The Vision
Quick tour through the Modular Commons Space @Button[::]Studios in Brooklyn, New York
The Team
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David Button
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.
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Jay Cousins
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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Agnes Friedrich
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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Denny Ehrlich
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.