Akiya Collective is a non-profit and community-driven initiative that revitalizes abandoned houses in rural Japan (akiya) into creative residencies, installations, and spaces to advance human well-being. We also operate a social R&D lab: architecting experiments for changing collective behavior, preserving public goods, and developing new community infrastructure for the 21st century.

We have three main product features:

1. Prototype and iterate on experiments beneficial for public good: we aim to test different social architectures that facilitate behavioral change.
2. Maintaining our Akiya Operational Playbook : this allows for akiya-curious people to learn from our project — that combines information in an open-source way to find out how to purchase an akiya.
3. Share Residency Resources. These are programs run in akiya that we own or manage in our network that allow for people to participate in experimental and co-created activities focused on a theme: from creative exploration, to language learning.

Additional efforts / summary of items we are working on:

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