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A proposal

Centre for Planetary Stewardship

A civic organ for thinking planetarily. One design among many, and the first of many.

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There is no house for the planetary.

We have institutes that study the Earth system and museums that tell its past. We have planetariums that show the sky and science centres that explain it. There is still no public place devoted to the planetary itself: to Earth as one living system that we belong to, depend on, and are now changing.

The science has never been clearer, or easier to find. What is missing is somewhere to meet it, and one another. A place in the city where anyone can walk in, sit down, and come to feel what it means to live on one living, finite world, and to work out, with others, what to do about it.

Each of us is now a planetary steward, whether we chose to be or not.

Together, eight billion people have become a force that moves the climate, the oceans and the web of life. Ours is the first generation to understand this, and the last with a real chance to steer it.

An organ, not a monument.

Societies grow organs for what they must do together. Libraries hold memory. Courts weigh conflict. Parliaments deliberate. Hospitals care. Observatories watch the sky. Each is a building, and each is also a habit a society keeps. For the one condition that now shapes all the others, the state of the Earth system, the city has no such organ.

The Centre for Planetary Stewardship is proposed as that organ. Like a living one, it does a few things continuously:

  1. Perceive

    Make the Earth system perceptible at human scale: from orbit under the dome, underfoot in the court, overhead on a dark night.

  2. Digest

    Turn the flood of science into meaning people can hold: books, images, exhibitions and stories, made with care and in public.

  3. Deliberate

    Give citizens a room to argue about what to do, with the evidence present and the stakes shared.

  4. Tend

    Practise care where it can be touched: soil, water, food, a forest in the middle of a city.

It is neither a museum of the planet nor a campaign. It is social infrastructure: the kind of shared place that decides, more than any message, whether people meet, trust one another and act together.1 Its purpose is to make planetary thinking ordinary, part of a city’s daily life.

Why knowing is not enough.

For decades, much environmental communication assumed that people act once they know. The evidence says otherwise.

Information alone changes little.

What moves people instead2,3

  • What they see others doing
  • What they feel
  • What they practise
  • Whether their efforts join with others’

Most adults learn science not at school but by choice: in museums, libraries, conversations and the media.4 And distance matters. The further away climate change feels, in space, in time and in social circle, the less people engage with it.5

The answers to climate change and biodiversity loss are largely known. What remains is harder: changing hearts, minds and the rules of the game, the norms, prices, laws and technologies that decide how eight billion people eat, move, build and consume.

So the Centre does not bet on another report. It bets on proximity: making the planetary near, shared and practised, in a place people come back to, the way they come back to a library or a café. No single exhibition or show changes much on its own, and the measured effects of communication are modest. A place works through repetition, over years, across a whole city.

The majority that cannot see itself.

69% of people, across 125 countries, would give 1% of their income to act on climate change.

43% is how many they believe their fellow citizens would.

Nine in ten want their governments to do more. Yet in every country surveyed, people underestimate how much the people around them care.6 In the United States, supporters of major climate policies outnumber opponents two to one, and Americans believe the reverse.7

The concern is shared; the sharing is invisible.

That gap matters because norms move in jumps. In controlled experiments, a committed minority of about a quarter of a group was enough to overturn an established convention.8 In whole societies, such tipping runs through norms, education and institutions, the slow infrastructure of shared life.9 A place where people gather around the planet every day, in plain sight, is one of the simplest ways to let the majority see itself.

Why now.

  • +1.5 °C the first full year beyond 1.5 °C of warming, 2024
  • 7 of 9 planetary boundaries crossed, of nine, in 2025
  • −73% average fall in monitored wildlife populations since 1970
  • 59% of 16-to-25-year-olds in ten countries very or extremely worried about climate change

In 2024 the world was, for the first time over a whole year, more than 1.5 °C warmer than before industrialisation.10 Six of the nine planetary boundaries were found crossed in 2023; with ocean acidification, the count in 2025 was seven.11,12 Monitored wildlife populations have fallen by almost three quarters since 1970.13 Wars, pandemics and record inequality have fused with these into a polycrisis, while artificial intelligence reorganises how knowledge is made and shared. Modern medicine, abundant food and instant communication are real achievements, and they rest on the same Earth system; they will last only if the ideas and rules built into our institutions and technologies change with them.

