Introduction

Given these definitions, we introduce Prisma as a distributed action-learning incubator, who’s work is to apply systems-change 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 a hub-network, enabling funders to participate in the action-backed value created in the form of surplus-sharing dividends.

Context

We recognise the present moment, on a planetary scale, as one where western hegemonic rationalising and centralisation of power has created corporate-political-institutional structures[^2] of control that are entrenched in a paradigm of separation. We recognise these structures influence narratives and capital allocation disproportionately and often in direct contradiction to the wills of everyday people. Organisationally, these structures demonstrate levels of capacity for empathy and evolution insufficient to effectively respond to increasingly volatile environmental conditions, which, ironically, are also the by-products of their own conquests. As established entities continue racing to extract, accumulate and consume, grassroots innovators struggle to find project viability before becoming re-absorbed into the conditioning and patterning of the order they were originally trying to disrupt. That is to say, we recognise the need to de-couple venture development from the globalising imperative for constant growth, whilst simultaneously radically redistributing capital in service to life-centric economies.