A City for Creators
Join a bold community of visionaries building the world that doesn't yet exist — but should.
00. Mission
We are building Creator City — a place where people come together to create meaningful things, rooted in history, and built to last.
The Creator City exists to offer a new foundation for how we live, build, and create—by uniting the scientific and artistic imagination in places that still carry civilizational depth.
If the gaps are civilizational amnesia, siloed creation, the migration of talent toward capital over wisdom, and the lack of any place-rooted platform—then Creator City is the response.
It is a network state for cultural and civic regeneration, where some of the world's most original creators—system builders, storytellers, technologists, and designers—come together to:
- Build tools and stories with consequence
- Activate spaces charged with context and ecological intelligence
- Work in proximity, attunement, and collective alignment
We aim to create a living environment—online and offline, digital and embodied—where art, science, technology and generational knowledge converge to build a more thoughtful, inspired, and connected society.
MAKE MEANING
Creation with consequence. Not content.
WORK IN CONTEXT
Land. Legacy. Local intelligence.
CO-AUTHOR THE FUTURE
System builders and storytellers. Side by side.
BUILD TO LAST
Time as material. Legacy over virality.
01. What is
Creator City
A new kind of sovereign entity where culture, science, and society converge
INTRODUCTION
The Creator City is a new kind of sovereign entity: not a nation, not a brand, not a platform—but a networked civic organism where the boundaries of culture, science, and society are actively rewritten.
This is not an experiment in governance. It is an act of cultural continuation.
The Creator City uses physical heritage sites of contributed Suryagarh Collection—forts, havelis, palaces, and outposts—as its initial grounding infrastructure. But it is not a hospitality project. It is a civic construct built on the belief that the future must be built not in silos, but in symphony.
What it is:
- A sovereign value aligned network state with multiple physical and digital nodes
- A living community with shared belief, governance, and long-term vision of cultural and civic infrastructure
- A working city where products, ventures, solutions and ideas are built—in AI, design, systems, art
- A cultural city where beauty, reflection, and narrative are equally integral to the project
What it is not:
- Digital nomad residency, a retreat, glorified coworking, virtual DAO, or conference
FOUNDING PHILOSOPHY
Co-Creation Across Worlds
Systems built by storytellers; stories shaped by systems thinkers.
Physicality Over Abstraction
Anchored in physical spaces and tangible change.
Memory as Infrastructure
Heritage sites and local knowledge as active wisdom sources and time as material.
Value Beyond Capital
Visionary companies, transformative art, resilient communities. Economic return is part of the project, not the point of the project.
Thoughtfulness as Normative Standard
Prioritizing depth and clarity.
HOW WE WORK WITH WISDOM
Our locations are chosen not for aesthetic value alone, but for the deep reservoirs of ecological, architectural, agricultural, and philosophical intelligence they hold—often practiced but undocumented, or remembered but unintegrated.
We work with this wisdom not to preserve it, but to reactivate it—by placing it in dialogue with the creators shaping tomorrow.
OUR APPROACH INCLUDES:
Embedded Fieldwalks
Every creator residency begins with immersion — conversations with elders, artisans, farmers, and knowledge holders. We treat their lived experience as primary source material.
Contextual Translation
Creators are encouraged to translate local systems into contemporary forms. A seasonal agricultural cycle may shape a governance rhythm. A temple layout may inspire a digital interface.
Prototyping in Community
Ideas are tested not in isolation but in relationship—with feedback loops designed alongside local stewards and citizens.
Open Civic Documentation
All learnings—design frameworks, rituals, tools, governance models—are documented in the Creator City Commons, available for adaptation elsewhere.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
- Let the Work Speak: Quiet conviction, not volume, drives what we do.
- Platform Over Product: We create the conditions, not the output. Our role is to enable emergence, not impose outcomes.
- Invitation Over Imposition: We call those who are attuned, not everyone. Belonging here is by resonance, not broadcast.
- Heritage as Civic Infrastructure: Old buildings become living frameworks, not backdrops. We don't restore the past—we reprogram it for the future.
- Creative Energy as Regenerative Force: Ideas are not outputs; they are catalysts. The presence of thoughtful creators generates social, economic, and cultural renewal and shared aliveness.
- Humility as Operating System: Ego is irrelevant. Precision, clarity, and contribution matter more.
- Continuity Over Flash: We build what deepens over time. Legacy, not virality, is our measure of success.
HOW THE CREATOR CITY OPERATES
1. Strategic Focus Areas
Solving Systemic Problems: We believe in building solutions that reconnect and heal. We are incubating startups and projects that address critical issues such as digital addiction, AGI readiness, longevity, and psychosocial health.
Creating a Catalyst Community: We have a big vision and we're betting on ourselves and this experiment to demonstrate what's possible when communities intentionally balance technological progress with human well-being. Offering a practical and open-source blueprint for future communities seeking to evolve thoughtfully and collaboratively.
2. Physical Infrastructure
Heritage campuses, collaborative spaces, digital labs.
3. Digital Infrastructure
Secure platform managing identity, tech-enabled projects.
4. Governance
Founding council, civic assemblies, deliberative protocols, conduct emphasizing trust.
CATALYZERS & CREATORS
The Creator City welcomes:
- —Longform residencies (3–6 months)
- —Micro-residencies and workshops (1–2 weeks)
- —Distributed membership (online platform + seasonal participation)
- —Strategic partnerships (institutions, governments, foundations)
REAL-WORLD IMPACT
Cultural Revitalization
|Reimagining heritage spaces into vibrant, purposeful centers of innovation and creativity.
Creating a Model Society
|Offering a replicable blueprint for future communities seeking to merge technological progress with cultural and emotional depth.
Empowering Creators
|Developing infrastructures (physical and digital) that enable creators from diverse fields to collaboratively impact society.
02. The Why
THE GAP: WHY THIS MUST EXIST
In every era, new societies are built on what they choose to remember—and what they forget.
Today, the systems shaping our lives are built atop a narrow, ahistorical foundation: engineered for speed and scale, but detached from ecological, philosophical, and civilizational wisdom.
Civilizations that once held layered expertise—across architecture, agriculture, governance, healing, and time—have either faded from relevance or remain trapped in isolated geographies, disconnected from contemporary innovation.
At the same time, the hard and soft powers of progress—science and story, code and culture, engineering and ethics—are evolving in silos. The result is sterile infrastructure, performative art, and technologies that do not understand the societies they claim to serve.
There is no environment today where:
- Deep creators (scientific and artistic) can build together
- In settings charged with context and ecological intelligence
- With shared purpose, material generosity, and long-term alignment
This leaves us rich in output yet impoverished in meaning. The Creator City bridges this divide, creating a sustained civic space where art and science co-author humanity's future.
03. Our Values
The Core of Creator City
Creation as Civic Act
Making is more than just professional. It is political. Every project here is in service of society, not just self.
04. Join Us
Become a Creator Citizen
Co-author the future of culture, technology, and society.
At Creator City, you'll plug into a living network of artists, scientists, and systems-thinkers—working side by side in heritage sites and digital labs. Apply for a residency or join our distributed membership to collaborate on projects that blend ecological wisdom, cutting-edge tech, and deep cultural context. Together, we'll prototype new ways of living and building, and leave a legacy that generations can build on.
05. Apply