OPRG Interview Series: Mark Lakeman of City Repair
Mark Lakeman is the founder of City Repair, a social permaculture group in Portland Oregon active since the 90’s, and the architecture firm Communitecture, which does accompanying work in ecological design and place-based community infrastructure. Being the instigator of several legendary regulatory coups in our city, Lakeman was a clear first choice for our interview series, which concerns autonomous, protocol-based strategies for building community infrastructure beyond institutions.While L...
OPRG Interview Series: Mark Lakeman of City Repair
Mark Lakeman is the founder of City Repair, a social permaculture group in Portland Oregon active since the 90’s, and the architecture firm Communitecture, which does accompanying work in ecological design and place-based community infrastructure. Being the instigator of several legendary regulatory coups in our city, Lakeman was a clear first choice for our interview series, which concerns autonomous, protocol-based strategies for building community infrastructure beyond institutions.While L...
sketches toward a theory of the protocol underground
The movement Philip groans— the undercommons, the underlanguage, underground, underwater, which is the people’s macrophone— wants to know/make the relationship between form and instability, when the informal becomes a form of life precisely insofar as it is where forms of life come from. There is an ecology of unaccountable self-positing, unaccountable because what’s more and less than self, disposed and without position or deposition, makes this positing in refusing being bought and ...
sketches toward a theory of the protocol underground
The movement Philip groans— the undercommons, the underlanguage, underground, underwater, which is the people’s macrophone— wants to know/make the relationship between form and instability, when the informal becomes a form of life precisely insofar as it is where forms of life come from. There is an ecology of unaccountable self-positing, unaccountable because what’s more and less than self, disposed and without position or deposition, makes this positing in refusing being bought and ...
An Introduction to Open Protocols
The Open Protocol Research Group is Ven Gist, MacksWolf and Exeunt. We are a research initiative of Portland’s Ethereal Forest DAO, and currently conducting interviews in the Portland region to gain insight on the informal structures that animate our present - and the promise they hold for our future. Last year, Portland’s crypto localist initiative Ethereal Forest - which had already been concerned with intersections of web3 and urban resilience strategies - went a step further in its resear...
An Introduction to Open Protocols
The Open Protocol Research Group is Ven Gist, MacksWolf and Exeunt. We are a research initiative of Portland’s Ethereal Forest DAO, and currently conducting interviews in the Portland region to gain insight on the informal structures that animate our present - and the promise they hold for our future. Last year, Portland’s crypto localist initiative Ethereal Forest - which had already been concerned with intersections of web3 and urban resilience strategies - went a step further in its resear...
