We turn to the frame of the Pluriverse because we believe it has much to offer in a time when our current digital space is increasingly colonized by a single vision of what is possible—a vision spurred on by the incentive structures of enclosure and control.

Futures of regenerative scale and shared growth, that combat monoculture through a stronger, broader, and more rooted ecology of adaptation and co-evolution.

This could look like financing mechanisms for open-source vs. closed-source infrastructure in order to enable community resourcing and abundance, navigating careful partnerships with existing institutions to build polycentric governance in the face of corporate control, and empowering data and platform cooperatives modeled after the worker... See more

to navigate the intersections between scale and regeneration, between growth and the commons. A principle of ‘many universals’ could provide the framework for balancing the tension between, on one hand, enabling community-led and governed projects to flourish, and, on the other, the need to then challenge massive and well-resourced centers of... See more

Meaningful alternatives are possible:

The Pluriverse: A World Where Many Worlds Fit

Futures of polycentrism , beyond either atomized decentralization or top-down centralization, where collective self-determination is protected through overlapping rights and responsibilities, abundant digital public infrastructure, and mechanisms for accountable governance.

Futures where we move past tired promises of “freedom from”—from established institutions, from regulation, from responsibility—and towards the shared capacity for building “freedom to”—to create, to learn, to struggle, to strengthen collective institutions, to ensure shared security.

Futures of plurality , where choice is meaningful because difference and divergence are possible.