Practice

Introduction

MWW Practice begins where awareness meets complexity.
It offers a human way of seeing, sensing and shaping the world — moving from presence, to shared meaning, to collective action.

Through the three human layers — Awareness, Relation, Action — the Practice reveals how humans and systems co-create each other.
Here, ethics meets architecture, imagination becomes structure, and understanding becomes possibility.

 

A relational, embodied and systemic way of seeing, sensing and shaping complex situations.

MWW Practice works through three human layers:

  • Awareness (Human Conditions)
  • Relation (Human Perspectives)
  • Action (Human Actions)

Together, they form a relational, ethical and systemic approach to complexity.

1. HUMAN CONDITIONS — Awareness

How we arrive.

Human Conditions create the embodied, emotional and relational ground for perception.
 This layer includes:

  • somatic awareness
  • ritualising and arrival practices
  • emotional safety & resonance
  • context sensing
  • MWW Reading (first layer)
  • STUART as grounding qualities

Awareness prepares the field for deeper meaning-making and collective intelligence.

2. HUMAN PERSPECTIVES — Relation

How do we see together?

Here we enter shared meaning-making, pattern recognition and the relational field.

Human Perspectives include:

  • perspective mapping
  • reflective dialogue
  • pattern recognition
  • collective sensemaking
  • MWW Reading (ME–WE–WORLD)
  • relational ethics
  • Double Lens interpretation (Law ↔ Ethics)
  • systemic viewpoints from partners (Bauwens, Machiel, Ray, etc.)

Key themes:

  • how systems shape meaning
  • how value definitions shape relations
  • how perspectives reveal tensions and possibilities
  • how communities distribute attention, care and responsibility

Human Perspectives is where the world becomes visible — not as a problem, but as a living field of relationships.

3. HUMAN ACTIONS — Action

How we shape futures.

This layer moves from understanding to intentional creation.

Human Actions include:

  • imagining new possibilities
  • scenario building
  • prototyping
  • commitment-making
  • future literacy
  • embodied decision-making
  • leadership practice
  • The 5-Step Future Design Process
     (Presence → Orientation → Patterns → Possibilities → Commitments)

System Architecture (as expression of Action)

System Architecture is not a fourth layer; it is the structural expression of Human Actions.

It includes:

  • governance-by-design
  • decentralised value systems (Blockchain for Lean)
  • commons constitutions
  • incentive structures
  • value redefinition
  • infrastructural prototypes
  • regenerative system design (Ray Podder)
  • anticipatory system logic (Diego)

Human Actions → create the system architectures →
which in turn → shape new Human Conditions.

This completes the relational cycle of MWW Practice.

 

4. MWW READING

Seeing with two lenses — relational and structural.

MWW Reading is the core method of the Practice.
 It combines:

  • ME (individual experience)
  • WE (collective meaning)
  • WORLD (system architecture & context)

Each Reading includes:

  1. Awareness
  2. Relational Perspectives
  3. Double Lens (Law ↔ Ethics)
  4. Patterns & tensions
  5. Actionable insights

Examples:

  • Accountability (Reading 4)
  • Interoperability (Reading 5)
  • District Heating (Reading 6)

 

5. CASE — DISTRICT HEATING (DOUBLE LENS PRACTICE)

A fully worked-out example of MWW Reading applied to a real socio-technical system.
Shows how Lean logic, blockchain interoperability, governance, ethics and human perspectives collide and co-create meaning.

6. WORK WITH US

  • Practice introduction (90 min)
  • MWW Reading workshop
  • Double Lens for organisations
  • Future Design Lab (2 × 90 min)
  • Retreat: The Art of Not Solving
  • Leadership coaching (Simone)

7. MWW Programs — From Orientation to Collective Action

The Me–We–World Practice is not tool-driven.
 It is programmatic and relational, moving from awareness to shared meaning and intentional action.

MWW works through three interconnected program lines, aligned with the Human Layers.

7.1 Human Conditions — MWW Reading

Orientation through awareness

This program focuses on how we arrive in complex situations.

MWW Reading supports individuals and groups in developing situated awareness before interpretation or intervention begins.

It explores:

  • embodied and emotional awareness
  • human finitude, dependency, and uncertainty
  • context sensing and arrival practices
  • ethical grounding before decision-making

MWW Reading works through the ME–WE–WORLD lens and the Double Lens (Law ↔ Ethics) to reveal patterns, tensions, and responsibilities embedded in real situations.

This layer provides the ground for all further sense-making and action.

7.2 Human Perspectives — Community, Commons & Collective Meaning

Seeing together

This program focuses on how meaning emerges between people, systems, and institutions.

Here, MWW explores:

  • collective sense-making
  • relational ethics
  • governance as a cultural and social practice
  • commons-based thinking and DAO experimentation

Human Perspectives programs investigate how value, responsibility, and care are distributed within communities and socio-technical systems.

This layer connects MWW with:

  • commons and peer-to-peer research
  • community governance practices
  • decentralised coordination models

The emphasis is not on solutions, but on understanding how perspectives shape collective possibilities.

7.3 Human Actions — Anticipation & Future Design

Acting responsibly into the future

This program focuses on intentional action under uncertainty.

Human Actions programs explore:

  • future literacy
  • scenario thinking
  • anticipatory governance
  • system intervention through design

Within research labs, educational settings, and collaborative experiments, MWW works with students, researchers, and practitioners to explore possible futures.

This includes the 5-Step Future Design Process
 (Presence → Orientation → Patterns → Possibilities → Commitments), as developed within international anticipation and systems research contexts.

Action here is understood as relational, ethical, and situated — not as control.

Applied Programs & Partnerships

Applied organisational programs and workshops are developed in collaboration with partner practices, translating MWW insights into concrete organisational contexts.

Examples include partnerships in system architecture, governance-by-design, and decentralised value systems.

MWW Practice does not offer methods to follow,
 but orientations to inhabit complexity responsibly.