Living Together Research Proposal

Aims

To submit a proposal for working on the Living Together paper as part of a research position at a New Zealand university. The ideas discussed in the paper will be connected to the current discourse on political science, making them acceptable to mainstream academia. We will need to write a brief summary of what will be researched and need to contact academics for feedback. Once the proposal is polished enough we can then submit it as part of an application for an academic research position for Flo.

Through this we will achieve multiple objectives:

• To secure gainful employment and payment for Flo (teaching) and Milan (writing), allowing Flo to build the case for his residency application by having a job offer for which he is uniquely qualified, and allowing Milan to be paid to write about the work that has taken place under the project.

• To tie together the philosophy, ideas and technologies discussed on Organic Design succinctly and in a language that is acceptable to the academic mainstream, building the case for the project and gaining support for various aspects of it such as Peer development. This can then form the foundation of proposals for various other projects connected to the project.

• To integrate real-world examples of the principles discussed in the paper and gain support for said examples such as sustainable communities and community centres, or Platforms

Concepts

• A fundamental question needs to be formulated which will express what we want to research in writing the paper
• World government is one of the concepts addressed, however we want to avoid implying rigid centralisation.
• We need to build a connection between the concept of organic groups and the idea of institutions with a mandate, (given how)?