A seven-pillar practice · Jacob Huibers
Sovereign frameworks for human dignity
One idea, held up by seven pillars: that human dignity can be defended at every scale of a life — from the mind to the state, from the table to the commons. This is where you discover the thinking, and how the pillars fit together.
Seven pillars hold up the house. Each tile opens its pillar directly — three lead to their own platform, four live here. Or read the common thread below.
I — VIIA library behind seven pillars.
Five books printed; a batch of twenty-three more — from a climate book to a cookbook — now at the printer for proof.
All publications →- StatecraftA Pattern Language for Postmodern SocietiesA pattern language for the state, generalised beyond one country: a hundred and eighty-eight institutional patterns for how governance succeeds and how it fails.
- Limbic LiteracyThe Limbic EconomyHow your brain became a business model. A structural analysis of how the attention economy exploits the human limbic system — and how to defend against it.
- iRecordAll of Us DisplacedOn identity, displacement, and the search for belonging. How globalisation, migration, and digitalisation uproot us — and how we find connection again.
Dignity, defended at every scale.
Each pillar takes one scale of human life — the mind, the body, the people we care for, our work, the state, the commons, our culture — and asks the same question: how do we keep the person sovereign when the system grows larger than them? Read them in order, and the practice becomes one argument.
- VIILimbic LiteracyThe mindDefend your own attention. Recognise when you are being played — structure over willpower.
- IIINourishmentThe bodyFood, health, and the skill to care for yourself. Where House of Viridian becomes a table.
- IiRecordThe vulnerableCoordinate care across organisations. Know who is involved with the person in front of you.
- IIDIPWorkProduction redesigned for human dignity — so everyone can take part, alongside technology.
- IVStatecraftThe stateInstitutional wisdom, crisis, and the ethics of governing well. How the state serves and evolves.
- VIKeystoneThe commonsCollective stewardship of the buildings we share — Dutch principles, scaled internationally.
- VViridian ArtCultureAuthenticity and provenance carried across generations. Memory the market can trust.
Jacob Huibers
Founder · six publications · Lisbon
Jacob Huibers is the founder of House of Viridian. Two decades of interim management in the Dutch public sector — from municipalities to national implementing bodies — form the basis for his six books and the seven Viridian pillars. He writes and works from Lisbon, registered under House of Viridian OÜ in Estonia.
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