In a community where a single dinner easily results in nine newly registered domain names, there are…
Over the years, 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 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…
For us at the Embassy SF, doocracy was born out of a realisation that consensus is expensive. We found that we were having regular house meetings, that took up huge swathes of time. At times, were filling the meetings with discussion just because we…
At the Embassy SF our goal is to manifest community as a platform, and to continually be pushing the boundary of new ways of sharing and transparency. Part of that means redirecting any surplus income back into the community.
We have an exciting new coliving house opening next door to Embassy SF, and one of our guests will be moving into this house. Yesterday we stood around the kitchen and discussed whether there was any “hard” advice for starting a successful community. That is…
We have a pervasive notion that excellence requires exclusivity. This probably comes from a time when opportunity really was scarce, and, as a result…
