Nothing in our lives is ours.

We inherit the cities, the calendars, the rituals.

World Bearers is a public registry of work civilization left unfinished. Hunger. Housing. Care. Loneliness in 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. Each piece stays public, so the next person can carry it further than you could.

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.001 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 song that wasn't there before.

None of it exists without the others.

.002 HOW IT WORKS Three steps. The system in motion.

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 dataset

Open Harvest

An open dataset mapping crop yields, soil conditions, and climate variables across 40+ regions. Designed for small-scale farmers who lack access to proprietary agri-data platforms.

Needs data contributors in South Asiamobile-friendly viewer

Zero Hunger v1.0.0 Feb 2026

Y @yuki

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territory

Berlin S-Bahn Solar Corridor

Install solar canopies along the elevated S-Bahn ring between Ostkreuz and Treptower Park. The railway owns the airspace rights; the panels shade platforms in summer and feed surplus into the neighbourhood grid.

Free Energy Mar 2026

S @simone

tradition

Community Meal

A weekly shared meal where each participant brings one dish. No money changes hands. The only rule: you eat what others bring before your own. Builds trust faster than any meeting.

weekly Mar 2026

A @amara

art song

Bearing the Weight

An acoustic folk song about the weight of knowing what needs to change and choosing to carry it anyway. Written after the first community meal in Kibera.

Meaningful Work Mar 2026

A @amara

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, a different river. Both versions live on. Both count. The registry tracks the lineage. The work isn't a competition.

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

.003 START Action belongs in our hands.

Bring what you have.

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 →