Definitely between Cantons. You’re right, it makes zero sense inside a community - I imagined this as a way that traders would stray beyond for goods outside their own communities, do the whole thing of showing up and inspecting the goods, then take them back to their own Canton for selling. Sorry I wasn’t clearer. Should have written that in.
This was also meant to scaffold an idea @alberto once pointed out: how people did trade, especially along the silk road. You’d invest your wealth / goods in someone who would be gone for six months, maybe a year, with a fairly high chance of getting shanked on the way or dying of disease. Bereft of states to enforce transactions or provide security, traders effectively functioned on reputation, and it largely worked. This whole inter-Canton ritual/honor code was meant to support the idea of Avantgrid traders who would function similarly (which fits in well.with its libertarian bent).
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I am most interested in imagining possible futures and how others imagine them. I would likely contribute an observer and writer.
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Aethnography. I see a lack of historical material, or metahistorical material. How people think about time, their historical consciousness, what they believe about the past and how they look at it, what status aspects of it have in their regard of time past.
Unfortunately I now have a scheduling clash, so I won’t be able to join you on Tuesday
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Mainly curious about what exactly unfolds here. I am a philosopher, futurist and engaged in systems transformation, consulting and educational projects. Building future scenarios of worlds we would love to live in seems to me a strong way to unfold potential and ignite creativity.
Depending on the different ways to contribute I might chip in what I can and link with other people and projects. And maybe something else…
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This is my way of getting into this project - I don´t know enough to answer these questions yet.
Amazing way to put it! We should let this influence the article on Avantgrid. Would you like to take a stab at editing and adding to the article @Nightface? You have a lot of great ideas!
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I am an independent third-age scholar affiliated with Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship (Montclair, NJ, USA) who, for example cooperates with the International Association for Promoting Geoethics as Corresponding Citizen Scientist interested in the societal frameworks of the Earth sciences (geosciences). My experience combines international science management and coordination of public administrations (European Commission, 1991-2019) with an education in Physics and Oceanography (Germany, 1975-80), research practice in applied geophysical fluid dynamics (Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, PhD), modelling of marine ecosystem (University of Hamburg), and operational monitoring (German Federal Maritime Agency). I worked together with researchers, scholars, scientists, engineers, administrators, economists and lawyers of various cultures, and looks forward to cooperate with artists. Against that background, my scholarly interests focus on the interfaces between geosciences and society. Among his concerns are resourceful societies, the intersections of ‘culture’ and ‘nature’, and humans in times of ‘anthropogenic global change’. Since several years, I publish on geoethics and the societal context of the geosciences (example: Sustainability | Free Full-Text | Geoethics for Nudging Human Practices in Times of Pandemics).
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I like to contribute, were considered helpful, with perceptions along the following lines of thoughts: Nowadays, the technosphere is part of the Earth System. Contemporary humans operate a planetary Technosphere to safeguard their living; that features will stay. It is at the origin of any Anthropocene, although the kind of Technosphere/Anthropocene is a choice. Geoscience knowledge are insights into how Earth systems work. It is embedded in the societal corpus of contemporary/future technologies and cultures. As a result, geoscience knowledge enables people to evaluate anthropogenic changes in societal contexts. Furthermore, citizens need insight into how the Earth System works to make informed decisions. Therefore, geoscience knowledge has the potential to co-shape anthropogenic global change. The COVID_19 health pandemic illustrates the essence of any possible Anthropocene, namely being less a geological epoch than a ‘future World’.
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I am a cultural historian researching the influences on individuals of languages, religions, and politics. Transmission, reception, and conservation of cultures/knowledge. The historical interaction between literary and political/religious Utopia(s).
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At first glance I was attracted to The History of Witness, Aethnography, and Religious life.
I am wondering if it would be possible to add a short definition and/or a subject in brackets to certain entries. Some of them are quite cryptical for a newbie scrolling the entries list on the general page of Witnesspedia.
After the webinar I will think if and how I can contribute to what seems a promising and revolutionary project.
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I’m a Political Sociologist with a particular interest in ideology. Ideologies all have (i) an ideal image of society (which doesn’t actually exist) and (ii) all seek to implement policies which aim to ensure that the actual and the ideal coincide as much as possible. Ideal ideological worlds thus exist only in the realm of fantasy. Identifying people’s fantasy worlds could therefore be a useful way of identifying the ideal societies they wish to inhabit and the sort of policies they would be willing to support to achieve this.
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I’ll have to get back to you on that.
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I am interested in the futures of economic planning and would like to contribute my knowledge where applicable.
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I don’t know where this is.
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I am a technology theorist and design researcher interested in the role of connected things in experience and society, and in how these kinds of things can be designed in ways that can better support sustained human and non-human flourishing. Recognizing that the current developmental trajectories of digital platforms and services have been driven to a significant degree by commercial interests oriented toward profit through dataveillance, and more broadly that ongoing ecological devastation is the result of capitalism’s (lack of) orientation toward our shared ecologies, I am very interested to explore what other (economic) worlds might be possible.
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Being a partner of the project as member of Fondazione di Communita di Messina, I am particularly interested in the multi linguistic and multi cultural aspects of this project and how economic science fiction can improve strategic thinking and development of the Distretto Sociale evoluto di Messina.
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Together with some friends and researchers in France I am trying to organize a french version of a new minor district “La République des communs” and with FdCM an Italian version of a fiction based on the history of the “distretto sociale evoluto” to nurish the strategic plan of the FdCM.
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I’m Gian, I recently discovered this project, it seems really interesting and I’d like to take part in the webinar in order to better understand how worldbuilding works.
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At the moment I don’t have any ideas on how I could contribute to the development of the Witnesspedia, I’m just interested in learning more.
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I’m an Architect and comics artist, Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering construction. I’ve published several papers and the book Fantastic architecture, the visionary archetypes of the comic strip, for Interscienze edizioni and have partecipated in several International Architecture Conferences. I’m also made comics, storyboards and street art works. My style is characterized by graphic lines of a dirty black and white, mixed with watercolor, realistics and visionary environments. I supports my research in the field of architectural design, teaching at the Messina Art School “Basile”.
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I’ve a particular interested in fantastic architectures and I’ve just made a graphic novel and some illustrations for Worldbuilding Academy.