TRO·Pism (ˈtrōˌpizəm)
noun: BIOLOGY
The turning of all or part of an organism in a particular direction in response to an external stimulus.
noun: TROP/Mass Mosaic
The turning of all or part of a person or community's efforts and resources in a particular direction in response to the need of an individual, group, or organization.
noun: BIOLOGY
The turning of all or part of an organism in a particular direction in response to an external stimulus.
noun: TROP/Mass Mosaic
The turning of all or part of a person or community's efforts and resources in a particular direction in response to the need of an individual, group, or organization.
Ten·seg·ri·ty (tenˈsegritē/)
noun:ARCHITECTURE
The characteristic property of a stable three-dimensional structure consisting of members under tension that are contiguous and members under compression that are not.
noun: Mass Mosaic
The characteristic properties of a community wherein members are free to give(push) and receive(pull) resources in order to distribute them efficiently and lessen individual economic load.
noun:ARCHITECTURE
The characteristic property of a stable three-dimensional structure consisting of members under tension that are contiguous and members under compression that are not.
noun: Mass Mosaic
The characteristic properties of a community wherein members are free to give(push) and receive(pull) resources in order to distribute them efficiently and lessen individual economic load.
The Future of Community: Tensegrity P3 (Adapted from Mass Mosaic blog)
There are no missing or extra pieces in all that is. There is no way for anyone to not be part of the whole. Why is hard for us to feel and live like this? We often feel scarcity, disconnected from the abundance all around us. In our society there are imaginary lines that separate us. They are etched in our identity from a young age from constructs like nationality, religion, race, class and education level. When looking at nature, these lines are not there. It is this labeling that creates an intellectual separation from all that is. However energetically, we all exchange with their environment constantly. In actuality this push/pull dynamic of tensegrity exists all around us. It’s so closely connected to our lives that it’s hard to distance ourselves to see it. However, here are some easy examples to see tensegrity in the world.
Founders/Artists/Thought Leaders - These people desire passive income. This means that their wage and value is not directly connected to the number of hours they work. It may be writing a book, starting a company, selling stock footage, or producing other works that are distributed beyond a 1:1 that allow them to get off the model of working hourly. They are often drawn to this potential, but don’t know why. It’s because they intuitively understand that the tensegrity model for exchange can be far more powerful and lucrative than working hourly.
Food Production - Another example where tensegrity is clear is food production. The “factory model” for agriculture is broken. It says that you should plant the exact amount of crops you want and rely on pesticides and control means to kill disease and pests. Yet permaculturists use tensegrity to grow more effectively. They have proven that if you plant more seeds than you hope to harvest, you allow nature to work for you and create a rich natural ecosystem that can produce higher yield and stronger resilience.
Teaching - Another tensegrity system at work is teaching. By discontinuously giving knowledge you can continuously help people. This is why energetically many are called to share their wisdom. The benefits, including financial, community support, and goodwill, go far beyond living off an hourly wage.
There are many more examples of tensegrity in our lives. The very notion that we can put a cost to an hour of our life is clearly the departure point for separation for the individual from their community and funnels us into a “how can we lose less” scenario.
The state of our current economy has made it hard for tensegrity models of making money to be achieved by the masses. As our access to resources change in the on-demand economy, the tensegrity model of exchange will allow many more people to let go of the illusion that the “40 hour workweek” is needed to sustain and thrive. We believe that Mass Mosaic is a pivotal leader in this change. By giving access to everything of value that you want to exchange in your immediate area, we are unlocking the door to the hidden abundance all around you. By engaging discontinuously (in other words, sporadically) with Mass Mosaic’s tensegrity system, and being able to access the resources you want whenever you need, you are able to thrive using far less effort.
It is a shame that the mainstream society believes that in order to be productive, the requirement is to work 40 hours per week. The entire point of technology is to leverage its capability so that we can thrive together more easily. This does not mean that machines should replace us, but rather that a job that used to take someone 1000 hours to do, now takes someone one hour to manage and the machine can do the rest automatically. This is the nature of progress, and our lives should have less restriction because of it.
A common question that comes up when first understanding tensegrity is “if everyone pulls what they want, wouldn’t it mean there’s none left for me?” The key point is that tensegrity uses in a distributed system to exchange, instead of one that’s based on 1:1 exchange. In a tensegrity system, since everyone is more deeply connected, adding pressure (pulling what you want) actually makes the whole system stronger because it tightens the bonds between all. This can be visualized easily with the geodesic dome. Due to how the tensegrity geometry works, the more weight that is added to a single hub, the more the arms push into it and reinforce the overall strength of the structure. Communally speaking, this would mean that the more people express their needs, the stronger the community gets. Wouldn’t it be great if all of society worked like that!
Founders/Artists/Thought Leaders - These people desire passive income. This means that their wage and value is not directly connected to the number of hours they work. It may be writing a book, starting a company, selling stock footage, or producing other works that are distributed beyond a 1:1 that allow them to get off the model of working hourly. They are often drawn to this potential, but don’t know why. It’s because they intuitively understand that the tensegrity model for exchange can be far more powerful and lucrative than working hourly.
Food Production - Another example where tensegrity is clear is food production. The “factory model” for agriculture is broken. It says that you should plant the exact amount of crops you want and rely on pesticides and control means to kill disease and pests. Yet permaculturists use tensegrity to grow more effectively. They have proven that if you plant more seeds than you hope to harvest, you allow nature to work for you and create a rich natural ecosystem that can produce higher yield and stronger resilience.
Teaching - Another tensegrity system at work is teaching. By discontinuously giving knowledge you can continuously help people. This is why energetically many are called to share their wisdom. The benefits, including financial, community support, and goodwill, go far beyond living off an hourly wage.
There are many more examples of tensegrity in our lives. The very notion that we can put a cost to an hour of our life is clearly the departure point for separation for the individual from their community and funnels us into a “how can we lose less” scenario.
The state of our current economy has made it hard for tensegrity models of making money to be achieved by the masses. As our access to resources change in the on-demand economy, the tensegrity model of exchange will allow many more people to let go of the illusion that the “40 hour workweek” is needed to sustain and thrive. We believe that Mass Mosaic is a pivotal leader in this change. By giving access to everything of value that you want to exchange in your immediate area, we are unlocking the door to the hidden abundance all around you. By engaging discontinuously (in other words, sporadically) with Mass Mosaic’s tensegrity system, and being able to access the resources you want whenever you need, you are able to thrive using far less effort.
It is a shame that the mainstream society believes that in order to be productive, the requirement is to work 40 hours per week. The entire point of technology is to leverage its capability so that we can thrive together more easily. This does not mean that machines should replace us, but rather that a job that used to take someone 1000 hours to do, now takes someone one hour to manage and the machine can do the rest automatically. This is the nature of progress, and our lives should have less restriction because of it.
A common question that comes up when first understanding tensegrity is “if everyone pulls what they want, wouldn’t it mean there’s none left for me?” The key point is that tensegrity uses in a distributed system to exchange, instead of one that’s based on 1:1 exchange. In a tensegrity system, since everyone is more deeply connected, adding pressure (pulling what you want) actually makes the whole system stronger because it tightens the bonds between all. This can be visualized easily with the geodesic dome. Due to how the tensegrity geometry works, the more weight that is added to a single hub, the more the arms push into it and reinforce the overall strength of the structure. Communally speaking, this would mean that the more people express their needs, the stronger the community gets. Wouldn’t it be great if all of society worked like that!
"My bank account is zero but I have millions of dollars worth of good will in the community and that’s enough to sustain me.” - Leon Booth, founder of the gift economy restaurant chain Lentil As Anything