Enabling Sapiopoietic Hospitality: The Civilizational Design of Welcome

This independent conceptual research preprint develops Sapiopoietic Hospitality as a cross-sector principle for designing environments in which embodied human beings can arrive, orient themselves and pursue unforeseen possibilities without being reduced to predefined social roles or consumer profiles. Building on the author's work on the Infosomatic Turn, Sapiocracy, Sapiognosis and second-order cybernetics, it argues that personalised service and expanded choice remain insufficient when the institutional criteria determining what counts as a legitimate need cannot be responsibly reconsidered. The paper connects philosophical hospitality, phenomenology, intersubjectivity, capability theory, hospitality scholarship and AI-mediated service design. It distinguishes the elimination of avoidable administrative and informational friction from the preservation of unanticipated, voluntary forms of welcome. Its practical contribution includes twelve auditable design principles, a cross-sector typology covering accommodation, transport, education, healthcare, gastronomy, retail and civic settings, an AI-native enabling architecture, a Criterion Reopening Protocol and staged research and commissioning paths. A proposed Autonomous Arrival pilot specifies comparative conditions, evaluation measures, potential failure cases and ethical limits. The argument advances a testable research programme; it does not claim completed field trials, validated commercial outcomes or external peer review.