Bringing theory into contact with reality. The projects gathered here explore consensus mechanisms as a foundation for collective agency and systemic transformation across social contexts.

Prototyping Self-Organization

Narrative Foraging

what

A participatory research framework that translates lived experience into system-level models of self-organization and collective agency.

Key question

How can the implicit conversion of social capital into coordinated action be made legible, measurable, and transferable across regenerative movements?

collaborators

The Green Belt Movement, Kenya.
Tarun Bharat Sangh, India

Current status

Data collection

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Prototyping Epistemic Coordination

Consensus Lab

what

A NASA-style “clickworkers” initiative that integrates consensus mechanisms into scientific knowledge production by computing gaps between lay and expert narrative analyses.

key question

Can consensus-based approaches make scientific inquiry more legitimate and inclusive by grounding discoveries in measured agreement between experts and the public?

collaborators

Peer-to-peer software developers and Free Energy Principle (FEP) scholars.

current status

Tool development and dataset creation.

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Prototyping Civic Coordination

Voicing Rules

what

An investigation into collective intelligence in policymaking, using cases where deportable migrants gain legal status through citizen–migrant coordination beyond formal law.

key question

Can shared patterns of citizen–migrant coordination ground a merit-based immigration policy that enhances social coherence while preserving openness?

collaborators

Migration-related NGOs, scholars, and advocates

current status

Theoretical framework.

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