About & Theory of Change

(aka Executive Summary, Treatment) Cosmos is a community, a platform, and a radical cooperative that aims to be a collaborative engine for collective genius. Specifically we seek greater realization of our intelligence and creativity in the world; we seek enhanced wellness and influence to affect social, economic, and cultural impacts. And in acting on such purpose, we seek to bring about (or enhance the chances of/conditions for) a more beautiful future, thoughtfully constructed from our finest visions and best processes.

The organizational values and norms defined in the Organizational Values & Ethics and the Design Principles: Community/Social Norms pages function as constraints, inherently, on the “fit” of users’ behaviors in Cosmos. Beyond these basic structural …

Like a fractal, the roots of our problems permeate and affect various scales of our lives. The patterns we are concerned with altering permeate and penetrate reality at multiple scales. Whether speaking to the global scale or the individual scale, Cosmos holds to unifying principles at all scales even if the strategies or implementation appear distinct at each scale.

We are a human-realization centered platform, which is also why we own, control, and benefit from it under the cooperative model. In a co-op, by design, everybody has an investment in the education and participation of everybody else. It is also why we …

Mission Cosmos seeks to be a multifaceted platform through which creatives can amplify their effects in the world and refine themselves as humans and artists. Our real purpose or mission is to fulfill the needs of our members, however we (the members) …

Cosmos seeks to create a vibrant, diverse ecosystem of participation. Like our actual cosmos, we would be chaotic yet ordered, orbiting magnetically yet on a thin, magical margin of success. To create the ultimate consensual, autopoietic dance, we woul …

This page explores how Cosmos reflects its values, ethics and design principles in the context of its community’s culture and social norms (often in the form of modeled, incentivized or reciprocal patterns of interactions).

This page explores how Cosmos reflects its values, ethics and design principles in its technological implementation, i.e. the platform’s functionality, systems, features and aspects. COMING SOON