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Feel free to get in touch with [[Dante]]<br />
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'''Concept'''<br />
<br />
The Society of the Night is a form of Situationist "Festivalist" self-organization of people living at night,<br />
using the same urban infrastructure as "The Society of the Spectacle" living during the day.<br />
<br />
It is a parallel society, with its own festivalist economy.<br />
<br />
Note : potential combination with nomadic logistics , http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
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==Sharing==<br />
<br />
The Society of the Night can optimize the use of existing resources, housing, university buildings, streets, ... by being active at night, and sleeping during the day.<br />
<br />
===Housing===<br />
<br />
Agreements can be made with allies still living during the day,<br />
as to use their living infrastructure to sleep, while they are at work in the Society of the Spectacle.<br />
<br />
===Party Space===<br />
<br />
We can open up our own cafe's,<br />
which can accept both mainstream and alternative currencies.<br />
<br />
Legislation in different countries regarding alcoholic beverages diverges.<br />
<br />
<br />
==="Office" Space===<br />
<br />
Make alliances with existing co-working spaces,<br />
as to use their space at night,<br />
potentially in exchange of alternative currency.<br />
<br />
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===Transportation===<br />
<br />
====Cycling====<br />
<br />
As there are less cars at night, it is ideal for cycling.<br />
<br />
====Public Transportation====<br />
<br />
As the society of the night grows, it can obtain more political influence,<br />
and support the operation of public transportation at night<br />
<br />
===Energy===<br />
<br />
Often, the use of electricity at night is half the cost then during the day.<br />
<br />
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==Festivalism==<br />
<br />
By David Boje at http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)."<br />
(http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html)<br />
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===Comparison Table===<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism#Comparison_Table<br />
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''Spectacle and Festival'': http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html<br />
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'''Spectacle'''<br />
<br />
1. Work<br />
2. Work or play time<br />
3. Imposed patterns of behavior<br />
4. Dead time<br />
5. Religions of consumption<br />
6. Pseudo desires<br />
7. Pseudo needs<br />
8. Loss of Self<br />
9. Colonized spaces<br />
10. Spectator<br />
11. Functionary<br />
12. Survival of the Fittest/Richest <br />
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'''Festival'''<br />
<br />
1. Play<br />
2. Work and play<br />
3. Freely constructed behavior<br />
4. Live time<br />
5. Self<br />
6. Transparent desires<br />
7. Transparent needs<br />
8. Self-Management<br />
9. Free spaces<br />
10. Participant/Co-designer<br />
11. Self-Managed<br />
12. Coevolution and Co-survival<br />
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==Situationist==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International<br />
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==Ahimsa, Non-Conflictuality, and Usership==<br />
<br />
Instead of "taking over" infrastructures,<br />
a progressive non-conflictual approach,<br />
through mutual agreement with allies active in the society of the day,<br />
enables the use of the infrastructures in control of "The Society of the Spectacle"<br />
without entering into conflict,<br />
<br />
possibly even creating synergies,<br />
by "using" these infrastructures at a moment where they are under-used.<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Usership<br />
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=Folklore=<br />
<br />
Creation of a Narrative, of a "Made up History", or a "Folklore",<br />
setting a context to "The Society of the Night"<br />
<br />
==Existing Books and Folklore==<br />
<br />
===Dracula===<br />
<br />
Rewrite "Dracula" as to include ahimsa values of non-violence, and more liberal approaches<br />
<br />
"Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore." <br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula<br />
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=Economy=<br />
<br />
==Business Plans==<br />
<br />
===Cooperatives===<br />
<br />
====Logistics====<br />
<br />
====Night Food Banks====<br />
<br />
Access to food during the night,<br />
through setting up cooperative food banks.<br />
<br />
<br />
====Package Delivery====<br />
<br />
Local nocturne Package Delivery by bicycle<br />
<br />
=Use of technology for collective self-organization=<br />
<br />
==Currency==<br />
<br />
Local Alternative "Night Currencies", valid only for use at night.<br />
<br />
=Syndicate=<br />
<br />
Alliances can be made with other "Night Workers",<br />
as to ensure mutual support.<br />
<br />
==Prostitutes==<br />
<br />
Prostitutes, or existing syndicates of prostitutes,<br />
can get support from the other night workers.<br />
<br />
Ideally, their safety conditions would be ensured,<br />
a basic quality of life, and a use value insurance.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, they can contribute by using "Night Currency".<br />
<br />
===Ethics===<br />
<br />
A problem of possible divergence of ethics may arise.<br />
Are prostitutes active within a "Festivalist" approach ?<br />
Are they ensured of self organization, of non exploitation,<br />
of free choice, and of a combination of work and play ?<br />
<br />
As market relational dynamics ?<br />
What happens when the relational dynamics shift ?<br />
Is prostitution the result of a certain type of relational dynamics promoted by a society ?<br />
<br />
==Private Night Security Guards==<br />
<br />
Can one imagine creating a partnership with private night security guards ?<br />
Enable them to be a little less lonely ?<br />
<br />
Or even, make use of existing available office space at night,<br />
guarding these buildings, while making use of their space,<br />
hence offering a service while having access to space ?<br />
<br />
<br />
==Noise==<br />
<br />
The use of office space at night, in office neighborhoods, may reduce problems with residents from the day society who sleep at night.<br />
<br />
==Law==<br />
<br />
===Law in [[Belgium]]===<br />
<br />
====Noise====<br />
<br />
Laws regarding noise<br />
<br />
====Laws regarding "paid labor" at night====<br />
<br />
How do laws apply in case of a gift economy,<br />
or in case of the use of alternative currencies ?<br />
<br />
<br />
==Other==<br />
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===Psychological and physiological issues===<br />
Living at night and sleeping during the day causes a lack of sunshine, which can lead to psychological and physiological issues, especially during winter in areas further from the equator. See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight#Effects_on_human_health Wikipedia]<br />
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[[Category:Projects]]<br />
[[Category:Hospitality]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&diff=27494Leipzig project2024-03-18T22:24:53Z<p>Dante: </p>
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In [[Leipzig]] whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little [[money]]. <br />
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The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for [[sharing]].<br />
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''' Update 2013''' : <br />
A more Modular Approach ? <br />
--> '''[[Spime Housing]] link'''<br />
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Express Your interest [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis here] and [http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#People_interested here]<br />
<br />
more links [http://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/leipzigproject here]<br />
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Update : <br />
'''This was a 2008 / 2009 Research Project.''' <br />
The initial feeling for potential was right, <br />
and prices changed upwards dramatically in the last years since our initial interest, <br />
yet there are still opportunities to be created using such approaches, <br />
in Leipzig, other east german towns, and in various places in europe and the world.<br />
<br />
Note : areas in red on this map may most likely remain accessible ;)<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bild-981616-726182.html<br />
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update 2022: https://www.postbank.de/unternehmen/medien/meldungen/2022/mai/prognose-wo-wohnimmobilien-noch-an-wert-gewinnen.html<br />
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web archive 2018 : https://web.archive.org/web/20181105205235/https://www.postbank.de/postbank/docs/Postbank_Studie_Werthaltigkeit_bis_2030.jpg<br />
<br />
[http://www.leipzig.de/bauen-und-wohnen/stadterneuerung-in-leipzig/stadterneuerungsprojekte/netzwerk-leipziger-freiheit/ Leipzig remains fertile ground for cooperative housing projects]<br />
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<br />
==Housing locations==<br />
* Put findings on [http://u.nu/3tgf4 this shared Google map]<br />
<br />
==Mind Map==<br />
<br />
Edit [http://www.metamaps.cc/users/1000497548/maps/25 MindMap here] ;<br />
<br />
[http://metamaps.cc/users/new To Register to Metamap] ( password: j0jmzgen )<br />
<br />
==Current Context==<br />
<br />
http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/who-ryder-what-edge/mission_case/permanent-collective-leipzig<br />
<br />
==Current Collective with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergingleaderlabs.org/<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/08/01/announcing-emerging-leader-labs-a-social-incubator-running-on-the-gift-economy/<br />
<br />
==A Meta Project Approach==<br />
<br />
http://thepyre.org/<br />
<br />
==Outquisition Potentials==<br />
<br />
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-an-outquisition/2008/07/20<br />
<br />
'''''"What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed. We imagined that it would need an almost missionary fervor, something like the Inquisition (which largely destroyed knowledge) in reverse, a crusade of open sharing, or as Cory promptly dubbed it, the Outquisition."'''''<br />
<br />
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.be/2008/07/outquisition-and-urbanism-camp.html<br />
<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html<br />
<br />
===Nomad Tribe===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
==Aim==<br />
<br />
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )<br />
<br />
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )<br />
<br />
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest. <br />
<br />
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -,<br />
I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, <br />
enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.<br />
<br />
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.<br />
<br />
==People interested==<br />
Isis, [http://p2pfoundation.net/Alex_Rollin Alex], [[User:Dante|Dante]], [[User:Meinhard|Meinhard]], Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, [[User:Julia|Julia]], [[User:Flawer|Flawer]], [[User:TinkerGeorge|George J.]], [[user:kardan|kardan]], [[user:bhopter|helicopter]], [http://goo.gl/2VIga kata kata motivasi], http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter <br />
<br />
''[http://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&action=edit&section=3 add yourself]''<br />
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==Pictures==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Google Street View===<br />
<br />
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.<br />
<br />
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l<br />
<br />
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature,<br />
and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.<br />
<br />
==Leipzig Context==<br />
<br />
[[Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation]]<br />
<br />
==House features==<br />
* Self-Organized governance<br />
* Communal and public space in ground floor <br />
* Several flats with different parties in upper floors<br />
* Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)<br />
* Community connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace Hackerspace]/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)<br />
* Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation<br />
** Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)<br />
* Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities<br />
**Organic Community Gardening (rooftop gardening?)<br />
**Partnerships with local farms and suppliers<br />
**Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars<br />
**House and neighborhood biomass/composting program<br />
* Info cafe with people's kitchen<br />
** networking with other urban projects world-wide<br />
* Renewable and efficient [[energy]]<br />
* [[Recycling]]<br />
* Sauna (yeah!)<br />
* Regular meetings<br />
* Free shop<br />
<br />
==24/7 Lab==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs<br />
<br />
==Ideal Situation==<br />
<br />
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post <br />
industrial project in Leipzig are : <br />
<br />
* being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute <br />
walk ) <br />
* being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University<br />
* being situated nearby greenery <br />
* being situated nearby gardening allotments <br />
* being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be <br />
purchased for post-manufacturing <br />
* having a unique looking architecture / building <br />
* having a potential for the development of a diversified <br />
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the <br />
atmosphere :) ) <br />
* having access to a garden and to a view (rooftop gardening is space- and energy-efficient)<br />
* being in a calm neighborhood <br />
* additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant <br />
constructible land, <br />
to build our own construction, <br />
* or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined <br />
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, <br />
such as a "gasometer"<br />
<br />
==Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?==<br />
<br />
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/<br />
<br />
==Ownership / Usership ==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership<br />
<br />
possibly in combination with<br />
<br />
[http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat]<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf<br />
<br />
Equity-Linked Affinity Network<br />
Interpersonal Process, Financial Structures and Legal<br />
Designs for Landed, Spirited, Joyous Urban Community<br />
<br />
( found via http://p2pfoundation.net/Balancing_Individualism_and_Communitarianism )<br />
<br />
==Funding and Costs==<br />
<br />
===Prices of Buildings===<br />
<br />
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :<br />
* around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
* 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
Anthony says :<br />
<br />
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."<br />
<br />
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<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town<br />
<br />
BUT<br />
<br />
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.<br />
<br />
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!<br />
<br />
Anthony says:<br />
<br />
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Renovation Costs===<br />
to evaluate - [[User:Dante|Dante]] is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?<br />
<br />
====about Dry Rot prevention====<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot#Treatment_of_dry_rot_timber<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot_treatment<br />
<br />
reply from T. :<br />
<br />
We have used heaters to dry wet wood<br />
<br />
It is very difficult to detect an infestation before it has reached an advanced stage. A non-visible infestation never really goes away, but does not propagate or threaten the wood if the wood is kept dry. We therefore are extremely reactive to the presence of uncontained water in the house; we treat it like fire.<br />
<br />
The chemical treatments are reportedly as expensive as replacing the wood. Replacing the wood can be expensive if it provides structural support. However, the real danger is getting denounced. If a company determines you have dry-rot, they are supposed to report it to the government. Then the government inspects all areas of the house and requires treatment of any dry-rot found, regardless of whether it is active. This can be financially devastating. Therefore, the department responsible for these inspections have ironically made German houses less safe.<br />
<br />
Fazit: don't buy a house if there is evidence of a sustained leak, regardless of whether there is evidence of schwamm / dry rot.<br />
<br />
===Funding===<br />
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat], potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest.<br />
For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.<br />
<br />
: It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)<br />
<br />
====Crowdsourcing and Fund Management Tools====<br />
<br />
When it will be operational in 2013, we may consider using the following tool :<br />
<br />
https://holvi.com/<br />
<br />
"Holvi is not a ‘traditional’ crowdfunding platform for projects, but instead it offers project groups an online bank service with a visual interface for handling their money and better finance keeping."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Holvi<br />
<br />
===Legal Frameworks===<br />
<br />
info book on legal frameworks :<br />
Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte<br />
https://www.stiftung-trias.de/publikationen/<br />
<br />
Some interesting PDFs:<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/fileadmin/Finanzierung_2008.pdf<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/uploads/media/RECHTSFORMEN_trias_1-2009.pdf<br />
* http://www.haushalten.org/Papers/haushalten_e.v._-_rechtsformen_fuer_wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
* http://www.koord.hs-mannheim.de/horizonte/h34_Krosse_Wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
<br />
===Purchasing Examples===<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros,<br />
it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.<br />
<br />
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible,<br />
hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.<br />
<br />
To pay off the credit, at no interest, <br />
<br />
one can symbolically imagine that it costs<br />
'''''"1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"'''''<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
'''''"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"'''''<br />
<br />
after which it is fully your property,<br />
although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.<br />
<br />
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.<br />
<br />
===Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase===<br />
<br />
See :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.'''<br />
<br />
Approach :<br />
<br />
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in <br />
"Viagere" / '''"Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units"''' <br />
in exchange of "Care Service Hours".<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."'''<br />
<br />
''Mutual credit'' with trusted routing,<br />
and/or ''Asymmetric exchange ?''<br />
<br />
===Living Costs and Taxes===<br />
<br />
Robrecht asks :<br />
<br />
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc<br />
of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."<br />
<br />
Anthony answers :<br />
<br />
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."<br />
<br />
==Alternative Purchasing Model==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively,<br />
without requiring to take a bank loan.<br />
<br />
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ),<br />
and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.<br />
<br />
===Examples of shareholding models in Leipzig===<br />
<br />
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html<br />
<br />
or under <br />
<br />
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :<br />
<br />
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11 <br />
<br />
http://zolle11.de/blog/<br />
<br />
more examples :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships<br />
<br />
==Lease Hold ?==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold<br />
<br />
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht<br />
<br />
==Housing Availability Search==<br />
<br />
Alternative Housing-Search<br />
Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")<br />
<br />
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :<br />
<br />
Purchase :<br />
<br />
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/anzeigen<br />
<br />
Rent :<br />
<br />
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100<br />
<br />
Land and Building Projects :<br />
<br />
http://lwbimmobilien.de/<br />
<br />
==Buildings of Interest==<br />
<br />
In Neustadt :<br />
<br />
In ...<br />
<br />
===Gasometer===<br />
<br />
<br />
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=4276236400981551169&q=gasometer+leipzig&hl=de&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=3zWVTKHsNo6h_Ab_4OXbAQ&sig2=zeauLQrFuK9fcOiOZpleGw<br />
<br />
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/<br />
<br />
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=leipzig+germany&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.817312,58.798828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Bundesrepublik+Deutschland&ll=51.352624,12.379602&spn=0.000985,0.001794&t=h&z=19<br />
<br />
it most likely looks like this from inside :<br />
<br />
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg<br />
<br />
==Modular Housing==<br />
<br />
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki<br />
<br />
==Spime Housing and Furnitecture==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
Using Tensegrity,<br />
organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders",<br />
but also architects, engineers, students...<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
==Groups for Leipzig== <br />
<br />
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.<br />
* Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig<br />
* Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing<br />
<br />
==Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure<br />
<br />
===Infrastructure Mapping===<br />
<br />
[http://www.integralcity.com/civil-society/map-visions-and-values-assets.html Link to Integral Cities]<br />
<br />
==Culture and Community==<br />
<br />
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm<br />
<br />
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )<br />
<br />
==Art Center==<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html<br />
<br />
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"<br />
<br />
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html<br />
<br />
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"<br />
<br />
==Income Streams & Local Economy==<br />
<br />
Ideally (according to [[User:Dante|Dante]]), developing "[[resilient communities]]" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from [[food]] to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "[http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology Open Source Ecology]" such as "[http://factorefarm.org/ Factor E-Farm]".<br />
<br />
===Cooperative Ecology Project===<br />
<br />
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation wiki] you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons commons]. <br />
<br />
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.<br />
<br />
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_in_Multi-Unit_Housing on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing].<br />
<br />
==="Jobless Recovery"===<br />
<br />
http://www.pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html<br />
<br />
===Example - New York Manufacturing Cooperative / Lab===<br />
<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/nyregion/brooklyn-navy-yard-is-home-to-manufacturing-cooperative.html?_r=0<br />
<br />
<br />
===Other brainstormings===<br />
<br />
====First stage ?====<br />
* Collaborative research<br />
* Plan development<br />
* Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig<br />
* Musical Parties<br />
* Added value food production ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food slow food] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksküche volks kuche] ? )<br />
* Events and [[hospitality]]<br />
<br />
====Not for Private Profit Shops====<br />
<br />
* Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/<br />
* Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres - <br />
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
* "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche<br />
<br />
====Volunteering Initiatives====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service<br />
<br />
More info regarding EVS :<br />
<br />
Overall overview with short video presentation :<br />
<br />
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html<br />
<br />
current partner organizations data base :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm<br />
<br />
procedures<br />
<br />
for volunteers :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm<br />
<br />
====Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded program ?<br />
<br />
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/<br />
<br />
=====Note : Entredonneurship=====<br />
<br />
"Entre-Donneur"<br />
<br />
= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', <br />
proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Entredonneur<br />
<br />
http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/EntreDonneur<br />
<br />
====Fablabs/Workshops====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab<br />
<br />
====Earth De-polluting Cooperative====<br />
<br />
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify<br />
industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
====Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives====<br />
<br />
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design<br />
<br />
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "<br />
<br />
====Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing====<br />
<br />
see above - <br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing<br />
<br />
====Energy====<br />
<br />
Various sources of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy renewable energy] can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water,<br />
and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
=====Internal Combustion=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle<br />
<br />
=====Electrolysis=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water<br />
<br />
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy<br />
<br />
====Alternative Engine Propulsion====<br />
<br />
See [[Resilient Engine]]<br />
<br />
====Building Open Source Cars====<br />
<br />
TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8jdx-lf2Dw<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Wikispeed<br />
<br />
http://www.wikispeed.com/<br />
<br />
====Distribution of Peer Production====<br />
<br />
=====Fair Ware=====<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare<br />
<br />
''' proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure" '''<br />
<br />
====== Fair Ware Goals ======<br />
<br />
* bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way<br />
* make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met <br />
*** creative people get their share<br />
*** producers can produce under human conditions<br />
*** users get quality and reliability<br />
* foster cooperation and improved product design<br />
* facilitate quality control by branding<br />
* exert democratic control over a brand name<br />
* create resilience towards proprietory action<br />
* empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro<br />
<br />
<br />
=====Local Food Distribution=====<br />
<br />
Open Ideo :<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/<br />
<br />
==Food Production==<br />
<br />
===Allotment Gardens===<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany<br />
<br />
''<br />
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "''<br />
<br />
===Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems===<br />
<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems<br />
<br />
<br />
===Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"===<br />
<br />
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative,<br />
"back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,<br />
<br />
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
See historical perspective :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement<br />
<br />
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading<br />
<br />
Links - Local Food Project :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100<br />
<br />
<br />
===Open Source Ecology===<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm<br />
<br />
Germany :<br />
<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/ (in English)<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/aufbau-der-ose-community-in-deutschland/ (in German)<br />
<br />
==Mesh Communication Networks==<br />
<br />
Contributing to ( ? )<br />
<br />
http://leipzig.freifunk.net/<br />
<br />
==Alternative Finance==<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies,<br />
which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.<br />
<br />
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.<br />
<br />
==Alternative University and learning infrastructures==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig<br />
<br />
==Other Hubs with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
===Other Similar Projects===<br />
<br />
http://neotribalism.net/about.htm<br />
<br />
- excerpt of vision -<br />
<br />
In the near term : <br />
To create a wide variety of socially and environmentally sustainable households that each serve as a community for 10 - 20 people who share a common vision and who compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.<br />
<br />
In the long term :<br />
To create a diverse network of sustainable neoTribal villages that are composed of 10 - 20 households that are not reliant upon the current global economy and infrastructure.<br />
<br />
==Restoring Vibrancy in Declining Cities==<br />
<br />
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/brief.html<br />
<br />
==Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy==<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy<br />
<br />
==p2p Open Urbanism==<br />
<br />
http://berlinergazette.de/open-source-stadt-gemeingut-stadtplanung/<br />
<br />
==Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City==<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
===A Vision for Shareable Cities [VIDEO]===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video<br />
<br />
===Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy===<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy<br />
<br />
===#12: Food Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing<br />
<br />
===#11: Urban Agriculture===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture<br />
<br />
===#10: Shareable Rooftops===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops<br />
<br />
===#9: Recreational Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces<br />
<br />
===#8: Shareable Workspaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces<br />
<br />
===#7: Shareable Neighborhoods===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods<br />
<br />
===#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs<br />
<br />
===#5: Shareable Housing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing<br />
<br />
===#4: Shareable Commercial Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces<br />
<br />
===#3: Bike Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing<br />
<br />
===#2: Ride Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing<br />
<br />
===#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing<br />
<br />
==People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )==<br />
<br />
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...<br />
<br />
<br />
==City Infrastructures==<br />
<br />
===Transportation===<br />
<br />
===S Bahn===<br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794 <br />
<br />
*Leipzig Linien 1 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015 <br />
<br />
*Linien 2 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442 <br />
<br />
ps: ideal when coming <br />
from some other place in Germany :<br />
regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 <br />
euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn<br />
<br />
===Tram Lines===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/<br />
<br />
===New Transportation Infrastructures===<br />
<br />
====Underground Train====<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving.<br />
Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."<br />
<br />
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut:<br />
Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"<br />
<br />
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.<br />
<br />
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Urban Planning Projects ===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/<br />
<br />
==Some Historical Facts and People==<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria#History Phantasmagoria in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Leipzig_.281723.E2.80.9350.29 Bach in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
==City History==<br />
<br />
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/<br />
<br />
==Suggested Neighbourhoods==<br />
<br />
expensive ones:<br />
<br />
Südvorstadt (south)<br />
<br />
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )<br />
<br />
connewitz ( south )<br />
<br />
becoming expensive:<br />
<br />
lindenau<br />
<br />
plagwitz<br />
here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.<br />
<br />
cheaper ones :<br />
<br />
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east<br />
<br />
Stötteritz - east<br />
<br />
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :<br />
<br />
reutnitz - east<br />
Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.<br />
<br />
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.<br />
<br />
klein zschocher - south west<br />
<br />
==Past Meetings==<br />
<br />
August 2010, 3 first weeks :<br />
<br />
http://ecotopia2010.org/<br />
<br />
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53071439438&ref=ts Ecotopia Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : [http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof,+Wiesenburg,+Germany&sll=52.237051,12.903442&sspn=0.713169,2.113495&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof+Wiesenburg,+Potsdam-Mittelmark,+Brandenburg,+Germany&t=h&ll=52.001792,12.348633&spn=1.684172,3.378296&z=8 Map Link]<br />
<br />
Contact [[User:Dante|Dante]] as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize,<br />
in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.<br />
<br />
==Geographical Layering Information==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions,<br />
for representing various data about the project on layered maps,<br />
facilitating open collaboration.<br />
<br />
See discussion on :<br />
<br />
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263<br />
<br />
also considering drupal gmap extension :<br />
<br />
http://drupal.org/project/gmap<br />
<br />
===Linked Geo Data===<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/About<br />
<br />
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.<br />
<br />
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
( based in Leipzig )<br />
<br />
==Mapping for Change==<br />
<br />
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/<br />
<br />
"Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication. Our work has a strong focus on engaging and empowering communities to make positive transformations to their localities. "<br />
<br />
==Semantic Web and Graphs==<br />
<br />
http://www.automenta.com/<br />
<br />
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) <br />
Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html <br />
<br />
===AKSW Department at University of Leipzig===<br />
<br />
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.<br />
<br />
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/<br />
<br />
==Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration==<br />
<br />
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's,<br />
and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space",<br />
and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.<br />
<br />
==Events in Leipzig==<br />
<br />
===Annual "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"===<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php<br />
<br />
''"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany''."<br />
<br />
===Bach Festival===<br />
Bachfest takes place every summer. Links:<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/index.php?id=26&L=1<br />
<br />
==Articles and Reports==<br />
<br />
===ARD German News Reportage===<br />
<br />
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/mittagsmagazin/leipzig-boomt?documentId=12240372<br />
<br />
===Market speculation in Leipzig ?===<br />
<br />
http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/leipzig/citynews/mietpreise-fuer-wohnungen-in-leipzig-deutlich-gestiegen-vor-allem-westliche-stadtteile-boomen/r-citynews-a-106789.html<br />
<br />
==Other interesting projects in Nearby Cities==<br />
<br />
Halle-Saale : http://www.postkult.de/ ( "urban development from below" )<br />
<br />
<br />
===Additional References===<br />
<br />
via Christine ( http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de ) <br />
<br />
this organisation published a <br />
<br />
====cook-book==== <br />
<br />
presenting 55 projects all located <br />
<br />
=====in kreuzberg:=====<br />
<br />
http://www.buechertisch.org/uber-uns/wer-sind-wir/<br />
<br />
health project since squatting times<br />
<br />
http://www.heilehaus-berlin.de/<br />
<br />
<br />
====poland====<br />
<br />
http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/en_info.asp?id=83326<br />
<br />
=====students organisation in szczecin=====<br />
<br />
, poland<br />
<br />
http://newfamilyway.blogspot.de/p/our-contribution-nasz-wkad.html<br />
<br />
i do know dagna and tomek. you can write in german and english.<br />
<br />
<br />
====network of collectively organised work==== <br />
<br />
i put down just three co-working spaces as example:<br />
<br />
http://www.hinkelstein-druck.de/<br />
http://www.tantehorst.de/<br />
http://schnittstelle.blogsport.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.nadeshda.org/nadeshda.html<br />
<br />
====gewerbehof, genossenschaft, kollekive zusammenschlüsse====<br />
<br />
http://www.gidak.de/<br />
http://www.mehringhof.de/<br />
http://www.kerngehaeuse.de/<br />
http://www.ufafabrik.de/intro.php<br />
<br />
====housing projects====<br />
<br />
http://www.wohnportal-berlin.de/<br />
http://www.hausprojekte-solidarfonds.de/<br />
http://www.selbstbau-eg.de/<br />
<br />
====French Pdf on Cohousing====<br />
<br />
"Vivre en cohabitat,reconstruire des villages en ville"<br />
<br />
http://public.citymined.org/MICRONOMICS/vivre%20en%20cohabitat%20lietart%20article.pdf<br />
<br />
====activists, researchers====<br />
<br />
http://www.voss.solioeko.de/<br />
http://www.technet-berlin.de/mitarbeiterinnen.html<br />
<br />
====financing====<br />
<br />
http://www.labournet.de/stiftungMundA/index.html<br />
http://www.netzwerk-selbsthilfe.de<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.haushalten.org/ Haushalten.org] (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes<br />
** [http://www.haushalten.org/de/english_summary.asp Summary in English] (en)<br />
* [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat] (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany<br />
* [http://sublab.org/ Sublab.org] (de) - Hack space in Leipzig ([http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sublab Hackerspaces entry])<br />
* [http://de.veganwiki.org/vegane_vokue#leipzig de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig] (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes<br />
* [http://kuhturm.de/ kuhturm.de] (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of [http://benn.org/ Meinhard] :)<br />
* http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.<br />
* http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)<br />
* [http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel Rockzipfel Leipzig] (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children<br />
* http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase - see link below for update)<br />
* http://schwarz10.de/ Same Housing project, Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 , a few years later <br />
* [http://www.lvz-online.de/ LVZ-Online] (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]<br />
* "Hypezig" - Article in German : http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/Hypezig;art4306,2621248<br />
* "Hypezig" - Another Article in French : http://www.slate.fr/monde/85083/leipzig-nouveau-berlin-hipster<br />
<br />
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<br />
In [[Leipzig]] whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little [[money]]. <br />
<br />
The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for [[sharing]].<br />
<br />
''' Update 2013''' : <br />
A more Modular Approach ? <br />
--> '''[[Spime Housing]] link'''<br />
<br />
Express Your interest [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis here] and [http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#People_interested here]<br />
<br />
more links [http://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/leipzigproject here]<br />
<br />
<br />
Update : <br />
'''This was a 2008 / 2009 Research Project.''' <br />
The initial feeling for potential was right, <br />
and prices changed upwards dramatically in the last years since our initial interest, <br />
yet there are still opportunities to be created using such approaches, <br />
in Leipzig, other east german towns, and in various places in europe and the world.<br />
<br />
Note : areas in red on this map may most likely remain accessible ;)<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bild-981616-726182.html<br />
<br />
update 2022: https://www.postbank.de/unternehmen/medien/meldungen/2022/mai/prognose-wo-wohnimmobilien-noch-an-wert-gewinnen.html<br />
web archive 2018 : https://web.archive.org/web/20181105205235/https://www.postbank.de/postbank/docs/Postbank_Studie_Werthaltigkeit_bis_2030.jpg<br />
<br />
[http://www.leipzig.de/bauen-und-wohnen/stadterneuerung-in-leipzig/stadterneuerungsprojekte/netzwerk-leipziger-freiheit/ Leipzig remains fertile ground for cooperative housing projects]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Housing locations==<br />
* Put findings on [http://u.nu/3tgf4 this shared Google map]<br />
<br />
==Mind Map==<br />
<br />
Edit [http://www.metamaps.cc/users/1000497548/maps/25 MindMap here] ;<br />
<br />
[http://metamaps.cc/users/new To Register to Metamap] ( password: j0jmzgen )<br />
<br />
==Current Context==<br />
<br />
http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/who-ryder-what-edge/mission_case/permanent-collective-leipzig<br />
<br />
==Current Collective with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergingleaderlabs.org/<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/08/01/announcing-emerging-leader-labs-a-social-incubator-running-on-the-gift-economy/<br />
<br />
==A Meta Project Approach==<br />
<br />
http://thepyre.org/<br />
<br />
==Outquisition Potentials==<br />
<br />
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-an-outquisition/2008/07/20<br />
<br />
'''''"What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed. We imagined that it would need an almost missionary fervor, something like the Inquisition (which largely destroyed knowledge) in reverse, a crusade of open sharing, or as Cory promptly dubbed it, the Outquisition."'''''<br />
<br />
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.be/2008/07/outquisition-and-urbanism-camp.html<br />
<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html<br />
<br />
===Nomad Tribe===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
==Aim==<br />
<br />
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )<br />
<br />
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )<br />
<br />
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest. <br />
<br />
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -,<br />
I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, <br />
enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.<br />
<br />
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.<br />
<br />
==People interested==<br />
Isis, [http://p2pfoundation.net/Alex_Rollin Alex], [[User:Dante|Dante]], [[User:Meinhard|Meinhard]], Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, [[User:Julia|Julia]], [[User:Flawer|Flawer]], [[User:TinkerGeorge|George J.]], [[user:kardan|kardan]], [[user:bhopter|helicopter]], [http://goo.gl/2VIga kata kata motivasi], http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter <br />
<br />
''[http://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&action=edit&section=3 add yourself]''<br />
<br />
==Pictures==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Google Street View===<br />
<br />
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.<br />
<br />
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l<br />
<br />
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature,<br />
and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.<br />
<br />
==Leipzig Context==<br />
<br />
[[Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation]]<br />
<br />
==House features==<br />
* Self-Organized governance<br />
* Communal and public space in ground floor <br />
* Several flats with different parties in upper floors<br />
* Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)<br />
* Community connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace Hackerspace]/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)<br />
* Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation<br />
** Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)<br />
* Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities<br />
**Organic Community Gardening (rooftop gardening?)<br />
**Partnerships with local farms and suppliers<br />
**Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars<br />
**House and neighborhood biomass/composting program<br />
* Info cafe with people's kitchen<br />
** networking with other urban projects world-wide<br />
* Renewable and efficient [[energy]]<br />
* [[Recycling]]<br />
* Sauna (yeah!)<br />
* Regular meetings<br />
* Free shop<br />
<br />
==24/7 Lab==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs<br />
<br />
==Ideal Situation==<br />
<br />
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post <br />
industrial project in Leipzig are : <br />
<br />
* being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute <br />
walk ) <br />
* being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University<br />
* being situated nearby greenery <br />
* being situated nearby gardening allotments <br />
* being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be <br />
purchased for post-manufacturing <br />
* having a unique looking architecture / building <br />
* having a potential for the development of a diversified <br />
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the <br />
atmosphere :) ) <br />
* having access to a garden and to a view (rooftop gardening is space- and energy-efficient)<br />
* being in a calm neighborhood <br />
* additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant <br />
constructible land, <br />
to build our own construction, <br />
* or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined <br />
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, <br />
such as a "gasometer"<br />
<br />
==Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?==<br />
<br />
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/<br />
<br />
==Ownership / Usership ==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership<br />
<br />
possibly in combination with<br />
<br />
[http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat]<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf<br />
<br />
Equity-Linked Affinity Network<br />
Interpersonal Process, Financial Structures and Legal<br />
Designs for Landed, Spirited, Joyous Urban Community<br />
<br />
( found via http://p2pfoundation.net/Balancing_Individualism_and_Communitarianism )<br />
<br />
==Funding and Costs==<br />
<br />
===Prices of Buildings===<br />
<br />
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :<br />
* around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
* 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
Anthony says :<br />
<br />
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town<br />
<br />
BUT<br />
<br />
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.<br />
<br />
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!<br />
<br />
Anthony says:<br />
<br />
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Renovation Costs===<br />
to evaluate - [[User:Dante|Dante]] is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?<br />
<br />
====about Dry Rot prevention====<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot#Treatment_of_dry_rot_timber<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot_treatment<br />
<br />
reply from T. :<br />
<br />
We have used heaters to dry wet wood<br />
<br />
It is very difficult to detect an infestation before it has reached an advanced stage. A non-visible infestation never really goes away, but does not propagate or threaten the wood if the wood is kept dry. We therefore are extremely reactive to the presence of uncontained water in the house; we treat it like fire.<br />
<br />
The chemical treatments are reportedly as expensive as replacing the wood. Replacing the wood can be expensive if it provides structural support. However, the real danger is getting denounced. If a company determines you have dry-rot, they are supposed to report it to the government. Then the government inspects all areas of the house and requires treatment of any dry-rot found, regardless of whether it is active. This can be financially devastating. Therefore, the department responsible for these inspections have ironically made German houses less safe.<br />
<br />
Fazit: don't buy a house if there is evidence of a sustained leak, regardless of whether there is evidence of schwamm / dry rot.<br />
<br />
===Funding===<br />
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat], potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest.<br />
For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.<br />
<br />
: It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)<br />
<br />
====Crowdsourcing and Fund Management Tools====<br />
<br />
When it will be operational in 2013, we may consider using the following tool :<br />
<br />
https://holvi.com/<br />
<br />
"Holvi is not a ‘traditional’ crowdfunding platform for projects, but instead it offers project groups an online bank service with a visual interface for handling their money and better finance keeping."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Holvi<br />
<br />
===Legal Frameworks===<br />
<br />
info book on legal frameworks :<br />
Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte<br />
https://www.stiftung-trias.de/publikationen/<br />
<br />
Some interesting PDFs:<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/fileadmin/Finanzierung_2008.pdf<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/uploads/media/RECHTSFORMEN_trias_1-2009.pdf<br />
* http://www.haushalten.org/Papers/haushalten_e.v._-_rechtsformen_fuer_wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
* http://www.koord.hs-mannheim.de/horizonte/h34_Krosse_Wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
<br />
===Purchasing Examples===<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros,<br />
it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.<br />
<br />
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible,<br />
hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.<br />
<br />
To pay off the credit, at no interest, <br />
<br />
one can symbolically imagine that it costs<br />
'''''"1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"'''''<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
'''''"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"'''''<br />
<br />
after which it is fully your property,<br />
although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.<br />
<br />
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.<br />
<br />
===Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase===<br />
<br />
See :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.'''<br />
<br />
Approach :<br />
<br />
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in <br />
"Viagere" / '''"Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units"''' <br />
in exchange of "Care Service Hours".<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."'''<br />
<br />
''Mutual credit'' with trusted routing,<br />
and/or ''Asymmetric exchange ?''<br />
<br />
===Living Costs and Taxes===<br />
<br />
Robrecht asks :<br />
<br />
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc<br />
of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."<br />
<br />
Anthony answers :<br />
<br />
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."<br />
<br />
==Alternative Purchasing Model==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively,<br />
without requiring to take a bank loan.<br />
<br />
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ),<br />
and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.<br />
<br />
===Examples of shareholding models in Leipzig===<br />
<br />
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html<br />
<br />
or under <br />
<br />
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :<br />
<br />
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11 <br />
<br />
http://zolle11.de/blog/<br />
<br />
more examples :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships<br />
<br />
==Lease Hold ?==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold<br />
<br />
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht<br />
<br />
==Housing Availability Search==<br />
<br />
Alternative Housing-Search<br />
Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")<br />
<br />
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :<br />
<br />
Purchase :<br />
<br />
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/anzeigen<br />
<br />
Rent :<br />
<br />
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100<br />
<br />
Land and Building Projects :<br />
<br />
http://lwbimmobilien.de/<br />
<br />
==Buildings of Interest==<br />
<br />
In Neustadt :<br />
<br />
In ...<br />
<br />
===Gasometer===<br />
<br />
<br />
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=4276236400981551169&q=gasometer+leipzig&hl=de&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=3zWVTKHsNo6h_Ab_4OXbAQ&sig2=zeauLQrFuK9fcOiOZpleGw<br />
<br />
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/<br />
<br />
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=leipzig+germany&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.817312,58.798828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Bundesrepublik+Deutschland&ll=51.352624,12.379602&spn=0.000985,0.001794&t=h&z=19<br />
<br />
it most likely looks like this from inside :<br />
<br />
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg<br />
<br />
==Modular Housing==<br />
<br />
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki<br />
<br />
==Spime Housing and Furnitecture==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
Using Tensegrity,<br />
organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders",<br />
but also architects, engineers, students...<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
==Groups for Leipzig== <br />
<br />
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.<br />
* Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig<br />
* Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing<br />
<br />
==Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure<br />
<br />
===Infrastructure Mapping===<br />
<br />
[http://www.integralcity.com/civil-society/map-visions-and-values-assets.html Link to Integral Cities]<br />
<br />
==Culture and Community==<br />
<br />
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm<br />
<br />
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )<br />
<br />
==Art Center==<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html<br />
<br />
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"<br />
<br />
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html<br />
<br />
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"<br />
<br />
==Income Streams & Local Economy==<br />
<br />
Ideally (according to [[User:Dante|Dante]]), developing "[[resilient communities]]" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from [[food]] to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "[http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology Open Source Ecology]" such as "[http://factorefarm.org/ Factor E-Farm]".<br />
<br />
===Cooperative Ecology Project===<br />
<br />
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation wiki] you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons commons]. <br />
<br />
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.<br />
<br />
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_in_Multi-Unit_Housing on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing].<br />
<br />
==="Jobless Recovery"===<br />
<br />
http://www.pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html<br />
<br />
===Example - New York Manufacturing Cooperative / Lab===<br />
<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/nyregion/brooklyn-navy-yard-is-home-to-manufacturing-cooperative.html?_r=0<br />
<br />
<br />
===Other brainstormings===<br />
<br />
====First stage ?====<br />
* Collaborative research<br />
* Plan development<br />
* Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig<br />
* Musical Parties<br />
* Added value food production ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food slow food] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksküche volks kuche] ? )<br />
* Events and [[hospitality]]<br />
<br />
====Not for Private Profit Shops====<br />
<br />
* Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/<br />
* Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres - <br />
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
* "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche<br />
<br />
====Volunteering Initiatives====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service<br />
<br />
More info regarding EVS :<br />
<br />
Overall overview with short video presentation :<br />
<br />
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html<br />
<br />
current partner organizations data base :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm<br />
<br />
procedures<br />
<br />
for volunteers :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm<br />
<br />
====Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded program ?<br />
<br />
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/<br />
<br />
=====Note : Entredonneurship=====<br />
<br />
"Entre-Donneur"<br />
<br />
= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', <br />
proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Entredonneur<br />
<br />
http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/EntreDonneur<br />
<br />
====Fablabs/Workshops====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab<br />
<br />
====Earth De-polluting Cooperative====<br />
<br />
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify<br />
industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
====Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives====<br />
<br />
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design<br />
<br />
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "<br />
<br />
====Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing====<br />
<br />
see above - <br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing<br />
<br />
====Energy====<br />
<br />
Various sources of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy renewable energy] can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water,<br />
and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
=====Internal Combustion=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle<br />
<br />
=====Electrolysis=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water<br />
<br />
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy<br />
<br />
====Alternative Engine Propulsion====<br />
<br />
See [[Resilient Engine]]<br />
<br />
====Building Open Source Cars====<br />
<br />
TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8jdx-lf2Dw<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Wikispeed<br />
<br />
http://www.wikispeed.com/<br />
<br />
====Distribution of Peer Production====<br />
<br />
=====Fair Ware=====<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare<br />
<br />
''' proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure" '''<br />
<br />
====== Fair Ware Goals ======<br />
<br />
* bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way<br />
* make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met <br />
*** creative people get their share<br />
*** producers can produce under human conditions<br />
*** users get quality and reliability<br />
* foster cooperation and improved product design<br />
* facilitate quality control by branding<br />
* exert democratic control over a brand name<br />
* create resilience towards proprietory action<br />
* empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro<br />
<br />
<br />
=====Local Food Distribution=====<br />
<br />
Open Ideo :<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/<br />
<br />
==Food Production==<br />
<br />
===Allotment Gardens===<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany<br />
<br />
''<br />
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "''<br />
<br />
===Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems===<br />
<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems<br />
<br />
<br />
===Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"===<br />
<br />
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative,<br />
"back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,<br />
<br />
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
See historical perspective :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement<br />
<br />
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading<br />
<br />
Links - Local Food Project :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100<br />
<br />
<br />
===Open Source Ecology===<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm<br />
<br />
Germany :<br />
<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/ (in English)<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/aufbau-der-ose-community-in-deutschland/ (in German)<br />
<br />
==Mesh Communication Networks==<br />
<br />
Contributing to ( ? )<br />
<br />
http://leipzig.freifunk.net/<br />
<br />
==Alternative Finance==<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies,<br />
which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.<br />
<br />
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.<br />
<br />
==Alternative University and learning infrastructures==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig<br />
<br />
==Other Hubs with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
===Other Similar Projects===<br />
<br />
http://neotribalism.net/about.htm<br />
<br />
- excerpt of vision -<br />
<br />
In the near term : <br />
To create a wide variety of socially and environmentally sustainable households that each serve as a community for 10 - 20 people who share a common vision and who compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.<br />
<br />
In the long term :<br />
To create a diverse network of sustainable neoTribal villages that are composed of 10 - 20 households that are not reliant upon the current global economy and infrastructure.<br />
<br />
==Restoring Vibrancy in Declining Cities==<br />
<br />
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/brief.html<br />
<br />
==Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy==<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy<br />
<br />
==p2p Open Urbanism==<br />
<br />
http://berlinergazette.de/open-source-stadt-gemeingut-stadtplanung/<br />
<br />
==Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City==<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
===A Vision for Shareable Cities [VIDEO]===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video<br />
<br />
===Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy===<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy<br />
<br />
===#12: Food Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing<br />
<br />
===#11: Urban Agriculture===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture<br />
<br />
===#10: Shareable Rooftops===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops<br />
<br />
===#9: Recreational Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces<br />
<br />
===#8: Shareable Workspaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces<br />
<br />
===#7: Shareable Neighborhoods===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods<br />
<br />
===#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs<br />
<br />
===#5: Shareable Housing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing<br />
<br />
===#4: Shareable Commercial Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces<br />
<br />
===#3: Bike Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing<br />
<br />
===#2: Ride Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing<br />
<br />
===#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing<br />
<br />
==People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )==<br />
<br />
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...<br />
<br />
<br />
==City Infrastructures==<br />
<br />
===Transportation===<br />
<br />
===S Bahn===<br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794 <br />
<br />
*Leipzig Linien 1 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015 <br />
<br />
*Linien 2 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442 <br />
<br />
ps: ideal when coming <br />
from some other place in Germany :<br />
regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 <br />
euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn<br />
<br />
===Tram Lines===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/<br />
<br />
===New Transportation Infrastructures===<br />
<br />
====Underground Train====<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving.<br />
Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."<br />
<br />
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut:<br />
Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"<br />
<br />
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.<br />
<br />
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Urban Planning Projects ===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/<br />
<br />
==Some Historical Facts and People==<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria#History Phantasmagoria in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Leipzig_.281723.E2.80.9350.29 Bach in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
==City History==<br />
<br />
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/<br />
<br />
==Suggested Neighbourhoods==<br />
<br />
expensive ones:<br />
<br />
Südvorstadt (south)<br />
<br />
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )<br />
<br />
connewitz ( south )<br />
<br />
becoming expensive:<br />
<br />
lindenau<br />
<br />
plagwitz<br />
here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.<br />
<br />
cheaper ones :<br />
<br />
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east<br />
<br />
Stötteritz - east<br />
<br />
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :<br />
<br />
reutnitz - east<br />
Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.<br />
<br />
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.<br />
<br />
klein zschocher - south west<br />
<br />
==Past Meetings==<br />
<br />
August 2010, 3 first weeks :<br />
<br />
http://ecotopia2010.org/<br />
<br />
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53071439438&ref=ts Ecotopia Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : [http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof,+Wiesenburg,+Germany&sll=52.237051,12.903442&sspn=0.713169,2.113495&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof+Wiesenburg,+Potsdam-Mittelmark,+Brandenburg,+Germany&t=h&ll=52.001792,12.348633&spn=1.684172,3.378296&z=8 Map Link]<br />
<br />
Contact [[User:Dante|Dante]] as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize,<br />
in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.<br />
<br />
==Geographical Layering Information==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions,<br />
for representing various data about the project on layered maps,<br />
facilitating open collaboration.<br />
<br />
See discussion on :<br />
<br />
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263<br />
<br />
also considering drupal gmap extension :<br />
<br />
http://drupal.org/project/gmap<br />
<br />
===Linked Geo Data===<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/About<br />
<br />
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.<br />
<br />
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
( based in Leipzig )<br />
<br />
==Mapping for Change==<br />
<br />
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/<br />
<br />
"Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication. Our work has a strong focus on engaging and empowering communities to make positive transformations to their localities. "<br />
<br />
==Semantic Web and Graphs==<br />
<br />
http://www.automenta.com/<br />
<br />
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) <br />
Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html <br />
<br />
===AKSW Department at University of Leipzig===<br />
<br />
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.<br />
<br />
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/<br />
<br />
==Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration==<br />
<br />
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's,<br />
and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space",<br />
and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.<br />
<br />
==Events in Leipzig==<br />
<br />
===Annual "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"===<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php<br />
<br />
''"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany''."<br />
<br />
===Bach Festival===<br />
Bachfest takes place every summer. Links:<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/index.php?id=26&L=1<br />
<br />
==Articles and Reports==<br />
<br />
===ARD German News Reportage===<br />
<br />
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/mittagsmagazin/leipzig-boomt?documentId=12240372<br />
<br />
===Market speculation in Leipzig ?===<br />
<br />
http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/leipzig/citynews/mietpreise-fuer-wohnungen-in-leipzig-deutlich-gestiegen-vor-allem-westliche-stadtteile-boomen/r-citynews-a-106789.html<br />
<br />
==Other interesting projects in Nearby Cities==<br />
<br />
Halle-Saale : http://www.postkult.de/ ( "urban development from below" )<br />
<br />
<br />
===Additional References===<br />
<br />
via Christine ( http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de ) <br />
<br />
this organisation published a <br />
<br />
====cook-book==== <br />
<br />
presenting 55 projects all located <br />
<br />
=====in kreuzberg:=====<br />
<br />
http://www.buechertisch.org/uber-uns/wer-sind-wir/<br />
<br />
health project since squatting times<br />
<br />
http://www.heilehaus-berlin.de/<br />
<br />
<br />
====poland====<br />
<br />
http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/en_info.asp?id=83326<br />
<br />
=====students organisation in szczecin=====<br />
<br />
, poland<br />
<br />
http://newfamilyway.blogspot.de/p/our-contribution-nasz-wkad.html<br />
<br />
i do know dagna and tomek. you can write in german and english.<br />
<br />
<br />
====network of collectively organised work==== <br />
<br />
i put down just three co-working spaces as example:<br />
<br />
http://www.hinkelstein-druck.de/<br />
http://www.tantehorst.de/<br />
http://schnittstelle.blogsport.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.nadeshda.org/nadeshda.html<br />
<br />
====gewerbehof, genossenschaft, kollekive zusammenschlüsse====<br />
<br />
http://www.gidak.de/<br />
http://www.mehringhof.de/<br />
http://www.kerngehaeuse.de/<br />
http://www.ufafabrik.de/intro.php<br />
<br />
====housing projects====<br />
<br />
http://www.wohnportal-berlin.de/<br />
http://www.hausprojekte-solidarfonds.de/<br />
http://www.selbstbau-eg.de/<br />
<br />
====French Pdf on Cohousing====<br />
<br />
"Vivre en cohabitat,reconstruire des villages en ville"<br />
<br />
http://public.citymined.org/MICRONOMICS/vivre%20en%20cohabitat%20lietart%20article.pdf<br />
<br />
====activists, researchers====<br />
<br />
http://www.voss.solioeko.de/<br />
http://www.technet-berlin.de/mitarbeiterinnen.html<br />
<br />
====financing====<br />
<br />
http://www.labournet.de/stiftungMundA/index.html<br />
http://www.netzwerk-selbsthilfe.de<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.haushalten.org/ Haushalten.org] (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes<br />
** [http://www.haushalten.org/de/english_summary.asp Summary in English] (en)<br />
* [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat] (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany<br />
* [http://sublab.org/ Sublab.org] (de) - Hack space in Leipzig ([http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sublab Hackerspaces entry])<br />
* [http://de.veganwiki.org/vegane_vokue#leipzig de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig] (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes<br />
* [http://kuhturm.de/ kuhturm.de] (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of [http://benn.org/ Meinhard] :)<br />
* http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.<br />
* http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)<br />
* [http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel Rockzipfel Leipzig] (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children<br />
* http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase - see link below for update)<br />
* http://schwarz10.de/ Same Housing project, Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 , a few years later <br />
* [http://www.lvz-online.de/ LVZ-Online] (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]<br />
* "Hypezig" - Article in German : http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/Hypezig;art4306,2621248<br />
* "Hypezig" - Another Article in French : http://www.slate.fr/monde/85083/leipzig-nouveau-berlin-hipster<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Projects]]<br />
[[Category:Sharespaces]]<br />
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{{outdated}}<br />
<br />
In [[Leipzig]] whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little [[money]]. <br />
<br />
The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for [[sharing]].<br />
<br />
''' Update 2013''' : <br />
A more Modular Approach ? <br />
--> '''[[Spime Housing]] link'''<br />
<br />
Express Your interest [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis here] and [http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#People_interested here]<br />
<br />
more links [http://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/leipzigproject here]<br />
<br />
<br />
Update : <br />
'''This was a 2008 / 2009 Research Project.''' <br />
The initial feeling for potential was right, <br />
and prices changed upwards dramatically in the last years since our initial interest, <br />
yet there are still opportunities to be created using such approaches, <br />
in Leipzig, other east german towns, and in various places in europe and the world.<br />
<br />
Note : areas in red on this map may most likely remain accessible ;)<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bild-981616-726182.html<br />
web archive : https://web.archive.org/web/20181105205235/https://www.postbank.de/postbank/docs/Postbank_Studie_Werthaltigkeit_bis_2030.jpg<br />
<br />
[http://www.leipzig.de/bauen-und-wohnen/stadterneuerung-in-leipzig/stadterneuerungsprojekte/netzwerk-leipziger-freiheit/ Leipzig remains fertile ground for cooperative housing projects]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Housing locations==<br />
* Put findings on [http://u.nu/3tgf4 this shared Google map]<br />
<br />
==Mind Map==<br />
<br />
Edit [http://www.metamaps.cc/users/1000497548/maps/25 MindMap here] ;<br />
<br />
[http://metamaps.cc/users/new To Register to Metamap] ( password: j0jmzgen )<br />
<br />
==Current Context==<br />
<br />
http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/who-ryder-what-edge/mission_case/permanent-collective-leipzig<br />
<br />
==Current Collective with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergingleaderlabs.org/<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/08/01/announcing-emerging-leader-labs-a-social-incubator-running-on-the-gift-economy/<br />
<br />
==A Meta Project Approach==<br />
<br />
http://thepyre.org/<br />
<br />
==Outquisition Potentials==<br />
<br />
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-an-outquisition/2008/07/20<br />
<br />
'''''"What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed. We imagined that it would need an almost missionary fervor, something like the Inquisition (which largely destroyed knowledge) in reverse, a crusade of open sharing, or as Cory promptly dubbed it, the Outquisition."'''''<br />
<br />
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.be/2008/07/outquisition-and-urbanism-camp.html<br />
<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html<br />
<br />
===Nomad Tribe===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
==Aim==<br />
<br />
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )<br />
<br />
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )<br />
<br />
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest. <br />
<br />
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -,<br />
I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, <br />
enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.<br />
<br />
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.<br />
<br />
==People interested==<br />
Isis, [http://p2pfoundation.net/Alex_Rollin Alex], [[User:Dante|Dante]], [[User:Meinhard|Meinhard]], Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, [[User:Julia|Julia]], [[User:Flawer|Flawer]], [[User:TinkerGeorge|George J.]], [[user:kardan|kardan]], [[user:bhopter|helicopter]], [http://goo.gl/2VIga kata kata motivasi], http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter <br />
<br />
''[http://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&action=edit&section=3 add yourself]''<br />
<br />
==Pictures==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Google Street View===<br />
<br />
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.<br />
<br />
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l<br />
<br />
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature,<br />
and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.<br />
<br />
==Leipzig Context==<br />
<br />
[[Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation]]<br />
<br />
==House features==<br />
* Self-Organized governance<br />
* Communal and public space in ground floor <br />
* Several flats with different parties in upper floors<br />
* Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)<br />
* Community connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace Hackerspace]/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)<br />
* Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation<br />
** Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)<br />
* Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities<br />
**Organic Community Gardening (rooftop gardening?)<br />
**Partnerships with local farms and suppliers<br />
**Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars<br />
**House and neighborhood biomass/composting program<br />
* Info cafe with people's kitchen<br />
** networking with other urban projects world-wide<br />
* Renewable and efficient [[energy]]<br />
* [[Recycling]]<br />
* Sauna (yeah!)<br />
* Regular meetings<br />
* Free shop<br />
<br />
==24/7 Lab==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs<br />
<br />
==Ideal Situation==<br />
<br />
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post <br />
industrial project in Leipzig are : <br />
<br />
* being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute <br />
walk ) <br />
* being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University<br />
* being situated nearby greenery <br />
* being situated nearby gardening allotments <br />
* being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be <br />
purchased for post-manufacturing <br />
* having a unique looking architecture / building <br />
* having a potential for the development of a diversified <br />
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the <br />
atmosphere :) ) <br />
* having access to a garden and to a view (rooftop gardening is space- and energy-efficient)<br />
* being in a calm neighborhood <br />
* additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant <br />
constructible land, <br />
to build our own construction, <br />
* or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined <br />
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, <br />
such as a "gasometer"<br />
<br />
==Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?==<br />
<br />
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/<br />
<br />
==Ownership / Usership ==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership<br />
<br />
possibly in combination with<br />
<br />
[http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat]<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf<br />
<br />
Equity-Linked Affinity Network<br />
Interpersonal Process, Financial Structures and Legal<br />
Designs for Landed, Spirited, Joyous Urban Community<br />
<br />
( found via http://p2pfoundation.net/Balancing_Individualism_and_Communitarianism )<br />
<br />
==Funding and Costs==<br />
<br />
===Prices of Buildings===<br />
<br />
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :<br />
* around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
* 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
Anthony says :<br />
<br />
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town<br />
<br />
BUT<br />
<br />
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.<br />
<br />
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!<br />
<br />
Anthony says:<br />
<br />
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Renovation Costs===<br />
to evaluate - [[User:Dante|Dante]] is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?<br />
<br />
====about Dry Rot prevention====<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot#Treatment_of_dry_rot_timber<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot_treatment<br />
<br />
reply from T. :<br />
<br />
We have used heaters to dry wet wood<br />
<br />
It is very difficult to detect an infestation before it has reached an advanced stage. A non-visible infestation never really goes away, but does not propagate or threaten the wood if the wood is kept dry. We therefore are extremely reactive to the presence of uncontained water in the house; we treat it like fire.<br />
<br />
The chemical treatments are reportedly as expensive as replacing the wood. Replacing the wood can be expensive if it provides structural support. However, the real danger is getting denounced. If a company determines you have dry-rot, they are supposed to report it to the government. Then the government inspects all areas of the house and requires treatment of any dry-rot found, regardless of whether it is active. This can be financially devastating. Therefore, the department responsible for these inspections have ironically made German houses less safe.<br />
<br />
Fazit: don't buy a house if there is evidence of a sustained leak, regardless of whether there is evidence of schwamm / dry rot.<br />
<br />
===Funding===<br />
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat], potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest.<br />
For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.<br />
<br />
: It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)<br />
<br />
====Crowdsourcing and Fund Management Tools====<br />
<br />
When it will be operational in 2013, we may consider using the following tool :<br />
<br />
https://holvi.com/<br />
<br />
"Holvi is not a ‘traditional’ crowdfunding platform for projects, but instead it offers project groups an online bank service with a visual interface for handling their money and better finance keeping."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Holvi<br />
<br />
===Legal Frameworks===<br />
<br />
info book on legal frameworks :<br />
Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte<br />
https://www.stiftung-trias.de/publikationen/<br />
<br />
Some interesting PDFs:<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/fileadmin/Finanzierung_2008.pdf<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/uploads/media/RECHTSFORMEN_trias_1-2009.pdf<br />
* http://www.haushalten.org/Papers/haushalten_e.v._-_rechtsformen_fuer_wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
* http://www.koord.hs-mannheim.de/horizonte/h34_Krosse_Wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
<br />
===Purchasing Examples===<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros,<br />
it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.<br />
<br />
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible,<br />
hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.<br />
<br />
To pay off the credit, at no interest, <br />
<br />
one can symbolically imagine that it costs<br />
'''''"1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"'''''<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
'''''"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"'''''<br />
<br />
after which it is fully your property,<br />
although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.<br />
<br />
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.<br />
<br />
===Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase===<br />
<br />
See :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.'''<br />
<br />
Approach :<br />
<br />
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in <br />
"Viagere" / '''"Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units"''' <br />
in exchange of "Care Service Hours".<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."'''<br />
<br />
''Mutual credit'' with trusted routing,<br />
and/or ''Asymmetric exchange ?''<br />
<br />
===Living Costs and Taxes===<br />
<br />
Robrecht asks :<br />
<br />
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc<br />
of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."<br />
<br />
Anthony answers :<br />
<br />
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."<br />
<br />
==Alternative Purchasing Model==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively,<br />
without requiring to take a bank loan.<br />
<br />
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ),<br />
and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.<br />
<br />
===Examples of shareholding models in Leipzig===<br />
<br />
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html<br />
<br />
or under <br />
<br />
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :<br />
<br />
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11 <br />
<br />
http://zolle11.de/blog/<br />
<br />
more examples :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships<br />
<br />
==Lease Hold ?==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold<br />
<br />
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht<br />
<br />
==Housing Availability Search==<br />
<br />
Alternative Housing-Search<br />
Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")<br />
<br />
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :<br />
<br />
Purchase :<br />
<br />
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/anzeigen<br />
<br />
Rent :<br />
<br />
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100<br />
<br />
Land and Building Projects :<br />
<br />
http://lwbimmobilien.de/<br />
<br />
==Buildings of Interest==<br />
<br />
In Neustadt :<br />
<br />
In ...<br />
<br />
===Gasometer===<br />
<br />
<br />
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=4276236400981551169&q=gasometer+leipzig&hl=de&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=3zWVTKHsNo6h_Ab_4OXbAQ&sig2=zeauLQrFuK9fcOiOZpleGw<br />
<br />
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/<br />
<br />
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=leipzig+germany&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.817312,58.798828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Bundesrepublik+Deutschland&ll=51.352624,12.379602&spn=0.000985,0.001794&t=h&z=19<br />
<br />
it most likely looks like this from inside :<br />
<br />
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg<br />
<br />
==Modular Housing==<br />
<br />
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki<br />
<br />
==Spime Housing and Furnitecture==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
Using Tensegrity,<br />
organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders",<br />
but also architects, engineers, students...<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
==Groups for Leipzig== <br />
<br />
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.<br />
* Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig<br />
* Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing<br />
<br />
==Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure<br />
<br />
===Infrastructure Mapping===<br />
<br />
[http://www.integralcity.com/civil-society/map-visions-and-values-assets.html Link to Integral Cities]<br />
<br />
==Culture and Community==<br />
<br />
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm<br />
<br />
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )<br />
<br />
==Art Center==<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html<br />
<br />
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"<br />
<br />
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html<br />
<br />
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"<br />
<br />
==Income Streams & Local Economy==<br />
<br />
Ideally (according to [[User:Dante|Dante]]), developing "[[resilient communities]]" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from [[food]] to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "[http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology Open Source Ecology]" such as "[http://factorefarm.org/ Factor E-Farm]".<br />
<br />
===Cooperative Ecology Project===<br />
<br />
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation wiki] you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons commons]. <br />
<br />
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.<br />
<br />
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_in_Multi-Unit_Housing on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing].<br />
<br />
==="Jobless Recovery"===<br />
<br />
http://www.pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html<br />
<br />
===Example - New York Manufacturing Cooperative / Lab===<br />
<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/nyregion/brooklyn-navy-yard-is-home-to-manufacturing-cooperative.html?_r=0<br />
<br />
<br />
===Other brainstormings===<br />
<br />
====First stage ?====<br />
* Collaborative research<br />
* Plan development<br />
* Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig<br />
* Musical Parties<br />
* Added value food production ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food slow food] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksküche volks kuche] ? )<br />
* Events and [[hospitality]]<br />
<br />
====Not for Private Profit Shops====<br />
<br />
* Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/<br />
* Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres - <br />
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
* "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche<br />
<br />
====Volunteering Initiatives====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service<br />
<br />
More info regarding EVS :<br />
<br />
Overall overview with short video presentation :<br />
<br />
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html<br />
<br />
current partner organizations data base :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm<br />
<br />
procedures<br />
<br />
for volunteers :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm<br />
<br />
====Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded program ?<br />
<br />
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/<br />
<br />
=====Note : Entredonneurship=====<br />
<br />
"Entre-Donneur"<br />
<br />
= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', <br />
proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Entredonneur<br />
<br />
http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/EntreDonneur<br />
<br />
====Fablabs/Workshops====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab<br />
<br />
====Earth De-polluting Cooperative====<br />
<br />
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify<br />
industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
====Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives====<br />
<br />
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design<br />
<br />
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "<br />
<br />
====Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing====<br />
<br />
see above - <br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing<br />
<br />
====Energy====<br />
<br />
Various sources of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy renewable energy] can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water,<br />
and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
=====Internal Combustion=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle<br />
<br />
=====Electrolysis=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water<br />
<br />
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy<br />
<br />
====Alternative Engine Propulsion====<br />
<br />
See [[Resilient Engine]]<br />
<br />
====Building Open Source Cars====<br />
<br />
TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8jdx-lf2Dw<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Wikispeed<br />
<br />
http://www.wikispeed.com/<br />
<br />
====Distribution of Peer Production====<br />
<br />
=====Fair Ware=====<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare<br />
<br />
''' proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure" '''<br />
<br />
====== Fair Ware Goals ======<br />
<br />
* bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way<br />
* make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met <br />
*** creative people get their share<br />
*** producers can produce under human conditions<br />
*** users get quality and reliability<br />
* foster cooperation and improved product design<br />
* facilitate quality control by branding<br />
* exert democratic control over a brand name<br />
* create resilience towards proprietory action<br />
* empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro<br />
<br />
<br />
=====Local Food Distribution=====<br />
<br />
Open Ideo :<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/<br />
<br />
==Food Production==<br />
<br />
===Allotment Gardens===<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany<br />
<br />
''<br />
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "''<br />
<br />
===Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems===<br />
<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems<br />
<br />
<br />
===Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"===<br />
<br />
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative,<br />
"back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,<br />
<br />
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
See historical perspective :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement<br />
<br />
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading<br />
<br />
Links - Local Food Project :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100<br />
<br />
<br />
===Open Source Ecology===<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm<br />
<br />
Germany :<br />
<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/ (in English)<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/aufbau-der-ose-community-in-deutschland/ (in German)<br />
<br />
==Mesh Communication Networks==<br />
<br />
Contributing to ( ? )<br />
<br />
http://leipzig.freifunk.net/<br />
<br />
==Alternative Finance==<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies,<br />
which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.<br />
<br />
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.<br />
<br />
==Alternative University and learning infrastructures==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig<br />
<br />
==Other Hubs with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
===Other Similar Projects===<br />
<br />
http://neotribalism.net/about.htm<br />
<br />
- excerpt of vision -<br />
<br />
In the near term : <br />
To create a wide variety of socially and environmentally sustainable households that each serve as a community for 10 - 20 people who share a common vision and who compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.<br />
<br />
In the long term :<br />
To create a diverse network of sustainable neoTribal villages that are composed of 10 - 20 households that are not reliant upon the current global economy and infrastructure.<br />
<br />
==Restoring Vibrancy in Declining Cities==<br />
<br />
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/brief.html<br />
<br />
==Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy==<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy<br />
<br />
==p2p Open Urbanism==<br />
<br />
http://berlinergazette.de/open-source-stadt-gemeingut-stadtplanung/<br />
<br />
==Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City==<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
===A Vision for Shareable Cities [VIDEO]===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video<br />
<br />
===Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy===<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy<br />
<br />
===#12: Food Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing<br />
<br />
===#11: Urban Agriculture===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture<br />
<br />
===#10: Shareable Rooftops===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops<br />
<br />
===#9: Recreational Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces<br />
<br />
===#8: Shareable Workspaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces<br />
<br />
===#7: Shareable Neighborhoods===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods<br />
<br />
===#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs<br />
<br />
===#5: Shareable Housing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing<br />
<br />
===#4: Shareable Commercial Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces<br />
<br />
===#3: Bike Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing<br />
<br />
===#2: Ride Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing<br />
<br />
===#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing<br />
<br />
==People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )==<br />
<br />
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...<br />
<br />
<br />
==City Infrastructures==<br />
<br />
===Transportation===<br />
<br />
===S Bahn===<br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794 <br />
<br />
*Leipzig Linien 1 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015 <br />
<br />
*Linien 2 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442 <br />
<br />
ps: ideal when coming <br />
from some other place in Germany :<br />
regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 <br />
euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn<br />
<br />
===Tram Lines===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/<br />
<br />
===New Transportation Infrastructures===<br />
<br />
====Underground Train====<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving.<br />
Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."<br />
<br />
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut:<br />
Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"<br />
<br />
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.<br />
<br />
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Urban Planning Projects ===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/<br />
<br />
==Some Historical Facts and People==<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria#History Phantasmagoria in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Leipzig_.281723.E2.80.9350.29 Bach in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
==City History==<br />
<br />
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/<br />
<br />
==Suggested Neighbourhoods==<br />
<br />
expensive ones:<br />
<br />
Südvorstadt (south)<br />
<br />
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )<br />
<br />
connewitz ( south )<br />
<br />
becoming expensive:<br />
<br />
lindenau<br />
<br />
plagwitz<br />
here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.<br />
<br />
cheaper ones :<br />
<br />
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east<br />
<br />
Stötteritz - east<br />
<br />
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :<br />
<br />
reutnitz - east<br />
Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.<br />
<br />
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.<br />
<br />
klein zschocher - south west<br />
<br />
==Past Meetings==<br />
<br />
August 2010, 3 first weeks :<br />
<br />
http://ecotopia2010.org/<br />
<br />
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53071439438&ref=ts Ecotopia Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : [http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof,+Wiesenburg,+Germany&sll=52.237051,12.903442&sspn=0.713169,2.113495&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof+Wiesenburg,+Potsdam-Mittelmark,+Brandenburg,+Germany&t=h&ll=52.001792,12.348633&spn=1.684172,3.378296&z=8 Map Link]<br />
<br />
Contact [[User:Dante|Dante]] as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize,<br />
in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.<br />
<br />
==Geographical Layering Information==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions,<br />
for representing various data about the project on layered maps,<br />
facilitating open collaboration.<br />
<br />
See discussion on :<br />
<br />
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263<br />
<br />
also considering drupal gmap extension :<br />
<br />
http://drupal.org/project/gmap<br />
<br />
===Linked Geo Data===<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/About<br />
<br />
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.<br />
<br />
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
( based in Leipzig )<br />
<br />
==Mapping for Change==<br />
<br />
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/<br />
<br />
"Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication. Our work has a strong focus on engaging and empowering communities to make positive transformations to their localities. "<br />
<br />
==Semantic Web and Graphs==<br />
<br />
http://www.automenta.com/<br />
<br />
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) <br />
Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html <br />
<br />
===AKSW Department at University of Leipzig===<br />
