Families of patterns

Here we introduce the principle of families of patterns in the foprop pattern language.

Families of patterns occupy a location within A container aka a weave.

At an initial stage we can anticipate that forty-or-so pattern families might hold sufficient scope for a pattern language of activist life, making a living economy. These are spread more or less evenly across four zones of reach and across three landscapes of practice.

That's a lot of patterns! Even at the level of families, never mind at more fine-grained levels of attention. So, by way of botstrapping, some tactical selection might be adopted, to begin exploring both what such a pattern approach - the foprop weave - might potentially achieve, and what the composition of the family mix might appropriately be. See: Tactical selection of issues

# Narrative frame and pattern repository This tactical selection gives us fewer-than-forty patterns to deal with initially: the family-patterns of the tactically highlighted families.

We deal with this initial subset at two levels: - Narrative frame - Making a living economy - A section of the present wiki. Aims for narrative flow and overview. - Pattern repository - A separate wiki. Where the detail is.

Here we present a dynamic walk-through the families within the foprop frame, aiming for a sense of texture and overall form, a sense of richness and scope; a sense of different but mutually animating perspectives and interweaving implications: invoking a rich space for activist living and working and evolving.

This is a repository of patterns in the foprop pattern language. At this stage we work only at the level of pattern families and narrative frame. Evolving the language and a full pattern reperetoire calls for time and diverse community.