Conviviality

In the 70s, his *Deschooling society* and *Tools for conviviality* brought me to a participant awareness of radical professionalism, as a historical movement of baby-boomers.

"Convivial design heuristics for software systems" presented by Stephen Kell, response by Jonathan Edwards.

In "Tools for conviviality" [12], Ivan Illich describes two schools of tool-making, the means by which humans influence their environment.

The challenge of creating tools of this kind *for conviviality* is a radically new one. An entire post-Fordist (and post-post-Fordist) repertoire of technics, structures of feeling and cultural formations is emergent here, and contested. It’s early days, the terrain is not well mapped.

This section outlines the basic intention, as one of **infrastructuring** radical practice with **tools for conviviality** (Ivan Illich’s notion), thus constituting **vernacular capability** in knowing, communicating and organising in mundane work- and life-settings, for the common weal. It also describes the relationship of this venture with Robin’s work and vision.

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Mike Hales biographical stuff.

**foprop** = forces of production, relations of production. The project has five streams of work in progress, oriented to the conduct of a transformational **activist life**, and making **a Living Economy** of **P2P-commons**.

This is where I develop work in progress towards a cluster of formacion coops - a venture following the vision of Robin Murray in **making the living economy**. It exploits the new thinking of the **DisCO governance model** for distributed, commons-oriented coops and aims for a radical co-produced infrastructuring of **tools for conviviality** in activist practice.

A college of conviviality, in response to the work and vision of economist Robin Murray [From economics to organising](http://e2o.federated.wiki)

**Code, the artificial and constructions of conviviality** With code - extremely formalised conceptualisation - we’re into the construction of symbol-machines (a long-standing aspiration for rule-based cultures such as law and, from the C15, the Christian Church (Illich/Cayley 2005).

Here we outline a series of emergent relations of cultural production, over a couple of hundred years. Making a living economy needs to discover how to systematically mobilise all of these, in a radically altered mode of cultural production: a practice of radical knowing.

This wiki contains the text of a draft chapter for a book in honour of economist Robin Murray. The draft is 30k+ words, in five main sections with a short intro and coda. It includes thinking on the structure and principles of a 'college of conviviality' and a pattern language of activist practice.

As a dimension of activist life, alongside the landscapes of §1 material and of §2 labour-power, this is where the rubber hits the road: the §3 aesthetic landscape, where the forces live that shape the commitment and capability, the intention and attention, the perception and affiliation. This is where the activist’s literacy lives, regarding what pushes her buttons (and where her resilience and equanimity are to be found), and what is legitimate in her pushing the buttons of the others in whose lives the possibility of change lies; and what is not legit

# A Framework for Understanding Commons & Commoning