We often think of the future as something that simply "happens," a destination we reach by inertia. However, true social transformation teaches us that the future is, in fact, a daily practice that requires solid foundations. It is not enough to wish for a fairer world; we need the places to meet, the tools to understand each other, and the memory to never forget where we come from. Building community is an exercise in social architecture where every brick is a gesture of solidarity.

In this fortnight's newsletter, we bring you three projects that share a common urgency: providing ourselves with infrastructures for autonomy. From the opening of a self-managed local in the heart of Albacete, to a cutting-edge manual for co-designing our cities, to the celebration of half a century of popular education in the neighborhoods. Today, Goteo becomes the meeting point for those who do not wait for the future, but manufacture it with their own hands.

For a working-class and anarchist local in Villarrobledo

This project stems from an urgent need in the Villarrobledo region (Albacete): the lack of physical spaces to practice self-management without external guardianship. The CNT-AIT local nucleus seeks to open a space that is much more than a union office; a center for community life with a popular library, labor advisory, film cycles, and critical training. It is a grassroots project that rejects any government subsidies to maintain its total independence.

The importance of this space lies in returning sovereignty to the local working class. Faced with precariousness and isolation, the center will function as a safe harbor for the defense of rights and as a laboratory for proletarian culture. It is a commitment to non-hierarchical direct action that seeks to strengthen neighborhood ties in a territory where the distance from other organized hubs makes the stability of social movements difficult.

Supporting this campaign means helping to lay the first stone of a common resource that will belong to those who use it. Your donation will cover the basic expenses of rent and supplies for the first year, allowing the activists to focus on bringing the space to life. If you believe in independent worker organization and culture that grows from the bottom up, this is the time to add your support.

👉 Contribute here

Civic Design: Collective Intelligence for Public and Social Innovation

Domenico Di Siena is launching this campaign to transform how we build our cities, moving past the stage of empty "post-it" meetings. The project aims to fund a hybrid ecosystem: a physical Civic Design Manual with practical tools and, as an optimal goal, the Civic Design Copilot, an AI assistant trained to help citizens and technicians design collective intelligence processes in real-time.

This project is vital to bridge the gap between rigid institutions and a citizenry that wants to propose viable technical solutions. By releasing these tools under open licenses, access to professional social urbanism methodologies is democratized. It is a commitment to technological sovereignty that allows moving from complaining to proposing, ensuring that no one is left out of the decisions that affect their neighborhood.

Participating in this crowdfunding is an investment in tomorrow's collective intelligence. By collaborating, you allow these resources to reach communities worldwide freely. Help Domenico equip our neighborhoods with the necessary tools so that social innovation becomes a tangible reality and the design of the public sphere returns to the hands of the people.

👉 Contribute here

50th Anniversary: educating in the neighborhoods

The Sanfeliu – Sant Ildefons Children and Youth Club celebrates half a century as a refuge and a school of life in the neighborhoods of L'Hospitalet and Cornellà. To commemorate this journey, they have launched a campaign that includes the production of a documentary, the publishing of a photo book, and a large community celebration. The goal is to recognize decades of work by monitors and families in promoting leisure-based education and social transformation.

The relevance of this project goes beyond celebration; it is an exercise in historical memory of the periphery. For 50 years, the Club has worked to reduce inequalities and offer safe environments to children and young people with fewer opportunities. Celebrating this milestone reinforces the future of an entity that is a fundamental pillar for social cohesion, ensuring its legacy of inclusive education stays alive for future generations.

We invite you to be part of this collective history by supporting the campaign so that the Club continues to be an engine of opportunity. Your contribution will help fund the documentary, the commemorative book, and, above all, improve the educational materials that the children of the neighborhood use daily. Join this tribute to popular education and help these neighborhoods continue celebrating life together.

👉 Contribute here

🌱 Do you work with land and need new perspectives to grow through creativity and collective action?

Do you want to enrich your experience with other experiences, territories, and disciplines?
Would you like to collaborate with people from all over Europe who are committed to soil democracy and territorial justice? 🌍

📌 Following the success of the first Bootcamp in Porto, the European project SoilTribes is opening a second call for applications to expand its Community of Practice (CoP). We are looking for people who want to contribute to the development of award-winning challenges by participating as contributors in SoilTribes Bootcamp 2, which will take place in Barcelona (March 19–20, 2026), continuing in Paris in 2027.

As a contributor, you will actively participate in co-creation processes and support challenge teams, working in collaboration with other disciplines and regions to prototype solutions in the field.

👉 We have 5 places available for people from Barcelona/Catalonia.
🚌Transportation covered during the Bootcamp.
🗓 Deadline: January 28, 2026 (11:59 p.m. CET).

👉 Apply here

What about you? What are you interested in?

😙 At the Platoniq Foundation we are dedicated to disseminating innovative democratic initiatives that add value for citizens, as well as to promoting crowdfunding for projects with social impact through our platform Goteo.org. Join us at our events and continue promoting democratic transition and collective empowerment.

🥰 Join this transformation! Let the social and solidarity energy flow, because in a seemingly devastated world, we can still build change. Donate to our campaign and participate in the new version of Goteo.

See you in the next newsletter! 😜

That's as far as we go. We hope this newsletter has encouraged you to keep walking towards the society of all and for all that we are gradually approaching. See you next time!