How to build an international platform and community of practice for system entrepreneurship?

Dark Matter Labs has grown from an internal experiment of a few people inside Project 00 to an international team of 70+ in more than 20 countries in just a few years. From 2019 to 2024, Les Interstices helped develop the Canadian portfolio and entity and contributed to the development and structure of the international DM group, whose mission is focused on reinventing tomorrow's civic infrastructures in various territorial contexts, including shifts required in the underlying ‘dark matter’ of our societies - monetary, economic, governance, regulatory and policy systems.

Roles included:

• Sensing, anticipating and framing various operational needs and kickstarting the process to move the organisation towards the next stages

• Creating, curating and facilitating multiple key international organizational online spaces for peer-to-peer support, critical thinking, pathway development and decision-making

• Initiating and leading various organizational efforts for brokering knowledge, compounding learning and constructing legibility across all DM's initiatives

• Scaffolding new streams of practice and stewarded them towards the first stages of experimentation and implementation

• Scoping, leading, and managing projects with transdisciplinary remote teams

• Cofounding the Canadian legal entity and helping set up the basic administrative and governance infrastructure

• Conducting and coordinating research on complex topics at initial stages of conceptualization

• Building and holding key partnerships with various types of stakeholders

• Fundraising for a wide array of emerging initiatives across the international portfolio, as well as for the portfolio as a whole

• Leading and supporting creative and critical writing / editing for a wide range of publications and proposals around the world, including core organizational communication pieces