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Version française . Ever since I was young, I have sought to find how to contribute meaningfully to the community, while being fully myself. Called to different interests than my peers, I began to explore the mysteries of group dynamics. Many cycles of study and practice led me to an awareness: suffering, misery (physical and spiritual), violence, are often generated by stories we learn as children, and pass on through generations . I became convinced that, within months, we could ensure that all people could live decently and in harmony , if we dared to listen – literally and symbolically – to our Heart, to the Other’s. We would commit ourselves to a path that celebrates our Humanity, connects us to Nature within and beyond, and nourishes our Souls . Indeed, tackling complex, wicked challenges requires abandoning the logic of a machine-body, the illusion of technical solutions built without personal commitment, so that we can raise our collective, human consciousness. This means providing ways for the whole population to listen to their different realities, and to quickly reach a popular consensus on how to overcome these challenges in ways that strengthen solidarity. According to the creator of Captcha tests [1] , a million people could translate Wikipedia into a new language in 80 hours. Let us imagine what such a group could achieve if they had the capacity to sincerely agree on essential common projects, and implement them in a matter of days – free/libre and open source knowledge and infrastructures that could easily be adopted, reproduced and enriched across territories? * * * This five-part thesis documents six years of intense creation and research that enabled me to design how such a process could unfold. First, I present my journey to the PhD, and how my research took shape through cycles of prototyping. I introduce the idea of the commons , which is to understand that people – not corporations or the state – have all the resources needed to overcome the challenges we face. This builds on the oeuvre ... |