The next decades will bring planetary-scale shifts: climate transformation, artificial intelligence, generational transitions of power and knowledge. New worlds need new systems, new ways of organizing, governing, and thriving together.

But who gets to design those systems? The generation who will inherit these systems are asked to comment or adapt but rarely given the canvas to build. If we want systems that are more resilient and aligned, with the futures we actually want, then those who will live in those futures must design them.

That's why we're building the Lunar University: a learning entity where young people co-create the systems humanity needs. LunARC is creating this foundational architecture through two core initiatives: the First Principles Series and NEXUS. Together, they form a global system for learning, imagination, and knowledge synthesis.

Youth Designing Systems From First Principles

We begin with a set of pilot design labs where small, diverse cohorts of young people prototype the systems humanity will need to thrive on Earth and beyond — not by extending what exists, but by reimagining from first principles. Think students of jazz music exploring how improvisation might inform collective decision-making or students of farming and agriculture reframing resource management through ecological cycles.

These are not metaphors. They are working prototypes that offer early insight into how humans might organize, govern, and care for one another in radically new contexts. The student prototypes are reviewed with academic partners and policy circles, and refined as they move through each stage of the lab.  

As we learn from these pilots, we will expand to other foundational systems humanity must reimagine for space: resource distribution, cultural protocols, conflict resolution, health and wellbeing, and more.

Turning Distributed Wisdom Into Shared Insight
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NEXUS is an open-source knowledge platform that brings together student prototypes into a single space where ideas can be linked, compared, stress-tested, and evolved. It reveals patterns and connections no single discipline or region could uncover alone, becoming a living map of new ideas and systems.

The 2026 NEXUS Demonstrator will connect the outputs from our pilot labs using. As we run more labs, this demonstrator will become the foundation for the full platform: the knowledge layer of the Lunar University - the curriculum shaped by thousands of students.

From Pilots to Platform to Planetary

The First Principles pilots and NEXUS Demonstrator are not standalone programs - they're the first tests of a methodology that could fundamentally change how humanity learns and governs together. If these early experiments succeed, they prove that youth from diverse fields can design viable systems for our shared future.

 When the first classroom opens on the Moon, it won't mark a beginning. It will be the culmination of a decade of curriculum co-created by thousands of young people across continents - proof that humanity can build learning infrastructure worthy of our multiplanetary future.

Your support now helps establish whether this vision is possible.

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