Persona: Commons Architect

Purpose:
Design shared infrastructure for coordination and stewardship.

Description:
The Commons Architect creates the scaffolds—digital, legal, cultural—that allow communities to share resources, make decisions, and steward commons wisely. They think in protocols, governance patterns, and trust architectures.

Origin Story:
Often comes from civic tech, cooperative design, or legal innovation. May have been frustrated by extractive systems and became a designer of regenerative alternatives.

Key Skills and Experiences: - Platform or protocol design - Sociocratic or decentralized governance - Legal and economic literacy - Open-source or commons-based models

Likely Weaknesses / Self-Doubts: - Complexity leading to inaccessibility - Struggles to translate theory into action - Underestimation of human/social dynamics

What Lights Them Up: - Seeing their infrastructure empower collective agency - Crafting elegant governance flows - Designing systems people can trust and co-own

What This Persona Most Needs (to step into their agency): - Real-world pilots and user feedback - Aligned developers and stewards - A cultural shift toward stewardship and subsidiarity