Distributed Republic Notes from the journey.
Thinking out loud about community living, governance, and the places we are exploring.
Brixton Village Just Proved Community Money Can Outbid Property Money
How Buy Back Brixton beat property investors at their own game, and what every community group needs to do before the next bidding window opens.
→ 05 Sept 2026When 200 Residents Bought a Dying Shopping Centre
Two hundred neighbours pooled their money to buy a dying shopping centre in Baltimore. The community ownership model they used is replicable anywhere.
→ 21 Jun 2026Solarpunk 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 Jun 2026Anarchic 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 Jun 2026The 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.
→ 06 Jun 2026Why we are building Distributed Republic
An introduction: what we mean by community, why we are starting with people rather than property, and what you will find here.
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