Introducing Closer, the operating system for sovereign communities.
WHAT is closer doing
Closer is creating digital tools to accelerate the transition to a regenerative civilization. We are developing a platform that enables effective community collaboration, built with regenerative principles at its core.
We are creating tools for onboarding members, event production, rewards & contributions, physical space bookings - and more to come. We are creating tools that minimize community governance and organizational deadlocks, thus allowing for a deeper engagement of community members and their increased resilience. We design with a whole-systems mindset, creating journeys that empower regeneration and stir new systemic thinking.
WHY is closer doing
Our planet is dying - forests are burning, species going extinct, temperatures and water levels rising. Our soils are on the verge of nutrient depletion. These occurrences are mostly triggered by human action. If we want to keep playing in our blue planet, we need to regenerate its lands and the relationships amongst the people who steward for them.
A group’s capacity to work effectively is a key contributing factor to it’s long-term resilience. In this context, we see technology as an ally in alleviating unnecessary burdens from our daily chores. We created Closer to support regenerative communities in effectively organizing their workflows. Ultimately, we want to empower regenerative communities with tools that relieve their governance and operations load, so that they can focus on what really matters, regeneration.
HOW is closer doing
Regenerative & Whole Systems Thinking
Regeneration is about restoring healthy self-regulation to local ecosystems. A regenerative culture is one that is healthy, resilient and adaptable; it fosters a thriving future for all humanity. At Closer, we see ourselves not simply coding, but prototyping regenerative ways of living. We do this by integrating regenerative principles and practices into our codes through, for example, adding integrated options to support small and local circular economies, incorporating alternative rewarding systems and attaching environmental impact metrics to events.
Whole systems thinking is about understanding how everything is related, how each element influences one another within a whole. In the end, we repeatedly notice that the whole is always more than the sum of its parts. At Closer we work with a win-win-win and collaboration mindset. This gives us the possibility of connecting with the growing regeneration movements (village building, land regeneration, ReFi... ). Having a whole systems mindset supports us in working collaboratively, with complex structures and diversity embedded in our culture.
Decentralisation
Closer is a DAO - a community owned platform, led by those who use it. Embodying our regenerative and whole systems mindset, we trust that the less we rely on a single element, the more resilient and empowered we are. We also trust that everyone’s contribution will be richer when they have a sense of ownership and recognition in the systems where they play a part. We want our community to be part of our decision-making processes, after all our community is us.
We are consciously choosing to step into the Web3 world, first with our ownership and governance systems, and as time goes with our tooling. Web3 offers an apparatus for collaboration of people and coordination of capital, values, services and goods that can result in an increasingly more transparent and equitable internet. Whilst Web3 tech has been adopted mostly by online communities to organize intangible, immaterial value creation, it has yet to achieve its potential in real life projects - especially in real life regenerative projects. At Closer we are part of the #ReFi movement, bringing web3 technologies to climate action.
WHOM is it for
Closer is for regenerative communities, and these have infinite shapes and forms ✨ Think of coliving spaces wanting to manage their bookings and event agendas; think regenerative villages where permaculturists seed future forests; think educational communities that understand the power of continuous learning; think of art collectives that creates human experiences. This list is ever growing, because as you know by now, Closer’s development is guided by its users. So, what is next?