Our journey begins with Hitchhikers.Earth, a project designed to recruit a global cast of characters. Together, this cast would form a citizen-led global assembly. At the heart of this assembly is a recurrent ritual: an annual cycle where we symbolically destroy Earth – and then celebrate its rebirth.
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Throughout the year, a series of connected events will unfold. Each has its own distinct character, all orbiting around the writing, unravelling, and re-imagining of our shared global Constitution.
**The Yearly Ritual** We start on **4th July** – reimagined as “Global Democracy Day”. Here, through workshops and participatory sessions, we explore new forms of governance and collaboratively draft an intergalactic, sci-fi-inspired Constitution. This "Federation Intergalactic Constitution" becomes our shared point of departure. Fast forward to **5th November** – traditionally known as Guy Fawkes Day and, coincidentally, the date of a significant election in recent history. On this day, we stage a theatrical destruction of the Constitution. In a grand, humorous, perhaps even chaotic celebration filled with metaphorical and literal fireworks, we collectively imagine how governance systems succeed – or fail spectacularly. Then, on **2nd February – Groundhog Day** – we reconstitute Earth. Drawing from the constitutional backup created the previous July, we launch a rejuvenated project, laying the foundations for the new Earth. Finally, we celebrate **Earth Day, 22nd April** with hope and vision. Through storytelling and creative performances, we dream aloud, conjuring a future Earth shaped by the ideals seeded months earlier. And so the cycle continues – each year, a new Constitution authored, every 5th of November seeing its symbolic destruction, and each Groundhog Day ushering in rebirth anew.
**The Performances and Participation** To bring this grand vision to life, we plan a series of rehearsals and workshops throughout the year. These begin with onboarding and interviewing participants – a global casting call for citizens ready to play their part. We develop guides and handbooks to support these assemblies, imagining new worlds and structures of belonging. Importantly, this isn’t centralised theatre. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can self-organise their own local performance or event, embodying the spirit and energy of whichever phase of the cycle we're in. We see each date having its own unique aesthetic: - **Spring / Earth Day**: Hopeful and visionary. - **Democracy Day / Independence Day**: A historic, playful pondering of governance structures. - **Destruction Day / Fireworks Day**: Bohemian, anarchic, humorous. - **Groundhog Day / Renewal Day**: Reflective, renewing, a chance to begin again.
**The Constitution and the Forks of History** Crucially, part of our story involves "forking" Earth itself. After documenting the existing forms of governance (in a way reminiscent of Yuval Harari’s anthropological analyses), we lay bare the inevitable disruptions to come should we continue on the present path. In response, our assembly proposes a series of constitutional forks — each offering a backup, a hopeful divergence point for Earth’s continuation. Throughout the year, participants will use mobile apps to validate their identities – strange, playful ‘passports’ into the Hitchhikers universe. These identities will enable participation in voting ceremonies and other decision-making processes, blending cryptographic certainty with science fiction imagination.
**Filming, Broadcasting, Archiving** Participants across the globe will be invited to speak aloud the new Constitution, in many languages, sharing their visions for Earth’s future. These performances will be recorded, looped, and published in a “plurality” framework inspired by thinkers such as Audrey Tang and Glenn Weyl. All data will live within the “Anarchive” – our archival backup of humanity’s dreams and experiments.