Be part of 1.0 – Desirable Properties Studio public beta. Community Review Draft September 16, 2026; Version 1.0 November 13, 2026

DP Studio landing pads / Project Liberty Alliance

Desirable Properties Studio · Public beta. Pads learn from your confirms and choices (with consent), not silent profiling. Version 0.77 is open for review. The Community Review Draft milestone is September 16, 2026; Version 1.0 of The Layered Web targets November 13, 2026.

Invitation to weigh in

New Public

We opened a landing pad for New Public from public work, not a mission paraphrase.

New Public publishes citable work we could quote (Front Porch Forum report 2). This briefing is a hypothesis built from those sources. Tell us if we misread the research, add papers we missed, and weigh in on Desirable Properties tied to that work.

If you represent New Public, confirm the source URLs, then open the Desirable Properties tab and leave a patch idea where the property text misses what your public work already argues.

Research and policy only change the rule-set when it is linked to original sources. Help us keep this pad tied to your papers and reports, not a press-release summary.

Public packet only. Hypothesis marks stay until you confirm sources. Each Alliance member gets a different pitch so we can experiment. Your pad is https://desirableproperties.org/pad/newpublic (hyphens optional). Direct link to this tab: https://desirableproperties.org/pad/newpublic?tab=values

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Stated mission

The Center for Media Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin works to understand and improve the information ecosystem for the bene- fit of democracy.

Values to Overweb mappings

Confirm only mappings that match how you use these words. Rejected mappings stay off the next brief.

Just as urban designers figured out strategies for creating public spaces where people could co-exist harmoniously, New_ Public looks to iden- tify strategies to create thriving digital public spaces.

Overweb: Portable human agency (user-controlled identity and data)

Candidate MPA: Export identity and data the person created here, without a platform petition

This work builds on our Civic Signals, a collaboration between the Center for Media Engagement and New_ Public .

Overweb: Portable human agency (user-controlled identity and data)

Candidate MPA: Export identity and data the person created here, without a platform petition

We found that, with few exceptions, many popular platforms did not live up to the ideals of public-friendly digital space in the eyes of their users.

Overweb: Portable human agency (user-controlled identity and data)

Candidate MPA: Export identity and data the person created here, without a platform petition