Stories
Not all citizen infrastructure is a formal process or a polished platform. Often it’s ordinary people reaching for the tools they already have — a group chat, a spreadsheet, a phone tree — and turning them into something that holds a community together.
This section collects those stories: bottom-up, real-world examples of citizens building and using infrastructure to organize, support one another, and become more resilient. They’re here because they’re instructive and because they’re inspiring — proof that this isn’t only a theory.
In this section
Section titled “In this section”- Topanga: a WhatsApp group becomes fire infrastructure
- Open-source insulin: “We Are Not Waiting”
- Fureai Kippu: care as a commons (Japan)
- The American Conversation Project
- Real Talk for Change (Boston)
- The Embassy of the North Sea (Netherlands)
- Interspecies money: gorillas with bank accounts
- The Outer Sunset: a neighborhood builds its own tech
- Community Supplies: a sharing app that spread to 200 neighborhoods
- On the Table: a city plans itself over dinner (Lexington)
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