Architecting an ecosystem to help folks:
Four organizations, so far…
Everything I build runs through these four. They are how the ecosystem reaches beyond DC: into neighborhoods, institutions, and movements across the country.
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Occasional updates on what I’m building, reading, and writing. A few emails a season, and you can leave any time.
Builders’ Colloquia · Washington, DC
Building is never one thing. Each evening, builders of every kind bring one question into focus and turn it until it has depth.
One question, many lenses
What makes people want to do something?
Pick a lens. These are a few the first season might take up; each evening looks through one.
Two co-hosts, one room One view is flat. Two make depth.
Your eyes see in depth because each sees from a slightly different place. The evenings work the same way. Two co-hosts read the same essays from different places and open the question. Then the room takes it up: people running programs, shaping policy, starting ventures and organizing neighborhoods, some new to the ideas and some who have built for decades.
Two or three short readings, sent ahead. In person in DC, every other week. No slides, and nothing said in the room is quoted by name.
The first season Save a seat in the room.
I’m lining up co-hosts for the first season now. You don’t need to know the ideas already; bring a question, or something you’ve seen in your own work. Join the waitlist and I’ll write when seats open.
I’ll only use this to invite you to sessions, and never share it.
Work Case studies, in progress.
I’m writing up selected work from across the ecosystem. Until it’s ready, each organization’s own site has its work.
Learn The Upskilling Labs, in progress.
Where people learn to do it themselves. I’m one of its first designers. The full page is on its way; subscribe and you’ll hear when it’s ready.
See Synodic Intelligence, in progress.
No, not that kind of intelligence. I built it. The full page is on its way; subscribe and you’ll hear when it’s ready.
Build Levy Strategic Design, in progress.
Designing the structures, policies and partnerships behind public work. I built it with a partner. The full page is on its way; subscribe and you’ll hear when it’s ready.
Share Folkmark Creative, in progress.
It helps people tell a true story. I’m its lead strategist. The full page is on its way; subscribe and you’ll hear when it’s ready.