Dark Matter Labs

𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒚? 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏? 𝑰𝒔 𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔? 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒚 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐? 𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝑰 𝒅𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍? If these questions sound interesting then please join us for our first 2-day workshop in June (6th and 13th of June). We are asking for a donation of c. £200 to support the LED initiative but you can decide what is appropriate to your personal context. To sign up please use this Eventbrite link: https://lnkd.in/e6VXkhis Dr. Martin Lorenz this is going to be a lot of fun :)

After considering the feedback from the growing LED Community, we have decided to start with one workshop that we think will be foundational to everything else. In this 2-day workshop we will look at the intersection of design, the economy and personal purpose. We will then work together on real issues to reframe design challenges into inspiring, practical design briefs. We have attached a detailed agenda below to help you decide if this workshop feels right for you. More information on https://lnkd.in/dFeJipGn cc Emily Harris, FCA Dark Matter Labs

𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 With still large parts of the energy systems in Spain, Portugal, and France recovering, I even more appreciate the work of Jonas Birgersson ( ViaEuropa ) Markus Paulsson and Viable Cities to make the European Commission #energycommunities framework come to live in Lund Sweden. Years after providing the whole of Sweden with affordable broadband access, Jonas with EnergyNet has developed an open standard for energy sharing, the Energy Protocol (EP) aimed at the "Internetification" of energy distribution. Last Saturday, I was happy to attend the official launch in the City of Lund of EnergyNet which allows more sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy, leading in turn to more affordable housing, new forms of energy ownership and investment, a higher security of supply, and strengthened resilience. The system works via a decentralized and distributed approach, using energy routers that coordinate the electrical currents both in AC and DC (to serve e.g. alternating current to the central grid and the house grids, direct current to solar cells, batteries, EV charging stations as well as to the next energy router in the grid). Want to know more about EnergyNet and the Energy Protocol: https://lnkd.in/e8ce-MFV More about Jonas' journey and the rebirth of 'Broadband Jesus' in this recent article in Warp News: https://lnkd.in/eQDPVrwS. #coactionlund Olle Dierks Pontus Westerberg Per Grankvist Isabel Wetzel Livia Schaeffer Nonose Dr. Marc A. Weiss Damian Dugdale Lunds kommun Lunds Kommuns Fastighets AB Olga Kordas 🇸🇪🇺🇦 Anette Olovborn Joost Beunderman Indy Johar Dark Matter Labs NetZeroCitiesEU #missioncities Paulo Ferrão

𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 If you would like to develop holistic, non-linear indicators for your unique community (of place or purpose) then please join us for the first Cornerstone Indicator Community of Practice Workshop Series. We have now finalised the workshop dates and would like to invite you to sign up via this Eventbrite link (𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭). We have also created a dedicated page on the Cornerstone Indicator website with all the details, FAQs and the registration link. The workshops will be hosted by Green Futures Network in collaboration with Dark Matter Labs. Please feel free to share this with anyone else in your network who you think might be interested in joining. https://lnkd.in/e26wiPJF https://lnkd.in/eMKpge4N Peter Lefort Vlad Afanasiev Emily Harris, FCA

𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀? Solving the world’s most pressing challenges – from climate crisis to social inequality – requires unprecedented levels of collaboration. Often, this involves many diverse organisations from different sectors, bringing varied perspectives and forms of value to the table. This is the realm of “complex collaboration.” Our project, Many-to-Many, delves into this space. It’s not about inventing collaboration itself but about exploring and improving the ways we structure it, particularly the governance, legal and operational frameworks that underpin these vital partnerships. Read more about our workshop insights from last week https://lnkd.in/gUcJ83B3 Michelle Zucker Arianna Smaron Gurden Batra

Place, Proximity, Localism and Systems Change: We instinctively reach for shorthand—place, localism, proximity—whenever we sense that a web of relationships is unusually vivid or alive. Yet these words are only proxies for something deeper: the relationality that allow a system to “do” itself—to maintain, repair its parts, and reinvent its own choreography……… This is an Titch I have wanted to scatrch - welcome a discussion and others points of view below..

