Fabric is, first and foremost, a web of relationships between agents for social change. Its purpose – building collective agency in service to life – is not achieved by designing a structure from above but by cultivating a pattern of right relations from below. The network has no fixed shape; its topology emerges from the commitments its members actually enact.
The unit of design is therefore not the organisation chart or the governance body but the relational protocol: a freely adopted agreement about how to be in relationship – how to make decisions together, share resources, hold conflict, learn.
The concept of a Protocol draws on three traditions: technology, ceremony, and decolonial inquiry.
Its concrete application is that Participating means enacting protocols: membership in Fabric is defined by which protocols you adopt.