This brief coda pulls together notes under: - Scope and ecology - Particularity and patterns - Formaciòn and fragments - The dance of livelihood
**Scope and ecology** Early in this chapter I referred to Robin’s naturalistic organic metaphors, and have responded with an *ecology* of practices . . - *genetic* architectures - design language, pattern language(ing), schools that perform commoning of pattern families . . - *hybridising* - the mobilising and weaving and cross-breeding of patterns in design-circle pods . . - a *DNA* of fluid, particularised, distributed response to uneven development (the pattern language), ‘sung’ and ‘danced’ into the flow of activist life; and . . - an *intentional ecology* as invoked by Robin - a commons-stewarded, *federated* college of autonomous coop-schools.
> A topical footnote to this . . Mushrooms are in fashion as organic metaphor: \[Merlin Sheldrake (2020), *Entangled life - How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures*, New York: Random House]. But . . > Anna Tsing’s book, *The mushroom at the end of the world - On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins* \[Tsing 2015 Princeton: Princeton] takes a tack akin to mine here. Rather than being about the undeniable wonder and ecological significance of mushrooms, it’s an investigation of a mycelial network of humans and non-humans implicated in ‘anthropocene’ crisis.
. . that is, a social-constructivist **turn-to-practice**, rather than to naturalistic *metaphor*.
Likewise, in this present chapter’s vision: not organic or evolutionary **metaphor**, but practices . . - pattern language(ing) - material landscapes rigorously engaged by *schools*, and - *commoning*: the stewarding of commons-of-commons, via formations of dual power.
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