Community & culture
Social fabric, local identity, participation, belonging.
A network for Habitat Intelligence™
Cities and towns,
learning to feel.
Remixd is a global network for places building Habitat Intelligence™ — the capacity to sense, learn from, and respond to the wellbeing of their people and their living systems.
An initiative of XDG Labs · from the makers of the Conscious Cities Index
Habitat Intelligence™
A habitat is intelligent when it can learn from itself — when culture, wellbeing, ecology and systems work as one.
Most urban scorecards measure throughput: output, traffic, the number of sensors on a lamp post. They are quiet on the question residents actually live inside — does this place help us feel well, belong to one another, and flourish alongside nature? Remixd makes that question measurable, shareable, and worth striving for. Data serves community, wellbeing and ecology here — never the other way around.
Liveability & wellbeing
Health and mental wellbeing — the being of place, not only the doing.
Climate & ecology
Regeneration, resilience, biodiversity — the place's living systems.
Data & systems
Sensing and signals that serve the other three rather than override them.
The model
Three pillars, one membership.
A place joins once and gains a standing network, a shared practice, and a growing layer of recognition.
PILLAR I
Network
- Standing cohorts of member habitats and their place-leaders.
- Exchange, peer review, and friendship across geographies.
- A members' commons of cases, methods and people.
PILLAR II
Practice
- The Habitat Intelligence Framework — a shared language across the four faculties.
- The Conscious Cities Index — instrumentation for wellbeing and belonging.
- Field methods: Experience Improvement Districts and The Big Sit.
PILLAR III
Recognition
- Now: Signals — light, ongoing recognition of Habitat-Intelligent practice.
- A members' showcase that lifts good work as it happens.
- Later: a flagship biennial honour, as the network earns authority.
Membership
Belonging, not gatekeeping.
Dues are banded by habitat size and income, so a town of forty thousand stands in the same room as a metropolis of fourteen million.
Charter cohort
Founding Habitats
A limited cohort of cities & towns (9–12) with shaping rights, all pillars, and founding recognition.
Cities & towns
Member Habitats
Full access to Network, Practice and Signals, with participation in the Index.
Individuals
Fellows
Place-leaders, planners and practitioners join the practice commons and cohorts.
Funders & allies
Partners & Patrons
Foundations and allied organisations co-programme and support the work.
Backstory & roadmap · 2020–2030
Designed to grow.
Six years of practice behind us, and a clear line forward — recognition maturing only as authority is earned.
2020
Seed
A Silent Revolution begins — research into public space, stillness and well-being.
2022
Ground
The Big Sit — a companion experiment in collective stillness in public space.
2024
Index
Conscious Cities Index becomes a live project under XDG Labs.
2026 · NOW
Launch
remixd.org live; the Founding Charter; outreach to first habitats.
H2 2026
Network
First 9–12 Founding Habitats; Framework v1; first Signals showcase.
2027
Practice
Conscious Cities Index pilots with founding habitats.
2028
Recognition
First flagship recognition cycle for member habitats.
2029–30
Commons
A global commons of habitats, learning together at scale.
The first cohort
Become a Founding Habitat.
We are opening conversations with a small number of cities and towns ready to measure what their residents actually feel — and to help shape what Habitat Intelligence becomes.
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