Bloom Womb
TECH
Tech with a regenerative focus is a huge subject! Web3, Blockchain, regenerative agriculture, Indigenous tech, energy-creation technologies, pollution-clean up tech, regenerative materials, distributed manufacturing...
In this module you'll find beautiful projects and leadership on doing tech with integrity.
Fun note! The word technology comes from the Greek "techne", which means craft or art. It is the act of making or doing, and it originates from an earlier word root that means to weave. Bloom approaches technology in this way - our social network is integrated with life.
Activity Prompt
Meditate on your relationship with technology. Is there anything you would like to change about that relationship? Consider writing a blog afterward if you would like to share your insights or reinforce a decision. 💗
Featured Project
Bloom Platform
One of the problems with today's social media platforms is that they are designed to keep people glued to the screen as long as possible. This results in amplifying alarming and politically divisive vontent.
Everything about Bloom's media network is focused on inspiring people to get off their screen and into their neighborhoods to make the places they live healthier and more vibrant. This is an example of technology being used to not "capture" people's attention and money, but to nurture life.
The interface is also designed with psychological health in mind. It's meant to be a warm, inviting and comfortable place to be for the time you're here. Then, to connect you with a project or people near you to work together in real life toward environmental and social regeneration.
Readings / Videos
Choose 2+ to review this week.
- The types of regenerative actions that Bloom rewards using blockchain tech. Members of Bloom can post actions they do that support climate and social regeneration. At the end of the year, the Bloom cooperative's profits are distributed to members, proportional to actions they've done.
- How blockchain tech can create better incentive alignment for climate restoration
- Natural building - ways to use locally sourced materials to build homes and business places
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Jeff Doctor talking about decolonising the tech space
- Art Composition Attributes + CycleGAN
with Holly Grimm, Diné (Navajo) software developer & artist
- Blockchain Tech and scaling Regenerative Agriculture
- Natives in Tech Conference
Assignment
Find people and organisations in your country that are working in tech in a regenerative or social justice way.
Example list from New Zealand, compiled by Hannah MitchellHannah’s List of Tech Heads in NZ (only just started)
- Indiginising Contemporary Creativity
- Elevating Aotearoa's Future through fostering and growing careers with Pacific Islanders and Māori in New Zealand’s Technology Sector
- Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures is an independent and apolitical think tank and research centre based at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Maori in Tech - Teaches coding as core business. Dougal Stott - Dougal, Kaiārahi Māori
- Enspiral - an international community of people doing things
- Kaynemaile Architectural Mesh - dynamic shade structure design being used at Dubai Expo
- Carbon Sequestration by Native Forest - Setting the Record Straight, by Pure Advantage
- Global Indigenous Data Alliance
- Maori Data Sovereignty
Of Interest - People to Follow
- Holly Grimm - Twitter @hollyr.eth Diné (Navajo) software developer & artist. Former Planet Artist in Residence. She's working on using satellites to measure on-the-ground regeneration, in collaboration with locally rooted communities.
- Charles Royal
- Twitter
@CharlesRoyal6
Koi Tū webinar: Intercultural capability, the Treaty of Waitangi, science and Mātauranga Māori - hosted by The Centre for Informed Futures.
Charles discusses intercultural capability with relationships between science and mātauranga Māori. He focusses on the idea of a 'new knowledge system to come' rather than contests between existing traditions.
Action Template
This week's template is a resource for people who are building web apps for the first time. By Brainfog, the cloud architects of Bloom Platform. We use this process to develop new features in a coherent way.
Sustainable Tech Around the World
Awesome story about it
This Week's Prompts
- Welcome, Acknowledgement of Country, Meditation :: 10 minutes
- Discussing Nature and some of the Tech content suggested for homework :: 10 minutes
- Magenta Talks about how tech will help facilitate the coop of Bloom. :: 10 minutes
- Personal Project Progress, and discoveries of what is already present in local area :: 20 minutes
- Homework overview, assignment of roles for next week and Personal CheckIns :: 10 minutes
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