<br />
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.<br />
<br />
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/<br />
<br />
==Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration==<br />
<br />
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's,<br />
and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space",<br />
and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.<br />
<br />
==Events in Leipzig==<br />
<br />
===Annual "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"===<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php<br />
<br />
''"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany''."<br />
<br />
===Bach Festival===<br />
Bachfest takes place every summer. Links:<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/index.php?id=26&L=1<br />
<br />
==Articles and Reports==<br />
<br />
===ARD German News Reportage===<br />
<br />
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/mittagsmagazin/leipzig-boomt?documentId=12240372<br />
<br />
===Market speculation in Leipzig ?===<br />
<br />
http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/leipzig/citynews/mietpreise-fuer-wohnungen-in-leipzig-deutlich-gestiegen-vor-allem-westliche-stadtteile-boomen/r-citynews-a-106789.html<br />
<br />
==Other interesting projects in Nearby Cities==<br />
<br />
Halle-Saale : http://www.postkult.de/ ( "urban development from below" )<br />
<br />
<br />
===Additional References===<br />
<br />
via Christine ( http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de ) <br />
<br />
this organisation published a <br />
<br />
====cook-book==== <br />
<br />
presenting 55 projects all located <br />
<br />
=====in kreuzberg:=====<br />
<br />
http://www.buechertisch.org/uber-uns/wer-sind-wir/<br />
<br />
health project since squatting times<br />
<br />
http://www.heilehaus-berlin.de/<br />
<br />
<br />
====poland====<br />
<br />
http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/en_info.asp?id=83326<br />
<br />
=====students organisation in szczecin=====<br />
<br />
, poland<br />
<br />
http://newfamilyway.blogspot.de/p/our-contribution-nasz-wkad.html<br />
<br />
i do know dagna and tomek. you can write in german and english.<br />
<br />
<br />
====network of collectively organised work==== <br />
<br />
i put down just three co-working spaces as example:<br />
<br />
http://www.hinkelstein-druck.de/<br />
http://www.tantehorst.de/<br />
http://schnittstelle.blogsport.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.nadeshda.org/nadeshda.html<br />
<br />
====gewerbehof, genossenschaft, kollekive zusammenschlüsse====<br />
<br />
http://www.gidak.de/<br />
http://www.mehringhof.de/<br />
http://www.kerngehaeuse.de/<br />
http://www.ufafabrik.de/intro.php<br />
<br />
====housing projects====<br />
<br />
http://www.wohnportal-berlin.de/<br />
http://www.hausprojekte-solidarfonds.de/<br />
http://www.selbstbau-eg.de/<br />
<br />
====French Pdf on Cohousing====<br />
<br />
"Vivre en cohabitat,reconstruire des villages en ville"<br />
<br />
http://public.citymined.org/MICRONOMICS/vivre%20en%20cohabitat%20lietart%20article.pdf<br />
<br />
====activists, researchers====<br />
<br />
http://www.voss.solioeko.de/<br />
http://www.technet-berlin.de/mitarbeiterinnen.html<br />
<br />
====financing====<br />
<br />
http://www.labournet.de/stiftungMundA/index.html<br />
http://www.netzwerk-selbsthilfe.de<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.haushalten.org/ Haushalten.org] (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes<br />
** [http://www.haushalten.org/de/english_summary.asp Summary in English] (en)<br />
* [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat] (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany<br />
* [http://sublab.org/ Sublab.org] (de) - Hack space in Leipzig ([http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sublab Hackerspaces entry])<br />
* [http://de.veganwiki.org/vegane_vokue#leipzig de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig] (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes<br />
* [http://kuhturm.de/ kuhturm.de] (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of [http://benn.org/ Meinhard] :)<br />
* http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.<br />
* http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)<br />
* [http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel Rockzipfel Leipzig] (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children<br />
* http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase - see link below for update)<br />
* http://schwarz10.de/ Same Housing project, Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 , a few years later <br />
* [http://www.lvz-online.de/ LVZ-Online] (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]<br />
* "Hypezig" - Article in German : http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/Hypezig;art4306,2621248<br />
* "Hypezig" - Another Article in French : http://www.slate.fr/monde/85083/leipzig-nouveau-berlin-hipster<br />
<br />
[[Category:Leipzig]]<br />
[[Category:Projects]]<br />
[[Category:Sharespaces]]<br />
[[Category:Nomadbase]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&diff=26820Leipzig project2022-05-16T19:55:39Z<p>Dante: This article is less suited for nomadwiki, and is much more about sharing</p>
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<br />
In [[Leipzig]] whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little [[money]]. <br />
<br />
The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for [[sharing]].<br />
<br />
''' Update 2013''' : <br />
A more Modular Approach ? <br />
--> '''[[Spime Housing]] link'''<br />
<br />
Express Your interest [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis here] and [http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#People_interested here]<br />
<br />
more links [http://delicious.com/deliciousdante/leipzigproject here] or [http://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/leipzigproject here]<br />
<br />
<br />
Update : <br />
'''This was a 2008 / 2009 Research Project.''' <br />
The initial feeling for potential was right, <br />
and prices changed upwards dramatically in the last years since our initial interest, <br />
yet there are still opportunities to be created using such approaches, <br />
in Leipzig, other east german towns, and in various places in europe and the world.<br />
<br />
Note : areas in red on this map may most likely remain accessible ;)<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bild-981616-726182.html<br />
update : https://www.postbank.de/postbank/docs/Postbank_Studie_Werthaltigkeit_bis_2030.jpg<br />
<br />
[http://www.leipzig.de/bauen-und-wohnen/stadterneuerung-in-leipzig/stadterneuerungsprojekte/netzwerk-leipziger-freiheit/ Leipzig remains fertile ground for cooperative housing projects]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Housing locations==<br />
* Put findings on [http://u.nu/3tgf4 this shared Google map]<br />
<br />
==Mind Map==<br />
<br />
Edit [http://www.metamaps.cc/users/1000497548/maps/25 MindMap here] ;<br />
<br />
[http://metamaps.cc/users/new To Register to Metamap] ( password: j0jmzgen )<br />
<br />
==Current Context==<br />
<br />
http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/who-ryder-what-edge/mission_case/permanent-collective-leipzig<br />
<br />
==Current Collective with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergingleaderlabs.org/<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/08/01/announcing-emerging-leader-labs-a-social-incubator-running-on-the-gift-economy/<br />
<br />
==A Meta Project Approach==<br />
<br />
http://thepyre.org/<br />
<br />
==Outquisition Potentials==<br />
<br />
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-an-outquisition/2008/07/20<br />
<br />
'''''"What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed. We imagined that it would need an almost missionary fervor, something like the Inquisition (which largely destroyed knowledge) in reverse, a crusade of open sharing, or as Cory promptly dubbed it, the Outquisition."'''''<br />
<br />
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.be/2008/07/outquisition-and-urbanism-camp.html<br />
<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html<br />
<br />
===Nomad Tribe===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
==Aim==<br />
<br />
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )<br />
<br />
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )<br />
<br />
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest. <br />
<br />
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -,<br />
I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, <br />
enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.<br />
<br />
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.<br />
<br />
==People interested==<br />
Isis, [http://p2pfoundation.net/Alex_Rollin Alex], [[User:Dante|Dante]], [[User:Meinhard|Meinhard]], Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, [[User:Julia|Julia]], [[User:Flawer|Flawer]], [[User:TinkerGeorge|George J.]], [[user:kardan|kardan]], [[user:bhopter|helicopter]], [http://goo.gl/2VIga kata kata motivasi], http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter <br />
<br />
''[http://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&action=edit&section=3 add yourself]''<br />
<br />
==Pictures==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Google Street View===<br />
<br />
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.<br />
<br />
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l<br />
<br />
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature,<br />
and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.<br />
<br />
==Leipzig Context==<br />
<br />
[[Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation]]<br />
<br />
==House features==<br />
* Self-Organized governance<br />
* Communal and public space in ground floor <br />
* Several flats with different parties in upper floors<br />
* Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)<br />
* Community connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace Hackerspace]/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)<br />
* Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation<br />
** Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)<br />
* Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities<br />
**Organic Community Gardening (rooftop gardening?)<br />
**Partnerships with local farms and suppliers<br />
**Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars<br />
**House and neighborhood biomass/composting program<br />
* Info cafe with people's kitchen<br />
** networking with other urban projects world-wide<br />
* Renewable and efficient [[energy]]<br />
* [[Recycling]]<br />
* Sauna (yeah!)<br />
* Regular meetings<br />
* Free shop<br />
<br />
==24/7 Lab==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs<br />
<br />
==Ideal Situation==<br />
<br />
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post <br />
industrial project in Leipzig are : <br />
<br />
* being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute <br />
walk ) <br />
* being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University<br />
* being situated nearby greenery <br />
* being situated nearby gardening allotments <br />
* being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be <br />
purchased for post-manufacturing <br />
* having a unique looking architecture / building <br />
* having a potential for the development of a diversified <br />
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the <br />
atmosphere :) ) <br />
* having access to a garden and to a view (rooftop gardening is space- and energy-efficient)<br />
* being in a calm neighborhood <br />
* additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant <br />
constructible land, <br />
to build our own construction, <br />
* or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined <br />
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, <br />
such as a "gasometer"<br />
<br />
==Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?==<br />
<br />
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/<br />
<br />
==Ownership / Usership ==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership<br />
<br />
possibly in combination with<br />
<br />
[http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat]<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf<br />
<br />
Equity-Linked Affinity Network<br />
Interpersonal Process, Financial Structures and Legal<br />
Designs for Landed, Spirited, Joyous Urban Community<br />
<br />
( found via http://p2pfoundation.net/Balancing_Individualism_and_Communitarianism )<br />
<br />
==Funding and Costs==<br />
<br />
===Prices of Buildings===<br />
<br />
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :<br />
* around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
* 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
Anthony says :<br />
<br />
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town<br />
<br />
BUT<br />
<br />
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.<br />
<br />
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!<br />
<br />
Anthony says:<br />
<br />
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Renovation Costs===<br />
to evaluate - [[User:Dante|Dante]] is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?<br />
<br />
====about Dry Rot prevention====<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot#Treatment_of_dry_rot_timber<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot_treatment<br />
<br />
reply from T. :<br />
<br />
We have used heaters to dry wet wood<br />
<br />
It is very difficult to detect an infestation before it has reached an advanced stage. A non-visible infestation never really goes away, but does not propagate or threaten the wood if the wood is kept dry. We therefore are extremely reactive to the presence of uncontained water in the house; we treat it like fire.<br />
<br />
The chemical treatments are reportedly as expensive as replacing the wood. Replacing the wood can be expensive if it provides structural support. However, the real danger is getting denounced. If a company determines you have dry-rot, they are supposed to report it to the government. Then the government inspects all areas of the house and requires treatment of any dry-rot found, regardless of whether it is active. This can be financially devastating. Therefore, the department responsible for these inspections have ironically made German houses less safe.<br />
<br />
Fazit: don't buy a house if there is evidence of a sustained leak, regardless of whether there is evidence of schwamm / dry rot.<br />
<br />
===Funding===<br />
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat], potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest.<br />
For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.<br />
<br />
: It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)<br />
<br />
====Crowdsourcing and Fund Management Tools====<br />
<br />
When it will be operational in 2013, we may consider using the following tool :<br />
<br />
https://holvi.com/<br />
<br />
"Holvi is not a ‘traditional’ crowdfunding platform for projects, but instead it offers project groups an online bank service with a visual interface for handling their money and better finance keeping."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Holvi<br />
<br />
===Legal Frameworks===<br />
<br />
info book on legal frameworks :<br />
Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte<br />
https://www.stiftung-trias.de/publikationen/<br />
<br />
Some interesting PDFs:<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/fileadmin/Finanzierung_2008.pdf<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/uploads/media/RECHTSFORMEN_trias_1-2009.pdf<br />
* http://www.haushalten.org/Papers/haushalten_e.v._-_rechtsformen_fuer_wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
* http://www.koord.hs-mannheim.de/horizonte/h34_Krosse_Wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
<br />
===Purchasing Examples===<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros,<br />
it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.<br />
<br />
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible,<br />
hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.<br />
<br />
To pay off the credit, at no interest, <br />
<br />
one can symbolically imagine that it costs<br />
'''''"1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"'''''<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
'''''"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"'''''<br />
<br />
after which it is fully your property,<br />
although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.<br />
<br />
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.<br />
<br />
===Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase===<br />
<br />
See :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.'''<br />
<br />
Approach :<br />
<br />
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in <br />
"Viagere" / '''"Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units"''' <br />
in exchange of "Care Service Hours".<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."'''<br />
<br />
''Mutual credit'' with trusted routing,<br />
and/or ''Asymmetric exchange ?''<br />
<br />
===Living Costs and Taxes===<br />
<br />
Robrecht asks :<br />
<br />
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc<br />
of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."<br />
<br />
Anthony answers :<br />
<br />
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."<br />
<br />
==Alternative Purchasing Model==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively,<br />
without requiring to take a bank loan.<br />
<br />
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ),<br />
and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.<br />
<br />
===Examples of shareholding models in Leipzig===<br />
<br />
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html<br />
<br />
or under <br />
<br />
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :<br />
<br />
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11 <br />
<br />
http://zolle11.de/blog/<br />
<br />
more examples :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships<br />
<br />
==Lease Hold ?==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold<br />
<br />
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht<br />
<br />
==Housing Availability Search==<br />
<br />
Alternative Housing-Search<br />
Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")<br />
<br />
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :<br />
<br />
Purchase :<br />
<br />
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/anzeigen<br />
<br />
Rent :<br />
<br />
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100<br />
<br />
Land and Building Projects :<br />
<br />
http://lwbimmobilien.de/<br />
<br />
==Buildings of Interest==<br />
<br />
In Neustadt :<br />
<br />
In ...<br />
<br />
===Gasometer===<br />
<br />
<br />
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=4276236400981551169&q=gasometer+leipzig&hl=de&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=3zWVTKHsNo6h_Ab_4OXbAQ&sig2=zeauLQrFuK9fcOiOZpleGw<br />
<br />
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/<br />
<br />
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=leipzig+germany&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.817312,58.798828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Bundesrepublik+Deutschland&ll=51.352624,12.379602&spn=0.000985,0.001794&t=h&z=19<br />
<br />
it most likely looks like this from inside :<br />
<br />
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg<br />
<br />
==Modular Housing==<br />
<br />
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki<br />
<br />
==Spime Housing and Furnitecture==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
Using Tensegrity,<br />
organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders",<br />
but also architects, engineers, students...<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
==Groups for Leipzig== <br />
<br />
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.<br />
* Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig<br />
* Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing<br />
<br />
==Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure<br />
<br />
===Infrastructure Mapping===<br />
<br />
[http://www.integralcity.com/civil-society/map-visions-and-values-assets.html Link to Integral Cities]<br />
<br />
==Culture and Community==<br />
<br />
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm<br />
<br />
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )<br />
<br />
==Art Center==<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html<br />
<br />
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"<br />
<br />
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html<br />
<br />
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"<br />
<br />
==Income Streams & Local Economy==<br />
<br />
Ideally (according to [[User:Dante|Dante]]), developing "[[resilient communities]]" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from [[food]] to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "[http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology Open Source Ecology]" such as "[http://factorefarm.org/ Factor E-Farm]".<br />
<br />
===Cooperative Ecology Project===<br />
<br />
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation wiki] you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons commons]. <br />
<br />
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.<br />
<br />
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_in_Multi-Unit_Housing on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing].<br />
<br />
==="Jobless Recovery"===<br />
<br />
http://www.pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html<br />
<br />
===Example - New York Manufacturing Cooperative / Lab===<br />
<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/nyregion/brooklyn-navy-yard-is-home-to-manufacturing-cooperative.html?_r=0<br />
<br />
<br />
===Other brainstormings===<br />
<br />
====First stage ?====<br />
* Collaborative research<br />
* Plan development<br />
* Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig<br />
* Musical Parties<br />
* Added value food production ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food slow food] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksküche volks kuche] ? )<br />
* Events and [[hospitality]]<br />
<br />
====Not for Private Profit Shops====<br />
<br />
* Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/<br />
* Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres - <br />
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
* "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche<br />
<br />
====Volunteering Initiatives====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service<br />
<br />
More info regarding EVS :<br />
<br />
Overall overview with short video presentation :<br />
<br />
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html<br />
<br />
current partner organizations data base :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm<br />
<br />
procedures<br />
<br />
for volunteers :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm<br />
<br />
====Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded program ?<br />
<br />
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/<br />
<br />
=====Note : Entredonneurship=====<br />
<br />
"Entre-Donneur"<br />
<br />
= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', <br />
proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Entredonneur<br />
<br />
http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/EntreDonneur<br />
<br />
====Fablabs/Workshops====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab<br />
<br />
====Earth De-polluting Cooperative====<br />
<br />
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify<br />
industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
====Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives====<br />
<br />
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design<br />
<br />
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "<br />
<br />
====Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing====<br />
<br />
see above - <br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing<br />
<br />
====Energy====<br />
<br />
Various sources of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy renewable energy] can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water,<br />
and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
=====Internal Combustion=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle<br />
<br />
=====Electrolysis=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water<br />
<br />
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy<br />
<br />
====Alternative Engine Propulsion====<br />
<br />
See [[Resilient Engine]]<br />
<br />
====Building Open Source Cars====<br />
<br />
TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8jdx-lf2Dw<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Wikispeed<br />
<br />
http://www.wikispeed.com/<br />
<br />
====Distribution of Peer Production====<br />
<br />
=====Fair Ware=====<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare<br />
<br />
''' proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure" '''<br />
<br />
====== Fair Ware Goals ======<br />
<br />
* bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way<br />
* make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met <br />
*** creative people get their share<br />
*** producers can produce under human conditions<br />
*** users get quality and reliability<br />
* foster cooperation and improved product design<br />
* facilitate quality control by branding<br />
* exert democratic control over a brand name<br />
* create resilience towards proprietory action<br />
* empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro<br />
<br />
<br />
=====Local Food Distribution=====<br />
<br />
Open Ideo :<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/<br />
<br />
==Food Production==<br />
<br />
===Allotment Gardens===<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany<br />
<br />
''<br />
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "''<br />
<br />
===Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems===<br />
<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems<br />
<br />
<br />
===Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"===<br />
<br />
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative,<br />
"back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,<br />
<br />
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
See historical perspective :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement<br />
<br />
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading<br />
<br />
Links - Local Food Project :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100<br />
<br />
<br />
===Open Source Ecology===<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm<br />
<br />
Germany :<br />
<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/ (in English)<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/aufbau-der-ose-community-in-deutschland/ (in German)<br />
<br />
==Mesh Communication Networks==<br />
<br />
Contributing to ( ? )<br />
<br />
http://leipzig.freifunk.net/<br />
<br />
==Alternative Finance==<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies,<br />
which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.<br />
<br />
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.<br />
<br />
==Alternative University and learning infrastructures==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig<br />
<br />
==Other Hubs with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
===Other Similar Projects===<br />
<br />
http://neotribalism.net/about.htm<br />
<br />
- excerpt of vision -<br />
<br />
In the near term : <br />
To create a wide variety of socially and environmentally sustainable households that each serve as a community for 10 - 20 people who share a common vision and who compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.<br />
<br />
In the long term :<br />
To create a diverse network of sustainable neoTribal villages that are composed of 10 - 20 households that are not reliant upon the current global economy and infrastructure.<br />
<br />
==Restoring Vibrancy in Declining Cities==<br />
<br />
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/brief.html<br />
<br />
==Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy==<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy<br />
<br />
==p2p Open Urbanism==<br />
<br />
http://berlinergazette.de/open-source-stadt-gemeingut-stadtplanung/<br />
<br />
==Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City==<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
===A Vision for Shareable Cities [VIDEO]===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video<br />
<br />
===Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy===<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy<br />
<br />
===#12: Food Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing<br />
<br />
===#11: Urban Agriculture===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture<br />
<br />
===#10: Shareable Rooftops===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops<br />
<br />
===#9: Recreational Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces<br />
<br />
===#8: Shareable Workspaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces<br />
<br />
===#7: Shareable Neighborhoods===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods<br />
<br />
===#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs<br />
<br />
===#5: Shareable Housing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing<br />
<br />
===#4: Shareable Commercial Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces<br />
<br />
===#3: Bike Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing<br />
<br />
===#2: Ride Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing<br />
<br />
===#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing<br />
<br />
==People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )==<br />
<br />
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...<br />
<br />
<br />
==City Infrastructures==<br />
<br />
===Transportation===<br />
<br />
===S Bahn===<br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794 <br />
<br />
*Leipzig Linien 1 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015 <br />
<br />
*Linien 2 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442 <br />
<br />
ps: ideal when coming <br />
from some other place in Germany :<br />
regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 <br />
euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn<br />
<br />
===Tram Lines===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/<br />
<br />
===New Transportation Infrastructures===<br />
<br />
====Underground Train====<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving.<br />
Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."<br />
<br />
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut:<br />
Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"<br />
<br />
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.<br />
<br />
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Urban Planning Projects ===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/<br />
<br />
==Some Historical Facts and People==<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria#History Phantasmagoria in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Leipzig_.281723.E2.80.9350.29 Bach in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
==City History==<br />
<br />
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/<br />
<br />
==Suggested Neighbourhoods==<br />
<br />
expensive ones:<br />
<br />
Südvorstadt (south)<br />
<br />
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )<br />
<br />
connewitz ( south )<br />
<br />
becoming expensive:<br />
<br />
lindenau<br />
<br />
plagwitz<br />
here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.<br />
<br />
cheaper ones :<br />
<br />
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east<br />
<br />
Stötteritz - east<br />
<br />
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :<br />
<br />
reutnitz - east<br />
Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.<br />
<br />
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.<br />
<br />
klein zschocher - south west<br />
<br />
==Past Meetings==<br />
<br />
August 2010, 3 first weeks :<br />
<br />
http://ecotopia2010.org/<br />
<br />
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53071439438&ref=ts Ecotopia Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : [http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof,+Wiesenburg,+Germany&sll=52.237051,12.903442&sspn=0.713169,2.113495&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof+Wiesenburg,+Potsdam-Mittelmark,+Brandenburg,+Germany&t=h&ll=52.001792,12.348633&spn=1.684172,3.378296&z=8 Map Link]<br />
<br />
Contact [[User:Dante|Dante]] as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize,<br />
in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.<br />
<br />
==Geographical Layering Information==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions,<br />
for representing various data about the project on layered maps,<br />
facilitating open collaboration.<br />
<br />
See discussion on :<br />
<br />
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263<br />
<br />
also considering drupal gmap extension :<br />
<br />
http://drupal.org/project/gmap<br />
<br />
===Linked Geo Data===<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/About<br />
<br />
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.<br />
<br />
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
( based in Leipzig )<br />
<br />
==Mapping for Change==<br />
<br />
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/<br />
<br />
"Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication. Our work has a strong focus on engaging and empowering communities to make positive transformations to their localities. "<br />
<br />
==Semantic Web and Graphs==<br />
<br />
http://www.automenta.com/<br />
<br />
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) <br />
Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html <br />
<br />
===AKSW Department at University of Leipzig===<br />
<br />
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.<br />
<br />
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/<br />
<br />
==Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration==<br />
<br />
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's,<br />
and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space",<br />
and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.<br />
<br />
==Events in Leipzig==<br />
<br />
===Annual "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"===<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php<br />
<br />
''"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany''."<br />
<br />
===Bach Festival===<br />
Bachfest takes place every summer. Links:<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/index.php?id=26&L=1<br />
<br />
==Articles and Reports==<br />
<br />
===ARD German News Reportage===<br />
<br />
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/mittagsmagazin/leipzig-boomt?documentId=12240372<br />
<br />
===Market speculation in Leipzig ?===<br />
<br />
http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/leipzig/citynews/mietpreise-fuer-wohnungen-in-leipzig-deutlich-gestiegen-vor-allem-westliche-stadtteile-boomen/r-citynews-a-106789.html<br />
<br />
==Other interesting projects in Nearby Cities==<br />
<br />
Halle-Saale : http://www.postkult.de/ ( "urban development from below" )<br />
<br />
<br />
===Additional References===<br />
<br />
via Christine ( http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de ) <br />
<br />
this organisation published a <br />
<br />
====cook-book==== <br />
<br />
presenting 55 projects all located <br />
<br />
=====in kreuzberg:=====<br />
<br />
http://www.buechertisch.org/uber-uns/wer-sind-wir/<br />
<br />
health project since squatting times<br />
<br />
http://www.heilehaus-berlin.de/<br />
<br />
<br />
====poland====<br />
<br />
http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/en_info.asp?id=83326<br />
<br />
=====students organisation in szczecin=====<br />
<br />
, poland<br />
<br />
http://newfamilyway.blogspot.de/p/our-contribution-nasz-wkad.html<br />
<br />
i do know dagna and tomek. you can write in german and english.<br />
<br />
<br />
====network of collectively organised work==== <br />
<br />
i put down just three co-working spaces as example:<br />
<br />
http://www.hinkelstein-druck.de/<br />
http://www.tantehorst.de/<br />
http://schnittstelle.blogsport.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.nadeshda.org/nadeshda.html<br />
<br />
====gewerbehof, genossenschaft, kollekive zusammenschlüsse====<br />
<br />
http://www.gidak.de/<br />
http://www.mehringhof.de/<br />
http://www.kerngehaeuse.de/<br />
http://www.ufafabrik.de/intro.php<br />
<br />
====housing projects====<br />
<br />
http://www.wohnportal-berlin.de/<br />
http://www.hausprojekte-solidarfonds.de/<br />
http://www.selbstbau-eg.de/<br />
<br />
====French Pdf on Cohousing====<br />
<br />
"Vivre en cohabitat,reconstruire des villages en ville"<br />
<br />
http://public.citymined.org/MICRONOMICS/vivre%20en%20cohabitat%20lietart%20article.pdf<br />
<br />
====activists, researchers====<br />
<br />
http://www.voss.solioeko.de/<br />
http://www.technet-berlin.de/mitarbeiterinnen.html<br />
<br />
====financing====<br />
<br />
http://www.labournet.de/stiftungMundA/index.html<br />
http://www.netzwerk-selbsthilfe.de<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.haushalten.org/ Haushalten.org] (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes<br />
** [http://www.haushalten.org/de/english_summary.asp Summary in English] (en)<br />
* [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat] (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany<br />
* [http://sublab.org/ Sublab.org] (de) - Hack space in Leipzig ([http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sublab Hackerspaces entry])<br />
* [http://de.veganwiki.org/vegane_vokue#leipzig de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig] (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes<br />
* [http://kuhturm.de/ kuhturm.de] (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of [http://benn.org/ Meinhard] :)<br />
* http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.<br />
* http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)<br />
* [http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel Rockzipfel Leipzig] (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children<br />
* http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase - see link below for update)<br />
* http://schwarz10.de/ Same Housing project, Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 , a few years later <br />
* [http://www.lvz-online.de/ LVZ-Online] (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]<br />
* "Hypezig" - Article in German : http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/Hypezig;art4306,2621248<br />
* "Hypezig" - Another Article in French : http://www.slate.fr/monde/85083/leipzig-nouveau-berlin-hipster<br />
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[[Category:Projects]]<br />
[[Category:Sharespaces]]<br />
[[Category:Nomadbase]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Spime_Housing&diff=26819Spime Housing2021-11-07T14:41:58Z<p>Dante: Integration with Metabolism</p>
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''This article is about housing and functional spaces as a logistical solution , collected by [[User:Dante|Dante]] for the [[Antwerp Collective]] hosting research and development in 2014.''<br />
<br />
=Nomad Spimed Settlements=<br />
as follow up on [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/econowmix/L19AhXhUiaA/Q2HlGFmAVfoJ email conversations],<br />
<br />
reply by [http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.eric.hunting Eric Hunting] :<br />
<br />
I'd like to explore this idea of a nomadic/[http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism festivalist] approach a bit further and try visualizing such a project in terms of structures and activity. In another thread you note the idea of a Spimed Nomad Aggregator. Let me know how close to the mark I am, but I interpret that idea as being a kind of communal construct based on a nomadic approach to architecture that serves as a socialization, information, and production nexus for a nomadic community implementing some kind of semantic web platform as--among other uses--the basis of a spime characterizing its physical construction and systems. I would tend to visualize this as a kind of pop-up eco-village built as an emergent, modular, construct reconfiguring to different local situations and fluctuating population, building knowledge through the spime it creates about its own systems and structures. It's sort of like a traveling exposition of neo-nomadic/mobile-Maker/deployable eco-tech technology and culture. It serves not only as a physical nexus of activity--a festival--but a 'broadcaster', physically propagating itself through its open spime and the more-or-less independent production of its vernacular architecture and systems inspired/stimulated elsewhere by its presence and media output. It's almost a sort of Internet-viral urbanism.<br />
<br />
The chief advantages--in theory--of a project based on this idea, compared to a more permanent settlement, are that it's potentially cheaper up-front since it needs no permanent real estate, it's more suited to distributed support/production, it can potentially repurpose found structures, and by moving around it can reach more people. But it also has one disadvantage in that it's a much tougher challenge to achieve any sort of subsistence capability. Mobile systems of production are limited to smaller scales. A lot of things that could really achieve some functional production in a more permanent setting may be limited to just demonstrations. But maybe that's OK in the context of exposition. You're reaching many more people than you could with something out in the countryside<br />
<br />
There would seem to be a lot of current relevance for this concept. We are entering an age where impacts of Global Warming, the general failure of economics, and runaway austerity psychosis are putting billions of people out of their homes, on the move, and into jeopardy. And the market/state/militarist solutions to this have typically been institutional violence, denigration, and disenfranchisement. New Nomadism represents a kind of reaction to, protest of, and spotlight on, that. A functional nomadic _community_ offers the prospect of not only independent infrastructures of life-support with the possibility of dignified standards-of-living but, perhaps more importantly, social infrastructures for political and economic empowerment.<br />
<br />
So far, though, explorations of new nomadic architecture have not produced functional contemporary vernaculars. Systems people can pick-up and go with relying on their own production or many common sources. The closest we've come to this is cargotecture--which, even with new flat-pack container modules, remains far too bulky to really be nomadic. Current design is mostly focused on the solitary individual or household rather than communities. Many variations on the theme of a Swiss Army Knife of shelter. It's in contexts of camping, novelty design-art, disaster relief, and very thoughtful and clever solutions for the homeless that never get out of a student designer's portfolio to actually reach them because there's no market to drive production and no social production as an alternative. This isn't to say there hasn't been a lot of really nice, useful and clever design in this area but if its just about one-off microshelters and solitary self-sufficiency it may be missing the point.<br />
<br />
As beautiful as they are, the tipi, lavvu, and yurt are artifacts of specific cultures and environments. Situations different from the contemporary, predominately urban, situation even in the developing world. I think we need to look beyond the Swiss Army Knife of shelter to nomadic _habitats_. Urban constructs with collective infrastructures and--more importantly--collective social/political power.<br />
<br />
So what does all that mean in terms of architecture? My first thought here was to imagine a very high-tech pop-up eco-village based on a sophisticated deployable superstructure. But then I realized there's another issue with this. Before we can answer this question, we need to have some clearer idea of the contemporary nomadic situation--it's context of location, environment, use, and mobility. We can seek a 'total' solution that physically suits a lot of situations--which was my first thought--but I came to realize that quickly gets very sophisticated in terms of fabrication and physically bulky, which challenges mobility. We start talking about tool-less quick-assembled multi-storey modular building systems mainstream industry has yet to get their act together with.<br />
<br />
I think we need to first ask, where does this Maker-Nomad we are imagining live (or should that be phrased, where _can_ he live) and how does he get around? Tipis, lavvus, and yurts were designed by cultures that lived in the open--on plains/tundra--and moved cargo around primarily by sledges and wagons with the aid of animals. If the contemporary nomad is predominately living in an urban environment, he's getting around and using his surrounding environment very differently. Where and how does he 'make camp'?<br />
<br />
==Urban Alchemy==<br />
<br />
I've long had this fantasy about a Maker community that takes over an abandoned suburban corporate campus--a relic of a recently-collapsed economy--and repurposes its neglected low-rise office buildings into a high-tech eco-village. They tear out the asphalt to make farms, parks, and Living Machines, strip down and clean up the concrete and steel skeletons, give them new skins of architectural membranes, living walls, algaeculture frames, and solar walls supported with spaceframes, and then retrofit their interiors for tribal cohabitation. Turn them into new Hakka Houses. It might look something like this;<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmhdezhdez/sets/72157624731049557/<br />
<br />
I even considered developing an outquisition-theme comic book from this, though science fiction is surprisingly rare in comics, and 'hard' SF virtually non-existant. I never seem to to find artists who can get beyond superheroes, medieval fantasy, and p. The theme of MacGyver-esque young people re-inventing the future the previous generation turned its back on and fixing the world with new green technology as the Industrial Age collapses is a bit beyond their ken...<br />
<br />
Be that as it may, if we are visualizing the contemporary nomad as something like this--as a sophisticated urban nomad operating predominately in an urban environment, getting around mostly by street travel and the urban transit infrastructure, and repurposing its existing architecture by quick retrofit--then we have defined a context that may offer us the easiest and lowest cost project scenario; an indoor eco-village.<br />
<br />
The indoor eco-village would be based on repurposing buildings much like those of the abandoned office park I described using portable 'pod furnitecture' and 'pod systems'. Deployable elements that you either easily take apart and pack-up and/or can move around on dollies, casters, and air-bearings. We're assuming that we're in an environment where you can move stuff around by hand cart and small light vehicle on relatively smooth streets and roads, have access to freight elevators to move through buildings, and where there is not a necessity for perfectly weatherproof structures because we're deploying mostly indoors--using existing structures or maybe deployable large area structures as 'skybreaks'. We're talking about a habitat sort of like this on a larger scale with more diversity of elements;<br />
<br />
http://www.theworkhome.com/media/images/galleries/ban-naked-house-800-web.jpg<br />
<br />
Setup in spaces like this;<br />
<br />
http://blog.anti-limited.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/pano_rw_l2_1500px.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.discovery-place.co.uk/library/images/789.jpg<br />
<br />
http://guessbook.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/img_8145.jpeg<br />
<br />
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5192/5858674582_d3cd64c0a2_z.jpg<br />
<br />
http://nursing.johnshopkins.edu/sebin/h/o/parking_garage_empty.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.dowkimbrell.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/miami-parking-garage.jpg<br />
<br />
Or under deployable skybreaks like this;<br />
<br />
http://s3-media1.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/MG2RgygjIH1yMLkq_q6yCA/l.jpg<br />
<br />
http://us.freedomes.com/uploads/media_items/lech-wybrzeze11.900.600.1.s.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.tensilesystems.com/images/slides/banner17.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/germany/treehugger_pavilion.htm<br />
<br />
https://www.sprechindia.com/<br />
<br />
https://joyarchitronic.com/ (Awnings & Canopies)<br />
<br />
So what is 'pod furnitecture'? I invented the term 'furnitecture' to describe indoor structures which bridge the line between furniture and architecture by virtue of a more volumetric use of space or by employing independent enclosure. Pod furnitecture refers more specifically to designs that are more enclosure-oriented, more self-contained in design, more 'appliance-like', and more inclined to be moved around as whole units.<br />
<br />
Ken Isaacs' legendary Living Structures are furnitecture;<br />
<br />
http://www.we-find-wildness.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/KEN-ISAACS-8.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.habiter-autrement.org/08.minimaliste/im-08/urbannomadics-livingstructures1.jpg<br />
<br />
http://radio-weblogs.com/0119080/images/Gallery/livingcube1.jpg<br />
<br />
Things like Roger and Martyn Dean's Retreat Pod, Andrea Zittel's Wagon Stations, or the many forms of 'sleeping pods' derived from the Japanese Capsule Hotel unit are pod furnitecture.<br />
<br />
http://www.enthea.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/retreatpod01.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.meganwilson.com/subtexts/ccpod1.jpg<br />
<br />
http://deepspacearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/andreaanddavid_photobyd-dodge_0577.jpeg<br />
<br />
http://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/sleepbox_01.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/Interxionjpg.jpg<br />
<br />
http://thedesigncritic.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/obsideon-airport-sleeping-concept5.jpg<br />
<br />
http://tommytoy.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f3a4072c970b0147e0ae19d2970b-550wi<br />
<br />
These things relate to the concept of 'pod living' that was often explored by designers in the 1960s, based on the notion of reducing the functional elements of homes to a set of appliance-like objects that could be freely repositioned in the living space. (though their origins actually go back to ancient times and the independently enclosed beds common to many cultures) It failed to catch on because, in practice, conventional urban apartment space is very specialized and permanently compartmentalized, didn't accommodate open plan living until the 'lofting' trend came along, and couldn't well accommodate the use of 'appliances' the size of a small car… But in the large-span space its very convenient. I'm very fond of the concept myself because it very well suits the use of pavilion housing--housing based on the use of physically simple free-standing independent roof structures creating freely-reconfigured open-plan environments. This can greatly economize on the cost of housing by radically reducing interior finishing costs, which represent most of the costs in a home, while allowing for different low-toxic materials. I'm rather obsessed with the notion of housing that's 'PC-like'.<br />
<br />
Moving In:<br />
<br />
So how would we implement this indoor eco-village? What would it be like? Let's assume that we have at-hand a stripped unused urban structure as I've imagined. Pretty much a bare concrete skeleton of several floors in height. There may be intact window-walls or maybe the first thing our nomads need to do is setup a new 'skin' for the building.<br />
<br />
Our imagined nomads have made a collection of deployable pods and other hardware that provide shelter and a mobile utilities infrastructure. They would have personal cabin pods--mostly for sleeping and storing personal goods--possibly some office pods for those who feel a need for a more quiet and isolated workspace the help concentration, and a number of systems and service pods. Telescoping T-slot jack-posts that compress between floor and ceiling would support some assembled pods and also serve for partitions, screens, light shelves, lamps, and many other items. QuaDror type supports ( http://www.quadror.com/ ) might also find many uses among pod and other deployable elements. All-in-one bathroom pods would use incinerating toilets. (the most convenient, compact, and low-impact means to handle that with portable hardware, but requiring venting and a lot of power or the use of canister fuel) Collapsable membrane water tanks reinforced by folding wire cages would be placed on plastic pallets to create mobile water storage where there is no adequate link to urban water supplies. These would also be used with some hydroponics systems for greywater recycling. There are modular kitchen pods. Various storage pods. Open/deployable or enclosed lounge pods with entertainment systems. There would be a power center pod that hosts batteries and controllers for deployable solar and wind systems and maybe a companion self-contained fuel cell or microturbine pod that runs on bio-ethenol. This is the same fuel that is now used for ventless low-heat indoor fireplaces and perhaps our nomads might even have such a symbolic 'hearth' in a mobile pod. There's a communications and data center pod that has server racks and provides a WiFi node while linking to existing telecom networks or using a WiFi/WiMax link on the roof. And, of course, there are various production workstation pods that fill out the tools and facilities of a community workshop/fab lab. With this pod concept we can make many of the larger tools of independent production more self-contained and mobile. Flat bed cutters and milling machines of various sorts on their own wheels. 3D printers on wheels up to 3m cubed.<br />
<br />
Rooftop area would be a precious commodity with competition for use between solar/wind power, rainwater catchment, solar distillation, and gardening. So a more efficient way to go would be to employ vertical farming on lower building levels. Hanging Living Wall felt panels and vertical hydroponics systems like ZipGrow would be easy to install along the south-facing edges of the structure and still allow ambient light in.<br />
<br />
http://www.aquaponiclynx.com/WordPress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Planted-towers-in-evening-Medium.jpg<br />
<br />
Such systems are not only much easier to deploy than typical hydroponics, they would allow for the transport of hydroponics systems without removal of plants and the carrying of plants to market in their own means of attractive display.<br />
<br />
In addition to quickly deployable solar panels--possibly using roll-up systems based on flexcell tarps ( http://buildaroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/solar-tent-e1286834244609.jpg )--and deployable wind turbines ( https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cU9AjwGVuXKSVCnYN2xOQ6XIzg5hbg-p_jvw622pw-7xfYlgTLgpOfRuApO8Dby-rOhqE57-7QTSe5hzoxElZuQeAQZ4y-Qpm-bwPeqTFv5D5SzNCUY ), the nomads may employ modular fiber optic heliostat arrays;<br />
<br />
http://archrecord.construction.com/tech/techbriefs/images/0705dignews5_lg.jpg<br />
<br />
http://media.caspianpublishing.co.uk/image/c218030aa008d72a7829ca3dcc43b710.jpg<br />
<br />
http://archrecord.construction.com/tech/techBriefs/images/0705dignews7_lg.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.parans.com/swe/media/Mediamaterial/Parans-Receiver-exterior-roofmounted-1.jpg<br />
<br />
These would allow natural sunlight to be piped in on cable like electric power to illuminate the interior of the building and even plug-into individual pods. Fiber optic lighting systems would generally be safer, easier to install, and much more energy efficient (as much as 40% more efficient) because they eliminate discrete electric lighting fixtures and the electrical wiring to link them up. So the nomad's power pods might feature a hybrid fiber lighting center where an electric light pump is combined with heliostat input and then distributes light by cable to the rest of the complex. These would very safely combine with structures made of fabrics or be used outdoors or in wet areas.<br />
<br />
Fiber lighting can be placed in any orientation so by combining this source of piped-in sunlight with a cylindrical pod structure to hang our vertical hydroponics on, it would be possible to make self-contained farming pods that could be placed anywhere indoors for intensive farming.<br />
<br />
http://i01.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/915/128/268/1285035692637_hz-fileserver2_5281360.jpg<br />
<br />
This form of lighting also allows for more sculptural uses of indoor hydroponics.<br />
<br />
http://www.designbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/hydroponic-plant-system_1_TBemw_69.jpg<br />
<br />
Solar thermal systems would be used for several different purposes using a hybrid heat exchange manifold. The conventional use would be for hot water heating. Then there would be use to drive solar air conditioning and water generation using adsorption coolers. And finally it would drive distillation to purifiy the water output from greywater Living Machines or rainwater catchment. This demands a pretty high-temperature system which may call for things like vacuum tube solar thermal collectors. These are not usually very portable so there would be a design challenge in their use. Perhaps solar concentrator heliostat heaters may be a more deployable and active system alternative.<br />
<br />
Algaeculture, for food or fuels, can also be produced in much the same way as hydroponics using similarly portable supported or hanging vertical systems. Special processing and bio-reactor pods would be used to convert algae into either food or ethanol.<br />
<br />
http://www.earthmagazine.org/sites/earthmagazine.org/files/1324689371/i-143-7d9-2-d.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.e-energymarket.com/uploads/pics/Algae_production_03.jpg<br />
<br />
Not everything in the indoor village would be strictly utilitarian as the objective is to demonstrate a high potential standard of living and so some things that might seem frivolous by our usually militaristic notions of 'camping' would likely be included. Things like deployable art installations, museums, spas, multi-media entertainment pods akin to karaoke rooms, micro-planetariums, deployable theaters, facilities for pets, and so on.<br />
<br />
Organization of the nomads' indoor village would depend on the topology of the structure they take over but a general order might see the rooftop employed chiefly for the different forms of energy collection, the floor below that used for water storage, intensive farming, and food storage, the floor below that for residence and common lounge/dining spaces, then a floor for the collective workshop/studio space, and at the bottom would be the 'garage' for the nomad's alternative forms of vehicles and more storage for shop supplies. The village may evolve through several stage of development, starting out very 'lean' with private space established primarily by the personal cabin pods in clusters around common lounge centers. Over time, however, individual living space may grow to clusters of multiple types of personal furnitecture enclosed in partitions and modular storage systems increasingly better insulated for sound.<br />
<br />
Getting Around:<br />
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Getting around in lean and green fashion is a big deal and would be a constant obsession for the nomads. Most of the elements of the indoor village would be designed for relatively easy transport in the manner of push-carts, the urban landscape offering relatively easy mobility for things with relatively small wheels. Some towing devices--Segway-like walking tractors similar to two-wheel tugs used to move light planes in hangars or tow luggage carts in airports--might be devised to further aid this.<br />
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Powered hand carts are also likely and not unknown on the market.<br />
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These simple mechanisms could also be integrated into the design of some frequently moved pods.<br />
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An electric or hybrid version of the classic military mule would be ideal for an endless variety of uses and could host its own power charging with flex-cell canopies. With mecanum wheel drive, as used in some materials handling robots and fork lifts now, it could be the ultimate urban utility transport.<br />
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But it's likely that the nomads would experiment with a large assortment of electric, hybrid, and human powered vehicles both for use indoors and on the street and this could be one of the quite fun aspect of this project.<br />
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I'm rather fond of the simple tuk-tuk myself, which are now commonly electric.<br />
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Future or Fantasy?:<br />
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I think a demonstration of this model of nomadism is very feasible and could be explored on different scales, from a one-floor installation to a whole building and with a variety of variations in situation. But there's a critical question here. How realistic would this example be?<br />
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My fantasy example of a Maker community taking over an office park is premised on the notion of a regional economic collapse that leaves both original property owners and municipal governments too bankrupt to oppose what this community does with the space. (something that might only actually exist in the US in Detroit…) In practice, American municipal/city governments always resist any activity unconventional in nature. Anything new, different, and lacking the stamp of approval by members of the upper-class is assumed wrong by default and violently attacked. I often say that the NYPD has probably gleefully destroyed more art than the Taliban. Is our nomadic scenario only possible in a somewhat dystopian future? Would the modern urban nomad we imagine be allowed to exist anywhere? Is he forced to the edge of wilderness like everything else that's different?<br />
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Certainly, urban hackerspaces seem possible and so we could imagine this as an extension of that context. In a slumped real estate market, property owners would be more open to unconventional uses of their property at discount rates as long as it doesn't represent anything permanent in nature--which rationalizes the nomadic nature of this. One is always being evicted once the landlord finds more 'legitimate' tenants and forced to move on to another space. Certainly, the phenomenon of the arts community as agent of gentrification is well established. For a century, of not two, we've seen that artists, always seeking-out low-cost studio space in the depressed areas of cities, revitalize local real estate markets with their creation of a local 'arts scene'. Subsequently, they find themselves evicted from the communities they largely created as upper-class residents move in causing rents to become untenable. Could a similar phenomenon become a hallmark of Maker community activity, instigating entrepreneurial industry rather than an art scene? Perhaps it's most realistic to suggest that our nomads would be living in a variety of situations, sometimes having to deal with rural or wilderness environments. (which would certainly be the case when engaging in developing world outreach or disaster aid) In my comic book fantasy the Maker nomads use adaptive reuse to turn all sorts of obsolete structures into bases as they travel the world; shopping malls, forgotten missile silos, water and gas tanks, subway stations, limestone mines, cooling towers of abandoned nuclear reactors, amusement parks, abandoned ships--all kinds of architectural detritus of the Industrial Age given unusual new life.<br />
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But if our imagined nomads are compelled to work on the urban periphery or in wilderness then they are faced with a new set of challenges and the requirement to create mobile superstructures that assume the roles of the urban superstructures they would have repurposed.<br />
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==Not-So-Urban Nomad==<br />
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Interestingly, while the work of Ken Isaacs with his Living Structures strongly influenced the emergence of an Urban Nomad movement in the late 1960s and early '70s, it was a very brief movement largely because it's image of the future failed to materialize. It was premised on the notion of imminent Post-Industrial collapse long anticipated across the '60s and the vision of a more sophisticated youth culture adopting a more-or-less seasonally nomadic way of life repurposing the detritus of the Industrial Age as the civilization re-wired itself. The economic collapse was postponed and, frankly, that sophisticated urban youth culture never emerged because, through runaway gentrification, the cities became untenable in their mid-century role as home of young adults entering the workforce, the market clued-into the tactic of co-opting youth culture by stealing it, re-packaging it, and selling it back to them, while a conspiracy of academia and the banking system began indenturing the young with life-long debt right out of school. So what we really ended up with, at least in the US, was a suburban youth culture where kids stayed at home with parents well into adulthood or formed tribes of friends to cohabitate in rented inner-suburban houses or low-rise apartment complexes while seeking commuter jobs like their parents.<br />
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So in his later work Isaacs started move away from the city too. He went out to the country and started experimenting with semi-nomadic microhousing deployed on the woods. I say 'semi-nomadic' because it was still based on the idea of a culture that traveled with the seasons but now they were leaving structures behind with the expectation that they would be intact when they returned. He developed a concept called 'mobilism' where, instead of investing in one heavily overbuilt house, people would create these small very minimalist dwellings in multiple places and travel between them with the seasons, rather like some herding folk or trappers who create support buildings in strategic places along their routine migration. The houses didn't need to be heavily insulated or equipped--they would each only be used in mild climate and the more valuable 'gear' would be moved between them. So it was sort of like urban nomadism without the city architecture to provide the superstructure. You were making that yourself and leaving it behind in a number of places.<br />
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You could say this was a sort of Modernist version of a Faerie Court lifestyle. In Celtic folklore the Faerie Court is always on the move. They're nature spirits, traveling across the landscape, doing their stuff to drive the cycles of the seasons. So, traveling in grand processions by night, they go from barrow mound to glen to grotto to ruins creating temporary, and normally invisible, palaces of the places they stop at. So these various permanent features of the landscape become the markers of stations of the cycle of their travels. It parallels, in ways, the nature of seasonal royal processions and the movement of noble courts among different seasonal palaces.<br />
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But there was one part of this idea that Isaacs never quite managed to make work. Originally, he described mobilism as employing minimalist structures as rugged as an anvil so they could survive through their unused seasons. He never quite managed to create that because, frankly, it meant heavy construction he couldn't do. For this idea to really work, your structures, though minimalist, need to be extremely resilient to weather and vandalism. (especially vandalism if they're on the suburban periphery. Young people there have a lot of frustration to vent and a chronic lack of spaces to call their own…) His experimental constructs of plywood and pipe-fitting systems weren't likely to survive a typical winter.<br />
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Taking a much heavier structural approach, our imagined nomads might explore this strategy by creating a series of free-standing single-storey pavilion structures in strategic countryside locations that assume the same function of the office building structures they would use in an urban environment. Imagine a series of simple bare Brutalist pavilions made of reinforced concrete (tridipanel for easiest construction), stacked stone, fired brick, gabions (building stone baskets), or even boulders and possibly employing various forms of earth-berming.<br />
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Since these would be purpose-built, the structures might include a grid of formed-in plug-in sockets like those used for climbing form systems or flush-mounted T-slot rails that provide built-in attachment points for quick-mount elements. These might also be used to close-up the structures with steel shutters when not in use. They might also include some utilities--wells and septic tanks in particular--and inserts for gas, wood, or pellet stoves. Internet connections may be more difficult to establish with such locations but long-distance bridge links may be a serviceable alternative to the poor value service of contemporary satellite ISPs. One unusual possible feature unique to this culture might be built-in 'dead drops'. These are embedded digital storage devices like flash drives that would be used to store some spime data and residents information. Sort of a digital guest book. These days they can even be wireless, since we not only have WiFi flash drives by WiFi power recovery to charge them. ( http://deaddrops.com/ )<br />
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These pavilions would take various forms; simple rectangles and polygons, circles, rings, or domes sized to accommodate many people in one multi-function structure or a cluster/compound of smaller structures of more specialized use and small groups.<br />
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During mild seasons, the pavilions would be inhabited just as the urban buildings were, using the same pod furnitecture and retrofit systems. When not in use, they would be stripped down and closed up, the community moving to other compounds with milder seasonal climate. If sufficiently secure, they might also serve as materials and data systems caches. This is actually an approach to architecture I have intended to use myself for my own low-toxic home--albeit with a more permanent enclosure and utilities installation. There is an endless variety of simple pavilion structures--many prefab--that can be easily turned into palatial homes with a little ingenuity. Relying on open-plan living and furnitecture eliminates the conventional interior finishing that is not only a major source of indoor chemical pollution but also the largest portion of housing construction cost.<br />
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The chief drawback of this approach is that, at present, the nomad community would ultimately need to own the land for these locations in order to build such structures. The community may be mobile, but this property and heavy structures put on it are not. But if that issue could be overcome, the approach would technically work.<br />
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==Pop-Up Microcity==<br />
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A more completely mobile approach, however, would require our nomads' architecture to move beyond pod-furnitecture to include the deployment of portable, demountable, superstructures to host them, which brings us back to the notion of a pop-up eco-village.<br />
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As noted earlier, skybreak shelters such as deployable tension roofs and tent-domes can work as hosts for the indoor village, functioning much the same as the proposed heavy pavilion shelters only lacking a ceiling and so relying mostly on free-standing elements. They would need level deck systems, but that's a standard feature for many existing event domes and pavilions. Thanks to modern materials, such structures can be as durable as any permanent buildings, be completely transparent, can integrate their own photovoltaic panels using flex-cells, and recently even EL paints have appeared allowing us to paint-on lighting. ( http://www.lumilor.com/ ) The critical limitation of these structures is that they are not modular (even though domes may have a modular framing system, their tent skins are not) and the larger their necessary enclosure area the larger their basic structural elements become, making them progressively more difficult to deploy. But as with the heavy pavilions, replicating multiple structures of a relatively large but still manageable size is a workable solution.<br />
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But can we do better? These skybreaks aren't quite as versatile or durable as the repurposed urban buildings we imagined our nomads inhabiting at first. They aren't volumetric and our village would be inclined to sprawl and fracture--to become more suburban. Even relatively modest sized tent covers could take many people to deploy or remove. Can we realize a more modular, urban, superstructure and still have it relatively easily demountable and transportable?<br />
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This is where the modular building systems I noted before come in; modular post & beam systems, space frame systems, and pavilion systems. They offer us two basic approaches to superstructure; a space-filling grid superstructure where our nomads' pod furnitecture evolves into a kind of plug-in architecture and a terraced superstructure that creates much the same kind of structure as the urban buildings. Both these things require--more-or-less--newly engineered modular building systems. There are no equivalents off-the-shelf, though some hardware that may be repurposed. But if kept relatively low in expected performance--let's say, limited to structures of about four storeys--they may be feasible near-term. Both of these also represent systems I've been trying to realize with the Utilihab project. So let me explain what these approaches are like.<br />
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A space-filling grid is a superstructure that uses some kind of space frame structure to fill space in a more-or-less regular volumetric grid. This might be based on a post & beam system or a triangulated space frame that creates some other kind of standard volumetric unit that can host a sizeable unit pod structure. (like nesting polyhedra networks, fractal 'sponges', and the like) This grid then supports habitable structures as retrofit attachments to this grid--systems of cabin pods, cabin 'bay' modules, and deck panels. Utilities systems may run internal to the space frame elements or be likewise retrofit. The space frame is generally exposed, requiring pod elements to be independently weatherproofed, but can also be enclosed by an exterior skin/panel system or retrofit roofing systems.<br />
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A simple example of this approach is illustrated by Ken Isaac's designs using pipe-fitting systems for his early 'mobilist' experiments.<br />
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Here he used a pipe-fitting system as an exposed post & beam space frame resting on small cement pads. Stressed skin plywood cabin units and deck pallet modules simply fit in the open space and attach to the frame. At the modest scale of these designs--unit ~1.5m cubed--this supposedly worked well though the cabin modules were not large enough to stand up in unless designed for vertical orientation. To overcome this limitation, whole or large parts of the space frame could be enclosed by an external plywood skin, leaving more 'headroom' in the open framing.<br />
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Others have more recently attempted the same structural approach at a larger scale. This example looks to be using around a 2.5m grid, which looks much more convenient but was probably not as sturdy.<br />
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Isaacs imagined this grid being incrementally expanded to fairly large complexes flowing over the terrain and, by the mobilism model, this frame hardware was intended to be left behind in seasonal migration. He considered his plywood constructions largely disposable. It's hard to imagine such very light structures as surviving well on their own. And pipe-fitting systems, even though a little bit improved today, rely on the friction of locking screws to hold everything together and so aren't the safest way to build things. Anything more than two levels is probably pushing it. But this is a good illustration. There are many things that can work similarly at this modest scale; modular industrial shelving, stacking post pallets ( http://www.palletower.com/images/product_images/up603p1.jpg ), plastic and aluminum pallets modified to attach support posts (like a giant version of plastic shelving http://www.pensito.eu/custom-made-plastic/custom-plastic-pallets/images/custom/01_CMP/cmp-custom-plastic-pallet-01.jpg ), on and on. I find the market of industrial materials handing products endlessly fascinating, even if much of it is rather specialized.<br />
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==Space Grid City==<br />
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But a practical system for our nomads--something large enough to be truly livable and functional for mobile production activity--would probably be much larger in scale and employ a much more substantial rigidly connected structural system even at the cost of higher mass. Let's say a space frame grid in something approximating 2.5-3m cubed. That would give us a very useful basic 'pod' size.<br />
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Utilihab is intended to produce just these kinds of structures using extruded aluminum T-slot framing. It's intended to use a bay size of up to 3m height in box units up to 6m square and with a load capacity supporting many storeys. The catch with it has been a lack of off-the-shelf T-slot profiles up to the ideal size of 150-200mm square. Very recently, however, a Chinese company may have just begun production of a profile of this size, though using a propriety connector.<br />
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http://www.quadranthouse.com/#/the-system/4533281076<br />
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There's a possibility that this could be very competitive in cost to US and European T-slot products because it's intended for building, not applications with an 'executive premium' attached. So we can now potentially build box frame grid complexes of quite large size using components that can be handled by very few people with convenient T-slot attachment all over their frame surfaces for convenient retrofit. This would be an excellent way to create a pop-up eco-village. Everything we can imagine could be easily integrated to this kind of grid structure. Weatherproof cabins could be made to generous size using walled tent schemes or panelized systems could be used for enclosure. Modular roofing systems could be employed. No question that this would be a more expensive, elaborate, and labor-intensive construction than the much simpler indoor village, but would all be easily demountable and use very few tools. The drawback is that, collectively, it's still a lot of hardware to transport from place to place. This would be much more involved than moving portable pods on wheels from place to place. We're probably talking shipping containers and conventional trucks to move this around. And, while it would be potentially very weather-resilient, it would still not be something one would want to leave on its own in the wilderness when not in use.<br />
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==Pavilion City==<br />
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The pavilion system approach is a more high-tech approach and at present no off-the-shelf structural system approximates it except, perhaps, some space frame systems. The basic idea is to use modular elements to create a deck and column system for terraced construction, producing a superstructure much like the conventional urban building but with much lighter materials and thus limited to fewer storeys. And because this is purpose-designed, the surface of the structure would be intended to support quick plug-in attachment of all the functional elements we would want to retrofit to it.<br />
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Conventional triangulated space frame systems can accomplish this by using a space-filling geometry to fill-out the forms of flat decks and systems of columns supporting them. There are, however, some caveats with this approach, as I noted before. Keeping these space frames to a modest scale of complexity means using relatively large module sizes. This makes for rather bulky structures, as illustrated by the floor deck of this old instant house concept with a module size of something around 2m;<br />
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One could reduce the deck thickness by using shorter members, but this has the drawback of creating many different parts sizes. You want to keep things to few different strut lengths when there are so many parts. This is why we tend to see these used only in very large span structures, and not often using the space frame for support columns. But that's what we would want in this case. We would want to have generous free span areas to roll our indoor village systems into. We're making things on the scale of a low-rise office building. So, as bulky as this is, with a simple space frame system with a module size half to fourth the intend storey height and which we could also use for domes, it could potentially work. We can then use a drop-in floor system based on deck panels that mount to 'hand' supports plugging into the top of the space frame nodes--like like a data center raised floor system. Roofing would work similarly.<br />
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There is, however, another way to go with space frames if we can work with a relatively large maximum strut length (4m) and a somewhat odd floor geometry. Previously I noted the Min-A-Max and Universal Node System space frame geometries developed by architect Peter Pierce. These have the unique capability of integrating, with the same set of parts, a deck truss system supported largely by triangulated perimeter structure and additional vertical internal struts. You can imagine this as being like a geodesic dome which has the ability to integrate a series of truss decks within and supported by it. To do this structures must assume a specific overall form that is compatible with this deck truss geometry. The deck system for Min-A-Max is called the 'tetrahex truss' and forms a series of hexagonal units with an equilateral triangle grid along its plane surfaces. To be stable this must integrate into a stable, triangulated, polyhedral shape and the largest of these is a truncated octahedron.<br />
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Imagine you divided this shape into three horizontal sections. Here's a 3D puzzle toy that illustrated these sections, as well as giving you an idea of what this shape would be like made of triangulated struts;<br />
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Thus divided you get two kinds of volumes; a large equatorial volume and a smaller polar volume. And you also get two kinds plane surfaces; a hexagon and a truncated triangle. These planes match the shapes we can make with the tetrahex truss.<br />
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Truncated octahedrons are space-filling.<br />
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This is why they've been proposed as the basis of space stations and cluster microhouses--like N55's take on Ken Isaacs' LEM like microhouse;<br />
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But take any nested combination of truncated dodecahedrons and you can divide them by these same horizontal sections, creating a series of parallel planes with a tiling pattern of hexagons and truncated triangles. By triangulating their perimeter you make a self-stable system of decks. A pavilion system.<br />
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We can elaborate this geometry further. The truncated tetrahedron and cuboctahedron derive from the same geometry and, in combination with the truncated octahedron form a space-filling system that likewise divides into the same set of horizontal planes. This is where the more complicated shapes of UNS structures comes from. And, again, N55 have speculated on microhousing uses of this.<br />
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But for simplicity sake, I think the truncated octahedron system alone suits our ends.<br />
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In Min-A-Max, the truncated octahedron can be stabilized by either 'planar' triangulation--triangles along the plane of the faces--or 'domical' triangulation approximating a sphere. Consequently, the two kinds of tetrahex truss planes can be formed into shallow domes. So we can make two standard tension fabric roof shell units to cover any stacked tessellated combination. (assuming we can figure out how to waterproof the edges they meet at) These would also serve as functional solitary dome units.<br />
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We don't need to worry about covering the whole surface of the structure with panels for enclosure. We just need to fit vertical panels surrounding a hexagonal prism volume in the center of each section unit. Theres a hexagonal prism volume running through each section of the truncated octahedron, defining the basic functional unit space.<br />
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Clearly, the geometry of these structures is complex and one key drawback of that is floor and ceiling systems that use equilateral triangle panels. Many people idealize triangles and hexagons, but from a fabrication standpoint they're a bit cumbersome and wasteful when most stock panel materials are produced in rectangular sheets. Be that as it may, our nomad's use of pod furnitecture makes the larger topology of a structure largely irrelevant. They are going to use this space in an open-plan fashion and so as long as the space is generous enough to let them setup their furnitecture freely, it works.<br />
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But is there yet a simpler way to go about this? Maybe, but it may require even more advanced fabrication than these space frame systems would.<br />
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As noted before, Utilihab is intended to evolve into a more advanced pavilion building system. It's current incarnation as a post & beam frame & panel system is a compromise, relying on aluminum T-slot framing because the industry for its production is already established worldwide. The common problem with modular building systems of the past has always been convincing Capital of the existence of a market for something new--and so anything truly new is virtually impossible. This is the chief reason why no modular architectural building system developed in the 20th century ever succeeded commercially. But as I noted, I've always been obsessed with the idea of PC-like housing and so my dream has been to develop a 'plug & play' architecture based on 'smart' components with integrated sensors and utilities that reduced the labor and complexity of construction to as low as possible--short of having a house assemble itself.<br />
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So imagine an open frame cube of high performance alloy, one meter cubed. It might be triangulated and in fabrication it might be made of multiple parts. Some versions might even be collapsable. Some might comprise sets of modules to make construction quicker. But it's engineered to function as a monolithic unit. Its edges are flat and flush, with the exception that along the faces it has an attachment system. Maybe a grid of sockets or a channel like T-slot framing. There may also be a formed-in volume of foam providing thermal, sound, and fire insulation, such as Airkrete. Each unit has integral mechanical connectors near the corners that are engaged with a hand-operated mechanism or some simple tool. They also feature integral utilities channels and connectors or, at least, mounts for supporting them and a single-chip sensor node with temperature, moisture, stress, and load sensors. These units are mass-produced. They are the primary building element for this system.<br />
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To build a home with these you first install a foundation, possibly using concrete piers, and attach your first cubes to them and level and align them with a laser level tool. Then you start attaching more, place on against the other and engaging their integral connectors to lock them together. You continue until you have a complete floor deck in the outline of the first floor level. This functions as a two-way planar truss. It is the 'backplane' of the house. Some special modules may be designed with special features or serve to 'anti-alias' the profile of the floor deck so you can use rounded corners, make circular deck shapes, or have flowing contour-terraces.<br />
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As you connect the modules you are also connecting their sensors into a live sensor web that is linked to a home WiFi network. So, using a modeling application, you can see on a PDA or tablet a model of the house as you assemble it. It might show the planned form of the house so as to guide your through assembly, but it's also showing the structural integrity of the building as its assembled, showing you what is safe and unsafe to add and where you might need temporary supports as you work.<br />
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Once you complete you're first deck plane you now begin to plug-in supports for the upper deck. These would include temporary jack posts and permanent columns in various styles and designs (trust me, tikis will make a come-back) or they may include modular furniture (usually shelving and cabinet systems) or even appliances reinforced to be load-bearing elements. They are all designed to suit the 1m module grid so you slide these into place where you want them and then engage the same kind of connecting mechanism and lock them into deck. Some may have integral wheels or low-friction slides to assist their movement. These may have the same utilities and sensor web interfaces as the deck modules so as soon as they are connected, they're 'on-line' and will appear in the house modeling app. With enough of these in place, you can now start snapping together deck blocks for the next level. Repeat as needed until you get to the roof deck atop which you plug-in a modular flat roofing panel system. You now can plug in non-load-bearing window-wall and pre-finished partition panels into the floor grid, creating a full enclosure. Finally, you plug in outdoor surface and deck tiles/panels, maybe outdoor hydroponic plant bed panels (imagine pre-seeded polymide felt panels that grow moss instead of grass) and indoor floor and ceiling tiles/panels or put down a plug-in plank system and your building is complete. From here the building app now functions as a home control system and continuous monitor of the structure's integrity, sensing failures and tracking environmental performance. This could form the basis of a live spime web for the building and all its elements. Everything in the structure remains demountable. You can take it all apart as easily as it was put together, re-arrange and ad this in-situ, and the structural modeling app will always tell you what's safe to put where. It will even let you model changes before you do them so you could play with the architecture like building houses in The Sims and download models of items to try out before you buy them or have them made.<br />
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Using low-profile deck modules, this system would readily retrofit into other structures, giving them a new backplane for the system's many modular parts and accessories.<br />
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Can such a building system be produced today, as an open building system? Maybe. But it would be a very sophisticated project. The deck and column system would need to be exceptionally strong and capable of at least several storeys height. But it would probably be the greatest advance to housing technology since the invention of the fired brick. Buildings of most any relatively modest size would become one-person tasks. A simple cottage home could be built by one person in a matter of hours. Just like the PC, a whole new global industry of parts would develop, competing horizontally while integrating vertically just like the PC's industrial ecology.<br />
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With such a system at-hand our imagined nomads could build--using lighter versions of some of these components--very sophisticated yet completely portable structures of most any size anywhere. Their pod furnitecture would evolve into plug-in load-bering elements for this system. Simply by arranging them on their own foundation jacks and plugging in deck modules around them they would create a sheltered habitat. But I fear this may be much too sophisticated a building technology to pursue for our immediate plans. Still, it's fun to imagine.<br />
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So there is my attempt at visualizing what this project might be like. Maybe some of these ideas are of use.<br />
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==4D Printing - Logic Matter==<br />
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Skyler Tibbits' concepts are really intriguing. At first glance my feeling was that this was something with huge potential, but all very distant. But the more I saw the more it seemed like there were some possibilities for demonstrating experimental architectural-scale structure in the here and now if we rely on relatively simple designs. If I'm interpreting this correctly, the general building system he proposes as Logic Matter is like a chain of blocks--self-linking or carried on a cable--that are picked up from a packing/transport configuration and then dropped into place on a cable using the energy from gravity to compel them to fall, nest, and link in the desired 3D orientation. 3D structures are thus 'knit' together like a rigid amigurumi figure. The cartoon in his larger paper on this shows a crane being used to load and drop blocks. Presumably, the crane is roughly following the 'knitting path' of the linking blocks to keep them falling vertically while at the top is a towing mechanism. Programming of the blocks seems to be done in their packed configuration--implying an integral electronics--or this might be achieved by a mechanism on the crane. Either the blocks rely on their nesting topology for rigid interconnection or some integral bonding or locking mechanism is also used.<br />
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So what we basically have is a space-filling structural system based on a more-or-less solid module. A kind of 'brick' structure that doesn't need human hands to lay the bricks.<br />
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How well can this space filling geometry approximate the useful shapes we want for a structure? This relates to my comment you noted earlier. This space filling geometry would be the 'microstructure' I eluded to. The building form is the 'macrostructure'. The larger the modules of the microstructure--or shall we say the lower the system's 'resolution'--the more the macrostructure is limited to paralleling the topology of the microstructure. Conversely, the smaller the microstructure modules the more it can approximate any desired macrostructure topology but with the compromise of increasing the number of parts. Previously, I had noted this in the context of labor. It's a hassle to manually assemble structures that need a lot of parts. But since we're automating that, the issue is now the general size of module we need to achieve a useful structural performance relative to the production costs and methods of the modules. That then determines the limit in effective 'resolution' of the structure and the range of building forms we can use. Tibbits implies a relatively small module size/high resolution (maybe soccer ball sized sized and smaller?), which means many tens of thousands--maybe hundreds of thousands--of units in something the size of a conventional house. Their production would need to be highly automated, cheap, and reliable.<br />
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What materials can we use? The larger the module size the more materials options we have but also the more complex and labor-based fabrication becomes. The smaller the module the more limited our choice of practical materials and the more things favor automated processes like injection molding. Imagine the cost of a house if, by equivalent volume, you were making it from the same materials we use in the typical 3D printer. (not to mention the time that currently takes) It could be astronomical. This is why Tibbits was rotomolding his experimental blocks. But most people would not be interested in a house made out of plastic. (even if, frankly, that's pretty much what the modern suburban house increasingly is. Plastic and high-tech papier mache...) They might tolerate structural foams, but are they strong enough? How about cast/injection molded wood composite? Milled alloys would also be problematic, even if we're relying on milling machines. It would really demand a process like injection molding, which largely limits us to aluminum. (injection molded glass-alloys is probably too exotic a process to work with near-term) High performance ceramic is likely a very good choice, especially if we used a two-stage process creating a foamed core to lighten the block and make them more insulating, but its still potentially expensive. CEB is probably too brittle, too irregular without a highly refined source material, and would need a large, heavy, block size to accommodate the topological features of these Logic Matter shapes. Concrete would probably have similar issues, though geopolymer could be much better because of its higher density and more ceramic-like properties. Would bio-stabilized sandstone do better? Any other possible materials?<br />
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How strong and rigid must the interface between assembled modules be, especially if we are using this to make floor decks? This could be a critical problem for putting this concept into practice. The same problem has also hampers modular/cellular robotics. Either the blocks rely on some aspect of their nested topology to achieve a rigid connection or they must have some other, automatic, means of sticking strongly together. At a relatively small unit block size as implied, automatic mechanical connections become difficult. There are some new possibilities, like magnetically driven screws that have recently come to market in the furniture industry;<br />
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http://www.lamello.com/en/home/join-wood/invis-mx-system/system-advantages.html<br />
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But it's still difficult to deliver sufficient energy for such mechanisms to many small elements, especially if deeply buried in the structure. Building-in a motor to drive such mechanisms would be impractical unless the modules were very large and, consequently, expensive. Tibbits' prototype Logic Matter blocks are completely passive objects that rely on orientation to program the basic assembly modules. (physical NAND gates) They have no bonding/linking mechanism and rely on human labor. Useful as a way to study the information/computing theory of the concept, but you can't make anything useful with this. So we'd have to reduce this to practice with a functional block of new design.<br />
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How do we finish such structures and integrate utilities? Obviously, these would not be waterproof structures by themselves, though they might be weather-resistant. They would need separate roofing and cladding materials which, ideally, sync-up with the module topology to allow them to be modularized. Can we integrate things like radiant floor heating? Is there interstitial space to route wiring and cables?<br />
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If this is possible near-term, I think we're probably relying on a rather larger scale of block and pretty simple architectural forms. Dome-like forms or pavilion structures where everything else is largely independent of the main free-standing structure leaving relatively large free-span spaces for open-plan use. This may generally be limited to single floor structures at first, but such minimalist forms could well exploit the topology of the building system aesthetically because there may be no broad load-bearing walls to cover-up, just floor and ceiling. I personally consider open-plan pavilion-based housing to be the most practical form of free-standing housing anyway, in part because there are so many ways you can create a self-supporting roof structure and many kinds of hardware that can be repurposed for that. There's an old Polynesian saying that a good roof and a good floor make a good house. Notice the lack of 'walls' in that…<br />
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So this does seem possible, but it's so new we would definitely be in uncharted territory working with it. It could certainly garner a lot of attention, though, if we could come up with a nominally functional system.<br />
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More at-hand possibilities may lay in systems employing robotics with larger structural elements. Tibbits notes the problem with the commonly seen modular/cellular robots as a building system. They generally have a very high overhead in integral mechanical systems and electronics relative to the volume of structure they can make, which means a large manufacturing overhead and an astronomically high building cost per square meter. But there are ways this can be ameliorated, leveraging active hardware over much larger areas of structure.<br />
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I've long been interested in construction automation, both for use in space and for domestic uses. Unable to employ much sweat equity in building myself, I've long been interested in the idea of building the machines that might build for me. One concept that I've wanted to explore was self-assembling space frame systems based on a scheme devised by designer Scott Howe;<br />
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http://www.plugin-creations.com/us/ash/research/projects/proj33/project.htm<br />
http://www.plugin-creations.com/us/ash/research/projects/proj33/summary.pdf<br />
http://www.plugin-creations.com/us/ash/design/projects/proj35/project.htm<br />
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Howe has spent a long time exploring construction automation and self-constructing structures, but usually with machines and components of very large scale. In this Trigon system, developed with NASA, he got down to a much more modest scale that seems accessible to possible hobbyist experimentation while still producing structures of significant size. In this system a panel-type space frame consists of simple modular robots with powered hinge and linking mechanisms on their edges allowing them to climb over each other by flipping themselves and alternately attaching and detaching to assemble themselves into rigid structures. Connected units would form a distributed power and data bus. This is a potentially easy machine to make as a combination of two flat plates (wood, aluminum, composite) with active components sandwiched between them. It could be sized such that a relatively modest number of units would make up structures of significant scale. Many kinds of functional elements could be integrated into the center space of the frame panels; quick-attachment mounts, lighting, fans, speakers, displays, solar panels, sensors, WiFi nodes, and so on.<br />
