Cabin

A network city and coliving community co-founded by Jon Hillis, experimenting with decentralized neighborhood governance and translocal community infrastructure. Cabin operates a network of physical nodes (coliving neighborhoods) linked by shared governance, digital coordination, and cultural identity — embodying the Network Nations principle that sovereignty is rooted in community infrastructure rather than territory.

Cabin’s work on “functional local and network sovereignties” (Hillis’ EUI essay) distinguishes between sovereignty that is locally grounded (in specific places) and sovereignty that is networked (across distributed nodes). Together, these two modes of sovereignty complement each other: local nodes provide embodied community experience, while the network provides scale, resilience, and shared governance infrastructure.

Referenced in: Ep 4