Lab
Multi-Value Decision-Making Lab
Develops and tests mechanisms for accountable decisions among values that cannot be reduced to a common measure.
Development Focus
Plural Value and Decision-Making
Lab Function
Mechanism and protocol development
What the Lab Develops
Derived from Post Capitalistic Auction, the Lab isolates and tests structures that allow heterogeneous and non-commensurable forms of value to enter one decision situation without conversion to a single metric. Its focus is the relation between commitment, public articulation, situated judgment, responsibility, and consequential choice.
Founding Corpus
Post Capitalistic Auction
From Post Capitalistic Auction
The Multi-Value Decision-Making Lab develops and tests method and protocol hypotheses derived from the operative structure of Post Capitalistic Auction.
Featured Protocol Initiatives
Post Capitalistic Protocol: Protocol Hypothesis, June 2026
Developed by Jingyi Wang at New Value Institute, PCP is a protocol hypothesis for accountable choices among non-commensurable values.
Post Capitalistic Art Award
Developed by Jingyi Wang through New Value Institute, PCAA is a proposed international award based on plural value and artist-held choice.
Source Structure and Core Question
How can decisions remain legitimate when the values at stake cannot be reduced to a common measure?
The Lab begins from selected structural relations within the operative rules of Post Capitalistic Auction. It separates plural bidding, public deliberation, situated authority, binding commitment, and consequential choice so that their interaction can be examined and tested.
Bounded test conditions are used to identify what participants prioritise, what they are prepared to commit, what remains protected or excluded, and how rules shape the visibility of different forms of value.
Post Capitalistic Protocol remains a protocol hypothesis in development rather than a validated institutional tool. Post Capitalistic Art Award is an initiative in development.
Source Materials
- Post Capitalistic Auction across four editions
- Plural bidding structures
- Binding value commitments
- Non-conversion
- Situated judgment
- Post Capitalistic Protocol
- Post Capitalistic Art Award
Mechanisms and Protocol Hypotheses
- Heterogeneous value channels
- Non-conversion
- Binding commitments
- Public articulation
- Situated judgment
- Consequential choice
- Transferability testing
Outputs
- Mechanism analyses
- Protocol hypotheses
- Transferability tests
- Bounded test designs
- Allocation and decision architectures
Possible Test Contexts
- Cultural funding
- Grants
- Commissions
- Residencies
- Awards
- Philanthropy
- Resource allocation
- AI-assisted decisions where final human responsibility must remain visible
Development Status
Active protocol development
Development beyond the Source Work
Development beyond the founding work proceeds through external cases, interdisciplinary expertise, and bounded institutional tests.
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