Declaration of Interdependence
Design Science Studio
Mission
We are supporting creatives worldwide by building their capacity to imagine and create equitable and just protopian futures, because the future is always first an idea.
We, the people of The Design Science Studio, declare that the future is always first an idea — and that we are woven into the whole web of life. Interdependence, to us, is interbeing: a web of knots where to pull one is to pull them all, and as one strengthens, the whole is strengthened. It is mutual responsibility and the humble truth that we cannot do it alone. It is reciprocity — vulnerable, alive in every exchange — and the choice of deep connection and slow-time beauty over the transactional. Everything is a cycle held in harmony; everything is sacred; and beneath it all runs a current of courageous love.
We name our interdependence plainly: our parents, teachers, and ancestors; our partners and communities; the watersheds and unceded lands we live within — the Salish Sea, the redwoods and their ravens, the Grande Ronde, Clackamas, and Esopus grounds beneath our neighbors' feet. We are bound to the soil and the whales, to mockingbirds and beavers, orangutans and termites, to our gardens and our dogs, and to the microbiome in our own bellies. We depend on food and healthcare, on the seen and unseen systems that hold us, and on the stories that give us meaning. The smallest ripple reaches us; our smallest act reaches all.
We hold a vision of an interdependent society: power held closest to those nearest the problem, technology and capital placed in service of life, broken systems named and mended. We see more biodiversity and less scarcity — walkable cities, food security, shared green spaces, elders eldering and children laughing. We see a global culture of care: circular and gift economies, decolonization and reciprocity, safety so that no life is threatened, and the Beauty Way realized — the Earth guarded, the water protected, the air purified, the fire kept.
And so we commit to make it real. Healing inside is healing outside, so we begin with ourselves — showing up with presence, curiosity, and joy. We commit to connect the people and steward the commons, to share our gifts, to learn as students and teachers both, and to compost what is finished in us into fertile soil for what comes next. We commit to tend the narrative of our kinship journey, to help technology serve all of life, and to be good ancestors. As a (r)evolutionary incubator and commUnity of practice, we dedicate ourselves to supporting creators worldwide in imagining and creating equitable, just, regenerative, protopian futures that work for all of life — because the future is always first an idea, and we and the Earth are one. This is our declaration of interdependence.
We, the people of The Design Science Studio, declare that the future is always first an idea — and that we are woven into the whole web of life. Interdependence, to us, is interbeing: a web of knots where to pull one is to pull them all, and as one strengthens, the whole is strengthened. It is mutual responsibility and the humble truth that we cannot do it alone. It is reciprocity — vulnerable, alive in every exchange — and the choice of deep connection and slow-time beauty over the transactional. Everything is a cycle held in harmony; everything is sacred; and beneath it all runs a current of courageous love.
We name our interdependence plainly: our parents, teachers, and ancestors; our partners and communities; the watersheds and unceded lands we live within — the Salish Sea, the redwoods and their ravens, the Grande Ronde, Clackamas, and Esopus grounds beneath our neighbors' feet. We are bound to the soil and the whales, to mockingbirds and beavers, orangutans and termites, to our gardens and our dogs, and to the microbiome in our own bellies. We depend on food and healthcare, on the seen and unseen systems that hold us, and on the stories that give us meaning. The smallest ripple reaches us; our smallest act reaches all.
We hold a vision of an interdependent society: power held closest to those nearest the problem, technology and capital placed in service of life, broken systems named and mended. We see more biodiversity and less scarcity — walkable cities, food security, shared green spaces, elders eldering and children laughing. We see a global culture of care: circular and gift economies, decolonization and reciprocity, safety so that no life is threatened, and the Beauty Way realized — the Earth guarded, the water protected, the air purified, the fire kept.
And so we commit to make it real. Healing inside is healing outside, so we begin with ourselves — showing up with presence, curiosity, and joy. We commit to connect the people and steward the commons, to share our gifts, to learn as students and teachers both, and to compost what is finished in us into fertile soil for what comes next. We commit to tend the narrative of our kinship journey, to help technology serve all of life, and to be good ancestors. As a (r)evolutionary incubator and commUnity of practice, we dedicate ourselves to supporting creators worldwide in imagining and creating equitable, just, regenerative, protopian futures that work for all of life — because the future is always first an idea, and we and the Earth are one. This is our declaration of interdependence.