Across ten countries, 59% of people aged 16 to 25 say they are very or extremely worried about climate change, and many feel their governments are failing them.14 Reports are not what is lacking.

What is lacking is a culture able to hold all of this without despair.

A planetary culture, rooted in places, where awareness can become care and care can become stewardship. Contact with living places, especially in childhood, is associated with constructive hope rather than paralysis.15

Planetary, not global.

The global is what we built: markets, networks, institutions spanning the world. The planetary is what all of it stands on. It is Earth as a living, integrated metabolic system, running through atmosphere, oceans, rock, life and now the technosphere, across deep time and at every scale, from the microbial to the whole Earth. It exists independently of us, and it is increasingly shaped by us. Humanity lives inside the biosphere, not beside it.16

A Centre for Planetary Stewardship is a place to learn to see the planetary through the global, and to act accordingly. The full definition is in the Planetary Lexicon.

What stewardship asks.

Planetary stewardship is the conscious, active care of the Earth’s life-support systems, for the people alive now and for those not yet born: learning, together, to be a wiser and kinder presence on the only living world we know.

It is less a new idea than a scattered one. Indigenous nations have practised it for millennia. Youth movements demand it, social justice movements insist that it be fair, and the United Nations, in Our Common Agenda, asks governments to act for future generations. But these threads rarely meet, and they are unevenly spread. The Centre is where they can meet, and where a worldview can become a way of life. It serves that worldview in three modes at once:

  • Observatory

    Watches how planetary thinking spreads, and where it stalls.

  • Laboratory

    Tries new ways to make the planet felt, understood and cared for.

  • Accelerator

    Carries what works into schools, media, institutions and the rooms where decisions are made.

A day at the Centre.

One proposal, drawn for a northern city: a ring of terraced timber floors, held from outside by a timber exoskeleton, around a forest court, with a geodesic dome across its northern side. In winter a roof of air-filled cushions of light plastic film (ETFE) keeps the court alive as a winter garden. Every floor steps back to leave a planted terrace facing the court, and a young forest surrounds the whole building. Walk it from dawn to midnight here, or freely in 3D.

A forest avenue opens onto a ring-shaped building held by a timber diagrid; over its glass entrance, a timber truss bridge and a canopy of solar glass on two bronze tree forks.A passage between two leaning glass walls framed by a timber diagrid; bands of stone in the floor run toward the court.A gravel trail curves through dense layered planting toward a great oak, a bronze plate set low beside the path.A broad oak in a clearing, with people on benches and a ring of bronze letters round its foot.A bookstore under a stepped timber ceiling with rooflights, with shelves, reading tables and suspended planet lamps.Wide timber seat rows with planted bands climb between two stairs, the court and its canopy beyond.A kitchen classroom with a long island, stools, a grow wall of seedlings and shelves of coloured jars.A long café under a timber ceiling, with a ring of light around a small suspended Earth and people at tables.A double-height hall under timber trusses, hung with large planetary images, with visitors.From the top row of a full raked hall, a stage and a wide screen under a woven timber roof.A long reading table beside library shelves on an upper floor, with the dome visible through the glass.Open-plan research studios with desks, monitors showing maps and charts, and light through tall windows.At sunset, a timber ramp with a mesh guard curves round the outside of the building toward the arched truss bridge over the entrance.A curved elevated walkway at dusk beside the dome, whose panels glow violet and pink, under the lit winter roof.Inside the dome, the audience beneath a projection of the Earth’s shipping routes.A restaurant terrace at night under the lit winter roof, with diners behind the glass.The Milky Way through the lattice of the winter roof, over the darkened court and the tops of the trees.