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Howe also proposed a Cubolding system based on similar but cube-shaped units;<br />
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http://www.plugin-creations.com/us/ash/research/projects/proj32/project.htm<br />
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Here each cube is outfit with automatic corner connectors and internal actuators that push cube units forward or turn them over corners. Sets or trains of cubes traverse the surface of structures in inch-worm fashion. This strategy could be employed with either mechanisms integral to every cube or using a robot that can move inside and between the hollow cubes. This makes for structures with more rigid connections but the articulation needed is more elaborate.<br />
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These kinds of systems would be very entertaining to watch in demonstration and would make for a very valuable venue of robotics research. They could make just the setup of an exhibition a very interesting event. But, by themselves, they probably can't serve as resilient housing and probably aren't going to be strong enough to support the loads of multi-floor buildings. They would need additional materials that, right now, would end up being put on by hand. It wouldn't be terribly difficult. If you're producing simple self-standing enclosure forms like domes, pre-made outer tent skins and plug-in foam and cloth interior panels. Unless you're dealing with a structure that has to be dismantled, moved, and redeployed very frequently it's hard to justify the cost of so much active hardware in every component, even if this system leverages it more than other cellular robots. You need to be getting a fairly large amount of shelter area relative to the unit hardware investment. Still, even if they have a long way to go, they would be fun to explore and would have a lot of visual impact. And if we are talking about a festival sort of exhibition, maybe we are taking things apart and moving them frequently enough to justify this approach.<br />
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But if we're talking about nomadic/temporary structures that are easy to fabricate and set examples for other people to follow and use, self-assembling and robotic systems may be overkill. We can save human labor by much simpler means. Technically, there is no reason building comfortable, attractive, and resilient housing isn't already as easy as assembling office partitions other than the fear of the impact on design from standardization and because it suits the interests of banks for housing to be as expensive as possible. (no banker is going to get rich on housing people can build for themselves in hours or days--which is why it was necessary for the mobile home to become 'damned' architecture) It would seem to make more sense to leverage technology and design on high performance structures with the elimination of skill in assembly to leverage modest human labor--the same logic of PC parts. If we're talking about something on the scale of a small village, we're not likely building things so big and complex that it really compels automation--as fun as that certainly may be to explore as experiment.<br />
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I think we could readily meet the needs of a pop-up village project with some combination of three types of open building systems;<br />
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Aa post and beam framing system using structural members light enough for one person to carry but capable of supporting structures of up to three stories and spans of around 6 meters. (which is what Utilihab is designed as)<br />
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A pavilion system based on a modular planar/deck truss plug-in 'backplane' serving as both floor and roof deck. (what Utilihab is expected to evolve into by second or third generation)<br />
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And a high-performance ball-socket-node space frame system supporting both relatively short and long strut lengths for truss and enclosure uses. (alternately, a plate dome system could serve, since primary uses would be for enclosures/skybreaks)<br />
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All these would ideally feature tool-less or few-tool assembly and employ pre-finished plug-in/snap-on/bolt-on panel systems. These things would not only meet our project needs, they could revolutionize housing in general--no other high-tech required.<br />
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With such easy assembly of basic structure, a nomadic architecture would differ from more permanent architecture largely by choice of materials. Yurts and walled tents can define our basic approach, though these systems afford us much larger and more diverse shapes than the traditional forms. Current architectural fabrics and membranes (ETFE, PTFE) offer vastly greater performance, resilience, and duty life than typical tent materials and can function well even for permanent structures. (I'd avoid anything with PVC, though…) We now have flex-cell PVs that can be integrated with these materials, allowing tension roofs to function as quickly deployable solar power systems. ( http://www.ifaipublications.com/iaa/repository/8/9534/large_2914_369_1280.jpg ) Felts used in living wall systems can also integrate with these materials to make temporary living structures. And we now even have paint-on EL lighting. ( http://www.lumilor.com/ ) Lighter alternatives to alloys for structure could also be used in this mobile context, particularly FRP, wood composites, and the like.<br />
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The nomadic context also offers potential for exploring another, more specialized, structural technology; soft architecture. This is something I often discuss in the context of 'furnitecture' and as the basis of deployable dwellings in large microgravity space habitat environments. (think somewhat larger versions of Japanese capsule hotel units made out of fabric and foam that plug into open space frame core structures of a large space habitat--space frames which can also double as host for hydroponics, hence the notion of 'urban tree' habitats) Basically, it's soft-sculpture technique applied to the creation of modest semi-rigid shelters using insertable light framing, modular structural foam, or inflatable elements. An easy visualization is to imagine those hut-shaped pet beds made of foam and fabric increased to the size of human-scale furniture or, larger still, a traditional yurt. Such structures offer much more resilient, highly sound and thermal insulated, and easier to setup shelter than traditional tents with many possibilities for novel integral features, integral furniture, and the like. The compromise is that they are potentially bulkier than tents depending on the nature of insert elements. New compressible memory foams offer interesting possibilities for this.<br />
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Another technology more specific to the nomadic context is the use of pneumatic frame structures offering some advantages over conventional space frames. These use high-pressure inflatable elements as alternatives to the usual struts of a space frame and can be fashioned to suit 'gridshell' systems or, with a larger parts count, more modular conventional space frame geometries. ( http://www.planex-gmbh.de/air-supported-membrane.html ) Unlike more typical inflatable shelters, these systems do not need continuous power for pressurization and with some modern elastomerics pressurized struts can support such high internal pressures they can approximate the strength of wood or aluminum. Pressurized corrugated membranes have long been speculated as an eventual alternative to glass windows. (since materials like ETFE are more transparent than glass) The concept has been applied at small scale to support systems for conventional tents ( http://heimplanet.com/ ) and some off-the-shelf versions of this technology have appeared offering very multi-functional pavilion forms. ( http://www.bec.es/imagenes/estructuras-hinchables/estructura-neumatica-hinchable-pileri/estructura-neumatica-hinchable-pileri-F03.jpg )<br />
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Technologies like these seem to offer more near-term possibilities, even if they might not seem as cutting edge as the idea of programmable matter. And, as long as we rely on largely modular design, there are any number of ways we can 'tag' large collective structures for spime tracking and the creation of semantic webs around them. That's basically what a 'spime' is, isn't it? Semantic webs for things and their designs that link to those physical things by the software used to create them (output) and by various means of digital tagging, use and activity logging, or integral networked information gathering. (feedback)<br />
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Eric Hunting<br />
erichunting@gmail.com<br />
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==Business Models==<br />
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I'm fine with your sharing the discussion. Please feel free to share any of my material with anyone you think might be interested. We need to network to build up interest and support for a project.<br />
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I think you have the right idea about approaching business models. We should think about that as a means of making the development self-perpetuating rather than merely generating profit, which keeping designs open and on-line will go a long way toward doing. There's much potential here for entrepreneurship on the small scale. I see these nomadic communities as much as incubators of small business as social groups and working in a cooperative manner as you suggest provides the kind of pooling of resources that makes small business activity accessible. Some things are still expensive. A laser cutter is still a several thousand dollars and up proposition. A flatbed CNC that can work with real building materials is still a $10,000-$20,000 proposition. These are going to be shared resources. So the approach you suggest makes perfect sense. I see this as much like the early days of the 'dot-com' boom when 99% of Capital didn't even know what the internet was and so the young frontier web developers were pooling personal resources as small tribes, buying/leasing net connections and buildings for their communal data centers that they sometimes also lived in, and incubating that whole industry in a cooperative manner.<br />
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The one challenge we face may be that the people we are usually trying to reach are somewhat averse to 'business as usual', so-to-speak, and to discussions of money. We will need to demonstrate that cooperative nature of our approach very clearly. Scratch-building key tools--things like the flatbed CNC--as group projects making a group resource, as opposed to just pooling money and buying them, might be an important part of that. Of course, we also want such tools to be much more mobile than they usually are, which creates another incentive for developing 'custom' forms of them.<br />
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Eric Hunting<br />
erichunting@gmail.com<br />
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==Spimed Space for Spimed Housing==<br />
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in a Venture Cooperative Commons Approach ?<br />
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Eric's Reply :<br />
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This looks like a good synergy of ideas. It establishes a positive role for the nomadic community as far as property owners are concerned while, working as a cooperative rather than a for-profit corporation, it overcomes the many abuses associated with anti-squatting companies as that video you noted detailed. The use of furnitecture eases the hardship and stress of necessary mobility in temporary renting while facilitating the habitation of buildings that normally wouldn't be suited to residence. The mobile farming capability and use of solar/wind power also puts a green spin on things that would appeal to many. Why not turn an office building into a clean temporary farm until the commercial space market improves? I think some companies and municipalities would really go for that idea. There would, of course, be some potential conflict with the militant squatting movement that sees all property owners as adversaries and class oppressors, but they're not interested in the sort of buildings the nomads would use anyway. One could develop a pretty good business model on this.<br />
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This anti-squat temporary rental is an interesting phenomenon that doesn't exist anywhere in the US--and would probably be prone to even more heinous abuse here if it were. (we can't even get a handle on pay-day loan usery rackets here) Here squatters rights were abandoned and attempts by organized squatters to reclaim and restore slums have been met by mass police violence. In the '80s a highly organized squatters movement in NYC engaged in a large scale restoration of buildings that had fallen into ownership by the city as their slum-lord owners abandoned them. Shortly after being elected, the right-wing mayor Rudy Giuliani sent in military vehicles to evict the squatters, willing to destroy the buildings and kill people rather than allow illegal occupancy. He later made a bid for the presidency… There may simply not be enough reasonableness in American culture to allow for things like this unless a community used the mobilism approach I described to buy or build their own collection of shared properties. However, there does exist an industry in 'house sitting' that markets its services to the very wealthy--people who have multiple houses they only spend certain seasons living in and have house sitters guard for them when they are away.<br />
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There's also an interesting phenomenon of perpetual camping here. In some national parkland areas people are allowed to camp for as much as several months at a time each year and so travel from park to park. This has become popular with some retirees who invest in huge recreational vehicles and trailer/caravans rather than conventional homes. In a few cases these folks buy rural property to build a large well-furnished garage that they winter-over in, living in their RV inside the garage for a season then spending the rest of the year on the road. In the '90s there developed an 'Airstreaming' craze based on the resurgent popularity of the old Airstream brand of steel skinned trailers. A regular cycle of Airstream encampments were organized around the country so the, typically retired, community of Airstream owners could move from one to another all year long. This once led me to suggest the fanciful notion that, with the advent of self-driving vehicles, might come an attempt by some people to live a truly mobile existence in self-driving RVs that run in cyclic routes on the nation's highways. One might have a conventional job and be dropped-off and picked up from work by one's continually traveling self-driving home. Various on-the-road services might be offered by the self-driving vehicles synching up through wireless networking and temporarily docking together on the road. Not exactly practical, of course, without some miraculous cheap source of energy but an amusing idea. Some years later, a European proposal for repurposing the rail system to support large RV-like personal rapid transit cabs picked up on the idea of on-the-move services with cars that would dock along parallel tracks to deliver food and other goods ordered on-line.<br />
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Sorry for the slow pace of replies. Been dealing with dental work--which is usually as primitive as it is over-priced here--and local wildfires whose smoke has me feeling poorly lately. Went into town for my weekly shopping and it looked like the planet Mars with all the smoke hanging over Santa Fe. Big change for a place where you can sometimes almost read by the starlight.<br />
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Dante's suggestion that Eric replied to :<br />
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Life on the go / Lifestyle / Sharing Economy / Tribes<br />
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using : <br />
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Legal Frameworks ( Cooperatives, Mitshauser Syndikat , ... )<br />
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http://www.expatica.com/nl/housing/where_to_live/Dutch-anti_squatting-business-thrives-amid-economic-crisis-_14201.html<br />
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Dutch anti-squatting business thrives amid economic crisis<br />
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Guido, a penniless student, could hardly believe his luck when offered lodging in the heart of Amsterdam at a fraction of the going rate -- a boon thanks to the credit crunch as property owners desperately fend off squatters.<br />
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London : http://www.tntmagazine.com/lifestyle-career/property/the-legal-squatters-find-alternative-cheap-rental-options-in-london<br />
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While avoiding or taking into account the risks of it's excesses in a corporate form :<br />
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http://vimeo.com/9649993<br />
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fluid versions of Sakura House<br />
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Japan / Tokyo <br />
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http://www.sakura-house.com/en/<br />
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==Fungibility and Customization==<br />
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I imagine that all become spimes.<br />
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The space in itself becomes a spime, as the space can change location.<br />
And the components that are used within the spimed space, can themselves be spimed objects assembled and re-assembled in modular ways, for various functions.<br />
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Or in other words, all becomes "virtualized", with potentials for engagements and resources being requested or made available , transformed, created based on combinations of potentially fungible units ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility )<br />
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And by enabling so, as I remember vaguely from system sciences that a system can not take control on a system more complex then itself,<br />
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it enables a simple complexity approach giving participants stigmergic forms of resilience.<br />
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==Tracking of Spimed Components, Fungibility and Tokenization for Online Market Place==<br />
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Some software tools ( such as this one , in development https://github.com/automenta/netentionjs2 ) <br />
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can also be used to keep track of components, as to re-use components more easily based on contextualized needs and available resources.<br />
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This enabling specific standard components to be fungible / interchangeable , hence not needing to carry them over space, or store them over time, as they can be tokenized and swapped on a online market place -<br />
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=="Light" vs "Heavy" Nomadism ?==<br />
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the following I would characterize as "heavy(er)" nomadism ( use of a lot of energy ) :<br />
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"RV's"<br />
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Light(er)weight nomadism using information instead of energy,<br />
optimising the use of contextual knowledge and resources.<br />
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For example,<br />
Instead of moving stuff, using locally available materials.<br />
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One approach can be, providing a spread out movement,<br />
a market for fungible components that can be assembled in different ways, without needing to move the materials / components across space.<br />
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==Collaborative Collective Convergence Space==<br />
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[[Dante]] personally wishes to move on further on this project, with anyone interested.<br />
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A first step may be to prototype basic components.<br />
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I personally have not yet existing CAD design skills, but can learn fast.<br />
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I see a priority to enable a convergence of people in the form of a collective living space.<br />
I want to work on a legal framework to cover the living costs of a collaborative / collective project space. ( actually a friend may already be setting one up )<br />
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==Links==<br />
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On Apr 15, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson wrote:<br />
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and more on Skylar Tibbits , and towards 1 to 4 dimensional ( self ) assembly,<br />
and 4d printing ;)<br />
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and a more recent presentation :<br />
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gMCZFHv9v8<br />
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http://selfassemblylab.net/<br />
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http://sjet.us/<br />
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http://architecture.mit.edu/faculty/skylar-tibbits<br />
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https://twitter.com/SkylarTibbits<br />
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com> wrote:<br />
and more on logic matter - self guided assembly<br />
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Logic matter: digital logic as heuristics for physical self-guided ...<br />
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Logic Matter - SJET<br />
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Logic Matter: Digital Logic as heuristics for physical self-guided-assembly. Given the increasing complexity of the physical structures surrounding our everyday ...<br />
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==Further conversations with Eric==<br />
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===Reply to Light , Fungible, Durable , Modular Low Energy Nomadic Living Structures===<br />
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Yes. I think that's a good way to describe it. I think the RV and trailer home represents a far point on a sort of four cornered or two axis spectrum of mobility. The one corner, where the RV is, is the whole housing nomadism corner. You're dragging around a whole house. Rich in stuff. High in energy use. Let's say this is 'south' corner of our spectrum.<br />
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Then the west end is the corner of totally made-on-demand nomadism. Rich in stuff, but everything is made from what you find locally or bought off a local marketplace and discarded when you move somewhere else. We haven't discussed this aspect of nomadism much because it looks like how suburban people already typically live. People go someplace and they buy a house there off the 'housing market' or have it built to suit and sell it when they move someplace else. In fact, they technically try to exchange their life-long debt on one property for another, hopefully without losing any 'value'. They just don't seem to move with any great frequency so we don't call that nomadism. Yet, compelled mostly by the vicissitudes of corporate jobs, people actually move more frequently today than ever since we adopted agrarianism. This mortgage financing system was designed--along with the 'tradition' of the nuclear family--to facilitate a mobile workforce. It's the cost and 'hassle' in this process and its external motivation by employers, rather than self-motivation, that limits this. But let's say you had a robust programmable matter technology and 3D printing capability. The means to build, with almost no labor, a whole house and its furnishing in a couple of hours and recycle it back into stock material in about that same amount of time. Suddenly, this looks very nomadic, though it's probably the highest energy mode of nomadism even if you have high recyclability. This points out the fact that what defines nomadism may be less about the technology of shelter and more about the nature of a self-determined way of life.<br />
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Our eastern end is Mobilism. The mode of nomadism that is rich in stuff but little of it is mobile or personally owned. Rather, it's left in place and reused by whoever is passing through at any time. You could call this 'hotel nomadism'. This is a generally low energy lifestyle, though the non-mobile elements are likely high-energy in creation in order to give them resilience when uninhabited. Ken Isaacs defined Mobilism in terms of dividing the stuff of a personal habitat into heavy, modest personal value, resilient stuff that you would leave in place to fate and the elements and lighter more easily moved, more personally valuable items that you would take with you one place to another. In his Post-Industrial futurist book Bolo, author P.M. defined a similar lifestyle. His vision of the future was a world of village/town/city communities and if you were going to live in one of them you had to integrate into its society. To facilitate this every bolo community would set aside space for transitional living supported by a certain standard courtesy hospitality, be it for people testing the waters, so to speak, of the community to see if they wanted to join it or just travelers. So most people would come to reduce their truly personal possessions to what would fit in a foot locker or steamer trunk. Everything else they needed would be owned by the community or would be easily replaceable and they could get it free wherever they traveled or chose to live.<br />
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Now, this might seem odd to us today, but this is how many of society's elites lived in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today we see hotels in the context of 'tourism' but 100 years ago or so (and maybe as late as the late 1950s) the hotel was the home of elites; celebrities, movie stars and entertainers, writers and artists, entrepreneurs, the younger members of the upper-class. They lived in hotels because, back then, cities were still the hubs of western culture, commerce, and nightlife but losing their attraction as places for the wealthy to own residential property and their careers demanded 'shallow roots', so-to-speak. A film or theater project might be a proposition of months or years and there was no jet aircraft to toss you around the globe in hours. (before the jet, getting from California to someplace in Europe took, roughly, a month. Hollywood was invented to subvert the patents of film tech developers like Edison on the East coast--who wouldn't sue because the law still required them to personally represent themselves at patent trials and it was such a hassle for them to repeatedly travel to California) And so their personal possessions were things that were easily transportable in elaborate sets of luggage designed to suit transit by rail or ship--mostly clothes, jewelry, small pictures, books, and the tools of their 'trade' if they had them; stage props, costumes, cameras, art equipment, typewriters, etc. They might rely on warehouses to store goods they couldn't take with them, like cars. Everything else they could need was readily provided by the hotels at typically luxurious levels of quality.<br />
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Today we have youth hostels providing a similar kind of hotel nomadism infrastructure--albeit relatively crude. But its easy to imagine how such stationary infrastructures might be expanded to support modes of Mobilism with progressively higher standards of living and longer periods of stay without the sort of very high cost of the hotel lifestyle. There is a certain connection between the idea of pod furnitecture and the elaborate luggage of the globe-trotting upper-class of the Gilded Age.<br />
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The north corner of our spectrum is a very special one. It's the possession-less shelter-less extreme. The Sadhu life. Nomadism defined by the elimination of as much personal possessions as possible and with as little physical infrastructure as possible. This is only theoretical now. Human beings are simply too fragile. But we can imagine some transhumanist person of the future who is carrying a collection of very sophisticated nanotechnology within his own body that wirelessly links him to the global information/communication infrastructure, allows him to make anything he needs from the carbon in the atmosphere and found materials around him, and minimizes his need for shelter by eliminating or compensating for the hardship of exposure to the elements. All his necessary possessions exist in his own body and in the 'cloud'. His 'work' might consist of sitting in one place like a meditating yogi while, in his head, he's operating in a vast virtual habitat. Even clothing is optional for his survival or comfort. He can live comfortably in the most harsh environments--even living in the sea or the polar and desert regions. It may be centuries yet before people like this exist, but we're defining a pole of our four-sided spectrum and this is one of the theoretical extremes. Many current nomads aspire toward this kind of lifestyle, even if they can, in practice, only approach it with great compromise in standard of living. But as the lowest impact mode of living, they accept that compromise for the sake of a 'greater good' for the environment--at least until age and children catch up with them.<br />
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So, looking at this two axis/four corner spectrum any mode of nomadism can be defined as a point or region within the space of these four poles. And there's an implied diagonal axis here; heavy, high-energy, rich in stuff toward the south-west to light, low-energy, minimalist toward the north-east. It's probably a bit hard to visualize without drawing this out on paper.<br />
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I think the idea of fungibility of stuff is important. And that might define a sixth diagonal axis in our imagined spectrum, from south-east to north-west--from fungibility to disposability. In the Mobilist extreme one owns very little, with the bulk of the stuff of one's habitat infrastructure--stationary--and exchanged from one person to another through direct reuse. Then on the MOD (made on demand) living end of that axis one own very little but makes a lot of stuff as needed and disposes of it--exchanging it by recycling more than reuse.<br />
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One of the concepts I had for Utilihab based housing was the idea of an 'aftermarket' components exchange network that could support low cost housing and easier mobility. People today renovate homes at a ridiculous rate. Bathrooms and kitchens especially. It's an almost annual event in the US now. The upper-middle-class especially treat homes like haute couture. They feel compelled to continuously upgrade to the latest in interior design fashion. The problem is, houses and furnishings aren't designed for this. They're designed with this assumption of perfection and permanence. And so it all turns into landfill waste, mostly un-recyclable. Home maintenance and renovation is one of the biggest sources of landfill waste. With modular building systems like Utilihab that are designed to make renovation easy by making everything demountable the side-effect is that instead of producing all this landfill waste, you're producing a stream of used reusable or refurbish-able parts that enable people to obtain high quality housing at much reduced cost.<br />
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But there's another aspect to this if you network this parts market. Even with a totally demountable building system like Utilihab, it's a hassle to take a whole house with you from one place to another and there's a big energy overhead in transporting that. And selling it locally is also a hassle and a risk because of market value fluctuations. One of the things that really drags on the progressive development of housing--compels people to be hyper-conservative about housing--is this need for ready fungibility of housing to facilitate moving. If you can't sell you can't move, so it's always got to appeal to the lowest common denominator in order to be easy to sell. So everyone is always playing it 'safe', letting bankers dictate what our homes are like, and getting uptight about how their neighbors impact their property values; what they build, who they are, what 'class' they are, what their skin color is, and on and on.<br />
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But what if instead of selling a house you exchanged its parts? You have to leave one place so you ship off all the easily mobile stuff you're taking with you and you call the local parts exchange to come and help dismantle the house. You trade your house's parts in for credit on the exchange network. Then you go to your new place and call the local parts exchange there and say; "I have X amount of parts exchange credit so I want this list of parts." and, assuming they have them all, they take those parts out of their local warehouse and bring them to your location and help assemble them. So you're house, as a collection of standard parts rather than a whole, is always easily fungible--a currency in and of itself--no bankers and real estate agents necessary. All that matters is that there is a local parts exchange near where you're going and that they maintain a volume of stock parts to meet general demand. Now, the economics of this have to be maintained carefully. Parts depreciate in value individually, there's an overhead in storage, refurbishing of parts, and moving them around to maintain supply. It wouldn't always be a straightforward exchange. But it could work.<br />
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===Core Modules ?===<br />
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https://groups.google.com/d/msg/op-n-m/vIe23rkCTk0/NldAfKElRa0J<br />
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Excerpted from Eric :<br />
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" There's several basic elements of the neo-nomadic village I think we need to focus some design work on; the personal micro-cabin, the community lounge, the cooking/cafe pod, the hydroponic system, the factory/fabrication pod, and the energy/power pod. There are many more possible elements, of course, but these are the core elements. "<br />
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Excerpt from Dante's reply :<br />
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Which elements from n55 could be built on ? <br />
http://www.n55.dk/MANUALS/Manuals.html<br />
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I remember their nomadic futures<br />
http://nomadicfutures.n55.dk/<br />
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I also notice<br />
http://www.n55.dk/MANUALS/SNAIL_SHELL_SYSTEM/SSS.html<br />
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=Extension into Metabolism=<br />
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Eric: <br />
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I think the space frame ‘plug-in’ urban structures were some of their best. We’ve already employed one such concept which also inspired Casagrande’s Paracity and others; the A-frame urban superstructure devised by Kiyonori Kikutake.<br />
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This very-much epitomizes the idea of the urban environment as a functionally generic volumetric landscape relating to the natural landscape (in this case, the form of Mt. Fuji) that is parasitically adapted for habitation by its inhabitants, and also illustrates the particular Japanese stance on real estate that land and housing are separate things with housing treated rather like furniture; replaceable, disposable, and with no relation to property value, allowing people to express themselves freely. This overcomes the monotony of repetitive structures. In this town, there is more visible diversity on the human scale than in any suburb of the US. This also demonstrates the concept of a linear city and some of the virtues of that. <br />
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The chronic problem with Metabolism was its designers’ tendency to overlook fatal flaws obvious to others. You don’t see it too clearly in the above photo, but this promising concept was sunk by the notion of running highways and trains through the interior of the city, which was logical in itself but in the era before electric vehicles and comprehensive solar/electric home heating would have meant gassing all the homes with pollution. I, of course, propose the same thing, but with the assumption that internal combustion engines, reliance on cars, and combustion-powered home heating have been long obsolesced by the time these new cities develop. <br />
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= See also =<br />
* [[Emergent Synthesis]]<br />
* [[Leipzig project]]<br />
* [[Antwerp Collective]]<br />
* [[Settlement Technologies]]<br />
* [[Cardboard Housing]]<br />
* [[Tensegrity]]<br />
* [[Nomad Slums]]<br />
* [[Nomad Tribe]]<br />
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= Weblinks =<br />
*[https://www.wired.com/2007/01/spime_watch_fab_1 Spime Watch: Fabbed Housing]<br />
* Eric's slide presentation on [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19g_XYezo_jHEZINUqZNZUswZaLsuNHpvbsT3vNkW3eU/edit#slide=id.p Nomadic Ecovillages concept]<br />
* Seth's remix synthesis in a slides presentation, containing some elements of [http://solarstrategy.com.au/newsletters/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware-2/ this article] of [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16-fGxcIugYg9oD5i4px5sIfIXY0EfxKcWIifUhJ7zEM/edit#slide=id.g117ae3dc9_0178 Open Modular Hardware]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Modular_Hardware#Examples Open Modular Hardware]<br />
* Seth, for [https://github.com/automenta/spimedb SpimeDB]<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlt6kaNjoeI TED talk - Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people]<br />
* [http://www.wikihouse.cc/ Wiki House]<br />
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/op-n-m small mailing list]<br />
* [http://books.google.fi/books/about/Structure_in_Nature_Is_a_Strategy_for_De.html?id=sfc2OEuE8oQC&redir_esc=y Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design]<br />
* https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/alternativelifestyles<br />
* https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/alternativelifestyle<br />
* https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/nomadiclifestyle<br />
* https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/nomadism<br />
https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/nomad<br />
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[[Category:Housing]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Popular_Education&diff=26818Popular Education2021-10-31T10:34:56Z<p>Dante: </p>
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<div>Pre-Note : our networks may be spread across different continents.<br />
Can we share collected links related to different convergence networking platforms ?<br />
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Can we develop partnerships with<br />
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French or Spanish Learning Coop's ,<br />
Norwegian / Danish Folkhighschools,<br />
and/or Swedish/German Folkuniversities,<br />
in an approach of popular education ?<br />
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///<br />
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Can we do so by combining fixed infrastructure,<br />
combined with "neo nomadic" infrastructures, practices, and seasonal Temporary Autonomous Zones, including partnerships and concerted organization around year long project preparation,<br />
via existing festivals all over europe ?<br />
<br />
Can we re-use experiences from, for example<br />
http://wiki.tsolife.org/Tsolife/Main_Page<br />
<br />
Building Routes along under-used ( european ) canals ?<br />
Like a pilgrimage, for cyclists ?<br />
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Setting up groups in cities, for life transformation,<br />
psychological mutual help in transitions,<br />
and preparations for TAZ role playing games in summer times empowering alternative economic experiments ?<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Further links :<br />
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Popular Education :<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_education<br />
Danish / Norwegian :<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_high_school<br />
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Swedish / German :<br />
http://www.folkuniversitetet.se/In-English/International-Projects/<br />
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///<br />
<br />
Some French popular education Coop's<br />
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http://www.scoplepave.org/les-autres-cooperatives-d-education-populaire<br />
( for example : https://app.box.com/s/92wlkki0msulis7k38jl )<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
And also inspire ourselves from Mondragon ?<br />
Who itself also includes practices from other places, such as from the finnish Team Academy ...<br />
<br />
Creating Learning Cooperatives :<br />
<br />
http://mondragonteamacademy.com/?lang=en<br />
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///<br />
<br />
While also inspiring ourselves from other projects, such as<br />
Barefoot College ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_College<br />
<br />
Or a hole in the wall / Minimally Invasive Education :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimally_invasive_education<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Can these be in support of a post industrial cottage industry approach,<br />
and the creation of its european ( logistical routes ) ?<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Homebrew_Industrial_Revolution<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putting-out_system#Cottage_industry<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Role Playing Games]]<br />
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Living Learning Communities:<br />
<br />
https://collegesofdistinction.com/advice/what-is-a-living-learning-community/<br />
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[[Category:Group learning]]<br />
[[Category:Social evolution]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Aimless_trajectory&diff=24802Aimless trajectory2019-03-06T19:48:32Z<p>Dante: /* Related Russian Story / Animation */</p>
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<div>Also copied on<br />
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http://hitchwiki.org/en/Aimless_trajectory<br />
<br />
related : http://sharewiki.org/en/Beyond_Road_Burn_Out<br />
<br />
= Question =<br />
<br />
What do you feel, after hitch hiking for a long time, not knowing where you are going, not knowing where to go back to, not having any money left, being on the road, hitch hiking, searching for people to share with...<br />
<br />
What do you feel when you see the video below, and remember these times ?<br />
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Often I was alone, yet somehow I imagined that somehow there where people I shared this with, that where out there, at the same moment, feeling the same feelings ?<br />
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Yet at the same time, paradoxically, I knew very well what I was aiming for, which lead me to be on the road in the first place.<br />
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The trajectory becomes aimless, to me, when I forget or loose faith, or can not see the next step, despite having a broad picture and a good understanding of what I personally want to create, but somehow felt I can not create by myself... <br />
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Staying on the move, accessing stimulation, accessing encounters... yet being in a state of "in between" most of the time... in between these few moments of "having tea with someone"...<br />
<br />
==Related Czech Story / Animation==<br />
<br />
"Hedgehog in the Fog"<br />
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9snuua1uwM<br />
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== Video ==<br />
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Its like the "warm" part of hitch hiking. What you see when you hitch hike during the day, after waiting a few hours outside in the cold, knowing that in half an hour, at the next petrol station, you may wait for another few hours. It might well be that one falls asleep, or does not feel like getting off at the next petrol station, just going wherever the driver goes as to sleep a bit more and stay warm.<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie8vLWDdo7E&NR=1<br />
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=== Note on Video ===<br />
<br />
I co-incidentally found the video on youtube.<br />
It seems to be made within the current project :<br />
<br />
http://www.edwinstolk.nl/aimlesstrajectory.htm<br />
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excerpt :<br />
<br />
The dérive was a course of preparation, reconnaissance, and a means of shaping situationist psychology among urban explorers for the eventuality of the situationist city.<br />
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==== Further References ====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Aug%C3%A9<br />
<br />
excerpt :<br />
<br />
In an essay and book of the same title, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995), Marc Augé coined the phrase "non-place" to refer to places of transience that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as "places". Examples of a non-place would be a motorway, a hotel room, an airport or a supermarket<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International<br />
<br />
== Burnout ==<br />
<br />
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/burnout_signs_symptoms.htm<br />
<br />
excerpts :<br />
<br />
Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands. As the stress continues, you begin to lose the interest or motivation that led you to take on a certain role in the first place. <br />
<br />
You may be on the road to burnout if:<br />
* Every day is a bad day.<br />
* Caring about your work or home life seems like a total waste of energy.<br />
* You’re exhausted all the time.<br />
* The majority of your day is spent on tasks you find either mind-numbingly dull or overwhelming.<br />
* You feel like nothing you do makes a difference or is appreciated.<br />
<br />
Burnout, is about not enough. Being burned out means feeling empty, devoid of motivation, and beyond caring. People experiencing burnout often don’t see any hope of positive change in their situations. <br />
...<br />
<br />
While you’re usually aware of being under a lot of stress, you don’t always notice burnout when it happens.<br />
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[[Category:Posts]]<br />
[[Category:Transport]]<br />
[[hitch:Aimless trajectory]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&diff=24724Leipzig project2018-11-01T05:46:38Z<p>Dante: updated a link ( https://www.stiftung-trias.de/publikationen/ )</p>
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<div>{{move_to_nomadwiki}}<br />
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In [[Leipzig]] whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little [[money]]. <br />
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The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for [[sharing]].<br />
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''' Update 2013''' : <br />
A more Modular Approach ? <br />
--> '''[[Spime Housing]] link'''<br />
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Express Your interest [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis here] and [http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#People_interested here]<br />
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more links [http://delicious.com/deliciousdante/leipzigproject here] or [http://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/leipzigproject here]<br />
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<br />
Update : <br />
'''This was a 2008 / 2009 Research Project.''' <br />
The initial feeling for potential was right, <br />
and prices changed upwards dramatically in the last years since our initial interest, <br />
yet there are still opportunities to be created using such approaches, <br />
in Leipzig, other east german towns, and in various places in europe and the world.<br />
<br />
Note : areas in red on this map may most likely remain accessible ;)<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bild-981616-726182.html<br />
update : https://www.postbank.de/postbank/docs/Postbank_Studie_Werthaltigkeit_bis_2030.jpg<br />
<br />
[http://www.leipzig.de/bauen-und-wohnen/stadterneuerung-in-leipzig/stadterneuerungsprojekte/netzwerk-leipziger-freiheit/ Leipzig remains fertile ground for cooperative housing projects]<br />
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<br />
==Housing locations==<br />
* Put findings on [http://u.nu/3tgf4 this shared Google map]<br />
<br />
==Mind Map==<br />
<br />
Edit [http://www.metamaps.cc/users/1000497548/maps/25 MindMap here] ;<br />
<br />
[http://metamaps.cc/users/new To Register to Metamap] ( password: j0jmzgen )<br />
<br />
==Current Context==<br />
<br />
http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/who-ryder-what-edge/mission_case/permanent-collective-leipzig<br />
<br />
==Current Collective with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergingleaderlabs.org/<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/08/01/announcing-emerging-leader-labs-a-social-incubator-running-on-the-gift-economy/<br />
<br />
==A Meta Project Approach==<br />
<br />
http://thepyre.org/<br />
<br />
==Outquisition Potentials==<br />
<br />
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-an-outquisition/2008/07/20<br />
<br />
'''''"What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed. We imagined that it would need an almost missionary fervor, something like the Inquisition (which largely destroyed knowledge) in reverse, a crusade of open sharing, or as Cory promptly dubbed it, the Outquisition."'''''<br />
<br />
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.be/2008/07/outquisition-and-urbanism-camp.html<br />
<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html<br />
<br />
===Nomad Tribe===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
==Aim==<br />
<br />
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )<br />
<br />
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )<br />
<br />
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest. <br />
<br />
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -,<br />
I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, <br />
enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.<br />
<br />
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.<br />
<br />
==People interested==<br />
Isis, [http://p2pfoundation.net/Alex_Rollin Alex], [[User:Dante|Dante]], [[User:Meinhard|Meinhard]], Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, [[User:Julia|Julia]], [[User:Flawer|Flawer]], [[User:TinkerGeorge|George J.]], [[user:kardan|kardan]], [[user:bhopter|helicopter]], [http://goo.gl/2VIga kata kata motivasi], http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter <br />
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''[http://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&action=edit&section=3 add yourself]''<br />
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==Pictures==<br />
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===Google Street View===<br />
<br />
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.<br />
<br />
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l<br />
<br />
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature,<br />
and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.<br />
<br />
==Leipzig Context==<br />
<br />
[[Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation]]<br />
<br />
==House features==<br />
* Self-Organized governance<br />
* Communal and public space in ground floor <br />
* Several flats with different parties in upper floors<br />
* Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)<br />
* Community connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace Hackerspace]/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)<br />
* Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation<br />
** Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)<br />
* Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities<br />
**Organic Community Gardening (rooftop gardening?)<br />
**Partnerships with local farms and suppliers<br />
**Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars<br />
**House and neighborhood biomass/composting program<br />
* Info cafe with people's kitchen<br />
** networking with other urban projects world-wide<br />
* Renewable and efficient [[energy]]<br />
* [[Recycling]]<br />
* Sauna (yeah!)<br />
* Regular meetings<br />
* Free shop<br />
<br />
==24/7 Lab==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs<br />
<br />
==Ideal Situation==<br />
<br />
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post <br />
industrial project in Leipzig are : <br />
<br />
* being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute <br />
walk ) <br />
* being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University<br />
* being situated nearby greenery <br />
* being situated nearby gardening allotments <br />
* being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be <br />
purchased for post-manufacturing <br />
* having a unique looking architecture / building <br />
* having a potential for the development of a diversified <br />
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the <br />
atmosphere :) ) <br />
* having access to a garden and to a view (rooftop gardening is space- and energy-efficient)<br />
* being in a calm neighborhood <br />
* additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant <br />
constructible land, <br />
to build our own construction, <br />
* or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined <br />
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, <br />
such as a "gasometer"<br />
<br />
==Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?==<br />
<br />
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/<br />
<br />
==Ownership / Usership ==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership<br />
<br />
possibly in combination with<br />
<br />
[http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat]<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf<br />
<br />
Equity-Linked Affinity Network<br />
Interpersonal Process, Financial Structures and Legal<br />
Designs for Landed, Spirited, Joyous Urban Community<br />
<br />
( found via http://p2pfoundation.net/Balancing_Individualism_and_Communitarianism )<br />
<br />
==Funding and Costs==<br />
<br />
===Prices of Buildings===<br />
<br />
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :<br />
* around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
* 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
Anthony says :<br />
<br />
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town<br />
<br />
BUT<br />
<br />
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.<br />
<br />
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!<br />
<br />
Anthony says:<br />
<br />
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Renovation Costs===<br />
to evaluate - [[User:Dante|Dante]] is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?<br />
<br />
====about Dry Rot prevention====<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot#Treatment_of_dry_rot_timber<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot_treatment<br />
<br />
reply from T. :<br />
<br />
We have used heaters to dry wet wood<br />
<br />
It is very difficult to detect an infestation before it has reached an advanced stage. A non-visible infestation never really goes away, but does not propagate or threaten the wood if the wood is kept dry. We therefore are extremely reactive to the presence of uncontained water in the house; we treat it like fire.<br />
<br />
The chemical treatments are reportedly as expensive as replacing the wood. Replacing the wood can be expensive if it provides structural support. However, the real danger is getting denounced. If a company determines you have dry-rot, they are supposed to report it to the government. Then the government inspects all areas of the house and requires treatment of any dry-rot found, regardless of whether it is active. This can be financially devastating. Therefore, the department responsible for these inspections have ironically made German houses less safe.<br />
<br />
Fazit: don't buy a house if there is evidence of a sustained leak, regardless of whether there is evidence of schwamm / dry rot.<br />
<br />
===Funding===<br />
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat], potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest.<br />
For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.<br />
<br />
: It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)<br />
<br />
====Crowdsourcing and Fund Management Tools====<br />
<br />
When it will be operational in 2013, we may consider using the following tool :<br />
<br />
https://holvi.com/<br />
<br />
"Holvi is not a ‘traditional’ crowdfunding platform for projects, but instead it offers project groups an online bank service with a visual interface for handling their money and better finance keeping."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Holvi<br />
<br />
===Legal Frameworks===<br />
<br />
info book on legal frameworks :<br />
Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte<br />
https://www.stiftung-trias.de/publikationen/<br />
<br />
Some interesting PDFs:<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/fileadmin/Finanzierung_2008.pdf<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/uploads/media/RECHTSFORMEN_trias_1-2009.pdf<br />
* http://www.haushalten.org/Papers/haushalten_e.v._-_rechtsformen_fuer_wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
* http://www.koord.hs-mannheim.de/horizonte/h34_Krosse_Wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
<br />
===Purchasing Examples===<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros,<br />
it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.<br />
<br />
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible,<br />
hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.<br />
<br />
To pay off the credit, at no interest, <br />
<br />
one can symbolically imagine that it costs<br />
'''''"1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"'''''<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
'''''"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"'''''<br />
<br />
after which it is fully your property,<br />
although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.<br />
<br />
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.<br />
<br />
===Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase===<br />
<br />
See :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.'''<br />
<br />
Approach :<br />
<br />
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in <br />
"Viagere" / '''"Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units"''' <br />
in exchange of "Care Service Hours".<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."'''<br />
<br />
''Mutual credit'' with trusted routing,<br />
and/or ''Asymmetric exchange ?''<br />
<br />
===Living Costs and Taxes===<br />
<br />
Robrecht asks :<br />
<br />
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc<br />
of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."<br />
<br />
Anthony answers :<br />
<br />
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."<br />
<br />
==Alternative Purchasing Model==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively,<br />
without requiring to take a bank loan.<br />
<br />
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ),<br />
and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.<br />
<br />
===Examples of shareholding models in Leipzig===<br />
<br />
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html<br />
<br />
or under <br />
<br />
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :<br />
<br />
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11 <br />
<br />
http://zolle11.de/blog/<br />
<br />
more examples :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships<br />
<br />
==Lease Hold ?==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold<br />
<br />
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht<br />
<br />
==Housing Availability Search==<br />
<br />
Alternative Housing-Search<br />
Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")<br />
<br />
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :<br />
<br />
Purchase :<br />
<br />
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/anzeigen<br />
<br />
Rent :<br />
<br />
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100<br />
<br />
Land and Building Projects :<br />
<br />
http://lwbimmobilien.de/<br />
<br />
==Buildings of Interest==<br />
<br />
In Neustadt :<br />
<br />
In ...<br />
<br />
===Gasometer===<br />
<br />
<br />
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=4276236400981551169&q=gasometer+leipzig&hl=de&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=3zWVTKHsNo6h_Ab_4OXbAQ&sig2=zeauLQrFuK9fcOiOZpleGw<br />
<br />
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/<br />
<br />
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=leipzig+germany&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.817312,58.798828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Bundesrepublik+Deutschland&ll=51.352624,12.379602&spn=0.000985,0.001794&t=h&z=19<br />
<br />
it most likely looks like this from inside :<br />
<br />
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg<br />
<br />
==Modular Housing==<br />
<br />
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki<br />
<br />
==Spime Housing and Furnitecture==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
Using Tensegrity,<br />
organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders",<br />
but also architects, engineers, students...<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
==Groups for Leipzig== <br />
<br />
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.<br />
* Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig<br />
* Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing<br />
<br />
==Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure<br />
<br />
===Infrastructure Mapping===<br />
<br />
[http://www.integralcity.com/civil-society/map-visions-and-values-assets.html Link to Integral Cities]<br />
<br />
==Culture and Community==<br />
<br />
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm<br />
<br />
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )<br />
<br />
==Art Center==<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html<br />
<br />
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"<br />
<br />
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html<br />
<br />
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"<br />
<br />
==Income Streams & Local Economy==<br />
<br />
Ideally (according to [[User:Dante|Dante]]), developing "[[resilient communities]]" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from [[food]] to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "[http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology Open Source Ecology]" such as "[http://factorefarm.org/ Factor E-Farm]".<br />
<br />
===Cooperative Ecology Project===<br />
<br />
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation wiki] you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons commons]. <br />
<br />
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.<br />
<br />
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_in_Multi-Unit_Housing on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing].<br />
<br />
==="Jobless Recovery"===<br />
<br />
http://www.pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html<br />
<br />
===Example - New York Manufacturing Cooperative / Lab===<br />
<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/nyregion/brooklyn-navy-yard-is-home-to-manufacturing-cooperative.html?_r=0<br />
<br />
<br />
===Other brainstormings===<br />
<br />
====First stage ?====<br />
* Collaborative research<br />
* Plan development<br />
* Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig<br />
* Musical Parties<br />
* Added value food production ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food slow food] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksküche volks kuche] ? )<br />
* Events and [[hospitality]]<br />
<br />
====Not for Private Profit Shops====<br />
<br />
* Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/<br />
* Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres - <br />
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
* "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche<br />
<br />
====Volunteering Initiatives====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service<br />
<br />
More info regarding EVS :<br />
<br />
Overall overview with short video presentation :<br />
<br />
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html<br />
<br />
current partner organizations data base :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm<br />
<br />
procedures<br />
<br />
for volunteers :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm<br />
<br />
====Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded program ?<br />
<br />
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/<br />
<br />
=====Note : Entredonneurship=====<br />
<br />
"Entre-Donneur"<br />
<br />
= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', <br />
proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Entredonneur<br />
<br />
http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/EntreDonneur<br />
<br />
====Fablabs/Workshops====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab<br />
<br />
====Earth De-polluting Cooperative====<br />
<br />
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify<br />
industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
====Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives====<br />
<br />
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design<br />
<br />
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "<br />
<br />
====Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing====<br />
<br />
see above - <br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing<br />
<br />
====Energy====<br />
<br />
Various sources of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy renewable energy] can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water,<br />
and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
=====Internal Combustion=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle<br />
<br />
=====Electrolysis=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water<br />
<br />
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy<br />
<br />
====Alternative Engine Propulsion====<br />
<br />
See [[Resilient Engine]]<br />
<br />
====Building Open Source Cars====<br />
<br />
TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8jdx-lf2Dw<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Wikispeed<br />
<br />
http://www.wikispeed.com/<br />
<br />
====Distribution of Peer Production====<br />
<br />
=====Fair Ware=====<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare<br />
<br />
''' proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure" '''<br />
<br />
====== Fair Ware Goals ======<br />
<br />
* bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way<br />
* make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met <br />
*** creative people get their share<br />
*** producers can produce under human conditions<br />
*** users get quality and reliability<br />
* foster cooperation and improved product design<br />
* facilitate quality control by branding<br />
* exert democratic control over a brand name<br />
* create resilience towards proprietory action<br />
* empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro<br />
<br />
<br />
=====Local Food Distribution=====<br />
<br />
Open Ideo :<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/<br />
<br />
==Food Production==<br />
<br />
===Allotment Gardens===<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany<br />
<br />
''<br />
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "''<br />
<br />
===Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems===<br />
<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems<br />
<br />
<br />
===Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"===<br />
<br />
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative,<br />
"back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,<br />
<br />
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
See historical perspective :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement<br />
<br />
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading<br />
<br />
Links - Local Food Project :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100<br />
<br />
<br />
===Open Source Ecology===<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm<br />
<br />
Germany :<br />
<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/ (in English)<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/aufbau-der-ose-community-in-deutschland/ (in German)<br />
<br />
==Mesh Communication Networks==<br />
<br />
Contributing to ( ? )<br />
<br />
http://leipzig.freifunk.net/<br />
<br />
==Alternative Finance==<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies,<br />
which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.<br />
<br />
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.<br />
<br />
==Alternative University and learning infrastructures==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig<br />
<br />
==Other Hubs with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
===Other Similar Projects===<br />
<br />
http://neotribalism.net/about.htm<br />
<br />
- excerpt of vision -<br />
<br />
In the near term : <br />
To create a wide variety of socially and environmentally sustainable households that each serve as a community for 10 - 20 people who share a common vision and who compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.<br />
<br />
In the long term :<br />
To create a diverse network of sustainable neoTribal villages that are composed of 10 - 20 households that are not reliant upon the current global economy and infrastructure.<br />
<br />
==Restoring Vibrancy in Declining Cities==<br />
<br />
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/brief.html<br />
<br />
==Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy==<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy<br />
<br />
==p2p Open Urbanism==<br />
<br />
http://berlinergazette.de/open-source-stadt-gemeingut-stadtplanung/<br />
<br />
==Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City==<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
===A Vision for Shareable Cities [VIDEO]===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video<br />
<br />
===Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy===<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy<br />
<br />
===#12: Food Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing<br />
<br />
===#11: Urban Agriculture===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture<br />
<br />
===#10: Shareable Rooftops===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops<br />
<br />
===#9: Recreational Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces<br />
<br />
===#8: Shareable Workspaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces<br />
<br />
===#7: Shareable Neighborhoods===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods<br />
<br />
===#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs<br />
<br />
===#5: Shareable Housing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing<br />
<br />
===#4: Shareable Commercial Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces<br />
<br />
===#3: Bike Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing<br />
<br />
===#2: Ride Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing<br />
<br />
===#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing<br />
<br />
==People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )==<br />
<br />
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...<br />
<br />
<br />
==City Infrastructures==<br />
<br />
===Transportation===<br />
<br />
===S Bahn===<br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794 <br />
<br />
*Leipzig Linien 1 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015 <br />
<br />
*Linien 2 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442 <br />
<br />
ps: ideal when coming <br />
from some other place in Germany :<br />
regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 <br />
euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn<br />
<br />
===Tram Lines===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/<br />
<br />
===New Transportation Infrastructures===<br />
<br />
====Underground Train====<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving.<br />
Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."<br />
<br />
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut:<br />
Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"<br />
<br />
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.<br />
<br />
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Urban Planning Projects ===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/<br />
<br />
==Some Historical Facts and People==<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria#History Phantasmagoria in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Leipzig_.281723.E2.80.9350.29 Bach in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
==City History==<br />
<br />
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/<br />
<br />
==Suggested Neighbourhoods==<br />
<br />
expensive ones:<br />
<br />
Südvorstadt (south)<br />
<br />
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )<br />
<br />
connewitz ( south )<br />
<br />
becoming expensive:<br />
<br />
lindenau<br />
<br />
plagwitz<br />
here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.<br />
<br />
cheaper ones :<br />
<br />
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east<br />
<br />
Stötteritz - east<br />
<br />
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :<br />
<br />
reutnitz - east<br />
Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.<br />
<br />
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.<br />
<br />
klein zschocher - south west<br />
<br />
==Past Meetings==<br />
<br />
August 2010, 3 first weeks :<br />
<br />
http://ecotopia2010.org/<br />
<br />
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53071439438&ref=ts Ecotopia Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : [http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof,+Wiesenburg,+Germany&sll=52.237051,12.903442&sspn=0.713169,2.113495&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof+Wiesenburg,+Potsdam-Mittelmark,+Brandenburg,+Germany&t=h&ll=52.001792,12.348633&spn=1.684172,3.378296&z=8 Map Link]<br />
<br />
Contact [[User:Dante|Dante]] as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize,<br />
in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.<br />
<br />
==Geographical Layering Information==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions,<br />
for representing various data about the project on layered maps,<br />
facilitating open collaboration.<br />
<br />
See discussion on :<br />
<br />
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263<br />
<br />
also considering drupal gmap extension :<br />
<br />
http://drupal.org/project/gmap<br />
<br />
===Linked Geo Data===<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/About<br />
<br />
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.<br />
<br />
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
( based in Leipzig )<br />
<br />
==Mapping for Change==<br />
<br />
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/<br />
<br />
"Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication. Our work has a strong focus on engaging and empowering communities to make positive transformations to their localities. "<br />
<br />
==Semantic Web and Graphs==<br />
<br />
http://www.automenta.com/<br />
<br />
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) <br />
Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html <br />
<br />
===AKSW Department at University of Leipzig===<br />
<br />
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.<br />
<br />
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/<br />
<br />
==Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration==<br />
<br />
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's,<br />
and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space",<br />
and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.<br />
<br />
==Events in Leipzig==<br />
<br />
===Annual "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"===<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php<br />
<br />
''"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany''."<br />
<br />
===Bach Festival===<br />
Bachfest takes place every summer. Links:<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/index.php?id=26&L=1<br />
<br />
==Articles and Reports==<br />
<br />
===ARD German News Reportage===<br />
<br />
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/mittagsmagazin/leipzig-boomt?documentId=12240372<br />
<br />
===Market speculation in Leipzig ?===<br />
<br />
http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/leipzig/citynews/mietpreise-fuer-wohnungen-in-leipzig-deutlich-gestiegen-vor-allem-westliche-stadtteile-boomen/r-citynews-a-106789.html<br />
<br />
==Other interesting projects in Nearby Cities==<br />
<br />
Halle-Saale : http://www.postkult.de/ ( "urban development from below" )<br />
<br />
<br />
===Additional References===<br />
<br />
via Christine ( http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de ) <br />
<br />
this organisation published a <br />
<br />
====cook-book==== <br />
<br />
presenting 55 projects all located <br />
<br />
=====in kreuzberg:=====<br />
<br />
http://www.buechertisch.org/uber-uns/wer-sind-wir/<br />
<br />
health project since squatting times<br />
<br />
http://www.heilehaus-berlin.de/<br />
<br />
<br />
====poland====<br />
<br />
http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/en_info.asp?id=83326<br />
<br />
=====students organisation in szczecin=====<br />
<br />
, poland<br />
<br />
http://newfamilyway.blogspot.de/p/our-contribution-nasz-wkad.html<br />
<br />
i do know dagna and tomek. you can write in german and english.<br />
<br />
<br />
====network of collectively organised work==== <br />
<br />
i put down just three co-working spaces as example:<br />
<br />
http://www.hinkelstein-druck.de/<br />
http://www.tantehorst.de/<br />
http://schnittstelle.blogsport.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.nadeshda.org/nadeshda.html<br />
<br />
====gewerbehof, genossenschaft, kollekive zusammenschlüsse====<br />
<br />
http://www.gidak.de/<br />
http://www.mehringhof.de/<br />
http://www.kerngehaeuse.de/<br />
http://www.ufafabrik.de/intro.php<br />
<br />
====housing projects====<br />
<br />
http://www.wohnportal-berlin.de/<br />
http://www.hausprojekte-solidarfonds.de/<br />
http://www.selbstbau-eg.de/<br />
<br />
====French Pdf on Cohousing====<br />
<br />
"Vivre en cohabitat,reconstruire des villages en ville"<br />
<br />
http://public.citymined.org/MICRONOMICS/vivre%20en%20cohabitat%20lietart%20article.pdf<br />
<br />
====activists, researchers====<br />
<br />
http://www.voss.solioeko.de/<br />
http://www.technet-berlin.de/mitarbeiterinnen.html<br />
<br />
====financing====<br />
<br />
http://www.labournet.de/stiftungMundA/index.html<br />
http://www.netzwerk-selbsthilfe.de<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.haushalten.org/ Haushalten.org] (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes<br />
** [http://www.haushalten.org/de/english_summary.asp Summary in English] (en)<br />
* [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat] (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany<br />
* [http://sublab.org/ Sublab.org] (de) - Hack space in Leipzig ([http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sublab Hackerspaces entry])<br />
* [http://de.veganwiki.org/vegane_vokue#leipzig de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig] (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes<br />
* [http://kuhturm.de/ kuhturm.de] (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of [http://benn.org/ Meinhard] :)<br />
* http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.<br />
* http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)<br />
* [http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel Rockzipfel Leipzig] (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children<br />
* http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase - see link below for update)<br />
* http://schwarz10.de/ Same Housing project, Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 , a few years later <br />
* [http://www.lvz-online.de/ LVZ-Online] (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]<br />
* "Hypezig" - Article in German : http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/Hypezig;art4306,2621248<br />
* "Hypezig" - Another Article in French : http://www.slate.fr/monde/85083/leipzig-nouveau-berlin-hipster<br />
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[[Category:Projects]]<br />
[[Category:Sharespaces]]<br />
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https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#!topic/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/fiq7trM4Tnw<br />
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and<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Abandoned_Villages<br />
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=History of Nomad Settlements=<br />
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=Trans-Modern Nomad Settlements=<br />
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=Complex resilient Infrastructure and Logistics=<br />
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==Tensegrity==<br />
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http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
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http://sharewiki.org/en/Abandoned_Villages<br />
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==Brainstormings regarding Neo-Nomadic Tribal Approaches==<br />
<br />
Eric's reply with plenty of insightful and inspiring links on various approaches<br />
<br />
[[Spime Housing]]<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/econowmix/L19AhXhUiaA/Q2HlGFmAVfoJ<br />
<br />
[[Healing Tribes]]<br />
<br />
Also see : <br />
<br />
http://tribuvivace.com/<br />
<br />
[[Dante]] suggests , midst other :<br />
<br />
Possibly some coalition people may be interested in developing such "semi-neo-nomadic" approach together with me ? :)<br />
<br />
I ve personally lived a hitch hiking nomad lifestyle for a few years, and find a (semi?) nomad approach of interest ( also see : http://nomadology.com )<br />
<br />
I am aware that there is at least one "cycling tribe" roaming in southern france.<br />
<br />
Potentially <br />
<br />
inter-related recent brainstormings below...<br />
<br />
or here :<br />
<br />
" Vision : Semi-Nomad Healing Post-Industrial Tribes + Oasis "<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/econowmix/Mq7w-b273OQ<br />
<br />
" Nomad Villages and Parametric Design - Modular Temporary Tensegrity Villages "<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/econowmix/K1Ewe5rpfxs<br />
<br />
" Composite Architecture , Textile Buildings , Modular and Nomadic, Dimaxion House, Parametric Design, ... "<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/econowmix/N1nt0JNsN7Y<br />
<br />
"<br />
"Yurt" Housing : nomadic modular parametric design"<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/econowmix/SCrp4hQI9s0/discussion<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://www.wikihouse.cc/<br />
and<br />
http://www.4wallsintl.org/<br />
<br />
<br />
"building towns overnight : legal loopholes in Turkey and Brasil ?"<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/econowmix/BYtzap9-m3o/discussion<br />
<br />
Also see "Beyond Road Burn Out":<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Beyond_Road_Burn_Out<br />
<br />
It may also be possible to re-adapt such nomadic village approach to settings such as<br />
Abandonned Villages<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Abandoned_Villages<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Settlements<br />
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com> wrote:<br />
<br />
<br />
Emerging Tribes of (Cycling?) Nomads,<br />
<br />
with various "Specializations" and "Missions/Services",<br />
while, each individual as entity capable of general/holistic understanding and/co-learning.<br />
and the tribe becoming very experienced in "Collective Intelligence" and "Capability for Emergency Response",<br />
along stigmergic tools and practices.<br />
<br />
Type of potential mission :<br />
<br />
Land healing consulting ; Land Permaculture Set up and consulting,<br />
Modular ( tent ? ) constructions,<br />
set up of post-industrial production infrastructure, <br />
complementary finance and currency consulting, ... etc<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
The tribe could be cycling across europe,<br />
staying connected to the internet,<br />
having "eclaireurs/scouts" charged of future mission preparations,<br />
enabling certain decisions to be co-informed through technology and general assemblies,<br />
having rotating and self chosen tasks ( external mission tasks, but also self preservation tasks such as operation of food and kitchen, shelter / tent maintainance, bike maintainance, self-learning support, mutual-caring support, etc )<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
A permanently moving tribe, which can stay on missions in certain places, such as "circuses" used to do,<br />
while moving from north to southern europe, according to the seasons.<br />
<br />
/////<br />
<br />
Land would be put to disposal ( for camping - with special kinds of comfortable and light weight "mobile villages" )<br />
by the farmers or communities that wish to welcome the "nomads" and/or employ them for their services.<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
Money earned could go into maintaining the movement of the collective,<br />
with surplus invested in setting up "oasis", which are the movements more permanent "bases",<br />
to which nomads can return to.<br />
<br />
Investments can be made for infrastructure as to increase progressively autonomy from dependencies on monopolistic economic networks / support diversification,<br />
<br />
and investments can also be made in the cheapest land ( within potential for ideal context development )<br />
on which value can then be created outside of monopolistic economic networks.<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
Hence a trans-modern approach to semi-nomadism,<br />
such as the nomads who trade salt on their camels,<br />
going on expeditions, and then returning to their oasis.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:02 PM<br />
Subject: Nomad Villages and Parametric Design - Modular Temporary Tensegrity Villages<br />
To: econowmix@googlegroups.com<br />
<br />
<br />
Additional Brainstorming :<br />
<br />
I also imagine such villages of nomads<br />
using "modular" tent like structures, using "tensegrity"<br />
and "Parametric Design" with 3d modelling calculations,<br />
using data about future terrains that will be used for the temporary village,<br />
as to "re-assemble" the "tent village" based on all modular lightweight objects available,<br />
potential to include or add local materials and soil for temporary constructions,<br />
and calculate a re-design for a temporary village,<br />
<br />
of which each of the modular components of the tents, which can also use tensegrity approaches,<br />
<br />
are then re-calculated in their position,<br />
and where each modular element becomes a "spime" with its own uri ( unique resource identifier ) allocated to the rfid ( magnetic ) tag of the object,<br />
<br />
hence making it easy for any of the "builders" to follow assembling instructions from their smart phone, based on the re-assembly plans,<br />
<br />
as to re-build customized villages ,<br />
<br />
after they have been designed using "parametric design" and generative architecture softwares.<br />
<br />
http://www.google.be/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=parametric+design<br />
<br />
also see this post :<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/econowmix/N1nt0JNsN7Y<br />
<br />
" Composite Architecture , Textile Buildings , Modular and Nomadic, Dimaxion House, Parametric Design, ..."<br />
<br />
==Additional Links==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Projet_nomade<br />
<br />
http://www.tribewanted.com/<br />
[[Category:Nomadism]]<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
=Trivia : 80 Million Nomads in India=<br />
<br />
Did you know that in India, there are somewhere between 60 and 80 million nomads, most often organized along tribes, some very highly specialized,<br />
such as in the field of "Umbrella repair".<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomads_of_India<br />
<br />
Makes me linger about the potential for our own ( semi ? ) nomad tribes...<br />
potentially specialized in various information technology solutions, including software supporting logistics and trade, but beyond software,<br />
also local economics , permaculture forest design, low impact housing construction and repair, alternative renewable energy installations,<br />
small manufacturing unit installations, using modular ( parametric ) construction designs using local raw resources ?<br />
<br />
What other ( healing ? ) economic activities do you see such Neo-Nomad Tribes put into practice ?</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Nomad_Tribe&diff=24690Nomad Tribe2018-04-24T16:57:11Z<p>Dante: Reverted edits by Traumschule (talk) to last revision by Dante</p>
<hr />
<div>==Brainstormings regarding Neo-Nomadic Tribal Approaches==<br />
<br />
Eric's reply with plenty of insightful and inspiring links on various approaches<br />
<br />
[[Spime Housing]]<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/econowmix/L19AhXhUiaA/Q2HlGFmAVfoJ<br />
<br />
[[Healing Tribes]]<br />
<br />
Also see : <br />
<br />
http://tribuvivace.com/<br />
<br />
[[Dante]] suggests , midst other :<br />
<br />
Possibly some coalition people may be interested in developing such "semi-neo-nomadic" approach together with me ? :)<br />
<br />
I ve personally lived a hitch hiking nomad lifestyle for a few years, and find a (semi?) nomad approach of interest ( also see : http://nomadology.com )<br />
<br />
I am aware that there is at least one "cycling tribe" roaming in southern france.<br />
<br />
Potentially <br />
<br />
inter-related recent brainstormings below...<br />
<br />
or here :<br />
<br />
" Vision : Semi-Nomad Healing Post-Industrial Tribes + Oasis "<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/econowmix/Mq7w-b273OQ<br />
<br />
" Nomad Villages and Parametric Design - Modular Temporary Tensegrity Villages "<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/econowmix/K1Ewe5rpfxs<br />
<br />
" Composite Architecture , Textile Buildings , Modular and Nomadic, Dimaxion House, Parametric Design, ... "<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/econowmix/N1nt0JNsN7Y<br />
<br />
"<br />
"Yurt" Housing : nomadic modular parametric design"<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/econowmix/SCrp4hQI9s0/discussion<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://www.wikihouse.cc/<br />
and<br />
http://www.4wallsintl.org/<br />
<br />
<br />
"building towns overnight : legal loopholes in Turkey and Brasil ?"<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/econowmix/BYtzap9-m3o/discussion<br />
<br />
Also see "Beyond Road Burn Out":<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Beyond_Road_Burn_Out<br />
<br />
It may also be possible to re-adapt such nomadic village approach to settings such as<br />
Abandonned Villages<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Abandoned_Villages<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Settlements<br />
<br />
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=Brainstorming=<br />
<br />
<br />
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com> wrote:<br />
<br />
<br />
Emerging Tribes of (Cycling?) Nomads,<br />
<br />
with various "Specializations" and "Missions/Services",<br />
while, each individual as entity capable of general/holistic understanding and/co-learning.<br />
and the tribe becoming very experienced in "Collective Intelligence" and "Capability for Emergency Response",<br />
along stigmergic tools and practices.<br />
<br />
Type of potential mission :<br />
<br />
Land healing consulting ; Land Permaculture Set up and consulting,<br />
Modular ( tent ? ) constructions,<br />
set up of post-industrial production infrastructure, <br />
complementary finance and currency consulting, ... etc<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
The tribe could be cycling across europe,<br />
staying connected to the internet,<br />
having "eclaireurs/scouts" charged of future mission preparations,<br />
enabling certain decisions to be co-informed through technology and general assemblies,<br />
having rotating and self chosen tasks ( external mission tasks, but also self preservation tasks such as operation of food and kitchen, shelter / tent maintainance, bike maintainance, self-learning support, mutual-caring support, etc )<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
A permanently moving tribe, which can stay on missions in certain places, such as "circuses" used to do,<br />
while moving from north to southern europe, according to the seasons.<br />
<br />
/////<br />
<br />
Land would be put to disposal ( for camping - with special kinds of comfortable and light weight "mobile villages" )<br />
by the farmers or communities that wish to welcome the "nomads" and/or employ them for their services.<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
Money earned could go into maintaining the movement of the collective,<br />
with surplus invested in setting up "oasis", which are the movements more permanent "bases",<br />
to which nomads can return to.<br />
<br />
Investments can be made for infrastructure as to increase progressively autonomy from dependencies on monopolistic economic networks / support diversification,<br />
<br />
and investments can also be made in the cheapest land ( within potential for ideal context development )<br />
on which value can then be created outside of monopolistic economic networks.<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
Hence a trans-modern approach to semi-nomadism,<br />
such as the nomads who trade salt on their camels,<br />
going on expeditions, and then returning to their oasis.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:02 PM<br />
Subject: Nomad Villages and Parametric Design - Modular Temporary Tensegrity Villages<br />
To: econowmix@googlegroups.com<br />
<br />
<br />
Additional Brainstorming :<br />
<br />
I also imagine such villages of nomads<br />
using "modular" tent like structures, using "tensegrity"<br />
and "Parametric Design" with 3d modelling calculations,<br />
using data about future terrains that will be used for the temporary village,<br />
as to "re-assemble" the "tent village" based on all modular lightweight objects available,<br />
potential to include or add local materials and soil for temporary constructions,<br />
and calculate a re-design for a temporary village,<br />
<br />
of which each of the modular components of the tents, which can also use tensegrity approaches,<br />
<br />
are then re-calculated in their position,<br />
and where each modular element becomes a "spime" with its own uri ( unique resource identifier ) allocated to the rfid ( magnetic ) tag of the object,<br />
<br />
hence making it easy for any of the "builders" to follow assembling instructions from their smart phone, based on the re-assembly plans,<br />
<br />
as to re-build customized villages ,<br />
<br />
after they have been designed using "parametric design" and generative architecture softwares.<br />
<br />
http://www.google.be/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=parametric+design<br />
<br />
also see this post :<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/econowmix/N1nt0JNsN7Y<br />
<br />
" Composite Architecture , Textile Buildings , Modular and Nomadic, Dimaxion House, Parametric Design, ..."<br />
<br />
==Additional Links==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Projet_nomade<br />
<br />
http://www.tribewanted.com/<br />
[[Category:Nomadism]]<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
=Trivia : 80 Million Nomads in India=<br />
<br />
Did you know that in India, there are somewhere between 60 and 80 million nomads, most often organized along tribes, some very highly specialized,<br />
such as in the field of "Umbrella repair".<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomads_of_India<br />
<br />
Makes me linger about the potential for our own ( semi ? ) nomad tribes...<br />
potentially specialized in various information technology solutions, including software supporting logistics and trade, but beyond software,<br />
also local economics , permaculture forest design, low impact housing construction and repair, alternative renewable energy installations,<br />
small manufacturing unit installations, using modular ( parametric ) construction designs using local raw resources ?<br />
<br />
What other ( healing ? ) economic activities do you see such Neo-Nomad Tribes put into practice ?</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&diff=24689Leipzig project2018-04-12T08:42:58Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{move_to_nomadwiki}}<br />
{{outdated}}<br />
<br />
In [[Leipzig]] whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little [[money]]. <br />
<br />
The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for [[sharing]].<br />
<br />
''' Update 2013''' : <br />
A more Modular Approach ? <br />
--> '''[[Spime Housing]] link'''<br />
<br />
Express Your interest [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis here] and [http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#People_interested here]<br />
<br />
more links [http://delicious.com/deliciousdante/leipzigproject here] or [http://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/leipzigproject here]<br />
<br />
<br />
Update : <br />
'''This was a 2008 / 2009 Research Project.''' <br />
The initial feeling for potential was right, <br />
and prices changed upwards dramatically in the last years since our initial interest, <br />
yet there are still opportunities to be created using such approaches, <br />
in Leipzig, other east german towns, and in various places in europe and the world.<br />
<br />
Note : areas in red on this map may most likely remain accessible ;)<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bild-981616-726182.html<br />
update : https://www.postbank.de/postbank/docs/Postbank_Studie_Werthaltigkeit_bis_2030.jpg<br />
<br />
[http://www.leipzig.de/bauen-und-wohnen/stadterneuerung-in-leipzig/stadterneuerungsprojekte/netzwerk-leipziger-freiheit/ Leipzig remains fertile ground for cooperative housing projects]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Housing locations==<br />
* Put findings on [http://u.nu/3tgf4 this shared Google map]<br />
<br />
==Mind Map==<br />
<br />
Edit [http://www.metamaps.cc/users/1000497548/maps/25 MindMap here] ;<br />
<br />
[http://metamaps.cc/users/new To Register to Metamap] ( password: j0jmzgen )<br />
<br />
==Current Context==<br />
<br />
http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/who-ryder-what-edge/mission_case/permanent-collective-leipzig<br />
<br />
==Current Collective with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergingleaderlabs.org/<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/08/01/announcing-emerging-leader-labs-a-social-incubator-running-on-the-gift-economy/<br />
<br />
==A Meta Project Approach==<br />
<br />
http://thepyre.org/<br />
<br />
==Outquisition Potentials==<br />
<br />
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-an-outquisition/2008/07/20<br />
<br />
'''''"What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed. We imagined that it would need an almost missionary fervor, something like the Inquisition (which largely destroyed knowledge) in reverse, a crusade of open sharing, or as Cory promptly dubbed it, the Outquisition."'''''<br />
<br />
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.be/2008/07/outquisition-and-urbanism-camp.html<br />
<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html<br />
<br />
===Nomad Tribe===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
==Aim==<br />
<br />
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )<br />
<br />
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )<br />
<br />
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest. <br />
<br />
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -,<br />
I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, <br />
enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.<br />
<br />
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.<br />
<br />
==People interested==<br />
Isis, [http://p2pfoundation.net/Alex_Rollin Alex], [[User:Dante|Dante]], [[User:Meinhard|Meinhard]], Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, [[User:Julia|Julia]], [[User:Flawer|Flawer]], [[User:TinkerGeorge|George J.]], [[user:kardan|kardan]], [[user:bhopter|helicopter]], [http://goo.gl/2VIga kata kata motivasi], http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter <br />
<br />
''[http://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&action=edit&section=3 add yourself]''<br />
<br />
==Pictures==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Google Street View===<br />
<br />
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.<br />
<br />
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l<br />
<br />
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature,<br />
and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.<br />
<br />
==Leipzig Context==<br />
<br />
[[Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation]]<br />
<br />
==House features==<br />
* Self-Organized governance<br />
* Communal and public space in ground floor <br />
* Several flats with different parties in upper floors<br />
* Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)<br />
* Community connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace Hackerspace]/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)<br />
* Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation<br />
** Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)<br />
* Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities<br />
**Organic Community Gardening (rooftop gardening?)<br />
**Partnerships with local farms and suppliers<br />
**Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars<br />
**House and neighborhood biomass/composting program<br />
* Info cafe with people's kitchen<br />
** networking with other urban projects world-wide<br />
* Renewable and efficient [[energy]]<br />
* [[Recycling]]<br />
* Sauna (yeah!)<br />
* Regular meetings<br />
* Free shop<br />
<br />
==24/7 Lab==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs<br />
<br />
==Ideal Situation==<br />
<br />
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post <br />
industrial project in Leipzig are : <br />
<br />
* being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute <br />
walk ) <br />
* being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University<br />
* being situated nearby greenery <br />
* being situated nearby gardening allotments <br />
* being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be <br />
purchased for post-manufacturing <br />
* having a unique looking architecture / building <br />
* having a potential for the development of a diversified <br />
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the <br />
atmosphere :) ) <br />
