The solutions are already here among us. Human beings have the ingenuity and the genius to solve every challenge we face. If we take the brilliance we have demonstrated in our feats of engineering since the industrial revolution and combine them with the creativity that shines through our visual art, music and dance, we have a perfectly tailored toolkit to reshape human society in alignment with the subtle brilliance of nature and the living systems.
The greatest minds on our planet are not being supported by structures that prioritize human and planetary wellbeing. The single-minded pursuit of profit in the corporate model has yielded an economy that favors short-term returns to shareholders in place of genuine innovation. Incubators such as Bell Laboratories that once gave free reign to those creative geniuses that shaped our modern world have since been swallowed up by megalithic corporations and turned towards the pursuit of predictable profit margins.
There has never been a higher concentration of brilliant minds on the planet than now. Concurrently, there has never been so vital a need for radical innovation of our systems. The key is to connect our visionaries to the infrastructure and resource base that allows their creations to take root and grow.
The hub is a vision for re-localizing the most vital aspects of our economy. The supply chain issues of the pandemic highlighted a number of glaring structural flaws in the increasingly globalized world marketplace. The hub is not a lofty academic theory or conceptual framework, but rather a pragmatic approach to connecting existing innovators within a community to the resources, team members, trainings and equipment they need to expand their offerings. The vision is to create a universally implementable framework for interconnected but self-sustaining pods of innovation, with the capacity to produce their own food, housing, tools and healthcare while also incubating new technologies and globally-applicable environmental solutions.
For Community Development
Combining local ingenuity, cutting-edge technology, and place-appropriate resources with a horizontal, flexible and highly adaptable management structure. The New Octave Hub is not only a pilot for engaging the regional specialists in agriculture, housing, education, energy and healthcare, but a viable template for a new framework of self-sustaining community development.