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Real Economy Lab is a collaborative investigation to map and spread practical,
sustainable economic systems and methods.

The Real Economy Lab provides an interactive platform where the cumulative knowledge, aims, and resources of the new economy movement can be drawn together in order to seek common ground and drive coordinated action

CONNECT

explore the links between people, organizations, issues, ideas and their surrounding contexts

CONVERGE

orient and mobilize towards common values, objectives, and mutual understanding

CATALYZE

create the conditions for collective awareness and collaborative action

Methods for Making Sense

Using a comprehensive survey, qualitative research and a participative modeling process, we locate actors within a basic narrative framework to reveal patterns and possibilities

Common Themes within the New Economy Movement

Through mapping various issues, topics, intentions and activities within the ecosystem, we identify unifying themes or principles observed at the intersection of leading models for economic change.

Within this interactive metamap, you may double click on any topic to view more information, or right click on a topic to explore a theme’s relations and see more connections.

Tribes of the New Economy

We start to see this transformational ecosystem made up of many ‘tribes’, each with their own traits,characteristics, areas of interest and activity. Some of the early groupings that are emerging include:

COMMONS ORIENTED

supporting and sustaining many forms of shared resource pools, from digital to physical and local to global

P2P NETWORKS

enabling and advancing self-organized, distributed collaboration amongst autonomous individuals and groups

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

institutions and actors in the realm of public services, oversight, and policy or regulatory frameworks

NGO / NON-PROFIT

public benefit, mission-driven, and civil society organizations supporting well-being, culture, and community

ENTERPRISE BASED

business and social ventures pursuing impact and return on investment through creative commerce

CO-OPS & SOLIDARITY

groups founded in shared identity and co-ownership or co-responsibility for mutual assets and aims

RE-LOCALISATION & TRANSITION

initiatives for local self-reliance, appropriate culture, and community resilience, drawing on the common bonds of place

ACADEMICS & LEARNING

scholarly programs, intellectual discourse, and learning communities dedicated to the propagation of knowledge

RADICAL DEPARTURES

advocates and adventurers undertaking fundamental shifts in lifestyle and culture by conviction or necessity

Organisational Archetypes

Viewing organisations as programmatic actors within an ecosystem, we can identify characteristic roles and behaviors, labeled as Archetypes.

Archetypes framework adapted from “Database of the Self in Hyperconnectivity” by @gavinkeech @venessamiemis

Organisations may embody one or more of these archetypes in relation to how they contribute and complement others in the unfolding story of the whole.

Network Overview

Data from the Lab survey process of around 100 influential next economy organisations and initiatives are published in a large Ecosystem Map enabling detailed visual exploration of these and other clusters, patterns, and relationships. Click on the image at left to access the map.

Latest Articles

Transformative Economies Lab

Have you ever wanted to to see a live dynamic and evolving visualization of the emerging new economy – of the organizations and movements in this new economy and how they work, why they do what they are doing, who their networks are? Now you......
24 June, 2020 No comment
Ecosystem Change: An Exhilarating Year in Review

In a year chock full of surprises, contradictions, warning signs, and increasingly vocal calls for systemic change, it is easy to overlook the many ways that new economic paradigms and practices are cropping up in everyday awareness as an essential vector of the immense......
06 March, 2017 No comment
User feedback on the Real Economy Lab

The need to make sense of the emerging next economy landscape Many of us know that we desperately need to shift our economy away from growth and inequality to one that delivers wellbeing and justice for people and planet. But how many of us have......
08 June, 2016 No comment

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Real Economy Lab is a collaborative project and your engagement is highly valued. Submit your name and email to receive occasional updates and invitations, or send a brief message with any questions or suggestions that will help us to improve.

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Who are we?

The Real Economy Lab team is comprised of individuals passionate about the new economy from a variety of backgrounds and affiliations. The Lab is convened by