Casa Robino

The Pyre project is a collaborative effort to build a comprehensive set of DIY tools and resources to create and maintain socially equitable, ecologically sustainable and economically robust human societies. In order to achieve this, we are engaging as many interested parties as possible to collaborate on the creation, collection and curation of an extensive compendium of blueprints for building ...See More
Mission
The overarching aim of the Pyre project is to contribute to the rise of a resilient global framework for economic alternatives to consumer capitalism through direct participatory action. The Pyre logo is a representation of the mythological Phoenix arising from the flames of the funeral pyre: a potent symbol of reincarnation, evocative of both death and rebirth, thus inspiring participants to reinvent themselves as empowered agents in both local and global contexts. A long-term strategy for engaging users in the project focuses on integrating semi-fictional online character narratives with real-world objects and practices to inspire and facilitate personal and collective transformatio