The Aims of Au

An overview of our general intentions

Making the impossible (more) possible

• We want to turn ‘vicious circles’ into ‘virtuous circles’.
• We aim to achieve this by developing a metadesign system
• We aim to join things that make us happy with things that co-sustain us.
• We aim to make the ‘impossible’ more thinkable.
• This means daring to dream beyond what we believe to be attainable.

...we envisage a transformative world...

• We do not see technological nor political problems as the first hurdle.
• It is a psychological barrier that we can overcome, collectively.
• We need to find out what we really want (and need).
• Once we know this we can cooperate to make it real.
• Many good ideas fail for subtle or complex reasons.
• See, for example, Hardin's (1969) Tragedy of the Commons.

...by making dreams more shareable...

• If we co-imagine the dream in a more shareable form...
• If we exchange dreams and join them together...
• If enough people were to do this...
• We would achieve a global ‘synergy of synergies’ (Fuller, 2005).
• Politics would be more positive, spontaneous, co-creative and emergent.