Welcome

The approach

The Centre stands in a city, inside a young forest planted the Miyawaki way: native species, dense and mixed, in four layers from the canopy down to the ferns. Spruce, fir, birch and aspen here. An avenue curves through it, hiding the entrance, then showing it: a ring of terraced floors held by a timber exoskeleton, living walls between its diagonals. Over the entrance, a timber truss bridge carries the outdoor ramp across, and from it hangs a canopy of triangular solar glass, held at the front by two bronze tree forks. Halfway, an old oak stands in a clearing with benches round it.

Perceive

The threshold

The way in is an open passage through the ring, with no doors and no turnstile. Two leaning glass walls narrow toward the middle and open again onto the court, like a lens. Underfoot, the Deep-Time Floor: 4.54 billion years to now on a logarithmic scale, in nine bands of real rock, from the Earth’s formation to the ice ages. The Holocene, the ten thousand years of farming and cities, takes the last metre and a bit; the last 250 years are a strip of brass four centimetres wide, and a brass line marked now runs on into the court. Between the two skins of glass the building shows how it works: rain from the roof in a cistern and a reed bed on one side, living soil with roots, mycelium and worms on the other. Over the mouth of the passage, the canopy of solar glass shows what it is producing as a bead of light running along a brass rail.

Tend

The forest court

Inside the ring, a forest garden instead of a plaza: tall trees, fruit trees, berry shrubs, herbs and groundcover in layers, winding paths, a swale that keeps the rain on the land. Bronze plates set low along the trail, in the path, the stones and the ground, read the court as the Earth’s spheres: the air, water, ice, rock, life, and us.

Perceive

The mother oak

At the centre, an old red oak in a clearing, ringed by bronze letters that join all the plates together: the leaves trade carbon and water with the air, the roots break rock and hold soil, the acorns feed jays. Change one sphere and the others answer. It is the argument of the whole building, told by a tree.

Digest

Planetareads

The bookstore is laid out in eighteen sections: Earth Science, Climate, Oceans, Biodiversity, Deep Time, Cosmos, Indigenous Knowledge, Philosophy, Governance, Economics, Risks, AI, Futures, Speculative Fiction, Atlases, and a low shelf for children, among others. Planetary thinking is a library before it is a slogan. Its ceiling is the underside of the Great Steps above, stepping up toward the court, lit by daylight through glass set in the risers.

Welcome

The Great Steps

Above the bookstore, the terraces become one wide stair: nine rows of timber seats between planted bands and three trees, climbing from the first terrace to the second. People read here, eat lunch, wait for a talk, watch the court. It is the building’s most public room, and it has no walls.

Tend

The Food lab

What grows in the court and on the terraces meets a kitchen. Seedlings grow under light, jars ferment on the shelves, and a class learns to cook the planetary health diet. Food systems produce about a third of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions; here that fact arrives as lunch.17,18

Welcome

Laïkafé

The city’s living room: a third place between home and work, with long tables, booths, a small Earth in a ring of light and planetary images on the walls. People read, work, argue and linger. No one needs a ticket to belong here.19

Digest

The halls

Double height, flat floors, rigging overhead, walls that move. An exhibition one month, a hackathon the next, a gathering of elders or a school fair after that. Large works are commissioned for the building itself. Timber trusses carry the floors above, so the rooms are almost free of columns.

Deliberate

The Agora

A two-storey hall of 199 raked seats under a roof of timber beams that rest on one another, with no column inside. A wall of light ten metres wide shows the evidence; cameras carry every session beyond the walls. It holds lectures, debates and hearings, and citizens’ assemblies, where residents drawn by lot learn from experts, deliberate and make recommendations. Upstairs, the Workshop gives people tables and whiteboards to work things out together.20,21

Digest

The Atelier

The Centre’s memory and workshop: an archive on rolling stacks, a reading library, and a creative studio with a large-format printer, a light table and a book scanner. Datasets come in; maps, prints, books and stories go out.

Perceive

The research wing

Open studios for residents: scientists, artists, scholars and knowledge holders who live the Centre’s daily life for a season. Their screens show work in progress. What they make ends up under the dome, in the halls, on the shelves.

