An open work is a project, community, or institution built on "architectures of openness.” That is they are organized and structured in a way that anticipates & encourages change. They are in a sense "hackable."
of the crowd/community/tradition. It is holistic in its approach to knowing rather than being one singular voice/text/role for truth. Within a model of collective intelligence all are
Their knowledge is decentralized. They are based on "collective intelligence" and have processes that support this. It is rooted in knowledge as participatory, shared, experienced through living and practice rather than “abstract and known.” In an open work, the process of making decisions is itself a tool for building community.
They are structured in a way that anticipates & welcomes change. There is a big difference between proprietary and open-source software. One is locked down, only a few have access to the source code. The other is structured in such a way that it anticipates many different streams of source code and is programmed to handle such diverse flows.
