Hubville: Learnings from building a Smart Village with the Government

Imagine living in a city where not only every single architectural detail is optimised to restore Mother Earth, but also city life itself is designed to enhance wellness and improve social sustainability.

Anders Varger, the founder of Hubville, is building one of the world’s first self-sustaining city districts in Vetlanda in Sweden. Hubville is fundamentally rethinking sustainability and reinventing how we can live together, and the project is optimising sustainability from 16 different perspectives such as relationships, education and social security.

The project is being built together with the local municipality - which is in fact a starting point to create systemic change at scale.

In today’s episode, Anders Varger shares his learnings so far from building a Smart Village together with the government.

You’ll learn:

• What Hubville is and the philosophy behind it
• How you can expand sustainability into 16 different areas
• Pros and cons of working with the government to create change
• What needs to happen for Smart Villages to go mainstream and create systemic change