January 5, 2022 (version 4.1):
- Changed the following socio-natural pattern name (following feedback) to improve phenomenology (the way we perceive things and socially enact meaning), better align with the Biology end Ecology fields, and also map/abstract all 4 socio-natural patterns not only to system states but also to system functions:
- “On Organization – Improve Coherence:” became “On Regulation – Improve Coherence:”.
- Updated the HiveFlex Compass Framework visualization.
January 3, 2022 (version 4.0):
- Changed all socio-natural patterns’ names to improve phenomenology (the way we perceive things and socially enact meaning):
- “Encourage Evolution:” became “On Evolution – Encourage Diversity:”.
- “Increase Resilience:” became “On Succession – Increase Resilience:”.
- “Improve Coherence:” became “On Organization – Improve Coherence:”.
- “Promote Cooperation:” became “On Adaptation – Promote Fitness:”.
- Changed the following 2 principles:
- “Protect and restore natural and cultural heritage” became “Preserve and restore natural and cultural heritage”.
- “Disintermediate information and synthesize common knowledge” became “Disintermediate information and codify common knowledge”.
- Reshuffled all socio-technical and socio-ecological principles across all socio-natural patterns to better match the above phenomenology and praxis.
- Improved the HiveFlex Compass Framework visualization.
- Improved ontology (the way things are): main system states (evolution, succession, organization, adaptation) and system properties (diversity, resilience, coherence, fitness).
- Improved epistemology (the way we know things and make decisions): added enthalpy (system energy) and entropy (degrees of freedom) from physics/chemistry as core system dimensions/concepts (typology) and core processes for each system state (emergence, divergence, convergence, inference).
August 13, 2021 (version 3.0):
- Changed all socio-natural patterns’ names:
- “On divergence and innovation:” became “Increase Resilience:”.
- “On interdependence and stewardship:” became “Promote Cooperation:”.
- “On convergence and coherence:” became “Improve Coherence:”.
- “On self-integration and evolution:” became “Encourage Evolution:”.
- Changed the following sentences:
- In the 2nd paragraph: “… it is imperative that we leverage the collective…” became “… we must leverage the collective…”.
- Added the first HiveFlex Compass Framework visualization.
- Added Open Organizational Patterns to Acknowledgments.
December 13, 2019 (version 2.0):
- Added 4 new principles:
- Start small, explore the edges, and value the marginal.
- Apply self-regulation and respond positively to feedback.
- Value, use, and store local renewable resources and energy.
- Generate a yield through reciprocal relationships over time.
- Changed the following 8 principles:
- “Nurture all life and nature” became “Work with nature and nurture all life”.
- “Respect cultural heritage” became “Protect and restore natural and cultural heritage”.
- “Increase optionality, redundancy, and variety” became “Increase optionality, redundancy, and diversity”.
- “Make people safe and provide opportunities for all” became “Build safety in and provide opportunities for all”.
- “Develop people and human sensor networks” became “Develop human intelligence and human-sensor networks”.
- “Scale modularity, recombination, and above all, trust” became “Scale decomposition, recombination, and above all, trust”.
- “Protect privacy and facilitate social interactions” became “Protect privacy and foster interactions through open protocols”.
- “Disintermediate information and synthesize knowledge” became “Disintermediate information and synthesize common knowledge”.
- Changed the following sentences:
- In the 2nd paragraph: “… to design and guide viable, resilient and healthy organizations and societies…” became “… to design, guide and regenerate viable, resilient and healthy socio-technical and socio-ecological systems…”.
- In the last paragraph: “… for organizations and societies to co-evolve…” became “… for socio-technical and socio-ecological systems to co-evolve…”.
- In the last paragraph: “… and ambiguous world” became “… and ambiguous world we currently live in.”.
- Added Biomimetics, Permaculture, and Ecosystem Ecology & Services to Acknowledgments.
- Added appropriate links to all scientific and empirical fields to Acknowledgments.
September 13, 2019 (version 1.0):
- Original version.
- Original 4 socio-natural patterns.
- Original 16 socio-technical and socio-ecological principles.
Photo credits: Suzanne D. Williams.