Each village is a combination of housing, forest regeneration, farming, farm processing, business centre, circular-waste-to-resource management, energy production, governance and exchange. Villages are smart as they incorporate blockchain and IOT (internet of things) technologies to manage systems such as renewable power generation, power consumption, exchange within the villages and wider communities and contributions from residents. We use technology is a healthy way. Sure things are smart but not in ways that will damage humans and the environment and not in ways the will reduce people’s rights to privacy or self determination. Villages are also biologically smart using only proven regenerative biological systems for land regeneration, farming, water and circular waste-to-resource management that are interconnected to produce a thriving ecosystem providing increased biodiversity, resilience, carbon sequestration, high yield organic food production and clean water.

Wild Community’s “Village-in-a-Box Architecture” provides a blueprint for all Village systems from electronic  to biological to human that can simply be applied to the village or customised to suit particular village cultures. Several blockchains, IoT, Artificial Intelligence and big data technologies are combined to provide a digital monitoring and control hub so that village systems can self-manage, learn, evolve and improve the management of both human, physical and digital systems. These learnings can then be shared across the network of villages. Evolving technologies such as 3D printing, drones and autonomous vehicles have been allowed for in the village architecture and will be incorporated as they mature. Innovation labs and maker facilities will be integrated into villages where appropriate.

The design philosophy borrows from a number of great traditions where humans work with nature as stewards. These are traditions such as Rudolf Steiner’s Biodynamics, Bill Mollison’s Permaculture, Otto Schmitt and Janine Benyus’s Biomimicry, Darren Doherty’s Regrarian Agriculture, holistic management and regenerative agriculture, the sociocracy, innovation and maker movements and the shift to decentralised distributed organisations and true cost accounting.  First nations concepts of stewardship, decisions made for the next 7 generations, right relationship and natural intelligence guide the design. The design principles enable a flourishing thriving social tapestry, increased human and environmental wellness and a shift from a global consumptive economy to local regenerative economy.