Commons Hub

1/6 Snow is starting to melt, first inklings of spring are stirring, and the garden is waking from hibernation. It’s time to Hack the Hub again!🌱🛠️ Come join us from March 27 to April 7 and help make the Hub shine as never before ✨

Great news: @mbauwens himself is going to attend our X space this week! to accommodate his schedule, we postponed the space to tomorrow, 10 am CEST. Tune in for updates on Michel's health, his ongoing work, summer plans and the bigger picture - to initiate an orderly, generational transfer of responsibilities in the coming years in order to strengthen our movement and lessen the burden carried individually.

Wouldn't you know it, we're only 5 weeks away from CoFi 4. We're excited to return to the @commonshubAT for another week in the Austrian Alps exploring the intersection of collaborative communities, technology, and finance. Join us for what's sure to be another great event!

No good gathering place is complete without a fire place, ours just happens to be a beautiful old cauldron that looks straight out of a fairy tale. It keeps us warm when the night is cool, and works magic older than all of us. Won't you come join us and share your story?

We’re tremendously sad to hear that Michel Bauwens has suffered a serious health crisis. Michel has been one of the central thinkers and organizers of the commons movement for decades, and his work has shaped many of us deeply. This also creates real uncertainty for the first week of Valley of the Commons, where Michel was meant to lead the “Return of the Commons” course. Rather than pretending everything is unchanged, we’ll take a few days to re-coordinate with care. In this light, we’re extending the Early Bird deadline until Wednesday, 20 May, and will host an X Space at 4pm CEST that day: x.com/i/spaces/1mxPa… Please join us to hear where things stand, reflect on Michel’s work, and discuss how the wider commons community can help. This may include support for Michel’s recovery and medical costs, but also an “intellectual fundraiser”: inviting his collaborators, co-authors, and fellow commoners to help continue his work toward the Return of the Commons — during the first week of Valley of the Commons and beyond. More soon. For now: love, strength, and deep gratitude to Michel <3

Hot tub appreciation post Who doesn't love a good soak in some warm water on a cool evening, surrounded by friends and peers? Some of our best times have been here in the back yard, reflecting on the rich ideas of the day and recharging for what's yet to come. #FireTeam

Events that really change things like WORLDPLAY, choose WHERE the event takes place very deliberatly ... in their own words: " For such experiments, the @CommonsHubAT carries both symbolic significance and serious infrastructure for peer production value to express itself. It is a convivial, semi-off-grid site in the Austrian Alps, with workshop spaces, a conference room, maker equipment, a 3D printer, laser cutter, book binder, sound system, projector, hiking trails and riverside nearby. There is also a self-made wood-fired hot tub lovingly referred to as the Liquidity Pool, and, thanks to the MVP commoners of the annual Hack the Hub event, a newly built outdoor sauna. The Hub’s longer horizon is a regenerative ecovillage. This matters because WORLDPLAY is not only about imagining alternative infrastructures, but takes place inside one that is itself being built – one island in an archipelago of alternative spaces popping up like mushrooms. " networkcultures.org/blog/2026/05/0…

@VotC2026 @ChordiaNena @jeffemmett @polislabs @hubs_network_ we couldn't wish for better support, and better friends, really. so immensely happy to have met @lorenzopatuzzo and the gang, and to have joined @hubs_network_ last fall

@ChordiaNena @jeffemmett @polislabs An extra round of applause for @hubs_network_ as they join as our first sponsor! Their team also came through the @CommonsHubAT for Hack the Hub recently and made quite some substantial contributions to the space. Just look at the transformation of the workshop! 5/7

Hey friends! We've got a bundle of updates to share as we close in on the final week of Early Bird ticket prices for Valley of the Commons. New partners, team members, sponsors and exciting possibilities abound. Here is the high level overview 🧵 1/7

@VotC2026 @ChordiaNena @jeffemmett props to our new team members!

New team members include @ChordiaNena, Stefan Schütz, and @jeffemmett, each bringing their unique and powerful skills to bear for the vision of the Valley. 3/7

@VotC2026 it's honestly exciting to see more and more traction around this vision :)

The Valley around us is taking shape!

kicking off the summer season at the @CommonsHubAT next month - among the most epic events you never heard of

What would you bring to WORLDPLAY? A game for storying another economy? A prop from a parallel present? An experiential future dining experience? An imaginary institution? A “fake it till you make it” theory of change? June 7–13, Commons Hub, Austria.

You know what they say about early birds...they get the best ticket prices! Just a reminder you've got until 15 May to snag your early bird tickets for Valley of the Commons. See you there!

@kosmostasis Come seed the Valley of the Commons with us! A 4-week pop-up village held by the forests, mountains, and open skies of the Austrian Alps 🏔️ 24 Aug – 20 Sep 2026 x.com/VotC2026/statu…

In this space, we'll share about upcoming pop-ups seeding permanent hubs, the unique opportunities and challenges these different initiatives face, and what we can learn from each other as we compound the next stage of human civilization 🌿x.com/i/spaces/1qxvv…

Tomorrow we'll host our second Cosmolocal Roads session alongside our friends from @zuAfrique, @themu_xyz, and @nsethereum 👇

come listen in to the 2nd round of Cosmolocal Roads, happening now!

Having just defended her PhD in Civil Engineering at ETH Zurich (congratulations!), Una Wang is gonna advise Valley development on decentralized autonomous buildings, decentralized physical infrastructure, digital twins, IoT and regenerative built environments.

Yes! such an honour to be participating at @VotC2026 Such impressive line up and the "usual" crowd at @CommonsHubAT is unusually amazing!

Who comes to CCG? 🧠 Commons builders & systems thinkers 🎨 Artists & speculative worldbuilders 💻 Hackers, activists & researchers 🎲 Game designers & storytellers 🔄 "Degens turned regen" First-timers & returning OGs alike. 🎟️ €80 until March 31. 🔗 cryptocommonsgather.ing

Early Bird Tickets for €100 till March 31st, including food & drink for 7 days - don't wait too long! x.com/cofi_gathering…