Mission · Hurdal
NORTH STAR — CreatriX Common Campus Hurdal
Hurdal, Norway's legendary ecovillage, reboots.
No spectators. The village is built by the people who arrive. The village is a living site, watched over by machines of loving grace.
No spectators. The village is built by the people who arrive.
The sleeping site is watched over by machines of loving grace.
A Poem · Richard Brautigan
I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were flowers with spinning blossoms. I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.
What the village holds
How the valley holds
AI has, by accident, made human flourishing the most important skill.
The phygital action platform, CreatriX Common Campus, is always on: between gatherings, the work continues all year round.
Workcation is the proposed format. Come as you are, and come again as a CreatriX: offer a hand, find your people, turn participation into real-world creation. Caring by default is the priority.
Real food. Sound sleep. Timely movement. Rhythmic rest. Work with nature — in love with the world.
Hurdal is the first living site
No spectators. The village is built by the people who arrive. The village is a living site, watched over by machines of loving grace.
The Wheel
CreatriX Common Hurdal
Synthesis — the alchemizing stage
1. INFRASTRUCTURE
Energy, compute, networks, data
2. AUTOMATION
Efficiency, prediction, optimisation
3. COORDINATION
Platforms, institutions, markets
4. HUMAN AGENCY
Choice, judgment, dissent, imagination
5. ART & CULTURE
Shapes meaning, values and the future
Technology extends capability. Art determines what a culture does with it.
Four standings
Of the forest
We learn from mycelium, from seasons, from the long patience of trees.
Of compassion
The partnership is the practice.
Of craft
Projects made with hands, hearts & heads together — a spoon, a song, a protocol, a home. Artisanship and futurecraft are skills that keep the future human and thriving.
Of the way
Placemaking and sense-making by and for creatives committed to leave the place as good as it was — a place one longs to return to.
The Elemental Time of Regeneration
From a wall of paper to a forest
2015
Beijing Fang Community District Activation
A first hand-drawn challenge at Beijing Design Week — paper on walls, peers as judges. The analogue origin.
2016
OHDA Living Heritage · Reborn Social Design Camp
A living-heritage project reborn as a social design camp in Beijing's Fang District — community memory as material.
2017
Wholis Wetland Development
Wetland regeneration in Beijing's No. creative zone, Shunyi District — ecology as the first client.
2018
Holistic Vision · Barcelona
The practice goes abroad — a holistic vision gathering in Barcelona braids design, ecology and culture.
2019
Davos BlockBase · Switzerland
A blockchain-meets-design residency in Davos — trust, governance and the architecture of cooperation.
2020
SDG Convergence · Davos
The work aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals — a convergence year in Davos, Switzerland.
2021
IBIZA SOULCIAL · CreatriX Common Activation
On the island of coherence, Ibiza, Spain — a foundation forms for citizen-level design innovation as a non-profit.
2023
Open Mountain · Kailash
A pilgrimage of practice to Mount Kailash — opening the mountain as a site for planetary contemplation.
2024
heARTechlab · Ibiza
heARTechlab takes root in Ibiza — heart, art and technology as one living laboratory.
2025
Xiao Tian House of Presence · Inner Mongolia
A house of presence in Inner Mongolia — a place to arrive, to listen, to tend the land before the gathering.
2026
CreatriX Common · Freya Valley, Hurdal, Norway
The gathering takes root in a Nordic forest. A month. Four threads. One village. Hurdal is the first living site.
Beyond
Future Nodes
Self-governed nodes spring up — Vancouver, Nairobi, Hurdal, Taipei. A loose, living network tending small fires worldwide.
PHI · Global Nodes
Hurdal is the flagship in the forest — connected worldwide
The first living site takes root in the Norwegian forest. From here, a loose, living network of nodes grows — Vancouver, Nairobi, Taipei and beyond — each tending small fires worldwide. Rooted locally, connected globally.
11 NODES · HURDAL FLAGSHIP
★ Hurdal, Norway
Flagship
Vancouver
Launching soon
Nairobi
Launching soon
Taipei
Launching soon
Ibiza
Future node
Davos
Future node
Beijing
Future node
Inner Mongolia
Future node
Barcelona
Future node
Bali
Future node
Giza
Future node