Tend

The promenade

Every floor steps back as it rises, so each has a planted terrace facing the court: an amphitheatre of gardens. Outside, a gentle ramp with level landings climbs round the building on its exoskeleton, from the forest floor to the roof. At the top is the belvedere, a roof garden open to everyone, shaded by a pergola of solar panels. At golden hour it fills with people looking in at the court and out over the city.

Perceive

The halo

A ring walk nine metres up, circling the dome, held on six timber tree columns. At dusk the shell begins to glow, each panel a slowly drifting colour: a signal to the neighbourhood that the evening programme has begun.

Perceive

The dome

About 180 seats under a 28-metre shell. The Earth from orbit, its day side and night side; the planet’s winds and coastlines; shipping routes over the Arctic. Astronauts describe the sight of the whole Earth as awe, and in experiments awe makes people more generous. The dome offers a distant echo of that view. Then the lights come up and the conversation begins.22,23

Deliberate

Orbistro

On the top floor the Orbistro stays open late: snug booths, banquettes, a kitchen fed by the garden, a terrace over the court. People coming out of the dome stay a little longer, and the evening’s questions keep going.

Perceive

Dark sky

Near midnight the Centre can go dark: every outdoor light turns a low red, which keeps eyes adapted to the night; the lights set in the forest paths still wake round each walker and fade behind them, so the building shows its visitors, not itself. The stars come out over the court, the Milky Way among them. Most city dwellers have lost that sky, and it is still brightening by nearly a tenth each year. For an hour, the building gives it back.24

The Centre from above: the young forest round the ring, the court under its winter roof, and the dome at its northern end. Virtual visit Walk through the Centre Every room, from dawn to midnight. Change the hour, the climate and the night lights, or fly over the whole plan. Best on a computer with a recent browser. Enter the visit

Research, creation, communication.

The Centre does three things, and reads each of them through the three questions of our time: how to see where we stand (awareness), how to face what is happening (emergency), and how to take care of it (stewardship).

AwarenessEmergencyStewardship
Research

AwarenessA yearly barometer of planetary awareness and of the civic imagination: what the city knows of the Earth system, and which futures it can picture.

EmergencyResidents in the research wing synthesise the latest Earth system science with partner institutes, in the open.

StewardshipRecommendations for policymakers, drawn from research and citizens’ assemblies; foresight, economics and governance studied in view of the public.

Creation

AwarenessDome shows built from real data: the Earth from orbit, its winds, its routes, its night lights.

EmergencyThe Atelier and narrative workshops turn datasets into images, films, books and stories people can hold.

StewardshipResidencies for artists and scholars; the forest court and the Food lab as living experiments.

Communication

AwarenessExhibitions in the halls, Planetareads, and school programmes from age eight.

EmergencyPublic talks, hearings and citizens’ assemblies in the Agora; open data and publications.

StewardshipEvery talk streamed, every toolkit free; shows shared with domes and museums; a network of Centres.

Research that answers to the city.

The Centre studies the people it serves as closely as the planet it explains. Three kinds of research come out of the building every year, free to all:

  1. The civic imagination

    Every year, a study of public sentiment about societal transformation: which futures people can picture, which ones they want, what they believe stands in the way, and whom they trust to get there. Imagination is where change begins, and it can be measured.

  2. The state of planetary awareness

    How well the city understands the Earth system it lives in, from the carbon cycle to the planetary boundaries, measured year on year and published in the open. The Centre is accountable to its own purpose.

  3. Recommendations for policymakers

    What the research, the residents and the citizens’ assemblies conclude, written as concrete recommendations for local, regional and national government, and carried to the people who decide.

It does this in partnership with Chief Planetary Scientists: advisers who give the stability of the Earth system a dedicated voice in government. They translate planetary boundaries and Earth system risks into national priorities, bring those risks into budgets, investment, security, health and economic planning, anticipate tipping points and cascading threats, and share an evolving picture of the planet’s health across a global network. The Centre gives them what a government adviser rarely has: a public. Their questions reach the people of the city, and the city’s answers reach them.

A building that broadcasts.

