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 + Community 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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