02. Money

"Money is the reason we exist. Everybody knows it, it's a fact. Kiss, kiss". Lana Del Rey ironically blinks her eyes to us when she sings this verse in her song entitled National Anthem. We aren't naïve. It's a fact - we created a society that would take some time to replace dollar bills as its main currency. But, what if we could start making an alternative way to deal with money, one that could change that old economy, that undesigned need, into something that everybody would be proud of? 

HCI uses a ruler and a compass to build an economic model where capitalism can be redesigned to match the expectations of a collective economy model. Living is simple and money is necessary. But as the old capital gets outdated, a new capital emerges: it's focused not in individual success, but on collective thriving (Marx approves of this message following us on social media as he downloads the new album of Lana Del Rey by the beach). 

Our community can help small business owners find grants, funding, and investors in the Hudson Valley. The more successful businesses in Hudson Valley are, the more sustainable the Hudson Valley economy is. Accessing grants to support small businesses in the Hudson Valley can be a full-time job. Connect with like-minded business owners such as yourself to network and achieve success across multiple Hudson Valley industries.

03. Utopia

Utopia used to be understood as a better world, community or something unreachable. You could only imagine utopias with no expectations in making them a reality. The world we live in is full of utopias. But we don't accept that. WE CAN TRANSFORM that only imaginable better society in something that we can TOUCH with our hands, places that we can really WALK through.

HCI has the mission to transpose the difficulties of creating a better world that for some people is just imagined. It's not about making dreams come true. The world we want to be in is already there. We make present something that some people expect that will happen one day. Break free from the frames of utopia as a rebel attitude. While utopia is enslaved by inertia, non-utopia is released by taking action.

04. Present

Every society has its own way of dealing with the three dimensions of time. Equating past, present and future is a way to bridge the space of experience (past) and the horizon of expectation (future). Over the last century the promise of a new and better future fed our economy, society, and way of life. That future never came, mostly because we stood waiting for the best to happen in the future! 

HCI stands for an experience of time where we can enjoy the best contributions of our past and bring our expectation about the future to happen in our present. There's no reason waiting for a better future. We are makers, and don't want to wait. And we stand with Walter Benjamin when he said: "History is the object of a construction whose place is formed not in homogenous and empty time, but in that which is fulfilled by the here-and-now". 

05. Inter-sectionalities

HCI brings together people and projects, entrepreneurs and artists, concerned with the present of environmental sustainability, hospitality, community living, public spaces, affordable luxury, and conscious consumerism. We create more livable, easy, and joyful communities around the world that can recognize themselves in each other. HCI's gene is urban, accessibility, communalism, and, above all: joy.

Our mission is to reinvent, re-elaborate, and promote sharable urban spaces, consumer products, and technologies that will magnify, reframe, and continuously improve the practices and projects that we have about being and living in our cities - from the comfort privacy of your house to the dynamic sociability of public spaces. We are the catalyst factor to create inter-sectionalities between forward thinking and movements.

06. Junkspace

Life never felt so easy. So connected. So cool. At the same time - life has never been so uneasy, disconnected, and the coolness something so exhausting. Dutch architect Rem Koolhass invites us to understand the world we live in as a JUNKSPACE: the units of malls, convention centers, and consumer products that we have created are infinitely replicated, duplicated with a promise of happiness, which ended up as a delusional sentiment in a monotonous, boring, lifeless and dysfunctional world. Delusional society, delusional world. 

We live in a consumerist society. That is not going to change overnight. Maybe that is not going to change at all. But people are already trying to escape from the cages of Junkspace - people are tired of capitalism leftovers. Craving connection, community, and social engagement. This is why HCI makes the keys that will open the doors to this new world, which is made by promoting a more organic and meaningful connections between people, technologies, consumer products. 

07. Bucky

American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller, one of the most enlightened minds in America in the 20th century, once said: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the EXISTING MODEL obsolete". 

HCI takes a step forward to re-elaborate Fuller's idea by putting in practice the belief that any change in our economical, social, political, and technological systems comes in strategic increments, equating and rethinking existing models with unthinkable ones. 

Also, our team addresses this need in the market by investing in people and companies that are doing this incremental change that empowers the present-future of communities. Investing in mission-driven technology and design startups that facilitate and accelerate the new market of goods and services, we help people to be able to go into a store and make responsible purchases that leave the planet better off than it was before. When people embrace this mission in a collective sense, everything is changed. 

08. Cannoli

Put down the gun, take the cannoli: we want to create and connect a multitude of Community Incubators around the world. How are we going to do all this? By re-graining the Earth. Sustainably occupying our cities. Giving birth to that expected better future, making it present. Not with small steps. But taking bold actions and (excuse the cliché) make that dream our realities. 

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