Most people will never walk through the door, so the Centre is built to radiate. Every talk, debate and workshop is streamed live and kept in an open archive. Dome shows, exhibitions, data and images are published for others to reuse. Its conference hall is equipped like a broadcast studio, so a hearing in the city can be followed across the country, and a scientist on another continent can take questions from a room full of residents. For the people who carry knowledge onward, it makes toolkits:

  • Journalists

    Briefings on the latest Earth system science, verified data and graphics free to reuse, and scientists who will pick up the phone on deadline.

  • Educators

    Lesson plans from age eight, classroom versions of the dome shows, and field guides to the forest court that work in any schoolyard.

  • Youth

    Workshops, a youth assembly with a seat at the Centre’s table, and the tools to research, film and argue for their own city’s future.

  • Policymakers

    Short, sourced briefs that turn planetary boundaries and Earth system risks into local priorities, and a room where officials can meet the public on the evidence.

A building that practises what it says.

Buildings and their construction account for more than a third of the world’s energy and process-related carbon dioxide emissions.25 A Centre for Planetary Stewardship that ignored its own footprint would teach the opposite of what it says. So the building is part of the programme: its systems are visible, explained, and open to visitors who want to see how they work.

  • Built from carbon, not on it

    Mass timber and rammed earth store carbon instead of emitting it. A timber exoskeleton of glulam diagonals with cast-bronze nodes carries the floors from outside, and timber trusses span the ring, so the rooms inside are almost free of columns. Every joint is designed to be taken apart and used again.

  • Sun and wind

    Solar modules over the roof ring, a solar pergola over the belvedere and solar louvres over the upper terrace that turn to follow the sun, with quiet helical turbines on the core towers, supply part of the Centre’s power. Solar chimneys in the cores draw fresh air through the floors without fans. Below ground, the plant room keeps the heat pumps and the batteries that store the roof’s sun, beside the bike parking and the cloakroom.

  • Water that stays

    Rain is caught in cisterns and returned to the forest court. Greywater is cleaned in a reed bed and used again. The swale and a wetland in the forest keep storms on the land instead of in the sewer. At the entrance, the whole cycle is shown in section.

  • Light that knows the night

    Daylight first. After dark, lights set in the paths wake as people pass and fade behind them. On some nights the outdoor lights step aside for the stars.

The food makes the case best. Laïkafé, the Food lab and the Orbistro cook the planetary health diet: mostly plants, generous with whole grains, legumes, nuts, fruit and vegetables, with meat and dairy as occasional guests. It is the diet the EAT–Lancet Commission found could feed some ten billion people within planetary boundaries while preventing around eleven million premature deaths a year.17 Here it is simply lunch, seasonal and fed in part by the court and the terraces, and it proves the point the way good food does: people come back for it.

A pattern language, not a blueprint.

The building in these pages is one answer, not the answer. What should travel from city to city is not a form but a set of patterns, in the sense the architect Christopher Alexander gave the word: relationships between people and places that can be built in many ways.26 Every Centre keeps these fourteen.

  1. A threshold that tells time

    Free to enter, at street level, with no turnstile. The way in shows where we stand in the Earth’s history.

  2. A forest edge

    The city’s own forest round the building, native and dense, walked through on the way in.

  3. A living ground at the heart

    Soil, water and a garden or forest that people walk through, read as the Earth’s spheres.

  4. A dome

    One room for seeing the whole: the planet from orbit, deep time, the sky.

  5. A kitchen fed by the garden

    The planet on the plate, cooked and taught.

  6. A bookstore and an archive

    The memory of planetary thinking, for every age.

  7. Halls that change

    Exhibition one month, assembly the next.

  8. A room to deliberate

    Intimate and raked, for talks, hearings and citizens’ assemblies.

  9. Studios for residents

    Science, art and other knowledges working side by side, in view.

  10. Terraces that look inward

    Every floor sees the living ground and the people in it.

  11. Light where people are

    Lights that wake for visitors and leave the rest to the dark, and nights when they step aside for the stars.

  12. An open signal

    Everything said in the building is streamed and shared, so the Centre reaches far beyond its walls.

  13. A building that practises

    Its energy, water, materials and food are part of the argument, and on view.

