Collaborative organising is known to burn like a rocket: it thrives on intense passion, relationality and creativity but quickly falls into pieces. This article explores the underestimated role of events and their affective atmospheres to sustain collaborative work. Drawing insights from two ethnographic field studies within an open-source software community and a network of impact entrepreneurs, we introduce the notion of ‘polyrhythmic affectivity’ at the core of polycentric governance. It encapsulates how frictional reverberances between three atmospherically experienced affective intensities – togetherness, dissonance and mutuality – are able to maintain emergent yet enduring order. We argue that the collective motivational force of collaborative organising, can be stabilised through a process of ‘affective commoning’ to sustain collaborative atmospheres as shared creative resources.

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解决协作组织中的持久性问题：活动氛围和多节奏情感


众所周知，协作组织就像火箭一样燃烧：它在强烈的激情、关系和创造力上茁壮成长，但很快就会分崩离析。本文探讨了事件及其情感氛围在维持协作工作方面被低估的作用。从开源软件社区和影响力企业家网络中的两项人种学实地研究中汲取见解，我们引入了多中心治理核心的“多节奏情感”概念。它概括了三种大气体验的情感强度——团结、不和谐和相互——之间的摩擦混响如何能够维持涌现而持久的秩序。我们认为，协作组织的集体激励力量可以通过“情感共享”过程来稳定，以维持作为共享创意资源的协作氛围。