# Smart Commons

> A new model for investing in the commons

Source: https://darkmatterlabs.org/feed/smart-commons  
Date: 2020-09-17  
Units: Capital Systems, Neighbourhood Futures, Civic Tech  
Team: Indy Johar, Jack Minchella, Oliver Burgess  
Partners: EIT Climate-KIC, Center for Spatial Technologies  
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/  
Attribution: Dark Matter Labs, https://darkmatterlabs.org

Public investment in common infrastructure results in private profit through land value uplift – a problem which underpins our current model of urban development, fuelling land speculation and creating unequal and unsustainable neighbourhoods. We need to redesign our land economy in a way that starts by recognising public goods create private wealth.

In collaboration with EIT Climate-KIC and Center for Spatial Technologies, Dark Matter Labs are developing a platform that brings together smart contracts, property value data and distributed ledgers to more fairly distribute this public value, by creating a mechanism to invest in building more sustainable communities.

## Links

- [Blog](https://provocations.darkmatterlabs.org/a-smart-commons-528f4e53cec2)