the experience highway
We begin in British Columbia, tracing the spine of the Pacific down the West Coast of the United States through Oregon forests, California deserts, the Baja Peninsula, and into greater Mexico.
Further south, we wind through the jungles of Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Crossing the Caribbean coast, looping the Gulf of Mexico, and skirting the Florida panhandle, we head north to upstate New York, over the Great Lakes into eastern Canada, and out to the Atlantic high seas.
From there, we reach Portugal and drift along the Spanish coasts. Through the Mediterranean and onto the banks of Tel Aviv. Then south, past the equator into the Balinese archipelago, halfway around the world from where we began. We rise high enough to see the pattern: a planetary thread of light and movement weaving across the Earth.
Everywhere along this route, nomadic and regenerative communities are assembling. A constellation of intentional living, creativity, and resilience. Cultures once gathered along rivers and trade routes. Today, the highways are invisible: fiber-optic, emotional, relational. Technology has expanded our sense of place, allowing us to stay connected and at home in more than one world at once.
The challenge and opportunity is how we connect these places to their people. How we build the housing that holds us, the transit that moves us, and the digital systems that tie it all together. The design of these connective tissues will define how we behave as communities, how we collaborate across distance, and how coherent we become as a species.
Because we are not building communities. Communities grow. They pulse. They gather and disperse like breath. Human connection is the living fabric beneath any thriving collective, and like any organic system, it depends on rhythm, on the repetition of gathering.
Each community awakens a different way of being and a different kind of impact. How we move between them, how we explore, adapt, and carry learnings from one to another, is still a mystery we’re learning to solve together.
Most communities still operate in silos. Their stories live on static websites or abandoned Facebook pages, while their real-time progress and shared wisdom remain hidden in private group chats and lost documents.
Where is the dashboard of our collective evolution? Where is the feedback loop that helps a community understand itself? Where do we go to find resonance, to see which places fit our values, and how those places talk to each other?
Surely, it’s not still Facebook.
This is where technology must evolve. Not to replace the human pulse, but to serve it. What we design will design us back. If we build tools that amplify trust, transparency, and shared purpose, our behaviors will follow. If we don’t, the attention economy will keep fracturing the social one.
Everything rests on shared experience: how we design it, and how each experience points toward the next. These experiences are the new synapses of society. They teach us how to behave, how to belong, how to become.
So we ask: what are these places becoming? And if you had a hand in shaping them, what would you have them do?
This is the living question behind The Canvas. How we grow together, and how we design experiences that lead to greater connection to ourselves, to each other, and to the natural world. Through immersive gatherings, new tools for collaboration, and shared land-based infrastructures, we are prototyping what comes after isolation: coordinated belonging.
We are a community of operators, producers, and visionaries. Seekers building systems for a more regenerative and playful world. We are here to redesign how people convene and collaborate, to create immersive playgrounds that test new behaviors for living and working together.
This is a rallying call for the stewards of Spaceship Earth, those willing to build, share, and evolve the places where culture regenerates itself. The Experience Highway is already under construction. It just doesn’t have road signs yet.
We are here to lay them down. To connect the dots. And to invite you to share the ride. We are building a system for operating locations and a platform that allows communities to share land, co-create solutions, and live around them.
We believe the leaders of tomorrow are community organizers, regenerative designers, and systems thinkers. Our goal is to equip them with the tools to bring coherence where it’s needed most.
Written by Seth Bunting, 2025
For those traveling the Experience Highway and building the road as they go.
