We're revolutionising the way we do impact, by centring Nature, grounding our work in relations, and placing it all in the wider context we operate in.
The underlying philosophy guiding the grounding of our impact back into context and relations is "Hoodie Economics", which shows clearly what we need to change within our current systems to value what truly matters.
We have the isolated numbers to clearly evidence the quantum of change we’re creating, we have a rich tapestry of stories that make us feel what is changing through our work, and we have a stack of inter-webbed solutions and systems that bring it all to life in a deeply rooted yet imaginative way.
1) Cultural Indicator Species (CIS) - Ties our impact and health of our work to the health of key species in the ecosystems we live and work in.
2) JOY Corporation Reporting via the Message Stick - A full-systems view of the impact of AIME using 7 systemic levers, carved onto a wooden ‘Message Stick’.
3) Hoodie Stock Exchange - A full view of our project-based impact, showcasing the value we have unlocked in each of the projects linked to a custom Hoodie, which combine into a cumulative knowledge-area hoodie.
4) Knowledge-Based-Tokens (KBT) - The value of the knowledge we unlock for the world, through the tools we develop, using the digital KBT prototypes we are developing
5) Gross Relational Potential (GRP) - Ongoing research into the full relational value our network unlocks for the world, with GRP being a healthy and holistic measurement frame for our digital nation, IMAGI-NATION (also serving a case study for other nations).
These 5 elements are inter-webbed and sense-made periodically - either quarterly or bi-annually depending on the need and the rate of relations - through our impact-centric television show called ‘Lightning’.
This entire stack above is our in-draft method of returning our impact, and thus the Intellectual Property (IP) of our work, back to Nature, and an invitation for other organisations / networks / movements / collectives to do the same. From Nature we are born, and to Nature we return, and in our limited time on planet Earth, we are always Nature.
“Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the children of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to humans; we belong to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. We did not weave the web of life; we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.” Chief Seattle (From a speech in 1854 )
Over the last 2 decades, as AIME has evolved (follow the journey if you’re new to our worlds on our Timeline page) into a global systems change network, we realised that the boxed-in impact numbers, even if illuminated with great case studies and stories, backed by independent research and validated by external awards etc. (check out our historic impact in the next section below), could not really show the full scope of our impact, nor can it be shared in context, and show the webs in-between.
So, we set ourselves a challenge to find a way, and we started with "we don't know". This was the powerful key we needed to unlock the knowledge within the unlikely nodes in our network. The clarity to admit that we don't know everything about all relations in a system but still want to apply intention to know about the nodes in a network, was the applied theory necessary to lead us to the full-stacked solutions above, with a little help from our wise friends.
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Summary and links to 5 Levers of Impact
Cultural Indicator Species
Hoodie Stock Exchange
Message Stick Joy Report
Gross Relational Potential
Knowledge Based Tokens.
An overview of the approach and the different reporting mechanisms
Lightning (publish 2x per year)Annual Report - Hoodie Catalogue
annual report showcasing hoodie catalogue of impact / of HE
WorldviewTrade routes / SBS world news / weather report