* having access to a garden and to a view (rooftop gardening is space- and energy-efficient)<br />
* being in a calm neighborhood <br />
* additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant <br />
constructible land, <br />
to build our own construction, <br />
* or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined <br />
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, <br />
such as a "gasometer"<br />
<br />
==Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?==<br />
<br />
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/<br />
<br />
==Ownership / Usership ==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership<br />
<br />
possibly in combination with<br />
<br />
[http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat]<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf<br />
<br />
Equity-Linked Affinity Network<br />
Interpersonal Process, Financial Structures and Legal<br />
Designs for Landed, Spirited, Joyous Urban Community<br />
<br />
( found via http://p2pfoundation.net/Balancing_Individualism_and_Communitarianism )<br />
<br />
==Funding and Costs==<br />
<br />
===Prices of Buildings===<br />
<br />
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :<br />
* around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
* 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
Anthony says :<br />
<br />
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town<br />
<br />
BUT<br />
<br />
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.<br />
<br />
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!<br />
<br />
Anthony says:<br />
<br />
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Renovation Costs===<br />
to evaluate - [[User:Dante|Dante]] is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?<br />
<br />
====about Dry Rot prevention====<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot#Treatment_of_dry_rot_timber<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot_treatment<br />
<br />
reply from T. :<br />
<br />
We have used heaters to dry wet wood<br />
<br />
It is very difficult to detect an infestation before it has reached an advanced stage. A non-visible infestation never really goes away, but does not propagate or threaten the wood if the wood is kept dry. We therefore are extremely reactive to the presence of uncontained water in the house; we treat it like fire.<br />
<br />
The chemical treatments are reportedly as expensive as replacing the wood. Replacing the wood can be expensive if it provides structural support. However, the real danger is getting denounced. If a company determines you have dry-rot, they are supposed to report it to the government. Then the government inspects all areas of the house and requires treatment of any dry-rot found, regardless of whether it is active. This can be financially devastating. Therefore, the department responsible for these inspections have ironically made German houses less safe.<br />
<br />
Fazit: don't buy a house if there is evidence of a sustained leak, regardless of whether there is evidence of schwamm / dry rot.<br />
<br />
===Funding===<br />
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat], potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest.<br />
For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.<br />
<br />
: It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)<br />
<br />
====Crowdsourcing and Fund Management Tools====<br />
<br />
When it will be operational in 2013, we may consider using the following tool :<br />
<br />
https://holvi.com/<br />
<br />
"Holvi is not a ‘traditional’ crowdfunding platform for projects, but instead it offers project groups an online bank service with a visual interface for handling their money and better finance keeping."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Holvi<br />
<br />
===Legal Frameworks===<br />
<br />
info book on legal frameworks :<br />
Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte<br />
http://www.stiftung-trias.de/infomaterial.html<br />
<br />
Some interesting PDFs:<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/fileadmin/Finanzierung_2008.pdf<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/uploads/media/RECHTSFORMEN_trias_1-2009.pdf<br />
* http://www.haushalten.org/Papers/haushalten_e.v._-_rechtsformen_fuer_wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
* http://www.koord.hs-mannheim.de/horizonte/h34_Krosse_Wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
<br />
===Purchasing Examples===<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros,<br />
it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.<br />
<br />
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible,<br />
hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.<br />
<br />
To pay off the credit, at no interest, <br />
<br />
one can symbolically imagine that it costs<br />
'''''"1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"'''''<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
'''''"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"'''''<br />
<br />
after which it is fully your property,<br />
although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.<br />
<br />
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.<br />
<br />
===Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase===<br />
<br />
See :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.'''<br />
<br />
Approach :<br />
<br />
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in <br />
"Viagere" / '''"Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units"''' <br />
in exchange of "Care Service Hours".<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."'''<br />
<br />
''Mutual credit'' with trusted routing,<br />
and/or ''Asymmetric exchange ?''<br />
<br />
===Living Costs and Taxes===<br />
<br />
Robrecht asks :<br />
<br />
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc<br />
of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."<br />
<br />
Anthony answers :<br />
<br />
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."<br />
<br />
==Alternative Purchasing Model==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively,<br />
without requiring to take a bank loan.<br />
<br />
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ),<br />
and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.<br />
<br />
===Examples of shareholding models in Leipzig===<br />
<br />
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html<br />
<br />
or under <br />
<br />
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :<br />
<br />
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11 <br />
<br />
http://zolle11.de/blog/<br />
<br />
more examples :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships<br />
<br />
==Lease Hold ?==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold<br />
<br />
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht<br />
<br />
==Housing Availability Search==<br />
<br />
Alternative Housing-Search<br />
Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")<br />
<br />
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :<br />
<br />
Purchase :<br />
<br />
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/anzeigen<br />
<br />
Rent :<br />
<br />
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100<br />
<br />
Land and Building Projects :<br />
<br />
http://lwbimmobilien.de/<br />
<br />
==Buildings of Interest==<br />
<br />
In Neustadt :<br />
<br />
In ...<br />
<br />
===Gasometer===<br />
<br />
<br />
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=4276236400981551169&q=gasometer+leipzig&hl=de&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=3zWVTKHsNo6h_Ab_4OXbAQ&sig2=zeauLQrFuK9fcOiOZpleGw<br />
<br />
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/<br />
<br />
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=leipzig+germany&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.817312,58.798828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Bundesrepublik+Deutschland&ll=51.352624,12.379602&spn=0.000985,0.001794&t=h&z=19<br />
<br />
it most likely looks like this from inside :<br />
<br />
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg<br />
<br />
==Modular Housing==<br />
<br />
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki<br />
<br />
==Spime Housing and Furnitecture==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
Using Tensegrity,<br />
organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders",<br />
but also architects, engineers, students...<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
==Groups for Leipzig== <br />
<br />
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.<br />
* Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig<br />
* Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing<br />
<br />
==Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure<br />
<br />
===Infrastructure Mapping===<br />
<br />
[http://www.integralcity.com/civil-society/map-visions-and-values-assets.html Link to Integral Cities]<br />
<br />
==Culture and Community==<br />
<br />
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm<br />
<br />
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )<br />
<br />
==Art Center==<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html<br />
<br />
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"<br />
<br />
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html<br />
<br />
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"<br />
<br />
==Income Streams & Local Economy==<br />
<br />
Ideally (according to [[User:Dante|Dante]]), developing "[[resilient communities]]" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from [[food]] to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "[http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology Open Source Ecology]" such as "[http://factorefarm.org/ Factor E-Farm]".<br />
<br />
===Cooperative Ecology Project===<br />
<br />
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation wiki] you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons commons]. <br />
<br />
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.<br />
<br />
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_in_Multi-Unit_Housing on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing].<br />
<br />
==="Jobless Recovery"===<br />
<br />
http://www.pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html<br />
<br />
===Example - New York Manufacturing Cooperative / Lab===<br />
<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/nyregion/brooklyn-navy-yard-is-home-to-manufacturing-cooperative.html?_r=0<br />
<br />
<br />
===Other brainstormings===<br />
<br />
====First stage ?====<br />
* Collaborative research<br />
* Plan development<br />
* Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig<br />
* Musical Parties<br />
* Added value food production ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food slow food] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksküche volks kuche] ? )<br />
* Events and [[hospitality]]<br />
<br />
====Not for Private Profit Shops====<br />
<br />
* Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/<br />
* Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres - <br />
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
* "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche<br />
<br />
====Volunteering Initiatives====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service<br />
<br />
More info regarding EVS :<br />
<br />
Overall overview with short video presentation :<br />
<br />
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html<br />
<br />
current partner organizations data base :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm<br />
<br />
procedures<br />
<br />
for volunteers :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm<br />
<br />
====Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded program ?<br />
<br />
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/<br />
<br />
=====Note : Entredonneurship=====<br />
<br />
"Entre-Donneur"<br />
<br />
= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', <br />
proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Entredonneur<br />
<br />
http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/EntreDonneur<br />
<br />
====Fablabs/Workshops====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab<br />
<br />
====Earth De-polluting Cooperative====<br />
<br />
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify<br />
industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
====Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives====<br />
<br />
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design<br />
<br />
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "<br />
<br />
====Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing====<br />
<br />
see above - <br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing<br />
<br />
====Energy====<br />
<br />
Various sources of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy renewable energy] can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water,<br />
and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
=====Internal Combustion=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle<br />
<br />
=====Electrolysis=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water<br />
<br />
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy<br />
<br />
====Alternative Engine Propulsion====<br />
<br />
See [[Resilient Engine]]<br />
<br />
====Building Open Source Cars====<br />
<br />
TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8jdx-lf2Dw<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Wikispeed<br />
<br />
http://www.wikispeed.com/<br />
<br />
====Distribution of Peer Production====<br />
<br />
=====Fair Ware=====<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare<br />
<br />
''' proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure" '''<br />
<br />
====== Fair Ware Goals ======<br />
<br />
* bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way<br />
* make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met <br />
*** creative people get their share<br />
*** producers can produce under human conditions<br />
*** users get quality and reliability<br />
* foster cooperation and improved product design<br />
* facilitate quality control by branding<br />
* exert democratic control over a brand name<br />
* create resilience towards proprietory action<br />
* empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro<br />
<br />
<br />
=====Local Food Distribution=====<br />
<br />
Open Ideo :<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/<br />
<br />
==Food Production==<br />
<br />
===Allotment Gardens===<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany<br />
<br />
''<br />
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "''<br />
<br />
===Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems===<br />
<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems<br />
<br />
<br />
===Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"===<br />
<br />
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative,<br />
"back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,<br />
<br />
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
See historical perspective :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement<br />
<br />
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading<br />
<br />
Links - Local Food Project :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100<br />
<br />
<br />
===Open Source Ecology===<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm<br />
<br />
Germany :<br />
<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/ (in English)<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/aufbau-der-ose-community-in-deutschland/ (in German)<br />
<br />
==Mesh Communication Networks==<br />
<br />
Contributing to ( ? )<br />
<br />
http://leipzig.freifunk.net/<br />
<br />
==Alternative Finance==<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies,<br />
which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.<br />
<br />
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.<br />
<br />
==Alternative University and learning infrastructures==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig<br />
<br />
==Other Hubs with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
===Other Similar Projects===<br />
<br />
http://neotribalism.net/about.htm<br />
<br />
- excerpt of vision -<br />
<br />
In the near term : <br />
To create a wide variety of socially and environmentally sustainable households that each serve as a community for 10 - 20 people who share a common vision and who compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.<br />
<br />
In the long term :<br />
To create a diverse network of sustainable neoTribal villages that are composed of 10 - 20 households that are not reliant upon the current global economy and infrastructure.<br />
<br />
==Restoring Vibrancy in Declining Cities==<br />
<br />
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/brief.html<br />
<br />
==Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy==<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy<br />
<br />
==p2p Open Urbanism==<br />
<br />
http://berlinergazette.de/open-source-stadt-gemeingut-stadtplanung/<br />
<br />
==Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City==<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
===A Vision for Shareable Cities [VIDEO]===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video<br />
<br />
===Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy===<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy<br />
<br />
===#12: Food Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing<br />
<br />
===#11: Urban Agriculture===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture<br />
<br />
===#10: Shareable Rooftops===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops<br />
<br />
===#9: Recreational Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces<br />
<br />
===#8: Shareable Workspaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces<br />
<br />
===#7: Shareable Neighborhoods===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods<br />
<br />
===#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs<br />
<br />
===#5: Shareable Housing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing<br />
<br />
===#4: Shareable Commercial Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces<br />
<br />
===#3: Bike Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing<br />
<br />
===#2: Ride Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing<br />
<br />
===#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing<br />
<br />
==People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )==<br />
<br />
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...<br />
<br />
<br />
==City Infrastructures==<br />
<br />
===Transportation===<br />
<br />
===S Bahn===<br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794 <br />
<br />
*Leipzig Linien 1 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015 <br />
<br />
*Linien 2 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442 <br />
<br />
ps: ideal when coming <br />
from some other place in Germany :<br />
regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 <br />
euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn<br />
<br />
===Tram Lines===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/<br />
<br />
===New Transportation Infrastructures===<br />
<br />
====Underground Train====<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving.<br />
Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."<br />
<br />
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut:<br />
Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"<br />
<br />
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.<br />
<br />
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Urban Planning Projects ===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/<br />
<br />
==Some Historical Facts and People==<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria#History Phantasmagoria in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Leipzig_.281723.E2.80.9350.29 Bach in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
==City History==<br />
<br />
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/<br />
<br />
==Suggested Neighbourhoods==<br />
<br />
expensive ones:<br />
<br />
Südvorstadt (south)<br />
<br />
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )<br />
<br />
connewitz ( south )<br />
<br />
becoming expensive:<br />
<br />
lindenau<br />
<br />
plagwitz<br />
here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.<br />
<br />
cheaper ones :<br />
<br />
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east<br />
<br />
Stötteritz - east<br />
<br />
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :<br />
<br />
reutnitz - east<br />
Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.<br />
<br />
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.<br />
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klein zschocher - south west<br />
<br />
==Past Meetings==<br />
<br />
August 2010, 3 first weeks :<br />
<br />
http://ecotopia2010.org/<br />
<br />
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53071439438&ref=ts Ecotopia Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : [http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof,+Wiesenburg,+Germany&sll=52.237051,12.903442&sspn=0.713169,2.113495&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof+Wiesenburg,+Potsdam-Mittelmark,+Brandenburg,+Germany&t=h&ll=52.001792,12.348633&spn=1.684172,3.378296&z=8 Map Link]<br />
<br />
Contact [[User:Dante|Dante]] as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize,<br />
in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.<br />
<br />
==Geographical Layering Information==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions,<br />
for representing various data about the project on layered maps,<br />
facilitating open collaboration.<br />
<br />
See discussion on :<br />
<br />
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263<br />
<br />
also considering drupal gmap extension :<br />
<br />
http://drupal.org/project/gmap<br />
<br />
===Linked Geo Data===<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/About<br />
<br />
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.<br />
<br />
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
( based in Leipzig )<br />
<br />
==Mapping for Change==<br />
<br />
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/<br />
<br />
"Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication. Our work has a strong focus on engaging and empowering communities to make positive transformations to their localities. "<br />
<br />
==Semantic Web and Graphs==<br />
<br />
http://www.automenta.com/<br />
<br />
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) <br />
Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html <br />
<br />
===AKSW Department at University of Leipzig===<br />
<br />
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.<br />
<br />
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/<br />
<br />
==Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration==<br />
<br />
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's,<br />
and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space",<br />
and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.<br />
<br />
==Events in Leipzig==<br />
<br />
===Annual "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"===<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php<br />
<br />
''"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany''."<br />
<br />
===Bach Festival===<br />
Bachfest takes place every summer. Links:<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/index.php?id=26&L=1<br />
<br />
==Articles and Reports==<br />
<br />
===ARD German News Reportage===<br />
<br />
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/mittagsmagazin/leipzig-boomt?documentId=12240372<br />
<br />
===Market speculation in Leipzig ?===<br />
<br />
http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/leipzig/citynews/mietpreise-fuer-wohnungen-in-leipzig-deutlich-gestiegen-vor-allem-westliche-stadtteile-boomen/r-citynews-a-106789.html<br />
<br />
==Other interesting projects in Nearby Cities==<br />
<br />
Halle-Saale : http://www.postkult.de/ ( "urban development from below" )<br />
<br />
<br />
===Additional References===<br />
<br />
via Christine ( http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de ) <br />
<br />
this organisation published a <br />
<br />
====cook-book==== <br />
<br />
presenting 55 projects all located <br />
<br />
=====in kreuzberg:=====<br />
<br />
http://www.buechertisch.org/uber-uns/wer-sind-wir/<br />
<br />
health project since squatting times<br />
<br />
http://www.heilehaus-berlin.de/<br />
<br />
<br />
====poland====<br />
<br />
http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/en_info.asp?id=83326<br />
<br />
=====students organisation in szczecin=====<br />
<br />
, poland<br />
<br />
http://newfamilyway.blogspot.de/p/our-contribution-nasz-wkad.html<br />
<br />
i do know dagna and tomek. you can write in german and english.<br />
<br />
<br />
====network of collectively organised work==== <br />
<br />
i put down just three co-working spaces as example:<br />
<br />
http://www.hinkelstein-druck.de/<br />
http://www.tantehorst.de/<br />
http://schnittstelle.blogsport.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.nadeshda.org/nadeshda.html<br />
<br />
====gewerbehof, genossenschaft, kollekive zusammenschlüsse====<br />
<br />
http://www.gidak.de/<br />
http://www.mehringhof.de/<br />
http://www.kerngehaeuse.de/<br />
http://www.ufafabrik.de/intro.php<br />
<br />
====housing projects====<br />
<br />
http://www.wohnportal-berlin.de/<br />
http://www.hausprojekte-solidarfonds.de/<br />
http://www.selbstbau-eg.de/<br />
<br />
====French Pdf on Cohousing====<br />
<br />
"Vivre en cohabitat,reconstruire des villages en ville"<br />
<br />
http://public.citymined.org/MICRONOMICS/vivre%20en%20cohabitat%20lietart%20article.pdf<br />
<br />
====activists, researchers====<br />
<br />
http://www.voss.solioeko.de/<br />
http://www.technet-berlin.de/mitarbeiterinnen.html<br />
<br />
====financing====<br />
<br />
http://www.labournet.de/stiftungMundA/index.html<br />
http://www.netzwerk-selbsthilfe.de<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.haushalten.org/ Haushalten.org] (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes<br />
** [http://www.haushalten.org/de/english_summary.asp Summary in English] (en)<br />
* [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat] (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany<br />
* [http://sublab.org/ Sublab.org] (de) - Hack space in Leipzig ([http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sublab Hackerspaces entry])<br />
* [http://de.veganwiki.org/vegane_vokue#leipzig de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig] (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes<br />
* [http://kuhturm.de/ kuhturm.de] (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of [http://benn.org/ Meinhard] :)<br />
* http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.<br />
* http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)<br />
* [http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel Rockzipfel Leipzig] (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children<br />
* http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase - see link below for update)<br />
* http://schwarz10.de/ Same Housing project, Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 , a few years later <br />
* [http://www.lvz-online.de/ LVZ-Online] (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]<br />
* "Hypezig" - Article in German : http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/Hypezig;art4306,2621248<br />
* "Hypezig" - Another Article in French : http://www.slate.fr/monde/85083/leipzig-nouveau-berlin-hipster<br />
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[[Category:Projects]]<br />
[[Category:Sharespaces]]<br />
[[Category:Nomadbase]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Spime_Housing&diff=24639Spime Housing2017-09-28T11:27:05Z<p>Dante: temporary spaces from logistical solutions by combining underused resources in modular approaches</p>
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''This article is about housing and functional spaces as a logistical solution , collected by [[User:Dante|Dante]] for the [[Antwerp Collective]] hosting research and development in 2014.''<br />
<br />
=Nomad Spimed Settlements=<br />
as follow up on [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/econowmix/L19AhXhUiaA/Q2HlGFmAVfoJ email conversations],<br />
<br />
reply by [http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.eric.hunting Eric Hunting] :<br />
<br />
I'd like to explore this idea of a nomadic/[http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism festivalist] approach a bit further and try visualizing such a project in terms of structures and activity. In another thread you note the idea of a Spimed Nomad Aggregator. Let me know how close to the mark I am, but I interpret that idea as being a kind of communal construct based on a nomadic approach to architecture that serves as a socialization, information, and production nexus for a nomadic community implementing some kind of semantic web platform as--among other uses--the basis of a spime characterizing its physical construction and systems. I would tend to visualize this as a kind of pop-up eco-village built as an emergent, modular, construct reconfiguring to different local situations and fluctuating population, building knowledge through the spime it creates about its own systems and structures. It's sort of like a traveling exposition of neo-nomadic/mobile-Maker/deployable eco-tech technology and culture. It serves not only as a physical nexus of activity--a festival--but a 'broadcaster', physically propagating itself through its open spime and the more-or-less independent production of its vernacular architecture and systems inspired/stimulated elsewhere by its presence and media output. It's almost a sort of Internet-viral urbanism.<br />
<br />
The chief advantages--in theory--of a project based on this idea, compared to a more permanent settlement, are that it's potentially cheaper up-front since it needs no permanent real estate, it's more suited to distributed support/production, it can potentially repurpose found structures, and by moving around it can reach more people. But it also has one disadvantage in that it's a much tougher challenge to achieve any sort of subsistence capability. Mobile systems of production are limited to smaller scales. A lot of things that could really achieve some functional production in a more permanent setting may be limited to just demonstrations. But maybe that's OK in the context of exposition. You're reaching many more people than you could with something out in the countryside<br />
<br />
There would seem to be a lot of current relevance for this concept. We are entering an age where impacts of Global Warming, the general failure of economics, and runaway austerity psychosis are putting billions of people out of their homes, on the move, and into jeopardy. And the market/state/militarist solutions to this have typically been institutional violence, denigration, and disenfranchisement. New Nomadism represents a kind of reaction to, protest of, and spotlight on, that. A functional nomadic _community_ offers the prospect of not only independent infrastructures of life-support with the possibility of dignified standards-of-living but, perhaps more importantly, social infrastructures for political and economic empowerment.<br />
<br />
So far, though, explorations of new nomadic architecture have not produced functional contemporary vernaculars. Systems people can pick-up and go with relying on their own production or many common sources. The closest we've come to this is cargotecture--which, even with new flat-pack container modules, remains far too bulky to really be nomadic. Current design is mostly focused on the solitary individual or household rather than communities. Many variations on the theme of a Swiss Army Knife of shelter. It's in contexts of camping, novelty design-art, disaster relief, and very thoughtful and clever solutions for the homeless that never get out of a student designer's portfolio to actually reach them because there's no market to drive production and no social production as an alternative. This isn't to say there hasn't been a lot of really nice, useful and clever design in this area but if its just about one-off microshelters and solitary self-sufficiency it may be missing the point.<br />
<br />
As beautiful as they are, the tipi, lavvu, and yurt are artifacts of specific cultures and environments. Situations different from the contemporary, predominately urban, situation even in the developing world. I think we need to look beyond the Swiss Army Knife of shelter to nomadic _habitats_. Urban constructs with collective infrastructures and--more importantly--collective social/political power.<br />
<br />
So what does all that mean in terms of architecture? My first thought here was to imagine a very high-tech pop-up eco-village based on a sophisticated deployable superstructure. But then I realized there's another issue with this. Before we can answer this question, we need to have some clearer idea of the contemporary nomadic situation--it's context of location, environment, use, and mobility. We can seek a 'total' solution that physically suits a lot of situations--which was my first thought--but I came to realize that quickly gets very sophisticated in terms of fabrication and physically bulky, which challenges mobility. We start talking about tool-less quick-assembled multi-storey modular building systems mainstream industry has yet to get their act together with.<br />
<br />
I think we need to first ask, where does this Maker-Nomad we are imagining live (or should that be phrased, where _can_ he live) and how does he get around? Tipis, lavvus, and yurts were designed by cultures that lived in the open--on plains/tundra--and moved cargo around primarily by sledges and wagons with the aid of animals. If the contemporary nomad is predominately living in an urban environment, he's getting around and using his surrounding environment very differently. Where and how does he 'make camp'?<br />
<br />
==Urban Alchemy==<br />
<br />
I've long had this fantasy about a Maker community that takes over an abandoned suburban corporate campus--a relic of a recently-collapsed economy--and repurposes its neglected low-rise office buildings into a high-tech eco-village. They tear out the asphalt to make farms, parks, and Living Machines, strip down and clean up the concrete and steel skeletons, give them new skins of architectural membranes, living walls, algaeculture frames, and solar walls supported with spaceframes, and then retrofit their interiors for tribal cohabitation. Turn them into new Hakka Houses. It might look something like this;<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmhdezhdez/sets/72157624731049557/<br />
<br />
I even considered developing an outquisition-theme comic book from this, though science fiction is surprisingly rare in comics, and 'hard' SF virtually non-existant. I never seem to to find artists who can get beyond superheroes, medieval fantasy, and p. The theme of MacGyver-esque young people re-inventing the future the previous generation turned its back on and fixing the world with new green technology as the Industrial Age collapses is a bit beyond their ken...<br />
<br />
Be that as it may, if we are visualizing the contemporary nomad as something like this--as a sophisticated urban nomad operating predominately in an urban environment, getting around mostly by street travel and the urban transit infrastructure, and repurposing its existing architecture by quick retrofit--then we have defined a context that may offer us the easiest and lowest cost project scenario; an indoor eco-village.<br />
<br />
The indoor eco-village would be based on repurposing buildings much like those of the abandoned office park I described using portable 'pod furnitecture' and 'pod systems'. Deployable elements that you either easily take apart and pack-up and/or can move around on dollies, casters, and air-bearings. We're assuming that we're in an environment where you can move stuff around by hand cart and small light vehicle on relatively smooth streets and roads, have access to freight elevators to move through buildings, and where there is not a necessity for perfectly weatherproof structures because we're deploying mostly indoors--using existing structures or maybe deployable large area structures as 'skybreaks'. We're talking about a habitat sort of like this on a larger scale with more diversity of elements;<br />
<br />
http://www.theworkhome.com/media/images/galleries/ban-naked-house-800-web.jpg<br />
<br />
Setup in spaces like this;<br />
<br />
http://blog.anti-limited.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/pano_rw_l2_1500px.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.discovery-place.co.uk/library/images/789.jpg<br />
<br />
http://guessbook.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/img_8145.jpeg<br />
<br />
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5192/5858674582_d3cd64c0a2_z.jpg<br />
<br />
http://nursing.johnshopkins.edu/sebin/h/o/parking_garage_empty.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.dowkimbrell.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/miami-parking-garage.jpg<br />
<br />
Or under deployable skybreaks like this;<br />
<br />
http://s3-media1.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/MG2RgygjIH1yMLkq_q6yCA/l.jpg<br />
<br />
http://us.freedomes.com/uploads/media_items/lech-wybrzeze11.900.600.1.s.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.tensilesystems.com/images/slides/banner17.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/germany/treehugger_pavilion.htm<br />
<br />
So what is 'pod furnitecture'? I invented the term 'furnitecture' to describe indoor structures which bridge the line between furniture and architecture by virtue of a more volumetric use of space or by employing independent enclosure. Pod furnitecture refers more specifically to designs that are more enclosure-oriented, more self-contained in design, more 'appliance-like', and more inclined to be moved around as whole units.<br />
<br />
Ken Isaacs' legendary Living Structures are furnitecture;<br />
<br />
http://www.we-find-wildness.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/KEN-ISAACS-8.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.habiter-autrement.org/08.minimaliste/im-08/urbannomadics-livingstructures1.jpg<br />
<br />
http://radio-weblogs.com/0119080/images/Gallery/livingcube1.jpg<br />
<br />
Things like Roger and Martyn Dean's Retreat Pod, Andrea Zittel's Wagon Stations, or the many forms of 'sleeping pods' derived from the Japanese Capsule Hotel unit are pod furnitecture.<br />
<br />
http://www.enthea.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/retreatpod01.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.meganwilson.com/subtexts/ccpod1.jpg<br />
<br />
http://deepspacearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/andreaanddavid_photobyd-dodge_0577.jpeg<br />
<br />
http://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/sleepbox_01.jpg<br />
<br />
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/Interxionjpg.jpg<br />
<br />
http://thedesigncritic.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/obsideon-airport-sleeping-concept5.jpg<br />
<br />
http://tommytoy.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f3a4072c970b0147e0ae19d2970b-550wi<br />
<br />
These things relate to the concept of 'pod living' that was often explored by designers in the 1960s, based on the notion of reducing the functional elements of homes to a set of appliance-like objects that could be freely repositioned in the living space. (though their origins actually go back to ancient times and the independently enclosed beds common to many cultures) It failed to catch on because, in practice, conventional urban apartment space is very specialized and permanently compartmentalized, didn't accommodate open plan living until the 'lofting' trend came along, and couldn't well accommodate the use of 'appliances' the size of a small car… But in the large-span space its very convenient. I'm very fond of the concept myself because it very well suits the use of pavilion housing--housing based on the use of physically simple free-standing independent roof structures creating freely-reconfigured open-plan environments. This can greatly economize on the cost of housing by radically reducing interior finishing costs, which represent most of the costs in a home, while allowing for different low-toxic materials. I'm rather obsessed with the notion of housing that's 'PC-like'.<br />
<br />
Moving In:<br />
<br />
So how would we implement this indoor eco-village? What would it be like? Let's assume that we have at-hand a stripped unused urban structure as I've imagined. Pretty much a bare concrete skeleton of several floors in height. There may be intact window-walls or maybe the first thing our nomads need to do is setup a new 'skin' for the building.<br />
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Our imagined nomads have made a collection of deployable pods and other hardware that provide shelter and a mobile utilities infrastructure. They would have personal cabin pods--mostly for sleeping and storing personal goods--possibly some office pods for those who feel a need for a more quiet and isolated workspace the help concentration, and a number of systems and service pods. Telescoping T-slot jack-posts that compress between floor and ceiling would support some assembled pods and also serve for partitions, screens, light shelves, lamps, and many other items. QuaDror type supports ( http://www.quadror.com/ ) might also find many uses among pod and other deployable elements. All-in-one bathroom pods would use incinerating toilets. (the most convenient, compact, and low-impact means to handle that with portable hardware, but requiring venting and a lot of power or the use of canister fuel) Collapsable membrane water tanks reinforced by folding wire cages would be placed on plastic pallets to create mobile water storage where there is no adequate link to urban water supplies. These would also be used with some hydroponics systems for greywater recycling. There are modular kitchen pods. Various storage pods. Open/deployable or enclosed lounge pods with entertainment systems. There would be a power center pod that hosts batteries and controllers for deployable solar and wind systems and maybe a companion self-contained fuel cell or microturbine pod that runs on bio-ethenol. This is the same fuel that is now used for ventless low-heat indoor fireplaces and perhaps our nomads might even have such a symbolic 'hearth' in a mobile pod. There's a communications and data center pod that has server racks and provides a WiFi node while linking to existing telecom networks or using a WiFi/WiMax link on the roof. And, of course, there are various production workstation pods that fill out the tools and facilities of a community workshop/fab lab. With this pod concept we can make many of the larger tools of independent production more self-contained and mobile. Flat bed cutters and milling machines of various sorts on their own wheels. 3D printers on wheels up to 3m cubed.<br />
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Rooftop area would be a precious commodity with competition for use between solar/wind power, rainwater catchment, solar distillation, and gardening. So a more efficient way to go would be to employ vertical farming on lower building levels. Hanging Living Wall felt panels and vertical hydroponics systems like ZipGrow would be easy to install along the south-facing edges of the structure and still allow ambient light in.<br />
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Such systems are not only much easier to deploy than typical hydroponics, they would allow for the transport of hydroponics systems without removal of plants and the carrying of plants to market in their own means of attractive display.<br />
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In addition to quickly deployable solar panels--possibly using roll-up systems based on flexcell tarps ( http://buildaroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/solar-tent-e1286834244609.jpg )--and deployable wind turbines ( https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cU9AjwGVuXKSVCnYN2xOQ6XIzg5hbg-p_jvw622pw-7xfYlgTLgpOfRuApO8Dby-rOhqE57-7QTSe5hzoxElZuQeAQZ4y-Qpm-bwPeqTFv5D5SzNCUY ), the nomads may employ modular fiber optic heliostat arrays;<br />
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These would allow natural sunlight to be piped in on cable like electric power to illuminate the interior of the building and even plug-into individual pods. Fiber optic lighting systems would generally be safer, easier to install, and much more energy efficient (as much as 40% more efficient) because they eliminate discrete electric lighting fixtures and the electrical wiring to link them up. So the nomad's power pods might feature a hybrid fiber lighting center where an electric light pump is combined with heliostat input and then distributes light by cable to the rest of the complex. These would very safely combine with structures made of fabrics or be used outdoors or in wet areas.<br />
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Fiber lighting can be placed in any orientation so by combining this source of piped-in sunlight with a cylindrical pod structure to hang our vertical hydroponics on, it would be possible to make self-contained farming pods that could be placed anywhere indoors for intensive farming.<br />
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This form of lighting also allows for more sculptural uses of indoor hydroponics.<br />
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Solar thermal systems would be used for several different purposes using a hybrid heat exchange manifold. The conventional use would be for hot water heating. Then there would be use to drive solar air conditioning and water generation using adsorption coolers. And finally it would drive distillation to purifiy the water output from greywater Living Machines or rainwater catchment. This demands a pretty high-temperature system which may call for things like vacuum tube solar thermal collectors. These are not usually very portable so there would be a design challenge in their use. Perhaps solar concentrator heliostat heaters may be a more deployable and active system alternative.<br />
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Algaeculture, for food or fuels, can also be produced in much the same way as hydroponics using similarly portable supported or hanging vertical systems. Special processing and bio-reactor pods would be used to convert algae into either food or ethanol.<br />
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Not everything in the indoor village would be strictly utilitarian as the objective is to demonstrate a high potential standard of living and so some things that might seem frivolous by our usually militaristic notions of 'camping' would likely be included. Things like deployable art installations, museums, spas, multi-media entertainment pods akin to karaoke rooms, micro-planetariums, deployable theaters, facilities for pets, and so on.<br />
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Organization of the nomads' indoor village would depend on the topology of the structure they take over but a general order might see the rooftop employed chiefly for the different forms of energy collection, the floor below that used for water storage, intensive farming, and food storage, the floor below that for residence and common lounge/dining spaces, then a floor for the collective workshop/studio space, and at the bottom would be the 'garage' for the nomad's alternative forms of vehicles and more storage for shop supplies. The village may evolve through several stage of development, starting out very 'lean' with private space established primarily by the personal cabin pods in clusters around common lounge centers. Over time, however, individual living space may grow to clusters of multiple types of personal furnitecture enclosed in partitions and modular storage systems increasingly better insulated for sound.<br />
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Getting Around:<br />
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Getting around in lean and green fashion is a big deal and would be a constant obsession for the nomads. Most of the elements of the indoor village would be designed for relatively easy transport in the manner of push-carts, the urban landscape offering relatively easy mobility for things with relatively small wheels. Some towing devices--Segway-like walking tractors similar to two-wheel tugs used to move light planes in hangars or tow luggage carts in airports--might be devised to further aid this.<br />
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Powered hand carts are also likely and not unknown on the market.<br />
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These simple mechanisms could also be integrated into the design of some frequently moved pods.<br />
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An electric or hybrid version of the classic military mule would be ideal for an endless variety of uses and could host its own power charging with flex-cell canopies. With mecanum wheel drive, as used in some materials handling robots and fork lifts now, it could be the ultimate urban utility transport.<br />
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But it's likely that the nomads would experiment with a large assortment of electric, hybrid, and human powered vehicles both for use indoors and on the street and this could be one of the quite fun aspect of this project.<br />
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I'm rather fond of the simple tuk-tuk myself, which are now commonly electric.<br />
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Future or Fantasy?:<br />
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I think a demonstration of this model of nomadism is very feasible and could be explored on different scales, from a one-floor installation to a whole building and with a variety of variations in situation. But there's a critical question here. How realistic would this example be?<br />
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My fantasy example of a Maker community taking over an office park is premised on the notion of a regional economic collapse that leaves both original property owners and municipal governments too bankrupt to oppose what this community does with the space. (something that might only actually exist in the US in Detroit…) In practice, American municipal/city governments always resist any activity unconventional in nature. Anything new, different, and lacking the stamp of approval by members of the upper-class is assumed wrong by default and violently attacked. I often say that the NYPD has probably gleefully destroyed more art than the Taliban. Is our nomadic scenario only possible in a somewhat dystopian future? Would the modern urban nomad we imagine be allowed to exist anywhere? Is he forced to the edge of wilderness like everything else that's different?<br />
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Certainly, urban hackerspaces seem possible and so we could imagine this as an extension of that context. In a slumped real estate market, property owners would be more open to unconventional uses of their property at discount rates as long as it doesn't represent anything permanent in nature--which rationalizes the nomadic nature of this. One is always being evicted once the landlord finds more 'legitimate' tenants and forced to move on to another space. Certainly, the phenomenon of the arts community as agent of gentrification is well established. For a century, of not two, we've seen that artists, always seeking-out low-cost studio space in the depressed areas of cities, revitalize local real estate markets with their creation of a local 'arts scene'. Subsequently, they find themselves evicted from the communities they largely created as upper-class residents move in causing rents to become untenable. Could a similar phenomenon become a hallmark of Maker community activity, instigating entrepreneurial industry rather than an art scene? Perhaps it's most realistic to suggest that our nomads would be living in a variety of situations, sometimes having to deal with rural or wilderness environments. (which would certainly be the case when engaging in developing world outreach or disaster aid) In my comic book fantasy the Maker nomads use adaptive reuse to turn all sorts of obsolete structures into bases as they travel the world; shopping malls, forgotten missile silos, water and gas tanks, subway stations, limestone mines, cooling towers of abandoned nuclear reactors, amusement parks, abandoned ships--all kinds of architectural detritus of the Industrial Age given unusual new life.<br />
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But if our imagined nomads are compelled to work on the urban periphery or in wilderness then they are faced with a new set of challenges and the requirement to create mobile superstructures that assume the roles of the urban superstructures they would have repurposed.<br />
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==Not-So-Urban Nomad==<br />
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Interestingly, while the work of Ken Isaacs with his Living Structures strongly influenced the emergence of an Urban Nomad movement in the late 1960s and early '70s, it was a very brief movement largely because it's image of the future failed to materialize. It was premised on the notion of imminent Post-Industrial collapse long anticipated across the '60s and the vision of a more sophisticated youth culture adopting a more-or-less seasonally nomadic way of life repurposing the detritus of the Industrial Age as the civilization re-wired itself. The economic collapse was postponed and, frankly, that sophisticated urban youth culture never emerged because, through runaway gentrification, the cities became untenable in their mid-century role as home of young adults entering the workforce, the market clued-into the tactic of co-opting youth culture by stealing it, re-packaging it, and selling it back to them, while a conspiracy of academia and the banking system began indenturing the young with life-long debt right out of school. So what we really ended up with, at least in the US, was a suburban youth culture where kids stayed at home with parents well into adulthood or formed tribes of friends to cohabitate in rented inner-suburban houses or low-rise apartment complexes while seeking commuter jobs like their parents.<br />
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So in his later work Isaacs started move away from the city too. He went out to the country and started experimenting with semi-nomadic microhousing deployed on the woods. I say 'semi-nomadic' because it was still based on the idea of a culture that traveled with the seasons but now they were leaving structures behind with the expectation that they would be intact when they returned. He developed a concept called 'mobilism' where, instead of investing in one heavily overbuilt house, people would create these small very minimalist dwellings in multiple places and travel between them with the seasons, rather like some herding folk or trappers who create support buildings in strategic places along their routine migration. The houses didn't need to be heavily insulated or equipped--they would each only be used in mild climate and the more valuable 'gear' would be moved between them. So it was sort of like urban nomadism without the city architecture to provide the superstructure. You were making that yourself and leaving it behind in a number of places.<br />
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You could say this was a sort of Modernist version of a Faerie Court lifestyle. In Celtic folklore the Faerie Court is always on the move. They're nature spirits, traveling across the landscape, doing their stuff to drive the cycles of the seasons. So, traveling in grand processions by night, they go from barrow mound to glen to grotto to ruins creating temporary, and normally invisible, palaces of the places they stop at. So these various permanent features of the landscape become the markers of stations of the cycle of their travels. It parallels, in ways, the nature of seasonal royal processions and the movement of noble courts among different seasonal palaces.<br />
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But there was one part of this idea that Isaacs never quite managed to make work. Originally, he described mobilism as employing minimalist structures as rugged as an anvil so they could survive through their unused seasons. He never quite managed to create that because, frankly, it meant heavy construction he couldn't do. For this idea to really work, your structures, though minimalist, need to be extremely resilient to weather and vandalism. (especially vandalism if they're on the suburban periphery. Young people there have a lot of frustration to vent and a chronic lack of spaces to call their own…) His experimental constructs of plywood and pipe-fitting systems weren't likely to survive a typical winter.<br />
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Taking a much heavier structural approach, our imagined nomads might explore this strategy by creating a series of free-standing single-storey pavilion structures in strategic countryside locations that assume the same function of the office building structures they would use in an urban environment. Imagine a series of simple bare Brutalist pavilions made of reinforced concrete (tridipanel for easiest construction), stacked stone, fired brick, gabions (building stone baskets), or even boulders and possibly employing various forms of earth-berming.<br />
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Since these would be purpose-built, the structures might include a grid of formed-in plug-in sockets like those used for climbing form systems or flush-mounted T-slot rails that provide built-in attachment points for quick-mount elements. These might also be used to close-up the structures with steel shutters when not in use. They might also include some utilities--wells and septic tanks in particular--and inserts for gas, wood, or pellet stoves. Internet connections may be more difficult to establish with such locations but long-distance bridge links may be a serviceable alternative to the poor value service of contemporary satellite ISPs. One unusual possible feature unique to this culture might be built-in 'dead drops'. These are embedded digital storage devices like flash drives that would be used to store some spime data and residents information. Sort of a digital guest book. These days they can even be wireless, since we not only have WiFi flash drives by WiFi power recovery to charge them. ( http://deaddrops.com/ )<br />
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These pavilions would take various forms; simple rectangles and polygons, circles, rings, or domes sized to accommodate many people in one multi-function structure or a cluster/compound of smaller structures of more specialized use and small groups.<br />
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During mild seasons, the pavilions would be inhabited just as the urban buildings were, using the same pod furnitecture and retrofit systems. When not in use, they would be stripped down and closed up, the community moving to other compounds with milder seasonal climate. If sufficiently secure, they might also serve as materials and data systems caches. This is actually an approach to architecture I have intended to use myself for my own low-toxic home--albeit with a more permanent enclosure and utilities installation. There is an endless variety of simple pavilion structures--many prefab--that can be easily turned into palatial homes with a little ingenuity. Relying on open-plan living and furnitecture eliminates the conventional interior finishing that is not only a major source of indoor chemical pollution but also the largest portion of housing construction cost.<br />
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The chief drawback of this approach is that, at present, the nomad community would ultimately need to own the land for these locations in order to build such structures. The community may be mobile, but this property and heavy structures put on it are not. But if that issue could be overcome, the approach would technically work.<br />
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==Pop-Up Microcity==<br />
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A more completely mobile approach, however, would require our nomads' architecture to move beyond pod-furnitecture to include the deployment of portable, demountable, superstructures to host them, which brings us back to the notion of a pop-up eco-village.<br />
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As noted earlier, skybreak shelters such as deployable tension roofs and tent-domes can work as hosts for the indoor village, functioning much the same as the proposed heavy pavilion shelters only lacking a ceiling and so relying mostly on free-standing elements. They would need level deck systems, but that's a standard feature for many existing event domes and pavilions. Thanks to modern materials, such structures can be as durable as any permanent buildings, be completely transparent, can integrate their own photovoltaic panels using flex-cells, and recently even EL paints have appeared allowing us to paint-on lighting. ( http://www.lumilor.com/ ) The critical limitation of these structures is that they are not modular (even though domes may have a modular framing system, their tent skins are not) and the larger their necessary enclosure area the larger their basic structural elements become, making them progressively more difficult to deploy. But as with the heavy pavilions, replicating multiple structures of a relatively large but still manageable size is a workable solution.<br />
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But can we do better? These skybreaks aren't quite as versatile or durable as the repurposed urban buildings we imagined our nomads inhabiting at first. They aren't volumetric and our village would be inclined to sprawl and fracture--to become more suburban. Even relatively modest sized tent covers could take many people to deploy or remove. Can we realize a more modular, urban, superstructure and still have it relatively easily demountable and transportable?<br />
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This is where the modular building systems I noted before come in; modular post & beam systems, space frame systems, and pavilion systems. They offer us two basic approaches to superstructure; a space-filling grid superstructure where our nomads' pod furnitecture evolves into a kind of plug-in architecture and a terraced superstructure that creates much the same kind of structure as the urban buildings. Both these things require--more-or-less--newly engineered modular building systems. There are no equivalents off-the-shelf, though some hardware that may be repurposed. But if kept relatively low in expected performance--let's say, limited to structures of about four storeys--they may be feasible near-term. Both of these also represent systems I've been trying to realize with the Utilihab project. So let me explain what these approaches are like.<br />
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A space-filling grid is a superstructure that uses some kind of space frame structure to fill space in a more-or-less regular volumetric grid. This might be based on a post & beam system or a triangulated space frame that creates some other kind of standard volumetric unit that can host a sizeable unit pod structure. (like nesting polyhedra networks, fractal 'sponges', and the like) This grid then supports habitable structures as retrofit attachments to this grid--systems of cabin pods, cabin 'bay' modules, and deck panels. Utilities systems may run internal to the space frame elements or be likewise retrofit. The space frame is generally exposed, requiring pod elements to be independently weatherproofed, but can also be enclosed by an exterior skin/panel system or retrofit roofing systems.<br />
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A simple example of this approach is illustrated by Ken Isaac's designs using pipe-fitting systems for his early 'mobilist' experiments.<br />
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Here he used a pipe-fitting system as an exposed post & beam space frame resting on small cement pads. Stressed skin plywood cabin units and deck pallet modules simply fit in the open space and attach to the frame. At the modest scale of these designs--unit ~1.5m cubed--this supposedly worked well though the cabin modules were not large enough to stand up in unless designed for vertical orientation. To overcome this limitation, whole or large parts of the space frame could be enclosed by an external plywood skin, leaving more 'headroom' in the open framing.<br />
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Others have more recently attempted the same structural approach at a larger scale. This example looks to be using around a 2.5m grid, which looks much more convenient but was probably not as sturdy.<br />
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Isaacs imagined this grid being incrementally expanded to fairly large complexes flowing over the terrain and, by the mobilism model, this frame hardware was intended to be left behind in seasonal migration. He considered his plywood constructions largely disposable. It's hard to imagine such very light structures as surviving well on their own. And pipe-fitting systems, even though a little bit improved today, rely on the friction of locking screws to hold everything together and so aren't the safest way to build things. Anything more than two levels is probably pushing it. But this is a good illustration. There are many things that can work similarly at this modest scale; modular industrial shelving, stacking post pallets ( http://www.palletower.com/images/product_images/up603p1.jpg ), plastic and aluminum pallets modified to attach support posts (like a giant version of plastic shelving http://www.pensito.eu/custom-made-plastic/custom-plastic-pallets/images/custom/01_CMP/cmp-custom-plastic-pallet-01.jpg ), on and on. I find the market of industrial materials handing products endlessly fascinating, even if much of it is rather specialized.<br />
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==Space Grid City==<br />
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But a practical system for our nomads--something large enough to be truly livable and functional for mobile production activity--would probably be much larger in scale and employ a much more substantial rigidly connected structural system even at the cost of higher mass. Let's say a space frame grid in something approximating 2.5-3m cubed. That would give us a very useful basic 'pod' size.<br />
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Utilihab is intended to produce just these kinds of structures using extruded aluminum T-slot framing. It's intended to use a bay size of up to 3m height in box units up to 6m square and with a load capacity supporting many storeys. The catch with it has been a lack of off-the-shelf T-slot profiles up to the ideal size of 150-200mm square. Very recently, however, a Chinese company may have just begun production of a profile of this size, though using a propriety connector.<br />
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There's a possibility that this could be very competitive in cost to US and European T-slot products because it's intended for building, not applications with an 'executive premium' attached. So we can now potentially build box frame grid complexes of quite large size using components that can be handled by very few people with convenient T-slot attachment all over their frame surfaces for convenient retrofit. This would be an excellent way to create a pop-up eco-village. Everything we can imagine could be easily integrated to this kind of grid structure. Weatherproof cabins could be made to generous size using walled tent schemes or panelized systems could be used for enclosure. Modular roofing systems could be employed. No question that this would be a more expensive, elaborate, and labor-intensive construction than the much simpler indoor village, but would all be easily demountable and use very few tools. The drawback is that, collectively, it's still a lot of hardware to transport from place to place. This would be much more involved than moving portable pods on wheels from place to place. We're probably talking shipping containers and conventional trucks to move this around. And, while it would be potentially very weather-resilient, it would still not be something one would want to leave on its own in the wilderness when not in use.<br />
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==Pavilion City==<br />
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The pavilion system approach is a more high-tech approach and at present no off-the-shelf structural system approximates it except, perhaps, some space frame systems. The basic idea is to use modular elements to create a deck and column system for terraced construction, producing a superstructure much like the conventional urban building but with much lighter materials and thus limited to fewer storeys. And because this is purpose-designed, the surface of the structure would be intended to support quick plug-in attachment of all the functional elements we would want to retrofit to it.<br />
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Conventional triangulated space frame systems can accomplish this by using a space-filling geometry to fill-out the forms of flat decks and systems of columns supporting them. There are, however, some caveats with this approach, as I noted before. Keeping these space frames to a modest scale of complexity means using relatively large module sizes. This makes for rather bulky structures, as illustrated by the floor deck of this old instant house concept with a module size of something around 2m;<br />
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http://radio-weblogs.com/0119080/images/MinAMax/instanthouse.jpg<br />
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One could reduce the deck thickness by using shorter members, but this has the drawback of creating many different parts sizes. You want to keep things to few different strut lengths when there are so many parts. This is why we tend to see these used only in very large span structures, and not often using the space frame for support columns. But that's what we would want in this case. We would want to have generous free span areas to roll our indoor village systems into. We're making things on the scale of a low-rise office building. So, as bulky as this is, with a simple space frame system with a module size half to fourth the intend storey height and which we could also use for domes, it could potentially work. We can then use a drop-in floor system based on deck panels that mount to 'hand' supports plugging into the top of the space frame nodes--like like a data center raised floor system. Roofing would work similarly.<br />
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There is, however, another way to go with space frames if we can work with a relatively large maximum strut length (4m) and a somewhat odd floor geometry. Previously I noted the Min-A-Max and Universal Node System space frame geometries developed by architect Peter Pierce. These have the unique capability of integrating, with the same set of parts, a deck truss system supported largely by triangulated perimeter structure and additional vertical internal struts. You can imagine this as being like a geodesic dome which has the ability to integrate a series of truss decks within and supported by it. To do this structures must assume a specific overall form that is compatible with this deck truss geometry. The deck system for Min-A-Max is called the 'tetrahex truss' and forms a series of hexagonal units with an equilateral triangle grid along its plane surfaces. To be stable this must integrate into a stable, triangulated, polyhedral shape and the largest of these is a truncated octahedron.<br />
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http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0165489611000898-gr3.jpg<br />
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Imagine you divided this shape into three horizontal sections. Here's a 3D puzzle toy that illustrated these sections, as well as giving you an idea of what this shape would be like made of triangulated struts;<br />
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http://tonyfisherpuzzles.net/images/tfto002.jpg<br />
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http://tonyfisherpuzzles.net/images/tfto004.jpg<br />
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Thus divided you get two kinds of volumes; a large equatorial volume and a smaller polar volume. And you also get two kinds plane surfaces; a hexagon and a truncated triangle. These planes match the shapes we can make with the tetrahex truss.<br />
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Truncated octahedrons are space-filling.<br />
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http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov/polyhedra/Truncated_Octahedron_000c_2b.jpg<br />
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This is why they've been proposed as the basis of space stations and cluster microhouses--like N55's take on Ken Isaacs' LEM like microhouse;<br />
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http://www.n55.dk/MANUALS/MICRO_DWELLINGS/londonmdfine.jpg<br />
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But take any nested combination of truncated dodecahedrons and you can divide them by these same horizontal sections, creating a series of parallel planes with a tiling pattern of hexagons and truncated triangles. By triangulating their perimeter you make a self-stable system of decks. A pavilion system.<br />
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We can elaborate this geometry further. The truncated tetrahedron and cuboctahedron derive from the same geometry and, in combination with the truncated octahedron form a space-filling system that likewise divides into the same set of horizontal planes. This is where the more complicated shapes of UNS structures comes from. And, again, N55 have speculated on microhousing uses of this.<br />
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http://www.n55.dk/manuals/micro_dwellings/mangetegn.jpg<br />
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But for simplicity sake, I think the truncated octahedron system alone suits our ends.<br />
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In Min-A-Max, the truncated octahedron can be stabilized by either 'planar' triangulation--triangles along the plane of the faces--or 'domical' triangulation approximating a sphere. Consequently, the two kinds of tetrahex truss planes can be formed into shallow domes. So we can make two standard tension fabric roof shell units to cover any stacked tessellated combination. (assuming we can figure out how to waterproof the edges they meet at) These would also serve as functional solitary dome units.<br />
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We don't need to worry about covering the whole surface of the structure with panels for enclosure. We just need to fit vertical panels surrounding a hexagonal prism volume in the center of each section unit. Theres a hexagonal prism volume running through each section of the truncated octahedron, defining the basic functional unit space.<br />
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Clearly, the geometry of these structures is complex and one key drawback of that is floor and ceiling systems that use equilateral triangle panels. Many people idealize triangles and hexagons, but from a fabrication standpoint they're a bit cumbersome and wasteful when most stock panel materials are produced in rectangular sheets. Be that as it may, our nomad's use of pod furnitecture makes the larger topology of a structure largely irrelevant. They are going to use this space in an open-plan fashion and so as long as the space is generous enough to let them setup their furnitecture freely, it works.<br />
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But is there yet a simpler way to go about this? Maybe, but it may require even more advanced fabrication than these space frame systems would.<br />
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As noted before, Utilihab is intended to evolve into a more advanced pavilion building system. It's current incarnation as a post & beam frame & panel system is a compromise, relying on aluminum T-slot framing because the industry for its production is already established worldwide. The common problem with modular building systems of the past has always been convincing Capital of the existence of a market for something new--and so anything truly new is virtually impossible. This is the chief reason why no modular architectural building system developed in the 20th century ever succeeded commercially. But as I noted, I've always been obsessed with the idea of PC-like housing and so my dream has been to develop a 'plug & play' architecture based on 'smart' components with integrated sensors and utilities that reduced the labor and complexity of construction to as low as possible--short of having a house assemble itself.<br />
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So imagine an open frame cube of high performance alloy, one meter cubed. It might be triangulated and in fabrication it might be made of multiple parts. Some versions might even be collapsable. Some might comprise sets of modules to make construction quicker. But it's engineered to function as a monolithic unit. Its edges are flat and flush, with the exception that along the faces it has an attachment system. Maybe a grid of sockets or a channel like T-slot framing. There may also be a formed-in volume of foam providing thermal, sound, and fire insulation, such as Airkrete. Each unit has integral mechanical connectors near the corners that are engaged with a hand-operated mechanism or some simple tool. They also feature integral utilities channels and connectors or, at least, mounts for supporting them and a single-chip sensor node with temperature, moisture, stress, and load sensors. These units are mass-produced. They are the primary building element for this system.<br />
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To build a home with these you first install a foundation, possibly using concrete piers, and attach your first cubes to them and level and align them with a laser level tool. Then you start attaching more, place on against the other and engaging their integral connectors to lock them together. You continue until you have a complete floor deck in the outline of the first floor level. This functions as a two-way planar truss. It is the 'backplane' of the house. Some special modules may be designed with special features or serve to 'anti-alias' the profile of the floor deck so you can use rounded corners, make circular deck shapes, or have flowing contour-terraces.<br />
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As you connect the modules you are also connecting their sensors into a live sensor web that is linked to a home WiFi network. So, using a modeling application, you can see on a PDA or tablet a model of the house as you assemble it. It might show the planned form of the house so as to guide your through assembly, but it's also showing the structural integrity of the building as its assembled, showing you what is safe and unsafe to add and where you might need temporary supports as you work.<br />
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Once you complete you're first deck plane you now begin to plug-in supports for the upper deck. These would include temporary jack posts and permanent columns in various styles and designs (trust me, tikis will make a come-back) or they may include modular furniture (usually shelving and cabinet systems) or even appliances reinforced to be load-bearing elements. They are all designed to suit the 1m module grid so you slide these into place where you want them and then engage the same kind of connecting mechanism and lock them into deck. Some may have integral wheels or low-friction slides to assist their movement. These may have the same utilities and sensor web interfaces as the deck modules so as soon as they are connected, they're 'on-line' and will appear in the house modeling app. With enough of these in place, you can now start snapping together deck blocks for the next level. Repeat as needed until you get to the roof deck atop which you plug-in a modular flat roofing panel system. You now can plug in non-load-bearing window-wall and pre-finished partition panels into the floor grid, creating a full enclosure. Finally, you plug in outdoor surface and deck tiles/panels, maybe outdoor hydroponic plant bed panels (imagine pre-seeded polymide felt panels that grow moss instead of grass) and indoor floor and ceiling tiles/panels or put down a plug-in plank system and your building is complete. From here the building app now functions as a home control system and continuous monitor of the structure's integrity, sensing failures and tracking environmental performance. This could form the basis of a live spime web for the building and all its elements. Everything in the structure remains demountable. You can take it all apart as easily as it was put together, re-arrange and ad this in-situ, and the structural modeling app will always tell you what's safe to put where. It will even let you model changes before you do them so you could play with the architecture like building houses in The Sims and download models of items to try out before you buy them or have them made.<br />
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Using low-profile deck modules, this system would readily retrofit into other structures, giving them a new backplane for the system's many modular parts and accessories.<br />
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Can such a building system be produced today, as an open building system? Maybe. But it would be a very sophisticated project. The deck and column system would need to be exceptionally strong and capable of at least several storeys height. But it would probably be the greatest advance to housing technology since the invention of the fired brick. Buildings of most any relatively modest size would become one-person tasks. A simple cottage home could be built by one person in a matter of hours. Just like the PC, a whole new global industry of parts would develop, competing horizontally while integrating vertically just like the PC's industrial ecology.<br />
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With such a system at-hand our imagined nomads could build--using lighter versions of some of these components--very sophisticated yet completely portable structures of most any size anywhere. Their pod furnitecture would evolve into plug-in load-bering elements for this system. Simply by arranging them on their own foundation jacks and plugging in deck modules around them they would create a sheltered habitat. But I fear this may be much too sophisticated a building technology to pursue for our immediate plans. Still, it's fun to imagine.<br />
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So there is my attempt at visualizing what this project might be like. Maybe some of these ideas are of use.<br />
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==4D Printing - Logic Matter==<br />
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Skyler Tibbits' concepts are really intriguing. At first glance my feeling was that this was something with huge potential, but all very distant. But the more I saw the more it seemed like there were some possibilities for demonstrating experimental architectural-scale structure in the here and now if we rely on relatively simple designs. If I'm interpreting this correctly, the general building system he proposes as Logic Matter is like a chain of blocks--self-linking or carried on a cable--that are picked up from a packing/transport configuration and then dropped into place on a cable using the energy from gravity to compel them to fall, nest, and link in the desired 3D orientation. 3D structures are thus 'knit' together like a rigid amigurumi figure. The cartoon in his larger paper on this shows a crane being used to load and drop blocks. Presumably, the crane is roughly following the 'knitting path' of the linking blocks to keep them falling vertically while at the top is a towing mechanism. Programming of the blocks seems to be done in their packed configuration--implying an integral electronics--or this might be achieved by a mechanism on the crane. Either the blocks rely on their nesting topology for rigid interconnection or some integral bonding or locking mechanism is also used.<br />
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So what we basically have is a space-filling structural system based on a more-or-less solid module. A kind of 'brick' structure that doesn't need human hands to lay the bricks.<br />
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How well can this space filling geometry approximate the useful shapes we want for a structure? This relates to my comment you noted earlier. This space filling geometry would be the 'microstructure' I eluded to. The building form is the 'macrostructure'. The larger the modules of the microstructure--or shall we say the lower the system's 'resolution'--the more the macrostructure is limited to paralleling the topology of the microstructure. Conversely, the smaller the microstructure modules the more it can approximate any desired macrostructure topology but with the compromise of increasing the number of parts. Previously, I had noted this in the context of labor. It's a hassle to manually assemble structures that need a lot of parts. But since we're automating that, the issue is now the general size of module we need to achieve a useful structural performance relative to the production costs and methods of the modules. That then determines the limit in effective 'resolution' of the structure and the range of building forms we can use. Tibbits implies a relatively small module size/high resolution (maybe soccer ball sized sized and smaller?), which means many tens of thousands--maybe hundreds of thousands--of units in something the size of a conventional house. Their production would need to be highly automated, cheap, and reliable.<br />
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What materials can we use? The larger the module size the more materials options we have but also the more complex and labor-based fabrication becomes. The smaller the module the more limited our choice of practical materials and the more things favor automated processes like injection molding. Imagine the cost of a house if, by equivalent volume, you were making it from the same materials we use in the typical 3D printer. (not to mention the time that currently takes) It could be astronomical. This is why Tibbits was rotomolding his experimental blocks. But most people would not be interested in a house made out of plastic. (even if, frankly, that's pretty much what the modern suburban house increasingly is. Plastic and high-tech papier mache...) They might tolerate structural foams, but are they strong enough? How about cast/injection molded wood composite? Milled alloys would also be problematic, even if we're relying on milling machines. It would really demand a process like injection molding, which largely limits us to aluminum. (injection molded glass-alloys is probably too exotic a process to work with near-term) High performance ceramic is likely a very good choice, especially if we used a two-stage process creating a foamed core to lighten the block and make them more insulating, but its still potentially expensive. CEB is probably too brittle, too irregular without a highly refined source material, and would need a large, heavy, block size to accommodate the topological features of these Logic Matter shapes. Concrete would probably have similar issues, though geopolymer could be much better because of its higher density and more ceramic-like properties. Would bio-stabilized sandstone do better? Any other possible materials?<br />
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How strong and rigid must the interface between assembled modules be, especially if we are using this to make floor decks? This could be a critical problem for putting this concept into practice. The same problem has also hampers modular/cellular robotics. Either the blocks rely on some aspect of their nested topology to achieve a rigid connection or they must have some other, automatic, means of sticking strongly together. At a relatively small unit block size as implied, automatic mechanical connections become difficult. There are some new possibilities, like magnetically driven screws that have recently come to market in the furniture industry;<br />
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http://www.lamello.com/en/home/join-wood/invis-mx-system/system-advantages.html<br />
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But it's still difficult to deliver sufficient energy for such mechanisms to many small elements, especially if deeply buried in the structure. Building-in a motor to drive such mechanisms would be impractical unless the modules were very large and, consequently, expensive. Tibbits' prototype Logic Matter blocks are completely passive objects that rely on orientation to program the basic assembly modules. (physical NAND gates) They have no bonding/linking mechanism and rely on human labor. Useful as a way to study the information/computing theory of the concept, but you can't make anything useful with this. So we'd have to reduce this to practice with a functional block of new design.<br />
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How do we finish such structures and integrate utilities? Obviously, these would not be waterproof structures by themselves, though they might be weather-resistant. They would need separate roofing and cladding materials which, ideally, sync-up with the module topology to allow them to be modularized. Can we integrate things like radiant floor heating? Is there interstitial space to route wiring and cables?<br />
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If this is possible near-term, I think we're probably relying on a rather larger scale of block and pretty simple architectural forms. Dome-like forms or pavilion structures where everything else is largely independent of the main free-standing structure leaving relatively large free-span spaces for open-plan use. This may generally be limited to single floor structures at first, but such minimalist forms could well exploit the topology of the building system aesthetically because there may be no broad load-bearing walls to cover-up, just floor and ceiling. I personally consider open-plan pavilion-based housing to be the most practical form of free-standing housing anyway, in part because there are so many ways you can create a self-supporting roof structure and many kinds of hardware that can be repurposed for that. There's an old Polynesian saying that a good roof and a good floor make a good house. Notice the lack of 'walls' in that…<br />
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So this does seem possible, but it's so new we would definitely be in uncharted territory working with it. It could certainly garner a lot of attention, though, if we could come up with a nominally functional system.<br />
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More at-hand possibilities may lay in systems employing robotics with larger structural elements. Tibbits notes the problem with the commonly seen modular/cellular robots as a building system. They generally have a very high overhead in integral mechanical systems and electronics relative to the volume of structure they can make, which means a large manufacturing overhead and an astronomically high building cost per square meter. But there are ways this can be ameliorated, leveraging active hardware over much larger areas of structure.<br />
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I've long been interested in construction automation, both for use in space and for domestic uses. Unable to employ much sweat equity in building myself, I've long been interested in the idea of building the machines that might build for me. One concept that I've wanted to explore was self-assembling space frame systems based on a scheme devised by designer Scott Howe;<br />
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http://www.plugin-creations.com/us/ash/research/projects/proj33/project.htm<br />
http://www.plugin-creations.com/us/ash/research/projects/proj33/summary.pdf<br />
http://www.plugin-creations.com/us/ash/design/projects/proj35/project.htm<br />
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Howe has spent a long time exploring construction automation and self-constructing structures, but usually with machines and components of very large scale. In this Trigon system, developed with NASA, he got down to a much more modest scale that seems accessible to possible hobbyist experimentation while still producing structures of significant size. In this system a panel-type space frame consists of simple modular robots with powered hinge and linking mechanisms on their edges allowing them to climb over each other by flipping themselves and alternately attaching and detaching to assemble themselves into rigid structures. Connected units would form a distributed power and data bus. This is a potentially easy machine to make as a combination of two flat plates (wood, aluminum, composite) with active components sandwiched between them. It could be sized such that a relatively modest number of units would make up structures of significant scale. Many kinds of functional elements could be integrated into the center space of the frame panels; quick-attachment mounts, lighting, fans, speakers, displays, solar panels, sensors, WiFi nodes, and so on.<br />
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Howe also proposed a Cubolding system based on similar but cube-shaped units;<br />
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http://www.plugin-creations.com/us/ash/research/projects/proj32/project.htm<br />
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Here each cube is outfit with automatic corner connectors and internal actuators that push cube units forward or turn them over corners. Sets or trains of cubes traverse the surface of structures in inch-worm fashion. This strategy could be employed with either mechanisms integral to every cube or using a robot that can move inside and between the hollow cubes. This makes for structures with more rigid connections but the articulation needed is more elaborate.<br />
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These kinds of systems would be very entertaining to watch in demonstration and would make for a very valuable venue of robotics research. They could make just the setup of an exhibition a very interesting event. But, by themselves, they probably can't serve as resilient housing and probably aren't going to be strong enough to support the loads of multi-floor buildings. They would need additional materials that, right now, would end up being put on by hand. It wouldn't be terribly difficult. If you're producing simple self-standing enclosure forms like domes, pre-made outer tent skins and plug-in foam and cloth interior panels. Unless you're dealing with a structure that has to be dismantled, moved, and redeployed very frequently it's hard to justify the cost of so much active hardware in every component, even if this system leverages it more than other cellular robots. You need to be getting a fairly large amount of shelter area relative to the unit hardware investment. Still, even if they have a long way to go, they would be fun to explore and would have a lot of visual impact. And if we are talking about a festival sort of exhibition, maybe we are taking things apart and moving them frequently enough to justify this approach.<br />
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But if we're talking about nomadic/temporary structures that are easy to fabricate and set examples for other people to follow and use, self-assembling and robotic systems may be overkill. We can save human labor by much simpler means. Technically, there is no reason building comfortable, attractive, and resilient housing isn't already as easy as assembling office partitions other than the fear of the impact on design from standardization and because it suits the interests of banks for housing to be as expensive as possible. (no banker is going to get rich on housing people can build for themselves in hours or days--which is why it was necessary for the mobile home to become 'damned' architecture) It would seem to make more sense to leverage technology and design on high performance structures with the elimination of skill in assembly to leverage modest human labor--the same logic of PC parts. If we're talking about something on the scale of a small village, we're not likely building things so big and complex that it really compels automation--as fun as that certainly may be to explore as experiment.<br />
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I think we could readily meet the needs of a pop-up village project with some combination of three types of open building systems;<br />
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Aa post and beam framing system using structural members light enough for one person to carry but capable of supporting structures of up to three stories and spans of around 6 meters. (which is what Utilihab is designed as)<br />
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A pavilion system based on a modular planar/deck truss plug-in 'backplane' serving as both floor and roof deck. (what Utilihab is expected to evolve into by second or third generation)<br />
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And a high-performance ball-socket-node space frame system supporting both relatively short and long strut lengths for truss and enclosure uses. (alternately, a plate dome system could serve, since primary uses would be for enclosures/skybreaks)<br />
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All these would ideally feature tool-less or few-tool assembly and employ pre-finished plug-in/snap-on/bolt-on panel systems. These things would not only meet our project needs, they could revolutionize housing in general--no other high-tech required.<br />
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With such easy assembly of basic structure, a nomadic architecture would differ from more permanent architecture largely by choice of materials. Yurts and walled tents can define our basic approach, though these systems afford us much larger and more diverse shapes than the traditional forms. Current architectural fabrics and membranes (ETFE, PTFE) offer vastly greater performance, resilience, and duty life than typical tent materials and can function well even for permanent structures. (I'd avoid anything with PVC, though…) We now have flex-cell PVs that can be integrated with these materials, allowing tension roofs to function as quickly deployable solar power systems. ( http://www.ifaipublications.com/iaa/repository/8/9534/large_2914_369_1280.jpg ) Felts used in living wall systems can also integrate with these materials to make temporary living structures. And we now even have paint-on EL lighting. ( http://www.lumilor.com/ ) Lighter alternatives to alloys for structure could also be used in this mobile context, particularly FRP, wood composites, and the like.<br />
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The nomadic context also offers potential for exploring another, more specialized, structural technology; soft architecture. This is something I often discuss in the context of 'furnitecture' and as the basis of deployable dwellings in large microgravity space habitat environments. (think somewhat larger versions of Japanese capsule hotel units made out of fabric and foam that plug into open space frame core structures of a large space habitat--space frames which can also double as host for hydroponics, hence the notion of 'urban tree' habitats) Basically, it's soft-sculpture technique applied to the creation of modest semi-rigid shelters using insertable light framing, modular structural foam, or inflatable elements. An easy visualization is to imagine those hut-shaped pet beds made of foam and fabric increased to the size of human-scale furniture or, larger still, a traditional yurt. Such structures offer much more resilient, highly sound and thermal insulated, and easier to setup shelter than traditional tents with many possibilities for novel integral features, integral furniture, and the like. The compromise is that they are potentially bulkier than tents depending on the nature of insert elements. New compressible memory foams offer interesting possibilities for this.<br />
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Another technology more specific to the nomadic context is the use of pneumatic frame structures offering some advantages over conventional space frames. These use high-pressure inflatable elements as alternatives to the usual struts of a space frame and can be fashioned to suit 'gridshell' systems or, with a larger parts count, more modular conventional space frame geometries. ( http://www.planex-gmbh.de/air-supported-membrane.html ) Unlike more typical inflatable shelters, these systems do not need continuous power for pressurization and with some modern elastomerics pressurized struts can support such high internal pressures they can approximate the strength of wood or aluminum. Pressurized corrugated membranes have long been speculated as an eventual alternative to glass windows. (since materials like ETFE are more transparent than glass) The concept has been applied at small scale to support systems for conventional tents ( http://heimplanet.com/ ) and some off-the-shelf versions of this technology have appeared offering very multi-functional pavilion forms. ( http://www.bec.es/imagenes/estructuras-hinchables/estructura-neumatica-hinchable-pileri/estructura-neumatica-hinchable-pileri-F03.jpg )<br />
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Technologies like these seem to offer more near-term possibilities, even if they might not seem as cutting edge as the idea of programmable matter. And, as long as we rely on largely modular design, there are any number of ways we can 'tag' large collective structures for spime tracking and the creation of semantic webs around them. That's basically what a 'spime' is, isn't it? Semantic webs for things and their designs that link to those physical things by the software used to create them (output) and by various means of digital tagging, use and activity logging, or integral networked information gathering. (feedback)<br />
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Eric Hunting<br />
erichunting@gmail.com<br />
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==Business Models==<br />
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I'm fine with your sharing the discussion. Please feel free to share any of my material with anyone you think might be interested. We need to network to build up interest and support for a project.<br />
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I think you have the right idea about approaching business models. We should think about that as a means of making the development self-perpetuating rather than merely generating profit, which keeping designs open and on-line will go a long way toward doing. There's much potential here for entrepreneurship on the small scale. I see these nomadic communities as much as incubators of small business as social groups and working in a cooperative manner as you suggest provides the kind of pooling of resources that makes small business activity accessible. Some things are still expensive. A laser cutter is still a several thousand dollars and up proposition. A flatbed CNC that can work with real building materials is still a $10,000-$20,000 proposition. These are going to be shared resources. So the approach you suggest makes perfect sense. I see this as much like the early days of the 'dot-com' boom when 99% of Capital didn't even know what the internet was and so the young frontier web developers were pooling personal resources as small tribes, buying/leasing net connections and buildings for their communal data centers that they sometimes also lived in, and incubating that whole industry in a cooperative manner.<br />
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The one challenge we face may be that the people we are usually trying to reach are somewhat averse to 'business as usual', so-to-speak, and to discussions of money. We will need to demonstrate that cooperative nature of our approach very clearly. Scratch-building key tools--things like the flatbed CNC--as group projects making a group resource, as opposed to just pooling money and buying them, might be an important part of that. Of course, we also want such tools to be much more mobile than they usually are, which creates another incentive for developing 'custom' forms of them.<br />
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Eric Hunting<br />
erichunting@gmail.com<br />
