Distributed Republic Welcome to the village.
Distributed Republic explores and builds networked communities under an anarchic-agreements model. Keep scrolling, and we will show you around.
More than a place.
Community is more than living nearby. It is real overlap in each other's lives: shared meals, holidays celebrated together, taking turns with the children. Built on friendship and trust, not just an address. The village is a support network, not a postcode.
Distributed Republic is a values-led project, not a product. It is the work of Emilija and Jamie Bykov-Brett, and it is as much about helping you picture your own community living as it is about building ours.
The commons comes first.
Shared kitchens, workshops, gardens and gathering halls: the physical and social commons where everyday life happens together. Four pillars hold it up.
Campus
The shared spaces where everyday life happens together.
Curation
Who joins, how we welcome, how we share what we have.
Rituals
The recurring practices that turn people into community.
Contribution
Time, skills, care and resources; governed by everyone.
Households, close by choice.
A handful of households living closely, sharing meals, work and a co-op. Participation is encouraged, autonomy more so. How a community governs itself is written together, as a collective agreement, never handed down.
Stronger, together.
A shared venture, a cooperative, can hold a community together: a retreat space, co-working, events, or working the land, with members sharing in the running and the rewards. Households linked this way are far more resilient when things get hard.
We take inspiration from the cooperative tradition, including Mondragon, where a network of member-owned businesses grew from a single community.
Events.
Open days, shared meals, work weekends, and conversations about community living. This is where we meet, in person and online.
Our first gatherings are being planned. Follow along to be invited, or tell us you would like to come.
Blog: notes from the journey.
One village becomes two, then a network, each keeping its own character. We write down what we learn along the way.
Solarpunk needs a kitchen rota
Solarpunk imagined a sustainable, self-governing community and then mostly drew it. Distributed Republic is the social technology that turns the render into a place you can actually live in and run.
→ 20 JunAnarchic agreements: the rules we make ourselves
What anarchic agreements are, drawn from the Field Guide to Collective Organising, and why a community that makes its own rules keeps them better than one that inherits them.
→ 19 JunThe four corners that hold a community up
Why Campus, Curation, Rituals and Contribution are the load-bearing parts of our work, and why three of the four are the things you cannot buy.
→Resources.
Reading, guides, and tools we have found useful in thinking about community living, governance, and the commons.
We are putting together our first guides. Ask us if there is something specific you would like.
Picture your own community living.
This is a space to imagine the way you would want to live, and to start the conversations that make it real. We are on this journey ourselves, and this is for anyone on a similar one. Some come along for the whole ride, some just want to follow the story.