ABSTRACT
As we set about our planning we are, by now, cautious of pre-emptive community building. Instead, we seek to build an architecture of possibilities in the broadest sense of the term and give this shape, spatially and organizationally. Later, we may attach to it rules or codes of conduct which we will develop with others. In this way, we create the kind of social space where individuals and organizations engage with each other in ways more akin to the behaviour of Nakagakit's slime mould organism than any devised systems of planning. We create conditions, in other words, for emergence to take place and, in this respect, search for catalysts. The question for planners is: how much structure do we design before the structure itself interrupts the natural process of emergence?