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==Spimed Space for Spimed Housing==<br />
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in a Venture Cooperative Commons Approach ?<br />
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Eric's Reply :<br />
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This looks like a good synergy of ideas. It establishes a positive role for the nomadic community as far as property owners are concerned while, working as a cooperative rather than a for-profit corporation, it overcomes the many abuses associated with anti-squatting companies as that video you noted detailed. The use of furnitecture eases the hardship and stress of necessary mobility in temporary renting while facilitating the habitation of buildings that normally wouldn't be suited to residence. The mobile farming capability and use of solar/wind power also puts a green spin on things that would appeal to many. Why not turn an office building into a clean temporary farm until the commercial space market improves? I think some companies and municipalities would really go for that idea. There would, of course, be some potential conflict with the militant squatting movement that sees all property owners as adversaries and class oppressors, but they're not interested in the sort of buildings the nomads would use anyway. One could develop a pretty good business model on this.<br />
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This anti-squat temporary rental is an interesting phenomenon that doesn't exist anywhere in the US--and would probably be prone to even more heinous abuse here if it were. (we can't even get a handle on pay-day loan usery rackets here) Here squatters rights were abandoned and attempts by organized squatters to reclaim and restore slums have been met by mass police violence. In the '80s a highly organized squatters movement in NYC engaged in a large scale restoration of buildings that had fallen into ownership by the city as their slum-lord owners abandoned them. Shortly after being elected, the right-wing mayor Rudy Giuliani sent in military vehicles to evict the squatters, willing to destroy the buildings and kill people rather than allow illegal occupancy. He later made a bid for the presidency… There may simply not be enough reasonableness in American culture to allow for things like this unless a community used the mobilism approach I described to buy or build their own collection of shared properties. However, there does exist an industry in 'house sitting' that markets its services to the very wealthy--people who have multiple houses they only spend certain seasons living in and have house sitters guard for them when they are away.<br />
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There's also an interesting phenomenon of perpetual camping here. In some national parkland areas people are allowed to camp for as much as several months at a time each year and so travel from park to park. This has become popular with some retirees who invest in huge recreational vehicles and trailer/caravans rather than conventional homes. In a few cases these folks buy rural property to build a large well-furnished garage that they winter-over in, living in their RV inside the garage for a season then spending the rest of the year on the road. In the '90s there developed an 'Airstreaming' craze based on the resurgent popularity of the old Airstream brand of steel skinned trailers. A regular cycle of Airstream encampments were organized around the country so the, typically retired, community of Airstream owners could move from one to another all year long. This once led me to suggest the fanciful notion that, with the advent of self-driving vehicles, might come an attempt by some people to live a truly mobile existence in self-driving RVs that run in cyclic routes on the nation's highways. One might have a conventional job and be dropped-off and picked up from work by one's continually traveling self-driving home. Various on-the-road services might be offered by the self-driving vehicles synching up through wireless networking and temporarily docking together on the road. Not exactly practical, of course, without some miraculous cheap source of energy but an amusing idea. Some years later, a European proposal for repurposing the rail system to support large RV-like personal rapid transit cabs picked up on the idea of on-the-move services with cars that would dock along parallel tracks to deliver food and other goods ordered on-line.<br />
<br />
Sorry for the slow pace of replies. Been dealing with dental work--which is usually as primitive as it is over-priced here--and local wildfires whose smoke has me feeling poorly lately. Went into town for my weekly shopping and it looked like the planet Mars with all the smoke hanging over Santa Fe. Big change for a place where you can sometimes almost read by the starlight.<br />
<br />
Dante's suggestion that Eric replied to :<br />
<br />
Life on the go / Lifestyle / Sharing Economy / Tribes<br />
<br />
using : <br />
<br />
Legal Frameworks ( Cooperatives, Mitshauser Syndikat , ... )<br />
<br />
+<br />
<br />
http://www.expatica.com/nl/housing/where_to_live/Dutch-anti_squatting-business-thrives-amid-economic-crisis-_14201.html<br />
<br />
Dutch anti-squatting business thrives amid economic crisis<br />
<br />
Guido, a penniless student, could hardly believe his luck when offered lodging in the heart of Amsterdam at a fraction of the going rate -- a boon thanks to the credit crunch as property owners desperately fend off squatters.<br />
<br />
London : http://www.tntmagazine.com/lifestyle-career/property/the-legal-squatters-find-alternative-cheap-rental-options-in-london<br />
<br />
While avoiding or taking into account the risks of it's excesses in a corporate form :<br />
<br />
http://vimeo.com/9649993<br />
<br />
+<br />
<br />
fluid versions of Sakura House<br />
<br />
Japan / Tokyo <br />
<br />
http://www.sakura-house.com/en/<br />
<br />
==Fungibility and Customization==<br />
<br />
I imagine that all become spimes.<br />
<br />
The space in itself becomes a spime, as the space can change location.<br />
And the components that are used within the spimed space, can themselves be spimed objects assembled and re-assembled in modular ways, for various functions.<br />
<br />
Or in other words, all becomes "virtualized", with potentials for engagements and resources being requested or made available , transformed, created based on combinations of potentially fungible units ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility )<br />
<br />
And by enabling so, as I remember vaguely from system sciences that a system can not take control on a system more complex then itself,<br />
<br />
it enables a simple complexity approach giving participants stigmergic forms of resilience.<br />
<br />
==Tracking of Spimed Components, Fungibility and Tokenization for Online Market Place==<br />
<br />
<br />
Some software tools ( such as this one , in development https://github.com/automenta/netentionjs2 ) <br />
<br />
can also be used to keep track of components, as to re-use components more easily based on contextualized needs and available resources.<br />
<br />
This enabling specific standard components to be fungible / interchangeable , hence not needing to carry them over space, or store them over time, as they can be tokenized and swapped on a online market place -<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
=="Light" vs "Heavy" Nomadism ?==<br />
<br />
the following I would characterize as "heavy(er)" nomadism ( use of a lot of energy ) :<br />
<br />
"RV's"<br />
<br />
Light(er)weight nomadism using information instead of energy,<br />
optimising the use of contextual knowledge and resources.<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
Instead of moving stuff, using locally available materials.<br />
<br />
One approach can be, providing a spread out movement,<br />
a market for fungible components that can be assembled in different ways, without needing to move the materials / components across space.<br />
<br />
==Collaborative Collective Convergence Space==<br />
<br />
[[Dante]] personally wishes to move on further on this project, with anyone interested.<br />
<br />
A first step may be to prototype basic components.<br />
<br />
I personally have not yet existing CAD design skills, but can learn fast.<br />
<br />
I see a priority to enable a convergence of people in the form of a collective living space.<br />
I want to work on a legal framework to cover the living costs of a collaborative / collective project space. ( actually a friend may already be setting one up )<br />
<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
<br />
On Apr 15, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson wrote:<br />
<br />
and more on Skylar Tibbits , and towards 1 to 4 dimensional ( self ) assembly,<br />
and 4d printing ;)<br />
<br />
and a more recent presentation :<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gMCZFHv9v8<br />
<br />
http://selfassemblylab.net/<br />
<br />
http://sjet.us/<br />
<br />
http://architecture.mit.edu/faculty/skylar-tibbits<br />
<br />
<br />
https://twitter.com/SkylarTibbits<br />
<br />
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com> wrote:<br />
and more on logic matter - self guided assembly<br />
<br />
Logic matter: digital logic as heuristics for physical self-guided ...<br />
dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/64566<br />
by SJE Tibbits - 2010 - Cited by 2 - Related articles<br />
Title: Logic matter : digital logic as heuristics for physical self-guided-assembly. Author: Tibbits, Skylar J. E. Other Contributors: Massachusetts Institute of ...<br />
Logic Matter - SJET<br />
www.sjet.us/MIT_LOGICMATTER.html<br />
Logic Matter: Digital Logic as heuristics for physical self-guided-assembly. Given the increasing complexity of the physical structures surrounding our everyday ...<br />
<br />
==Further conversations with Eric==<br />
<br />
===Reply to Light , Fungible, Durable , Modular Low Energy Nomadic Living Structures===<br />
<br />
Yes. I think that's a good way to describe it. I think the RV and trailer home represents a far point on a sort of four cornered or two axis spectrum of mobility. The one corner, where the RV is, is the whole housing nomadism corner. You're dragging around a whole house. Rich in stuff. High in energy use. Let's say this is 'south' corner of our spectrum.<br />
<br />
Then the west end is the corner of totally made-on-demand nomadism. Rich in stuff, but everything is made from what you find locally or bought off a local marketplace and discarded when you move somewhere else. We haven't discussed this aspect of nomadism much because it looks like how suburban people already typically live. People go someplace and they buy a house there off the 'housing market' or have it built to suit and sell it when they move someplace else. In fact, they technically try to exchange their life-long debt on one property for another, hopefully without losing any 'value'. They just don't seem to move with any great frequency so we don't call that nomadism. Yet, compelled mostly by the vicissitudes of corporate jobs, people actually move more frequently today than ever since we adopted agrarianism. This mortgage financing system was designed--along with the 'tradition' of the nuclear family--to facilitate a mobile workforce. It's the cost and 'hassle' in this process and its external motivation by employers, rather than self-motivation, that limits this. But let's say you had a robust programmable matter technology and 3D printing capability. The means to build, with almost no labor, a whole house and its furnishing in a couple of hours and recycle it back into stock material in about that same amount of time. Suddenly, this looks very nomadic, though it's probably the highest energy mode of nomadism even if you have high recyclability. This points out the fact that what defines nomadism may be less about the technology of shelter and more about the nature of a self-determined way of life.<br />
<br />
Our eastern end is Mobilism. The mode of nomadism that is rich in stuff but little of it is mobile or personally owned. Rather, it's left in place and reused by whoever is passing through at any time. You could call this 'hotel nomadism'. This is a generally low energy lifestyle, though the non-mobile elements are likely high-energy in creation in order to give them resilience when uninhabited. Ken Isaacs defined Mobilism in terms of dividing the stuff of a personal habitat into heavy, modest personal value, resilient stuff that you would leave in place to fate and the elements and lighter more easily moved, more personally valuable items that you would take with you one place to another. In his Post-Industrial futurist book Bolo, author P.M. defined a similar lifestyle. His vision of the future was a world of village/town/city communities and if you were going to live in one of them you had to integrate into its society. To facilitate this every bolo community would set aside space for transitional living supported by a certain standard courtesy hospitality, be it for people testing the waters, so to speak, of the community to see if they wanted to join it or just travelers. So most people would come to reduce their truly personal possessions to what would fit in a foot locker or steamer trunk. Everything else they needed would be owned by the community or would be easily replaceable and they could get it free wherever they traveled or chose to live.<br />
<br />
Now, this might seem odd to us today, but this is how many of society's elites lived in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today we see hotels in the context of 'tourism' but 100 years ago or so (and maybe as late as the late 1950s) the hotel was the home of elites; celebrities, movie stars and entertainers, writers and artists, entrepreneurs, the younger members of the upper-class. They lived in hotels because, back then, cities were still the hubs of western culture, commerce, and nightlife but losing their attraction as places for the wealthy to own residential property and their careers demanded 'shallow roots', so-to-speak. A film or theater project might be a proposition of months or years and there was no jet aircraft to toss you around the globe in hours. (before the jet, getting from California to someplace in Europe took, roughly, a month. Hollywood was invented to subvert the patents of film tech developers like Edison on the East coast--who wouldn't sue because the law still required them to personally represent themselves at patent trials and it was such a hassle for them to repeatedly travel to California) And so their personal possessions were things that were easily transportable in elaborate sets of luggage designed to suit transit by rail or ship--mostly clothes, jewelry, small pictures, books, and the tools of their 'trade' if they had them; stage props, costumes, cameras, art equipment, typewriters, etc. They might rely on warehouses to store goods they couldn't take with them, like cars. Everything else they could need was readily provided by the hotels at typically luxurious levels of quality.<br />
<br />
Today we have youth hostels providing a similar kind of hotel nomadism infrastructure--albeit relatively crude. But its easy to imagine how such stationary infrastructures might be expanded to support modes of Mobilism with progressively higher standards of living and longer periods of stay without the sort of very high cost of the hotel lifestyle. There is a certain connection between the idea of pod furnitecture and the elaborate luggage of the globe-trotting upper-class of the Gilded Age.<br />
<br />
The north corner of our spectrum is a very special one. It's the possession-less shelter-less extreme. The Sadhu life. Nomadism defined by the elimination of as much personal possessions as possible and with as little physical infrastructure as possible. This is only theoretical now. Human beings are simply too fragile. But we can imagine some transhumanist person of the future who is carrying a collection of very sophisticated nanotechnology within his own body that wirelessly links him to the global information/communication infrastructure, allows him to make anything he needs from the carbon in the atmosphere and found materials around him, and minimizes his need for shelter by eliminating or compensating for the hardship of exposure to the elements. All his necessary possessions exist in his own body and in the 'cloud'. His 'work' might consist of sitting in one place like a meditating yogi while, in his head, he's operating in a vast virtual habitat. Even clothing is optional for his survival or comfort. He can live comfortably in the most harsh environments--even living in the sea or the polar and desert regions. It may be centuries yet before people like this exist, but we're defining a pole of our four-sided spectrum and this is one of the theoretical extremes. Many current nomads aspire toward this kind of lifestyle, even if they can, in practice, only approach it with great compromise in standard of living. But as the lowest impact mode of living, they accept that compromise for the sake of a 'greater good' for the environment--at least until age and children catch up with them.<br />
<br />
So, looking at this two axis/four corner spectrum any mode of nomadism can be defined as a point or region within the space of these four poles. And there's an implied diagonal axis here; heavy, high-energy, rich in stuff toward the south-west to light, low-energy, minimalist toward the north-east. It's probably a bit hard to visualize without drawing this out on paper.<br />
<br />
I think the idea of fungibility of stuff is important. And that might define a sixth diagonal axis in our imagined spectrum, from south-east to north-west--from fungibility to disposability. In the Mobilist extreme one owns very little, with the bulk of the stuff of one's habitat infrastructure--stationary--and exchanged from one person to another through direct reuse. Then on the MOD (made on demand) living end of that axis one own very little but makes a lot of stuff as needed and disposes of it--exchanging it by recycling more than reuse.<br />
<br />
One of the concepts I had for Utilihab based housing was the idea of an 'aftermarket' components exchange network that could support low cost housing and easier mobility. People today renovate homes at a ridiculous rate. Bathrooms and kitchens especially. It's an almost annual event in the US now. The upper-middle-class especially treat homes like haute couture. They feel compelled to continuously upgrade to the latest in interior design fashion. The problem is, houses and furnishings aren't designed for this. They're designed with this assumption of perfection and permanence. And so it all turns into landfill waste, mostly un-recyclable. Home maintenance and renovation is one of the biggest sources of landfill waste. With modular building systems like Utilihab that are designed to make renovation easy by making everything demountable the side-effect is that instead of producing all this landfill waste, you're producing a stream of used reusable or refurbish-able parts that enable people to obtain high quality housing at much reduced cost.<br />
<br />
But there's another aspect to this if you network this parts market. Even with a totally demountable building system like Utilihab, it's a hassle to take a whole house with you from one place to another and there's a big energy overhead in transporting that. And selling it locally is also a hassle and a risk because of market value fluctuations. One of the things that really drags on the progressive development of housing--compels people to be hyper-conservative about housing--is this need for ready fungibility of housing to facilitate moving. If you can't sell you can't move, so it's always got to appeal to the lowest common denominator in order to be easy to sell. So everyone is always playing it 'safe', letting bankers dictate what our homes are like, and getting uptight about how their neighbors impact their property values; what they build, who they are, what 'class' they are, what their skin color is, and on and on.<br />
<br />
But what if instead of selling a house you exchanged its parts? You have to leave one place so you ship off all the easily mobile stuff you're taking with you and you call the local parts exchange to come and help dismantle the house. You trade your house's parts in for credit on the exchange network. Then you go to your new place and call the local parts exchange there and say; "I have X amount of parts exchange credit so I want this list of parts." and, assuming they have them all, they take those parts out of their local warehouse and bring them to your location and help assemble them. So you're house, as a collection of standard parts rather than a whole, is always easily fungible--a currency in and of itself--no bankers and real estate agents necessary. All that matters is that there is a local parts exchange near where you're going and that they maintain a volume of stock parts to meet general demand. Now, the economics of this have to be maintained carefully. Parts depreciate in value individually, there's an overhead in storage, refurbishing of parts, and moving them around to maintain supply. It wouldn't always be a straightforward exchange. But it could work.<br />
<br />
===Core Modules ?===<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/op-n-m/vIe23rkCTk0/NldAfKElRa0J<br />
<br />
Excerpted from Eric :<br />
<br />
" There's several basic elements of the neo-nomadic village I think we need to focus some design work on; the personal micro-cabin, the community lounge, the cooking/cafe pod, the hydroponic system, the factory/fabrication pod, and the energy/power pod. There are many more possible elements, of course, but these are the core elements. "<br />
<br />
Excerpt from Dante's reply :<br />
<br />
Which elements from n55 could be built on ? <br />
http://www.n55.dk/MANUALS/Manuals.html<br />
<br />
I remember their nomadic futures<br />
http://nomadicfutures.n55.dk/<br />
<br />
I also notice<br />
http://www.n55.dk/MANUALS/SNAIL_SHELL_SYSTEM/SSS.html<br />
<br />
= See also =<br />
* [[Emergent Synthesis]]<br />
* [[Leipzig project]]<br />
* [[Antwerp Collective]]<br />
* [[Settlement Technologies]]<br />
* [[Cardboard Housing]]<br />
* [[Tensegrity]]<br />
* [[Nomad Slums]]<br />
* [[Nomad Tribe]]<br />
<br />
<br />
= Weblinks =<br />
*[https://www.wired.com/2007/01/spime_watch_fab_1 Spime Watch: Fabbed Housing]<br />
* Eric's slide presentation on [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19g_XYezo_jHEZINUqZNZUswZaLsuNHpvbsT3vNkW3eU/edit#slide=id.p Nomadic Ecovillages concept]<br />
* Seth's remix synthesis in a slides presentation, containing some elements of [http://solarstrategy.com.au/newsletters/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware-2/ this article] of [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16-fGxcIugYg9oD5i4px5sIfIXY0EfxKcWIifUhJ7zEM/edit#slide=id.g117ae3dc9_0178 Open Modular Hardware]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Modular_Hardware#Examples Open Modular Hardware]<br />
* Seth, for [https://github.com/automenta/spimedb SpimeDB]<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlt6kaNjoeI TED talk - Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people]<br />
* [http://www.wikihouse.cc/ Wiki House]<br />
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/op-n-m small mailing list]<br />
* [http://books.google.fi/books/about/Structure_in_Nature_Is_a_Strategy_for_De.html?id=sfc2OEuE8oQC&redir_esc=y Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design]<br />
* https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/alternativelifestyles<br />
* https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/alternativelifestyle<br />
* https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/nomadiclifestyle<br />
* https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/nomadism<br />
https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/nomad<br />
<br />
[[Category:Housing]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Commons_as_Dividend&diff=24036Commons as Dividend2017-06-29T14:22:36Z<p>Dante: monopoly</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Objective is to reduce hoarding, and reduced waste through enabling mutualization of costs.<br />
<br />
The commons is a component and strategy that enables such approach.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
The objective is to reduce dependencies towards monopolies.<br />
This includes a progressive reduction of dependency on a monetary monopoly.<br />
<br />
Hence, within such attempt to reduce hoarding and reducing monopoly,<br />
dividends on investments in the form of hoardable tokens is drastically discouraged and reduced, and even less so in monopolistic monetary tokens.<br />
<br />
Dividends are perceived in the form of use value and solutions,<br />
<br />
within a broader systemic approach aiming at reducing hoarding of potential future solutions by enabling open linked data , high velocity of transactions, measurement of past - current potential future externalities of all interdependencies.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Hence, one ends up with a "reverse-capitalist" approach, which is more productive ( in terms of solutions / intelligence ) than current classical capitalist exploitation models that include hoarding as a strategy.<br />
<br />
Loans may still be made, and be repaid in the currency they have been made in, ideally at no interest ( but with the potential to gain points, as with the JAK bank of Sweden ), to support the activities of the networked organization.<br />
<br />
Investments can be considered, either at negative interest rates, or in return for non mainstream monopolistic currency, such as in the form of goods.<br />
<br />
Taxes can be paid, yet ideally agreements are made as to pay taxes through providing value rather than in payment of a monopolistic currency.<br />
<br />
Post-Capitalist , Post Financial Crisis Insurance is generated through the economic networks developed, as dependency on , and exposure to, monopolistic financial markets is progressively reduced over time.<br />
<br />
Any usage and increased dependency on mainstream monopolistic currency is thoroughly evaluated, if it requires repayment in mainstream monopolistic currency.<br />
<br />
Such loans will be considered if the economic network in itself is not able to generate interdependencies generating such resources without the need for a loan.<br />
<br />
preferably alternative finance and contracts will be encouraged, to enable tax deductible ( to those who bring in such resources ) investments and donations to the networked and interdependent economic organizations and activities,<br />
<br />
and various legal frameworks set up to limit liability and risk exposure of such partnerships.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Tokens can be generated within the creation of networked interdependent contracts, to facilitate non linear accounting and increase the velocity of transactions.<br />
<br />
Incentive systems can be attached to such tokens.<br />
<br />
Governance may be attached to certain approaches related to tokens.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
<br />
Tokens and potential velocity of tokens can be considered within a broader information architecture optimised for collective intelligence, in support of solutions and potential solutions in the benefit of intentions defined by an emergent system of liquid governance.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Ultimately, the hoarded monopolistic currency may finally be understood for its externalities, and understood as unethical. If and when people would still give value to monopolistic currency, for people who accumulated it to still have access to production from a hyperproductive solutions oriented networked social economy, there will need to be some form of input in the form of their hoarded monopolistic money in support to a contributions based approach, in the economic network.<br />
<br />
Ultimately, by growing such networked social economy in such way that reduces its dependency on mainstream monopolistic currency, hoarded monopolistic capital may loose its value and power, it not being able to impose a monopoly.</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Commons_as_Dividend&diff=24035Commons as Dividend2017-06-29T13:07:17Z<p>Dante: Created page with " Objective is to reduce hoarding, and reduced waste through enabling mutualization of costs. The commons is a component and strategy that enables such approach. /// The obj..."</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Objective is to reduce hoarding, and reduced waste through enabling mutualization of costs.<br />
<br />
The commons is a component and strategy that enables such approach.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
The objective is to reduce dependencies towards monopolies.<br />
This includes a progressive reduction of dependency on a monetary monopoly.<br />
<br />
Hence, within such attempt to reduce hoarding and reducing monopoly,<br />
dividends on investments in the form of hoardable tokens is drastically discouraged and reduced, and even less so in monopolistic monetary tokens.<br />
<br />
Dividends are perceived in the form of use value and solutions,<br />
<br />
within a broader systemic approach aiming at reducing hoarding of potential future solutions by enabling open linked data , high velocity of transactions, measurement of past - current potential future externalities of all interdependencies.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Hence, one ends up with a "reverse-capitalist" approach, which is more productive ( in terms of solutions / intelligence ) than current classical capitalist exploitation models that include hoarding as a strategy.<br />
<br />
Loans may still be made, and be repaid in the currency they have been made in, ideally at no interest ( but with the potential to gain points, as with the JAK bank of Sweden ), to support the activities of the networked organization.<br />
<br />
Investments can be considered, either at negative interest rates, or in return for non mainstream monopolistic currency, such as in the form of goods.<br />
<br />
Taxes can be paid, yet ideally agreements are made as to pay taxes through providing value rather than in payment of a monopolistic currency.<br />
<br />
Post-Capitalist , Post Financial Crisis Insurance is generated through the economic networks developed, as dependency on , and exposure to, monopolistic financial markets is progressively reduced over time.<br />
<br />
Any usage and increased dependency on mainstream monopolistic currency is thoroughly evaluated, if it requires repayment in mainstream monopolistic currency.<br />
<br />
Such loans will be considered if the economic network in itself is not able to generate interdependencies generating such resources without the need for a loan.<br />
<br />
preferably alternative finance and contracts will be encouraged, to enable tax deductible ( to those who bring in such resources ) investments and donations to the networked and interdependent economic organizations and activities,<br />
<br />
and various legal frameworks set up to limit liability and risk exposure of such partnerships.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Tokens can be generated within the creation of networked interdependent contracts, to facilitate non linear accounting and increase the velocity of transactions.<br />
<br />
Incentive systems can be attached to such tokens.<br />
<br />
Governance may be attached to certain approaches related to tokens.<br />
<br />
Tokens and potential velocity of tokens can be considered within a broader information architecture optimised for collective intelligence, in support of solutions and potential solutions in the benefit of intentions defined by an emergent system of liquid governance.</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CryptoSyndicalism&diff=24034Talk:CryptoSyndicalism2017-05-29T12:38:54Z<p>Dante: </p>
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<div><br />
<br />
As to further facilitate negotiation in relation to labor rights :<br />
<br />
<br />
Dante [26.05.17 14:33]<br />
do you issue some of these, for some of the participants of your meetings , in case they would be open for such recognition ?<br />
<br />
https://coins.media.mit.edu/<br />
<br />
Dante [26.05.17 14:34]<br />
http://www.blockcerts.org/<br />
<br />
Dante , [26.05.17 14:52]<br />
as for the escrow approach, I am interested in it to enable participatory budgeting, including when it comes to global syndicalist networks. I imagine the potentials for generating negotiation conditions by having online networks which can enable coordination and compensation for guerilla syndicalism<br />
<br />
K [26.05.17 14:52]<br />
I wouldn't fiddle with solid tho in an MVP<br />
<br />
K [26.05.17 14:52]<br />
What would be a scenario<br />
Of participatory budgeting<br />
<br />
Like collect money for what?<br />
<br />
Dante [26.05.17 14:53]<br />
well, syndicalism is one. But otherwise, I have more simple, and more sophisticated ideas for applications revolving around participatory budgeting<br />
<br />
K [26.05.17 14:53]<br />
No I mean concrete scenario<br />
<br />
Who's participating and why<br />
Everyone puts money in a pot and then sends it somewhere by voting. Correct?<br />
<br />
It's a very straightforward application for Ethereum for instance. Question is what is the context.<br />
<br />
Dante [26.05.17 14:58]<br />
in the case of crypto/ blockchain enabled syndicalism, it would basically be networks of escrow accounts that workers feed through their membership payments.<br />
<br />
They can unblock amounts of resources on the escrow by voting. There can be different kinds of smart contracts, which could activate different escrow accounts. For example, there can be smartcontracts activated when a certain "game" of votes is brought together. Such as 30 percent of workers in a specific region.<br />
<br />
Or it can be activated through a larger coalition on a larger space, of 10 percent workers activating a specific action, and voting to activate it, so that they get compensated while interrupting work.<br />
<br />
The idea is to reduce the cost of syndicalism, by having strategic micro actions.<br />
<br />
For example, truckers or air flight controllers , or dockers, or petroleum / refinery workers, can have much more strategic positions to enable the opening up of a negotiation table with government and corporations.<br />
<br />
It is possible to grid lock specific interests without having a general strike. A general strike costs a fortune. A "guerilla" protest can be strategic, and take into account various logistical systems and interdependencies in the globalised production and trade system.<br />
<br />
K [26.05.17 15:11]<br />
Ok so the money would be for a protest for example<br />
<br />
Dante [26.05.17 15:12]<br />
well. basically, paying people for not going to work - and then using the disruption it generates ( ideally, not a generalized disruption that pisses off the population, but a very strategic disruption that pisses off certain shareholders of certain corporations with whom negotiations need to be opened )<br />
<br />
Dante [26.05.17 15:28]<br />
it is even more effective to select very specific people not to work, because entire industries can be interrupted, through a few nodes, which means that the corporations still need to pay all the people that come to work even if the production is interrupted on that day. Because logistics now relies on last minute, it can generate powerful negotiation situations.<br />
<br />
One example : Romanian truckers are working for the same logistical companies than their western comrades, but get paid 4 or 5 times less, with more difficult working and living conditions. One can pay them for not working, even on longer periods, and disrupt the logistical system enough for there to be European Wide political intervention to make sure that the rights of these truckers reach the same level as western truckers. In the process also making it better for western truckers as it reduces unloyal competition.<br />
<br />
Truckers are very organized between each other. They can also block strategic roads. Using an app, and compensating for any loss of salary when stopping work ( paying the loss of romanian salaries likely cheaper than western salaries, yet the potential to block western logistical systems costing a lot of money to western companies, and hence leading to political pressure )<br />
<br />
It can be much more cost effective that generalized strikes at a national level. Production systems are globalized, so often the strike can be broken in other ways, and ends up being too expensive for too little to no results.<br />
<br />
Anyways, this is a multi billion business in itself, that can be empowered by blockchain</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=CryptoSyndicalism&diff=24033CryptoSyndicalism2017-05-29T12:38:06Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
For now, just an idea which I wish to verify :<br />
<br />
The idea is to generate a pool that can be used when strategic solidarity mechanisms need to be used.<br />
<br />
Potentials to develop Crypto-Syndicalist approaches using Blockchain.<br />
<br />
Creating a DAO <br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization<br />
<br />
and generating smart contracts, which would eventually be run via smart oracles when combined contextual information as potential triggers for the smart contracts<br />
<br />
https://ripple.com/insights/smart-oracles-building-business-logic-with-smart-contracts/<br />
<br />
" Smart oracles take the concept of oracles a step further by placing the untrusted code execution in the oracles’ hands. Smart oracles, then, are trusted or semi-trusted entities that can both provide information about the outside world and execute the code to which the contracting parties agreed. "<br />
<br />
<br />
Also see : <br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Talk:CryptoSyndicalism</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CryptoSyndicalism&diff=24032Talk:CryptoSyndicalism2017-05-29T12:37:42Z<p>Dante: Created page with " As to further facilitate negotiation in relation to labor rights : Dante [26.05.17 14:33] do you issue some of these, for some of the participants of your meetings , in c..."</p>
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<div><br />
<br />
As to further facilitate negotiation in relation to labor rights :<br />
<br />
<br />
Dante [26.05.17 14:33]<br />
do you issue some of these, for some of the participants of your meetings , in case they would be open for such recognition ?<br />
<br />
https://coins.media.mit.edu/<br />
<br />
Dante [26.05.17 14:34]<br />
http://www.blockcerts.org/<br />
<br />
Dante Monson, [26.05.17 14:52]<br />
as for the escrow approach, I am interested in it to enable participatory budgeting, including when it comes to global syndicalist networks. I imagine the potentials for generating negotiation conditions by having online networks which can enable coordination and compensation for guerilla syndicalism<br />
<br />
K [26.05.17 14:52]<br />
I wouldn't fiddle with solid tho in an MVP<br />
<br />
K [26.05.17 14:52]<br />
What would be a scenario<br />
Of participatory budgeting<br />
<br />
Like collect money for what?<br />
<br />
Dante [26.05.17 14:53]<br />
well, syndicalism is one. But otherwise, I have more simple, and more sophisticated ideas for applications revolving around participatory budgeting<br />
<br />
K [26.05.17 14:53]<br />
No I mean concrete scenario<br />
<br />
Who's participating and why<br />
Everyone puts money in a pot and then sends it somewhere by voting. Correct?<br />
<br />
It's a very straightforward application for Ethereum for instance. Question is what is the context.<br />
<br />
Dante [26.05.17 14:58]<br />
in the case of crypto/ blockchain enabled syndicalism, it would basically be networks of escrow accounts that workers feed through their membership payments.<br />
<br />
They can unblock amounts of resources on the escrow by voting. There can be different kinds of smart contracts, which could activate different escrow accounts. For example, there can be smartcontracts activated when a certain "game" of votes is brought together. Such as 30 percent of workers in a specific region.<br />
<br />
Or it can be activated through a larger coalition on a larger space, of 10 percent workers activating a specific action, and voting to activate it, so that they get compensated while interrupting work.<br />
<br />
The idea is to reduce the cost of syndicalism, by having strategic micro actions.<br />
<br />
For example, truckers or air flight controllers , or dockers, or petroleum / refinery workers, can have much more strategic positions to enable the opening up of a negotiation table with government and corporations.<br />
<br />
It is possible to grid lock specific interests without having a general strike. A general strike costs a fortune. A "guerilla" protest can be strategic, and take into account various logistical systems and interdependencies in the globalised production and trade system.<br />
<br />
K [26.05.17 15:11]<br />
Ok so the money would be for a protest for example<br />
<br />
Dante [26.05.17 15:12]<br />
well. basically, paying people for not going to work - and then using the disruption it generates ( ideally, not a generalized disruption that pisses off the population, but a very strategic disruption that pisses off certain shareholders of certain corporations with whom negotiations need to be opened )<br />
<br />
Dante [26.05.17 15:28]<br />
it is even more effective to select very specific people not to work, because entire industries can be interrupted, through a few nodes, which means that the corporations still need to pay all the people that come to work even if the production is interrupted on that day. Because logistics now relies on last minute, it can generate powerful negotiation situations.<br />
<br />
One example : Romanian truckers are working for the same logistical companies than their western comrades, but get paid 4 or 5 times less, with more difficult working and living conditions. One can pay them for not working, even on longer periods, and disrupt the logistical system enough for there to be European Wide political intervention to make sure that the rights of these truckers reach the same level as western truckers. In the process also making it better for western truckers as it reduces unloyal competition.<br />
<br />
Truckers are very organized between each other. They can also block strategic roads. Using an app, and compensating for any loss of salary when stopping work ( paying the loss of romanian salaries likely cheaper than western salaries, yet the potential to block western logistical systems costing a lot of money to western companies, and hence leading to political pressure )<br />
<br />
It can be much more cost effective that generalized strikes at a national level. Production systems are globalized, so often the strike can be broken in other ways, and ends up being too expensive for too little to no results.<br />
<br />
Anyways, this is a multi billion business in itself, that can be empowered by blockchain</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=CryptoSyndicalism&diff=24030CryptoSyndicalism2017-05-17T01:12:30Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
For now, just an idea which I wish to verify :<br />
<br />
The idea is to generate a pool that can be used when strategic solidarity mechanisms need to be used.<br />
<br />
Potentials to develop Crypto-Syndicalist approaches using Blockchain.<br />
<br />
Creating a DAO <br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization<br />
<br />
and generating smart contracts, which would eventually be run via smart oracles when combined contextual information as potential triggers for the smart contracts<br />
<br />
https://ripple.com/insights/smart-oracles-building-business-logic-with-smart-contracts/<br />
<br />
" Smart oracles take the concept of oracles a step further by placing the untrusted code execution in the oracles’ hands. Smart oracles, then, are trusted or semi-trusted entities that can both provide information about the outside world and execute the code to which the contracting parties agreed. "</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=CryptoSyndicalism&diff=24029CryptoSyndicalism2017-05-13T19:04:23Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
For now, just an idea which I wish to verify :<br />
<br />
The idea is to generate a pool that can be used when strategic solidarity mechanisms need to be used.<br />
<br />
Potentials to develop Crypto-Syndicalist approaches using Blockchain.<br />
<br />
Creating a DAO <br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization<br />
<br />
and generating smart contracts, which would eventually be run via smart oracles when combined with external triggers, contextual information and potential triggers<br />
<br />
https://ripple.com/insights/smart-oracles-building-business-logic-with-smart-contracts/<br />
<br />
" Smart oracles take the concept of oracles a step further by placing the untrusted code execution in the oracles’ hands. Smart oracles, then, are trusted or semi-trusted entities that can both provide information about the outside world and execute the code to which the contracting parties agreed. "</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=CryptoSyndicalism&diff=24028CryptoSyndicalism2017-05-13T19:03:43Z<p>Dante: Created page with " For now, just an idea which I wish to verify : Potentials to develop Crypto-Syndicalist approaches using Blockchain. Creating a DAO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentra..."</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
For now, just an idea which I wish to verify :<br />
<br />
Potentials to develop Crypto-Syndicalist approaches using Blockchain.<br />
<br />
Creating a DAO <br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization<br />
<br />
and generating smart contracts, which would eventually be run via smart oracles when combined with external triggers, contextual information and potential triggers<br />
<br />
https://ripple.com/insights/smart-oracles-building-business-logic-with-smart-contracts/<br />
<br />
" Smart oracles take the concept of oracles a step further by placing the untrusted code execution in the oracles’ hands. Smart oracles, then, are trusted or semi-trusted entities that can both provide information about the outside world and execute the code to which the contracting parties agreed. "<br />
<br />
The idea is to generate a pool that can be used when strategic solidarity mechanisms need to be used.</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Downshifting&diff=24027Downshifting2017-03-01T11:40:04Z<p>Dante: </p>
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<div><br />
Creating an ASBL for "Shifters" ? : Meaningful Downshifting 4 Regenerative Upcycling Transition Management ? <br />
<br />
[[Dante]] imagines an organization ( not for profit - asbl in Belgium )<br />
which can facilitate the convergence of people interested in a synthesis of the following concepts ,<br />
<br />
with as aim to exchange and build on information that enables shifts in their lives and the lives of others - finding and creating meaning / Aka Logotherapy - , generating collective intelligence through Participatory Action Research.<br />
<br />
It also addresses itself to people who are faced to Bore-Outs ( even more so than Burn Outs )<br />
<br />
It leads to a convergence of existing and novel movements.<br />
<br />
I will describe some of its aspects, and am reaching out to see how this can be set up together.<br />
<br />
It can help inform how to reduce and manage ones spending ( some people getting used to a certain lifestyle related to their higher earnings )<br />
<br />
in preparation of<br />
<br />
- shifting into a part-time<br />
- taking a year off<br />
- or eventually leaving an employee job all-together<br />
( while informing of potentials to create alternative livelihoods that can still be economically sustainable )<br />
<br />
It aims to be a medium of mutual moral support , shared information and inspiration , and potential collaboration, eventually serving as an Incubator, for Lifestyle Change, while finding ways to provide for ones needs at different stages. Facilitating midst others ones Self Actualization process, and enabling shared intentionality into Selfless actualization , while reducing the perception of potential marginalization.<br />
<br />
It would include various social configurations.<br />
A second step being to leverage multi-generational approaches,<br />
that can enable synergies , frameworks, or access to information that enables mutual support between adults with children.<br />
<br />
It eventually also includes people with an interest in Existential Migration , as part of processes of networked collective intelligence in support of individuation and self(less) actualization.<br />
<br />
<br />
Some of the concepts :<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downshifting<br />
<br />
<br />
Downshifting is a social behavior or trend in which individuals live simpler lives to escape from what critics call the rat race of obsessive materialism and to reduce the “stress, overtime, and psychological expense that may accompany it”.[1] It emphasizes finding an improved balance between leisure and work[2] and focusing life goals on personal fulfilment and building relationships instead of the all-consuming pursuit of economic success. The term also refers to the act of reducing the gear of a motor vehicle while driving a manual transmission.<br />
Downshifting, as a concept, shares many characteristics with simple living, but is distinguished, as an alternative form by its focus on moderate change and concentration on an individual comfort level, a gradual approach.[3]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreout<br />
<br />
the absence of meaningful tasks, rather than the presence of stress, is many workers' chief problem. Boreout consists of three elements: boredom, lack of challenge, and lack of interest. These authors disagree with the common perceptions that a demotivated employee is lazy; instead, they claim that the employee has lost interest in work tasks. Those suffering from boreout are "dissatisfied with their professional situation" in that they are frustrated at being prevented, by institutional mechanisms or obstacles as opposed to by their own lack of aptitude, from fulfilling their potential (as by using their skills, knowledge, and abilities to contribute to their company's development) and/or from receiving official recognition for their efforts.<br />
<br />
somewhat different to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_design<br />
<br />
Regenerative design is a process-oriented systems theory based approach to design. The term "regenerative" describes processes that restore, renew or revitalize their own sources of energy and materials, creating sustainable systems that integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature. The basis is derived from systems ecology with a closed loop input–output model or a model in which the output is greater than or equal to the input with all outputs viable and all inputs accounted for. Regenerative design is the biomimicry of ecosystems that provide for all human systems to function as a closed viable ecological economics system for all industry.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_management_(governance)<br />
<br />
Transition management is a governance approach that aims to facilitate and accelerate sustainability transitions through a participatory process of visioning, learning and experimenting.[1][2][3] In its application, transition management seeks to bring together multiple viewpoints and multiple approaches in a 'transition arena'. Participants are invited to structure their shared problems with the current system and develop shared visions and goals which are then tested for practicality through the use of experimentation, learning and reflexivity. The model is often discussed in reference to sustainable development and the possible use of the model as a method for change.<br />
<br />
Key principles to transition management as a form of governance:[4]<br />
<br />
seeks to widen participation by taking a multi-actor approach in order to encompass societal values and beliefs<br />
takes a long-term perspective (between 1-3 generations) creating a basket of visions in which short-term objectives can be identified<br />
focused on learning at the niche level, experiments are used to identify how successful a particular pathway could be and uses the concept of "Learn by doing, doing by learning"[4]<br />
a systems thinking approach which identifies that problems will span multiple domains, levels and actors.[1]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logotherapy<br />
<br />
Logotherapy is based on an existential analysis[3] focusing on Kierkegaard's will to meaning as opposed to Adler's Nietzschean doctrine of will to power or Freud's will to pleasure. Rather than power or pleasure, logotherapy is founded upon the belief that it is the striving to find a meaning in one's life that is the primary, most powerful motivating and driving force in humans.[4] A short introduction to this system is given in Frankl's most famous book, Man's Search for Meaning, in which he outlines how his theories helped him to survive his Holocaust experience and how that experience further developed and reinforced his theories.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_action_research<br />
<br />
Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research in communities that emphasizes participation and action. It seeks to understand the world by trying to change it, collaboratively and following reflection. PAR emphasizes collective inquiry and experimentation grounded in experience and social history. Within a PAR process, "communities of inquiry and action evolve and address questions and issues that are significant for those who participate as co-researchers".[1] PAR contrasts with many research methods, which emphasize disinterested researchers and reproducibility of findings.<br />
<br />
PAR practitioners make a concerted effort to integrate three basic aspects of their work: participation (life in society and democracy), action (engagement with experience and history), and research (soundness in thought and the growth of knowledge).[2] "Action unites, organically, with research" and collective processes of self-investigation.[3] The way each component is actually understood and the relative emphasis it receives varies nonetheless from one PAR theory and practice to another. This means that PAR is not a monolithic body of ideas and methods but rather a pluralistic orientation to knowledge making and social change.[4][5][6]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence<br />
<br />
The concept is used in sociology, business, computer science and mass communications: it also appears in science fiction. Pierre Lévy defines collective intelligence as, "It is a form of universally distributed intelligence, constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time, and resulting in the effective mobilization of skills. I'll add the following indispensable characteristic to this definition: The basis and goal of collective intelligence is mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals rather than the cult of fetishized or hypostatized communities."[5] According to researchers Pierre Lévy and Derrick de Kerckhove, it refers to capacity of networked ICTs (Information communication technologies) to enhance the collective pool of social knowledge by simultaneously expanding the extent of human interactions.[6] Collective intelligence strongly contributes to the shift of knowledge and power from the individual to the collective.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation<br />
<br />
In Jungian psychology, also called analytical psychology, individuation is the process in which the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious – seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become integrated over time into a well-functioning whole.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization<br />
<br />
Self-actualization can be seen as similar to words and concepts such as self-discovery, self-reflection, self-realisation and self-exploration.<br />
<br />
As Abraham Maslow noted, the basic needs of humans must be met (e.g. food, shelter, warmth, security, sense of belonging) before a person can achieve self-actualization – the need to be good, to be fully alive and to find meaning in life. Yet, Maslow argued that reaching a state of true self-actualization in everyday society was fairy tale. Research shows that when people live lives that are different from their true nature and capabilities, they are less likely to be happy than those whose goals and lives match. For example, someone who has inherent potential to be a great artist or teacher may never realize his/her talents if their energy is focused on attaining the basic needs of humans.[5]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Selfless_Actualization<br />
<br />
<br />
"Maslow's message is that to achieve peak experience people must move from self to other. Social justice, generativity, and transformative thinking and acting are all concepts that could be associated with this orientation. The fundamental idea is that people must move to a focus and concern for other people to achieve the highest level of human nature. People who move beyond self-actualization "are, without a single exception, involved in a cause outside of their skin: in something outside of themselves, some calling or vocation" (Maslow, 197 1 :42). This view is supported by, among others, Erik Erikson (1987) and Carl Rogers (1961). " (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamotivation)<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_migration<br />
<br />
Existential migration is a term coined by Greg Madison (2006) in Existential Analysis, the journal of the Society for Existential Analysis. Madison's term describes expatriates (voluntary emigrants) who supposedly have an "existential" motivation, unlike economic migration, simple wanderlust, exile, or variations of forced migration. ‘Existential migration’ is conceived as a chosen attempt to express something fundamental about existence by leaving one’s homeland and becoming a foreigner.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
<br />
Instead of a "Business Incubator" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_incubator )<br />
<br />
<br />
it can become a "Lifestyle Incubator" that can be generated by also creating "Meta Layers" - empowering through generating systems, which can also be seen as "Phyles" ( which can be not for profit organizations - entreprises )<br />
<br />
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"A phyle is a confederation — which is to say, a network with no higher structure — of conversational communities with their own companies, which share a series of common funds in a transnational space: basically, “social security” and mutual economic support systems." (https://english.lasindias.com/why-we-are-not-yet-a-phyle-and-where-those-who-form-them-will-come-from)<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
yet it does not require conformity to a community dynamic, such as in Intentional Communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community ( although people may choose to integrate such aspect depending on their preferences )<br />
<br />
<br />
Hence it aims at generating structures that enable Participatory Action Research and Networked Individual Inquiry, that remains highly critical of<br />
<br />
<br />
Group Think<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink<br />
<br />
Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.<br />
<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
When using the Integral Theory as tool,<br />
<br />
one clearly shows that although one can support with information people in need for "Green Value Memes" ,<br />
<br />
<br />
the main focus is a shift from "Green" to "Yellow",<br />
<br />
and from "Yellow" to "Turquoise" ...<br />
<br />
http://s3.amazonaws.com/estock/fspid8/116100/everystockphoto-116188-o.png<br />
<br />
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/culturescanintrov2-091207111537-phpapp01/95/culture-scan-an-introduction-to-spiral-dynamics-5-728.jpg?cb=1260184555<br />
<br />
<br />
and serves rather as a tool for collective intelligence<br />
<br />
( which can also support the development of tools, such as Assemblee Virtuelle does , including for example ontologies supporting Open Value Networks https://www.virtual-assembly.org/en , http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Open_Value_Network )<br />
<br />
The "tools" development aspect may be one of the various branches of mutually supporting modules<br />
<br />
( which also include learning environments and practices , modular housing solutions , etc )<br />
<br />
tending towards not merely "Business Intelligence" , but "Life Intelligence" 2.0<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence_2.0<br />
<br />
by further generating a coalition of software developers , including Open Linked Data approaches.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Its narrative will be in support of<br />
<br />
Contribution based peer production approaches in support of Commons<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons<br />
<br />
The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/commons-based-peer-production-information-economy/2016/10/21<br />
<br />
and making usage of "The 10 Commandments" of Peer Production<br />
<br />
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-ten-commandments-of-peer-production-and-commons-economics/2015/10/24<br />
<br />
favoring "Equipotentiality" , a non credentialist approach based on self selection<br />
<br />
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Equipotentiality<br />
<br />
Michel Bauwens: in my interpretation, peer production processes are characterized by the adoption of equipotentiality as an organizing principle. This means that everyone can potentially cooperate in a project, that no authority can pre-judge the ability to cooperate, but that the quality of cooperation is then judged by the community of peers, i.e. through Communal Validation. In equipotential projects, participants self-select themselves to the module to which they feel able to contribute. A related term, used by Jimmy Wales of the Wikipedia project, is Anti-Credentialism, which refers to the fact that no credentials are asked beforehand, unlike the process of Peer Review.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
It exposes "Bullshit Jobs" and purely non productive financial speculation.<br />
<br />
( http://web.archive.org/web/20160316040057/http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ )<br />
<br />
It attempts to increase the velocity of currencies and access to resources to increase opportunities and problem solving opportunities.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
<br />
Although initially, one can start locally, working with existing organizations,<br />
<br />
having more classical meet-ups with people interested in initial stages of change in their lifestyle.<br />
<br />
Different approaches can be used for convergence.<br />
<br />
It can include eating together ( or cooking together ),<br />
<br />
it can include sports and walks , etc<br />
<br />
<br />
Starting in ( cosmopolitan ? ) cities.<br />
<br />
Eventually organizing retreats at some point,<br />
<br />
and applying "Art of Hosting" , "Dragon Dreaming" and other approaches<br />
<br />
http://www.artofhosting.org/<br />
<br />
http://www.dragondreaming.org/dragondreaming/what-is-it-exactly/dragon-dreamingthe-dragon-dreaming-process/<br />
<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
I look forward to start locally,</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Downshifting&diff=24026Downshifting2017-03-01T11:24:46Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Creating an ASBL for "Shifters" ? : Meaningful Downshifting 4 Regenerative Upcycling Transition Management ? <br />
<br />
[[Dante]] imagines an organization ( not for profit - asbl in Belgium )<br />
which can facilitate the convergence of people interested in a synthesis of the following concepts ,<br />
<br />
with as aim to exchange and build on information that enables shifts in their lives and the lives of others - finding and creating meaning / Aka Logotherapy - , generating collective intelligence through Participatory Action Research.<br />
<br />
It leads to a convergence of existing and novel movements.<br />
<br />
I will describe some of its aspects, and am reaching out to see how this can be set up together.<br />
<br />
It can help inform how to reduce and manage ones spending ( some people getting used to a certain lifestyle related to their higher earnings )<br />
<br />
in preparation of<br />
<br />
- shifting into a part-time<br />
- taking a year off<br />
- or eventually leaving an employee job all-together<br />
( while informing of potentials to create alternative livelihoods that can still be economically sustainable )<br />
<br />
It aims to be a medium of mutual moral support , shared information and inspiration , and potential collaboration, eventually serving as an Incubator, for Lifestyle Change, while finding ways to provide for ones needs at different stages. Facilitating midst others ones Self Actualization process, and enabling shared intentionality into Selfless actualization , while reducing the perception of potential marginalization.<br />
<br />
It would include various social configurations.<br />
A second step being to leverage multi-generational approaches,<br />
that can enable synergies , frameworks, or access to information that enables mutual support between adults with children.<br />
<br />
It eventually also includes people with an interest in Existential Migration , as part of processes of networked collective intelligence in support of individuation and self(less) actualization.<br />
<br />
<br />
Some of the concepts :<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downshifting<br />
<br />
<br />
Downshifting is a social behavior or trend in which individuals live simpler lives to escape from what critics call the rat race of obsessive materialism and to reduce the “stress, overtime, and psychological expense that may accompany it”.[1] It emphasizes finding an improved balance between leisure and work[2] and focusing life goals on personal fulfilment and building relationships instead of the all-consuming pursuit of economic success. The term also refers to the act of reducing the gear of a motor vehicle while driving a manual transmission.<br />
Downshifting, as a concept, shares many characteristics with simple living, but is distinguished, as an alternative form by its focus on moderate change and concentration on an individual comfort level, a gradual approach.[3]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_design<br />
<br />
Regenerative design is a process-oriented systems theory based approach to design. The term "regenerative" describes processes that restore, renew or revitalize their own sources of energy and materials, creating sustainable systems that integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature. The basis is derived from systems ecology with a closed loop input–output model or a model in which the output is greater than or equal to the input with all outputs viable and all inputs accounted for. Regenerative design is the biomimicry of ecosystems that provide for all human systems to function as a closed viable ecological economics system for all industry.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_management_(governance)<br />
<br />
Transition management is a governance approach that aims to facilitate and accelerate sustainability transitions through a participatory process of visioning, learning and experimenting.[1][2][3] In its application, transition management seeks to bring together multiple viewpoints and multiple approaches in a 'transition arena'. Participants are invited to structure their shared problems with the current system and develop shared visions and goals which are then tested for practicality through the use of experimentation, learning and reflexivity. The model is often discussed in reference to sustainable development and the possible use of the model as a method for change.<br />
<br />
Key principles to transition management as a form of governance:[4]<br />
<br />
seeks to widen participation by taking a multi-actor approach in order to encompass societal values and beliefs<br />
takes a long-term perspective (between 1-3 generations) creating a basket of visions in which short-term objectives can be identified<br />
focused on learning at the niche level, experiments are used to identify how successful a particular pathway could be and uses the concept of "Learn by doing, doing by learning"[4]<br />
a systems thinking approach which identifies that problems will span multiple domains, levels and actors.[1]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logotherapy<br />
<br />
Logotherapy is based on an existential analysis[3] focusing on Kierkegaard's will to meaning as opposed to Adler's Nietzschean doctrine of will to power or Freud's will to pleasure. Rather than power or pleasure, logotherapy is founded upon the belief that it is the striving to find a meaning in one's life that is the primary, most powerful motivating and driving force in humans.[4] A short introduction to this system is given in Frankl's most famous book, Man's Search for Meaning, in which he outlines how his theories helped him to survive his Holocaust experience and how that experience further developed and reinforced his theories.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_action_research<br />
<br />
Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research in communities that emphasizes participation and action. It seeks to understand the world by trying to change it, collaboratively and following reflection. PAR emphasizes collective inquiry and experimentation grounded in experience and social history. Within a PAR process, "communities of inquiry and action evolve and address questions and issues that are significant for those who participate as co-researchers".[1] PAR contrasts with many research methods, which emphasize disinterested researchers and reproducibility of findings.<br />
<br />
PAR practitioners make a concerted effort to integrate three basic aspects of their work: participation (life in society and democracy), action (engagement with experience and history), and research (soundness in thought and the growth of knowledge).[2] "Action unites, organically, with research" and collective processes of self-investigation.[3] The way each component is actually understood and the relative emphasis it receives varies nonetheless from one PAR theory and practice to another. This means that PAR is not a monolithic body of ideas and methods but rather a pluralistic orientation to knowledge making and social change.[4][5][6]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence<br />
<br />
The concept is used in sociology, business, computer science and mass communications: it also appears in science fiction. Pierre Lévy defines collective intelligence as, "It is a form of universally distributed intelligence, constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time, and resulting in the effective mobilization of skills. I'll add the following indispensable characteristic to this definition: The basis and goal of collective intelligence is mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals rather than the cult of fetishized or hypostatized communities."[5] According to researchers Pierre Lévy and Derrick de Kerckhove, it refers to capacity of networked ICTs (Information communication technologies) to enhance the collective pool of social knowledge by simultaneously expanding the extent of human interactions.[6] Collective intelligence strongly contributes to the shift of knowledge and power from the individual to the collective.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation<br />
<br />
In Jungian psychology, also called analytical psychology, individuation is the process in which the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious – seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become integrated over time into a well-functioning whole.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization<br />
<br />
Self-actualization can be seen as similar to words and concepts such as self-discovery, self-reflection, self-realisation and self-exploration.<br />
<br />
As Abraham Maslow noted, the basic needs of humans must be met (e.g. food, shelter, warmth, security, sense of belonging) before a person can achieve self-actualization – the need to be good, to be fully alive and to find meaning in life. Yet, Maslow argued that reaching a state of true self-actualization in everyday society was fairy tale. Research shows that when people live lives that are different from their true nature and capabilities, they are less likely to be happy than those whose goals and lives match. For example, someone who has inherent potential to be a great artist or teacher may never realize his/her talents if their energy is focused on attaining the basic needs of humans.[5]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Selfless_Actualization<br />
<br />
<br />
"Maslow's message is that to achieve peak experience people must move from self to other. Social justice, generativity, and transformative thinking and acting are all concepts that could be associated with this orientation. The fundamental idea is that people must move to a focus and concern for other people to achieve the highest level of human nature. People who move beyond self-actualization "are, without a single exception, involved in a cause outside of their skin: in something outside of themselves, some calling or vocation" (Maslow, 197 1 :42). This view is supported by, among others, Erik Erikson (1987) and Carl Rogers (1961). " (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamotivation)<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_migration<br />
<br />
Existential migration is a term coined by Greg Madison (2006) in Existential Analysis, the journal of the Society for Existential Analysis. Madison's term describes expatriates (voluntary emigrants) who supposedly have an "existential" motivation, unlike economic migration, simple wanderlust, exile, or variations of forced migration. ‘Existential migration’ is conceived as a chosen attempt to express something fundamental about existence by leaving one’s homeland and becoming a foreigner.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
<br />
Instead of a "Business Incubator" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_incubator )<br />
<br />
<br />
it can become a "Lifestyle Incubator" that can be generated by also creating "Meta Layers" - empowering through generating systems, which can also be seen as "Phyles" ( which can be not for profit organizations - entreprises )<br />
<br />
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"A phyle is a confederation — which is to say, a network with no higher structure — of conversational communities with their own companies, which share a series of common funds in a transnational space: basically, “social security” and mutual economic support systems." (https://english.lasindias.com/why-we-are-not-yet-a-phyle-and-where-those-who-form-them-will-come-from)<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
yet it does not require conformity to a community dynamic, such as in Intentional Communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community ( although people may choose to integrate such aspect depending on their preferences )<br />
<br />
<br />
Hence it aims at generating structures that enable Participatory Action Research and Networked Individual Inquiry, that remains highly critical of<br />
<br />
<br />
Group Think<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink<br />
<br />
Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.<br />
<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
When using the Integral Theory as tool,<br />
<br />
one clearly shows that although one can support with information people in need for "Green Value Memes" ,<br />
<br />
<br />
the main focus is a shift from "Green" to "Yellow",<br />
<br />
and from "Yellow" to "Turquoise" ...<br />
<br />
http://s3.amazonaws.com/estock/fspid8/116100/everystockphoto-116188-o.png<br />
<br />
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/culturescanintrov2-091207111537-phpapp01/95/culture-scan-an-introduction-to-spiral-dynamics-5-728.jpg?cb=1260184555<br />
<br />
<br />
and serves rather as a tool for collective intelligence<br />
<br />
( which can also support the development of tools, such as Assemblee Virtuelle does , including for example ontologies supporting Open Value Networks https://www.virtual-assembly.org/en , http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Open_Value_Network )<br />
<br />
The "tools" development aspect may be one of the various branches of mutually supporting modules<br />
<br />
( which also include learning environments and practices , modular housing solutions , etc )<br />
<br />
tending towards not merely "Business Intelligence" , but "Life Intelligence" 2.0<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence_2.0<br />
<br />
by further generating a coalition of software developers , including Open Linked Data approaches.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Its narrative will be in support of<br />
<br />
Contribution based peer production approaches in support of Commons<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons<br />
<br />
The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/commons-based-peer-production-information-economy/2016/10/21<br />
<br />
and making usage of "The 10 Commandments" of Peer Production<br />
<br />
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-ten-commandments-of-peer-production-and-commons-economics/2015/10/24<br />
<br />
favoring "Equipotentiality" , a non credentialist approach based on self selection<br />
<br />
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Equipotentiality<br />
<br />
Michel Bauwens: in my interpretation, peer production processes are characterized by the adoption of equipotentiality as an organizing principle. This means that everyone can potentially cooperate in a project, that no authority can pre-judge the ability to cooperate, but that the quality of cooperation is then judged by the community of peers, i.e. through Communal Validation. In equipotential projects, participants self-select themselves to the module to which they feel able to contribute. A related term, used by Jimmy Wales of the Wikipedia project, is Anti-Credentialism, which refers to the fact that no credentials are asked beforehand, unlike the process of Peer Review.<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
<br />
Although initially, one can start locally, working with existing organizations,<br />
<br />
having more classical meet-ups with people interested in initial stages of change in their lifestyle.<br />
<br />
Different approaches can be used for convergence.<br />
<br />
It can include eating together ( or cooking together ),<br />
<br />
it can include sports and walks , etc<br />
<br />
<br />
Starting in ( cosmopolitan ? ) cities.<br />
<br />
Eventually organizing retreats at some point,<br />
<br />
and applying "Art of Hosting" , "Dragon Dreaming" and other approaches<br />
<br />
http://www.artofhosting.org/<br />
<br />
http://www.dragondreaming.org/dragondreaming/what-is-it-exactly/dragon-dreamingthe-dragon-dreaming-process/<br />
<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
I look forward to start locally</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Downshifting&diff=24025Downshifting2017-03-01T11:14:16Z<p>Dante: Creating an ASBL for "Shifters" ? : Meaningful Downshifting 4 Regenerative Upcycling Transition Management ?</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Creating an ASBL for "Shifters" ? : Meaningful Downshifting 4 Regenerative Upcycling Transition Management ? <br />
<br />
[[Dante]] imagines an organization ( not for profit - asbl in Belgium )<br />
which can facilitate the convergence of people interested in a synthesis of the following concepts ,<br />
<br />
with as aim to exchange and build on information that enables shifts in their lives and the lives of others - finding and creating meaning / Aka Logotherapy - , generating collective intelligence through Participatory Action Research.<br />
<br />
It leads to a convergence of existing and novel movements.<br />
<br />
I will describe some of its aspects, and am reaching out to see how this can be set up together.<br />
<br />
It can help inform how to reduce and manage ones spending ( some people getting used to a certain lifestyle related to their higher earnings )<br />
<br />
in preparation of<br />
<br />
- shifting into a part-time<br />
- taking a year off<br />
- or eventually leaving an employee job all-together<br />
( while informing of potentials to create alternative livelihoods that can still be economically sustainable )<br />
<br />
It aims to be a medium of mutual moral support , shared information and inspiration , and potential collaboration, eventually serving as an Incubator, for Lifestyle Change, while finding ways to provide for ones needs at different stages. Facilitating midst others ones Self Actualization process, and enabling shared intentionality into Selfless actualization , while reducing the perception of potential marginalization.<br />
<br />
It would include various social configurations.<br />
A second step being to leverage multi-generational approaches,<br />
that can enable synergies , frameworks, or access to information that enables mutual support between adults with children.<br />
<br />
It eventually also includes people with an interest in Existential Migration , as part of processes of networked collective intelligence in support of individuation and self(less) actualization.<br />
<br />
<br />
Some of the concepts :<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downshifting<br />
<br />
<br />
Downshifting is a social behavior or trend in which individuals live simpler lives to escape from what critics call the rat race of obsessive materialism and to reduce the “stress, overtime, and psychological expense that may accompany it”.[1] It emphasizes finding an improved balance between leisure and work[2] and focusing life goals on personal fulfilment and building relationships instead of the all-consuming pursuit of economic success. The term also refers to the act of reducing the gear of a motor vehicle while driving a manual transmission.<br />
Downshifting, as a concept, shares many characteristics with simple living, but is distinguished, as an alternative form by its focus on moderate change and concentration on an individual comfort level, a gradual approach.[3]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_design<br />
<br />
Regenerative design is a process-oriented systems theory based approach to design. The term "regenerative" describes processes that restore, renew or revitalize their own sources of energy and materials, creating sustainable systems that integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature. The basis is derived from systems ecology with a closed loop input–output model or a model in which the output is greater than or equal to the input with all outputs viable and all inputs accounted for. Regenerative design is the biomimicry of ecosystems that provide for all human systems to function as a closed viable ecological economics system for all industry.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_management_(governance)<br />
<br />
Transition management is a governance approach that aims to facilitate and accelerate sustainability transitions through a participatory process of visioning, learning and experimenting.[1][2][3] In its application, transition management seeks to bring together multiple viewpoints and multiple approaches in a 'transition arena'. Participants are invited to structure their shared problems with the current system and develop shared visions and goals which are then tested for practicality through the use of experimentation, learning and reflexivity. The model is often discussed in reference to sustainable development and the possible use of the model as a method for change.<br />
<br />
Key principles to transition management as a form of governance:[4]<br />
<br />
seeks to widen participation by taking a multi-actor approach in order to encompass societal values and beliefs<br />
takes a long-term perspective (between 1-3 generations) creating a basket of visions in which short-term objectives can be identified<br />
focused on learning at the niche level, experiments are used to identify how successful a particular pathway could be and uses the concept of "Learn by doing, doing by learning"[4]<br />
a systems thinking approach which identifies that problems will span multiple domains, levels and actors.[1]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logotherapy<br />
<br />
Logotherapy is based on an existential analysis[3] focusing on Kierkegaard's will to meaning as opposed to Adler's Nietzschean doctrine of will to power or Freud's will to pleasure. Rather than power or pleasure, logotherapy is founded upon the belief that it is the striving to find a meaning in one's life that is the primary, most powerful motivating and driving force in humans.[4] A short introduction to this system is given in Frankl's most famous book, Man's Search for Meaning, in which he outlines how his theories helped him to survive his Holocaust experience and how that experience further developed and reinforced his theories.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_action_research<br />
<br />
Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research in communities that emphasizes participation and action. It seeks to understand the world by trying to change it, collaboratively and following reflection. PAR emphasizes collective inquiry and experimentation grounded in experience and social history. Within a PAR process, "communities of inquiry and action evolve and address questions and issues that are significant for those who participate as co-researchers".[1] PAR contrasts with many research methods, which emphasize disinterested researchers and reproducibility of findings.<br />
<br />
PAR practitioners make a concerted effort to integrate three basic aspects of their work: participation (life in society and democracy), action (engagement with experience and history), and research (soundness in thought and the growth of knowledge).[2] "Action unites, organically, with research" and collective processes of self-investigation.[3] The way each component is actually understood and the relative emphasis it receives varies nonetheless from one PAR theory and practice to another. This means that PAR is not a monolithic body of ideas and methods but rather a pluralistic orientation to knowledge making and social change.[4][5][6]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence<br />
<br />
The concept is used in sociology, business, computer science and mass communications: it also appears in science fiction. Pierre Lévy defines collective intelligence as, "It is a form of universally distributed intelligence, constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time, and resulting in the effective mobilization of skills. I'll add the following indispensable characteristic to this definition: The basis and goal of collective intelligence is mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals rather than the cult of fetishized or hypostatized communities."[5] According to researchers Pierre Lévy and Derrick de Kerckhove, it refers to capacity of networked ICTs (Information communication technologies) to enhance the collective pool of social knowledge by simultaneously expanding the extent of human interactions.[6] Collective intelligence strongly contributes to the shift of knowledge and power from the individual to the collective.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation<br />
<br />
In Jungian psychology, also called analytical psychology, individuation is the process in which the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious – seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become integrated over time into a well-functioning whole.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization<br />
<br />
Self-actualization can be seen as similar to words and concepts such as self-discovery, self-reflection, self-realisation and self-exploration.<br />
<br />
As Abraham Maslow noted, the basic needs of humans must be met (e.g. food, shelter, warmth, security, sense of belonging) before a person can achieve self-actualization – the need to be good, to be fully alive and to find meaning in life. Yet, Maslow argued that reaching a state of true self-actualization in everyday society was fairy tale. Research shows that when people live lives that are different from their true nature and capabilities, they are less likely to be happy than those whose goals and lives match. For example, someone who has inherent potential to be a great artist or teacher may never realize his/her talents if their energy is focused on attaining the basic needs of humans.[5]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Selfless_Actualization<br />
<br />
<br />
"Maslow's message is that to achieve peak experience people must move from self to other. Social justice, generativity, and transformative thinking and acting are all concepts that could be associated with this orientation. The fundamental idea is that people must move to a focus and concern for other people to achieve the highest level of human nature. People who move beyond self-actualization "are, without a single exception, involved in a cause outside of their skin: in something outside of themselves, some calling or vocation" (Maslow, 197 1 :42). This view is supported by, among others, Erik Erikson (1987) and Carl Rogers (1961). " (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamotivation)<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_migration<br />
<br />
Existential migration is a term coined by Greg Madison (2006) in Existential Analysis, the journal of the Society for Existential Analysis. Madison's term describes expatriates (voluntary emigrants) who supposedly have an "existential" motivation, unlike economic migration, simple wanderlust, exile, or variations of forced migration. ‘Existential migration’ is conceived as a chosen attempt to express something fundamental about existence by leaving one’s homeland and becoming a foreigner.<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
<br />
Instead of a "Business Incubator" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_incubator )<br />
<br />
<br />
it can become a "Lifestyle Incubator" that can be generated by also creating "Meta Layers" - empowering through generating systems, which can also be seen as "Phyles" ( which can be not for profit organizations - entreprises )<br />
<br />
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"A phyle is a confederation — which is to say, a network with no higher structure — of conversational communities with their own companies, which share a series of common funds in a transnational space: basically, “social security” and mutual economic support systems." (https://english.lasindias.com/why-we-are-not-yet-a-phyle-and-where-those-who-form-them-will-come-from)<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
yet it does not require conformity to a community dynamic, such as in Intentional Communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community ( although people may choose to integrate such aspect depending on their preferences )<br />
<br />
<br />
Hence it aims at generating structures that enable Participatory Action Research and Networked Individual Inquiry, that remains highly critical of<br />
<br />
<br />
Group Think<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink<br />
<br />
Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.<br />
<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
When using the Integral Theory as tool,<br />
<br />
one clearly shows that although one can support with information people in need for "Green Value Memes" ,<br />
<br />
<br />
the main focus is a shift from "Green" to "Yellow",<br />
<br />
and from "Yellow" to "Turquoise" ...<br />
<br />
http://s3.amazonaws.com/estock/fspid8/116100/everystockphoto-116188-o.png<br />
<br />
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/culturescanintrov2-091207111537-phpapp01/95/culture-scan-an-introduction-to-spiral-dynamics-5-728.jpg?cb=1260184555<br />
<br />
<br />
and serves rather as a tool for collective intelligence<br />
<br />
( which can also support the development of tools, such as Assemblee Virtuelle does , including for example ontologies supporting Open Value Networks https://www.virtual-assembly.org/en , http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Open_Value_Network )<br />
<br />
The "tools" development aspect may be one of the various branches of mutually supporting modules<br />
<br />
( which also include learning environments and practices , modular housing solutions , etc )<br />
<br />
tending towards not merely "Business Intelligence" , but "Life Intelligence" 2.0<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence_2.0<br />
<br />
by further generating a coalition of software developers.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
Although initially, one can start locally, working with existing organizations,<br />
<br />
having more classical meet-ups with people interested in initial stages of change in their lifestyle.<br />
<br />
Starting in ( cosmopolitan ? ) cities.<br />
<br />
Eventually organizing retreats at some point,<br />
<br />
and applying "Art of Hosting" , "Dragon Dreaming" and other approaches<br />
<br />
http://www.artofhosting.org/<br />
<br />
http://www.dragondreaming.org/dragondreaming/what-is-it-exactly/dragon-dreamingthe-dragon-dreaming-process/</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Downshifting&diff=24024Talk:Downshifting2017-03-01T11:13:24Z<p>Dante: Created page with " Comments About Creation of a Downshifting Not for Profit ?"</p>
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<div><br />
Comments About Creation of a Downshifting Not for Profit ?</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Downshifting&diff=24023Downshifting2017-03-01T11:10:47Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Dante]] imagines an organization ( not for profit - asbl in Belgium )<br />
which can facilitate the convergence of people interested in a synthesis of the following concepts ,<br />
<br />
with as aim to exchange and build on information that enables shifts in their lives and the lives of others - finding and creating meaning / Aka Logotherapy - , generating collective intelligence through Participatory Action Research.<br />
<br />
It leads to a convergence of existing and novel movements.<br />
<br />
I will describe some of its aspects, and am reaching out to see how this can be set up together.<br />
<br />
It can help inform how to reduce and manage ones spending ( some people getting used to a certain lifestyle related to their higher earnings )<br />
<br />
in preparation of<br />
<br />
- shifting into a part-time<br />
- taking a year off<br />
- or eventually leaving an employee job all-together<br />
( while informing of potentials to create alternative livelihoods that can still be economically sustainable )<br />
<br />
It aims to be a medium of mutual moral support , shared information and inspiration , and potential collaboration, eventually serving as an Incubator, for Lifestyle Change, while finding ways to provide for ones needs at different stages. Facilitating midst others ones Self Actualization process, and enabling shared intentionality into Selfless actualization , while reducing the perception of potential marginalization.<br />
<br />
It would include various social configurations.<br />
A second step being to leverage multi-generational approaches,<br />
that can enable synergies , frameworks, or access to information that enables mutual support between adults with children.<br />
<br />
It eventually also includes people with an interest in Existential Migration , as part of processes of networked collective intelligence in support of individuation and self(less) actualization.<br />
<br />
<br />
Some of the concepts :<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downshifting<br />
<br />
<br />
Downshifting is a social behavior or trend in which individuals live simpler lives to escape from what critics call the rat race of obsessive materialism and to reduce the “stress, overtime, and psychological expense that may accompany it”.[1] It emphasizes finding an improved balance between leisure and work[2] and focusing life goals on personal fulfilment and building relationships instead of the all-consuming pursuit of economic success. The term also refers to the act of reducing the gear of a motor vehicle while driving a manual transmission.<br />
Downshifting, as a concept, shares many characteristics with simple living, but is distinguished, as an alternative form by its focus on moderate change and concentration on an individual comfort level, a gradual approach.[3]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_design<br />
<br />
Regenerative design is a process-oriented systems theory based approach to design. The term "regenerative" describes processes that restore, renew or revitalize their own sources of energy and materials, creating sustainable systems that integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature. The basis is derived from systems ecology with a closed loop input–output model or a model in which the output is greater than or equal to the input with all outputs viable and all inputs accounted for. Regenerative design is the biomimicry of ecosystems that provide for all human systems to function as a closed viable ecological economics system for all industry.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_management_(governance)<br />
<br />
Transition management is a governance approach that aims to facilitate and accelerate sustainability transitions through a participatory process of visioning, learning and experimenting.[1][2][3] In its application, transition management seeks to bring together multiple viewpoints and multiple approaches in a 'transition arena'. Participants are invited to structure their shared problems with the current system and develop shared visions and goals which are then tested for practicality through the use of experimentation, learning and reflexivity. The model is often discussed in reference to sustainable development and the possible use of the model as a method for change.<br />
<br />
Key principles to transition management as a form of governance:[4]<br />
<br />
seeks to widen participation by taking a multi-actor approach in order to encompass societal values and beliefs<br />
takes a long-term perspective (between 1-3 generations) creating a basket of visions in which short-term objectives can be identified<br />
focused on learning at the niche level, experiments are used to identify how successful a particular pathway could be and uses the concept of "Learn by doing, doing by learning"[4]<br />
a systems thinking approach which identifies that problems will span multiple domains, levels and actors.[1]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logotherapy<br />
<br />
Logotherapy is based on an existential analysis[3] focusing on Kierkegaard's will to meaning as opposed to Adler's Nietzschean doctrine of will to power or Freud's will to pleasure. Rather than power or pleasure, logotherapy is founded upon the belief that it is the striving to find a meaning in one's life that is the primary, most powerful motivating and driving force in humans.[4] A short introduction to this system is given in Frankl's most famous book, Man's Search for Meaning, in which he outlines how his theories helped him to survive his Holocaust experience and how that experience further developed and reinforced his theories.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_action_research<br />
<br />
Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research in communities that emphasizes participation and action. It seeks to understand the world by trying to change it, collaboratively and following reflection. PAR emphasizes collective inquiry and experimentation grounded in experience and social history. Within a PAR process, "communities of inquiry and action evolve and address questions and issues that are significant for those who participate as co-researchers".[1] PAR contrasts with many research methods, which emphasize disinterested researchers and reproducibility of findings.<br />
<br />
PAR practitioners make a concerted effort to integrate three basic aspects of their work: participation (life in society and democracy), action (engagement with experience and history), and research (soundness in thought and the growth of knowledge).[2] "Action unites, organically, with research" and collective processes of self-investigation.[3] The way each component is actually understood and the relative emphasis it receives varies nonetheless from one PAR theory and practice to another. This means that PAR is not a monolithic body of ideas and methods but rather a pluralistic orientation to knowledge making and social change.[4][5][6]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence<br />
<br />
The concept is used in sociology, business, computer science and mass communications: it also appears in science fiction. Pierre Lévy defines collective intelligence as, "It is a form of universally distributed intelligence, constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time, and resulting in the effective mobilization of skills. I'll add the following indispensable characteristic to this definition: The basis and goal of collective intelligence is mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals rather than the cult of fetishized or hypostatized communities."[5] According to researchers Pierre Lévy and Derrick de Kerckhove, it refers to capacity of networked ICTs (Information communication technologies) to enhance the collective pool of social knowledge by simultaneously expanding the extent of human interactions.[6] Collective intelligence strongly contributes to the shift of knowledge and power from the individual to the collective.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation<br />
<br />
In Jungian psychology, also called analytical psychology, individuation is the process in which the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious – seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become integrated over time into a well-functioning whole.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization<br />
<br />
Self-actualization can be seen as similar to words and concepts such as self-discovery, self-reflection, self-realisation and self-exploration.<br />
<br />
As Abraham Maslow noted, the basic needs of humans must be met (e.g. food, shelter, warmth, security, sense of belonging) before a person can achieve self-actualization – the need to be good, to be fully alive and to find meaning in life. Yet, Maslow argued that reaching a state of true self-actualization in everyday society was fairy tale. Research shows that when people live lives that are different from their true nature and capabilities, they are less likely to be happy than those whose goals and lives match. For example, someone who has inherent potential to be a great artist or teacher may never realize his/her talents if their energy is focused on attaining the basic needs of humans.[5]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Selfless_Actualization<br />
<br />
<br />
"Maslow's message is that to achieve peak experience people must move from self to other. Social justice, generativity, and transformative thinking and acting are all concepts that could be associated with this orientation. The fundamental idea is that people must move to a focus and concern for other people to achieve the highest level of human nature. People who move beyond self-actualization "are, without a single exception, involved in a cause outside of their skin: in something outside of themselves, some calling or vocation" (Maslow, 197 1 :42). This view is supported by, among others, Erik Erikson (1987) and Carl Rogers (1961). " (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamotivation)<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_migration<br />
<br />
Existential migration is a term coined by Greg Madison (2006) in Existential Analysis, the journal of the Society for Existential Analysis. Madison's term describes expatriates (voluntary emigrants) who supposedly have an "existential" motivation, unlike economic migration, simple wanderlust, exile, or variations of forced migration. ‘Existential migration’ is conceived as a chosen attempt to express something fundamental about existence by leaving one’s homeland and becoming a foreigner.<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
<br />
Instead of a "Business Incubator" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_incubator )<br />
<br />
<br />
it can become a "Lifestyle Incubator" that can be generated by also creating "Meta Layers" - empowering through generating systems, which can also be seen as "Phyles" ( which can be not for profit organizations - entreprises )<br />
<br />
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"A phyle is a confederation — which is to say, a network with no higher structure — of conversational communities with their own companies, which share a series of common funds in a transnational space: basically, “social security” and mutual economic support systems." (https://english.lasindias.com/why-we-are-not-yet-a-phyle-and-where-those-who-form-them-will-come-from)<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
