The worldwide intentional communities movement begs for a people system to ease their development and facilitate the creation of new sustainable human settlements. Rubanisation, Tay Kheng Soon's concept of an urban and rural integrated landscape, provides the vision, while Permaculture, the design science initiated by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, gives us the tools and pattern language necessary to realize that vision.
The industrial model treats symptoms — affordable housing, sustainable energy, fair wages — while leaving the underlying system intact. Rubania redesigns the fundamental institutions: how we organise work, how we compensate effort, how we make collective decisions. Not just food and housing, but work and compensation.
It's not a patch. It's an operating system for regenerative neighbourhoods. Designed with intention. Open to evolution. Every system thought through — from the seed to the energy, from governance to the internal economy.
Where today there is extraction, we build closed loops. Where there is bureaucracy, we build radical transparency. Where there is dependence, we build real sovereignty — not promised, but engineered.
This is an honest social experiment. We don't know if it works at scale. What we do know is that the current system is destroying the conditions for human flourishing. Rubania is a serious attempt to build alternatives that regenerate rather than extract.
Before there is a settlement, there is a gathering. The festival is the first encounter — a living prototype where strangers become neighbours, where the ideas leave the page and become experience. Workshops, assemblies, music, shared meals, building together. You arrive curious. You leave committed.
This is the front door to Rubania.
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• Assemblies — First taste of liquid democracy and collective decision-making
• Workshops — Permaculture, bioarchitecture, energy systems, governance games
• Building — Hands-on construction of temporary structures with real techniques
• Community — Shared cooking, music, theatre, meditation, storytelling
• Token launch — First commitment tokens are acquired here
A visual map of the whole Rubania system — civic, digital, economic, developmental, and the regenerative base. Navigate it to reach every layer, plus the full documents library.
The phased path from documentation and festival, through site selection and build-out, to a replicable network of cells — and the scenario envelope that protects participants.