Anthropolis
Polis Design
The Polis as a Living Organism
In Greek thought, especially in Aristotle’s Politics, the polis (village) was not merely a government but a living organism — a community whose purpose (telos) was to cultivate the good life (eudaimonia) through shared virtue and participation. Democracy was the mechanism by which the polis maintained internal balance and harmony — analogous to how an organism regulates itself through homeostasis.
The citizen’s participation was the lifeblood of this organism; without civic engagement, the polis would decay into tyranny or chaos. In this sense, democracy was political, ecological, and biomimetic — sustaining the vitality of the whole through the active interdependence of its members.
It takes a village...
...to raise a village.
Sociality & Biomimietics in Design
Anthropolis reimagines civilization by studying one of nature’s most successful societies — the beehive. Bees embody eusociality, the highest form of social cooperation, where individuals act not out of hierarchy or profit, but for the collective wellbeing of the hive. In Anthropolis, this principle becomes the foundation of both governance and infrastructure, uniting biology, anthropology, and technology in a living model of ecological democracy.
