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ARKOLOGY STUDIO

‘Architecture’ + ‘Ecology’

Incubating commons-oriented (eco)systems for a thriving planetary ecology

Arkology Studio is an interdisciplinary design and software engineering studio incubating commons-oriented ecosystems.

We focus on designing and deploying peer-to-peer, sensemaking toolkits that build capacity for impact organisations, change-makers, and activists.

MISSION

The commons as an evolutionary capacity

Metacrisis (noun) /me-ta-cri-sis/ Systemic crisis characterised by interconnected and mutually exacerbating crises across various domains such as ecology, economics, politics, culture, and technology.

Evolutionary transitions are historically the result of the emergence of novel capacities for cooperation between parts; leading to new wholes. We can understand the commons as the locus for higher forms of cooperation and, consequently, the capacity by and through which transition work must occur.

P2P coordination

Data/information continues to shape society in profound ways. Yet our information ecosystems are guided by the same cultural and economic logics which underpin contemporary crises. At the same time, P2P (peer-to-peer) communications networks also open up spaces for counter logics and alternative modes of organisation and production in the transition to a commons-based society.