Nothing in our lives is ours.

We inherit the cities, the calendars, the rituals.

World Bearers is where civilization's unfinished work gets picked up — hunger, housing, care, the loneliness of cities that reached the moon.

None of it is unsolvable. Fixes are being built right now, in private labs, behind paywalls, by teams hiding their answers from each other while people starve. So we keep ours open.

Browse the objectives. Pick one. Design a project, map a territory, propose a tradition, or make a piece of art. Whatever you make is left where the next person can carry it further than you could.

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SHARED WORK

Not a market. Not a movement. A table.

01 The vertical farm needs a farmer's knowledge.

02 The blueprint needs an architect.

03 The deployment needs a city that says yes.

04 The day it opens needs a tradition worth coming back for.

None of it exists without the others.

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HOW IT WORKS

Three steps, start to finish.

Pick an objective.

Ten of them. Each is a basic burden the system has failed to lift. Click any to see what's already been borne against it. And what hasn't.

01 Zero Hunger 4 burdens 02 Guaranteed Shelter 1 burden 03 Free Energy 2 burdens 04 Universal Healthcare no burdens yet 05 Shared Knowledge 1 burden 06 Open Commons no burdens yet 07 Meaningful Work 2 burdens 08 Clean Environment no burdens yet 09 Connected Communities 2 burdens 10 Space Expansion no burdens yet

Bear a burden.

Four kinds. A project is an open design. A territory is a place that needs one. A tradition is a ritual you propose. Art is what emerges when the work has cultural weight. Each of these is a real entry from the registry.

project documentation

Shelter Kit Documentation

Step-by-step documentation for building modular emergency shelters from locally available materials. Follows the Solar Grid Standard for optional electrical integration.

Needs roof module docsillustration contributorfield photos

Guaranteed Shelter Mar 2026

A @amara

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territory

Nairobi Kibera Water Hub

Community rainwater collection and filtration point at the edge of Kibera. Gravity-fed distribution to reduce reliance on trucked water. Maintenance funded by a micro-cooperative model with transparent ledger.

Zero Hunger Mar 2026

A @amara

tradition

Skill Share Circle

Monthly gathering where one person teaches a practical skill to the group. No slides, no theory — hands on. Past sessions: water filtration, basic electrical wiring, seed saving, first aid.

monthly Mar 2026

Y @yuki

art video

Manifesto Reading

A 12-minute video reading of the World Bearers manifesto, recorded in three languages English, Japanese, Swahili with hand-drawn title cards between sections.

Apr 2026

S @simone

Anyone can fork it.

A burden isn't owned. Someone proposes a tradition; someone else takes it and bends it to fit a different city, a different week. Both versions live on, both linked to where they came from. Forking isn't competition — it's how the work spreads.

Below: an illustrative example, not a real registry entry.

EXAMPLE · ORIGINAL

tradition

Picnic Tuesday

Every Tuesday at noon, bring a sandwich to the same park bench. No formal invite, no agenda. People who show up, show up. Over a year the bench becomes a quiet weekly hinge for the neighborhood.

weekly 2w ago

S @sara

EXAMPLE · BOLOGNA FORK

tradition forked from picnic-tuesday

Picnic Wednesday

Same idea, different day: Wednesday instead of Tuesday because Tuesday is Bologna's market day. Bench is in the Margherita gardens. Three other Italian neighborhoods have already forked the fork.

3 forks weekly 5d ago

F @federico

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START

The easiest way in.

It can start with a picnic.

The work needs all of it. The easiest entry is usually a tradition or claiming a territory. Designing a project takes more, but the template is open and the field is empty.

See the registry →