Longer-form arguments and published pieces that develop the BioConomy position for a general audience.
Overview
Essays are written to be read from start to finish. They present the framework’s key positions in the voice they are most likely to be published in. A first-time reader arrives via the wiki home and lands on the four orientation essays. Subsequent essays extend into specific applications: how a coordinator engages a bioregion, and how a human directs an AI at the corpus.
Essays here are polished. Working drafts and exploratory notes stay in project knowledge and do not enter the wiki. Where an essay has been superseded by a newer one, the newer one carries.
The orientation set
Read in this order:
- What Is a BioHub
- What Is a BioRegion
- What Is a BioConomy (and how it differs from the Economy)
- From a Bioregion to a BioRegion (the case-sensitive convention explained)
The engagement set
Once the orientation set is read:
- How to Engage Your Bioregion. The bridge from theory to running the templates.
- AI Quick-Engage. Four prompts for a fast, useful diagnostic before committing to the templates suite.
- How to Build a BioHub Wiki. The wiki as the mechanism by which nodes of local knowledge are shared across a BioRegion.
- How the BioConomy Coordinates. The grounding essay: stigmergy as the coordination mechanism of the Emergent form, and the coordination-surface file as the substrate the network publishes.
- From Geosphere to Noosphere. The BioHub wiki as the translation layer between the physical Earth and collective intelligence.
Related pages
Sources
- Gladek, E. et al. (2026). BioHubs: A Pathway to Regional Resilience
Provenance
Written 27 August 2026 as the landing page for the essays folder. The full listing of essay pages is generated by Quartz’s explorer plugin.