participatory planning Archives

Confronting the “System Problem” Cooperatively

December 15, 2020February 18, 2014 by Len Krimerman

Let me offer three concrete, somewhat controversial and possibly enlightening cases of “planning” for consideration as models, and then ask whether they are, or could be, acceptable as “participatory” and/or as “centered within the co-op movement”.

Mondragón and the System Problem

December 15, 2020January 27, 2014 by Thomas M. Hanna

As America moves more deeply into its growing systemic crisis, it is becoming increasingly important for activists and theorists to distinguish clearly between important projects and "institutional elements," on the one hand, and systemic change and systemic design, on the other.