Ausna Buenos Aires: How can we rebuild a society for human creativity?

For one month, Nov 21 – Dec 19, a small society forms in Buenos Aires.

Co-creating a living publication out of the people we meet.

Open · until 2026.11.15

For one month, Nov 21 – Dec 19, a small society forms in city corners of Buenos Aires — artists, founders, researchers, activists, and practitioners across fields & industries, awake, caring, and full of conviction — to reimagine human creativity by co-creating a living publication out of the people we meet, the time we spend together, and what each of us builds.

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About this question

Almost everything we call humanity was once someone's making: a language, a song, a city, an idea, carried on by those who received it. From the hands stenciled in the Cueva de las Manos in Patagonia to a venture started this year, creativity is how a person leaves a trace, and how traces become a shared world. For a person, few experiences feel as alive as making something only they could make, and watching it reach someone else.

Since industrialization, life has been organized around one question: how to produce enough. Schools prepare people for careers, work pays for what can be measured, and platforms rank what holds attention. Creativity is left at the edges, and the work that makes a person who they are is often not the work that pays their rent.

Buenos Aires keeps it close. It is a city that cares for people: for the one who makes things, for the neighbor, for each person, whatever they do. In 1981, under the dictatorship, a theatre staging new plays was firebombed; sixteen theatres offered their stages, and some 25,000 people came.

This matters now. AI can take on much of the producing that industrial life was built around. When producing is no longer the hard part, an older question returns: what only people can make, and how we would live if we made room for it.

Creativity may be the most human thing we do, and the thing our societies are least built for. A society rebuilt around it, in how we value, earn and live together, could let people live by the art of doing anything.

What is Ausna Buenos Aires

Some people spend years inside one fundamental question about being human, carrying it through their own work, often alone. A cohort brings them together on purpose: people who are awake to how complex the world and being human are, and still hold faith in what humanity can become. Together, they can reimagine and rebuild that question further than any of them could alone.

Each cohort is part of Ausna, a society within Doelenia. Doelenia is an international alliance working toward a renaissance built on humanity's full potential.

A cohort turns its question into a public artifact: a published issue, made together in one month. The issue gathers those who care about the question, and everything they are willing to put into it: what each person builds, and the people and conversations behind it, each piece signed by its co-creators.

Many of its co-creators are philosophical yet practical, radical yet romantic, and curious across every field. They meet through the work itself, and come to know each other by how their work changes once it meets someone else's.

When the month ends, the issue travels, the topic stays open for the next cohort, and its co-creators remain a society.

The people you would meet (a peek)

Allen Chen

Allen spends his days building Ausna and studying at Minerva University, this semester in Buenos Aires. Before that came art exhibitions in Florida, two bands on tour and nights organizing livehouse shows, then AI and social computing research in Illinois, published at NAACL and EMNLP, which he left to work on how people think together. In bands, exhibitions and startups, he has watched gifted people save their best making for nights and weekends. He brings the question, and a table where it can open.

Samantha Huo

A filmmaker, dancer, artist, and most importantly, a human. Currently studies at Minerva University in Buenos Aires. Her work explores the intersection of storytelling, human perception, and philosophical inquiry.

Currently she is particularly drawn to people's subjective perception - how they think, perceive, and make sense of their world. At Ausna, she leads the interview series How Does Your Brain Work?, creating space for people to reflect on the ways they perceive, understand, and eventually impact themselves and the world.

How it unfolds

The whole season happens in person in Buenos Aires, in English, with a home online for whoever wants to keep going after.

Sat Nov 21 — The month begins

A small circle of people who live in Buenos Aires takes up the question together. We start from what the Wednesday tables have opened up: where people disagree, what is still unsolved. Each person picks one part to build.

Then, for four weeks:

We meet people who live the question. They show us their work, a performance, a project, a place, and we ask whatever we are curious about. Anyone in the city can come and listen. Along the way, we meet remarkable people, and help what they know reach others.

We build it together. Each week we talk through the question and each other’s work, three or four at a time, so every piece gets real attention. We leave with sharper work, and companions who know what we are building.

We spend time together. Dinners, light talk, a picnic, an afternoon at a museum or a gallery. No agenda.

Each person ends the month with one piece that shows what their part of the question could become: an essay, a piece of research, or a proposal. A video, a prototype or anything else that shows it is welcome too.

Sat Dec 19 — The issue comes out

Each piece gets one round of editing. Then the pieces and the conversations behind them are published together as one picture of the question, every piece signed by the people who made it. We celebrate it with everyone we met along the way, and anyone in the city who wants to come. From there, the society continues with Ausna across the world.

a special offering

Wednesdays from Oct 28 · 19:30 — A table. Six to ten people who live in Buenos Aires, one question, mate on the table. Bring one interesting case of human creativity, from anywhere: a song, a line someone wrote, a chair someone designed, a dance that spread through a city, the way a neighborhood runs its market. We share them and reimagine together what human creativity could become; half-formed is welcome. Each evening is written up, and your part goes out only with your yes. What the tables open up is where the month begins.

How to join

Which of these sounds like you?

• You want to build a part of it. Take one part of the question and make one piece on it over the month. First-time writers welcome.
• You live the question, in your work, your craft or your neighborhood. Come and show it, and let us ask.
• You have a place. A space, a café or a community where we could meet in Buenos Aires. Collaboration and fees can be worked out together.
• You love making publications. Help us reimagine what a living publication can be.
• You’d like to support it. Fund or sponsor an issue whose topic you care about.

Fill out the form below or write to Allen with one line on which one is you, by Sun Nov 15. You’ll hear back within 48 hours.

allen@doelenia.com · whatsapp +1 561-229-9890

Hosts

Ausna — a Doelenian project

A society to explore & foster what humanity can become. Au- means human; -sna, the traces we leave — Ausna is what a human leaves to the world.

We believe humanity is the greatest work we leave to the world, and that its future emerges between people. Ausna gathers the people who carry it and grows it together, so it can take root and make the impossible possible.

Within it, we cultivate each person's humanity, rebuild the topics the world has left unexplored, and carry forward the projects that reach toward what humanity can become.

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Partners & Sponsors

706 Youth Space — digital community partner

706 Youth Space is a youth-led self-organized community that promotes a “co-build, co-govern, co-share” model, with a decentralized structure and a globally distributed presence. It has incubated a series of communities, projects, and spaces, and—with an open, inclusive attitude—has welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world, including students, office workers, NGO workers, gap-year travelers, university professors, and digital nomads.

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