yet it does not require conformity to a community dynamic, such as in Intentional Communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community ( although people may choose to integrate such aspect depending on their preferences )<br />
<br />
<br />
Hence it aims at generating structures that enable Participatory Action Research and Networked Individual Inquiry, that remains highly critical of<br />
<br />
<br />
Group Think<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink<br />
<br />
Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.<br />
<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
When using the Integral Theory as tool,<br />
<br />
one clearly shows that although one can support with information people in need for "Green Value Memes" ,<br />
<br />
<br />
the main focus is a shift from "Green" to "Yellow",<br />
<br />
and from "Yellow" to "Turquoise" ...<br />
<br />
http://s3.amazonaws.com/estock/fspid8/116100/everystockphoto-116188-o.png<br />
<br />
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/culturescanintrov2-091207111537-phpapp01/95/culture-scan-an-introduction-to-spiral-dynamics-5-728.jpg?cb=1260184555<br />
<br />
<br />
and serves rather as a tool for collective intelligence<br />
<br />
( which can also support the development of tools, such as Assemblee Virtuelle does , including for example ontologies supporting Open Value Networks https://www.virtual-assembly.org/en , http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Open_Value_Network )<br />
<br />
The "tools" development aspect may be one of the various branches of mutually supporting modules<br />
<br />
( which also include learning environments and practices , modular housing solutions , etc )<br />
<br />
tending towards not merely "Business Intelligence" , but "Life Intelligence" 2.0<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence_2.0<br />
<br />
by further generating a coalition of software developers.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
Although initially, one can start locally, working with existing organizations,<br />
<br />
having more classical meet-ups with people interested in initial stages of change in their lifestyle.<br />
<br />
Starting in ( cosmopolitan ? ) cities.<br />
<br />
Eventually organizing retreats at some point,<br />
<br />
and applying "Art of Hosting" , "Dragon Dreaming" and other approaches<br />
<br />
http://www.artofhosting.org/<br />
<br />
http://www.dragondreaming.org/dragondreaming/what-is-it-exactly/dragon-dreamingthe-dragon-dreaming-process/</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Downshifting&diff=24022Downshifting2017-03-01T11:10:26Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div>[Dante] imagines an organization ( not for profit - asbl in Belgium )<br />
which can facilitate the convergence of people interested in a synthesis of the following concepts ,<br />
<br />
with as aim to exchange and build on information that enables shifts in their lives and the lives of others - finding and creating meaning / Aka Logotherapy - , generating collective intelligence through Participatory Action Research.<br />
<br />
It leads to a convergence of existing and novel movements.<br />
<br />
I will describe some of its aspects, and am reaching out to see how this can be set up together.<br />
<br />
It can help inform how to reduce and manage ones spending ( some people getting used to a certain lifestyle related to their higher earnings )<br />
<br />
in preparation of<br />
<br />
- shifting into a part-time<br />
- taking a year off<br />
- or eventually leaving an employee job all-together<br />
( while informing of potentials to create alternative livelihoods that can still be economically sustainable )<br />
<br />
It aims to be a medium of mutual moral support , shared information and inspiration , and potential collaboration, eventually serving as an Incubator, for Lifestyle Change, while finding ways to provide for ones needs at different stages. Facilitating midst others ones Self Actualization process, and enabling shared intentionality into Selfless actualization , while reducing the perception of potential marginalization.<br />
<br />
It would include various social configurations.<br />
A second step being to leverage multi-generational approaches,<br />
that can enable synergies , frameworks, or access to information that enables mutual support between adults with children.<br />
<br />
It eventually also includes people with an interest in Existential Migration , as part of processes of networked collective intelligence in support of individuation and self(less) actualization.<br />
<br />
<br />
Some of the concepts :<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downshifting<br />
<br />
<br />
Downshifting is a social behavior or trend in which individuals live simpler lives to escape from what critics call the rat race of obsessive materialism and to reduce the “stress, overtime, and psychological expense that may accompany it”.[1] It emphasizes finding an improved balance between leisure and work[2] and focusing life goals on personal fulfilment and building relationships instead of the all-consuming pursuit of economic success. The term also refers to the act of reducing the gear of a motor vehicle while driving a manual transmission.<br />
Downshifting, as a concept, shares many characteristics with simple living, but is distinguished, as an alternative form by its focus on moderate change and concentration on an individual comfort level, a gradual approach.[3]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_design<br />
<br />
Regenerative design is a process-oriented systems theory based approach to design. The term "regenerative" describes processes that restore, renew or revitalize their own sources of energy and materials, creating sustainable systems that integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature. The basis is derived from systems ecology with a closed loop input–output model or a model in which the output is greater than or equal to the input with all outputs viable and all inputs accounted for. Regenerative design is the biomimicry of ecosystems that provide for all human systems to function as a closed viable ecological economics system for all industry.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_management_(governance)<br />
<br />
Transition management is a governance approach that aims to facilitate and accelerate sustainability transitions through a participatory process of visioning, learning and experimenting.[1][2][3] In its application, transition management seeks to bring together multiple viewpoints and multiple approaches in a 'transition arena'. Participants are invited to structure their shared problems with the current system and develop shared visions and goals which are then tested for practicality through the use of experimentation, learning and reflexivity. The model is often discussed in reference to sustainable development and the possible use of the model as a method for change.<br />
<br />
Key principles to transition management as a form of governance:[4]<br />
<br />
seeks to widen participation by taking a multi-actor approach in order to encompass societal values and beliefs<br />
takes a long-term perspective (between 1-3 generations) creating a basket of visions in which short-term objectives can be identified<br />
focused on learning at the niche level, experiments are used to identify how successful a particular pathway could be and uses the concept of "Learn by doing, doing by learning"[4]<br />
a systems thinking approach which identifies that problems will span multiple domains, levels and actors.[1]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logotherapy<br />
<br />
Logotherapy is based on an existential analysis[3] focusing on Kierkegaard's will to meaning as opposed to Adler's Nietzschean doctrine of will to power or Freud's will to pleasure. Rather than power or pleasure, logotherapy is founded upon the belief that it is the striving to find a meaning in one's life that is the primary, most powerful motivating and driving force in humans.[4] A short introduction to this system is given in Frankl's most famous book, Man's Search for Meaning, in which he outlines how his theories helped him to survive his Holocaust experience and how that experience further developed and reinforced his theories.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_action_research<br />
<br />
Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research in communities that emphasizes participation and action. It seeks to understand the world by trying to change it, collaboratively and following reflection. PAR emphasizes collective inquiry and experimentation grounded in experience and social history. Within a PAR process, "communities of inquiry and action evolve and address questions and issues that are significant for those who participate as co-researchers".[1] PAR contrasts with many research methods, which emphasize disinterested researchers and reproducibility of findings.<br />
<br />
PAR practitioners make a concerted effort to integrate three basic aspects of their work: participation (life in society and democracy), action (engagement with experience and history), and research (soundness in thought and the growth of knowledge).[2] "Action unites, organically, with research" and collective processes of self-investigation.[3] The way each component is actually understood and the relative emphasis it receives varies nonetheless from one PAR theory and practice to another. This means that PAR is not a monolithic body of ideas and methods but rather a pluralistic orientation to knowledge making and social change.[4][5][6]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence<br />
<br />
The concept is used in sociology, business, computer science and mass communications: it also appears in science fiction. Pierre Lévy defines collective intelligence as, "It is a form of universally distributed intelligence, constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time, and resulting in the effective mobilization of skills. I'll add the following indispensable characteristic to this definition: The basis and goal of collective intelligence is mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals rather than the cult of fetishized or hypostatized communities."[5] According to researchers Pierre Lévy and Derrick de Kerckhove, it refers to capacity of networked ICTs (Information communication technologies) to enhance the collective pool of social knowledge by simultaneously expanding the extent of human interactions.[6] Collective intelligence strongly contributes to the shift of knowledge and power from the individual to the collective.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation<br />
<br />
In Jungian psychology, also called analytical psychology, individuation is the process in which the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious – seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become integrated over time into a well-functioning whole.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization<br />
<br />
Self-actualization can be seen as similar to words and concepts such as self-discovery, self-reflection, self-realisation and self-exploration.<br />
<br />
As Abraham Maslow noted, the basic needs of humans must be met (e.g. food, shelter, warmth, security, sense of belonging) before a person can achieve self-actualization – the need to be good, to be fully alive and to find meaning in life. Yet, Maslow argued that reaching a state of true self-actualization in everyday society was fairy tale. Research shows that when people live lives that are different from their true nature and capabilities, they are less likely to be happy than those whose goals and lives match. For example, someone who has inherent potential to be a great artist or teacher may never realize his/her talents if their energy is focused on attaining the basic needs of humans.[5]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Selfless_Actualization<br />
<br />
<br />
"Maslow's message is that to achieve peak experience people must move from self to other. Social justice, generativity, and transformative thinking and acting are all concepts that could be associated with this orientation. The fundamental idea is that people must move to a focus and concern for other people to achieve the highest level of human nature. People who move beyond self-actualization "are, without a single exception, involved in a cause outside of their skin: in something outside of themselves, some calling or vocation" (Maslow, 197 1 :42). This view is supported by, among others, Erik Erikson (1987) and Carl Rogers (1961). " (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamotivation)<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_migration<br />
<br />
Existential migration is a term coined by Greg Madison (2006) in Existential Analysis, the journal of the Society for Existential Analysis. Madison's term describes expatriates (voluntary emigrants) who supposedly have an "existential" motivation, unlike economic migration, simple wanderlust, exile, or variations of forced migration. ‘Existential migration’ is conceived as a chosen attempt to express something fundamental about existence by leaving one’s homeland and becoming a foreigner.<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
<br />
Instead of a "Business Incubator" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_incubator )<br />
<br />
<br />
it can become a "Lifestyle Incubator" that can be generated by also creating "Meta Layers" - empowering through generating systems, which can also be seen as "Phyles" ( which can be not for profit organizations - entreprises )<br />
<br />
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"A phyle is a confederation — which is to say, a network with no higher structure — of conversational communities with their own companies, which share a series of common funds in a transnational space: basically, “social security” and mutual economic support systems." (https://english.lasindias.com/why-we-are-not-yet-a-phyle-and-where-those-who-form-them-will-come-from)<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
yet it does not require conformity to a community dynamic, such as in Intentional Communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community ( although people may choose to integrate such aspect depending on their preferences )<br />
<br />
<br />
Hence it aims at generating structures that enable Participatory Action Research and Networked Individual Inquiry, that remains highly critical of<br />
<br />
<br />
Group Think<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink<br />
<br />
Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.<br />
<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
When using the Integral Theory as tool,<br />
<br />
one clearly shows that although one can support with information people in need for "Green Value Memes" ,<br />
<br />
<br />
the main focus is a shift from "Green" to "Yellow",<br />
<br />
and from "Yellow" to "Turquoise" ...<br />
<br />
http://s3.amazonaws.com/estock/fspid8/116100/everystockphoto-116188-o.png<br />
<br />
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/culturescanintrov2-091207111537-phpapp01/95/culture-scan-an-introduction-to-spiral-dynamics-5-728.jpg?cb=1260184555<br />
<br />
<br />
and serves rather as a tool for collective intelligence<br />
<br />
( which can also support the development of tools, such as Assemblee Virtuelle does , including for example ontologies supporting Open Value Networks https://www.virtual-assembly.org/en , http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Open_Value_Network )<br />
<br />
The "tools" development aspect may be one of the various branches of mutually supporting modules<br />
<br />
( which also include learning environments and practices , modular housing solutions , etc )<br />
<br />
tending towards not merely "Business Intelligence" , but "Life Intelligence" 2.0<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence_2.0<br />
<br />
by further generating a coalition of software developers.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
Although initially, one can start locally, working with existing organizations,<br />
<br />
having more classical meet-ups with people interested in initial stages of change in their lifestyle.<br />
<br />
Starting in ( cosmopolitan ? ) cities.<br />
<br />
Eventually organizing retreats at some point,<br />
<br />
and applying "Art of Hosting" , "Dragon Dreaming" and other approaches<br />
<br />
http://www.artofhosting.org/<br />
<br />
http://www.dragondreaming.org/dragondreaming/what-is-it-exactly/dragon-dreamingthe-dragon-dreaming-process/</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Downshifting&diff=24021Downshifting2017-03-01T11:09:55Z<p>Dante: "Shifters"</p>
<hr />
<div>I imagine an organization ( not for profit - asbl in Belgium )<br />
which can facilitate the convergence of people interested in a synthesis of the following concepts ,<br />
<br />
with as aim to exchange and build on information that enables shifts in their lives and the lives of others - finding and creating meaning / Aka Logotherapy - , generating collective intelligence through Participatory Action Research.<br />
<br />
It leads to a convergence of existing and novel movements.<br />
<br />
I will describe some of its aspects, and am reaching out to see how this can be set up together.<br />
<br />
It can help inform how to reduce and manage ones spending ( some people getting used to a certain lifestyle related to their higher earnings )<br />
<br />
in preparation of<br />
<br />
- shifting into a part-time<br />
- taking a year off<br />
- or eventually leaving an employee job all-together<br />
( while informing of potentials to create alternative livelihoods that can still be economically sustainable )<br />
<br />
It aims to be a medium of mutual moral support , shared information and inspiration , and potential collaboration, eventually serving as an Incubator, for Lifestyle Change, while finding ways to provide for ones needs at different stages. Facilitating midst others ones Self Actualization process, and enabling shared intentionality into Selfless actualization , while reducing the perception of potential marginalization.<br />
<br />
It would include various social configurations.<br />
A second step being to leverage multi-generational approaches,<br />
that can enable synergies , frameworks, or access to information that enables mutual support between adults with children.<br />
<br />
It eventually also includes people with an interest in Existential Migration , as part of processes of networked collective intelligence in support of individuation and self(less) actualization.<br />
<br />
<br />
Some of the concepts :<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downshifting<br />
<br />
<br />
Downshifting is a social behavior or trend in which individuals live simpler lives to escape from what critics call the rat race of obsessive materialism and to reduce the “stress, overtime, and psychological expense that may accompany it”.[1] It emphasizes finding an improved balance between leisure and work[2] and focusing life goals on personal fulfilment and building relationships instead of the all-consuming pursuit of economic success. The term also refers to the act of reducing the gear of a motor vehicle while driving a manual transmission.<br />
Downshifting, as a concept, shares many characteristics with simple living, but is distinguished, as an alternative form by its focus on moderate change and concentration on an individual comfort level, a gradual approach.[3]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_design<br />
<br />
Regenerative design is a process-oriented systems theory based approach to design. The term "regenerative" describes processes that restore, renew or revitalize their own sources of energy and materials, creating sustainable systems that integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature. The basis is derived from systems ecology with a closed loop input–output model or a model in which the output is greater than or equal to the input with all outputs viable and all inputs accounted for. Regenerative design is the biomimicry of ecosystems that provide for all human systems to function as a closed viable ecological economics system for all industry.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_management_(governance)<br />
<br />
Transition management is a governance approach that aims to facilitate and accelerate sustainability transitions through a participatory process of visioning, learning and experimenting.[1][2][3] In its application, transition management seeks to bring together multiple viewpoints and multiple approaches in a 'transition arena'. Participants are invited to structure their shared problems with the current system and develop shared visions and goals which are then tested for practicality through the use of experimentation, learning and reflexivity. The model is often discussed in reference to sustainable development and the possible use of the model as a method for change.<br />
<br />
Key principles to transition management as a form of governance:[4]<br />
<br />
seeks to widen participation by taking a multi-actor approach in order to encompass societal values and beliefs<br />
takes a long-term perspective (between 1-3 generations) creating a basket of visions in which short-term objectives can be identified<br />
focused on learning at the niche level, experiments are used to identify how successful a particular pathway could be and uses the concept of "Learn by doing, doing by learning"[4]<br />
a systems thinking approach which identifies that problems will span multiple domains, levels and actors.[1]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logotherapy<br />
<br />
Logotherapy is based on an existential analysis[3] focusing on Kierkegaard's will to meaning as opposed to Adler's Nietzschean doctrine of will to power or Freud's will to pleasure. Rather than power or pleasure, logotherapy is founded upon the belief that it is the striving to find a meaning in one's life that is the primary, most powerful motivating and driving force in humans.[4] A short introduction to this system is given in Frankl's most famous book, Man's Search for Meaning, in which he outlines how his theories helped him to survive his Holocaust experience and how that experience further developed and reinforced his theories.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_action_research<br />
<br />
Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research in communities that emphasizes participation and action. It seeks to understand the world by trying to change it, collaboratively and following reflection. PAR emphasizes collective inquiry and experimentation grounded in experience and social history. Within a PAR process, "communities of inquiry and action evolve and address questions and issues that are significant for those who participate as co-researchers".[1] PAR contrasts with many research methods, which emphasize disinterested researchers and reproducibility of findings.<br />
<br />
PAR practitioners make a concerted effort to integrate three basic aspects of their work: participation (life in society and democracy), action (engagement with experience and history), and research (soundness in thought and the growth of knowledge).[2] "Action unites, organically, with research" and collective processes of self-investigation.[3] The way each component is actually understood and the relative emphasis it receives varies nonetheless from one PAR theory and practice to another. This means that PAR is not a monolithic body of ideas and methods but rather a pluralistic orientation to knowledge making and social change.[4][5][6]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence<br />
<br />
The concept is used in sociology, business, computer science and mass communications: it also appears in science fiction. Pierre Lévy defines collective intelligence as, "It is a form of universally distributed intelligence, constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time, and resulting in the effective mobilization of skills. I'll add the following indispensable characteristic to this definition: The basis and goal of collective intelligence is mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals rather than the cult of fetishized or hypostatized communities."[5] According to researchers Pierre Lévy and Derrick de Kerckhove, it refers to capacity of networked ICTs (Information communication technologies) to enhance the collective pool of social knowledge by simultaneously expanding the extent of human interactions.[6] Collective intelligence strongly contributes to the shift of knowledge and power from the individual to the collective.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation<br />
<br />
In Jungian psychology, also called analytical psychology, individuation is the process in which the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious – seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become integrated over time into a well-functioning whole.<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization<br />
<br />
Self-actualization can be seen as similar to words and concepts such as self-discovery, self-reflection, self-realisation and self-exploration.<br />
<br />
As Abraham Maslow noted, the basic needs of humans must be met (e.g. food, shelter, warmth, security, sense of belonging) before a person can achieve self-actualization – the need to be good, to be fully alive and to find meaning in life. Yet, Maslow argued that reaching a state of true self-actualization in everyday society was fairy tale. Research shows that when people live lives that are different from their true nature and capabilities, they are less likely to be happy than those whose goals and lives match. For example, someone who has inherent potential to be a great artist or teacher may never realize his/her talents if their energy is focused on attaining the basic needs of humans.[5]<br />
<br />
<br />
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Selfless_Actualization<br />
<br />
<br />
"Maslow's message is that to achieve peak experience people must move from self to other. Social justice, generativity, and transformative thinking and acting are all concepts that could be associated with this orientation. The fundamental idea is that people must move to a focus and concern for other people to achieve the highest level of human nature. People who move beyond self-actualization "are, without a single exception, involved in a cause outside of their skin: in something outside of themselves, some calling or vocation" (Maslow, 197 1 :42). This view is supported by, among others, Erik Erikson (1987) and Carl Rogers (1961). " (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamotivation)<br />
<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_migration<br />
<br />
Existential migration is a term coined by Greg Madison (2006) in Existential Analysis, the journal of the Society for Existential Analysis. Madison's term describes expatriates (voluntary emigrants) who supposedly have an "existential" motivation, unlike economic migration, simple wanderlust, exile, or variations of forced migration. ‘Existential migration’ is conceived as a chosen attempt to express something fundamental about existence by leaving one’s homeland and becoming a foreigner.<br />
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<br />
Instead of a "Business Incubator" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_incubator )<br />
<br />
<br />
it can become a "Lifestyle Incubator" that can be generated by also creating "Meta Layers" - empowering through generating systems, which can also be seen as "Phyles" ( which can be not for profit organizations - entreprises )<br />
<br />
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"A phyle is a confederation — which is to say, a network with no higher structure — of conversational communities with their own companies, which share a series of common funds in a transnational space: basically, “social security” and mutual economic support systems." (https://english.lasindias.com/why-we-are-not-yet-a-phyle-and-where-those-who-form-them-will-come-from)<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
yet it does not require conformity to a community dynamic, such as in Intentional Communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community ( although people may choose to integrate such aspect depending on their preferences )<br />
<br />
<br />
Hence it aims at generating structures that enable Participatory Action Research and Networked Individual Inquiry, that remains highly critical of<br />
<br />
<br />
Group Think<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink<br />
<br />
Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.<br />
<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
When using the Integral Theory as tool,<br />
<br />
one clearly shows that although one can support with information people in need for "Green Value Memes" ,<br />
<br />
<br />
the main focus is a shift from "Green" to "Yellow",<br />
<br />
and from "Yellow" to "Turquoise" ...<br />
<br />
http://s3.amazonaws.com/estock/fspid8/116100/everystockphoto-116188-o.png<br />
<br />
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/culturescanintrov2-091207111537-phpapp01/95/culture-scan-an-introduction-to-spiral-dynamics-5-728.jpg?cb=1260184555<br />
<br />
<br />
and serves rather as a tool for collective intelligence<br />
<br />
( which can also support the development of tools, such as Assemblee Virtuelle does , including for example ontologies supporting Open Value Networks https://www.virtual-assembly.org/en , http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Open_Value_Network )<br />
<br />
The "tools" development aspect may be one of the various branches of mutually supporting modules<br />
<br />
( which also include learning environments and practices , modular housing solutions , etc )<br />
<br />
tending towards not merely "Business Intelligence" , but "Life Intelligence" 2.0<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence_2.0<br />
<br />
by further generating a coalition of software developers.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
Although initially, one can start locally, working with existing organizations,<br />
<br />
having more classical meet-ups with people interested in initial stages of change in their lifestyle.<br />
<br />
Starting in ( cosmopolitan ? ) cities.<br />
<br />
Eventually organizing retreats at some point,<br />
<br />
and applying "Art of Hosting" , "Dragon Dreaming" and other approaches<br />
<br />
http://www.artofhosting.org/<br />
<br />
http://www.dragondreaming.org/dragondreaming/what-is-it-exactly/dragon-dreamingthe-dragon-dreaming-process/</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Leipzig_project&diff=24020Talk:Leipzig project2017-02-19T10:57:44Z<p>Dante: comment by Ele , 2017</p>
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<div>hey people,<br />
<br />
i was reading about your project and want to add some thing. I live since 5 years in Leipzig and know some things about the living situation, alternative scene and whats going on in this city.<br />
<br />
First, be carefull when you search a house. Even if some offers are really apetising, the most building structures in this cheap houses are very bad. When you buy a house i would definitely recommend to take an expert opinion. There is a lot of dry rot and i heard story about people who bought some of those cheap houses without obtaining an expertise before. the basic structure of a building seemed to be good but it wasn´t and you will have a lot more expensives after all.<br />
The cheap and good houses are sold years ago. I also thought about buying a house, because it is so cheap, but a friend of mine (he studies architecture and his father is an expert for dry rot and basic structures of buildings) gave me a warning and i want to forward that to you. There is always a reason, when a house is so cheap.<br />
<br />
Anyway the city is beautiful and i love to live here. there is much to discover and you will have many supporters for alternative living projects here. <br />
<br />
You can contact me if you need some local support.<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Stefan<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Hi Stefan, It's Dante writing.<br />
Thanks for the advice !<br />
<br />
I may be passing by Leipzig in a few days.<br />
You can contact me : dante.monson (at) gmail.com<br />
<br />
ps : I m not the admin of this wiki, so I do not have access to your email :)<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Greetings from barcelona, nice research you did. I like LE and would contribute if the project becomes real. At the moment I am more into forestry and self sufficiency in rural areas.<br />
Wish you the best for the process and that you find a neat space in the surrounding of Leipzig!<br />
--[[User:Kardan|Kardan]] 13:18, 21 January 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey, it's [http://www.tomiastikainen.com Tomi]. I am just a couple of hours of hitching away, [http://www.a-flat.posterous.com in Berlin]. I can help in a variety of ways: conceptualizing, networking, manual labor, cooking, writing etc. Just give me a holler if you need something.<br />
<br />
--<br />
<br />
Pasting a comment from Ele ( February 2017 ) :<br />
<br />
" I lived in Leipzig after it had shrunk to 480,000 and we got to play in all the empty spaces, creating, inventing, being community. We collected furniture from abandoned buildings and carried entire cinema interiors into the forest to watch Dracula. The municipality paid for our (admittedly little) semester fee and real estate agents would give us up to 3 months free rent. Some moved twice a year just to live for free. Those houses the municipality couldn't sustain were entrusted to students, artists and janitors so they'd be heated and preserved (otherwise nature took over rapidly). These houses became locations for 24h exhibitions, activist headquarters, repair workshops, off theatres ... legal squats basically.<br />
<br />
In the last 5-6 years Leipzig continues to see a mad influx of people from Germany but also internationally. I met a lady from Palo Alto saying the future is in leipzig not in Silicon Valley. And I met spiritual musicians/devotees saying leipzig was the place to be. I think leipzig has nurtured love and attention in people.<br />
<br />
It's grown to 520,000 now and my heart beats faster thinking that its culture and down-to-Earth creative saneness could spread. "</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Critical_Diversity&diff=24015Critical Diversity2017-02-02T10:47:58Z<p>Dante: </p>
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<div><br />
'''Critical Diversity''' is a concept expressed by Dante over the years.( [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis 1] , [https://www.mail-archive.com/p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org/msg02055.html 2] , ... )<br />
<br />
[[Dante]]'s intended meaning being <br />
<br />
''A Twist on the Concept of'' '''Critical Mass'''<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_(sociodynamics)<br />
<br />
Although the twisted idea has more specific particularities :<br />
<br />
What Dante wishes to express through ''Critical Diversity'' is an enabler for a certain form of emergent phenomenon that can appear through presence and interconnectedness of diversity, rather than a critical mass of numbers alone.<br />
<br />
Dante also likes to combine it with notions expressed through Integral City,<br />
understanding potential value systems emerging through the complexity of the type and diversity of infrastructure present in an urban settlement. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_City )<br />
<br />
It may be extended through Online Communities, and social dynamics bridging Online and Offline dynamics.<br />
<br />
Dante likes to use such concept within the realm of distributed and emergent commons oriented <br />
subcultures.</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Critical_Diversity&diff=24014Critical Diversity2017-02-02T10:34:41Z<p>Dante: explaining "Critical Diversity"</p>
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<div><br />
'''Critical Diversity''' is a concept expressed by Dante over the years.( [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis 1] , [https://www.mail-archive.com/p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org/msg02055.html 2] , ... )<br />
<br />
[[Dante]]'s intended meaning being <br />
<br />
''A Twist on the Concept of'' '''Critical Mass'''<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_(sociodynamics)<br />
<br />
Although the twisted idea has more specific particularities :<br />
<br />
What Dante wishes to express through ''Critical Diversity'' is a certain form of emergent phenomenon that can appear through presence and interconnectedness of diversity, rather than a critical mass of numbers alone.<br />
<br />
Dante also likes to combine it with notions expressed through Integral City,<br />
understanding potential value systems emerging through the complexity of the type and diversity of infrastructure present in an urban settlement. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_City )<br />
<br />
It may be extended through Online Communities, and social dynamics bridging Online and Offline dynamics.<br />
<br />
Dante likes to use such concept within the realm of distributed and emergent commons oriented <br />
subcultures.</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Emergent_Synthesis&diff=24013Emergent Synthesis2017-02-02T10:22:16Z<p>Dante: Critical Diversity</p>
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<div>This page can be used to facilitate our emergent synthesis,<br />
both for nomadic and location specific viable systems solutions.<br />
<br />
Also read : http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
"Context described below"<br />
<br />
= Show yourself as "interested" / or define your interest as collaborator =<br />
<br />
Your name, or nickname + Email/Website/Contact ( click edit on right hand side )<br />
<br />
* Dante-Gabryell Monson - dante.monson - at - gmail ,<br />
based in Brussels ( 2011 )<br />
* Moritz - moritz - at - hackerbus dot eu<br />
roaming, mostly in Germany<br />
* Devin - devin - at - beex - dot - org, based in New York, occupy everywhere/opensource everything<br />
* [[User:Flawer|Flawer]] interested in dante's doings (he always have something edgy, new and surprisingly normal for me)<br />
* ko nne konnesens- at - yahoo.de already living in Leipzig, for this even more interested.Now finishing studies (sociology) but after (and already) higliy interested/motivated in creating an own workspace for theory and utopias, for sure with an open and cooperating approach. <br />
* Spencer Campbell (spencer@ultroneous.org)<br />
* Peter H. Meadows (http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter)<br />
<br />
* you ?<br />
<br />
= Groups you know and want to get involved? =<br />
<br />
== For Direct Collaboration + contact ==<br />
<br />
* your informal group of friends ? ( and its current location and projects ? )<br />
<br />
* http://bwcd.vdcn.org<br />
<br />
== For inspiration ==<br />
<br />
* http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
* http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
* http://futureforwardinstitute.com<br />
* http://forwardfound.org<br />
* http://hollymeadcapital.com<br />
* http://socialmediaclassroom.com<br />
* http://coalitionofthewilling.org.uk/<br />
* http://appropedia.org/<br />
<br />
<br />
note : if you can not, or if you wish not show it on this page, <br />
you can also send it to Dante ( dante.monson - at - gmail . com )<br />
<br />
= Context and Vision =<br />
<br />
== 3 November 2011 ==<br />
<br />
Dante :<br />
<br />
<br />
I wish to provide an <br />
=== experimental ground for our interests ===<br />
and learn together by creating more autonomous, self organizing, emergent, local yet globally networked<br />
viable systems.<br />
<br />
I wish to ask for feedback,<br />
and converge such feedback on a specifically allocated wiki / website / or drupal platform, for which support is also needed.<br />
<br />
Add you name above if interested.<br />
<br />
Various groups and mailing lists already exist.<br />
feel free to add url's of the ones you know above.<br />
<br />
Feel free to share url's to projects, mailinglists, or the location of informal groups of people and possibly the name/nickname of such groupings ( and their contact ) <br />
<br />
Priorities can go into providing visibility towards solutions for shared living experiences<br />
( such as meetings, collectives, living spaces - static and/or nomadic - ... )<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
I wish to find an easy way to converge such data about people's pledges,<br />
and visualize a "value network" map of inter-dependencies.<br />
<br />
I also wish to find people who feel enthusiastic about translating the following message into a more attractive way.<br />
( asking for any inspiration and contributions from people who write, draw - comics ? - , can produce short videos, ... )<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
How do you position yourself in relation to defining and building up a <br />
viable systems project ?<br />
<br />
I propose, as a test for further projects all over the world,<br />
to use Leipzig / Leipzig Projects<br />
as an experiment.<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project<br />
<br />
The aim is to inspire and engage people to collaborate,<br />
progressively providing a sense of shared , visible accomplishment.<br />
<br />
and at first,<br />
to draft/define aims and needs,<br />
set up a list of priorities<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Based on your own interests, where would you like to position your contributions if you like to contribute to such visions,<br />
and what do you need to collaborate in specific objectives,<br />
which themselves can fit within such larger picture ?<br />
<br />
If I create a map ( or if I map it out on a wiki ), <br />
would you be willing to be included into it, and what information can you provide? :<br />
<br />
availability, sweat equity contribution capability and its needs or conditions, current geographical situation or potential future situation, financial support and its conditions, other available resources and/or existing networked collaborations working on specific topics ( ? ) , ...<br />
<br />
///<br />
General Description : <br />
<br />
It can ask pledges ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pledge ) ,<br />
in the form of engagements and equity / sweat equity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_equity ) ,<br />
even short term - measurable, combined with subjective mutual interdependent objectives based evaluations.<br />
<br />
This includes :<br />
<br />
- people collaborating on various tasks on the terrain ( Leipzig , and surrounding land ),<br />
<br />
- people collaborating in their respective regions to converge engagements and further needed resources<br />
( answers to specific questions : legal, financial, architectural, etc )<br />
<br />
- alternative financial products, which are set into the commons<br />
( using this commons crowdfunding mechanism ? http://www.goteo.org/?lang=en )<br />
in exchange of long term measurable use value.<br />
<br />
- such recognition and/or use value related guarantees can also be earned through participation.<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
Interdependent Priorities :<br />
<br />
For Collective Housing / Development Phase :<br />
<br />
1a) Individuals in support of communication :<br />
drawings, leaflets, wiki-drupal-net platform, ...<br />
expressing a general vision, setting up tools for easily converging needed data, tools for coordinating pledges, <br />
mapping resources-questions-needs-contributions-interdependencies, ...<br />
<br />
1) Setting up a centrally located base/aggregator in Leipzig which is comfortable to live in,<br />
and big enough to enable each individual to self organize in their own space,<br />
based on their affinity/relation/collaboration preferences,<br />
with defined temporary collectives. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective ) <br />
<br />
2) Supporting the development of "decentralized" bases in and around Leipzig,<br />
and all over the world,<br />
through proposing modular living structures,<br />
light weight, inexpensive , locally producible,<br />
co-developing open source research and development<br />
with a open copyleft / hardware license.<br />
<br />
aka : Tensegrity Tents, with components that enable parametric design.<br />
see : http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
3) Have a collective intelligence aggregator / team of people<br />
supporting each other in the definition of "code" and "legal solutions",<br />
itself supporting "financial solutions",<br />
in transparency of interdependencies of the "Value Networks" ( ? )<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_network<br />
<br />
For example :<br />
<br />
- set up of a not for profit organization in Germany for converging local support towards defining and building a viable system regionally.<br />
( in Berlin and/or Leipzig ? )<br />
<br />
- set up of a international not for profit organization in support of open source collaborative design of modular living structures ( in Brussels ) <br />
<br />
- set up of a Limited Liability Partnership structure ( in the UK - London ) for investment purposes.<br />
<br />
- defining a combination of legal structures , as to enable a commons, interdependent oriented approach regarding ownership,<br />
such as separating land from buildings, studying various existing legal models such as Mietshauser Syndikat ( combination of cooperative, corporation and not for profit ? ) , ...<br />
<br />
- definitions of contracts ( access to use value, visibility of contributions and recognition within gift economy, managing investments of capital in support of commons, conditions of usage and/or property holders, conditions related to usage of regional economic IOU's and their architecture, etc ) <br />
<br />
4) Set up recognition by means of measurement based on objectives<br />
<br />
5) use web based solutions in development ? "Global Survival" collaborations with tools including Netention , ... :<br />
visualize current or future intentions, visualize interdependencies, visualize pledge future contributions, present contributions, past contributions, ...<br />
<br />
6) reach out to organizations and movements who may benefit from a similar approach<br />
<br />
thanks !<br />
Dante-Gabryell Monson<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
<br />
http://www.race.u-tokyo.ac.jp/uedalab/mirai/overview/overview-e.GIF<br />
<br />
graphic from <br />
<br />
http://www.race.u-tokyo.ac.jp/uedalab/mirai/overview/overview-e.html<br />
<br />
== Update 27 December 2011 ==<br />
<br />
This particular project will need to <br />
=== emerge out of sharing. ===<br />
<br />
I would be happy to find a similar organization as the <br />
=== "Sustainable Economies Law Center" ===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/users/sustainable-economies-law-center<br />
in Germany and other european countries.<br />
<br />
If any of us has suggestions for <br />
=== bootstrapping viable local sharing systems ===<br />
, including access to infrastructure, without or with little money, they are welcome.<br />
<br />
Perhaps you know of similar projects ?<br />
I am aware of some co-housing and co-working approaches,<br />
and other, more temporary 'free of rent' against 'renovation labor' models<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
As for now, I found a person to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig, as a first step to invite more people, in the form of a permanent collective, rent free.<br />
<br />
But I still need to :<br />
<br />
=== - Find people willing to host me in Berlin or Leipzig ===<br />
, while...<br />
=== - Finding a building to buy in Leipzig ===<br />
- Finding people in Berlin / Leipzig ( or willing to move there ) to share and co-create such visions<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
I have no surplus financial resources, and wish it to be accessible to others who have no, or very little financial resources, while making sure it avoids financial speculation over time as to remain accessible.<br />
<br />
I imagine one of the floors of the building could become a Nomad Base<br />
http://nomadbase.org/<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/every-guest-a-host-inside-a-nomad-base<br />
<br />
I wish to include all the aspects mentioned in the articles, enable it to scale,<br />
progressively purchasing the cheapest nearby land, vacant factories for various local cooperative co-working spaces and production,<br />
with as objective to bootstrap a local autonomous economy with several thousand people self organizing across a network of small interdependent cooperatives.<br />
<br />
I ( we ? ) now have a 100 000 euro budget to buy a first building, <br />
which will be shared / enable rent free hosting<br />
for people supporting a further development of ( their own ? ) inter-related projects in Leipzig, and more broadly a region stretching from Berlin to Leipzig.<br />
<br />
The 100 000 euros comes out of some kind of agreement to have someone I know buy a building,<br />
but there is no budget to set up the legal frameworks , nor budget to cover living expenses while finding the appropriate first building.<br />
<br />
Hence, if any of you lives in Berlin - or Leipzig - , and want to share some of your living space with me, or some food, I would be happy to use it as to find some more people interested in sharing and supporting such vision.<br />
<br />
Other urban centers near Berlin may also be considered.<br />
<br />
I am now based in Brussels.<br />
<br />
== Update 26 December 2011 ==<br />
<br />
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---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:58 PM<br />
Subject: Re: Your visions : Supporting some permanent p2p collectives to physically converge to ?<br />
<br />
Thanks Michel for your reply.<br />
<br />
In short, I found a first investor to buy a building in Leipzig,<br />
to kickstart<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project<br />
<br />
I will need support to develop such approach, and will invite people contributing to live there rent free.<br />
<br />
Leipzig ( and more generally parts of Eastern Germany ) is relatively cheap in european terms ( 100 euro square meter ), while having relatively good infrastructure.<br />
I see potential for scalability.<br />
<br />
Till now, the process is slow - though I feel it can accelerate.<br />
<br />
The longer version below...<br />
I see other interesting conversations related to such approach on a facebook group called "The Next Edge", and on which some people on this list seem to participate.<br />
( let me know if I can invite you to it )<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Indeed, it is true that I have been fully engaged for many years, such as a number of people on this list, maintaining a vision for an emergent approach.<br />
<br />
Thanks Marc for your understanding regarding the 24/7 space availability importance, which I personally see as aggregators enabling emergent and currently VIABLE ( social and economic ) distributed systems.<br />
<br />
Yes, It is already possible, with time, to individually have access to our own options, some which can be considered as 24/7 spaces. ( aka "homes" ), while also knowing about places open part time ( universities, coworking spaces, etc ) - this is, for me and for other people I am in touch with, a current stage.<br />
<br />
In addition to this, there are events which enable temporary convergences, and online convergence spaces, such as this mailing list,<br />
and I wish to understand how to further harness the potential of the people each of us meet, because... idealistically, I wish to meet each of the people sharing such interests :) ... and enable, not only individual options, but also "emergent options".<br />
<br />
Now...<br />
<br />
What I wish, is to make a <br />
=== 24/7 physical NETWORK of spaces ===<br />
available to each of us ( including financially ) , in a way that can reduce our dependency on systems we do not wish to support, and without requiring to adapt to any one specific collectivist culture, yet enabling a local mesh of a plurality of cultures which are not closed on themselves and can be open to individualist collaboration , enabling each to set their own approach while having the choice to integrate ( or not ) with other's protocols, and in a setting that enables easy connections to trans-regional networks, in cities but in connection to the local countryside.<br />
<br />
I visited many places and communities, experienced different cultures, over the past years, and wish to integrate some practices I encountered into an emergent synthesis.<br />
<br />
I imagine several places could enable such kind of approach.<br />
I think especially of places which are not too expensive, as to avoid getting into debt.<br />
Some of the approaches may have been discussed on p2pf lists.<br />
I for example wish to buy where the land is cheap compared to the available infrastructure, and then create our own value while avoiding financial speculation on such creation, through a combination of commons and cooperative approaches.<br />
<br />
The <br />
=== revival of certain declining cities ===<br />
, in post-industrial frameworks, provide some inspiration to me, which I can see as an approach to combine various existing movements while enabling the creation of viable complex systems.<br />
<br />
A number of people on this list, a number of people we may be meeting, have experience in such fields, and I wish for further convergence. <br />
<br />
This is the approach I am planning ( remotely ), in Leipzig :<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project<br />
<br />
A difficulty I face in an emergent process is to <br />
=== create engagement in initial stages ===<br />
especially when I have no personal ( monetary ) resources,<br />
and when my current access to shelter and living is far from the place I wish to develop the intentional engagements for co-creating and sharing viable economies.<br />
<br />
I now found an investor for buying a 600 square meter building in Leipzig,<br />
which is a first step for me to spend more time there and to invite people to live there without rent,<br />
progressively setting up with people speaking german other legal and financial solutions to purchase our own flats ( in good condition, and with a renovated roof ) within the city for one hundred euros a square meter ( 100 euro / m2 )<br />
<br />
I did build up small local networks of friends here in Brussels,<br />
and am or have been connected to other communities - ecovillage, nomadbase, etc<br />
over the last 8 years.<br />
<br />
What I express now is a further synthesis.<br />
Not only a place to pass by, not only the potential for an isolated collectivist space,<br />
but a potential for a scalable regional economy converging various of the practices and experiments we mention.<br />
<br />
=== A european base ===<br />
for people sharing certain memes, a base where people can purchase and develop their own usufruct infrastructure, while also having access to mainstream existing infrastructures. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com> wrote:<br />
Thanks Michel<br />
<br />
Further below, some thoughts which stem out of this french lecture.<br />
<br />
I extend the lecture context as to delve into broad questions :<br />
<br />
- <br />
=== How to increase the potential to share ===<br />
and create with individuals who attend the same events, when such events are too short in time to truly get to know each other<br />
<br />
- How to make it easier to introduce some people we meet,<br />
to other people we may not yet know personally within our interconnected networks , based on shared interests, specific objectives or geographical proximity ?<br />
<br />
- How to do so in a way that enables a general appreciation of context , and context building processes ? [5]<br />
<br />
- If we get to know each other, how do we enable further engagement for co-creation based on respective individual social and financial contexts ?<br />
<br />
- Do we have p2p physical places to go to, converge and experiment p2p approaches, and get to know each other ?<br />
=== Permanent p2p collectives ? ===<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
When listening to the lecture and questions asked by people attending it,<br />
I realize there are very probably people I could interact or collaborate with. <br />
<br />
Unfortunately, I was not in Paris for that specific seminar,<br />
yet indirectly, I experience that each of us can indirectly benefit from the contacts other people in our networks make<br />
<br />
When I go to seminars with people sharing interests, <br />
it is not always easy to get in touch personally , especially when there is no time for informal get to know's, or for art of hosting type of approaches.<br />
<br />
Lists such as this one are useful - yet I can hear that for some people ( including sometimes myself ) it represents an overflow of information.<br />
<br />
Hence more specifically defined lists or information aggregation stemming out of more general ones ( can ) get created around more specific objectives. [1]<br />
<br />
At some point ( around 1hour30-31 minutes ) , a lady asks if you are connected to movements such as "Attac",<br />
and you reply that you stay open for dialogue with a variety of backgrounds [2] <br />
<br />
Within such larger framework,<br />
regarding strategies used [3] ,<br />
<br />
I realize that as an individual, though well connected,<br />
I can find difficulties in finding approaches to not only interact but share and engage together with other individuals who apply such culture and approaches in their daily lives, <br />
to build up such infrastructures of interdependence beyond the immaterial - internet based exchanges.<br />
<br />
Some of the people I connected to in face to face interactions are on this list.<br />
A number of us are spread across europe and/or the world.<br />
<br />
A variety of initiatives and environments exist [4]<br />
<br />
If Phyles related to some of our interconnected networks further emerge, how do you imagine them ?<br />
<br />
Would you personally ( or other people on this list ? )<br />
be interested in supporting "co-living - co-working" spaces ?<br />
<br />
=== Would we end up living together ? ===<br />
<br />
I realize living together , or at least have a physical convergence point where to contribute to based on shared memes,<br />
is important to me. Yet till now I find initiatives and people spread all over.<br />
<br />
Hence my interest in finding low cost ( kind of venture communist ? ) approaches to make infrastructure available,<br />
as to enable contributions to local viable systems based on p2p approaches.<br />
<br />
I d wish for p2p phyles to support such permanent p2p collective approach.<br />
<br />
Here is a suggestion : http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project<br />
<br />
I d like to provide people with such physical location to converge to, as to facilitate the process of getting to know each other through collaborating.<br />
<br />
I do remember, Michel, watching a video of an annex to your home in Thailand, which you imagined could host such p2p friendly facilities. Though I am also aware it may, for individuals such as me here in Europe, be somewhat far.<br />
<br />
Is there anyone else interested in such approach, and what are (y)our visions ?<br />
<br />
Thanks!<br />
<br />
<br />
Foot Notes :<br />
<br />
[1] and mapped as to see how they relate or stem out of each other ? <br />
<br />
[2] some who are more distributist, others more mutualist, but also people from the right , etc and that you even go and talk to the catholic church upon invitation from the pope. You then further comment that "indignados" and "occupymovements" may possibly relate more easily with the p2p approach ( and ethos ? ) , yet that with the more traditional left you may have felt more resistance, as some left wing backgrounds may remain more conservative in their mode of thought then, as you noted, some profit oriented backgrounds who stay open to new ( p2p ) ideas because of an interest in finding new approaches to make money.<br />
<br />
[3] to facilitate potential through collaboration around shared intentions,<br />
and at the current stage of development<br />
<br />
[4] Ecovillages and other communities already exist, and can share a number of subcultures brought up here on p2p lists.<br />
<br />
Fablabs are emerging , and can also bring people sharing such culture together in an approach to be co-creative while increasing our autonomy through choosing our interdependencies. <br />
<br />
For now, more Fablabs in urban centers ? And generally speaking, at the moment still mostly available to a very specific elite of technicians and progressive cultural researchers ? Yet possibly opening up , connecting to community / co-working spaces, such as in Berlin : http://opendesigncity.de/ ,<br />
or initiated ( or funded ) by research backgrounds with the intention to open up to the community, such as MIT's center for Bits and Atoms http://fab.cba.mit.edu/ , such as this one http://wiki.fablab.af/index.php/Main_Page<br />
<br />
[5] Holopticism ? http://www.slideshare.net/AlanRosenblith/holopticism<br />
<br />
<br />
== Self Replication and Support from Existing Projects ? ==<br />
<br />
perhaps this can be the <br />
<br />
=== topic for a new wiki ? ===<br />
<br />
not yet having all the answers myself, it may be <br />
what SELC ( and p2p urbanism ) seem to be doing :<br />
<br />
- "Sharing for self-replicating / bootstrapping sharing systems and infrastructures",<br />
- "Existing projects supporting other projects to emerge",<br />
- self-replication support for <br />
=== "Big Picture DIY" ===<br />
+ <br />
=== "Tactical Urbanism" ===<br />
<br />
I'm enthusiastic at the perspective of more <br />
=== "Share Events" ===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/announcing-share-san-francisco<br />
http://www.livestream.com/shareable/video?clipId=pla_87e1c9e8-e602-4cad-84b5-0b2c6ed732ab&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb<br />
<br />
I am curious to find out about <br />
=== other organizations ===<br />
such as SELC<br />
http://www.shareable.net/users/sustainable-economies-law-center<br />
in Germany, the UK, France, etc...<br />
( I may have missed articles on these topics ? )<br />
<br />
Organizations that support and share their experience ( and resources or infrastructure ? )<br />
to <br />
=== bootstrap other projects ? ===<br />
<br />
Bringing their expertise and credibility to open up paths for collaborating with local authorities, or potential investment funds ?<br />
( such as, specifically for housing, in German, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mietsh%C3%A4user_Syndikat )<br />
<br />
Eventually also a network of hosts and organizations, who support activists / social entre-donneurs - such as me ? - <br />
<br />
People invested in sharing communities, who wish to further engage in supporting such projects without ( mainstream financial ) resources ? <br />
Such as Route des SEL ? http://route-des-sel.org/ <br />
Or eventually members of intentional sub-groups on couchsurfing.com , hospitalityclub.org , bewelcome.org , ... ?<br />
<br />
<br />
== More Email Archives ==<br />
<br />
===Social Reproduction Email ( 2008 )===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Social_Reproduction<br />
<br />
===28 December 2013 Email Update===<br />
<br />
Hi Wolfgang,<br />
<br />
Thank you for sharing your article - it overlaps with approaches I like to take.<br />
<br />
I see a number of potentially overlapping and emergent "layers".<br />
I like to hear from other people's dreams or personal experiences.<br />
<br />
I see the potential for an understanding of distribution / aggregation layers, mutually empowering each other in an emergent way, building up [[Critical Diversity]] for further emergence, resilience, and ( ideally ? ) viable systems.<br />
<br />
I ll be happy to map out our non linear understanding. ( a mapping tool where we can export our data ? )<br />
<br />
<br />
// in advance, apologies to Silke - this will be a long post with a lot of links //<br />
<br />
<br />
Some layers I experiment(ed) with , followed by a few projects.<br />
<br />
I want to talk about Nomadism, as it embodies imho an understanding of distributed systems - understanding I wish to use even when not moving ( geographically ).<br />
<br />
I see layers of distribution and aggregation mutually empowering each other in an emergent way.<br />
<br />
Short, medium and long term approaches , and resilience through their overlap, can also be taken into account.<br />
<br />
I want to bring forward potentials for synergies and emergence ( based on "critical diversity" ? ), and using Integral City and some research ( if one can call this research ? ) I did or am doing, to compare or apply it to.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- Nomadism :<br />
<br />
- it can imho be translated into the experience many more have, for example at a city scale , or also via "seminar hopping" lifestyles , movie production lifestyles, etc -<br />
<br />
talking from personal experience<br />
of a type of nomadism based on a low ( monetary ) threshold ( hitch hiking ).<br />
<br />
I would aim at experiencing a flow of temporary autonomous zones ( often events ), hitch hiking from the one to another, taking into consideration a "logistics of options" to direct myself across europe. ( moving east or west, north or south, depending on how events may seem to empower more options for intentional convergence and supporting needs at later stages )<br />
<br />
I am glad Wolfgang mentioned "non places". Much of the time was spent crossing "non places", moving towards aggregators where, for a moment, some shared "warmth" could be experienced.<br />
<br />
Nomadism ( especially moneyless , or almost moneyless ) , in my view, embodies an experienced understanding of a distributed system of distributed systems : hitch hiking as intentional distributed system - used as a layer to facilitate access to - ... hospitality as a distributed system - being hosted for a limited amount of time - ... which can empower meeting people, which itself can lead to events , to shared learning, distributed information networks, etc ... each of these potentially empowering distributed intentional "tribes". <br />
<br />
Such social capital constantly being worked on - if not, the energy imho dissipates over time.<br />
<br />
Such understanding of nomadism ( / of distributed approaches ) can be applied within more specific geographical environments, such as a particular city itself.<br />
I guess others wrote about this ... ( Deleuze, Negri, Hardt, ... )<br />
<br />
I personally like the contents of this site : <br />
http://nomadology.com/<br />
<br />
It is important , imho, to reduce "empty places" and time ... as to make it viable. Focusing on places where there is a higher density and diversity of mutually empowering potentials, that can , even if one uses a temporary autonomous approach, further feed other processes and enable a continuity of flow.<br />
<br />
This is some of my shared experience of too much "spreading out" :<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Beyond_Road_Burn_Out<br />
<br />
http://hitchwiki.org/en/Aimless_trajectory<br />
<br />
<br />
Convergence may be possible in cities - yet the cost of space , in monetary terms, or of securing access to space ( if one squats ) is often very high, itself leading people to allocate their time to service such monetary cost, reducing availability, and increasing the potential for "empty places" ... or "empty social places", as people are "too busy" ...<br />
<br />
Finding distributed approaches to use such spaces and generate spaces on top of existing infrastructure , as to converge social networks / aggregate, may be one approach. Narratives imho also play a central role in such flows of aggregation. Time, too, plays a role. High turnovers in certain cities may not enable long term continuity or development of projects, unless a combination between longer term residents and short term residents can be found.<br />
<br />
Planning is not always possible when there is such constant reshuffling - hence the potential for stigmergic information tools to manage logistics of options and generate flow and emergent collective intelligence.<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
<br />
As it requires constant work on social networks,<br />
but also as I sense there is a need to create reference points for oneself to return to,<br />
aggregators which can overlap as to enable continuity , rather then leaving empty spaces of nothingness,<br />
<br />
after 5 years on the road I needed to find solutions for places of unconditional return.<br />
<br />
A tribe , even if it morphs, yet enables shared intention, can be such "home" - even if and when it moves in space. Sometimes families can represent such form of tribe, yet in western societies , imho, families end up being instrumentalized in favor of dominant socio-cultural narratives. In some cases, people like me who wish to generate alternative / less coercive narratives may end up marginalized from both society and family. <br />
<br />
Underlying logic that I notice from people in mainstream narratives being : "if I "have" to do this, why would s/he not , hence I can not support him, as it would furthermore requestion my own sacrifices over time to survive in this system". Not all adopt such stance - and it is interesting to understand what processes or contexts opens people up ... <br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
I see a need for overlap in terms of time frameworks.<br />
<br />
At casarobino ( a nomadbase.org which hosted over 1000 people in a small flat over a 3 year time framework ), I noticed how overlap between short term ( a night or two ), medium term ( a few days to a week ), and longer term ( a few weeks ? ) residents enabled transfer of self organized cultures and information needed for such self organization, and how it enabled some form of fluidity in terms of internal social dynamics. Furthermore, the casa seemed to serve an aggregation role, enabling a place of return on a longer time framework, leading to individuals coming back to the space, feeding and at the same time maintaining what imho looked like intentional subcultures enabling its self organization. ( may be interesting to study this further in depth : the role of such aggregators, and intentions that may serve as shared engagment and underlying social contracts )<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
<br />
For the moment, debt seems to be one of the powerful forces leading people to be prepared to share engagement / generate social contracts. ( often generating more centralized control and artificial scarcity ? )<br />
<br />
To free ourselves from ( monopolistic and hierarchical ) debt information systems of control, I sense we need to generate alternative distributed engagement tools. <br />
<br />
Reification is imho risky business ( in terms of control - see this article <br />
https://www.academia.edu/4498786/How_does_reification_ensure_our_wilful_subordination_to_authority ) , yet worth experimenting in a distributed form - to facilitate temporary aggregation , as stigmergic tools ? ( hence mentioning the netention research, which also includes understanding regarding Linked Data, ... )<br />
<br />
Yet, indeed, "places" can be aggregators.<br />
I see the risk of "institutionalization" of places ( and centralized control )<br />
<br />
Potentially, such institutionalization of spaces can be ok as long as networkes are not enclosed within it, and that such networks can access sufficient diversity, as to never depend on any one source ... yet be able to build on top of institutionalized infrastructure, although I do not see this as a solution. Ideally, one would aim at enabling distributed forms of ( temporary ) infrastructure away from institutional influence and conditions.<br />
<br />
In some cases, there may be potential to support a distributed commons through institutional support, playing on the strategic interests of specific institutions in doing so - yet rarely does this seem to come, imho, without a cost / conditions. Mapping externalities can be a potential of tools such as suggested by netention research - including practices visualizing open value networks ? <br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Here is some research ( draft ) I did as to attempt such approach in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project<br />
<br />
The idea being to benefit from existing infrastructure, at a lower cost ( in terms of debt ), and creating a sufficiently great diversity and amount of individual projects, as to build distributed systems on top of the proposal of the usership of a living space<br />
<br />
Prices in Leipzig now seem to have increased - so I needed to change approach.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Using the potential for FabLabs / local small scale manufacturing based on open source research and development,<br />
<br />
I imagine using vacant spaces ( in urban or countryside environments )<br />
to build up temporary housing.<br />
<br />
Eric H. used the terms "pop up villages" and "furnitecture" ( portemanteau for furniture and architecture )<br />
<br />
see : http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
It can include approaches such as wikihouse ( http://www.wikihouse.cc/ ) , ...<br />
Ideally, I imagine modular and parametric approaches ( I noticed some designer and architect active on Edgeryder forums think so too )<br />
<br />
Some cities, such as Brussels, see imho high turnovers ( 15 to 20 percent of its population annually ? ). There is a lack of housing, prices are rising as population increases, etc<br />
<br />
In such kind of context, I also see the potential for some of the approaches expressed earlier on ,<br />
<br />
using the potential of massive amounts of vacant space ( for example : over 2 million square meters of empty office space ) <br />
<br />
to generate temporary contracts where temporary structures ( furnitecture / urban pop up villages ) can be set up, as some form of temporary living.<br />
<br />
For example in Brussels : http://www.annedoloresmarcelis.com/index.php?/camping-town/<br />
<br />
Various subcultures can / are converging and overlapping, with each having high turnovers, or people keeping a base while living nomadic lifestyles - for example dancer networks, theatre networks, but also all kinds of students, people doing internships, people on short term contracts for international institutions or businesses, etc<br />
<br />
The environment itself can generate new layers and opportunities.<br />
<br />
Beyond reducing costs / increasing quality of life with limited monetary income via a sharing economy approach,<br />
<br />
it can be about generating conviviality , liberating time by reducing costs, and increasing potential for interactions around shared intentions or interests.<br />
<br />
Freed time opens up potential for participatory action research and learning.<br />
<br />
Approaches that combine subcultures and generations can also be adopted.<br />
It can be an evolution from the "co-living" approaches which have permeated into many urban living / social practices.<br />
<br />
In effect, such types of temporary spaces generating defacto "free schools",<br />
some of them leading to "project incubation"<br />
<br />
Also see : <br />
<br />
http://opendoor.io/ --> projects<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
I wanted to generate such spaces for a number of years,<br />
<br />
yet I realize that a more specific and easily understood narrative is needed to enable shared intentional engagement.<br />
<br />
A narrative for a "school" can be an example of a way to bootstrap such engagement. Incubators , coworking spaces , or even, in the countryside, permaculture or construction / renovation projects can all be narratives attracting people for a certain period of time.<br />
<br />
Yet often there needs to be a "spark", and the threshold for such spark often requires a minimum of resources ... which itself already requires engagement.<br />
<br />
Although I shared this link earlier on , also see :<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Convergences such as<br />
http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php<br />
<br />
seem to already be a filter for those ready to engage in setting such prototypes... hopefully building on the experience of past "communes", but hopefully also enabling neo nomadic / distributed overlap, as explained in this mail.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Wolfgang H. wrote:<br />
Thank you for your thoughts, Anna, Dante, Wouter!<br />
<br />
Something that I wrote that resonates with what you are saying, Dante, is here:<br />
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49712621/Making-Place-for-Abundance<br />
<br />
And of course, at the Commons Abundance Network, we are seeking to provide links to any initiatives of the types that you mentioned, and develop our network as a virtual collaboration space to help such things develop. The more networking there is among such initiatives, both online and in actual places, the more they will be able to coalesce into real alternatives.<br />
<br />
Wolfgang<br />
<br />
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From: commoning-bounces@listen.jpberlin.de on behalf of Wouter T<br />
Sent: Fri 12/27/2013 4:54 PM<br />
To: Dante-Gabryell Monson<br />
Cc: commoning@listen.jpberlin.de<br />
Subject: Re: [commoning] [P2P-F] The Co-operative University<br />
<br />
Dante,<br />
<br />
I love the idea of such "uncompromised temple". It would be a reference site where so many free/libre/open/commons-governed/knowledge initiatives would come together.<br />
<br />
Ideally it would be in a bottom-up organised country. And it would of course be a node in the distributed network of already existing nodes.<br />
<br />
Some would spend more time their while others, even with a longtime commitment, would only come there physically from time to time. Teachers, learners of all disciplines would join in special sharing sessions to construct collective knowledge and common projects.<br />
<br />
As you say, if such initiative can be seen as a kind of insurance, it will be easier for some to invest/contribute. The transition is probably not going to be easy for many people, so assuring some basics would be helpful.<br />
<br />
I need to continue other conversations right now, but the ideas discussed here have my interest. Thanks and best wishes for sustainable and solidary systems.<br />
<br />
Best<br />
Wouter<br />
<br />
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https://listen.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/commoning<br />
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[[Category:Projects]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Emergent_Synthesis&diff=24012Emergent Synthesis2017-02-02T10:21:34Z<p>Dante: critical diversity</p>
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<div>This page can be used to facilitate our emergent synthesis,<br />
both for nomadic and location specific viable systems solutions.<br />
<br />
Also read : http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
"Context described below"<br />
<br />
= Show yourself as "interested" / or define your interest as collaborator =<br />
<br />
Your name, or nickname + Email/Website/Contact ( click edit on right hand side )<br />
<br />
* Dante-Gabryell Monson - dante.monson - at - gmail ,<br />
based in Brussels ( 2011 )<br />
* Moritz - moritz - at - hackerbus dot eu<br />
roaming, mostly in Germany<br />
* Devin - devin - at - beex - dot - org, based in New York, occupy everywhere/opensource everything<br />
* [[User:Flawer|Flawer]] interested in dante's doings (he always have something edgy, new and surprisingly normal for me)<br />
* ko nne konnesens- at - yahoo.de already living in Leipzig, for this even more interested.Now finishing studies (sociology) but after (and already) higliy interested/motivated in creating an own workspace for theory and utopias, for sure with an open and cooperating approach. <br />
* Spencer Campbell (spencer@ultroneous.org)<br />
* Peter H. Meadows (http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter)<br />
<br />
* you ?<br />
<br />
= Groups you know and want to get involved? =<br />
<br />
== For Direct Collaboration + contact ==<br />
<br />
* your informal group of friends ? ( and its current location and projects ? )<br />
<br />
* http://bwcd.vdcn.org<br />
<br />
== For inspiration ==<br />
<br />
* http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
* http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
* http://futureforwardinstitute.com<br />
* http://forwardfound.org<br />
* http://hollymeadcapital.com<br />
* http://socialmediaclassroom.com<br />
* http://coalitionofthewilling.org.uk/<br />
* http://appropedia.org/<br />
<br />
<br />
note : if you can not, or if you wish not show it on this page, <br />
you can also send it to Dante ( dante.monson - at - gmail . com )<br />
<br />
= Context and Vision =<br />
<br />
== 3 November 2011 ==<br />
<br />
Dante :<br />
<br />
<br />
I wish to provide an <br />
=== experimental ground for our interests ===<br />
and learn together by creating more autonomous, self organizing, emergent, local yet globally networked<br />
viable systems.<br />
<br />
I wish to ask for feedback,<br />
and converge such feedback on a specifically allocated wiki / website / or drupal platform, for which support is also needed.<br />
<br />
Add you name above if interested.<br />
<br />
Various groups and mailing lists already exist.<br />
feel free to add url's of the ones you know above.<br />
<br />
Feel free to share url's to projects, mailinglists, or the location of informal groups of people and possibly the name/nickname of such groupings ( and their contact ) <br />
<br />
Priorities can go into providing visibility towards solutions for shared living experiences<br />
( such as meetings, collectives, living spaces - static and/or nomadic - ... )<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
I wish to find an easy way to converge such data about people's pledges,<br />
and visualize a "value network" map of inter-dependencies.<br />
<br />
I also wish to find people who feel enthusiastic about translating the following message into a more attractive way.<br />
( asking for any inspiration and contributions from people who write, draw - comics ? - , can produce short videos, ... )<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
How do you position yourself in relation to defining and building up a <br />
viable systems project ?<br />
<br />
I propose, as a test for further projects all over the world,<br />
to use Leipzig / Leipzig Projects<br />
as an experiment.<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project<br />
<br />
The aim is to inspire and engage people to collaborate,<br />
progressively providing a sense of shared , visible accomplishment.<br />
<br />
and at first,<br />
to draft/define aims and needs,<br />
set up a list of priorities<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Based on your own interests, where would you like to position your contributions if you like to contribute to such visions,<br />
and what do you need to collaborate in specific objectives,<br />
which themselves can fit within such larger picture ?<br />
<br />
If I create a map ( or if I map it out on a wiki ), <br />
would you be willing to be included into it, and what information can you provide? :<br />
<br />
availability, sweat equity contribution capability and its needs or conditions, current geographical situation or potential future situation, financial support and its conditions, other available resources and/or existing networked collaborations working on specific topics ( ? ) , ...<br />
<br />
///<br />
General Description : <br />
<br />
It can ask pledges ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pledge ) ,<br />
in the form of engagements and equity / sweat equity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_equity ) ,<br />
even short term - measurable, combined with subjective mutual interdependent objectives based evaluations.<br />
<br />
This includes :<br />
<br />
- people collaborating on various tasks on the terrain ( Leipzig , and surrounding land ),<br />
<br />
- people collaborating in their respective regions to converge engagements and further needed resources<br />
( answers to specific questions : legal, financial, architectural, etc )<br />
<br />
- alternative financial products, which are set into the commons<br />
( using this commons crowdfunding mechanism ? http://www.goteo.org/?lang=en )<br />
in exchange of long term measurable use value.<br />
<br />
- such recognition and/or use value related guarantees can also be earned through participation.<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
Interdependent Priorities :<br />
<br />
For Collective Housing / Development Phase :<br />
<br />
1a) Individuals in support of communication :<br />
drawings, leaflets, wiki-drupal-net platform, ...<br />
expressing a general vision, setting up tools for easily converging needed data, tools for coordinating pledges, <br />
mapping resources-questions-needs-contributions-interdependencies, ...<br />
<br />
1) Setting up a centrally located base/aggregator in Leipzig which is comfortable to live in,<br />
and big enough to enable each individual to self organize in their own space,<br />
based on their affinity/relation/collaboration preferences,<br />
with defined temporary collectives. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective ) <br />
<br />
2) Supporting the development of "decentralized" bases in and around Leipzig,<br />
and all over the world,<br />
through proposing modular living structures,<br />
light weight, inexpensive , locally producible,<br />
co-developing open source research and development<br />
with a open copyleft / hardware license.<br />
<br />
aka : Tensegrity Tents, with components that enable parametric design.<br />
see : http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
3) Have a collective intelligence aggregator / team of people<br />
supporting each other in the definition of "code" and "legal solutions",<br />
itself supporting "financial solutions",<br />
in transparency of interdependencies of the "Value Networks" ( ? )<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_network<br />
<br />
For example :<br />
<br />
- set up of a not for profit organization in Germany for converging local support towards defining and building a viable system regionally.<br />
( in Berlin and/or Leipzig ? )<br />
<br />
- set up of a international not for profit organization in support of open source collaborative design of modular living structures ( in Brussels ) <br />
<br />
- set up of a Limited Liability Partnership structure ( in the UK - London ) for investment purposes.<br />
<br />
- defining a combination of legal structures , as to enable a commons, interdependent oriented approach regarding ownership,<br />
such as separating land from buildings, studying various existing legal models such as Mietshauser Syndikat ( combination of cooperative, corporation and not for profit ? ) , ...<br />
<br />
- definitions of contracts ( access to use value, visibility of contributions and recognition within gift economy, managing investments of capital in support of commons, conditions of usage and/or property holders, conditions related to usage of regional economic IOU's and their architecture, etc ) <br />
<br />
4) Set up recognition by means of measurement based on objectives<br />
<br />
5) use web based solutions in development ? "Global Survival" collaborations with tools including Netention , ... :<br />
visualize current or future intentions, visualize interdependencies, visualize pledge future contributions, present contributions, past contributions, ...<br />
<br />
6) reach out to organizations and movements who may benefit from a similar approach<br />
<br />
thanks !<br />
Dante-Gabryell Monson<br />
<br />
///<br />
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<br />
http://www.race.u-tokyo.ac.jp/uedalab/mirai/overview/overview-e.GIF<br />
<br />
graphic from <br />
<br />
http://www.race.u-tokyo.ac.jp/uedalab/mirai/overview/overview-e.html<br />
<br />
== Update 27 December 2011 ==<br />
<br />
This particular project will need to <br />
=== emerge out of sharing. ===<br />
<br />
I would be happy to find a similar organization as the <br />
=== "Sustainable Economies Law Center" ===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/users/sustainable-economies-law-center<br />
in Germany and other european countries.<br />
<br />
If any of us has suggestions for <br />
=== bootstrapping viable local sharing systems ===<br />
, including access to infrastructure, without or with little money, they are welcome.<br />
<br />
Perhaps you know of similar projects ?<br />
I am aware of some co-housing and co-working approaches,<br />
and other, more temporary 'free of rent' against 'renovation labor' models<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
As for now, I found a person to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig, as a first step to invite more people, in the form of a permanent collective, rent free.<br />
<br />
But I still need to :<br />
<br />
=== - Find people willing to host me in Berlin or Leipzig ===<br />
, while...<br />
=== - Finding a building to buy in Leipzig ===<br />
- Finding people in Berlin / Leipzig ( or willing to move there ) to share and co-create such visions<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
I have no surplus financial resources, and wish it to be accessible to others who have no, or very little financial resources, while making sure it avoids financial speculation over time as to remain accessible.<br />
<br />
I imagine one of the floors of the building could become a Nomad Base<br />
http://nomadbase.org/<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/every-guest-a-host-inside-a-nomad-base<br />
<br />
I wish to include all the aspects mentioned in the articles, enable it to scale,<br />
progressively purchasing the cheapest nearby land, vacant factories for various local cooperative co-working spaces and production,<br />
with as objective to bootstrap a local autonomous economy with several thousand people self organizing across a network of small interdependent cooperatives.<br />
<br />
I ( we ? ) now have a 100 000 euro budget to buy a first building, <br />
which will be shared / enable rent free hosting<br />
for people supporting a further development of ( their own ? ) inter-related projects in Leipzig, and more broadly a region stretching from Berlin to Leipzig.<br />
<br />
The 100 000 euros comes out of some kind of agreement to have someone I know buy a building,<br />
but there is no budget to set up the legal frameworks , nor budget to cover living expenses while finding the appropriate first building.<br />
<br />
Hence, if any of you lives in Berlin - or Leipzig - , and want to share some of your living space with me, or some food, I would be happy to use it as to find some more people interested in sharing and supporting such vision.<br />
<br />
Other urban centers near Berlin may also be considered.<br />
<br />
I am now based in Brussels.<br />
<br />
== Update 26 December 2011 ==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:58 PM<br />
Subject: Re: Your visions : Supporting some permanent p2p collectives to physically converge to ?<br />
<br />
Thanks Michel for your reply.<br />
<br />
In short, I found a first investor to buy a building in Leipzig,<br />
to kickstart<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project<br />
<br />
I will need support to develop such approach, and will invite people contributing to live there rent free.<br />
<br />
Leipzig ( and more generally parts of Eastern Germany ) is relatively cheap in european terms ( 100 euro square meter ), while having relatively good infrastructure.<br />
I see potential for scalability.<br />
<br />
Till now, the process is slow - though I feel it can accelerate.<br />
<br />
The longer version below...<br />
I see other interesting conversations related to such approach on a facebook group called "The Next Edge", and on which some people on this list seem to participate.<br />
( let me know if I can invite you to it )<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
Indeed, it is true that I have been fully engaged for many years, such as a number of people on this list, maintaining a vision for an emergent approach.<br />
<br />
Thanks Marc for your understanding regarding the 24/7 space availability importance, which I personally see as aggregators enabling emergent and currently VIABLE ( social and economic ) distributed systems.<br />
<br />
Yes, It is already possible, with time, to individually have access to our own options, some which can be considered as 24/7 spaces. ( aka "homes" ), while also knowing about places open part time ( universities, coworking spaces, etc ) - this is, for me and for other people I am in touch with, a current stage.<br />
<br />
In addition to this, there are events which enable temporary convergences, and online convergence spaces, such as this mailing list,<br />
and I wish to understand how to further harness the potential of the people each of us meet, because... idealistically, I wish to meet each of the people sharing such interests :) ... and enable, not only individual options, but also "emergent options".<br />
<br />
Now...<br />
<br />
What I wish, is to make a <br />
=== 24/7 physical NETWORK of spaces ===<br />
available to each of us ( including financially ) , in a way that can reduce our dependency on systems we do not wish to support, and without requiring to adapt to any one specific collectivist culture, yet enabling a local mesh of a plurality of cultures which are not closed on themselves and can be open to individualist collaboration , enabling each to set their own approach while having the choice to integrate ( or not ) with other's protocols, and in a setting that enables easy connections to trans-regional networks, in cities but in connection to the local countryside.<br />
<br />
I visited many places and communities, experienced different cultures, over the past years, and wish to integrate some practices I encountered into an emergent synthesis.<br />
<br />
I imagine several places could enable such kind of approach.<br />
I think especially of places which are not too expensive, as to avoid getting into debt.<br />
Some of the approaches may have been discussed on p2pf lists.<br />
I for example wish to buy where the land is cheap compared to the available infrastructure, and then create our own value while avoiding financial speculation on such creation, through a combination of commons and cooperative approaches.<br />
<br />
The <br />
=== revival of certain declining cities ===<br />
, in post-industrial frameworks, provide some inspiration to me, which I can see as an approach to combine various existing movements while enabling the creation of viable complex systems.<br />
<br />
A number of people on this list, a number of people we may be meeting, have experience in such fields, and I wish for further convergence. <br />
<br />
This is the approach I am planning ( remotely ), in Leipzig :<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project<br />
<br />
A difficulty I face in an emergent process is to <br />
=== create engagement in initial stages ===<br />
especially when I have no personal ( monetary ) resources,<br />
and when my current access to shelter and living is far from the place I wish to develop the intentional engagements for co-creating and sharing viable economies.<br />
<br />
I now found an investor for buying a 600 square meter building in Leipzig,<br />
which is a first step for me to spend more time there and to invite people to live there without rent,<br />
progressively setting up with people speaking german other legal and financial solutions to purchase our own flats ( in good condition, and with a renovated roof ) within the city for one hundred euros a square meter ( 100 euro / m2 )<br />
<br />
I did build up small local networks of friends here in Brussels,<br />
and am or have been connected to other communities - ecovillage, nomadbase, etc<br />
over the last 8 years.<br />
<br />
What I express now is a further synthesis.<br />
Not only a place to pass by, not only the potential for an isolated collectivist space,<br />
but a potential for a scalable regional economy converging various of the practices and experiments we mention.<br />
<br />
=== A european base ===<br />
for people sharing certain memes, a base where people can purchase and develop their own usufruct infrastructure, while also having access to mainstream existing infrastructures. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com> wrote:<br />
Thanks Michel<br />
<br />
Further below, some thoughts which stem out of this french lecture.<br />
<br />
I extend the lecture context as to delve into broad questions :<br />
<br />
- <br />
=== How to increase the potential to share ===<br />
and create with individuals who attend the same events, when such events are too short in time to truly get to know each other<br />
<br />
- How to make it easier to introduce some people we meet,<br />
to other people we may not yet know personally within our interconnected networks , based on shared interests, specific objectives or geographical proximity ?<br />
<br />
- How to do so in a way that enables a general appreciation of context , and context building processes ? [5]<br />
<br />
- If we get to know each other, how do we enable further engagement for co-creation based on respective individual social and financial contexts ?<br />
<br />
- Do we have p2p physical places to go to, converge and experiment p2p approaches, and get to know each other ?<br />
=== Permanent p2p collectives ? ===<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
When listening to the lecture and questions asked by people attending it,<br />
I realize there are very probably people I could interact or collaborate with. <br />
<br />
Unfortunately, I was not in Paris for that specific seminar,<br />
yet indirectly, I experience that each of us can indirectly benefit from the contacts other people in our networks make<br />
<br />
When I go to seminars with people sharing interests, <br />
it is not always easy to get in touch personally , especially when there is no time for informal get to know's, or for art of hosting type of approaches.<br />
<br />
Lists such as this one are useful - yet I can hear that for some people ( including sometimes myself ) it represents an overflow of information.<br />
<br />
Hence more specifically defined lists or information aggregation stemming out of more general ones ( can ) get created around more specific objectives. [1]<br />
<br />
At some point ( around 1hour30-31 minutes ) , a lady asks if you are connected to movements such as "Attac",<br />
and you reply that you stay open for dialogue with a variety of backgrounds [2] <br />
<br />
Within such larger framework,<br />
regarding strategies used [3] ,<br />
<br />
I realize that as an individual, though well connected,<br />
I can find difficulties in finding approaches to not only interact but share and engage together with other individuals who apply such culture and approaches in their daily lives, <br />
to build up such infrastructures of interdependence beyond the immaterial - internet based exchanges.<br />
<br />
Some of the people I connected to in face to face interactions are on this list.<br />
A number of us are spread across europe and/or the world.<br />
<br />
A variety of initiatives and environments exist [4]<br />
<br />
If Phyles related to some of our interconnected networks further emerge, how do you imagine them ?<br />
<br />
Would you personally ( or other people on this list ? )<br />
be interested in supporting "co-living - co-working" spaces ?<br />
<br />
=== Would we end up living together ? ===<br />
<br />
I realize living together , or at least have a physical convergence point where to contribute to based on shared memes,<br />
is important to me. Yet till now I find initiatives and people spread all over.<br />
<br />
Hence my interest in finding low cost ( kind of venture communist ? ) approaches to make infrastructure available,<br />
as to enable contributions to local viable systems based on p2p approaches.<br />
<br />
I d wish for p2p phyles to support such permanent p2p collective approach.<br />
<br />
Here is a suggestion : http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project<br />
<br />
I d like to provide people with such physical location to converge to, as to facilitate the process of getting to know each other through collaborating.<br />
<br />
I do remember, Michel, watching a video of an annex to your home in Thailand, which you imagined could host such p2p friendly facilities. Though I am also aware it may, for individuals such as me here in Europe, be somewhat far.<br />
<br />
Is there anyone else interested in such approach, and what are (y)our visions ?<br />
<br />
Thanks!<br />
<br />
<br />
Foot Notes :<br />
<br />
[1] and mapped as to see how they relate or stem out of each other ? <br />
<br />
[2] some who are more distributist, others more mutualist, but also people from the right , etc and that you even go and talk to the catholic church upon invitation from the pope. You then further comment that "indignados" and "occupymovements" may possibly relate more easily with the p2p approach ( and ethos ? ) , yet that with the more traditional left you may have felt more resistance, as some left wing backgrounds may remain more conservative in their mode of thought then, as you noted, some profit oriented backgrounds who stay open to new ( p2p ) ideas because of an interest in finding new approaches to make money.<br />
<br />
[3] to facilitate potential through collaboration around shared intentions,<br />
and at the current stage of development<br />
<br />
[4] Ecovillages and other communities already exist, and can share a number of subcultures brought up here on p2p lists.<br />
<br />
Fablabs are emerging , and can also bring people sharing such culture together in an approach to be co-creative while increasing our autonomy through choosing our interdependencies. <br />
<br />
For now, more Fablabs in urban centers ? And generally speaking, at the moment still mostly available to a very specific elite of technicians and progressive cultural researchers ? Yet possibly opening up , connecting to community / co-working spaces, such as in Berlin : http://opendesigncity.de/ ,<br />
or initiated ( or funded ) by research backgrounds with the intention to open up to the community, such as MIT's center for Bits and Atoms http://fab.cba.mit.edu/ , such as this one http://wiki.fablab.af/index.php/Main_Page<br />
<br />
[5] Holopticism ? http://www.slideshare.net/AlanRosenblith/holopticism<br />
<br />
<br />
== Self Replication and Support from Existing Projects ? ==<br />
<br />
perhaps this can be the <br />
<br />
=== topic for a new wiki ? ===<br />
<br />
not yet having all the answers myself, it may be <br />
what SELC ( and p2p urbanism ) seem to be doing :<br />
<br />
- "Sharing for self-replicating / bootstrapping sharing systems and infrastructures",<br />
- "Existing projects supporting other projects to emerge",<br />
- self-replication support for <br />
=== "Big Picture DIY" ===<br />
+ <br />
=== "Tactical Urbanism" ===<br />
<br />
I'm enthusiastic at the perspective of more <br />
=== "Share Events" ===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/announcing-share-san-francisco<br />
http://www.livestream.com/shareable/video?clipId=pla_87e1c9e8-e602-4cad-84b5-0b2c6ed732ab&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb<br />
<br />
I am curious to find out about <br />
=== other organizations ===<br />
such as SELC<br />
http://www.shareable.net/users/sustainable-economies-law-center<br />
in Germany, the UK, France, etc...<br />
( I may have missed articles on these topics ? )<br />
<br />
Organizations that support and share their experience ( and resources or infrastructure ? )<br />
to <br />
=== bootstrap other projects ? ===<br />
<br />
Bringing their expertise and credibility to open up paths for collaborating with local authorities, or potential investment funds ?<br />
( such as, specifically for housing, in German, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mietsh%C3%A4user_Syndikat )<br />
<br />
Eventually also a network of hosts and organizations, who support activists / social entre-donneurs - such as me ? - <br />
<br />
People invested in sharing communities, who wish to further engage in supporting such projects without ( mainstream financial ) resources ? <br />
Such as Route des SEL ? http://route-des-sel.org/ <br />
Or eventually members of intentional sub-groups on couchsurfing.com , hospitalityclub.org , bewelcome.org , ... ?<br />
<br />
<br />
== More Email Archives ==<br />
<br />
===Social Reproduction Email ( 2008 )===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Social_Reproduction<br />
<br />
===28 December 2013 Email Update===<br />
<br />
Hi Wolfgang,<br />
<br />
Thank you for sharing your article - it overlaps with approaches I like to take.<br />
<br />
I see a number of potentially overlapping and emergent "layers".<br />
