The Hub's Seven Spaces

A brief a builder could work from: the seven rooms a community's centre needs, and what each one is for.

The central hall — large enough for the whole body to gather and practise together, with smaller rooms for individual bodies working at the same time. The council space — where the community's Wisdom Council meets and where ceremonies of significance are held; distinct from the hall, because deciding and practising are different acts and rooms teach what they are for (Council, Decision Making). The healing rooms — where those who tend are based, where members recover, and where the wider community comes for what this body offers (Healing, The Warrior-Healer Pair, And The Deferral). The archive — the record of the body's lineage, its practices, its documents, and the names of those who were here before (The Record, Keeper, The Living Library). The shrine — the consecrated centre that holds the place's orientation; the room of stillness (Temple, Silence And Stillness As The Ground). Living quarters — for those in intensive seasons, for visitors, for whoever is currently holding the place (Host). The kitchen and commons — where the body eats together and where the wider community joins it for meals and celebration (Commons, Celebration, Family).

The set is worth reading as a diagnostic rather than a shopping list, because each room is a capacity. A centre with no archive forgets itself in one generation. A centre with no kitchen is a facility rather than a home, and the body will bond somewhere else. A centre where deciding happens in the practice hall will find the practice quietly organising around the decisions.

And the canon's sharp line about what a centre makes possible: a community with a functioning centre has a body; a community without one has members. The centre is where continuous work is actually coordinated, where what is arriving is gathered and read, and where the whole can converge when something exceeds any one part (The Hub, The Seven-Tier Engagement Escalation).

Most of it starts small. The first version of any of these rooms is a corner, a shelf, a table, and someone who keeps it (The Dojo's Five Disciplines).

Also called: the seven spaces of a Hub Stands on: The Hub · Architecture · Community · Commons Opens onto: The Dojo's Five Disciplines · Sacred spaces · The Living Library · Wisdom Council · The Joseph Plan · Human-Scaling · Design · Temple In play: beyond the table — the brief for a community's first building Sources: LIØNSBERG Wiki Books/The Sacred Warrior Guidebook/Sacred Warrior — II.3 The Warrior Community, §The Hub (unmarked) · The Hub (draft, the network topology) · lionsberg.wiki: The Sacred Warrior Guidebook Open: The list is one craft's version of a centre; what a community's centre needs when twelve crafts share it is not addressed anywhere. · No dimensions, no adjacencies, and no sequence of building — it is a programme, not yet a design.