Hack the Hub: Automaton 🛠️

13–26 Dec at Commons Hub, 1 hour from Vienna.

Looking for builders to automate the boring parts of running a commons: booking, bookkeeping, wiki, agents.

~4h/day = free bed + food

30 spots, apply by 6 Dec:

automaton.commons-hub.at

Constants are changing, and so am I.

Recent thoughts on the @CommonsHubAT's lopsided development, prioritizing a collective brain over body & soul,
on my role as convener in assembling the Valley of the Commons @VotC2026,
and on where the Hub is heading.

felixfritsch2.substack.com/p/constants-ar…

Spiritual and political aspects of the new @CommonsHubAT reality, described by co-founder @FelixFritsch2 :

felixfritsch2.substack.com/p/constants-ar…

"the solstices and equinoxes are such powerful thresholds: natural cornerstones of the year that help us align for the three months until the next one arrives.

We’ll mark the year by its turns: the solstices and equinoxes, as thresholds between the seasons. Four times a year, a weekend at the Hub. Fire, food, music, and a step back. People have gathered at these thresholds for thousands of years, long before anyone could explain why the light returns. Something in us still answers when the year turns.

Why four fixed moments? Because traditions are built by coming back. Celebrating the quarterly revolutions gives us recurring moments of collective retrospection, in which we look back at the season behind us and acknowledge the work, the love and the joy in and around the Hub. Watching the web of life around the Hub grow, season by season, year by year, shows continuity, but also progress, as the cosmic spiral carries us through time and space. Each time we come back round, but never to the same place.

Titling this series ‘Revolutions’ is of course not arbitrary in its layered meanings. In its most literal sense, a revolution is a turn - of the earth around the sun, a body spinning in dance, a record on the turntable. In a more figurative sense, ‘Revolutions’ foregrounds the inner development needed to sustain the outward revolution towards the solarpunk future we are prefiguring.

Last but not least, the title also references a more explicitly political understanding of revolution: changing the socioeconomic conditions – that is, who controls the productive forces that are currently plundering our planet at unprecedented speed. While the main focus of Revolutions is the inward revolution among ourselves – what makes us effective revolutionaries in the first place – these moments will also help us explore the outward revolution we aspire to, and build coherence around its goals.

To me, this marks the end of pretending the Hub is an a-political entity, a stance we pragmatically adopted a few years ago to avoid public controversy. The work we do, the themes we explore are political. If nothing else, they are driven by a Politics of Love."

cc @VotC2026

Commons Hub hosts the @VotC2026 co-living pilot from Jan to March 2027. Apply now!

4 weeks. 95 humans. All gathering at @CommonsHubAT, at the foothills of Rax 🏔️

The first Valley of the Commons is a wrap, and our closing letter is out: what happened, what we learned, and where we’re headed 👇
nenajain.substack.com/p/four-weeks-a…

.@SterlinLujan is excited to start his keynote at the @VotC2026 in the @CommonsHubAT

on the need for societal course-corrections & exit ideology

x.com/VotC2026/statu…

Live from the hub at Valley of the Commons! 🎙️

Una Wang - Physical Infrastructure as a precondition for place-making for the commons x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

We are going deep into the roots of how we nurture community spaces and care structures for regeneration at the cosmolocal scale 🌱

Day 3 is live now with a keynote by Adam Arvidsson

A keynote on Industrious Modernity, exploring the relationship between capitalism and commons-based peer production.

Tune in now with @ethswarm

streamoverswarm.eth.limo/#/watch/video/…

we are liive with the keynote by
@caseorganic on calm tech!

youtube.com/live/K_TlFG_Dm…

In today's session, we had a shared discovery of the necessary gardening to get from P2P ➡️ P4P with @jeffemmett 👇

youtube.com/watch?v=rLwA7X…

our second week is starting now with the keynote by Roberto from @LiminalVillage on building a social, legal & technological stack for a regenerative commons

join us live here

youtube.com/watch?v=cH179Q…

join us online for the keynote by Kilian Jörg: “Reclaiming the commons“ speaking on nature & ecological collapse, radical commoning and our love for machines producing a certain lifestyle

youtube.com/watch?v=5sFrGO…

„the undoing of the link between freedom and money is essential” paraphrasing Kilian Jörg speaking at the @CommonsHubAT

As you may know, we launched the Cosmo-Local Initiative yesterday, the room was full and the spirit was definitely present.

We also launched a Artizen funding campaign, which is interesting as there are matching funds. If you give, we get x times more funding.

Please check it out :

"we are live on Artizen! who will be the first supporter and multiply their contributions? "
artizen.fund/index/p/cosmol…

.@mbauwens is launching the cosmolocal initiative of the @P2P_Foundation with @jeffemmett from here.

join us

youtube.com/live/9RID8x9F7…

The 21st Century Monastery

Breath in the Valley's reflective session with Adam Arvidsson, @mbauwens, and our community, streaming in full sovereignty using @ethswarm's decentralized tech stack. 🌾🐝👇

Keynote: "The Return of the Commons" by @mbauwens now live at the Hub! Join us virtually: