The Galician Civic Village sits on Monte Gaiás in Santiago de Compostela, in the incomplete heart of the Cidade da Cultura, Galicia’s white elephant. The masterplan arrives in 2065, after forty years of rural regeneration, communal land organisation and a slow-burning independence movement that taught a depopulating countryside to govern itself. Sovereignty is not declared, so as not to presume upon a horizontal democracy. It is administered, farmed, cooked and posted.

Authority is no longer centralised in Spain: it is inhabited by the people who work, manage and protest Galician land. With a plenary chamber, agricultural campus, passport office and political engine, authority ceases to be distant the moment it is occupied. You come to vote, to register documents, to learn how a 99.4% ‘yes’ is engineered, all of it beside grazing cattle, diaspora returnees, farmers and MPs.

The project reclaims the failed Cidade da Cultura as civic infrastructure. Tilt-up panels, cast from reclaimed rubble, are assembled through communal construction that operates as labour, ritual and political participation, reorganising land, labour and agency into a Galician model of self-determination.