Designing Ecosystems of Care, Modular Commons & Regenerative Infrastructure w/ Alex & Jay

In this Project Onboarding session for Coherence 2025, Alex Lion Yes! (PREBRANDING) meets with Jay Cousins of Canopy for a visionary conversation about collaborative systems change, regenerative infrastructure, and how to scale solutions without sacrificing coherence or care.Jay shares Canopy’s founding inquiry: why do so many regenerative solutions remain isolated and fragmented — and how can we weave them into an integrated ecosystem? Together, they explore Canopy’s multi-layered approach to connecting builders, ideas, and infrastructures — from modular commons in urban spaces to affiliate-powered open business models, all grounded in a philosophy of “serving those who serve.”Key topics explored: 🔹 Canopy as a network-of-networks supporting regenerative solutions and infrastructures of care 🔹 “Serving those who serve”: prioritizing care for ecosystem stewards 🔹 Modular Commons: transforming unused urban buildings into living labs of regeneration 🔹 Solarpunk business models: enabling mass collaboration through open structures 🔹 The role of storytelling and sensemaking in growing a mycelial movement 🔹 Scaling without centralization: how AI and decentralized organizing can help ecosystems self-propagate 🔹 Social technologies like talking circles and real-time knowledge sharing 🔹 Reimagining collaborative design through the lens of fungi: adaptive, relational, alive 🔹 The role of Coherence as a prototyping field for ecosystem-wide coordinationThis is a deep and enlivening conversation for anyone building systems of regeneration, designing shared infrastructure, or seeking to amplify the power of connection across movements.🔹 Coherence 2025: https://coherence.tv/🔹 Jay Cousins: http://linkedin.com/in/jaycousins🔹 Canopy: https://www.canopy-projects.com🔹 Alex Lion Yes!: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandra-lewtak🔹 PREBRANDING: https://www.prebranding.wtf