  14. A structure you can read and walk

    The frame on the outside, honest about how it stands, and a way up it open to everyone.

What each place decides.

The Centre in a temperate city: the terraced ring and its forest court open to the sky, the dome at its far side, a leafy forest all round.

Temperate: the court open to the sky.

The same Centre in a boreal city: a light, cellular canopy covers the whole court, and conifers fill the forest round it.

Boreal: a canopy turns the court into a winter garden.

  • Climate and form

    A ring around a forest court suits a temperate city. In a boreal one, a canopy can turn the court into a winter garden. In the tropics the court might be shade and open air; in a dry city, a cool well of water and stone.

  • Materials

    Local timber, rammed earth, stone, bamboo, or an existing building given a second life. The most planetary building is often the one already standing.

  • Languages and knowledges

    Each Centre speaks the languages of its place and holds its knowledges, with Indigenous and local knowledge holders as authors, not guests. The ways people value nature are plural, and decisions that hear only one of them tend to fail.27

  • Scale and governance

    A campus, a converted warehouse, a travelling dome. Run as a commons, with rules made by those who use it, and linked to the other Centres without being ruled by them.28

Almost done before.

A building can change a city’s culture. These houses proved it, each in its own way.

  • Société des arts technologiques

    Montréal · 1996

    Its Satosphère made a dome in the middle of a city a public stage for immersive art, not only a planetarium.

  • Arvo Pärt Centre

    Laulasmaa, Estonia · 2018

    A building in a pine forest, dedicated to one body of work and to silence. Architecture can carry a state of mind.

  • ZKM | Center for Art and Media

    Karlsruhe · 1989

    Research, collection, production and exhibition under one roof, in a converted munitions factory.

  • Ars Electronica Center + Futurelab

    Linz · 1996

    A museum of the future joined to a working lab, linking art, technology and society for three decades.

  • Waag Futurelab

    Amsterdam · 1994

    A public research lab in a medieval weigh house, turning technology back toward the commons.

  • Pioneer Works

    Brooklyn · 2012

    A former ironworks where artists and scientists share studios, residencies, talks and free public programmes.

None of them is devoted to the planetary. The Centre for Planetary Stewardship gathers what they have shown, the dome, the lab, the residency, the open programme, the building as a state of mind, and turns it toward the Earth.

Why every city needs one.

Public libraries, museums and hospitals were once proposals too. Each became ordinary when a society recognised a need it could only meet together. The Centre for Planetary Stewardship answers such a need.

  1. Every other need depends on this one

    Water, food, health, work and safety all rest on a stable Earth system. A city already keeps a library for memory, a hospital for care and a council for decisions. The condition beneath all of them still has no house.

  2. Cities are where people are

    More than half of humanity lives in cities, and by 2050 it will be about two thirds. If planetary thinking is to become ordinary, it has to live where daily life happens.29

  3. People already care; they need to see it

    Most people want action and underestimate how many others do. A busy public place makes that shared concern visible, every day, to everyone who walks past.6

  4. It turns knowledge into practice

    Reports inform. A place lets people taste the food, see the planet whole, argue in good faith and plant something. That is how habits, and then norms, change.

  5. It answers to the city

    The Centre measures awareness, listens to the public and brings recommendations to the people who govern. Each one is a civic organ, not a showroom.

  6. It multiplies

    Shows, exhibitions, toolkits and research travel from Centre to Centre. Every new city adds its knowledge to the network and draws on everyone else’s.

The first of many.

The first Centre is a model, not a monument: one building, one programme, one way of being together around the planetary, designed to be adapted. Each new Centre takes root in its own city, with its own gardens, languages, knowledges and partners, and shares its shows, exhibitions, research and people with the others. The first Centres will publish everything needed to start another, the patterns, programmes, research methods and ways of governing, so the network can grow the way a forest does: from many seeds, with no headquarters.

One day, every city should have one.

Walk through the first one

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Images of the Centre are stills from the virtual visit. Visitors: “Freebie – Lowpoly People” by Studio Ochi, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, unmodified. Night sky: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio; Gaia DR2: ESA/Gaia/DPAC.