Second Life at the Embassy

One of the projects that we have been working towards this year has been building community with people who have had very different experiences of life, experiences that have that perhaps rendered our lives as segregated from early on. So much of ‘society’ tends to keep us…

The Red Victorian: A Metamorphosis in Governance, and so much more.

Communal income generation

One way to have impact as a commune

Over the years, the embassy…

Experimenting with space and time

“The public gathers in two kinds of spaces. The first is a space that is public, a place where the public gathers because it has a right to the place; the second is a space that is made public, a place where the public gathers precisely because it doesn’t have the right…

How to make yourself dispensable

In a community where a single dinner easily results in nine newly registered domain names, there are…

Excellence is everywhere and it’s looking for a Home

Excellence, Scarcity and Exclusivity

We have a pervasive notion that excellence requires exclusivity. This probably comes from a time when opportunity really was scarce, and, as a result…