AnchorPoints
AnchorPoints are the places where Spiralweb touches ground through real people, real places, and enough continuity to hold a relationship over time.
They are not identical to Fields. AnchorPoints are the relational and place-based threshold: where a place becomes legible, where trust is built, and where a future field track may become possible.
AnchorPoints and Fields are related, but not the same
AnchorPoints are about relationship, local grounding, and access. Fields are the more operational layer: protocols, observation, ecological work, and evolving evidence.
Some AnchorPoints already support active field practice. Others are renewed invitations, protocol tracks, or exploratory place references still waiting for the right local constellation.
Kitgum, Uganda Active
Kitgum is the primary practice-ground in the current Spiralweb / PG habitat: the most mature social relationship in the system and the clearest site where field practice, local trust, and governance legibility already meet.
What is alive here now: an active community relationship, drought observation, community care, and preparation for possible borehole-centred food-forest plots when rain and local judgement permit. Regular planting and evidence rhythms have not yet been activated.
Next step: sustain the relationship through the drought, complete the local readiness conversation, and agree whether and when a bounded first field cycle should begin.
Casablanca, Morocco Active
Casablanca is the network and coordination node of the Morocco constellation — the relational hub connecting Doukkala/Badaoui, Had Soualem, and the wider Moroccan field dialogue. It should be read as an active relationship and connective layer, with field observation forming.
What is alive here now: dialogue, contextual knowledge, and partner-facing design orientation around water systems, soil, and longer-term regenerative transition.
Next step: hold the connective rhythm across the Morocco fields and let shared observation form.
Had Soualem, Morocco Preparing
Had Soualem is an established, locally held permaculture site and a forming relationship within the Morocco constellation. Water security is the central shared inquiry; wider learning and plant functions may develop from that ground.
What is alive here now: existing practice, practical local knowledge, and a shared inquiry into water security, learning, and possible network functions. No new Spiralweb field cycle has yet been activated.
Next step: agree what can be observed together and whether a bounded first Spiralweb learning cycle would be useful to Assyl and the site.
Doukkala / Badaoui, Morocco Preparing
Doukkala / Badaoui is an existing farm and a locally held relationship with Abdelhamid Badaoui. The land, established trees, reservoirs, livestock, and practical knowledge provide the ground for a possible bounded dryland agroforestry pre-pilot.
What is alive here now: an existing farm, locally held land and water assets, and a shared pre-pilot inquiry informed by PG-RAPID. No earthwork design, species plan, or first field cycle has yet been approved.
Next step: agree the first locally held baseline and determine whether a bounded pre-pilot should begin.
Karachi, Pakistan Preparing
Karachi is a preparatory urban AnchorPoint held through an active steward relationship with Yasir Darya Husain. Earlier Green & Blue Karachi work provides a foundation for a shared inquiry into heat- and drought-adapted food forests with schools and community stewards.
What is alive here now: the steward relationship, earlier material, and a shared pre-pilot direction. No school, community site, or field cycle has yet been activated.
Next step: shared local scoping of a willing setting, heat, water, soil, maintenance capacity, and whether a bounded first experiment should begin.
Mexico City, Mexico Preparing
Mexico City enters the habitat as an urban wetland commons track centered on Xochimilco and the logic of chinampa stewardship: a high-complexity civic and ecological setting where commons governance, urban metabolism, and local knowledge meet.
What is alive here now: an active shared project relation with Dr. Arturo Flores López and a first inquiry around chinampa stewardship, public follow-through and steward-held documentation. No chinampa site, evidence cadence or field cycle is active.
Next step: identify a willing steward-held setting, understand what is already documented, and agree locally whether a bounded first PG Ledger scope would add value.
Future places — not yet AnchorPoints
Iquitos, Peru Not yet opened
Iquitos is a place of ecological and methodological relevance. It is not yet an AnchorPoint: no locally rooted relationship or operational field has been opened.
Nothing begins until the right locally held stewardship relationship exists and can define whether any shared work is useful.
10 m² stewardship support
Possible support pathways for small, locally governed field units are being developed within the planned First Field Flow. No plot is sold, sponsored as property, or treated as an investment unit.
Public support opens only when the relevant financial, legal, and governance structure is active. Field readiness and local authority determine whether and when resources are received and used.
First Field Flow support architecture in formation · public collection not yet open.
What makes an AnchorPoint?
An AnchorPoint is not just a project. It is a place where enough continuity exists to hold:
- a real person, group, or relationship rooted in place
- a local context that can meaningfully receive protocol work
- some form of continuity strong enough to carry next steps
- a bridge between the public architecture and the lived place
Place first. Relationship before scale. Publication only where the ground can hold it.