The Commons Hub Brussels is a brand new physical space for local and global citizens in the capital of Europe, right next to the Central Station. The purpose of the space is to become a vibrant educational space to learn about how do we create and manage Commons, Public Goods, DAOs.

The space will be completely run as a common itself, in a fully transparent way, and will contribute to bringing commons, participative democracy and regenerative systems as one of the main transition topics in the heart of Europe.

The space offers opportunities to co-work and meet in the big co-working area on the first floor. And it houses a big event space to organise gatherings, general assemblies, conferences for cross-pollination and education.

The first major project we ran was the Regen Village, a hub for the regen community alongside EthCC Brussels 2024, in collaboration with Regens Unite.

Check recap video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSCi_173Alw

We also offer a home to the local crypto community of DAO.brussels.

Our focus now is put in place the foundations of the Commons Hub Brussels to become a thriving, community run, shared space that optimises for self-organisation, shared responsibility, innovation and local & global oriented community events and members.

More concretely this means:

• establishing a solid membership base and build a proper commons (with Elinor Ostrom as our guide)
• implement process flows for the use of the event space
• integrating sociocracy as a governance model,
• creating a cooperative as our legal entity,
• setting up a community platform for democratic decision making,
• creating a model for all members to contribute with time (doing a shift e.g. cleaning the floor or storytelling) to the commons,
• integrating innovative tools like the Citizen Wallet to create time banks, transparent financing and credit systems.

We are also laying the foundations for a resource library on commoning, democracy and new economies. This will include interviews and calls with inspirational projects that will be published. Examples: BeesCoop cooperative supermarket in Brussels, DiscoCoop in Berlin, ...

All of this work will be open source and available for similar projects to reuse and adjust for everyone's own context.