Strange Villages

The Villages of Villages projects are taking root as the population of humans on the planet keeps growing beyond 8 billion individuals. It is evident that most social structure are not meeting their objectives, and have failed to scale from countries of 50 million to 1.5 billion. For instance in many countries a large fraction of voters never vote. In addition technological fixes such as the Smart Cities initiatives failed to help communities survive the COVID pandemic. The pandemic triggered the Smart Village movements in India and the European Union. These movements foreground social ingenuity not just digital innovation. In this web site we list examples of Strange Villages that we think are worth paying attention to:

• Center for Less Good Ideas: THE CENTRE FOR THE LESS GOOD IDEA IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY INCUBATOR SPACE FOR THE ARTS BASED IN MABONENG, JOHANNESBURG 
• Post Pandemic Provocateurs: A quartet of strange people triggered regular meetings during the pandemic and they have persisted until now through being provocative
• The ArtSciLab Village: Triggered by Tomas  Londono, Tommy Ayala and Roger Malina On Dec 13 2023 Roger Malina and Tomas Londono did a first public presentation on the idea of using Smart Village methodologies to convert the UTD ArtSciLab into a Smart Village. They were invited to present at 2023 China Design and Artificial
• Intelligence Liangzhu Summit
• REDCATUR
• Sea of Seas