I like to hear from other people's dreams or personal experiences.<br />
<br />
I see the potential for an understanding of distribution / aggregation layers, mutually empowering each other in an emergent way, building up [Critical Diversity] for further emergence, resilience, and ( ideally ? ) viable systems.<br />
<br />
I ll be happy to map out our non linear understanding. ( a mapping tool where we can export our data ? )<br />
<br />
<br />
// in advance, apologies to Silke - this will be a long post with a lot of links //<br />
<br />
<br />
Some layers I experiment(ed) with , followed by a few projects.<br />
<br />
I want to talk about Nomadism, as it embodies imho an understanding of distributed systems - understanding I wish to use even when not moving ( geographically ).<br />
<br />
I see layers of distribution and aggregation mutually empowering each other in an emergent way.<br />
<br />
Short, medium and long term approaches , and resilience through their overlap, can also be taken into account.<br />
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I want to bring forward potentials for synergies and emergence ( based on "critical diversity" ? ), and using Integral City and some research ( if one can call this research ? ) I did or am doing, to compare or apply it to.<br />
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- Nomadism :<br />
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- it can imho be translated into the experience many more have, for example at a city scale , or also via "seminar hopping" lifestyles , movie production lifestyles, etc -<br />
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talking from personal experience<br />
of a type of nomadism based on a low ( monetary ) threshold ( hitch hiking ).<br />
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I would aim at experiencing a flow of temporary autonomous zones ( often events ), hitch hiking from the one to another, taking into consideration a "logistics of options" to direct myself across europe. ( moving east or west, north or south, depending on how events may seem to empower more options for intentional convergence and supporting needs at later stages )<br />
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I am glad Wolfgang mentioned "non places". Much of the time was spent crossing "non places", moving towards aggregators where, for a moment, some shared "warmth" could be experienced.<br />
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Nomadism ( especially moneyless , or almost moneyless ) , in my view, embodies an experienced understanding of a distributed system of distributed systems : hitch hiking as intentional distributed system - used as a layer to facilitate access to - ... hospitality as a distributed system - being hosted for a limited amount of time - ... which can empower meeting people, which itself can lead to events , to shared learning, distributed information networks, etc ... each of these potentially empowering distributed intentional "tribes". <br />
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Such social capital constantly being worked on - if not, the energy imho dissipates over time.<br />
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Such understanding of nomadism ( / of distributed approaches ) can be applied within more specific geographical environments, such as a particular city itself.<br />
I guess others wrote about this ... ( Deleuze, Negri, Hardt, ... )<br />
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I personally like the contents of this site : <br />
http://nomadology.com/<br />
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It is important , imho, to reduce "empty places" and time ... as to make it viable. Focusing on places where there is a higher density and diversity of mutually empowering potentials, that can , even if one uses a temporary autonomous approach, further feed other processes and enable a continuity of flow.<br />
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This is some of my shared experience of too much "spreading out" :<br />
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http://sharewiki.org/en/Beyond_Road_Burn_Out<br />
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http://hitchwiki.org/en/Aimless_trajectory<br />
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Convergence may be possible in cities - yet the cost of space , in monetary terms, or of securing access to space ( if one squats ) is often very high, itself leading people to allocate their time to service such monetary cost, reducing availability, and increasing the potential for "empty places" ... or "empty social places", as people are "too busy" ...<br />
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Finding distributed approaches to use such spaces and generate spaces on top of existing infrastructure , as to converge social networks / aggregate, may be one approach. Narratives imho also play a central role in such flows of aggregation. Time, too, plays a role. High turnovers in certain cities may not enable long term continuity or development of projects, unless a combination between longer term residents and short term residents can be found.<br />
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Planning is not always possible when there is such constant reshuffling - hence the potential for stigmergic information tools to manage logistics of options and generate flow and emergent collective intelligence.<br />
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As it requires constant work on social networks,<br />
but also as I sense there is a need to create reference points for oneself to return to,<br />
aggregators which can overlap as to enable continuity , rather then leaving empty spaces of nothingness,<br />
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after 5 years on the road I needed to find solutions for places of unconditional return.<br />
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A tribe , even if it morphs, yet enables shared intention, can be such "home" - even if and when it moves in space. Sometimes families can represent such form of tribe, yet in western societies , imho, families end up being instrumentalized in favor of dominant socio-cultural narratives. In some cases, people like me who wish to generate alternative / less coercive narratives may end up marginalized from both society and family. <br />
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Underlying logic that I notice from people in mainstream narratives being : "if I "have" to do this, why would s/he not , hence I can not support him, as it would furthermore requestion my own sacrifices over time to survive in this system". Not all adopt such stance - and it is interesting to understand what processes or contexts opens people up ... <br />
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I see a need for overlap in terms of time frameworks.<br />
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At casarobino ( a nomadbase.org which hosted over 1000 people in a small flat over a 3 year time framework ), I noticed how overlap between short term ( a night or two ), medium term ( a few days to a week ), and longer term ( a few weeks ? ) residents enabled transfer of self organized cultures and information needed for such self organization, and how it enabled some form of fluidity in terms of internal social dynamics. Furthermore, the casa seemed to serve an aggregation role, enabling a place of return on a longer time framework, leading to individuals coming back to the space, feeding and at the same time maintaining what imho looked like intentional subcultures enabling its self organization. ( may be interesting to study this further in depth : the role of such aggregators, and intentions that may serve as shared engagment and underlying social contracts )<br />
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For the moment, debt seems to be one of the powerful forces leading people to be prepared to share engagement / generate social contracts. ( often generating more centralized control and artificial scarcity ? )<br />
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To free ourselves from ( monopolistic and hierarchical ) debt information systems of control, I sense we need to generate alternative distributed engagement tools. <br />
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Reification is imho risky business ( in terms of control - see this article <br />
https://www.academia.edu/4498786/How_does_reification_ensure_our_wilful_subordination_to_authority ) , yet worth experimenting in a distributed form - to facilitate temporary aggregation , as stigmergic tools ? ( hence mentioning the netention research, which also includes understanding regarding Linked Data, ... )<br />
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Yet, indeed, "places" can be aggregators.<br />
I see the risk of "institutionalization" of places ( and centralized control )<br />
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Potentially, such institutionalization of spaces can be ok as long as networkes are not enclosed within it, and that such networks can access sufficient diversity, as to never depend on any one source ... yet be able to build on top of institutionalized infrastructure, although I do not see this as a solution. Ideally, one would aim at enabling distributed forms of ( temporary ) infrastructure away from institutional influence and conditions.<br />
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In some cases, there may be potential to support a distributed commons through institutional support, playing on the strategic interests of specific institutions in doing so - yet rarely does this seem to come, imho, without a cost / conditions. Mapping externalities can be a potential of tools such as suggested by netention research - including practices visualizing open value networks ? <br />
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Here is some research ( draft ) I did as to attempt such approach in Leipzig.<br />
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http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project<br />
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The idea being to benefit from existing infrastructure, at a lower cost ( in terms of debt ), and creating a sufficiently great diversity and amount of individual projects, as to build distributed systems on top of the proposal of the usership of a living space<br />
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Prices in Leipzig now seem to have increased - so I needed to change approach.<br />
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Using the potential for FabLabs / local small scale manufacturing based on open source research and development,<br />
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I imagine using vacant spaces ( in urban or countryside environments )<br />
to build up temporary housing.<br />
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Eric H. used the terms "pop up villages" and "furnitecture" ( portemanteau for furniture and architecture )<br />
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see : http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
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It can include approaches such as wikihouse ( http://www.wikihouse.cc/ ) , ...<br />
Ideally, I imagine modular and parametric approaches ( I noticed some designer and architect active on Edgeryder forums think so too )<br />
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Some cities, such as Brussels, see imho high turnovers ( 15 to 20 percent of its population annually ? ). There is a lack of housing, prices are rising as population increases, etc<br />
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In such kind of context, I also see the potential for some of the approaches expressed earlier on ,<br />
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using the potential of massive amounts of vacant space ( for example : over 2 million square meters of empty office space ) <br />
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to generate temporary contracts where temporary structures ( furnitecture / urban pop up villages ) can be set up, as some form of temporary living.<br />
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For example in Brussels : http://www.annedoloresmarcelis.com/index.php?/camping-town/<br />
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Various subcultures can / are converging and overlapping, with each having high turnovers, or people keeping a base while living nomadic lifestyles - for example dancer networks, theatre networks, but also all kinds of students, people doing internships, people on short term contracts for international institutions or businesses, etc<br />
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The environment itself can generate new layers and opportunities.<br />
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Beyond reducing costs / increasing quality of life with limited monetary income via a sharing economy approach,<br />
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it can be about generating conviviality , liberating time by reducing costs, and increasing potential for interactions around shared intentions or interests.<br />
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Freed time opens up potential for participatory action research and learning.<br />
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Approaches that combine subcultures and generations can also be adopted.<br />
It can be an evolution from the "co-living" approaches which have permeated into many urban living / social practices.<br />
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In effect, such types of temporary spaces generating defacto "free schools",<br />
some of them leading to "project incubation"<br />
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Also see : <br />
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http://opendoor.io/ --> projects<br />
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I wanted to generate such spaces for a number of years,<br />
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yet I realize that a more specific and easily understood narrative is needed to enable shared intentional engagement.<br />
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A narrative for a "school" can be an example of a way to bootstrap such engagement. Incubators , coworking spaces , or even, in the countryside, permaculture or construction / renovation projects can all be narratives attracting people for a certain period of time.<br />
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Yet often there needs to be a "spark", and the threshold for such spark often requires a minimum of resources ... which itself already requires engagement.<br />
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Although I shared this link earlier on , also see :<br />
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http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
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Convergences such as<br />
http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php<br />
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seem to already be a filter for those ready to engage in setting such prototypes... hopefully building on the experience of past "communes", but hopefully also enabling neo nomadic / distributed overlap, as explained in this mail.<br />
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On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Wolfgang H. wrote:<br />
Thank you for your thoughts, Anna, Dante, Wouter!<br />
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Something that I wrote that resonates with what you are saying, Dante, is here:<br />
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49712621/Making-Place-for-Abundance<br />
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And of course, at the Commons Abundance Network, we are seeking to provide links to any initiatives of the types that you mentioned, and develop our network as a virtual collaboration space to help such things develop. The more networking there is among such initiatives, both online and in actual places, the more they will be able to coalesce into real alternatives.<br />
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Wolfgang<br />
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-----Original Message-----<br />
From: commoning-bounces@listen.jpberlin.de on behalf of Wouter T<br />
Sent: Fri 12/27/2013 4:54 PM<br />
To: Dante-Gabryell Monson<br />
Cc: commoning@listen.jpberlin.de<br />
Subject: Re: [commoning] [P2P-F] The Co-operative University<br />
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Dante,<br />
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I love the idea of such "uncompromised temple". It would be a reference site where so many free/libre/open/commons-governed/knowledge initiatives would come together.<br />
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Ideally it would be in a bottom-up organised country. And it would of course be a node in the distributed network of already existing nodes.<br />
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Some would spend more time their while others, even with a longtime commitment, would only come there physically from time to time. Teachers, learners of all disciplines would join in special sharing sessions to construct collective knowledge and common projects.<br />
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As you say, if such initiative can be seen as a kind of insurance, it will be easier for some to invest/contribute. The transition is probably not going to be easy for many people, so assuring some basics would be helpful.<br />
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I need to continue other conversations right now, but the ideas discussed here have my interest. Thanks and best wishes for sustainable and solidary systems.<br />
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Best<br />
Wouter<br />
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https://listen.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/commoning<br />
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[[Category:Projects]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Spime_Housing&diff=24000Spime Housing2017-01-15T00:06:03Z<p>Dante: added link to https://github.com/automenta/spimedb</p>
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'''2014 : [[Antwerp Collective]] hosting research and development in this field'''<br />
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linked from [[Nomad Tribe]]<br />
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also see : [[Emergent Synthesis]] , [[Leipzig project]] , [[Antwerp Collective]]<br />
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[[Settlement Technologies]] ,<br />
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[[Cardboard Housing]] , [[Tensegrity]] , [[Nomad Slums]]<br />
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And Eric's slide presentation on Nomadic Ecovillages concept :<br />
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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19g_XYezo_jHEZINUqZNZUswZaLsuNHpvbsT3vNkW3eU/edit#slide=id.p<br />
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and Seth's remix synthesis in a slides presentation, containing some elments of [http://solarstrategy.com.au/newsletters/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware-2/ this article] :<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16-fGxcIugYg9oD5i4px5sIfIXY0EfxKcWIifUhJ7zEM/edit#slide=id.g117ae3dc9_0178 Open Modular Hardware]<br />
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more on Open Modular Hardware :<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Modular_Hardware#Examples<br />
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See software by Seth, for SpimeDB<br />
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https://github.com/automenta/spimedb<br />
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also see this TED talk - Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people :<br />
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlt6kaNjoeI<br />
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and Wiki House : http://www.wikihouse.cc/<br />
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A new, small mailing list <br />
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/op-n-m<br />
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Contact : http://hitchwiki.org/en/Dante<br />
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=Nomad Spimed Settlements=<br />
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as follow up on [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/econowmix/L19AhXhUiaA/Q2HlGFmAVfoJ email conversations],<br />
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reply by [http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.eric.hunting Eric Hunting] :<br />
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I'd like to explore this idea of a nomadic/[http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism festivalist] approach a bit further and try visualizing such a project in terms of structures and activity. In another thread you note the idea of a Spimed Nomad Aggregator. Let me know how close to the mark I am, but I interpret that idea as being a kind of communal construct based on a nomadic approach to architecture that serves as a socialization, information, and production nexus for a nomadic community implementing some kind of semantic web platform as--among other uses--the basis of a spime characterizing its physical construction and systems. I would tend to visualize this as a kind of pop-up eco-village built as an emergent, modular, construct reconfiguring to different local situations and fluctuating population, building knowledge through the spime it creates about its own systems and structures. It's sort of like a traveling exposition of neo-nomadic/mobile-Maker/deployable eco-tech technology and culture. It serves not only as a physical nexus of activity--a festival--but a 'broadcaster', physically propagating itself through its open spime and the more-or-less independent production of its vernacular architecture and systems inspired/stimulated elsewhere by its presence and media output. It's almost a sort of Internet-viral urbanism.<br />
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The chief advantages--in theory--of a project based on this idea, compared to a more permanent settlement, are that it's potentially cheaper up-front since it needs no permanent real estate, it's more suited to distributed support/production, it can potentially repurpose found structures, and by moving around it can reach more people. But it also has one disadvantage in that it's a much tougher challenge to achieve any sort of subsistence capability. Mobile systems of production are limited to smaller scales. A lot of things that could really achieve some functional production in a more permanent setting may be limited to just demonstrations. But maybe that's OK in the context of exposition. You're reaching many more people than you could with something out in the countryside<br />
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There would seem to be a lot of current relevance for this concept. We are entering an age where impacts of Global Warming, the general failure of economics, and runaway austerity psychosis are putting billions of people out of their homes, on the move, and into jeopardy. And the market/state/militarist solutions to this have typically been institutional violence, denigration, and disenfranchisement. New Nomadism represents a kind of reaction to, protest of, and spotlight on, that. A functional nomadic _community_ offers the prospect of not only independent infrastructures of life-support with the possibility of dignified standards-of-living but, perhaps more importantly, social infrastructures for political and economic empowerment.<br />
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So far, though, explorations of new nomadic architecture have not produced functional contemporary vernaculars. Systems people can pick-up and go with relying on their own production or many common sources. The closest we've come to this is cargotecture--which, even with new flat-pack container modules, remains far too bulky to really be nomadic. Current design is mostly focused on the solitary individual or household rather than communities. Many variations on the theme of a Swiss Army Knife of shelter. It's in contexts of camping, novelty design-art, disaster relief, and very thoughtful and clever solutions for the homeless that never get out of a student designer's portfolio to actually reach them because there's no market to drive production and no social production as an alternative. This isn't to say there hasn't been a lot of really nice, useful and clever design in this area but if its just about one-off microshelters and solitary self-sufficiency it may be missing the point.<br />
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As beautiful as they are, the tipi, lavvu, and yurt are artifacts of specific cultures and environments. Situations different from the contemporary, predominately urban, situation even in the developing world. I think we need to look beyond the Swiss Army Knife of shelter to nomadic _habitats_. Urban constructs with collective infrastructures and--more importantly--collective social/political power.<br />
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So what does all that mean in terms of architecture? My first thought here was to imagine a very high-tech pop-up eco-village based on a sophisticated deployable superstructure. But then I realized there's another issue with this. Before we can answer this question, we need to have some clearer idea of the contemporary nomadic situation--it's context of location, environment, use, and mobility. We can seek a 'total' solution that physically suits a lot of situations--which was my first thought--but I came to realize that quickly gets very sophisticated in terms of fabrication and physically bulky, which challenges mobility. We start talking about tool-less quick-assembled multi-storey modular building systems mainstream industry has yet to get their act together with.<br />
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I think we need to first ask, where does this Maker-Nomad we are imagining live (or should that be phrased, where _can_ he live) and how does he get around? Tipis, lavvus, and yurts were designed by cultures that lived in the open--on plains/tundra--and moved cargo around primarily by sledges and wagons with the aid of animals. If the contemporary nomad is predominately living in an urban environment, he's getting around and using his surrounding environment very differently. Where and how does he 'make camp'?<br />
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==Urban Alchemy==<br />
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I've long had this fantasy about a Maker community that takes over an abandoned suburban corporate campus--a relic of a recently-collapsed economy--and repurposes its neglected low-rise office buildings into a high-tech eco-village. They tear out the asphalt to make farms, parks, and Living Machines, strip down and clean up the concrete and steel skeletons, give them new skins of architectural membranes, living walls, algaeculture frames, and solar walls supported with spaceframes, and then retrofit their interiors for tribal cohabitation. Turn them into new Hakka Houses. It might look something like this;<br />
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmhdezhdez/sets/72157624731049557/<br />
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I even considered developing an outquisition-theme comic book from this, though science fiction is surprisingly rare in comics, and 'hard' SF virtually non-existant. I never seem to to find artists who can get beyond superheroes, medieval fantasy, and p. The theme of MacGyver-esque young people re-inventing the future the previous generation turned its back on and fixing the world with new green technology as the Industrial Age collapses is a bit beyond their ken...<br />
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Be that as it may, if we are visualizing the contemporary nomad as something like this--as a sophisticated urban nomad operating predominately in an urban environment, getting around mostly by street travel and the urban transit infrastructure, and repurposing its existing architecture by quick retrofit--then we have defined a context that may offer us the easiest and lowest cost project scenario; an indoor eco-village.<br />
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The indoor eco-village would be based on repurposing buildings much like those of the abandoned office park I described using portable 'pod furnitecture' and 'pod systems'. Deployable elements that you either easily take apart and pack-up and/or can move around on dollies, casters, and air-bearings. We're assuming that we're in an environment where you can move stuff around by hand cart and small light vehicle on relatively smooth streets and roads, have access to freight elevators to move through buildings, and where there is not a necessity for perfectly weatherproof structures because we're deploying mostly indoors--using existing structures or maybe deployable large area structures as 'skybreaks'. We're talking about a habitat sort of like this on a larger scale with more diversity of elements;<br />
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http://www.theworkhome.com/media/images/galleries/ban-naked-house-800-web.jpg<br />
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Setup in spaces like this;<br />
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http://blog.anti-limited.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/pano_rw_l2_1500px.jpg<br />
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http://www.discovery-place.co.uk/library/images/789.jpg<br />
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http://guessbook.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/img_8145.jpeg<br />
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http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5192/5858674582_d3cd64c0a2_z.jpg<br />
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http://nursing.johnshopkins.edu/sebin/h/o/parking_garage_empty.jpg<br />
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http://www.dowkimbrell.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/miami-parking-garage.jpg<br />
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Or under deployable skybreaks like this;<br />
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http://s3-media1.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/MG2RgygjIH1yMLkq_q6yCA/l.jpg<br />
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http://us.freedomes.com/uploads/media_items/lech-wybrzeze11.900.600.1.s.jpg<br />
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http://www.tensilesystems.com/images/slides/banner17.jpg<br />
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http://www.e-architect.co.uk/germany/treehugger_pavilion.htm<br />
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So what is 'pod furnitecture'? I invented the term 'furnitecture' to describe indoor structures which bridge the line between furniture and architecture by virtue of a more volumetric use of space or by employing independent enclosure. Pod furnitecture refers more specifically to designs that are more enclosure-oriented, more self-contained in design, more 'appliance-like', and more inclined to be moved around as whole units.<br />
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Ken Isaacs' legendary Living Structures are furnitecture;<br />
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http://www.we-find-wildness.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/KEN-ISAACS-8.jpg<br />
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http://www.habiter-autrement.org/08.minimaliste/im-08/urbannomadics-livingstructures1.jpg<br />
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http://radio-weblogs.com/0119080/images/Gallery/livingcube1.jpg<br />
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Things like Roger and Martyn Dean's Retreat Pod, Andrea Zittel's Wagon Stations, or the many forms of 'sleeping pods' derived from the Japanese Capsule Hotel unit are pod furnitecture.<br />
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http://www.enthea.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/retreatpod01.jpg<br />
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http://www.meganwilson.com/subtexts/ccpod1.jpg<br />
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http://deepspacearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/andreaanddavid_photobyd-dodge_0577.jpeg<br />
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http://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/sleepbox_01.jpg<br />
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http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/Interxionjpg.jpg<br />
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http://thedesigncritic.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/obsideon-airport-sleeping-concept5.jpg<br />
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http://tommytoy.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f3a4072c970b0147e0ae19d2970b-550wi<br />
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These things relate to the concept of 'pod living' that was often explored by designers in the 1960s, based on the notion of reducing the functional elements of homes to a set of appliance-like objects that could be freely repositioned in the living space. (though their origins actually go back to ancient times and the independently enclosed beds common to many cultures) It failed to catch on because, in practice, conventional urban apartment space is very specialized and permanently compartmentalized, didn't accommodate open plan living until the 'lofting' trend came along, and couldn't well accommodate the use of 'appliances' the size of a small car… But in the large-span space its very convenient. I'm very fond of the concept myself because it very well suits the use of pavilion housing--housing based on the use of physically simple free-standing independent roof structures creating freely-reconfigured open-plan environments. This can greatly economize on the cost of housing by radically reducing interior finishing costs, which represent most of the costs in a home, while allowing for different low-toxic materials. I'm rather obsessed with the notion of housing that's 'PC-like'.<br />
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Moving In:<br />
<br />
So how would we implement this indoor eco-village? What would it be like? Let's assume that we have at-hand a stripped unused urban structure as I've imagined. Pretty much a bare concrete skeleton of several floors in height. There may be intact window-walls or maybe the first thing our nomads need to do is setup a new 'skin' for the building.<br />
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Our imagined nomads have made a collection of deployable pods and other hardware that provide shelter and a mobile utilities infrastructure. They would have personal cabin pods--mostly for sleeping and storing personal goods--possibly some office pods for those who feel a need for a more quiet and isolated workspace the help concentration, and a number of systems and service pods. Telescoping T-slot jack-posts that compress between floor and ceiling would support some assembled pods and also serve for partitions, screens, light shelves, lamps, and many other items. QuaDror type supports ( http://www.quadror.com/ ) might also find many uses among pod and other deployable elements. All-in-one bathroom pods would use incinerating toilets. (the most convenient, compact, and low-impact means to handle that with portable hardware, but requiring venting and a lot of power or the use of canister fuel) Collapsable membrane water tanks reinforced by folding wire cages would be placed on plastic pallets to create mobile water storage where there is no adequate link to urban water supplies. These would also be used with some hydroponics systems for greywater recycling. There are modular kitchen pods. Various storage pods. Open/deployable or enclosed lounge pods with entertainment systems. There would be a power center pod that hosts batteries and controllers for deployable solar and wind systems and maybe a companion self-contained fuel cell or microturbine pod that runs on bio-ethenol. This is the same fuel that is now used for ventless low-heat indoor fireplaces and perhaps our nomads might even have such a symbolic 'hearth' in a mobile pod. There's a communications and data center pod that has server racks and provides a WiFi node while linking to existing telecom networks or using a WiFi/WiMax link on the roof. And, of course, there are various production workstation pods that fill out the tools and facilities of a community workshop/fab lab. With this pod concept we can make many of the larger tools of independent production more self-contained and mobile. Flat bed cutters and milling machines of various sorts on their own wheels. 3D printers on wheels up to 3m cubed.<br />
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Rooftop area would be a precious commodity with competition for use between solar/wind power, rainwater catchment, solar distillation, and gardening. So a more efficient way to go would be to employ vertical farming on lower building levels. Hanging Living Wall felt panels and vertical hydroponics systems like ZipGrow would be easy to install along the south-facing edges of the structure and still allow ambient light in.<br />
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Such systems are not only much easier to deploy than typical hydroponics, they would allow for the transport of hydroponics systems without removal of plants and the carrying of plants to market in their own means of attractive display.<br />
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In addition to quickly deployable solar panels--possibly using roll-up systems based on flexcell tarps ( http://buildaroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/solar-tent-e1286834244609.jpg )--and deployable wind turbines ( https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cU9AjwGVuXKSVCnYN2xOQ6XIzg5hbg-p_jvw622pw-7xfYlgTLgpOfRuApO8Dby-rOhqE57-7QTSe5hzoxElZuQeAQZ4y-Qpm-bwPeqTFv5D5SzNCUY ), the nomads may employ modular fiber optic heliostat arrays;<br />
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These would allow natural sunlight to be piped in on cable like electric power to illuminate the interior of the building and even plug-into individual pods. Fiber optic lighting systems would generally be safer, easier to install, and much more energy efficient (as much as 40% more efficient) because they eliminate discrete electric lighting fixtures and the electrical wiring to link them up. So the nomad's power pods might feature a hybrid fiber lighting center where an electric light pump is combined with heliostat input and then distributes light by cable to the rest of the complex. These would very safely combine with structures made of fabrics or be used outdoors or in wet areas.<br />
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Fiber lighting can be placed in any orientation so by combining this source of piped-in sunlight with a cylindrical pod structure to hang our vertical hydroponics on, it would be possible to make self-contained farming pods that could be placed anywhere indoors for intensive farming.<br />
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This form of lighting also allows for more sculptural uses of indoor hydroponics.<br />
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Solar thermal systems would be used for several different purposes using a hybrid heat exchange manifold. The conventional use would be for hot water heating. Then there would be use to drive solar air conditioning and water generation using adsorption coolers. And finally it would drive distillation to purifiy the water output from greywater Living Machines or rainwater catchment. This demands a pretty high-temperature system which may call for things like vacuum tube solar thermal collectors. These are not usually very portable so there would be a design challenge in their use. Perhaps solar concentrator heliostat heaters may be a more deployable and active system alternative.<br />
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Algaeculture, for food or fuels, can also be produced in much the same way as hydroponics using similarly portable supported or hanging vertical systems. Special processing and bio-reactor pods would be used to convert algae into either food or ethanol.<br />
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Not everything in the indoor village would be strictly utilitarian as the objective is to demonstrate a high potential standard of living and so some things that might seem frivolous by our usually militaristic notions of 'camping' would likely be included. Things like deployable art installations, museums, spas, multi-media entertainment pods akin to karaoke rooms, micro-planetariums, deployable theaters, facilities for pets, and so on.<br />
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Organization of the nomads' indoor village would depend on the topology of the structure they take over but a general order might see the rooftop employed chiefly for the different forms of energy collection, the floor below that used for water storage, intensive farming, and food storage, the floor below that for residence and common lounge/dining spaces, then a floor for the collective workshop/studio space, and at the bottom would be the 'garage' for the nomad's alternative forms of vehicles and more storage for shop supplies. The village may evolve through several stage of development, starting out very 'lean' with private space established primarily by the personal cabin pods in clusters around common lounge centers. Over time, however, individual living space may grow to clusters of multiple types of personal furnitecture enclosed in partitions and modular storage systems increasingly better insulated for sound.<br />
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Getting Around:<br />
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Getting around in lean and green fashion is a big deal and would be a constant obsession for the nomads. Most of the elements of the indoor village would be designed for relatively easy transport in the manner of push-carts, the urban landscape offering relatively easy mobility for things with relatively small wheels. Some towing devices--Segway-like walking tractors similar to two-wheel tugs used to move light planes in hangars or tow luggage carts in airports--might be devised to further aid this.<br />
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Powered hand carts are also likely and not unknown on the market.<br />
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These simple mechanisms could also be integrated into the design of some frequently moved pods.<br />
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An electric or hybrid version of the classic military mule would be ideal for an endless variety of uses and could host its own power charging with flex-cell canopies. With mecanum wheel drive, as used in some materials handling robots and fork lifts now, it could be the ultimate urban utility transport.<br />
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But it's likely that the nomads would experiment with a large assortment of electric, hybrid, and human powered vehicles both for use indoors and on the street and this could be one of the quite fun aspect of this project.<br />
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I'm rather fond of the simple tuk-tuk myself, which are now commonly electric.<br />
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Future or Fantasy?:<br />
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I think a demonstration of this model of nomadism is very feasible and could be explored on different scales, from a one-floor installation to a whole building and with a variety of variations in situation. But there's a critical question here. How realistic would this example be?<br />
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My fantasy example of a Maker community taking over an office park is premised on the notion of a regional economic collapse that leaves both original property owners and municipal governments too bankrupt to oppose what this community does with the space. (something that might only actually exist in the US in Detroit…) In practice, American municipal/city governments always resist any activity unconventional in nature. Anything new, different, and lacking the stamp of approval by members of the upper-class is assumed wrong by default and violently attacked. I often say that the NYPD has probably gleefully destroyed more art than the Taliban. Is our nomadic scenario only possible in a somewhat dystopian future? Would the modern urban nomad we imagine be allowed to exist anywhere? Is he forced to the edge of wilderness like everything else that's different?<br />
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Certainly, urban hackerspaces seem possible and so we could imagine this as an extension of that context. In a slumped real estate market, property owners would be more open to unconventional uses of their property at discount rates as long as it doesn't represent anything permanent in nature--which rationalizes the nomadic nature of this. One is always being evicted once the landlord finds more 'legitimate' tenants and forced to move on to another space. Certainly, the phenomenon of the arts community as agent of gentrification is well established. For a century, of not two, we've seen that artists, always seeking-out low-cost studio space in the depressed areas of cities, revitalize local real estate markets with their creation of a local 'arts scene'. Subsequently, they find themselves evicted from the communities they largely created as upper-class residents move in causing rents to become untenable. Could a similar phenomenon become a hallmark of Maker community activity, instigating entrepreneurial industry rather than an art scene? Perhaps it's most realistic to suggest that our nomads would be living in a variety of situations, sometimes having to deal with rural or wilderness environments. (which would certainly be the case when engaging in developing world outreach or disaster aid) In my comic book fantasy the Maker nomads use adaptive reuse to turn all sorts of obsolete structures into bases as they travel the world; shopping malls, forgotten missile silos, water and gas tanks, subway stations, limestone mines, cooling towers of abandoned nuclear reactors, amusement parks, abandoned ships--all kinds of architectural detritus of the Industrial Age given unusual new life.<br />
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But if our imagined nomads are compelled to work on the urban periphery or in wilderness then they are faced with a new set of challenges and the requirement to create mobile superstructures that assume the roles of the urban superstructures they would have repurposed.<br />
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==Not-So-Urban Nomad==<br />
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Interestingly, while the work of Ken Isaacs with his Living Structures strongly influenced the emergence of an Urban Nomad movement in the late 1960s and early '70s, it was a very brief movement largely because it's image of the future failed to materialize. It was premised on the notion of imminent Post-Industrial collapse long anticipated across the '60s and the vision of a more sophisticated youth culture adopting a more-or-less seasonally nomadic way of life repurposing the detritus of the Industrial Age as the civilization re-wired itself. The economic collapse was postponed and, frankly, that sophisticated urban youth culture never emerged because, through runaway gentrification, the cities became untenable in their mid-century role as home of young adults entering the workforce, the market clued-into the tactic of co-opting youth culture by stealing it, re-packaging it, and selling it back to them, while a conspiracy of academia and the banking system began indenturing the young with life-long debt right out of school. So what we really ended up with, at least in the US, was a suburban youth culture where kids stayed at home with parents well into adulthood or formed tribes of friends to cohabitate in rented inner-suburban houses or low-rise apartment complexes while seeking commuter jobs like their parents.<br />
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So in his later work Isaacs started move away from the city too. He went out to the country and started experimenting with semi-nomadic microhousing deployed on the woods. I say 'semi-nomadic' because it was still based on the idea of a culture that traveled with the seasons but now they were leaving structures behind with the expectation that they would be intact when they returned. He developed a concept called 'mobilism' where, instead of investing in one heavily overbuilt house, people would create these small very minimalist dwellings in multiple places and travel between them with the seasons, rather like some herding folk or trappers who create support buildings in strategic places along their routine migration. The houses didn't need to be heavily insulated or equipped--they would each only be used in mild climate and the more valuable 'gear' would be moved between them. So it was sort of like urban nomadism without the city architecture to provide the superstructure. You were making that yourself and leaving it behind in a number of places.<br />
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You could say this was a sort of Modernist version of a Faerie Court lifestyle. In Celtic folklore the Faerie Court is always on the move. They're nature spirits, traveling across the landscape, doing their stuff to drive the cycles of the seasons. So, traveling in grand processions by night, they go from barrow mound to glen to grotto to ruins creating temporary, and normally invisible, palaces of the places they stop at. So these various permanent features of the landscape become the markers of stations of the cycle of their travels. It parallels, in ways, the nature of seasonal royal processions and the movement of noble courts among different seasonal palaces.<br />
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But there was one part of this idea that Isaacs never quite managed to make work. Originally, he described mobilism as employing minimalist structures as rugged as an anvil so they could survive through their unused seasons. He never quite managed to create that because, frankly, it meant heavy construction he couldn't do. For this idea to really work, your structures, though minimalist, need to be extremely resilient to weather and vandalism. (especially vandalism if they're on the suburban periphery. Young people there have a lot of frustration to vent and a chronic lack of spaces to call their own…) His experimental constructs of plywood and pipe-fitting systems weren't likely to survive a typical winter.<br />
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Taking a much heavier structural approach, our imagined nomads might explore this strategy by creating a series of free-standing single-storey pavilion structures in strategic countryside locations that assume the same function of the office building structures they would use in an urban environment. Imagine a series of simple bare Brutalist pavilions made of reinforced concrete (tridipanel for easiest construction), stacked stone, fired brick, gabions (building stone baskets), or even boulders and possibly employing various forms of earth-berming.<br />
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Since these would be purpose-built, the structures might include a grid of formed-in plug-in sockets like those used for climbing form systems or flush-mounted T-slot rails that provide built-in attachment points for quick-mount elements. These might also be used to close-up the structures with steel shutters when not in use. They might also include some utilities--wells and septic tanks in particular--and inserts for gas, wood, or pellet stoves. Internet connections may be more difficult to establish with such locations but long-distance bridge links may be a serviceable alternative to the poor value service of contemporary satellite ISPs. One unusual possible feature unique to this culture might be built-in 'dead drops'. These are embedded digital storage devices like flash drives that would be used to store some spime data and residents information. Sort of a digital guest book. These days they can even be wireless, since we not only have WiFi flash drives by WiFi power recovery to charge them. ( http://deaddrops.com/ )<br />
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These pavilions would take various forms; simple rectangles and polygons, circles, rings, or domes sized to accommodate many people in one multi-function structure or a cluster/compound of smaller structures of more specialized use and small groups.<br />
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During mild seasons, the pavilions would be inhabited just as the urban buildings were, using the same pod furnitecture and retrofit systems. When not in use, they would be stripped down and closed up, the community moving to other compounds with milder seasonal climate. If sufficiently secure, they might also serve as materials and data systems caches. This is actually an approach to architecture I have intended to use myself for my own low-toxic home--albeit with a more permanent enclosure and utilities installation. There is an endless variety of simple pavilion structures--many prefab--that can be easily turned into palatial homes with a little ingenuity. Relying on open-plan living and furnitecture eliminates the conventional interior finishing that is not only a major source of indoor chemical pollution but also the largest portion of housing construction cost.<br />
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The chief drawback of this approach is that, at present, the nomad community would ultimately need to own the land for these locations in order to build such structures. The community may be mobile, but this property and heavy structures put on it are not. But if that issue could be overcome, the approach would technically work.<br />
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==Pop-Up Microcity==<br />
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A more completely mobile approach, however, would require our nomads' architecture to move beyond pod-furnitecture to include the deployment of portable, demountable, superstructures to host them, which brings us back to the notion of a pop-up eco-village.<br />
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As noted earlier, skybreak shelters such as deployable tension roofs and tent-domes can work as hosts for the indoor village, functioning much the same as the proposed heavy pavilion shelters only lacking a ceiling and so relying mostly on free-standing elements. They would need level deck systems, but that's a standard feature for many existing event domes and pavilions. Thanks to modern materials, such structures can be as durable as any permanent buildings, be completely transparent, can integrate their own photovoltaic panels using flex-cells, and recently even EL paints have appeared allowing us to paint-on lighting. ( http://www.lumilor.com/ ) The critical limitation of these structures is that they are not modular (even though domes may have a modular framing system, their tent skins are not) and the larger their necessary enclosure area the larger their basic structural elements become, making them progressively more difficult to deploy. But as with the heavy pavilions, replicating multiple structures of a relatively large but still manageable size is a workable solution.<br />
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But can we do better? These skybreaks aren't quite as versatile or durable as the repurposed urban buildings we imagined our nomads inhabiting at first. They aren't volumetric and our village would be inclined to sprawl and fracture--to become more suburban. Even relatively modest sized tent covers could take many people to deploy or remove. Can we realize a more modular, urban, superstructure and still have it relatively easily demountable and transportable?<br />
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This is where the modular building systems I noted before come in; modular post & beam systems, space frame systems, and pavilion systems. They offer us two basic approaches to superstructure; a space-filling grid superstructure where our nomads' pod furnitecture evolves into a kind of plug-in architecture and a terraced superstructure that creates much the same kind of structure as the urban buildings. Both these things require--more-or-less--newly engineered modular building systems. There are no equivalents off-the-shelf, though some hardware that may be repurposed. But if kept relatively low in expected performance--let's say, limited to structures of about four storeys--they may be feasible near-term. Both of these also represent systems I've been trying to realize with the Utilihab project. So let me explain what these approaches are like.<br />
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A space-filling grid is a superstructure that uses some kind of space frame structure to fill space in a more-or-less regular volumetric grid. This might be based on a post & beam system or a triangulated space frame that creates some other kind of standard volumetric unit that can host a sizeable unit pod structure. (like nesting polyhedra networks, fractal 'sponges', and the like) This grid then supports habitable structures as retrofit attachments to this grid--systems of cabin pods, cabin 'bay' modules, and deck panels. Utilities systems may run internal to the space frame elements or be likewise retrofit. The space frame is generally exposed, requiring pod elements to be independently weatherproofed, but can also be enclosed by an exterior skin/panel system or retrofit roofing systems.<br />
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A simple example of this approach is illustrated by Ken Isaac's designs using pipe-fitting systems for his early 'mobilist' experiments.<br />
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Here he used a pipe-fitting system as an exposed post & beam space frame resting on small cement pads. Stressed skin plywood cabin units and deck pallet modules simply fit in the open space and attach to the frame. At the modest scale of these designs--unit ~1.5m cubed--this supposedly worked well though the cabin modules were not large enough to stand up in unless designed for vertical orientation. To overcome this limitation, whole or large parts of the space frame could be enclosed by an external plywood skin, leaving more 'headroom' in the open framing.<br />
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Others have more recently attempted the same structural approach at a larger scale. This example looks to be using around a 2.5m grid, which looks much more convenient but was probably not as sturdy.<br />
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Isaacs imagined this grid being incrementally expanded to fairly large complexes flowing over the terrain and, by the mobilism model, this frame hardware was intended to be left behind in seasonal migration. He considered his plywood constructions largely disposable. It's hard to imagine such very light structures as surviving well on their own. And pipe-fitting systems, even though a little bit improved today, rely on the friction of locking screws to hold everything together and so aren't the safest way to build things. Anything more than two levels is probably pushing it. But this is a good illustration. There are many things that can work similarly at this modest scale; modular industrial shelving, stacking post pallets ( http://www.palletower.com/images/product_images/up603p1.jpg ), plastic and aluminum pallets modified to attach support posts (like a giant version of plastic shelving http://www.pensito.eu/custom-made-plastic/custom-plastic-pallets/images/custom/01_CMP/cmp-custom-plastic-pallet-01.jpg ), on and on. I find the market of industrial materials handing products endlessly fascinating, even if much of it is rather specialized.<br />
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==Space Grid City==<br />
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But a practical system for our nomads--something large enough to be truly livable and functional for mobile production activity--would probably be much larger in scale and employ a much more substantial rigidly connected structural system even at the cost of higher mass. Let's say a space frame grid in something approximating 2.5-3m cubed. That would give us a very useful basic 'pod' size.<br />
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Utilihab is intended to produce just these kinds of structures using extruded aluminum T-slot framing. It's intended to use a bay size of up to 3m height in box units up to 6m square and with a load capacity supporting many storeys. The catch with it has been a lack of off-the-shelf T-slot profiles up to the ideal size of 150-200mm square. Very recently, however, a Chinese company may have just begun production of a profile of this size, though using a propriety connector.<br />
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There's a possibility that this could be very competitive in cost to US and European T-slot products because it's intended for building, not applications with an 'executive premium' attached. So we can now potentially build box frame grid complexes of quite large size using components that can be handled by very few people with convenient T-slot attachment all over their frame surfaces for convenient retrofit. This would be an excellent way to create a pop-up eco-village. Everything we can imagine could be easily integrated to this kind of grid structure. Weatherproof cabins could be made to generous size using walled tent schemes or panelized systems could be used for enclosure. Modular roofing systems could be employed. No question that this would be a more expensive, elaborate, and labor-intensive construction than the much simpler indoor village, but would all be easily demountable and use very few tools. The drawback is that, collectively, it's still a lot of hardware to transport from place to place. This would be much more involved than moving portable pods on wheels from place to place. We're probably talking shipping containers and conventional trucks to move this around. And, while it would be potentially very weather-resilient, it would still not be something one would want to leave on its own in the wilderness when not in use.<br />
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==Pavilion City==<br />
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The pavilion system approach is a more high-tech approach and at present no off-the-shelf structural system approximates it except, perhaps, some space frame systems. The basic idea is to use modular elements to create a deck and column system for terraced construction, producing a superstructure much like the conventional urban building but with much lighter materials and thus limited to fewer storeys. And because this is purpose-designed, the surface of the structure would be intended to support quick plug-in attachment of all the functional elements we would want to retrofit to it.<br />
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Conventional triangulated space frame systems can accomplish this by using a space-filling geometry to fill-out the forms of flat decks and systems of columns supporting them. There are, however, some caveats with this approach, as I noted before. Keeping these space frames to a modest scale of complexity means using relatively large module sizes. This makes for rather bulky structures, as illustrated by the floor deck of this old instant house concept with a module size of something around 2m;<br />
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http://radio-weblogs.com/0119080/images/MinAMax/instanthouse.jpg<br />
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One could reduce the deck thickness by using shorter members, but this has the drawback of creating many different parts sizes. You want to keep things to few different strut lengths when there are so many parts. This is why we tend to see these used only in very large span structures, and not often using the space frame for support columns. But that's what we would want in this case. We would want to have generous free span areas to roll our indoor village systems into. We're making things on the scale of a low-rise office building. So, as bulky as this is, with a simple space frame system with a module size half to fourth the intend storey height and which we could also use for domes, it could potentially work. We can then use a drop-in floor system based on deck panels that mount to 'hand' supports plugging into the top of the space frame nodes--like like a data center raised floor system. Roofing would work similarly.<br />
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There is, however, another way to go with space frames if we can work with a relatively large maximum strut length (4m) and a somewhat odd floor geometry. Previously I noted the Min-A-Max and Universal Node System space frame geometries developed by architect Peter Pierce. These have the unique capability of integrating, with the same set of parts, a deck truss system supported largely by triangulated perimeter structure and additional vertical internal struts. You can imagine this as being like a geodesic dome which has the ability to integrate a series of truss decks within and supported by it. To do this structures must assume a specific overall form that is compatible with this deck truss geometry. The deck system for Min-A-Max is called the 'tetrahex truss' and forms a series of hexagonal units with an equilateral triangle grid along its plane surfaces. To be stable this must integrate into a stable, triangulated, polyhedral shape and the largest of these is a truncated octahedron.<br />
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http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0165489611000898-gr3.jpg<br />
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Imagine you divided this shape into three horizontal sections. Here's a 3D puzzle toy that illustrated these sections, as well as giving you an idea of what this shape would be like made of triangulated struts;<br />
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http://tonyfisherpuzzles.net/images/tfto002.jpg<br />
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http://tonyfisherpuzzles.net/images/tfto004.jpg<br />
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Thus divided you get two kinds of volumes; a large equatorial volume and a smaller polar volume. And you also get two kinds plane surfaces; a hexagon and a truncated triangle. These planes match the shapes we can make with the tetrahex truss.<br />
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Truncated octahedrons are space-filling.<br />
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http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov/polyhedra/Truncated_Octahedron_000c_2b.jpg<br />
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This is why they've been proposed as the basis of space stations and cluster microhouses--like N55's take on Ken Isaacs' LEM like microhouse;<br />
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http://www.n55.dk/MANUALS/MICRO_DWELLINGS/londonmdfine.jpg<br />
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But take any nested combination of truncated dodecahedrons and you can divide them by these same horizontal sections, creating a series of parallel planes with a tiling pattern of hexagons and truncated triangles. By triangulating their perimeter you make a self-stable system of decks. A pavilion system.<br />
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We can elaborate this geometry further. The truncated tetrahedron and cuboctahedron derive from the same geometry and, in combination with the truncated octahedron form a space-filling system that likewise divides into the same set of horizontal planes. This is where the more complicated shapes of UNS structures comes from. And, again, N55 have speculated on microhousing uses of this.<br />
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http://www.n55.dk/manuals/micro_dwellings/mangetegn.jpg<br />
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But for simplicity sake, I think the truncated octahedron system alone suits our ends.<br />
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In Min-A-Max, the truncated octahedron can be stabilized by either 'planar' triangulation--triangles along the plane of the faces--or 'domical' triangulation approximating a sphere. Consequently, the two kinds of tetrahex truss planes can be formed into shallow domes. So we can make two standard tension fabric roof shell units to cover any stacked tessellated combination. (assuming we can figure out how to waterproof the edges they meet at) These would also serve as functional solitary dome units.<br />
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We don't need to worry about covering the whole surface of the structure with panels for enclosure. We just need to fit vertical panels surrounding a hexagonal prism volume in the center of each section unit. Theres a hexagonal prism volume running through each section of the truncated octahedron, defining the basic functional unit space.<br />
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Clearly, the geometry of these structures is complex and one key drawback of that is floor and ceiling systems that use equilateral triangle panels. Many people idealize triangles and hexagons, but from a fabrication standpoint they're a bit cumbersome and wasteful when most stock panel materials are produced in rectangular sheets. Be that as it may, our nomad's use of pod furnitecture makes the larger topology of a structure largely irrelevant. They are going to use this space in an open-plan fashion and so as long as the space is generous enough to let them setup their furnitecture freely, it works.<br />
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But is there yet a simpler way to go about this? Maybe, but it may require even more advanced fabrication than these space frame systems would.<br />
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As noted before, Utilihab is intended to evolve into a more advanced pavilion building system. It's current incarnation as a post & beam frame & panel system is a compromise, relying on aluminum T-slot framing because the industry for its production is already established worldwide. The common problem with modular building systems of the past has always been convincing Capital of the existence of a market for something new--and so anything truly new is virtually impossible. This is the chief reason why no modular architectural building system developed in the 20th century ever succeeded commercially. But as I noted, I've always been obsessed with the idea of PC-like housing and so my dream has been to develop a 'plug & play' architecture based on 'smart' components with integrated sensors and utilities that reduced the labor and complexity of construction to as low as possible--short of having a house assemble itself.<br />
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So imagine an open frame cube of high performance alloy, one meter cubed. It might be triangulated and in fabrication it might be made of multiple parts. Some versions might even be collapsable. Some might comprise sets of modules to make construction quicker. But it's engineered to function as a monolithic unit. Its edges are flat and flush, with the exception that along the faces it has an attachment system. Maybe a grid of sockets or a channel like T-slot framing. There may also be a formed-in volume of foam providing thermal, sound, and fire insulation, such as Airkrete. Each unit has integral mechanical connectors near the corners that are engaged with a hand-operated mechanism or some simple tool. They also feature integral utilities channels and connectors or, at least, mounts for supporting them and a single-chip sensor node with temperature, moisture, stress, and load sensors. These units are mass-produced. They are the primary building element for this system.<br />
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To build a home with these you first install a foundation, possibly using concrete piers, and attach your first cubes to them and level and align them with a laser level tool. Then you start attaching more, place on against the other and engaging their integral connectors to lock them together. You continue until you have a complete floor deck in the outline of the first floor level. This functions as a two-way planar truss. It is the 'backplane' of the house. Some special modules may be designed with special features or serve to 'anti-alias' the profile of the floor deck so you can use rounded corners, make circular deck shapes, or have flowing contour-terraces.<br />
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As you connect the modules you are also connecting their sensors into a live sensor web that is linked to a home WiFi network. So, using a modeling application, you can see on a PDA or tablet a model of the house as you assemble it. It might show the planned form of the house so as to guide your through assembly, but it's also showing the structural integrity of the building as its assembled, showing you what is safe and unsafe to add and where you might need temporary supports as you work.<br />
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Once you complete you're first deck plane you now begin to plug-in supports for the upper deck. These would include temporary jack posts and permanent columns in various styles and designs (trust me, tikis will make a come-back) or they may include modular furniture (usually shelving and cabinet systems) or even appliances reinforced to be load-bearing elements. They are all designed to suit the 1m module grid so you slide these into place where you want them and then engage the same kind of connecting mechanism and lock them into deck. Some may have integral wheels or low-friction slides to assist their movement. These may have the same utilities and sensor web interfaces as the deck modules so as soon as they are connected, they're 'on-line' and will appear in the house modeling app. With enough of these in place, you can now start snapping together deck blocks for the next level. Repeat as needed until you get to the roof deck atop which you plug-in a modular flat roofing panel system. You now can plug in non-load-bearing window-wall and pre-finished partition panels into the floor grid, creating a full enclosure. Finally, you plug in outdoor surface and deck tiles/panels, maybe outdoor hydroponic plant bed panels (imagine pre-seeded polymide felt panels that grow moss instead of grass) and indoor floor and ceiling tiles/panels or put down a plug-in plank system and your building is complete. From here the building app now functions as a home control system and continuous monitor of the structure's integrity, sensing failures and tracking environmental performance. This could form the basis of a live spime web for the building and all its elements. Everything in the structure remains demountable. You can take it all apart as easily as it was put together, re-arrange and ad this in-situ, and the structural modeling app will always tell you what's safe to put where. It will even let you model changes before you do them so you could play with the architecture like building houses in The Sims and download models of items to try out before you buy them or have them made.<br />
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Using low-profile deck modules, this system would readily retrofit into other structures, giving them a new backplane for the system's many modular parts and accessories.<br />
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Can such a building system be produced today, as an open building system? Maybe. But it would be a very sophisticated project. The deck and column system would need to be exceptionally strong and capable of at least several storeys height. But it would probably be the greatest advance to housing technology since the invention of the fired brick. Buildings of most any relatively modest size would become one-person tasks. A simple cottage home could be built by one person in a matter of hours. Just like the PC, a whole new global industry of parts would develop, competing horizontally while integrating vertically just like the PC's industrial ecology.<br />
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With such a system at-hand our imagined nomads could build--using lighter versions of some of these components--very sophisticated yet completely portable structures of most any size anywhere. Their pod furnitecture would evolve into plug-in load-bering elements for this system. Simply by arranging them on their own foundation jacks and plugging in deck modules around them they would create a sheltered habitat. But I fear this may be much too sophisticated a building technology to pursue for our immediate plans. Still, it's fun to imagine.<br />
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So there is my attempt at visualizing what this project might be like. Maybe some of these ideas are of use.<br />
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==4D Printing - Logic Matter==<br />
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Skyler Tibbits' concepts are really intriguing. At first glance my feeling was that this was something with huge potential, but all very distant. But the more I saw the more it seemed like there were some possibilities for demonstrating experimental architectural-scale structure in the here and now if we rely on relatively simple designs. If I'm interpreting this correctly, the general building system he proposes as Logic Matter is like a chain of blocks--self-linking or carried on a cable--that are picked up from a packing/transport configuration and then dropped into place on a cable using the energy from gravity to compel them to fall, nest, and link in the desired 3D orientation. 3D structures are thus 'knit' together like a rigid amigurumi figure. The cartoon in his larger paper on this shows a crane being used to load and drop blocks. Presumably, the crane is roughly following the 'knitting path' of the linking blocks to keep them falling vertically while at the top is a towing mechanism. Programming of the blocks seems to be done in their packed configuration--implying an integral electronics--or this might be achieved by a mechanism on the crane. Either the blocks rely on their nesting topology for rigid interconnection or some integral bonding or locking mechanism is also used.<br />
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So what we basically have is a space-filling structural system based on a more-or-less solid module. A kind of 'brick' structure that doesn't need human hands to lay the bricks.<br />
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How well can this space filling geometry approximate the useful shapes we want for a structure? This relates to my comment you noted earlier. This space filling geometry would be the 'microstructure' I eluded to. The building form is the 'macrostructure'. The larger the modules of the microstructure--or shall we say the lower the system's 'resolution'--the more the macrostructure is limited to paralleling the topology of the microstructure. Conversely, the smaller the microstructure modules the more it can approximate any desired macrostructure topology but with the compromise of increasing the number of parts. Previously, I had noted this in the context of labor. It's a hassle to manually assemble structures that need a lot of parts. But since we're automating that, the issue is now the general size of module we need to achieve a useful structural performance relative to the production costs and methods of the modules. That then determines the limit in effective 'resolution' of the structure and the range of building forms we can use. Tibbits implies a relatively small module size/high resolution (maybe soccer ball sized sized and smaller?), which means many tens of thousands--maybe hundreds of thousands--of units in something the size of a conventional house. Their production would need to be highly automated, cheap, and reliable.<br />
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What materials can we use? The larger the module size the more materials options we have but also the more complex and labor-based fabrication becomes. The smaller the module the more limited our choice of practical materials and the more things favor automated processes like injection molding. Imagine the cost of a house if, by equivalent volume, you were making it from the same materials we use in the typical 3D printer. (not to mention the time that currently takes) It could be astronomical. This is why Tibbits was rotomolding his experimental blocks. But most people would not be interested in a house made out of plastic. (even if, frankly, that's pretty much what the modern suburban house increasingly is. Plastic and high-tech papier mache...) They might tolerate structural foams, but are they strong enough? How about cast/injection molded wood composite? Milled alloys would also be problematic, even if we're relying on milling machines. It would really demand a process like injection molding, which largely limits us to aluminum. (injection molded glass-alloys is probably too exotic a process to work with near-term) High performance ceramic is likely a very good choice, especially if we used a two-stage process creating a foamed core to lighten the block and make them more insulating, but its still potentially expensive. CEB is probably too brittle, too irregular without a highly refined source material, and would need a large, heavy, block size to accommodate the topological features of these Logic Matter shapes. Concrete would probably have similar issues, though geopolymer could be much better because of its higher density and more ceramic-like properties. Would bio-stabilized sandstone do better? Any other possible materials?<br />
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How strong and rigid must the interface between assembled modules be, especially if we are using this to make floor decks? This could be a critical problem for putting this concept into practice. The same problem has also hampers modular/cellular robotics. Either the blocks rely on some aspect of their nested topology to achieve a rigid connection or they must have some other, automatic, means of sticking strongly together. At a relatively small unit block size as implied, automatic mechanical connections become difficult. There are some new possibilities, like magnetically driven screws that have recently come to market in the furniture industry;<br />
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http://www.lamello.com/en/home/join-wood/invis-mx-system/system-advantages.html<br />
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But it's still difficult to deliver sufficient energy for such mechanisms to many small elements, especially if deeply buried in the structure. Building-in a motor to drive such mechanisms would be impractical unless the modules were very large and, consequently, expensive. Tibbits' prototype Logic Matter blocks are completely passive objects that rely on orientation to program the basic assembly modules. (physical NAND gates) They have no bonding/linking mechanism and rely on human labor. Useful as a way to study the information/computing theory of the concept, but you can't make anything useful with this. So we'd have to reduce this to practice with a functional block of new design.<br />
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How do we finish such structures and integrate utilities? Obviously, these would not be waterproof structures by themselves, though they might be weather-resistant. They would need separate roofing and cladding materials which, ideally, sync-up with the module topology to allow them to be modularized. Can we integrate things like radiant floor heating? Is there interstitial space to route wiring and cables?<br />
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If this is possible near-term, I think we're probably relying on a rather larger scale of block and pretty simple architectural forms. Dome-like forms or pavilion structures where everything else is largely independent of the main free-standing structure leaving relatively large free-span spaces for open-plan use. This may generally be limited to single floor structures at first, but such minimalist forms could well exploit the topology of the building system aesthetically because there may be no broad load-bearing walls to cover-up, just floor and ceiling. I personally consider open-plan pavilion-based housing to be the most practical form of free-standing housing anyway, in part because there are so many ways you can create a self-supporting roof structure and many kinds of hardware that can be repurposed for that. There's an old Polynesian saying that a good roof and a good floor make a good house. Notice the lack of 'walls' in that…<br />
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So this does seem possible, but it's so new we would definitely be in uncharted territory working with it. It could certainly garner a lot of attention, though, if we could come up with a nominally functional system.<br />
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More at-hand possibilities may lay in systems employing robotics with larger structural elements. Tibbits notes the problem with the commonly seen modular/cellular robots as a building system. They generally have a very high overhead in integral mechanical systems and electronics relative to the volume of structure they can make, which means a large manufacturing overhead and an astronomically high building cost per square meter. But there are ways this can be ameliorated, leveraging active hardware over much larger areas of structure.<br />
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I've long been interested in construction automation, both for use in space and for domestic uses. Unable to employ much sweat equity in building myself, I've long been interested in the idea of building the machines that might build for me. One concept that I've wanted to explore was self-assembling space frame systems based on a scheme devised by designer Scott Howe;<br />
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http://www.plugin-creations.com/us/ash/research/projects/proj33/project.htm<br />
http://www.plugin-creations.com/us/ash/research/projects/proj33/summary.pdf<br />
http://www.plugin-creations.com/us/ash/design/projects/proj35/project.htm<br />
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Howe has spent a long time exploring construction automation and self-constructing structures, but usually with machines and components of very large scale. In this Trigon system, developed with NASA, he got down to a much more modest scale that seems accessible to possible hobbyist experimentation while still producing structures of significant size. In this system a panel-type space frame consists of simple modular robots with powered hinge and linking mechanisms on their edges allowing them to climb over each other by flipping themselves and alternately attaching and detaching to assemble themselves into rigid structures. Connected units would form a distributed power and data bus. This is a potentially easy machine to make as a combination of two flat plates (wood, aluminum, composite) with active components sandwiched between them. It could be sized such that a relatively modest number of units would make up structures of significant scale. Many kinds of functional elements could be integrated into the center space of the frame panels; quick-attachment mounts, lighting, fans, speakers, displays, solar panels, sensors, WiFi nodes, and so on.<br />
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Howe also proposed a Cubolding system based on similar but cube-shaped units;<br />
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http://www.plugin-creations.com/us/ash/research/projects/proj32/project.htm<br />
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Here each cube is outfit with automatic corner connectors and internal actuators that push cube units forward or turn them over corners. Sets or trains of cubes traverse the surface of structures in inch-worm fashion. This strategy could be employed with either mechanisms integral to every cube or using a robot that can move inside and between the hollow cubes. This makes for structures with more rigid connections but the articulation needed is more elaborate.<br />
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These kinds of systems would be very entertaining to watch in demonstration and would make for a very valuable venue of robotics research. They could make just the setup of an exhibition a very interesting event. But, by themselves, they probably can't serve as resilient housing and probably aren't going to be strong enough to support the loads of multi-floor buildings. They would need additional materials that, right now, would end up being put on by hand. It wouldn't be terribly difficult. If you're producing simple self-standing enclosure forms like domes, pre-made outer tent skins and plug-in foam and cloth interior panels. Unless you're dealing with a structure that has to be dismantled, moved, and redeployed very frequently it's hard to justify the cost of so much active hardware in every component, even if this system leverages it more than other cellular robots. You need to be getting a fairly large amount of shelter area relative to the unit hardware investment. Still, even if they have a long way to go, they would be fun to explore and would have a lot of visual impact. And if we are talking about a festival sort of exhibition, maybe we are taking things apart and moving them frequently enough to justify this approach.<br />
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But if we're talking about nomadic/temporary structures that are easy to fabricate and set examples for other people to follow and use, self-assembling and robotic systems may be overkill. We can save human labor by much simpler means. Technically, there is no reason building comfortable, attractive, and resilient housing isn't already as easy as assembling office partitions other than the fear of the impact on design from standardization and because it suits the interests of banks for housing to be as expensive as possible. (no banker is going to get rich on housing people can build for themselves in hours or days--which is why it was necessary for the mobile home to become 'damned' architecture) It would seem to make more sense to leverage technology and design on high performance structures with the elimination of skill in assembly to leverage modest human labor--the same logic of PC parts. If we're talking about something on the scale of a small village, we're not likely building things so big and complex that it really compels automation--as fun as that certainly may be to explore as experiment.<br />
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I think we could readily meet the needs of a pop-up village project with some combination of three types of open building systems;<br />
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Aa post and beam framing system using structural members light enough for one person to carry but capable of supporting structures of up to three stories and spans of around 6 meters. (which is what Utilihab is designed as)<br />
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A pavilion system based on a modular planar/deck truss plug-in 'backplane' serving as both floor and roof deck. (what Utilihab is expected to evolve into by second or third generation)<br />
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And a high-performance ball-socket-node space frame system supporting both relatively short and long strut lengths for truss and enclosure uses. (alternately, a plate dome system could serve, since primary uses would be for enclosures/skybreaks)<br />
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All these would ideally feature tool-less or few-tool assembly and employ pre-finished plug-in/snap-on/bolt-on panel systems. These things would not only meet our project needs, they could revolutionize housing in general--no other high-tech required.<br />
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With such easy assembly of basic structure, a nomadic architecture would differ from more permanent architecture largely by choice of materials. Yurts and walled tents can define our basic approach, though these systems afford us much larger and more diverse shapes than the traditional forms. Current architectural fabrics and membranes (ETFE, PTFE) offer vastly greater performance, resilience, and duty life than typical tent materials and can function well even for permanent structures. (I'd avoid anything with PVC, though…) We now have flex-cell PVs that can be integrated with these materials, allowing tension roofs to function as quickly deployable solar power systems. ( http://www.ifaipublications.com/iaa/repository/8/9534/large_2914_369_1280.jpg ) Felts used in living wall systems can also integrate with these materials to make temporary living structures. And we now even have paint-on EL lighting. ( http://www.lumilor.com/ ) Lighter alternatives to alloys for structure could also be used in this mobile context, particularly FRP, wood composites, and the like.<br />
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The nomadic context also offers potential for exploring another, more specialized, structural technology; soft architecture. This is something I often discuss in the context of 'furnitecture' and as the basis of deployable dwellings in large microgravity space habitat environments. (think somewhat larger versions of Japanese capsule hotel units made out of fabric and foam that plug into open space frame core structures of a large space habitat--space frames which can also double as host for hydroponics, hence the notion of 'urban tree' habitats) Basically, it's soft-sculpture technique applied to the creation of modest semi-rigid shelters using insertable light framing, modular structural foam, or inflatable elements. An easy visualization is to imagine those hut-shaped pet beds made of foam and fabric increased to the size of human-scale furniture or, larger still, a traditional yurt. Such structures offer much more resilient, highly sound and thermal insulated, and easier to setup shelter than traditional tents with many possibilities for novel integral features, integral furniture, and the like. The compromise is that they are potentially bulkier than tents depending on the nature of insert elements. New compressible memory foams offer interesting possibilities for this.<br />
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Another technology more specific to the nomadic context is the use of pneumatic frame structures offering some advantages over conventional space frames. These use high-pressure inflatable elements as alternatives to the usual struts of a space frame and can be fashioned to suit 'gridshell' systems or, with a larger parts count, more modular conventional space frame geometries. ( http://www.planex-gmbh.de/air-supported-membrane.html ) Unlike more typical inflatable shelters, these systems do not need continuous power for pressurization and with some modern elastomerics pressurized struts can support such high internal pressures they can approximate the strength of wood or aluminum. Pressurized corrugated membranes have long been speculated as an eventual alternative to glass windows. (since materials like ETFE are more transparent than glass) The concept has been applied at small scale to support systems for conventional tents ( http://heimplanet.com/ ) and some off-the-shelf versions of this technology have appeared offering very multi-functional pavilion forms. ( http://www.bec.es/imagenes/estructuras-hinchables/estructura-neumatica-hinchable-pileri/estructura-neumatica-hinchable-pileri-F03.jpg )<br />
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Technologies like these seem to offer more near-term possibilities, even if they might not seem as cutting edge as the idea of programmable matter. And, as long as we rely on largely modular design, there are any number of ways we can 'tag' large collective structures for spime tracking and the creation of semantic webs around them. That's basically what a 'spime' is, isn't it? Semantic webs for things and their designs that link to those physical things by the software used to create them (output) and by various means of digital tagging, use and activity logging, or integral networked information gathering. (feedback)<br />
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Eric Hunting<br />
erichunting@gmail.com<br />
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==Business Models==<br />
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I'm fine with your sharing the discussion. Please feel free to share any of my material with anyone you think might be interested. We need to network to build up interest and support for a project.<br />
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I think you have the right idea about approaching business models. We should think about that as a means of making the development self-perpetuating rather than merely generating profit, which keeping designs open and on-line will go a long way toward doing. There's much potential here for entrepreneurship on the small scale. I see these nomadic communities as much as incubators of small business as social groups and working in a cooperative manner as you suggest provides the kind of pooling of resources that makes small business activity accessible. Some things are still expensive. A laser cutter is still a several thousand dollars and up proposition. A flatbed CNC that can work with real building materials is still a $10,000-$20,000 proposition. These are going to be shared resources. So the approach you suggest makes perfect sense. I see this as much like the early days of the 'dot-com' boom when 99% of Capital didn't even know what the internet was and so the young frontier web developers were pooling personal resources as small tribes, buying/leasing net connections and buildings for their communal data centers that they sometimes also lived in, and incubating that whole industry in a cooperative manner.<br />
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The one challenge we face may be that the people we are usually trying to reach are somewhat averse to 'business as usual', so-to-speak, and to discussions of money. We will need to demonstrate that cooperative nature of our approach very clearly. Scratch-building key tools--things like the flatbed CNC--as group projects making a group resource, as opposed to just pooling money and buying them, might be an important part of that. Of course, we also want such tools to be much more mobile than they usually are, which creates another incentive for developing 'custom' forms of them.<br />
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Eric Hunting<br />
erichunting@gmail.com<br />
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==Spimed Space for Spimed Housing==<br />
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in a Venture Cooperative Commons Approach ?<br />
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Eric's Reply :<br />
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This looks like a good synergy of ideas. It establishes a positive role for the nomadic community as far as property owners are concerned while, working as a cooperative rather than a for-profit corporation, it overcomes the many abuses associated with anti-squatting companies as that video you noted detailed. The use of furnitecture eases the hardship and stress of necessary mobility in temporary renting while facilitating the habitation of buildings that normally wouldn't be suited to residence. The mobile farming capability and use of solar/wind power also puts a green spin on things that would appeal to many. Why not turn an office building into a clean temporary farm until the commercial space market improves? I think some companies and municipalities would really go for that idea. There would, of course, be some potential conflict with the militant squatting movement that sees all property owners as adversaries and class oppressors, but they're not interested in the sort of buildings the nomads would use anyway. One could develop a pretty good business model on this.<br />
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This anti-squat temporary rental is an interesting phenomenon that doesn't exist anywhere in the US--and would probably be prone to even more heinous abuse here if it were. (we can't even get a handle on pay-day loan usery rackets here) Here squatters rights were abandoned and attempts by organized squatters to reclaim and restore slums have been met by mass police violence. In the '80s a highly organized squatters movement in NYC engaged in a large scale restoration of buildings that had fallen into ownership by the city as their slum-lord owners abandoned them. Shortly after being elected, the right-wing mayor Rudy Giuliani sent in military vehicles to evict the squatters, willing to destroy the buildings and kill people rather than allow illegal occupancy. He later made a bid for the presidency… There may simply not be enough reasonableness in American culture to allow for things like this unless a community used the mobilism approach I described to buy or build their own collection of shared properties. However, there does exist an industry in 'house sitting' that markets its services to the very wealthy--people who have multiple houses they only spend certain seasons living in and have house sitters guard for them when they are away.<br />
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There's also an interesting phenomenon of perpetual camping here. In some national parkland areas people are allowed to camp for as much as several months at a time each year and so travel from park to park. This has become popular with some retirees who invest in huge recreational vehicles and trailer/caravans rather than conventional homes. In a few cases these folks buy rural property to build a large well-furnished garage that they winter-over in, living in their RV inside the garage for a season then spending the rest of the year on the road. In the '90s there developed an 'Airstreaming' craze based on the resurgent popularity of the old Airstream brand of steel skinned trailers. A regular cycle of Airstream encampments were organized around the country so the, typically retired, community of Airstream owners could move from one to another all year long. This once led me to suggest the fanciful notion that, with the advent of self-driving vehicles, might come an attempt by some people to live a truly mobile existence in self-driving RVs that run in cyclic routes on the nation's highways. One might have a conventional job and be dropped-off and picked up from work by one's continually traveling self-driving home. Various on-the-road services might be offered by the self-driving vehicles synching up through wireless networking and temporarily docking together on the road. Not exactly practical, of course, without some miraculous cheap source of energy but an amusing idea. Some years later, a European proposal for repurposing the rail system to support large RV-like personal rapid transit cabs picked up on the idea of on-the-move services with cars that would dock along parallel tracks to deliver food and other goods ordered on-line.<br />
<br />
Sorry for the slow pace of replies. Been dealing with dental work--which is usually as primitive as it is over-priced here--and local wildfires whose smoke has me feeling poorly lately. Went into town for my weekly shopping and it looked like the planet Mars with all the smoke hanging over Santa Fe. Big change for a place where you can sometimes almost read by the starlight.<br />
<br />
Dante's suggestion that Eric replied to :<br />
<br />
Life on the go / Lifestyle / Sharing Economy / Tribes<br />
<br />
using : <br />
<br />
Legal Frameworks ( Cooperatives, Mitshauser Syndikat , ... )<br />
<br />
+<br />
<br />
http://www.expatica.com/nl/housing/where_to_live/Dutch-anti_squatting-business-thrives-amid-economic-crisis-_14201.html<br />
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Dutch anti-squatting business thrives amid economic crisis<br />
<br />
Guido, a penniless student, could hardly believe his luck when offered lodging in the heart of Amsterdam at a fraction of the going rate -- a boon thanks to the credit crunch as property owners desperately fend off squatters.<br />
<br />
London : http://www.tntmagazine.com/lifestyle-career/property/the-legal-squatters-find-alternative-cheap-rental-options-in-london<br />
<br />
While avoiding or taking into account the risks of it's excesses in a corporate form :<br />
<br />
http://vimeo.com/9649993<br />
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+<br />
<br />
fluid versions of Sakura House<br />
<br />
Japan / Tokyo <br />
<br />
http://www.sakura-house.com/en/<br />
<br />
==Fungibility and Customization==<br />
<br />
I imagine that all become spimes.<br />
<br />
The space in itself becomes a spime, as the space can change location.<br />
