Anthropolis
Telos (Mission)
We began again — not with conquest, but with care. We gathered in circles, not hierarchies. We learned to build as the bees build, to think as the rivers flow, to govern as the forests grow.
A Call from Anthropolis
Anthropolis does not reject technology; it reassigns its purpose. The tools of industrial power—automation, advanced manufacturing, AI, and material science—must serve resilience rather than acceleration.
We advocate for localized production, distributed fabrication, and open systems that replace fragile global supply chains with durable local capacity. Technology should shorten distances between need and fulfillment, not extend dependency.
Anthropolis reframes innovation as the capacity to endure: systems that continue functioning under disruption, climate stress, and geopolitical volatility. The most advanced societies of the future will be those that can prosper without expansion.
Anthropolis calls for a strategic realignment of human intelligence—from conquering nature to cooperating with it.
An Open Invitation
to Collaborate​
Anthropolis is a coordinated call to redesign civilization around human dignity, ecological limits, and long-term peace. Through aligned appeals to investors, policymakers, industry, culture, elders, and media, it mobilizes existing capacities toward regenerative settlement, shared prosperity, and cooperation over competition—marking a transition from industrial adolescence to ecological adulthood.
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Index of Calls​:
1. A Call to Investors
An invitation to align capital with long-term stability by investing in human-scale, regenerative systems that reduce risk, dependency, and social fragmentation.
2. A Call to Political Leaders
A proposal to transcend ideological divisions by redesigning governance around universal human needs, ecological reality, and participatory civic life.
3. A Call to Arms
A call to mobilize existing military, industrial, and technological capacities toward a unified global effort to stabilize the biosphere and secure peace through prevention rather than force.
4. A Call to the Manufacturing Industry
A directive to redirect manufacturing, automation, and advanced fabrication away from extractive supply chains toward localized, repairable, and regenerative production systems.
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5. A Call to the Agro-Industry
A commitment to restoring food sovereignty, ecological nutrition, and land stewardship as the material foundation of health, resilience, and social stability.
6. A Call to Elders and Cultural Stewards
An appeal to those who carry place-based and intergenerational wisdom to guide governance, ethics, and ecological restraint beyond industrial abstraction.
7. A Call to Media Professionals
An invitation to artists, filmmakers, writers, and designers to help restore civic imagination by visualizing cooperation, sufficiency, and peace as viable and desirable futures.
Pete Ward
Lessons in Procreation
2000 – Present
Created shortly after completing a degree in Industrial Design at California College of the Arts, Lessons in Procreation examines overpopulation as a systemic outcome of industrial civilization rather than an isolated demographic issue. The work situates population growth within broader patterns of ecological overshoot driven by settlement design, energy abundance, and growth-oriented economic models.
