Adloris Foundation

About

How the Foundation approaches its work, and the frameworks behind it.

Our work starts with one question

What does a community need in place to keep using what a project built after the grant, pilot, or administration ends?

Two paths from the same project. Without a plan, tools and data scatter once the grant, pilot, or term ends. When stewardship, access rules, and upkeep are planned from the start, the work stays in use years later.
Project starts
Grant, pilot, or term ends
Without a plan It scatters Tools and data drift off.
Planned from the start It stays in use Steward, rules, and upkeep in place.

Pillar 01

Generative Cities

A framework for cities that keep knowledge, tools, and relationships in use after a pilot ends.

Developed by Adler Archer. Built on three ideas.

Generative Cities draws on three ideas. Capabilities, from Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. Commons governance, from Elinor Ostrom, Sheila Foster, and Christian Iaione. Livability, from Lindsay J. Thompson. The Foundation applies the framework by planning maintenance, ownership, and governance at the start of a project.
Capabilities Flourishing is the point of design. Amartya SenMartha Nussbaum
Commons governance People can govern what they share. Elinor OstromSheila FosterChristian Iaione
Livability What a livable neighborhood provides. Lindsay J. Thompson
Generative Cities
MaintenanceOwnershipGovernance

Planned at the start of a project, not at its end.

Pillar 02

Governed knowledge infrastructure

Keeping what a partnership produces maintained, answerable to the people who made it, and available after the funding moves on.

  1. 01 Named steward A person or group who answers for it.
  2. 02 Access and use rules Who can use it, and on what terms.
  3. 03 Maintenance plan How it keeps running, and who pays.

When a partnership ends

Without a plan It scatters Maintenance stops, people move on, and the community loses control of what it built.
Planned from the start It stays in use Stewardship roles, preservation, access rules, upkeep, and a clear way to decide.
Communities should keep access to what they helped build.

Where we align

Livable Cities

Our programs and publications follow the five dimensions of the Livable Cities model.

Developed by Lindsay J. Thompson and Richard G. Milter, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

  1. 01 Sustainable Habitat Housing, energy, transportation, and broadband: the physical conditions households live with every day. Primer series
  2. 02 Healthy People Community health workers, health data standards, and the conditions that shape health outside the clinic. Primer series
  3. 03 Cohesive Communities Partnerships, coalitions, and community control over the work done in a neighborhood. Primer series
  4. 04 Engaged Citizens Civic participation, community data governance, and public oversight of shared technology. Primer series
  5. 05 Inclusive Prosperity Cost of living, financing that outlasts a grant cycle, and innovation that keeps value in public hands. Primer series