Shakers engaged in a variety of practices that could be interpreted as affronts to the status quo. Outlining them will help us understand some of the...

Shakers were open to constant technological disruption and convinced of its capacity to raise standards of living. This disruption didn’t pose a...

Shakers came to be several thousands at a time, distributed across the entire network of settlements. It was their distribution across many nodes and the...

Like many early startup founders, Mother Ann had a series of wild ideas that most were skeptical of, but enough were curious about. She had boundless...

Shakerism was a bottom-up, bootstrapped religious movement. It was a community first project that gathered people with a common set of goals and worldview. It then leveraged the talent, resources and time of this dispersed community...

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our pilot season! We will be looking into how the Shakers dealt with archetypal problems of community building.

After months of research and dialogue with early collectors, case 001 of Atlas Urbium will be launching next week in the form of a season.

In this moment of accelerating experimentation with new kinds of sovereignty in the crypto space and elsewhere,  the Atlas Urbium aims to better understand the ways in which communities with different degrees of autonomy across time have shaped the physical environment under their domain.