Happy new year everyone!

2017 is here and shaping up to be one heck of a follow-up to 2016.

I personally have a whole bunch of interesting things lined up to keep me busy and productive and I thought we could and should use this thread to share the things we are all working on and how they take advantage of post-capitalist and new economic frameworks and thinking.

Feel free to share resources that are proving useful in your own spheres, links to things you are working on or have completed, push your related events and products, use Dyads!

I really believe that now is the time to begin planting the seeds of transition to a more people-focused, open and sustainable socioeconomic paradigm and The Dyad Network is about bringing all that together.

So to start:

I am working with @lindabembatoum and @olamideudomaejorh on an urban agriculture project called 100 Farms. The idea is to create a commons for urban agriculture and food supply that sits alongside a decentralised network of farms producing a range of produce. I am pretty excited about what we can do in the "food" space. I should be setting up a temp site somewhere at some point and I have already set up a Loomio group for it (of course it will be run democratically and be owned by the founders, workers and customers) and I am currently putting together some organisation design docs together. Once we get off the ground, it will be possible to get our open source designs for greenhouse set ups and more (apiaries, rooftop gardens etc!) to use in other farming projects as long as users contribute back to the commons.

I am also working with @adunokupe @osioneitegboje and @oromacookeygam on Sunless which I am envisioning as a platform for the creation of "High concept, well considered, simple and sustainably produced design objects made by exploring materials and techniques found and developed in Nigeria."

“We need to make things ourselves; we need to make less of it by making the right things; and we need to get more out of what we do make by connecting things together into shared commons.” - Paul Hartzog

Make. Less. More.

Sunless is a major aspect of what I want to do with Stranger this year and I hope I can pull it off.

Finally, there is an idea I have for The Dyad Network that could be pretty interesting. I doubt I will be able to devote a lot of time to it, but I also hope that I won't have to if things go well. I will get into that in a separate thread sha since it is under the Network itself.

I hope there will be more things and that these projects will come to fruition in one way or another.

Let's see your projects guys!