I started Modular Commons to bring culture, beauty, and clear storytelling into modular housing and public space—so design feels lived-in, human, and easy to build.

My path spans architecture, fabrication, and graphic design: from container-based concept homes and metal-crafted artworks to work on landmark buildings across the U.S. For the past seven years I’ve partnered with international façade contractors in Europe while expanding in New York City, delivering systems design, fabrication consulting, façade engineering, project management, and construction coordination—from concept and shop drawings to prototyping and installation planning.

I'm from the Future. The best possible one we can imagine. This is the story that guides me.

It explains why I see potential for improvement in everything. Why I find forests of abundance in desert lands. I've spent my life exploring this world, seeking the seeds of a better reality—identifying the technologies, systems, and processes that can help us grow a Fairer Future, and inventing new ones where needed.

I am a steward of this story, and it is bearing fruit:

• Modular Commons was born from collaboration and visionary conversations.

• Solarpunk NOW emerged from an experience I facilitated.

• Canopy Projects is emerging as I grow this story within myself.

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I’m an artist and permaculture designer from Berlin. I am the founder of Solarpunk Now, where we use Infinity Tools (Infinity Stonepaper and Beenius) and PLAYtoGROW to bring hands-on learning into schools, teams, and neighborhoods.

I care about beauty, good design, and places that feel alive and echo patterns from nature. Thats why I joined Modular Commons to bring art and style into modular housing.

In my workshops, we turn empty or tired ground into productive gardens and living ecosystems. In the city, we reimagine grey corners as small jungles that invite people to collaborate and grow together.

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I am a designer/builder working at the intersection of architecture, systems, and fabrication with 25+ years in leading firms. My past work ranges from the MoMA expansion and the Brooklyn Museum’s Center for Feminist Art to NYC’s post-disaster housing prototype, the GSA San Ysidro Land Port of Entry, and the UPenn Veterinary Lab. Raised in a blue-collar family in Western Pennsylvania, I prize clear drawings, smart fabrication, and solutions that hold up on site.

I joined Modular Commons to co-create with peers and turn underused sites into working models for housing and public life. Currently I’m translating modular ideas into coordinated details, shop-ready documents, and test builds for the Commons.

I’m a values-based experience designer and optimizer. I activate the potential of people, spaces, and visions. When people come together, I strive to set the tone for authentic engagement, especially through playful, immersive design and facilitation.

I’m a collector and connector of information, resources, people, places, and things. Using rhetoric and intention, I shape the stories of projects I love and find the platforms and paths to get them into the hands that can spark partnerships, generating win-win opportunities and shared momentum. I zoom out quickly to see the gaps in the system and zoom in with specificity to get them filled.

What I deeply desire is to live a “village lifestyle”: to live, work, and create in parallel with other humans doing the same. Working with Modular Commons brings myself, and so many others, toward this way of being.

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I’m Mark Goerner, a concept designer, futurist, illustrator, and consultant.

Drawing on my design practice and manufacturing experience, I founded eqogo, a platform that evaluates products for long-term value and environmental impact. We look at material composition, fair labor, toxicity, environmental footprint, energy use, durability, and more to bring thoughtfully made goods into clear view.

Eqogo rewards transparent, responsible manufacturing and connects conscious brands with informed buyers. By shifting our choices together, we make a real, positive impact and become better stewards of the planet one purchase at a time.

I am a social innovator exploring Modular tools of collaboration and imagination. As founder of Solarpunk Now, I am developing Infinity Tools (Infinity Stonepaper & Beenius) and the PLAYtoGROW initiative to bring permaculture learning through play.

My mission is to empower people everywhere to turn ideas into creative, sustainable realities.

I joined Modular Commons to co-create space and exchange with fellow regenerators. Together, we can transform underutilized sites into regenerative blueprints for systemic change. Currently I am helping to build the digital assets of the Modular Commons.

Check out our work on Solarpunk NOW

I’m David Koren, a strategist for mission-driven design and engineering with 20+ years turning ideas into audiences, partners, and revenue. I’ve led marketing and business development at DeSimone, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Gensler, Perkins Eastman, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, and WSP. I wrote The Architect’s Essentials of Marketing for John Wiley & Sons (endorsed by the AIA) and am an SMPS Fellow, past SMPS NYC president, and a BD+C 40 Under 40 honoree.

I founded FIGMENT on Governors Island, a participatory arts festival that welcomes about 20,000 people each year and has spread to cities worldwide, and I support the ReAL Edgemere Community Land Trust. I joined Modular Commons to pair clear storytelling and partnerships with modular design so underused sites become places people love to use and support.

I’m Aaron, a creative technologist with 20+ years turning ambitious ideas into working projects for artists, non-profits, and companies on five continents and across every kind of budget. My background spans electronics, robotics, computing, and material craft, and I’ve delivered independently, in small teams, and inside global enterprises while sourcing expert makers and coordinating international supply chains. Past work includes robotic shipping containers, virtual-reality theaters, machine-learning inference clusters, giant confetti machines, and immersive “portals” that connect places and people.

At Modular Commons I manage and evolve the tech stack, from digital infrastructure and collaborative platforms to practical automation tools, aligning our systems with modular housing and community goals. I’m here to turn bold ideas into reliable, scalable systems that move smoothly from prototype to public use.