Anyone into pattern language, to be applied to increase community resilience and preparedness?
There is a multitude of sources, providing technical knowledge and solutions to various needs in the spirit of low-tech, appropriate technology and resilience. Appropedia is surely the most renowned of them, accumulating information from many valuable collections.
However, typically for a wiki, the structure of this vault is more suitable for studying, than for direct implementation.
Let us assume the following scenario:
We plan to build technical infrastructure for a small settlement, located on a particular patch of land. We are moderately tech-capable. We can read and understand a documentation; we can implement it, with some adjustments. But we have no knowledge nor experience broad enough to deep-dive into a wiki and find solutions suitable for our specific situation.
We need a tool to help us somehow connect our context with searching criteria, and to select matching solutions, or at least to shortlist them.
First step toward this goal is to build a structure - a pattern language - starting from various needs to fulfill, and showing logical combinations of technical solutions to be applied.
Based upon such structure, we can try to build guidelines helping to make the whole process of selection semi-automated, with enough space for human consideration and variety of contexts. Using such a guide would lower the threshold both for selection and decision-taking process, and for education, allowing users to grow their knowledge and competences.
Do you know any such initiative being in progress? Or abandoned, that could be revived? Or maybe you would like to co-develop it?