For our Japanese-speaking audiences out there, we share a three-part blog series written by ACTANT introducing Dark Matter Labs and the work we do. Thank you ACTANT for inviting us to share our work at the Systemic Design Day (https://lnkd.in/g4PZ3pwH) and this in-depth piece exploring our portfolio over the years. 01 : Dark Matter Labs システミックな変容をデザインする組織 - First piece that introduces us as an organisation https://lnkd.in/gJKrk3Xi 02 : プロジェクト紹介 - Introducing our work over the years https://lnkd.in/gmdMF8HB 03：ポートフォリオアプローチ - Focusing on our portfolio building work https://lnkd.in/gqGBfU_r

For our Japanese-speaking audiences out there, we share a three-part blog series written by ACTANT introducing Dark Matter Labs and the work we do. Thank you ACTANT for inviting us to share our work at the Systemic Design Day (https://lnkd.in/g4PZ3pwH) and this in-depth piece exploring our portfolio over the years. 01 : Dark Matter Labs システミックな変容をデザインする組織 - First piece that introduces us as an organisation https://lnkd.in/gJKrk3Xi 02 : プロジェクト紹介 - Introducing our work over the years https://lnkd.in/gmdMF8HB 03：ポートフォリオアプローチ - Focusing on our portfolio building work https://lnkd.in/gqGBfU_r

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭? 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐥 I've long admired Indy Johar's provocations. He and Dark Matter Labs are great at imagining how society's underlying infrastructures could evolve, and I think this is one of his clearest pieces yet! What if we stopped allowing ourselves to be reduced to mere subjects of state power or passive consumers in heavily structured markets? What if we created a 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 with a 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, where we actively shape our communal reality? What if we stopped seeing local governance merely as a "sub-state" (a lower rung defined by higher powers) and instead reimagined it as a 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 drawing legitimacy from community-based governance? Five infrastructures that could form the root system of a new civic ecosystem: 🕸️ 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 & 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 - Preserving peer-to-peer exchange networks and maker spaces outside centralized systems. ⚖️ 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐎𝐰𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - Creating community-managed funds for legal challenges that defend and expand our rights. 💰 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐎𝐰𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 (𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬) - Developing community currencies and financial systems anchored in local assets and values. 📝 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 ++ (𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧-𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝, 𝐄𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞) - Supporting independent news and storytelling platforms that shape our collective self-awareness and foster critical dialogue. 🏛️ 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬' 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬' 𝐉𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬' 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 - Creating deliberative bodies that ground decision-making in local context and experience. I'm familiar with some actors focused on these areas such as: 🕸️ (CIVIC SQUARE, Participatory City Foundation); ⚖️ (Systemic Justice); 💰 (Freetown's tree token scheme, REconomy Centre in Totnes); 📝 (Unbias The News); 🏛️ ( DemocracyNext, People Powered, Katy Rubin). And then there are those who are doing vital storytelling to weave these different citizen stories together like Jon Alexander and Baratunde Thurston (#citizening). What other examples have you seen of these principles in action? I'd be especially interested to know where bureaucratic actors are actively encouraging such civic infrastructure! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/erERrTyE #CivicInnovation #CivicInfrastructure

Dm will be participating in Future Days 2025 in Lisbon! With Nadim Choucair hosting an Un-conference session and Simon Höher giving a talk on pathways toward systemic transformation, our team will be joining a range of conversations expanding the dialogue around this year’s theme: Symbiotic Futures. While Indy won’t be able to join this time due to travel logistics, Dm will be present in various formats throughout the event. Future Days is a global platform for collective imagination and action—bringing together creatives, policymakers, and changemakers to explore how we live, build, and govern in more interdependent ways. April 30 – May 2. www.futuredays.io