The general project design is very appealing.
I’d love to be able to list something local to my area, but feeling into the core what Second Renaissance thinking is, I’m not sure anything local is quite there yet. One local community I associate with has several key elements - residential farm and gardens, hosts international tours and volunteers, has a spiritual center, favors simplicity and person-to-person relationships. So it checks a lot of the boxes that might fit the model. The missing piece for me is this community (L’Arche) has Jesuit origins and is not explicitly liminal, metamodern, or self-aware as culturally emergent. All of that was in my head when I signed up to volunteer there and do things like work the cider press at the harvest festival. But it’s not an organization-wide understanding. If visitors showed up there wanting to talk about the theory of emergence, no one who lives and works there would have any understanding of that. But it’s an interesting question - how aligned are theory and practice in the current list of exemplars? How much do the exemplars vary in this regard?
Here is another local irony for me. I am very active in a face-to-face group in which I can discuss all the same theories we discuss here, very explicitly, and my sharings in that group are generally valued and accepted. So it sounds pretty liminal. Except this group is an outgrowth the local Bahá’í community and all the discussions are based on selected quotes from Bahá’í teachings (mostly). The Bahá’í faith has a pretty extensive global network that meets many, many criteria that strike me as quite consistent with Second Renaissance thinking. I imagine the same could be said for a variety of other faith traditions. Is belief in and practice of revealed religion consistent with Second Renaissance thinking? That would be worth exploring.