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❊ *See available roles at the bottom of the page*
‘Architecture’ + ‘Ecology’
Arkology Studio is an interdisciplinary systems design and software engineering studio incubating technologies & praxes for a thriving planetary ecology.
Our current focus is on designing and deploying peer-to-peer coordination & sensemaking toolkits that build capacity for purpose-led organisations and communities.
We can understand the Commons as an evolutionary capacity: the locus for higher forms of cooperation leading to novel expressions. It is the generative-relational process through which Life realises new potentials.
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Commons: An evolving cooperative system—rooted in shared culture, practices, and governance—that enables collective stewardship and serves as a dynamic space for social, ecological, and evolutionary transformation.1
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Information, too, may both support and express this generative process. However, our information ecologies have been largely distorted by the logics underpinning contemporary crises: individualism, market fundamentalism, materialism, etc.
Our mission at Arkology Studio is to open up spaces for counter logics within the virtual: to create the enabling conditions – cultural and infrastructural – for alternative modes of organisation and collaboration in the transition to commons-oriented, posthuman societies.
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Posthuman: The posthuman is a relational and embodied reconfiguration of identity that dissolves the boundaries between human, machine, and nature, embracing entanglement, interdependence, and the co-evolution of consciousness across biological and technological systems.
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Information is alive. More than mere reflections of reality, it becomes an active participant in its unfolding. We believe that information networks, if sufficiently integrated and pluralistic, can help reconstitute the Commons by enabling new forms of cooperation that counteract fragmentation, enclosure, and extraction.
Our first ambition is to help weave a multi-perspectival knowledge commons: networks of posthuman assemblages spanning diverse communities, domains and epistemologies. This epistemological pluralism is a necessity for navigating in an era of converging crises.
In supporting the above, our studio works with aligned partners – NGOs, communities and businesses – to realise capabilities for the Commons focusing on tools for sensemaking, narrative-led systems change, and postcapitalist economic coordination protocols.
We are looking to onboard a number of collaborators and would love to hear about you. High preference will be given to applicants born on African soil or who grew up in an African context.