​Build Week: What Are We Making?

​Commons University — Automation for the People

​We've spent the last few weeks reading, discussing and mapping the terrain. Now it's time to start thinking about building & doing.

​This is the opening session of Build Week — not a decision-making meeting, but a space to seed a shared vision. Anyone can bring a proposal: something they want to make, pursue, or put into the world before October 1st. Each proposal gets 10 minutes to present and 5 minutes of questions, minimal prep needed. At the end we talk together about what's in the room, and what could be woven in together.

​What counts as a proposal is deliberately wide. We're interested in:

• ​New legal instruments: trademarks for conviviality, patents for the commons, laws that don't yet exist

• ​Autonomous institutions designed to steward public goods outside market and state logic

• ​AI systems that serve the commons rather than extract from it, including Kami-style agentic designs that act as custodians of shared resources

• ​Activist interventions, research syntheses, manifestos, demands

​The question guiding everything: if automation is to serve collective liberation rather than extraction, what do we actually need to build — and what can we start now?

​Proposals welcome from all.