Future Community Day / 未来社区公共讨论日
Future Community Day / 未来社区公共讨论日 Build in public, live in community.
Future Community Day is a public discussion co-hosted by 706, GCC and Seapunk Studios during the closing week of muShanghai.
From the meet-up tables and late-night conversations at 2050, to four weeks of co-living, demos, salons and shared experiments at muShanghai, we keep returning to one question:
How can temporary encounters become a sustainable form of shared life?
In the age of AI, community is no longer only a warm place outside "serious systems". It may become the infrastructure through which people learn, organize, fund, create, remember, and take responsibility for one another.
This afternoon gathers researchers, community builders, AI practitioners, space operators and public goods builders into one room, through four moderated conversations.
Agenda
14:00-15:00 The Future Already Arrived / 未来已经到来 Michel Bauwens in conversation with Sam Chua.
15:00-16:00 When AI Enters the Commons / 当 AI 进入 commons Ren, Tims and Devinder, moderated by 烟烟.
16:00-17:00 Living Together Otherwise / 以另一种方式共同生活 鸡蛋, Du Xiaofeng, Jingxin and Charlotte, with Charlotte also moderating.
17:00-18:00 The Communities Yet to Come / 尚未到来的社区 Helena Rong and Sun Zhe, moderated by Sam Chua.
18:00-18:30 Open Networking
Speakers & Moderators
Session 1: The Future Already Arrived
Michel Bauwens Founder of the P2P Foundation and a long-time researcher of peer-to-peer networks, commons transition, open-source production and cosmo-local systems. Michel brings the historical frame for asking why community becomes urgent again now, and how commons can survive platform capture.
Sam Chua Member of The Mu / SAIL and co-lead of the Solarpunk & Artificial Imagination Lab with Stanley Chen Qiufan. Sam moderates the opening conversation with Michel, then returns in the closing session to connect historical diagnosis with future-facing community imagination.
Session 2: When AI Enters the Commons
Ren Former Google engineer and core organizer of Wamao Summer / 瓦猫之夏. Ren brings a builder's view of community infrastructure, asking how tools, coordination systems and technical decisions shape the way groups remember, decide and live together.
Tims Community builder and decentralized systems researcher at Pyramid Labs. Tims helped grow Daugava Spirit from an abandoned factory into a large creative community, and brings ideas about organic growth, distributed reasoning and life-form analogies for social systems.
Devinder Founder of Learning Layer Labs and builder of AI education communities in San Francisco. He runs the AI Floor at Frontier Tower and leads AICamp SF, focusing on hands-on learning that helps people build useful things beyond the hype.
烟烟 Student at Minerva University and co-founder of Ausna, an AI-native social platform. She focuses on human connection, collaboration networks, futures thinking, education innovation and the reconstruction of individual uniqueness in the age of AI.
Session 3: Living Together Otherwise
鸡蛋 Postdoctoral researcher at Tongji University's College of Design and Innovation, working across social innovation, community building, action research, intelligent design and sustainable design. Her current focus is hybrid intelligence, co-design and collaboration infrastructure.
Du Xiaofeng / 杜晓峰 CEO of 四百盒子社区 / 400 Boxes Community and proposer of the "Pocket Architecture" model. With interests in sociology and ACI Hacker House research, he brings a grounded view of how compact spaces, shared routines and community operations can reshape everyday living.
Jingxin / 静心 COO of 四百盒子社区 / 400 Boxes Community and founder of GoodMate Creator Club. Known for connecting more than 10,000 people into friendships, Jingxin brings practical experience in trust, matching, care and the human texture behind community operations.
Tak Shire / Charlotte / 端木 4Seas Core Team member, independent producer, 706 Chiang Mai Lead and ETHChiangmai contributor. Charlotte works across 2D stylized animation, independent film and Zuzalu / Network States experiments, bringing both a visual storytelling lens and a moderator's rhythm to this session.
Session 4: The Communities Yet to Come
Helena Rong / 戎航 Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Business at NYU Shanghai and Director of Protopolis Lab. A former senior researcher at Harvard Belfer Center and MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab, Helena studies protocol design, AI governance, civic infrastructure and new paradigms of institutional design in the age of agents.
Sun Zhe / 孙哲 Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He studies platform economy, labor, informal economy and Chinese social-economic formations, helping translate "community" into questions of organization, value, labor and economic life.
Sam Chua Sam returns from Session 1 as a bridge between Michel Bauwens' historical diagnosis and the closing projection. With SAIL's work on solarpunk futures and AI imagination, he helps ask what kind of future community can be designed, narrated and actually built.
Participation
Language: Chinese and English Online: Tencent Meeting 348-906-366 Meeting link: https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/pQ0fe7yNsGE7 Co-hosts: 706 x GCC x Seapunk Studios
If you are building a community, supporting one, researching one, or simply sensing that more important things now depend on communities, this afternoon is for you.