Place. Protocol. Planet.
A Web 4.0 bioregional commons rooted in Ubuntu philosophy
UBEC connects small farms, citizen scientists, educators, and communities through regenerative economics, citizen science, and open governance — anchored in the Schlaubetal bioregion of Brandenburg, Germany.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." — Buckminster Fuller
The UBEC Ecosystem
Eight interconnected services — one philosophical foundation. Each service is a whole unto itself and a part of the larger commons.
The DAO protocol network running live on Stellar. Houses the four-element token economy (Air, Water, Earth, Fire) and governance infrastructure for 502 active stewards.
bioregional.ubec.networkRegister as an environmental steward, connect a senseBox IoT sensor, and contribute phenomenological observations to the bioregional commons. Earn UBECrc tokens for each contribution.
living-labs.ubec.networkBioregional GIS mapping built on Mapbender with HydroSHEDS watershed data. Visualises natural boundaries, community assets, and token economic flows across the bioregion.
mapservice.ubec.networkThe central REST API and IoT integration layer. All data flows route through the Hub — including the 13 Questions to the Soil module, senseBox coordination, and Gaia-X compliant data services.
iot.ubec.networkA Center for Sustainability Literacy in Müllrose, Brandenburg — 3,000m² of living laboratory. Offers workshops, a Community Seed Bank, and a Collective Threshold funding model for regenerative offerings.
erdpuls.ubec.networkThe Pattern Language of Place — an OER repository structured as a genuine Christopher Alexander pattern language. Learning pathways, field materials, and reports in English, German, and Polish.
ubeccommon.github.io/Pattern_Language_of_PlaceOpen-source repositories, SDK documentation, and contribution guides. All platform code is licensed GNU AGPL v3.0. All documentation and design under CC BY-SA 4.0.
ubeccommon.github.ioThe unified gateway to the UBEC ecosystem. Mission, philosophy, and the origin story of a commons built not by fighting the existing reality, but by building a new model.
ubec.networkA Living Economic System
Four tokens — four elements — one generative sequence from universal access to collective transformation. Live on the Stellar network.
The primary circulation token. Gateway to the protocol network — open to all stewards entering the commons.
Earned through phenomenological observations and citizen science contributions. Data flows generate reciprocity value.
The stable store and documentation anchor. Grounds the protocol in place — the soil beneath the digital commons.
Activates governance and collective transformation. The element of action — when commons decisions must become reality.
Built on Five Frameworks
These are not decorative references — they are operational design constraints. Every feature, data structure, and API decision is legible through at least one of these lenses.
The foundational ethics of the entire ecosystem. Personhood is constituted through relationship — collective governance over individual extraction.
The OER repository is a genuine Pattern Language of Place. The platform evolves through unfolding wholeness — not imposed structure.
Data visibility follows proxemic zones — intimate, personal, social, public. Space communicates. The map is a proxemic diagram.
The 13 Questions to the Soil embody Goethe's delicate empiricism. Stewards observe phenomena first, interpret second. Quality of attention generates value.
The whole is more than the sum of parts. Doing more with less. The microservices architecture embodies the geodesic principle — each node bears its own load.
Not sustainable — regenerative. The Collective Threshold funding model, UBECrc observation rewards, and ecosystem health metrics are net-positive by architecture.