General 5 — Arising Quo

Transformative Wealth Redistribution

Arising Quo is a learning journey trying to answer:

How can we ensure redistribution of power and capital, but not at the cost of staying stuck in old logics?

An experiment in ‘redesigning the chessboard’ to ensure the work is not in any way upholding the status quo or simply making the existing system work better. In this first exploratory year we've been moving resources from a 1 million Euro learning pot, to explore both the “how” and the “what” of transformative wealth redistribution.

We’ve been asking ourselves what we mean by transformative wealth redistribution. It’s a big question and one that we think we’ll be holding as an enquiry as we do this work. At Arising Quo, we currently see transformation as an attempt at restoring balance — not only in how we approach the how and the what of change, but also thinking about and signalling towards what transforms and where — and who has agency over that.

This is a learning phase for Arising Quo and there’s lots we don’t yet know, that we think will emerge as the work becomes more alive and deepens. At the moment we think that transformative work...

... is going to the root and uprooting. The changes that we speak of are deep and at the core, they are unearthing and revealing.
... is re-framing what is right or wrong, what is true and untrue, and how we hold complexity, plurality and uncertainty.
... happens within the non-linear timeline of the personal, to the collective to the structural and systemic.
... is moving away from reactive to discerned, from individualism to interdependency, from extractive to re-generative.
... is revealing and pointing towards new emergent systems and patterns that serve to navigate the new world we are being ushered/called into, where historic and current dominating oppressive systems and structures are falling/failing/crumbling and the composting of empires has begun.

Transformative Wealth Redistribution

How can we ensure redistribution of power and capital, but not at the cost of staying stuck in old logics?

... is going to the root and uprooting. The changes that we speak of are deep and at the core, they are unearthing and revealing.

... is re-framing what is right or wrong, what is true and untrue, and how we hold complexity, plurality and uncertainty.

... happens within the non-linear timeline of the personal, to the collective to the structural and systemic.

... is moving away from reactive to discerned, from individualism to interdependency, from extractive to re-generative.

... is revealing and pointing towards new emergent systems and patterns that serve to navigate the new world we are being ushered/called into, where historic and current dominating oppressive systems and structures are falling/failing/crumbling and the composting of empires has begun.