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Agenda

Who’s who
Why the Tensions Game?
Bootcamp for Intellectual Knuckledraggers
Protocol Worlds II
The Punk + Commons Theme
Zupass and Minigame

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Summer of Protocols

Studying and evangelizing protocols as a first-class concept for thinking about the world
Over 80 past and present researchers
Hundreds of pages of open-access research
Anyone can contribute

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Forum for Open Research

Publications

Lectures

Newsletter

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Tensions Game

SoP x 0xPARC

A protocol to improve decision-making and situational awareness.

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A Full Bag

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Why play?

Stop resolving tensions prematurely.
Design more interesting futures.
Make better conscious decisions.
Improve the baseline quality of your unconscious decisions.
Use spannunsgfelds to create growth.
Develop protocol literacy.

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Spannungsfeld

Fields of tensions (spannungsfelds) give a system dynamic range.

Resolving tensions collapses systems into boring equilibria or initiates cascades of negative secondary effects a la trophic cascades.

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vs.

Which is more interesting?

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“In chess, the greatest victories often come from enduring the greatest tension. You must keep calm, resist the impulse to break the tension prematurely, and find the right moment to strike.”

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“I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.”

R. Buckminster Fuller

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(Tremendous Bundle of Wisdom)

Current Record: 5

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Protocol Worlds @ Edge City Esmeralda

A promising V1 protocolized futures workshop.

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Protocol Worlds II

Nov. 4 - 8

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Punk x Commons

Orientating the game

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Choose your own adventure

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Punk Renaissance

Seapunk, cypherpunk, ricepunk, solarpunk, cyberpunk, atompunk, biopunk, steampunk, nanopunk, ecopunk, hopepunk, lovepunk, anarchopunk, aetherpunk, dieselpunk, bronzepunk, silkpunk, cattlepunk, …

Catchy suffix or is there something to it?