Human Spaces is a worker-owned cooperative in Vitoria-Gasteiz. We make urban logistics and mobility humane, low-carbon, and locally owned. Drawn up like an engineering problem, run like a commons. We make the social economy efficient, practical and accessible. We make technology simple, self-run, and self-hosted. We make networks work.
The street is shared infrastructure. Your tech, your food, your community is shared infrastructure. Show us a street and we will tell you what your city values. Show us your phone, your plate, your evening get-togethers and we know who you are. Moving a magazine, a meal, a byte, or a person across the city should not cost the planet, exhaust a worker, or extract value out of a neighbourhood. We model the routes, prove the numbers, splice the wires, and hand communities a network they own.
Worker-owned, worker-managed. Our externalities aren't negative, our economies of scale are social, and our opportunity cost is our collective well-being.
What we do, we do sustainably. Our cargo bikes are fuelled by local produce. Our servers are fuelled by solar panels. Our networks are built on trust and experience.
Projects require plans, and plans require execution. We didn't come to the social economy to play games, but to make transformative change.
We work on projects that improve the quality of life of those around us, or we don't work.
Studies, builds, and live work. Figures shown are from our own modelling.
Feasibility evaluation for internalising the last-mile distribution of the weekly magazine Argia across Euskal Herria, replacing third-party couriers with a coop-run multimodal network. We ran a preliminary route optimisation, segmented the territory into balanced working days, and modelled three scenarios from 80% to full in-house delivery, with a governance and risk review on top.
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Leasing-vs-purchase modelling for a small electric and diesel fleet, mapped against annual kilometres and the timing of public subsidies for fleet electrification.
Putting the most efficient routes on the road as a real-world pilot — the first step from study to standing network.
Building our own software for route data, optimisation, and incident handling — so the coop owns its operating brain.
Finding and training the distributor profiles that can run a complex round stably and resolutively.
Scoping small consolidation points in the urban core for zero-emission last-100m delivery by bike.
Human Spaces is a worker cooperative in Vitoria-Gasteiz. We are a small team who believe the systems that move a city, its goods, its data, its services, should be owned by the people who run them and serve the communities that depend on them.
We organise as equals: one member, one vote, shared ownership, shared decisions, shared surplus. We started from a question, what would logistics look like built as a commons instead of a business to extract from, and we answer it project by project. We hire for trust and train for skill, and we keep our tools, our data, and our decisions in our own hands.
Routes & optimisation. What they bring to the round.
Operations & fleet. What they keep moving.
Software & self-hosting. What they keep in our hands.
Governance & partnerships. How we stay a commons.
Reading, watching, and ideas we keep coming back to.
Why proximity is a logistics strategy, not just an urban-planning slogan.
Field footage on where two wheels quietly beat four.
Models for worker-owned last-mile networks that don't extract.
The open-source stack we lean on to plan efficient rounds.
What it really takes to bring the round in-house.
Designing against the precarity baked into the sector.
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