This is a request for $25k to support research within the Human Systems Research Network. All results of this research will be made public and any resulting intellectual property will be licensed with a CC-BY-SA license and made available to the world.
Our civilization is facing many simultaneous crises: crises in ecosystems, meaningful work and lives, global economics, media, and political legitimacy. A common cause is that systems have been designed around affluence and engagement, rather than life meaning. Current systems—despite their successes measured in dollars, clicks, views, or votes—fail to support the values and meanings of their participants.
New local and global systems are needed to navigate these crises. Systems that work together to support 11 billion people with meaningful lives at zero carbon. New forms of architecture, politics, economics, land ownership, agriculture, etc. A brand new Social Stack.
Human Systems exists to help redesign social systems around meaning. It's built around the leading values-based Redesign Method. Everything we do is organized around one global challenge: redesigning social systems around human values and meaningful lives.
So far we've trained 300 well-connected people, collected $60,000 in school and workshop fees. Our alumni have used what they've learned to redesign large-scale systems at Facebook, Github and Apple; we've changed the direction of dozens of startups, and overseen dramatic changes in small scale systems like schools, co-living settlements, and families. New business practices and product changes have reached tens of thousands of employees and billions of users.
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To get a zoomed out view of our Web of Questions, we have grouped them in research groups.
Human Systems gives $10k grants to researchers in the above areas, to support them in working full time on their research for 3-4 months. Human Systems also pays salaries for a few full-time researchers, at $50k. In all cases the results are made public promptly and with an open license, and often intermediate data and results are also published.
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