# "In Other Words"... By [trībs](https://paragraph.com/@tr-bs) · 2022-02-10 --- Welcome to trībs. We are an epistemological mapping of the fashion-contextual noospheric genome. In other words, a Fashion InfoSociety and Onchain Organization (O.O) \[1\] [https://twitter.com/js\_horne/status/1485321183662907397?s=21](https://twitter.com/js_horne/status/1485321183662907397?s=21) Alternatively, a global fashion knowledge garden or information ecology framework. This blog will serve as the intellectual entrypoint for trībs and will continue to develop with the platform and community. Our first series of posts will involve an overarching theoretical model that is the animus of organizational inertia. We hope to also create content for community enrichment in the near term, such as interviews of people we admire, as well as visual and audio productions. In this post lies the first attempt at unraveling the metaphorical recursion outlined above. We are aware that its definitions may seem obtuse; however, we are not interested in intellectual grandstanding or unnecessary complexity. Instead we seek clarity through precision, which can then be further divided into digestible memetics. For now, we describe our Knowledge Garden as a community based, cultivated information ecosystem in which individual agents federate to augment our collective fashion intelligence. Via a web interface, users cooperate in creating a semantically structured knowledge base which is synchronized via various P2P/Blockchain technologies. An emergent example of what a truly global information ecology could be is Wikipedia \[2\] [https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.107.9087&rep=rep1&type=pdf](https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.107.9087&rep=rep1&type=pdf) "A garden...is a place that offers a sense of separation from the outside world. That separation must be created by making a threshold - whether real or implied. This threshold creates the ability to leave one world and enter another. That is the fundamental function of garden: to allow a person the psychological space to dream, think, rest, or disengage from the world... It is meant to describe another type of psychological space, to help you touch real self". \[3\] [https://www.abebooks.com/Martha-Schwartz-Transfiguration-Commonplace-Meyer-Elizabeth/16190235969/bd](https://www.abebooks.com/Martha-Schwartz-Transfiguration-Commonplace-Meyer-Elizabeth/16190235969/bd) As netizens who have literally grown up with the evolution of the World Wide Web, we have seen to what a lack of rigidity of information can lead. In the transition of the internet from Web 1.0 to what we have today, we can all clearly see the degradation of a thriving collaborative information landscape that has been soiled by the luxury of growth. While there is a large movement dedicated to improving and solving these issues in Web 3.0, the same pitfalls may still occur if not tended to carefully. Thus, with the exponential growth of information widely accessible in modern society, "knowledge management increasingly relies upon the ability to select information relevant to our needs efficiently and the ability to manage emerging structures of knowledge" \[4\]. Managing information is a relatively solved problem and can scale to hundreds of thousands of documents. Web 3.0 is seeking to solve the interaction of users with the information in the form of game theoretical meta-interaction and concepts of shared value in Complex Systems. The limits of our knowledge can be stewarded by these systems whose most important qualities are that they are self organizing, non-linear, and relational. Blockchain persistence adds another quality of informational anti-fragility. You have definitely experienced or heard of the common example of data fragility in a "dead link" \[5\] [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Davies-19/publication/2564152\_The\_Knowledge\_Garden/links/53ec7ee30cf250c8947cbd21/The-Knowledge-Garden.pdf](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Davies-19/publication/2564152_The_Knowledge_Garden/links/53ec7ee30cf250c8947cbd21/The-Knowledge-Garden.pdf) [https://www.slideshare.net/jackpark/knowledge-garden-overview](https://www.slideshare.net/jackpark/knowledge-garden-overview) We must pay as much attention to these relations or links between agents and information as the parts themselves which maintain the health of the system. Web 2.0 began with some great organizational tools such as blogs and forums, and we look fondly of our first experiences on niche fashion forums in which creativity and community thrived. Unfortunately, we were then drowned in the deluge of unorganized information in social media sites, and later there was aggressive centralization to these platforms in the pursuit of social capital. This race to the bottom ultimately led to the degradation of information quality and even the mental health of its participants. As a collective and O.O, we must overcome these perils and shoulder the responsibility in weaving the public loom of fashion information \[5\]. In other words, to be the change we seek. "Excellently observed," answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden" -- Voltaire, Candide --- *Originally published on [trībs](https://paragraph.com/@tr-bs/in-other-words)*