IMBUE

Introducing open deliberation .

In progress

This site is an evolving scrapbook of songs and other art about open deliberation with a story, and a call for artists add here, or to take it different directions.

Here is the partial skeleton of the ushin concept starting with how it came to be and some of its struggles.

The budding webpages are starting to outline themes, illustrations, scenes, lists of songs in various stages of presentation.

Things are sloppier than intended just to get it out there and start collaborating and test deliberations methods.

Purpose

The purpose of this multimedia project is to imbue a sense of free deliberation as a living, liberating, process to bring people together.

Imbue promotes “universal shared information”, ushin, shapes to kick-start a culture of deliberation.

For more about the ushin software see https://ushin.org and for conceptual information see https:/dev.ushin.net

The docu-story is meant to relay the need for, and potential of, ushin deliberation.

The autobiographical docu-musical consists of vignettes surrounding the development of universal shared information, ushin. An idealistic doctor’s quest to heal healthcare with information.The story takes us from the concept’s naive infancy in the early 90’s to it’s open-ended participatory potential.

The backbone of the unfolding plot is a four-part oratorio spanning legend, history, inner experience and future potentials.

The oratorio portrays our species through a sampling of past and potential liberating experiences for human consciousness.

See Outline for storylines of the docu-musical vignettes and oratorio.

This site here may become an experimental canvas for co-creation.

The intention for the site is to experiment here with repurposed, extended and invented free and open source online tools for collaboration and basic deliberation. Annotation tools, widgets and Input forms are among the options under discussion for the site to test features outlined at dev.ushin.net.

Basic deliberation

We’d like site visitors to be able to select any words or images published on the site, tag them with an ushin shape, and enter them into deliberation.

Deliberated snippets of text, or images, could generate ideas to rework the piece.

Examples of how site visitors can add to and improve the oratorio

Submit songs about other legends of human freedom.

Cite facts related to human history and freedom, both cimarron and jubileed.

Offer lyrics for instrumental verses of music published for the collaborative inner freedom section.

Upload images showing people using the ushin shapes, especially to show the magic of meeting real needs to bring people together.

Deliberation method deliberated

The site encourages critique of the ushin method by way of ushered deliberations.

Others are welcome to test the deliberation tools on their own sites for their own interests.

As a reflection of the peer-to-peer project which the docu-musical promotes, the production itself is intended to grow freely and collaboratively.

Past USHIN discussions

USHIN, Inc. hosted and provided shapes for different kinds of gatherings to test the concept.

Use ushin only as needed

Past testing showed that ushin shapes often help people understand different aspects and perspectives on topics – but only when the topics mattered to the people. Otherwise it seems burdensome and useless. There’s no point to ushering trivial or irrelevant topics.

New online and offline shapes and formats are forthcoming, for people to find, compare, rank and share information from, and through, ones’ own peer groups.

Current USHIN online

USHIN, Inc., a very tiny nonprofit, has built widgets, web-apps and other software to explore the use of ushin shapes in various settings, and deliberation through p2p file sharing.

For ushin software see ushin.org.

The merit shape is absent in the ushin software site, as merit features have not yet been baked in.

Calling WordPress Developers

–> to explore the limits of WordPress to present annotation and input through forms, widgets … that allow commentary tagged with an ushin shape for what kind of input

–> model future features of ushin tools for deliberative input about the documusical

–> explore music collaboration by file sharing, using the multi-track method of the “wrong” git system that grows fringe rather always merging into a single main branch.

–> filters for curators to sort whether and where to publish the input,using topic, label, shape and filters to limit spam, e.g. types of citations, specific words or content …

–> show list of links to the tracks on github – how does that work?

–. how to curate contributions published on the site.

–> git repositories would annex (?) binary files – what is this?

–> visitors to see lists of published options for image, audio, video and score updates which they could usher, rank and remove from their curated version to save, edit and share.

FUTURE FEATURE REQUESTS include

• Merit calculations, see Merit in dev.ushin.net
  • accounting for a main point’s merit by the average merit of its constituent supporting points
  • calculated by custom criteria (by one’s own filters and cloned filters from one’s peer(s)
  • the publishing host, peers, authors and readers each customize what is on the display by ranking
    • peers
    • peer filters
    • shapes
    • labels
  • shape regions each can have a total score of 9
    • the total, or average, can be no more than 9, using whole numbers

USHIN bling

Examples of charms, cards, egg timers, coasters, boxes and wearables have been given out and tested in different kinds of groups and fundraising events in the past.

–>pending images of bling we have had

–> future donation page, with bling