Interstitia Community Bibliography
Like many of you, we’ve been picking up “signals” from a variety of communities we’re part of. We’re finding evidence of the need for language, examples and processes for the worlds we’re building towards (or remembering can exist!). We need all available resources and analogies to create the scale of consciousness shift. Interstitium is one of many kin ideas. We see no need for comparison or judgement — just invitation and opportunity. The more we can sense shared truth and operate together, the stronger we’ll be.
Below is evolving shared bibliography where you can find kin concepts and more promising validation for the work of the social interstitium.
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Books
Here are some related books and articles that survey respondents recommended (in no particular order). There are likely many more, so consider this a start!
Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State by Hilary Cottam
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace by John Paul Lederach
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
Making Change: Teaching Artists and Their Role in Shaping a Better World by Eric Booth
The Actual Star by Monica Byrne
The Physics & Poetry of Eastern Herbal Medicine by Shamosh Judyth Ph. D.
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Birdle
Let's Become Fungal!: Mycelium Teachings and the Arts by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, Rommy González
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker: How to Make Connections Others Don't by Sarah Thurber, Dorte Nielsen
Intraconnected: Mwe (Me + We) as the Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging by Daniel Siegel
Fascia - What It Is, and Why It Matters by David Lesondak
To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Listen to the Language of the Trees: A Story of How Forests Communicate Underground by Tera Kelley, Marie Hermansson
Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin B. Curtice
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being by Neil Theise
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Related Concepts
Multipotentialism: refers to individuals with a wide range of interests, talents, and potential career endeavors. It goes beyond mere curiosity in various subjects, emphasizing the encouragement of individuals with extraordinary talents across multiple domains.
Holism: is the interdisciplinary idea that systems possess properties as wholes apart from the properties of their component parts. The concept of holism informs the methodology for a broad array of scientific fields and lifestyle practices. When applications of holism are said to reveal properties of a whole system beyond those of its parts, these qualities are referred to as emergent properties of that system.
Ecocentrism: Ecocentrism is a term used by environmental philosophers and ecologists to denote a nature-centered, as opposed to human-centered (i.e. anthropocentric), system of values.
Psychotopology: The psychological dimension of place; the impact of the physical environment on one's emotional and mental state; psychogeography. The pattern or structure of mental processes.
Biomimicry: Biomimetics or biomimicry is the emulation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems.
Warm Data: is information about the interrelationships that connect elements of a complex system. Put another way, Warm Data is transcontextual information. Warm Data captures the qualitative dynamics and offers another dimension of understanding to what is learned through quantitative data, (cold data).
Emergent Learning: is a habit — a way of expanding our collective thinking. Emergent Learning is about more than a pack of tools — it is about rethinking what it means to achieve complex goals in a complex world. EL focuses on discovering a shared line of sight that allows everyone to find their place in the endeavor; posing questions that invite a wider, more diverse, circle into the thinking process; making thinking visible to encourage a learning dialogue; deliberately testing hypotheses in the work itself; and sharing patterns and insights across a team, network, or community. Emergent Learning is designed to support working together in a way that helps us achieve a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Aligned Sites
The following sites may be of interest for interstitionaries. These sites were provided by survey respondents.
The Wolf Willow Institute for Systems Learning
The International Bateson Institute’s Warm Data Lab
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