We live at a time of great relational deficit.
Modern structures treat trust as an inconvenience — something to craft through contracts, or to wait for rather than to curate. But trust is not a byproduct. It is the result of practice and structural intention, and it can be built — held and created by relational technologies, structures that enable new patterns of connection.
Modern technology views trust as an algorithmic and cryptographic issue, rather than a complex, embodied network of nervous systems with generational history.
Our culture is not one of relational resilience but of marginal reserves: capacity gets built just barely sufficient, and is sought hurriedly once collaborative structures begin to break down — in teams, in communities, in intimate partnerships.
Yet in spaces of relational surplus, we not only work better; we become better. We make space to listen, speak, and rest. We share, and create conditions for material abundance. We are free to imagine new worlds — and to steward technology toward empowerment rather than extraction.
Trust isn't a
byproduct.
It can be built.
The technologies we want to invent.
A technology is any structure that enables new patterns of connection — it need not be digital.
things we could do
A semi-residential institution for inventing the future of relating.
Fellowships, residencies, lectures, courses, retreats, and gatherings — to learn and invent the methods, practices, and technologies that enable new forms of relationship. It begins, as these things do, among friends:
a note on the word technology
Just as any implementation of democracy is a technology, and a system of taking meeting notes is a technology — any invention of structure that enables new patterns of connection is a technology.
The school does not exist yet.
It remains a dream until the right people and resources come together. This work-in-progress is a search for those people — and now that you have read it, you have become part of the search.
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London · a dream-in-progress · MMXXVI