# Governance Ecologies

Expanding the repertoires for community governance

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## What legacies will guide the future of governance design?

Governance Ecologies is a strategy for co-producing a global commons of collective governance. Our goal is to study and honor governance repertoires from beyond the dominant North-Atlantic political traditions, to gather insights from among them, and to inform the design of governance systems for a rapidly changing world.

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## Projects

### Excavations

An artist residency exploring histories and possible futures for Internet governance, exhibited at the UN Internet Governance Forum.

### Governance Archaeology

A database that explores collective governance practices across culture, history, and geography.

### Protocol Oral History Project

A collection of interviews with protocol artists—the skilled builders and stewards of the rules, standards, and norms that shape our lives in often invisible ways.

### Protocol Bicorder

A web app for the study of protocols.

### Anchors

King's College London

Media Economies Design Lab, University of Colorado Boulder

Metagov

### Funders

Eutopia Foundation

Ethereum Foundation

Siegel Family Endowment

## Team

### Federica Carugati

King's College London

### Júlia Martins Rodrigues

University of Colorado Boulder

### Nathan Schneider

University of Colorado Boulder

### Riley Wong

Emergent Research

### Kadallah Burrowes

University of Colorado Boulder

### Contact Us

For inquiries about our research or collaboration opportunities, please email us at medlab@colorado.edu.