Here we identify several key characteristics of the foprop frame, as a basis of a pattern language of activist practice.
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Making a Living Economy is a revolutionary practice of living and making. The patterns of the foprop pattern language are a way of holding the theory of this practice; and the foprop weave is a way of holding the patterns. The materiality of this may be engaged through three 'landscapes' in which living is simultaneously and continuously enacted. Here we sketch the three landscapes.
**Patterns:** A pattern helps to complete - in practice - coarser-grained patterns ‘above’ it, which are less directly tractable, and is itself completed by those ‘below’ it, which are more open to direct, local, autonomous action.
Within this relationship, in addition to having parents and children, a pattern generally will have siblings, which affiliate or resonate with it, imparting additional context, dynamics, texture and traction. Affiliations and resonances constitute the patterns as an intrinsically plural (pluriversal), systemic ‘weave’. Pluriverse
The patterns are a ‘weave’ because **the practice** needs to be a weave, a dance . . the foprop weave is a frame for holding theory-of-practice, with dance-like characteristics of 'woven' movement in space - or maybe, song-like characteristics, as in songlines, for example? Whatever: NOT a Lego kit or an Erector set!. ---
Characteristics of the weave, and its usability . .
Here we present the foprop weave as a container, structural framework and mapping space for patterns in a pattern language.
The plurality of patterns - situated in the three landscapes, distributed across the four zones - implies a disciplined plurality of modes of rigour - in identifying them and in mobilising them. Here we discuss rigour(s), plural.
The practice that makes the living economy is necessarily itself animated, alive . . in the body - in a multiplicity of mutually engaging bodies, human and non-human. It is the materiality that makes the Living Economy (and its extant, presently dominant, deadening enemies) forceful.
Attending centrally to the body brings the central distinction - and relationship - between in-here and out-there. This has connections with the issue of structure and agency. But for foprop it is not a particular problem.
Here we develop the complementarity of landscapes and zones, as the basic elements of a materialist frame for mapping patterns of activist practice.