C-Hour01 / Follow your curiosity
More possible lives
Try different work, learn when you need to, and make room for care, rest, travel and new chapters.
A little of your time.
A world of possibility.
Explore a future where everyday care, curiosity and community contribution help more people live well. Beginning on Minjerribah, with an invitation to Australia and Oceania.
GenAI concept artwork · An imagined future
One hour. A human contribution.
A C-hour recognises one verified hour of time freely given.
Thanks shaped together.
Communities choose their own recognition, rewards and reciprocity.
More life to enjoy.
Care, learning, creativity and shared capability. The hour has no monetary equivalent.
What would you
love to be part of?
Start with an interest, something you already contribute, or a little help that would make your day easier.
Food, gardens and good company
Grow something. Share a meal. Pass on a skill. Explore how a simple gathering can grow into shared capability.
Making, learning and discovery
Try a new craft, fix something useful or explore AI with a friendly guide. Your next adventure can begin with curiosity.
Care, connection and everyday life
The support we give family, friends and neighbours already matters. Discover recognition that fits around real life.
The things that
make a community.
Looking after someone. Teaching a skill. Bringing people together. Much of what makes life work never appears in a financial account.
The Community-Hour makes voluntary human contribution visible. One verified hour is one C-hour, with the story of what happened alongside it.
Money, human contribution and real outcomes each have their own records. This helps people appreciate the work and understand what it made possible.
How Community Hours workJoyful. Responsible.
Abundance.
A life worth enjoying, care for our effects on others, and useful capacity that more people can share.
02 / Build useful capability
Grow it together
Connect practical projects, shared knowledge and tools that people can understand, shape and maintain.
03 / Keep the person first
Your life, your choices
Explore personal agents that help with everyday life while leaving you in charge of observation, memory and sharing.
A conversation.
Then a possibility.
Imagine asking a personal agent about something you would enjoy, a contribution you already make, or a skill you want to try.
The proposed Sensorium connects these conversations with phones, optional wearables, local computing and living models of places. You choose what stays private and what you share.
Explore the SensoriumThis is a thought experiment growing towards practical pilots. People who try it can challenge the idea and change its direction. Trust has to grow through useful experiences.
A small island.
A very open horizon.
Beginning with relationships on Minjerribah, the proposal connects food, stories, personal intelligence and shared enterprise across Australia and Oceania.
Mutual Futures
Explore shared ownership, Universal Intelligence and more room for learning, care and rest.
The first connected pilot
A flexible starting sketch for hosts, households, visitors and builders to shape together.
The projects around it
Follow purposeful connections into Straddie food, media, learning, twins and community tools.
Take the longer journey.
Thirteen chapters connect the everyday idea with the people, software and resources that could bring it to life.
Bring an interest.
Bring a better idea.
This invitation begins with Luke Nathan Hayes, Aura of Intelligence and the GAJRA Earth concept. It has room to change through the people who join the conversation.
Read the plan and references
The plan, source archive and related public projects are here to explore at your own pace.