belonging by design • gary e. davis • berkeley


	Project	iso-belonging

	belonging by design value-oriented programming gary e. davis	September 1, 2025

Given a clear sense of goodG political values, it’s relatively easy to prospect a programmatic scaling of that practically into broad presence, regardless of conditions militating against that. In particular, it’s relatively easy to detail what is goodG governance, relative to interests of community development, regional sustainability, and advancement of public goods, such as climate leadership and public health leadership. The Value of instituting democratic expectations through educational excellence is relatively easy to detail. Appreciation of our global relativity of planetary life easily entails the value of collaborative political leadership at relevant scale of globality (from entailments for the “globality” of actual lifeworlds to the planetary future of humanity, demographically as well as ethically).

Political scaling presumes adequate supportive and self-enhancing scale of social belonging with values advancing appreication for ethnic diversity, countering unfairness, enjoying inclusiveness, appreciating climate risks, and actively wanting a goodG society, in the best senses of that.

But social progress emerges only from the cultural values which make social progress appealing. Yet, cultural values originate from the values of good_ qualities of life, which are primarily interpersonal.

We want a wholly flourishing continuum of family, friendships, neighborhood, and solidarities which supports and advances cultural life.

We want love of learning, high individuation, lasting intimacy, life-long Purpose, and healthy elderly years supporting and advancing interpersonal life across one’s life cycle and across generations.

We want endless love of exploration, science, art, and ultimate orientation by what academic life can possibly share in and with belonging together across continua of person-al being.

In particular, higher education thoughtfully scales belonging together by design across continua and across generations in terms of professional engagements. Being thoughtful in the best senses leads to dwelling with the better senses of being, which leads to building for better person-al, cultural, social, and political flourishing.

All generative belonging identifies with appreciating differentiations, integrally self-identifying differentially.

Then, to my mind, an ultimacy of being lives in the global scale of academic life, conceptually as evolving synergies of leading minds and venues appreciating highly, far-sightedly, heartfully, and sacredly, serving advancements of person-al being intergenerationally and with futuring humanity in mind.

The essence of person-al being is wholly flourishing life across generations, enhancive belonging together of generative modes of being altogether advancing the ultimately self-enhancive nature of intelligent life, which expresses Our evolving.

We address technicalities relatively: What understanding of generativity is better for emergent appeals, then for given purposes? How may project-ive enframing and mapping best work for us? What extrapolating and interpolating of given belonging best appreciates ecological implicatures? What preferred constituting (always a prospective venture) serves better instituting?

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