The town square
A bench, a noticeboard and the gong.
About
We built this office for ourselves first.
MicroHabitat grows food on rooftops and in buildings in cities across Canada and the United States. About sixty of us work mostly from a distance: farmers on the roofs, a head office in Montréal. This village is where we meet every day. Now other companies can have one too.
Who makes it
An urban-farming company that works far apart.
MicroHabitat sets up and looks after urban farms for companies and the buildings they work in. Most of the team is out on a roof or at home, in cities across Canada and the United States, with a head office in Montréal.
A team spread out like that needs somewhere to run into each other, and a chat app never gave us that. So we drew a village, gave everyone a desk, and let people walk up and talk.
- What we do
- Urban farms on rooftops and in buildings
- Where
- Cities across Canada and the United States, with a head office in Montréal
- Team
- About sixty people, most of them remote
- Our platform
- MyUrbanFarm, the tool our staff run the farms with. The office began inside it.
The office we work in
The same floor our team walks every day.
Nothing here is a mock-up. These are places on our own map, named the way the map names them.
The farming street
Farming offices 1 to 30, eight seats each.
The Long Table and All-hands
A room for 20, and a hall for 72.
How it came to be
From our own floor to yours.
Before
An office inside MyUrbanFarm
Our staff already ran the farms on our own platform. The first office was built there, for our team alone.
A new village, from scratch
We started over: a new floor, a private office for everyone, meeting rooms, and voices that fade with distance.
Open to other companies
virtualoffice.world went live. Any team can open an office of its own, sealed off from ours.
Built in the open
What it's made of.
We'd rather say what runs the office than keep it vague. The art is other people's work, credited by name. The servers are ours.
- The floor
A pixel-art village. The people, the office rooms and the city pieces come from three art packs, credited here as they are in the office:
- Art by kenmi-art (kenmi-art.itch.io)
- Art by LimeZu (limezu.itch.io)
- Art by Kenney (kenney.nl), CC0 1.0
- Voices
A LiveKit media server we host ourselves carries the sound and the video.
- Movement
A world server of our own keeps track of where everyone is standing and who can hear whom.
- This site
virtualoffice.world runs on Vercel.