrum.
- Practice is defined as conscious participation and integration, as an ongoing process toward increasing capability of that activity which is being practiced. 2
- In this context, liquidity is defined as the capacity of value to move between different organisational contexts without losing meaning.
- Impact networks are defined as any organisation who’s members work locally and simultaneously align and coordinate as one non-local whole.
- Hubs are defined as a physical node that has continually played a value-adding role in its region over an extended period of time.
- Teams are defined as local task forces whose projects’ processes generate at least one stream of verifiable unit-of-account.3
- Events are defined as a short-hand to mean a convergence of intention among multiple stakeholder types to evidence alignment across a multi-level organisational structure, from on-the-ground .
Introduction
Given these definitions, we introduce Prisma as a distributed action-learning incubator, who’s work is to apply practice on-the-ground in spaces of experimentation in order to unlock whole-system transition pathways.
Concretely, this paper introduces an open protocol for organising and publishing transformation-oriented events, as a means for creating and evaluating experimentations in regionally-grounded action. Finally, we frame this event-protocol as a decentralised accounting system designed to create value liquidity across experimental organisational structures.
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