# Principles & protocols

> Incomplete - To be extended xxx

xxx How do we understand ‘principles’?

xxx To be designed - thro `commons.hour` and to be mobilised in continuous redesign of the practice of plural contributions that *is* meet.coop. 

* A practice of design justice, continuously applied in the various commons-spaces of meet.coop. 
* A practice of continuous design-of-commoning, by participating commoners. Aka democratic? 

Much more hands-on, contributory, practical than that. Actual material **configuring** of (live, performed) *contributions*, and living *architectures of contribution* (weaves, dances, ‘oceanic’ or ‘continental’ navigations).

xxx Protocols, privileges and obligations **in spaces**, addressed as **as commons**. *Assembling* a system of principles from protocols of particular practices of particular kinds in particular spaces; bottom-up design rather than top-down design. xxx The principles themselves are an **aesthetic commons** - a combination of privileges, obligations and protocols in media and venue spaces.

xxx Principles as **distilled protocols**. Core protocols nominated as 'principles'. See [Core protocols aka principles](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/6-constitution/constitution/core-protocols-aka-principles-of-meet.coop)

xxx Principles as **patterns**. `Alexander, living architecture of evolved common space, thro vernacular capability and plural, multilocal contribution`. Design principles. Continuous redesign. Practice of continuous redesign - commons.hour. Evolving a pattern language as a `media commons` (in the handbook), that holds and presents the principles of commoning digital infrastructure to be mobilised in meet.coop.

xxx **Social relations of practice**, rather than abstracted or idealised or espoused ‘values’ or merely (even sincerely) ‘felt’ values. Active, aware, practices of value(ing). See [Social relations](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/3-social-relations/design-and-operation-principles)

xxx Something on the seven coop principles. Link with the seven adapted principles in the DisCO governance model for distributed cooperation. xxx See [Coop values, DisCO](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/1-principles/principles/coop-values-disco)

xxx **Other principles**: permaculture, feminist practice, roots movements, black movements, decolonial, etc etc xxx See [Social relations](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/3-social-relations/design-and-operation-principles) What’s the working relationship between (evolved, designed) 'principles’ and the value-systems, commitments and governance frames of various contributing communities?

* How difficult might this prove to be? 
* How much does this depend on pluriversal sensitivity, tolerance and resilience in commons.hour, the community circle and the General Assembly (ie on **skilful aesthetic practice** in the contributing communities); and 
* How far can it be **specified** in protocols of *facilitation-of-contribution* in venue spaces (and to a lesser extent, in media spaces, and platform spaces).