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.
A participatory research framework that translates lived experience into system-level models of self-organization and collective agency.
How can the implicit conversion of social capital into coordinated action be made legible, measurable, and transferable across regenerative movements?
The Green Belt Movement, Kenya.
Tarun Bharat Sangh, India
Data collection
A NASA-style “clickworkers” initiative that integrates consensus mechanisms into scientific knowledge production by computing gaps between lay and expert narrative analyses.
Can consensus-based approaches make scientific inquiry more legitimate and inclusive by grounding discoveries in measured agreement between experts and the public?
Peer-to-peer software developers and Free Energy Principle (FEP) scholars.
Tool development and dataset creation.
An investigation into collective intelligence in policymaking, using cases where deportable migrants gain legal status through citizen–migrant coordination beyond formal law.
Can shared patterns of citizen–migrant coordination ground a merit-based immigration policy that enhances social coherence while preserving openness?
Migration-related NGOs, scholars, and advocates
Theoretical framework.