Last Saturday the ReConstitutional Convention – a global experiment in political system design – brought together diverse groups of social inventors all over the world to imagine and prototype original and alternative architectures for governing.
By pure coincidence, this was also the week I started researching for the 70th anniversary of the discovery of LSD.
Here’s my bit. (There are lots of others)
Around 6’20” I start channeling Timothy Leary; watch Lydia Nicholas‘s face as it begins to dawn on her that this to-camera is going up on YouTube FOR EVER…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqNWX-QFZgw]
I’d like to thank Tobias Revell and Justin Pickard for inviting me along to this creative, playful, exasperating and very rewarding day.
The revolution begins here. (Maybe.)
I was pretty down with your Moksha medicine suggestion tho! Mentioned your group in this reflection blog post, because our team designed a prototype for the Polisphere Networked Metropolitan Nodes, and your team essentially called it out as the panacea it’s often heralded as.
http://opengovunderground.org/2013/05/03/culture-hacking/