The public does not expect to find high-quality design in the rural environment. During this conversation, participants will look at specific communities, the people within them, and the unique opportunities for forward-looking design in places often defined as cultural margins. This presentation will challenge the widely accepted urban-rural binary that takes the urban as the center of global culture and the rural as a resource for extraction to propose an “agricultural urbanism” of the every day and a new cultural nexus of commoning for the rural. The place of the rural is not the sum of a set of inward-looking vernacular tropes or nostalgic forms.