And the components that are used within the spimed space, can themselves be spimed objects assembled and re-assembled in modular ways, for various functions.<br />
<br />
Or in other words, all becomes "virtualized", with potentials for engagements and resources being requested or made available , transformed, created based on combinations of potentially fungible units ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility )<br />
<br />
And by enabling so, as I remember vaguely from system sciences that a system can not take control on a system more complex then itself,<br />
<br />
it enables a simple complexity approach giving participants stigmergic forms of resilience.<br />
<br />
==Tracking of Spimed Components, Fungibility and Tokenization for Online Market Place==<br />
<br />
<br />
Some software tools ( such as this one , in development https://github.com/automenta/netentionjs2 ) <br />
<br />
can also be used to keep track of components, as to re-use components more easily based on contextualized needs and available resources.<br />
<br />
This enabling specific standard components to be fungible / interchangeable , hence not needing to carry them over space, or store them over time, as they can be tokenized and swapped on a online market place -<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
=="Light" vs "Heavy" Nomadism ?==<br />
<br />
the following I would characterize as "heavy(er)" nomadism ( use of a lot of energy ) :<br />
<br />
"RV's"<br />
<br />
Light(er)weight nomadism using information instead of energy,<br />
optimising the use of contextual knowledge and resources.<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
Instead of moving stuff, using locally available materials.<br />
<br />
One approach can be, providing a spread out movement,<br />
a market for fungible components that can be assembled in different ways, without needing to move the materials / components across space.<br />
<br />
==Collaborative Collective Convergence Space==<br />
<br />
[[Dante]] personally wishes to move on further on this project, with anyone interested.<br />
<br />
A first step may be to prototype basic components.<br />
<br />
I personally have not yet existing CAD design skills, but can learn fast.<br />
<br />
I see a priority to enable a convergence of people in the form of a collective living space.<br />
I want to work on a legal framework to cover the living costs of a collaborative / collective project space. ( actually a friend may already be setting one up )<br />
<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
<br />
On Apr 15, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson wrote:<br />
<br />
and more on Skylar Tibbits , and towards 1 to 4 dimensional ( self ) assembly,<br />
and 4d printing ;)<br />
<br />
and a more recent presentation :<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gMCZFHv9v8<br />
<br />
http://selfassemblylab.net/<br />
<br />
http://sjet.us/<br />
<br />
http://architecture.mit.edu/faculty/skylar-tibbits<br />
<br />
<br />
https://twitter.com/SkylarTibbits<br />
<br />
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com> wrote:<br />
and more on logic matter - self guided assembly<br />
<br />
Logic matter: digital logic as heuristics for physical self-guided ...<br />
dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/64566<br />
by SJE Tibbits - 2010 - Cited by 2 - Related articles<br />
Title: Logic matter : digital logic as heuristics for physical self-guided-assembly. Author: Tibbits, Skylar J. E. Other Contributors: Massachusetts Institute of ...<br />
Logic Matter - SJET<br />
www.sjet.us/MIT_LOGICMATTER.html<br />
Logic Matter: Digital Logic as heuristics for physical self-guided-assembly. Given the increasing complexity of the physical structures surrounding our everyday ...<br />
<br />
==Further conversations with Eric==<br />
<br />
===Reply to Light , Fungible, Durable , Modular Low Energy Nomadic Living Structures===<br />
<br />
Yes. I think that's a good way to describe it. I think the RV and trailer home represents a far point on a sort of four cornered or two axis spectrum of mobility. The one corner, where the RV is, is the whole housing nomadism corner. You're dragging around a whole house. Rich in stuff. High in energy use. Let's say this is 'south' corner of our spectrum.<br />
<br />
Then the west end is the corner of totally made-on-demand nomadism. Rich in stuff, but everything is made from what you find locally or bought off a local marketplace and discarded when you move somewhere else. We haven't discussed this aspect of nomadism much because it looks like how suburban people already typically live. People go someplace and they buy a house there off the 'housing market' or have it built to suit and sell it when they move someplace else. In fact, they technically try to exchange their life-long debt on one property for another, hopefully without losing any 'value'. They just don't seem to move with any great frequency so we don't call that nomadism. Yet, compelled mostly by the vicissitudes of corporate jobs, people actually move more frequently today than ever since we adopted agrarianism. This mortgage financing system was designed--along with the 'tradition' of the nuclear family--to facilitate a mobile workforce. It's the cost and 'hassle' in this process and its external motivation by employers, rather than self-motivation, that limits this. But let's say you had a robust programmable matter technology and 3D printing capability. The means to build, with almost no labor, a whole house and its furnishing in a couple of hours and recycle it back into stock material in about that same amount of time. Suddenly, this looks very nomadic, though it's probably the highest energy mode of nomadism even if you have high recyclability. This points out the fact that what defines nomadism may be less about the technology of shelter and more about the nature of a self-determined way of life.<br />
<br />
Our eastern end is Mobilism. The mode of nomadism that is rich in stuff but little of it is mobile or personally owned. Rather, it's left in place and reused by whoever is passing through at any time. You could call this 'hotel nomadism'. This is a generally low energy lifestyle, though the non-mobile elements are likely high-energy in creation in order to give them resilience when uninhabited. Ken Isaacs defined Mobilism in terms of dividing the stuff of a personal habitat into heavy, modest personal value, resilient stuff that you would leave in place to fate and the elements and lighter more easily moved, more personally valuable items that you would take with you one place to another. In his Post-Industrial futurist book Bolo, author P.M. defined a similar lifestyle. His vision of the future was a world of village/town/city communities and if you were going to live in one of them you had to integrate into its society. To facilitate this every bolo community would set aside space for transitional living supported by a certain standard courtesy hospitality, be it for people testing the waters, so to speak, of the community to see if they wanted to join it or just travelers. So most people would come to reduce their truly personal possessions to what would fit in a foot locker or steamer trunk. Everything else they needed would be owned by the community or would be easily replaceable and they could get it free wherever they traveled or chose to live.<br />
<br />
Now, this might seem odd to us today, but this is how many of society's elites lived in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today we see hotels in the context of 'tourism' but 100 years ago or so (and maybe as late as the late 1950s) the hotel was the home of elites; celebrities, movie stars and entertainers, writers and artists, entrepreneurs, the younger members of the upper-class. They lived in hotels because, back then, cities were still the hubs of western culture, commerce, and nightlife but losing their attraction as places for the wealthy to own residential property and their careers demanded 'shallow roots', so-to-speak. A film or theater project might be a proposition of months or years and there was no jet aircraft to toss you around the globe in hours. (before the jet, getting from California to someplace in Europe took, roughly, a month. Hollywood was invented to subvert the patents of film tech developers like Edison on the East coast--who wouldn't sue because the law still required them to personally represent themselves at patent trials and it was such a hassle for them to repeatedly travel to California) And so their personal possessions were things that were easily transportable in elaborate sets of luggage designed to suit transit by rail or ship--mostly clothes, jewelry, small pictures, books, and the tools of their 'trade' if they had them; stage props, costumes, cameras, art equipment, typewriters, etc. They might rely on warehouses to store goods they couldn't take with them, like cars. Everything else they could need was readily provided by the hotels at typically luxurious levels of quality.<br />
<br />
Today we have youth hostels providing a similar kind of hotel nomadism infrastructure--albeit relatively crude. But its easy to imagine how such stationary infrastructures might be expanded to support modes of Mobilism with progressively higher standards of living and longer periods of stay without the sort of very high cost of the hotel lifestyle. There is a certain connection between the idea of pod furnitecture and the elaborate luggage of the globe-trotting upper-class of the Gilded Age.<br />
<br />
The north corner of our spectrum is a very special one. It's the possession-less shelter-less extreme. The Sadhu life. Nomadism defined by the elimination of as much personal possessions as possible and with as little physical infrastructure as possible. This is only theoretical now. Human beings are simply too fragile. But we can imagine some transhumanist person of the future who is carrying a collection of very sophisticated nanotechnology within his own body that wirelessly links him to the global information/communication infrastructure, allows him to make anything he needs from the carbon in the atmosphere and found materials around him, and minimizes his need for shelter by eliminating or compensating for the hardship of exposure to the elements. All his necessary possessions exist in his own body and in the 'cloud'. His 'work' might consist of sitting in one place like a meditating yogi while, in his head, he's operating in a vast virtual habitat. Even clothing is optional for his survival or comfort. He can live comfortably in the most harsh environments--even living in the sea or the polar and desert regions. It may be centuries yet before people like this exist, but we're defining a pole of our four-sided spectrum and this is one of the theoretical extremes. Many current nomads aspire toward this kind of lifestyle, even if they can, in practice, only approach it with great compromise in standard of living. But as the lowest impact mode of living, they accept that compromise for the sake of a 'greater good' for the environment--at least until age and children catch up with them.<br />
<br />
So, looking at this two axis/four corner spectrum any mode of nomadism can be defined as a point or region within the space of these four poles. And there's an implied diagonal axis here; heavy, high-energy, rich in stuff toward the south-west to light, low-energy, minimalist toward the north-east. It's probably a bit hard to visualize without drawing this out on paper.<br />
<br />
I think the idea of fungibility of stuff is important. And that might define a sixth diagonal axis in our imagined spectrum, from south-east to north-west--from fungibility to disposability. In the Mobilist extreme one owns very little, with the bulk of the stuff of one's habitat infrastructure--stationary--and exchanged from one person to another through direct reuse. Then on the MOD (made on demand) living end of that axis one own very little but makes a lot of stuff as needed and disposes of it--exchanging it by recycling more than reuse.<br />
<br />
One of the concepts I had for Utilihab based housing was the idea of an 'aftermarket' components exchange network that could support low cost housing and easier mobility. People today renovate homes at a ridiculous rate. Bathrooms and kitchens especially. It's an almost annual event in the US now. The upper-middle-class especially treat homes like haute couture. They feel compelled to continuously upgrade to the latest in interior design fashion. The problem is, houses and furnishings aren't designed for this. They're designed with this assumption of perfection and permanence. And so it all turns into landfill waste, mostly un-recyclable. Home maintenance and renovation is one of the biggest sources of landfill waste. With modular building systems like Utilihab that are designed to make renovation easy by making everything demountable the side-effect is that instead of producing all this landfill waste, you're producing a stream of used reusable or refurbish-able parts that enable people to obtain high quality housing at much reduced cost.<br />
<br />
But there's another aspect to this if you network this parts market. Even with a totally demountable building system like Utilihab, it's a hassle to take a whole house with you from one place to another and there's a big energy overhead in transporting that. And selling it locally is also a hassle and a risk because of market value fluctuations. One of the things that really drags on the progressive development of housing--compels people to be hyper-conservative about housing--is this need for ready fungibility of housing to facilitate moving. If you can't sell you can't move, so it's always got to appeal to the lowest common denominator in order to be easy to sell. So everyone is always playing it 'safe', letting bankers dictate what our homes are like, and getting uptight about how their neighbors impact their property values; what they build, who they are, what 'class' they are, what their skin color is, and on and on.<br />
<br />
But what if instead of selling a house you exchanged its parts? You have to leave one place so you ship off all the easily mobile stuff you're taking with you and you call the local parts exchange to come and help dismantle the house. You trade your house's parts in for credit on the exchange network. Then you go to your new place and call the local parts exchange there and say; "I have X amount of parts exchange credit so I want this list of parts." and, assuming they have them all, they take those parts out of their local warehouse and bring them to your location and help assemble them. So you're house, as a collection of standard parts rather than a whole, is always easily fungible--a currency in and of itself--no bankers and real estate agents necessary. All that matters is that there is a local parts exchange near where you're going and that they maintain a volume of stock parts to meet general demand. Now, the economics of this have to be maintained carefully. Parts depreciate in value individually, there's an overhead in storage, refurbishing of parts, and moving them around to maintain supply. It wouldn't always be a straightforward exchange. But it could work.<br />
<br />
===Core Modules ?===<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/op-n-m/vIe23rkCTk0/NldAfKElRa0J<br />
<br />
Excerpted from Eric :<br />
<br />
" There's several basic elements of the neo-nomadic village I think we need to focus some design work on; the personal micro-cabin, the community lounge, the cooking/cafe pod, the hydroponic system, the factory/fabrication pod, and the energy/power pod. There are many more possible elements, of course, but these are the core elements. "<br />
<br />
Excerpt from Dante's reply :<br />
<br />
Which elements from n55 could be built on ? <br />
http://www.n55.dk/MANUALS/Manuals.html<br />
<br />
I remember their nomadic futures<br />
http://nomadicfutures.n55.dk/<br />
<br />
I also notice<br />
http://www.n55.dk/MANUALS/SNAIL_SHELL_SYSTEM/SSS.html<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
I feel inspired moving on to " minimum inventory/maximum diversity systems. "<br />
<br />
http://books.google.fi/books/about/Structure_in_Nature_Is_a_Strategy_for_De.html?id=sfc2OEuE8oQC&redir_esc=y<br />
<br />
Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design<br />
...<br />
<br />
more links gathered over the years<br />
<br />
https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/alternativelifestyles<br />
https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/alternativelifestyle<br />
https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/nomadiclifestyle<br />
https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/nomadism<br />
https://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/nomad</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Basic_income&diff=23999Basic income2017-01-12T14:49:58Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div>instead of calculating solely based in monetary terms,<br />
I am interested in understanding what income we may have access to,<br />
as defined in <br />
<br />
"both monetary and non-monetary consumption ability"<br />
<br />
- basic right to shelter ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to food and water ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to ... access to internet ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to hygiene ?<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
'''How do we acquire such basic rights ?'''<br />
<br />
How does it work in distributed networks of sharing ?<br />
<br />
<br />
= Articles and Links =<br />
<br />
https://www.facebook.com/dantegabryell/posts/10154292917790478<br />
<br />
http://www.heathwoodpress.com/alienable-inalienable-actually-democratic-society/<br />
<br />
https://www.diigo.com/profile/dante-gabryell/basicincome <br />
<br />
https://www.diigo.com/profile/mbauwens/Basic-Income<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
= Relate basic income to use value standards =<br />
<br />
<br />
==archived message...==<br />
<br />
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson - at - gmail.com><br />
Date: Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:50 PM<br />
Subject: basic income : use value standards, basic income units, housing cooperatives, etc<br />
To: fyeg_green_economy_wg - at - listen.jpberlin.de<br />
<br />
<br />
I agree with Livia - it will be a long process, and we can not define everything today,<br />
<br />
but indeed, I hope that at least some guidelines will be set today.<br />
<br />
I feel that Laura created a very interesting set of guidelines,<br />
which open up an entire year of more specific definitions.<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
I allow myself to add some more suggestions and specifics, <br />
perhaps for subsequent revisions of the draft Laura wrote.<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
In this email, in addition to my last email<br />
<br />
<br />
1 ) - who can claim a basic income ? <br />
( defining further, based on the second point of the draft : " It must be paid universally to every person in a defined community. " )<br />
1b ) - basic income for nomads ? <br />
2 ) - basic income "currency" , including its use to pay property taxes<br />
3 ) - incentives to encourage mobility, re-development, or avoid concentration of population : set minimum EU standards, that can be increased by local governments<br />
4 ) - basic income related to use value standards<br />
( discussion and attempt at defining further, based on the third point of the draft : " It must be sufficient for living, which is more than covering the basic human needs." )<br />
5 ) - basic income supporting local economics and not for profit and locally owned cooperative organizations, in turn supporting local ownership of means of production and the local employment opportunies<br />
6 ) - basic income not replacing and added as a complement to other forms of social rights and support<br />
7 ) - basic Income currencies<br />
8 ) - Policies to reduce potential of inflation induced by increase of revenues of the less rich<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
1 )<br />
<br />
I ask myself, what are the conditions to receive the right to a basic income ?<br />
<br />
A EU citizenship, or simply the presence on EU territory ?<br />
Anyone being on EU territory for a period longer then 3 months, independently from their official "legalization" or not ?<br />
In such case, who would process and manage such "rights to access basic income" ?<br />
Would everyones files be covered by "professional secret", as in the case of doctors in relation to medical patients, or lawyers, or psychiatrists, ... ?<br />
<br />
<br />
1b ) some people might not live in one place for a longer period of time,<br />
or might choose to be living a nomadic lifestyle;<br />
<br />
I believe that such people should not need to be excluded from a basic income, even if they do not have an official residency.<br />
<br />
If everyone in the european union is granted a basic income,<br />
and if the monetary cost related to covering such basic income changes according to regions,<br />
<br />
perhaps the easiest might be to issue a basic income, not in euros, but in various "basic income units", directly related to use value ( housing units, electricity units, water units, etc )<br />
Such units could be exchanged by companies against euros, or kept as such for other exchanges.<br />
If they exchange them in euros, they would need to pay taxes on them.<br />
<br />
<br />
2 )<br />
<br />
If people already own a house, and do not need to rent a place, they would not need extra housing points/units/currency.<br />
<br />
The people that rent out housing because they have extra property , could receive "housing currency units" in payment,<br />
and then decide to exchange them for euros to the governmental body ( but with a percentage loss in value in the exchange / a tax ), or directly re-use them in the form of payment of other taxes without loss of value, or for other payments by anyone accepting the units.<br />
<br />
<br />
3 ) A minimum basic income use value standard could be set at a european level,<br />
but regional or national states could decide to increase it further, to eventually attract people to their region and promote local development of their region.<br />
( re-investing the units they issue and distribute into local production cooperatives )<br />
<br />
<br />
4 )<br />
<br />
Relate basic income to use value standards<br />
<br />
such as a certain amount of electricity and other forms of energy sources ( such as for heating, adapted to climate conditions ) ,<br />
rights to the use of local public transportation, amount of housing space, quality of renovation of the housing space, food prices, etc<br />
<br />
<br />
4b ) Further explanations :<br />
<br />
One other aspect I would like to add, in relation to "basic income",<br />
and its relations with the commons and alternative currencies,<br />
<br />
is related to the views that FYEG would like to further in relation to "property",<br />
and "rent" related to property.<br />
<br />
I already mentioned it in one of my points in reply to Laura's draft on basic income :<br />
<br />
people that do not already have property, but would need to rent, might not be able to assure themselves as well basic living as people that already own property.<br />
Hence the importance to not only consider potential taxes on financial speculation, but also consider taxes on speculation related to property, such as housing.<br />
<br />
In certain cities, such as Brussels, prices of housing was growing exponentially, without value created.<br />
<br />
It grew even when peoples salaries did not grow, only based on the potential for people with property to guarantee their existing property to further speculate by buying other properties,<br />
creating "bubbles" in the housing sector, which then reduces the quality of life of a majority of people wanting to rent or buy,<br />
reducing their living space or taking an increasing percentage of their total income. ( in Brussels, people can easily spend more then half of their income on renting a small apartment ).<br />
<br />
In Belgium, there is already a system of "minimum income" ( when one does not work, or does not receive unemployment money ), <br />
set at around 720 euros a month if you live alone,<br />
but although it may have been enough money to survive with a few years ago, in Brussels,<br />
today the entire "minimum income" would need to be spent into housing costs alone,<br />
even if there is an increase of the minimum income based on the inflation index. ( but the inflation index is unequal as different regions have different levels of inflation - furthermore, housing inflation is only included at a much lower percentage of th total inflation index )<br />
<br />
This is a risk one can have also with a "basic income", if it is not related to "use value" standards.<br />
<br />
5 )<br />
- Local currencies backed by the basic income ( which are backed by its use for the payment of taxes for basic income ), <br />
- promoting the investment of basic income into access to a share of the production infrastructures property ( but not accumulation of such shares , although ceilings would need to be defined )<br />
- Local currencies backed to support local economics<br />
<br />
6 )<br />
<br />
I believe it is important that basic income does not replace existing social rights and support.<br />
In Laura's draft, this can be found on page 2 :<br />
" Furthermore, it has to be complemented by additional social benefits for the especially needy, like chronically ill, single parents, the disabled."<br />
<br />
For example, in Belgium and other european countries, I believe it should be able to topple up unemployment forms of income,<br />
or topple up and complement minimum social income. In current regulations, in Belgium, one is supposed to deduct any other form of income from the minimum last resort social income.<br />
Basic income should not be deductable.<br />
<br />
7 + 8 )<br />
<br />
To avoid inflation of resource prices, such as housing, as a consequence of an access to basic income,<br />
special policies could be implemented - such as issuing "basic housing income currencies".<br />
<br />
Such specific currencies could enable, <br />
<br />
- increased transparency and reduced inflation in the field of housing rent and housing property purchases,<br />
by combining it with policies that enable the taxation of rent inflation and housing speculation,<br />
<br />
- promote access ( but not accumulation ) to property to each individual or family,<br />
by enabling loans in the form of "basic income units" for the purchase of shares in local social housing cooperatives,<br />
through units of basic housing income guaranteed by the governing entity. ( local, regional, national or european ? )<br />
<br />
- reduce property accumulation by heavily taxing property which is rented out by private companies or individuals.<br />
Such policy might be more easily enforced as a majority of the population might start using basic income housing units to cover the purchase of its housing cooperative shares<br />
( shares that enable it to have access and use a property within the social housing cooperative )<br />
while promoting <br />
<br />
<br />
---------<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
= The SPIRIT of Basic Income via The Commons , Vs Capitalism , and Monopolistic Monetization =<br />
<br />
<br />
my reply on a fb thread to topics raised <br />
<br />
== around capitalism and basic income == :<br />
<br />
http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/how_basic_income_will_save_capitalism<br />
<br />
Dante-Gabryell Monson One may ask "What is the SPIRIT of basic income" ? I realize the best answer I come up with is "The Commons". Hence for me, the best way to support the spirit of basic income, is to support the commons. <br />
<br />
As for the survival of capitalism, I notice some capitalist countries enable increased growth even midst a climate of insecurity, as insecurity itself can drive spending , not for the bulk of a demonetized population without jobs, but for the few entities who still have access to monopolistic credit with interest currency units. <br />
<br />
Hence, capitalism can survive poverty of most of the population. In a number of countries, it looks like it can thrive by it ( and can create new markets for the elite who may increase spending on security ). How many people will be employed into security forces ? Or will it be able to automate it ? Or simply exterminate most of the unwanted population ? ( as it does by using poverty created out of a specific monopoly on artificially scarce means of interdependency / the current monetary architecture ? ).<br />
<br />
In my opinion , It seems more likely capitalism will become less strong once it looses its coercive capacity, such as once that a significant number of people on earth can use a variety of concurrent and resilient alternative means of inter-dependency ( both reified and non reified ), instead of a dependency on a centralized and artificially scarce monopolistic monetary system. <br />
<br />
This will enable an out-collaboration of capitalism, as the complexity of an artificially scarce monopolistic system of control can not be greater that one of distributed and concurrent transactional interdependency information systems. The commons is imho a central aspect in enabling such diverse and distributed approach.<br />
<br />
If a basic income is adopted, there needs to be "choice" as to the type of units used. For example, set standards based on use value, and then enable a variety of units / reifications of such political right ( to shelter, quality food, transportation, communication ). Ideally, a right to basic income would not be based on law and in relation to a central state, but could be adopted culturally, and be expressed through a distributed communications system enabling anoptism, enabling an emergence of overlapping / concurrent communities, who together make sure that all life on the planet can maintain its capacity for creation.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
in reply to<br />
<br />
<br />
"A basic income guarantee, a policy advocated by such socialist radicals as Richard Nixon will create a kinder gentler society while allowing our economy to grow. During the 1930s, to many capitalism seemed doomed. Keynes and Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved it by bringing its benefits to more citizens. Basic income can do the same today. It is the wave of the future. If you disagree, please come up with a better idea. How else do you suggest we stimulate demand in a world that every year needs fewer and fewer workers? "<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Other concepts]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Basic_income&diff=23998Basic income2017-01-12T14:44:24Z<p>Dante: adding links</p>
<hr />
<div>instead of calculating solely based in monetary terms,<br />
I am interested in understanding what income we may have access to,<br />
as defined in <br />
<br />
"both monetary and non-monetary consumption ability"<br />
<br />
- basic right to shelter ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to food and water ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to ... access to internet ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to hygiene ?<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
'''How do we acquire such basic rights ?'''<br />
<br />
How does it work in distributed networks of sharing ?<br />
<br />
further links :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/basicincome<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
= Relate basic income to use value standards =<br />
<br />
<br />
==archived message...==<br />
<br />
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson - at - gmail.com><br />
Date: Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:50 PM<br />
Subject: basic income : use value standards, basic income units, housing cooperatives, etc<br />
To: fyeg_green_economy_wg - at - listen.jpberlin.de<br />
<br />
<br />
I agree with Livia - it will be a long process, and we can not define everything today,<br />
<br />
but indeed, I hope that at least some guidelines will be set today.<br />
<br />
I feel that Laura created a very interesting set of guidelines,<br />
which open up an entire year of more specific definitions.<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
I allow myself to add some more suggestions and specifics, <br />
perhaps for subsequent revisions of the draft Laura wrote.<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
In this email, in addition to my last email<br />
<br />
<br />
1 ) - who can claim a basic income ? <br />
( defining further, based on the second point of the draft : " It must be paid universally to every person in a defined community. " )<br />
1b ) - basic income for nomads ? <br />
2 ) - basic income "currency" , including its use to pay property taxes<br />
3 ) - incentives to encourage mobility, re-development, or avoid concentration of population : set minimum EU standards, that can be increased by local governments<br />
4 ) - basic income related to use value standards<br />
( discussion and attempt at defining further, based on the third point of the draft : " It must be sufficient for living, which is more than covering the basic human needs." )<br />
5 ) - basic income supporting local economics and not for profit and locally owned cooperative organizations, in turn supporting local ownership of means of production and the local employment opportunies<br />
6 ) - basic income not replacing and added as a complement to other forms of social rights and support<br />
7 ) - basic Income currencies<br />
8 ) - Policies to reduce potential of inflation induced by increase of revenues of the less rich<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
---<br />
<br />
1 )<br />
<br />
I ask myself, what are the conditions to receive the right to a basic income ?<br />
<br />
A EU citizenship, or simply the presence on EU territory ?<br />
Anyone being on EU territory for a period longer then 3 months, independently from their official "legalization" or not ?<br />
In such case, who would process and manage such "rights to access basic income" ?<br />
Would everyones files be covered by "professional secret", as in the case of doctors in relation to medical patients, or lawyers, or psychiatrists, ... ?<br />
<br />
<br />
1b ) some people might not live in one place for a longer period of time,<br />
or might choose to be living a nomadic lifestyle;<br />
<br />
I believe that such people should not need to be excluded from a basic income, even if they do not have an official residency.<br />
<br />
If everyone in the european union is granted a basic income,<br />
and if the monetary cost related to covering such basic income changes according to regions,<br />
<br />
perhaps the easiest might be to issue a basic income, not in euros, but in various "basic income units", directly related to use value ( housing units, electricity units, water units, etc )<br />
Such units could be exchanged by companies against euros, or kept as such for other exchanges.<br />
If they exchange them in euros, they would need to pay taxes on them.<br />
<br />
<br />
2 )<br />
<br />
If people already own a house, and do not need to rent a place, they would not need extra housing points/units/currency.<br />
<br />
The people that rent out housing because they have extra property , could receive "housing currency units" in payment,<br />
and then decide to exchange them for euros to the governmental body ( but with a percentage loss in value in the exchange / a tax ), or directly re-use them in the form of payment of other taxes without loss of value, or for other payments by anyone accepting the units.<br />
<br />
<br />
3 ) A minimum basic income use value standard could be set at a european level,<br />
but regional or national states could decide to increase it further, to eventually attract people to their region and promote local development of their region.<br />
( re-investing the units they issue and distribute into local production cooperatives )<br />
<br />
<br />
4 )<br />
<br />
Relate basic income to use value standards<br />
<br />
such as a certain amount of electricity and other forms of energy sources ( such as for heating, adapted to climate conditions ) ,<br />
rights to the use of local public transportation, amount of housing space, quality of renovation of the housing space, food prices, etc<br />
<br />
<br />
4b ) Further explanations :<br />
<br />
One other aspect I would like to add, in relation to "basic income",<br />
and its relations with the commons and alternative currencies,<br />
<br />
is related to the views that FYEG would like to further in relation to "property",<br />
and "rent" related to property.<br />
<br />
I already mentioned it in one of my points in reply to Laura's draft on basic income :<br />
<br />
people that do not already have property, but would need to rent, might not be able to assure themselves as well basic living as people that already own property.<br />
Hence the importance to not only consider potential taxes on financial speculation, but also consider taxes on speculation related to property, such as housing.<br />
<br />
In certain cities, such as Brussels, prices of housing was growing exponentially, without value created.<br />
<br />
It grew even when peoples salaries did not grow, only based on the potential for people with property to guarantee their existing property to further speculate by buying other properties,<br />
creating "bubbles" in the housing sector, which then reduces the quality of life of a majority of people wanting to rent or buy,<br />
reducing their living space or taking an increasing percentage of their total income. ( in Brussels, people can easily spend more then half of their income on renting a small apartment ).<br />
<br />
In Belgium, there is already a system of "minimum income" ( when one does not work, or does not receive unemployment money ), <br />
set at around 720 euros a month if you live alone,<br />
but although it may have been enough money to survive with a few years ago, in Brussels,<br />
today the entire "minimum income" would need to be spent into housing costs alone,<br />
even if there is an increase of the minimum income based on the inflation index. ( but the inflation index is unequal as different regions have different levels of inflation - furthermore, housing inflation is only included at a much lower percentage of th total inflation index )<br />
<br />
This is a risk one can have also with a "basic income", if it is not related to "use value" standards.<br />
<br />
5 )<br />
- Local currencies backed by the basic income ( which are backed by its use for the payment of taxes for basic income ), <br />
- promoting the investment of basic income into access to a share of the production infrastructures property ( but not accumulation of such shares , although ceilings would need to be defined )<br />
- Local currencies backed to support local economics<br />
<br />
6 )<br />
<br />
I believe it is important that basic income does not replace existing social rights and support.<br />
In Laura's draft, this can be found on page 2 :<br />
" Furthermore, it has to be complemented by additional social benefits for the especially needy, like chronically ill, single parents, the disabled."<br />
<br />
For example, in Belgium and other european countries, I believe it should be able to topple up unemployment forms of income,<br />
or topple up and complement minimum social income. In current regulations, in Belgium, one is supposed to deduct any other form of income from the minimum last resort social income.<br />
Basic income should not be deductable.<br />
<br />
7 + 8 )<br />
<br />
To avoid inflation of resource prices, such as housing, as a consequence of an access to basic income,<br />
special policies could be implemented - such as issuing "basic housing income currencies".<br />
<br />
Such specific currencies could enable, <br />
<br />
- increased transparency and reduced inflation in the field of housing rent and housing property purchases,<br />
by combining it with policies that enable the taxation of rent inflation and housing speculation,<br />
<br />
- promote access ( but not accumulation ) to property to each individual or family,<br />
by enabling loans in the form of "basic income units" for the purchase of shares in local social housing cooperatives,<br />
through units of basic housing income guaranteed by the governing entity. ( local, regional, national or european ? )<br />
<br />
- reduce property accumulation by heavily taxing property which is rented out by private companies or individuals.<br />
Such policy might be more easily enforced as a majority of the population might start using basic income housing units to cover the purchase of its housing cooperative shares<br />
( shares that enable it to have access and use a property within the social housing cooperative )<br />
while promoting <br />
<br />
<br />
---------<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
= The SPIRIT of Basic Income via The Commons , Vs Capitalism , and Monopolistic Monetization =<br />
<br />
<br />
my reply on a fb thread to topics raised <br />
<br />
== around capitalism and basic income == :<br />
<br />
http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/how_basic_income_will_save_capitalism<br />
<br />
Dante-Gabryell Monson One may ask "What is the SPIRIT of basic income" ? I realize the best answer I come up with is "The Commons". Hence for me, the best way to support the spirit of basic income, is to support the commons. <br />
<br />
As for the survival of capitalism, I notice some capitalist countries enable increased growth even midst a climate of insecurity, as insecurity itself can drive spending , not for the bulk of a demonetized population without jobs, but for the few entities who still have access to monopolistic credit with interest currency units. <br />
<br />
Hence, capitalism can survive poverty of most of the population. In a number of countries, it looks like it can thrive by it ( and can create new markets for the elite who may increase spending on security ). How many people will be employed into security forces ? Or will it be able to automate it ? Or simply exterminate most of the unwanted population ? ( as it does by using poverty created out of a specific monopoly on artificially scarce means of interdependency / the current monetary architecture ? ).<br />
<br />
In my opinion , It seems more likely capitalism will become less strong once it looses its coercive capacity, such as once that a significant number of people on earth can use a variety of concurrent and resilient alternative means of inter-dependency ( both reified and non reified ), instead of a dependency on a centralized and artificially scarce monopolistic monetary system. <br />
<br />
This will enable an out-collaboration of capitalism, as the complexity of an artificially scarce monopolistic system of control can not be greater that one of distributed and concurrent transactional interdependency information systems. The commons is imho a central aspect in enabling such diverse and distributed approach.<br />
<br />
If a basic income is adopted, there needs to be "choice" as to the type of units used. For example, set standards based on use value, and then enable a variety of units / reifications of such political right ( to shelter, quality food, transportation, communication ). Ideally, a right to basic income would not be based on law and in relation to a central state, but could be adopted culturally, and be expressed through a distributed communications system enabling anoptism, enabling an emergence of overlapping / concurrent communities, who together make sure that all life on the planet can maintain its capacity for creation.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
in reply to<br />
<br />
<br />
"A basic income guarantee, a policy advocated by such socialist radicals as Richard Nixon will create a kinder gentler society while allowing our economy to grow. During the 1930s, to many capitalism seemed doomed. Keynes and Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved it by bringing its benefits to more citizens. Basic income can do the same today. It is the wave of the future. If you disagree, please come up with a better idea. How else do you suggest we stimulate demand in a world that every year needs fewer and fewer workers? "<br />
<br />
<br />
= Articles and Links =<br />
<br />
https://www.facebook.com/dantegabryell/posts/10154292917790478<br />
<br />
http://www.heathwoodpress.com/alienable-inalienable-actually-democratic-society/<br />
<br />
https://www.diigo.com/profile/dante-gabryell/basicincome <br />
<br />
[[Category:Other concepts]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Basic_income&diff=23997Basic income2017-01-12T14:22:48Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div>instead of calculating solely based in monetary terms,<br />
I am interested in understanding what income we may have access to,<br />
as defined in <br />
<br />
"both monetary and non-monetary consumption ability"<br />
<br />
- basic right to shelter ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to food and water ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to ... access to internet ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to hygiene ?<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
'''How do we acquire such basic rights ?'''<br />
<br />
How does it work in distributed networks of sharing ?<br />
<br />
further links :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/basicincome<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
= Relate basic income to use value standards =<br />
<br />
<br />
==archived message...==<br />
<br />
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson - at - gmail.com><br />
Date: Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:50 PM<br />
Subject: basic income : use value standards, basic income units, housing cooperatives, etc<br />
To: fyeg_green_economy_wg - at - listen.jpberlin.de<br />
<br />
<br />
I agree with Livia - it will be a long process, and we can not define everything today,<br />
<br />
but indeed, I hope that at least some guidelines will be set today.<br />
<br />
I feel that Laura created a very interesting set of guidelines,<br />
which open up an entire year of more specific definitions.<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
I allow myself to add some more suggestions and specifics, <br />
perhaps for subsequent revisions of the draft Laura wrote.<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
In this email, in addition to my last email<br />
<br />
<br />
1 ) - who can claim a basic income ? <br />
( defining further, based on the second point of the draft : " It must be paid universally to every person in a defined community. " )<br />
1b ) - basic income for nomads ? <br />
2 ) - basic income "currency" , including its use to pay property taxes<br />
3 ) - incentives to encourage mobility, re-development, or avoid concentration of population : set minimum EU standards, that can be increased by local governments<br />
4 ) - basic income related to use value standards<br />
( discussion and attempt at defining further, based on the third point of the draft : " It must be sufficient for living, which is more than covering the basic human needs." )<br />
5 ) - basic income supporting local economics and not for profit and locally owned cooperative organizations, in turn supporting local ownership of means of production and the local employment opportunies<br />
6 ) - basic income not replacing and added as a complement to other forms of social rights and support<br />
7 ) - basic Income currencies<br />
8 ) - Policies to reduce potential of inflation induced by increase of revenues of the less rich<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
---<br />
<br />
1 )<br />
<br />
I ask myself, what are the conditions to receive the right to a basic income ?<br />
<br />
A EU citizenship, or simply the presence on EU territory ?<br />
Anyone being on EU territory for a period longer then 3 months, independently from their official "legalization" or not ?<br />
In such case, who would process and manage such "rights to access basic income" ?<br />
Would everyones files be covered by "professional secret", as in the case of doctors in relation to medical patients, or lawyers, or psychiatrists, ... ?<br />
<br />
<br />
1b ) some people might not live in one place for a longer period of time,<br />
or might choose to be living a nomadic lifestyle;<br />
<br />
I believe that such people should not need to be excluded from a basic income, even if they do not have an official residency.<br />
<br />
If everyone in the european union is granted a basic income,<br />
and if the monetary cost related to covering such basic income changes according to regions,<br />
<br />
perhaps the easiest might be to issue a basic income, not in euros, but in various "basic income units", directly related to use value ( housing units, electricity units, water units, etc )<br />
Such units could be exchanged by companies against euros, or kept as such for other exchanges.<br />
If they exchange them in euros, they would need to pay taxes on them.<br />
<br />
<br />
2 )<br />
<br />
If people already own a house, and do not need to rent a place, they would not need extra housing points/units/currency.<br />
<br />
The people that rent out housing because they have extra property , could receive "housing currency units" in payment,<br />
and then decide to exchange them for euros to the governmental body ( but with a percentage loss in value in the exchange / a tax ), or directly re-use them in the form of payment of other taxes without loss of value, or for other payments by anyone accepting the units.<br />
<br />
<br />
3 ) A minimum basic income use value standard could be set at a european level,<br />
but regional or national states could decide to increase it further, to eventually attract people to their region and promote local development of their region.<br />
( re-investing the units they issue and distribute into local production cooperatives )<br />
<br />
<br />
4 )<br />
<br />
Relate basic income to use value standards<br />
<br />
such as a certain amount of electricity and other forms of energy sources ( such as for heating, adapted to climate conditions ) ,<br />
rights to the use of local public transportation, amount of housing space, quality of renovation of the housing space, food prices, etc<br />
<br />
<br />
4b ) Further explanations :<br />
<br />
One other aspect I would like to add, in relation to "basic income",<br />
and its relations with the commons and alternative currencies,<br />
<br />
is related to the views that FYEG would like to further in relation to "property",<br />
and "rent" related to property.<br />
<br />
I already mentioned it in one of my points in reply to Laura's draft on basic income :<br />
<br />
people that do not already have property, but would need to rent, might not be able to assure themselves as well basic living as people that already own property.<br />
Hence the importance to not only consider potential taxes on financial speculation, but also consider taxes on speculation related to property, such as housing.<br />
<br />
In certain cities, such as Brussels, prices of housing was growing exponentially, without value created.<br />
<br />
It grew even when peoples salaries did not grow, only based on the potential for people with property to guarantee their existing property to further speculate by buying other properties,<br />
creating "bubbles" in the housing sector, which then reduces the quality of life of a majority of people wanting to rent or buy,<br />
reducing their living space or taking an increasing percentage of their total income. ( in Brussels, people can easily spend more then half of their income on renting a small apartment ).<br />
<br />
In Belgium, there is already a system of "minimum income" ( when one does not work, or does not receive unemployment money ), <br />
set at around 720 euros a month if you live alone,<br />
but although it may have been enough money to survive with a few years ago, in Brussels,<br />
today the entire "minimum income" would need to be spent into housing costs alone,<br />
even if there is an increase of the minimum income based on the inflation index. ( but the inflation index is unequal as different regions have different levels of inflation - furthermore, housing inflation is only included at a much lower percentage of th total inflation index )<br />
<br />
This is a risk one can have also with a "basic income", if it is not related to "use value" standards.<br />
<br />
5 )<br />
- Local currencies backed by the basic income ( which are backed by its use for the payment of taxes for basic income ), <br />
- promoting the investment of basic income into access to a share of the production infrastructures property ( but not accumulation of such shares , although ceilings would need to be defined )<br />
- Local currencies backed to support local economics<br />
<br />
6 )<br />
<br />
I believe it is important that basic income does not replace existing social rights and support.<br />
In Laura's draft, this can be found on page 2 :<br />
" Furthermore, it has to be complemented by additional social benefits for the especially needy, like chronically ill, single parents, the disabled."<br />
<br />
For example, in Belgium and other european countries, I believe it should be able to topple up unemployment forms of income,<br />
or topple up and complement minimum social income. In current regulations, in Belgium, one is supposed to deduct any other form of income from the minimum last resort social income.<br />
Basic income should not be deductable.<br />
<br />
7 + 8 )<br />
<br />
To avoid inflation of resource prices, such as housing, as a consequence of an access to basic income,<br />
special policies could be implemented - such as issuing "basic housing income currencies".<br />
<br />
Such specific currencies could enable, <br />
<br />
- increased transparency and reduced inflation in the field of housing rent and housing property purchases,<br />
by combining it with policies that enable the taxation of rent inflation and housing speculation,<br />
<br />
- promote access ( but not accumulation ) to property to each individual or family,<br />
by enabling loans in the form of "basic income units" for the purchase of shares in local social housing cooperatives,<br />
through units of basic housing income guaranteed by the governing entity. ( local, regional, national or european ? )<br />
<br />
- reduce property accumulation by heavily taxing property which is rented out by private companies or individuals.<br />
Such policy might be more easily enforced as a majority of the population might start using basic income housing units to cover the purchase of its housing cooperative shares<br />
( shares that enable it to have access and use a property within the social housing cooperative )<br />
while promoting <br />
<br />
<br />
---------<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
= The SPIRIT of Basic Income via The Commons , Vs Capitalism , and Monopolistic Monetization =<br />
<br />
<br />
my reply on a fb thread to topics raised <br />
<br />
==around capitalism and basic income== :<br />
<br />
http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/how_basic_income_will_save_capitalism<br />
<br />
Dante-Gabryell Monson One may ask "What is the SPIRIT of basic income" ? I realize the best answer I come up with is "The Commons". Hence for me, the best way to support the spirit of basic income, is to support the commons. <br />
<br />
As for the survival of capitalism, I notice some capitalist countries enable increased growth even midst a climate of insecurity, as insecurity itself can drive spending , not for the bulk of a demonetized population without jobs, but for the few entities who still have access to monopolistic credit with interest currency units. <br />
<br />
Hence, capitalism can survive poverty of most of the population. In a number of countries, it looks like it can thrive by it ( and can create new markets for the elite who may increase spending on security ). How many people will be employed into security forces ? Or will it be able to automate it ? Or simply exterminate most of the unwanted population ? ( as it does by using poverty created out of a specific monopoly on artificially scarce means of interdependency / the current monetary architecture ? ).<br />
<br />
In my opinion , It seems more likely capitalism will become less strong once it looses its coercive capacity, such as once that a significant number of people on earth can use a variety of concurrent and resilient alternative means of inter-dependency ( both reified and non reified ), instead of a dependency on a centralized and artificially scarce monopolistic monetary system. <br />
<br />
This will enable an out-collaboration of capitalism, as the complexity of an artificially scarce monopolistic system of control can not be greater that one of distributed and concurrent transactional interdependency information systems. The commons is imho a central aspect in enabling such diverse and distributed approach.<br />
<br />
If a basic income is adopted, there needs to be "choice" as to the type of units used. For example, set standards based on use value, and then enable a variety of units / reifications of such political right ( to shelter, quality food, transportation, communication ). Ideally, a right to basic income would not be based on law and in relation to a central state, but could be adopted culturally, and be expressed through a distributed communications system enabling anoptism, enabling an emergence of overlapping / concurrent communities, who together make sure that all life on the planet can maintain its capacity for creation.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
in reply to<br />
<br />
<br />
"A basic income guarantee, a policy advocated by such socialist radicals as Richard Nixon will create a kinder gentler society while allowing our economy to grow. During the 1930s, to many capitalism seemed doomed. Keynes and Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved it by bringing its benefits to more citizens. Basic income can do the same today. It is the wave of the future. If you disagree, please come up with a better idea. How else do you suggest we stimulate demand in a world that every year needs fewer and fewer workers? "<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Other concepts]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Basic_income&diff=23996Basic income2017-01-12T14:21:49Z<p>Dante: deleting obsolete link</p>
<hr />
<div>instead of calculating solely based in monetary terms,<br />
I am interested in understanding what income we may have access to,<br />
as defined in <br />
<br />
"both monetary and non-monetary consumption ability"<br />
<br />
- basic right to shelter ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to food and water ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to ... access to internet ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to hygiene ?<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
'''How do we acquire such basic rights ?'''<br />
<br />
How does it work in distributed networks of sharing ?<br />
<br />
further links :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/basicincome<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
= Relate basic income to use value standards =<br />
<br />
<br />
==archived message...==<br />
<br />
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson - at - gmail.com><br />
Date: Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:50 PM<br />
Subject: basic income : use value standards, basic income units, housing cooperatives, etc<br />
To: fyeg_green_economy_wg - at - listen.jpberlin.de<br />
<br />
<br />
I agree with Livia - it will be a long process, and we can not define everything today,<br />
<br />
but indeed, I hope that at least some guidelines will be set today.<br />
<br />
I feel that Laura created a very interesting set of guidelines,<br />
which open up an entire year of more specific definitions.<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
I allow myself to add some more suggestions and specifics, <br />
perhaps for subsequent revisions of the draft Laura wrote.<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
In this email, in addition to my last email<br />
<br />
<br />
1 ) - who can claim a basic income ? <br />
( defining further, based on the second point of the draft : " It must be paid universally to every person in a defined community. " )<br />
1b ) - basic income for nomads ? <br />
2 ) - basic income "currency" , including its use to pay property taxes<br />
3 ) - incentives to encourage mobility, re-development, or avoid concentration of population : set minimum EU standards, that can be increased by local governments<br />
4 ) - basic income related to use value standards<br />
( discussion and attempt at defining further, based on the third point of the draft : " It must be sufficient for living, which is more than covering the basic human needs." )<br />
5 ) - basic income supporting local economics and not for profit and locally owned cooperative organizations, in turn supporting local ownership of means of production and the local employment opportunies<br />
6 ) - basic income not replacing and added as a complement to other forms of social rights and support<br />
7 ) - basic Income currencies<br />
8 ) - Policies to reduce potential of inflation induced by increase of revenues of the less rich<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
---<br />
<br />
1 )<br />
<br />
I ask myself, what are the conditions to receive the right to a basic income ?<br />
<br />
A EU citizenship, or simply the presence on EU territory ?<br />
Anyone being on EU territory for a period longer then 3 months, independently from their official "legalization" or not ?<br />
In such case, who would process and manage such "rights to access basic income" ?<br />
Would everyones files be covered by "professional secret", as in the case of doctors in relation to medical patients, or lawyers, or psychiatrists, ... ?<br />
<br />
<br />
1b ) some people might not live in one place for a longer period of time,<br />
or might choose to be living a nomadic lifestyle;<br />
<br />
I believe that such people should not need to be excluded from a basic income, even if they do not have an official residency.<br />
<br />
If everyone in the european union is granted a basic income,<br />
and if the monetary cost related to covering such basic income changes according to regions,<br />
<br />
perhaps the easiest might be to issue a basic income, not in euros, but in various "basic income units", directly related to use value ( housing units, electricity units, water units, etc )<br />
Such units could be exchanged by companies against euros, or kept as such for other exchanges.<br />
If they exchange them in euros, they would need to pay taxes on them.<br />
<br />
<br />
2 )<br />
<br />
If people already own a house, and do not need to rent a place, they would not need extra housing points/units/currency.<br />
<br />
The people that rent out housing because they have extra property , could receive "housing currency units" in payment,<br />
and then decide to exchange them for euros to the governmental body ( but with a percentage loss in value in the exchange / a tax ), or directly re-use them in the form of payment of other taxes without loss of value, or for other payments by anyone accepting the units.<br />
<br />
<br />
3 ) A minimum basic income use value standard could be set at a european level,<br />
but regional or national states could decide to increase it further, to eventually attract people to their region and promote local development of their region.<br />
( re-investing the units they issue and distribute into local production cooperatives )<br />
<br />
<br />
4 )<br />
<br />
Relate basic income to use value standards<br />
<br />
such as a certain amount of electricity and other forms of energy sources ( such as for heating, adapted to climate conditions ) ,<br />
rights to the use of local public transportation, amount of housing space, quality of renovation of the housing space, food prices, etc<br />
<br />
<br />
4b ) Further explanations :<br />
<br />
One other aspect I would like to add, in relation to "basic income",<br />
and its relations with the commons and alternative currencies,<br />
<br />
is related to the views that FYEG would like to further in relation to "property",<br />
and "rent" related to property.<br />
<br />
I already mentioned it in one of my points in reply to Laura's draft on basic income :<br />
<br />
people that do not already have property, but would need to rent, might not be able to assure themselves as well basic living as people that already own property.<br />
Hence the importance to not only consider potential taxes on financial speculation, but also consider taxes on speculation related to property, such as housing.<br />
<br />
In certain cities, such as Brussels, prices of housing was growing exponentially, without value created.<br />
<br />
It grew even when peoples salaries did not grow, only based on the potential for people with property to guarantee their existing property to further speculate by buying other properties,<br />
creating "bubbles" in the housing sector, which then reduces the quality of life of a majority of people wanting to rent or buy,<br />
reducing their living space or taking an increasing percentage of their total income. ( in Brussels, people can easily spend more then half of their income on renting a small apartment ).<br />
<br />
In Belgium, there is already a system of "minimum income" ( when one does not work, or does not receive unemployment money ), <br />
set at around 720 euros a month if you live alone,<br />
but although it may have been enough money to survive with a few years ago, in Brussels,<br />
today the entire "minimum income" would need to be spent into housing costs alone,<br />
even if there is an increase of the minimum income based on the inflation index. ( but the inflation index is unequal as different regions have different levels of inflation - furthermore, housing inflation is only included at a much lower percentage of th total inflation index )<br />
<br />
This is a risk one can have also with a "basic income", if it is not related to "use value" standards.<br />
<br />
5 )<br />
- Local currencies backed by the basic income ( which are backed by its use for the payment of taxes for basic income ), <br />
- promoting the investment of basic income into access to a share of the production infrastructures property ( but not accumulation of such shares , although ceilings would need to be defined )<br />
- Local currencies backed to support local economics<br />
<br />
6 )<br />
<br />
I believe it is important that basic income does not replace existing social rights and support.<br />
In Laura's draft, this can be found on page 2 :<br />
" Furthermore, it has to be complemented by additional social benefits for the especially needy, like chronically ill, single parents, the disabled."<br />
<br />
For example, in Belgium and other european countries, I believe it should be able to topple up unemployment forms of income,<br />
or topple up and complement minimum social income. In current regulations, in Belgium, one is supposed to deduct any other form of income from the minimum last resort social income.<br />
Basic income should not be deductable.<br />
<br />
7 + 8 )<br />
<br />
To avoid inflation of resource prices, such as housing, as a consequence of an access to basic income,<br />
special policies could be implemented - such as issuing "basic housing income currencies".<br />
<br />
Such specific currencies could enable, <br />
<br />
- increased transparency and reduced inflation in the field of housing rent and housing property purchases,<br />
by combining it with policies that enable the taxation of rent inflation and housing speculation,<br />
<br />
- promote access ( but not accumulation ) to property to each individual or family,<br />
by enabling loans in the form of "basic income units" for the purchase of shares in local social housing cooperatives,<br />
through units of basic housing income guaranteed by the governing entity. ( local, regional, national or european ? )<br />
<br />
- reduce property accumulation by heavily taxing property which is rented out by private companies or individuals.<br />
Such policy might be more easily enforced as a majority of the population might start using basic income housing units to cover the purchase of its housing cooperative shares<br />
( shares that enable it to have access and use a property within the social housing cooperative )<br />
while promoting <br />
<br />
<br />
---------<br />
<br />
I feel like forwarding below an interesting <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== The SPIRIT of Basic Income via The Commons , Vs Capitalism , and Monopolistic Monetization ==<br />
<br />
<br />
my reply on a fb thread to topics raised around capitalism and basic income :<br />
<br />
http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/how_basic_income_will_save_capitalism<br />
<br />
Dante-Gabryell Monson One may ask "What is the SPIRIT of basic income" ? I realize the best answer I come up with is "The Commons". Hence for me, the best way to support the spirit of basic income, is to support the commons. <br />
<br />
As for the survival of capitalism, I notice some capitalist countries enable increased growth even midst a climate of insecurity, as insecurity itself can drive spending , not for the bulk of a demonetized population without jobs, but for the few entities who still have access to monopolistic credit with interest currency units. <br />
<br />
Hence, capitalism can survive poverty of most of the population. In a number of countries, it looks like it can thrive by it ( and can create new markets for the elite who may increase spending on security ). How many people will be employed into security forces ? Or will it be able to automate it ? Or simply exterminate most of the unwanted population ? ( as it does by using poverty created out of a specific monopoly on artificially scarce means of interdependency / the current monetary architecture ? ).<br />
<br />
In my opinion , It seems more likely capitalism will become less strong once it looses its coercive capacity, such as once that a significant number of people on earth can use a variety of concurrent and resilient alternative means of inter-dependency ( both reified and non reified ), instead of a dependency on a centralized and artificially scarce monopolistic monetary system. <br />
<br />
This will enable an out-collaboration of capitalism, as the complexity of an artificially scarce monopolistic system of control can not be greater that one of distributed and concurrent transactional interdependency information systems. The commons is imho a central aspect in enabling such diverse and distributed approach.<br />
<br />
If a basic income is adopted, there needs to be "choice" as to the type of units used. For example, set standards based on use value, and then enable a variety of units / reifications of such political right ( to shelter, quality food, transportation, communication ). Ideally, a right to basic income would not be based on law and in relation to a central state, but could be adopted culturally, and be expressed through a distributed communications system enabling anoptism, enabling an emergence of overlapping / concurrent communities, who together make sure that all life on the planet can maintain its capacity for creation.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
in reply to<br />
<br />
<br />
"A basic income guarantee, a policy advocated by such socialist radicals as Richard Nixon will create a kinder gentler society while allowing our economy to grow. During the 1930s, to many capitalism seemed doomed. Keynes and Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved it by bringing its benefits to more citizens. Basic income can do the same today. It is the wave of the future. If you disagree, please come up with a better idea. How else do you suggest we stimulate demand in a world that every year needs fewer and fewer workers? "<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Other concepts]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Basic_income&diff=23995Basic income2017-01-12T14:20:18Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div>instead of calculating solely based in monetary terms,<br />
I am interested in understanding what income we may have access to,<br />
as defined in <br />
<br />
"both monetary and non-monetary consumption ability"<br />
<br />
- basic right to shelter ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to food and water ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to ... access to internet ?<br />
<br />
- basic right to hygiene ?<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
'''How do we acquire such basic rights ?'''<br />
<br />
How does it work in distributed networks of sharing ?<br />
<br />
further links :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/basicincome<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
= Relate basic income to use value standards =<br />
<br />
<br />
==archived message...==<br />
<br />
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson - at - gmail.com><br />
Date: Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:50 PM<br />
Subject: basic income : use value standards, basic income units, housing cooperatives, etc<br />
To: fyeg_green_economy_wg - at - listen.jpberlin.de<br />
<br />
<br />
I agree with Livia - it will be a long process, and we can not define everything today,<br />
<br />
but indeed, I hope that at least some guidelines will be set today.<br />
<br />
I feel that Laura created a very interesting set of guidelines,<br />
which open up an entire year of more specific definitions.<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
I allow myself to add some more suggestions and specifics, <br />
perhaps for subsequent revisions of the draft Laura wrote.<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
In this email, in addition to my last email<br />
<br />
<br />
1 ) - who can claim a basic income ? <br />
( defining further, based on the second point of the draft : " It must be paid universally to every person in a defined community. " )<br />
1b ) - basic income for nomads ? <br />
2 ) - basic income "currency" , including its use to pay property taxes<br />
3 ) - incentives to encourage mobility, re-development, or avoid concentration of population : set minimum EU standards, that can be increased by local governments<br />
4 ) - basic income related to use value standards<br />
( discussion and attempt at defining further, based on the third point of the draft : " It must be sufficient for living, which is more than covering the basic human needs." )<br />
5 ) - basic income supporting local economics and not for profit and locally owned cooperative organizations, in turn supporting local ownership of means of production and the local employment opportunies<br />
6 ) - basic income not replacing and added as a complement to other forms of social rights and support<br />
7 ) - basic Income currencies<br />
8 ) - Policies to reduce potential of inflation induced by increase of revenues of the less rich<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
---<br />
<br />
1 )<br />
<br />
I ask myself, what are the conditions to receive the right to a basic income ?<br />
<br />
A EU citizenship, or simply the presence on EU territory ?<br />
Anyone being on EU territory for a period longer then 3 months, independently from their official "legalization" or not ?<br />
In such case, who would process and manage such "rights to access basic income" ?<br />
Would everyones files be covered by "professional secret", as in the case of doctors in relation to medical patients, or lawyers, or psychiatrists, ... ?<br />
<br />
<br />
1b ) some people might not live in one place for a longer period of time,<br />
or might choose to be living a nomadic lifestyle;<br />
<br />
I believe that such people should not need to be excluded from a basic income, even if they do not have an official residency.<br />
<br />
If everyone in the european union is granted a basic income,<br />
and if the monetary cost related to covering such basic income changes according to regions,<br />
<br />
perhaps the easiest might be to issue a basic income, not in euros, but in various "basic income units", directly related to use value ( housing units, electricity units, water units, etc )<br />
Such units could be exchanged by companies against euros, or kept as such for other exchanges.<br />
If they exchange them in euros, they would need to pay taxes on them.<br />
<br />
<br />
2 )<br />
<br />
If people already own a house, and do not need to rent a place, they would not need extra housing points/units/currency.<br />
<br />
The people that rent out housing because they have extra property , could receive "housing currency units" in payment,<br />
and then decide to exchange them for euros to the governmental body ( but with a percentage loss in value in the exchange / a tax ), or directly re-use them in the form of payment of other taxes without loss of value, or for other payments by anyone accepting the units.<br />
<br />
<br />
3 ) A minimum basic income use value standard could be set at a european level,<br />
but regional or national states could decide to increase it further, to eventually attract people to their region and promote local development of their region.<br />
( re-investing the units they issue and distribute into local production cooperatives )<br />
<br />
<br />
4 )<br />
<br />
Relate basic income to use value standards<br />
<br />
such as a certain amount of electricity and other forms of energy sources ( such as for heating, adapted to climate conditions ) ,<br />
rights to the use of local public transportation, amount of housing space, quality of renovation of the housing space, food prices, etc<br />
<br />
<br />
4b ) Further explanations :<br />
<br />
One other aspect I would like to add, in relation to "basic income",<br />
and its relations with the commons and alternative currencies,<br />
<br />
is related to the views that FYEG would like to further in relation to "property",<br />
and "rent" related to property.<br />
<br />
I already mentioned it in one of my points in reply to Laura's draft on basic income :<br />
<br />
people that do not already have property, but would need to rent, might not be able to assure themselves as well basic living as people that already own property.<br />
Hence the importance to not only consider potential taxes on financial speculation, but also consider taxes on speculation related to property, such as housing.<br />
<br />
In certain cities, such as Brussels, prices of housing was growing exponentially, without value created.<br />
<br />
It grew even when peoples salaries did not grow, only based on the potential for people with property to guarantee their existing property to further speculate by buying other properties,<br />
creating "bubbles" in the housing sector, which then reduces the quality of life of a majority of people wanting to rent or buy,<br />
reducing their living space or taking an increasing percentage of their total income. ( in Brussels, people can easily spend more then half of their income on renting a small apartment ).<br />
<br />
In Belgium, there is already a system of "minimum income" ( when one does not work, or does not receive unemployment money ), <br />
set at around 720 euros a month if you live alone,<br />
but although it may have been enough money to survive with a few years ago, in Brussels,<br />
today the entire "minimum income" would need to be spent into housing costs alone,<br />
even if there is an increase of the minimum income based on the inflation index. ( but the inflation index is unequal as different regions have different levels of inflation - furthermore, housing inflation is only included at a much lower percentage of th total inflation index )<br />
<br />
This is a risk one can have also with a "basic income", if it is not related to "use value" standards.<br />
<br />
5 )<br />
- Local currencies backed by the basic income ( which are backed by its use for the payment of taxes for basic income ), <br />
- promoting the investment of basic income into access to a share of the production infrastructures property ( but not accumulation of such shares , although ceilings would need to be defined )<br />
- Local currencies backed to support local economics<br />
<br />
6 )<br />
<br />
I believe it is important that basic income does not replace existing social rights and support.<br />
In Laura's draft, this can be found on page 2 :<br />
" Furthermore, it has to be complemented by additional social benefits for the especially needy, like chronically ill, single parents, the disabled."<br />
<br />
For example, in Belgium and other european countries, I believe it should be able to topple up unemployment forms of income,<br />
or topple up and complement minimum social income. In current regulations, in Belgium, one is supposed to deduct any other form of income from the minimum last resort social income.<br />
Basic income should not be deductable.<br />
<br />
7 + 8 )<br />
<br />
To avoid inflation of resource prices, such as housing, as a consequence of an access to basic income,<br />
special policies could be implemented - such as issuing "basic housing income currencies".<br />
<br />
Such specific currencies could enable, <br />
<br />
- increased transparency and reduced inflation in the field of housing rent and housing property purchases,<br />
by combining it with policies that enable the taxation of rent inflation and housing speculation,<br />
<br />
- promote access ( but not accumulation ) to property to each individual or family,<br />
by enabling loans in the form of "basic income units" for the purchase of shares in local social housing cooperatives,<br />
through units of basic housing income guaranteed by the governing entity. ( local, regional, national or european ? )<br />
<br />
- reduce property accumulation by heavily taxing property which is rented out by private companies or individuals.<br />
Such policy might be more easily enforced as a majority of the population might start using basic income housing units to cover the purchase of its housing cooperative shares<br />
( shares that enable it to have access and use a property within the social housing cooperative )<br />
while promoting <br />
<br />
<br />
---------<br />
<br />
I feel like forwarding below an interesting <br />
<br />
=paper in relation to "rent "=<br />
which I will add to the links :<br />
<br />
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AURcLumFmdOJZDNnOTkzZF8yZHA1Nzg2ZnE&hl=en<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== The SPIRIT of Basic Income via The Commons , Vs Capitalism , and Monopolistic Monetization ==<br />
<br />
<br />
my reply on a fb thread to topics raised around capitalism and basic income :<br />
<br />
http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/how_basic_income_will_save_capitalism<br />
<br />
Dante-Gabryell Monson One may ask "What is the SPIRIT of basic income" ? I realize the best answer I come up with is "The Commons". Hence for me, the best way to support the spirit of basic income, is to support the commons. <br />
<br />
As for the survival of capitalism, I notice some capitalist countries enable increased growth even midst a climate of insecurity, as insecurity itself can drive spending , not for the bulk of a demonetized population without jobs, but for the few entities who still have access to monopolistic credit with interest currency units. <br />
<br />
Hence, capitalism can survive poverty of most of the population. In a number of countries, it looks like it can thrive by it ( and can create new markets for the elite who may increase spending on security ). How many people will be employed into security forces ? Or will it be able to automate it ? Or simply exterminate most of the unwanted population ? ( as it does by using poverty created out of a specific monopoly on artificially scarce means of interdependency / the current monetary architecture ? ).<br />
<br />
In my opinion , It seems more likely capitalism will become less strong once it looses its coercive capacity, such as once that a significant number of people on earth can use a variety of concurrent and resilient alternative means of inter-dependency ( both reified and non reified ), instead of a dependency on a centralized and artificially scarce monopolistic monetary system. <br />
<br />
This will enable an out-collaboration of capitalism, as the complexity of an artificially scarce monopolistic system of control can not be greater that one of distributed and concurrent transactional interdependency information systems. The commons is imho a central aspect in enabling such diverse and distributed approach.<br />
<br />
If a basic income is adopted, there needs to be "choice" as to the type of units used. For example, set standards based on use value, and then enable a variety of units / reifications of such political right ( to shelter, quality food, transportation, communication ). Ideally, a right to basic income would not be based on law and in relation to a central state, but could be adopted culturally, and be expressed through a distributed communications system enabling anoptism, enabling an emergence of overlapping / concurrent communities, who together make sure that all life on the planet can maintain its capacity for creation.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
in reply to<br />
<br />
<br />
"A basic income guarantee, a policy advocated by such socialist radicals as Richard Nixon will create a kinder gentler society while allowing our economy to grow. During the 1930s, to many capitalism seemed doomed. Keynes and Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved it by bringing its benefits to more citizens. Basic income can do the same today. It is the wave of the future. If you disagree, please come up with a better idea. How else do you suggest we stimulate demand in a world that every year needs fewer and fewer workers? "<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Other concepts]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Fungibility_Platform&diff=23994Fungibility Platform2016-11-29T01:51:28Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
=Subject: fun.gi.bl=<br />
------------------------<br />
<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:05 PM<br />
<br />
<br />
The idea is to set up a specific <br />
<br />
==platform for "fungibility"==<br />
<br />
, and enable a services platform from it<br />
<br />
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fungible<br />
<br />
" Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility; interchangeable, exchangeable, replaceable. "<br />
<br />
even "Rhizomatic Fungibility"<br />
<br />
playing on fun, fungi , fungibility , and ability<br />
<br />
for a "can" oriented intentional and distributed economic networks approach<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy)<br />
<br />
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari use the term "rhizome" and "rhizomatic" to describe theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation.<br />
<br />
----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:17 AM<br />
<br />
<br />
as for fungi.bl ,<br />
<br />
one of the ideas is that it can support "nomads".<br />
<br />
Instead of "moving" their stuff, they can use "fungib.bl" to contribute their resource as a "fungi.bl" spime,<br />
<br />
and get a similar unit wherever they go.<br />
<br />
For example, instead of moving their ikea furniture from one city to another, or instead of dumping it,<br />
<br />
they can "fungi.bl" their units, and get a similar one wherever they go.<br />
<br />
I imagine that a fee for a "professional" aspect of the service could be there ?<br />
<br />
Or else, it could all be free, and the value can come out of attracting people to contextualize more of all of their units, for a collaborative consumption platform...<br />
<br />
----------<br />
From:<br />
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:54 PM<br />
To: dante.monson@gmail.com<br />
<br />
<br />
cool idea. and maybe storage space is just another item, for example, emptiness in one place is basically equivalent to emptiness in another.<br />
<br />
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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 3:59 PM<br />
To:<br />
<br />
<br />
nice suggestion regarding storage space.<br />
<br />
Yes, I also imagine there can be some ISO standard ( and perhaps there already is )<br />
regarding the storage space ( in terms of temperature, moist, light conditions, ventilation, etc )<br />
<br />
I was thinking about that option for the Leipzig project ( http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project )<br />
<br />
Finding ways of providing income for a residential cooperative through using the empty space to store furniture, while at the same time having a contract with the owners of the furniture to reduce the cost of the storage of their furniture by allowing us to use it... :)<br />
<br />
----------<br />
From:<br />
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:20 PM<br />
To: dante.monson@gmail.com<br />
<br />
<br />
ISO standards.. good. shape, size, temperature, radiation, pressure, moisture, lighting, noise, ventilation, travel plans (for a shipping container or vehicle)... etc this will help enable nomadic eco villages.<br />
<br />
<br />
/////<br />
<br />
"spimed spaces" with various metadata.<br />
<br />
iso characteristics can be entered into netention,<br />
and matched ( or overlapped ) with available objects<br />
<br />
<br />
=Container Bank=<br />
<br />
Idea can be to set up container banks,<br />
<br />
which are also container storage services ,<br />
<br />
and to do so in places where there are excess containers.<br />
<br />
////<br />
<br />
The idea behind this, is that it can enable the build up of a empty container park,<br />
<br />
that can store other tings meanwhile,<br />
<br />
selling such services.<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
The containers need to have a minimum build quality,<br />
<br />
and in case they are reclaimed, may be given another container of the same value.<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
There are already existing container leasing companies.<br />
<br />
As copied below, a great part of the life of a container is spent idle ...<br />
<br />
<br />
https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch5en/appl5en/ch5a3en.html<br />
<br />
" the repositioning of empties and systematically low freight rates along several trade routes, have made the container leasing business less profitable. "<br />
<br />
" From the point of view of leasing companies, containers are their main assets and the goal is to amortize their investments through leasing arrangements. These arrangements come into three major categories that differ in terms of length of the lease and who is responsible for the repositioning of empty containers. In the past, maritime shippers relied extensively on leasing but recent trends underline their more active role in the management of container assets, particularly because a container spends a large share of its life span idle or being repositioned. "</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Fungibility_Platform&diff=23993Fungibility Platform2016-11-29T01:30:25Z<p>Dante: Created page with " Subject: fun.gi.bl ------------------------ From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:05 PM The idea is to set up a specific platf..."</p>
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Subject: fun.gi.bl<br />
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<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:05 PM<br />
<br />
<br />
The idea is to set up a specific platform for "fungibility", and enable a services platform from it<br />
<br />
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fungible<br />
<br />
" Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility; interchangeable, exchangeable, replaceable. "<br />
<br />
even "Rhizomatic Fungibility"<br />
<br />
playing on fun, fungi , fungibility , and ability<br />
<br />
for a "can" oriented intentional and distributed economic networks approach<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy)<br />
<br />
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari use the term "rhizome" and "rhizomatic" to describe theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation.<br />
<br />
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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:17 AM<br />
<br />
<br />
as for fungi.bl ,<br />
<br />
one of the ideas is that it can support "nomads".<br />
<br />
Instead of "moving" their stuff, they can use "fungib.bl" to contribute their resource as a "fungi.bl" spime,<br />
<br />
and get a similar unit wherever they go.<br />
<br />
For example, instead of moving their ikea furniture from one city to another, or instead of dumping it,<br />
<br />
they can "fungi.bl" their units, and get a similar one wherever they go.<br />
<br />
I imagine that a fee for a "professional" aspect of the service could be there ?<br />
<br />
Or else, it could all be free, and the value can come out of attracting people to contextualize more of all of their units, for a collaborative consumption platform...<br />
<br />
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From:<br />
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:54 PM<br />
To: dante.monson@gmail.com<br />
<br />
<br />
cool idea. and maybe storage space is just another item, for example, emptiness in one place is basically equivalent to emptiness in another.<br />
<br />
----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 3:59 PM<br />
To:<br />
<br />
<br />
nice suggestion regarding storage space.<br />
<br />
Yes, I also imagine there can be some ISO standard ( and perhaps there already is )<br />
regarding the storage space ( in terms of temperature, moist, light conditions, ventilation, etc )<br />
<br />
I was thinking about that option for the Leipzig project ( http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project )<br />
<br />
Finding ways of providing income for a residential cooperative through using the empty space to store furniture, while at the same time having a contract with the owners of the furniture to reduce the cost of the storage of their furniture by allowing us to use it... :)<br />
<br />
----------<br />
From:<br />
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:20 PM<br />
To: dante.monson@gmail.com<br />
<br />
<br />
ISO standards.. good. shape, size, temperature, radiation, pressure, moisture, lighting, noise, ventilation, travel plans (for a shipping container or vehicle)... etc this will help enable nomadic eco villages.<br />
<br />
<br />
/////<br />
<br />
"spimed spaces" with various metadata.<br />
<br />
iso characteristics can be entered into netention,<br />
and matched ( or overlapped ) with available objects</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&diff=23975Leipzig project2016-10-24T10:56:15Z<p>Dante: </p>
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<div>In [[Leipzig]] whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little [[money]]. <br />
<br />
The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for [[sharing]].<br />
<br />
''' Update 2013''' : <br />
A more Modular Approach ? <br />
--> '''[[Spime Housing]] link'''<br />
<br />
Express Your interest [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis here] and [http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#People_interested here]<br />
<br />
more links [http://delicious.com/deliciousdante/leipzigproject here] or [http://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/leipzigproject here]<br />
<br />
<br />
Update : <br />
'''This was a 2008 / 2009 Research Project.''' <br />
The initial feeling for potential was right, <br />
and prices changed upwards dramatically in the last years since our initial interest, <br />
yet there are still opportunities to be created using such approaches, <br />
in Leipzig, other east german towns, and in various places in europe and the world.<br />
<br />
Note : areas in red on this map may most likely remain accessible ;)<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bild-981616-726182.html<br />
<br />
[http://www.leipzig.de/bauen-und-wohnen/stadterneuerung-in-leipzig/stadterneuerungsprojekte/netzwerk-leipziger-freiheit/ Leipzig remains fertile ground for cooperative housing projects]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Housing locations==<br />
* Put findings on [http://u.nu/3tgf4 this shared Google map]<br />
<br />
==Mind Map==<br />
<br />
Edit [http://www.metamaps.cc/users/1000497548/maps/25 MindMap here] ;<br />
<br />
[http://metamaps.cc/users/new To Register to Metamap] ( password: j0jmzgen )<br />
<br />
==Current Context==<br />
<br />
http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/who-ryder-what-edge/mission_case/permanent-collective-leipzig<br />
<br />
==Current Collective with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergingleaderlabs.org/<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/08/01/announcing-emerging-leader-labs-a-social-incubator-running-on-the-gift-economy/<br />
<br />
==A Meta Project Approach==<br />
<br />
http://thepyre.org/<br />
<br />
==Outquisition Potentials==<br />
<br />
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-an-outquisition/2008/07/20<br />
<br />
'''''"What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed. We imagined that it would need an almost missionary fervor, something like the Inquisition (which largely destroyed knowledge) in reverse, a crusade of open sharing, or as Cory promptly dubbed it, the Outquisition."'''''<br />
<br />
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.be/2008/07/outquisition-and-urbanism-camp.html<br />
<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html<br />
<br />
===Nomad Tribe===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
==Aim==<br />
<br />
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )<br />
<br />
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )<br />
<br />
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest. <br />
<br />
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -,<br />
I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, <br />
enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.<br />
<br />
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.<br />
<br />
==People interested==<br />
Isis, [http://p2pfoundation.net/Alex_Rollin Alex], [[User:Dante|Dante]], [[User:Meinhard|Meinhard]], Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, [[User:Julia|Julia]], [[User:Flawer|Flawer]], [[User:TinkerGeorge|George J.]], [[user:kardan|kardan]], [[user:bhopter|helicopter]], [http://goo.gl/2VIga kata kata motivasi], http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter <br />
<br />
''[http://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&action=edit&section=3 add yourself]''<br />
<br />
==Pictures==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Google Street View===<br />
<br />
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.<br />
<br />
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l<br />
<br />
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature,<br />
and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.<br />
<br />
==Leipzig Context==<br />
<br />
[[Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation]]<br />
<br />
==House features==<br />
* Self-Organized governance<br />
* Communal and public space in ground floor <br />
* Several flats with different parties in upper floors<br />
* Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)<br />
* Community connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace Hackerspace]/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)<br />
* Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation<br />
** Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)<br />
* Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities<br />
**Organic Community Gardening (rooftop gardening?)<br />
**Partnerships with local farms and suppliers<br />
**Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars<br />
**House and neighborhood biomass/composting program<br />
* Info cafe with people's kitchen<br />
** networking with other urban projects world-wide<br />
* Renewable and efficient [[energy]]<br />
* [[Recycling]]<br />
* Sauna (yeah!)<br />
* Regular meetings<br />
* Free shop<br />
<br />
==24/7 Lab==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs<br />
<br />
==Ideal Situation==<br />
<br />
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post <br />
industrial project in Leipzig are : <br />
<br />
* being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute <br />
walk ) <br />
* being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University<br />
* being situated nearby greenery <br />
* being situated nearby gardening allotments <br />
* being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be <br />
purchased for post-manufacturing <br />
* having a unique looking architecture / building <br />
* having a potential for the development of a diversified <br />
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the <br />
atmosphere :) ) <br />
* having access to a garden and to a view (rooftop gardening is space- and energy-efficient)<br />
* being in a calm neighborhood <br />
* additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant <br />
constructible land, <br />
to build our own construction, <br />
* or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined <br />
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, <br />
such as a "gasometer"<br />
<br />
==Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?==<br />
<br />
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/<br />
<br />
==Ownership / Usership ==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership<br />
<br />
possibly in combination with<br />
<br />
[http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat]<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf<br />
<br />
Equity-Linked Affinity Network<br />
Interpersonal Process, Financial Structures and Legal<br />
Designs for Landed, Spirited, Joyous Urban Community<br />
<br />
( found via http://p2pfoundation.net/Balancing_Individualism_and_Communitarianism )<br />
<br />
==Funding and Costs==<br />
<br />
===Prices of Buildings===<br />
<br />
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :<br />
* around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
* 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
Anthony says :<br />
<br />
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town<br />
<br />
BUT<br />
<br />
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.<br />
<br />
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!<br />
<br />
Anthony says:<br />
<br />
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Renovation Costs===<br />
to evaluate - [[User:Dante|Dante]] is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?<br />
<br />
====about Dry Rot prevention====<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot#Treatment_of_dry_rot_timber<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot_treatment<br />
<br />
reply from T. :<br />
<br />
We have used heaters to dry wet wood<br />
<br />
It is very difficult to detect an infestation before it has reached an advanced stage. A non-visible infestation never really goes away, but does not propagate or threaten the wood if the wood is kept dry. We therefore are extremely reactive to the presence of uncontained water in the house; we treat it like fire.<br />
<br />
The chemical treatments are reportedly as expensive as replacing the wood. Replacing the wood can be expensive if it provides structural support. However, the real danger is getting denounced. If a company determines you have dry-rot, they are supposed to report it to the government. Then the government inspects all areas of the house and requires treatment of any dry-rot found, regardless of whether it is active. This can be financially devastating. Therefore, the department responsible for these inspections have ironically made German houses less safe.<br />
<br />
Fazit: don't buy a house if there is evidence of a sustained leak, regardless of whether there is evidence of schwamm / dry rot.<br />
<br />
===Funding===<br />
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat], potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest.<br />
For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.<br />
<br />
: It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)<br />
<br />
====Crowdsourcing and Fund Management Tools====<br />
<br />
When it will be operational in 2013, we may consider using the following tool :<br />
<br />
https://holvi.com/<br />
<br />
"Holvi is not a ‘traditional’ crowdfunding platform for projects, but instead it offers project groups an online bank service with a visual interface for handling their money and better finance keeping."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Holvi<br />
<br />
===Legal Frameworks===<br />
<br />
info book on legal frameworks :<br />
Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte<br />
http://www.stiftung-trias.de/infomaterial.html<br />
<br />
Some interesting PDFs:<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/fileadmin/Finanzierung_2008.pdf<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/uploads/media/RECHTSFORMEN_trias_1-2009.pdf<br />
* http://www.haushalten.org/Papers/haushalten_e.v._-_rechtsformen_fuer_wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
* http://www.koord.hs-mannheim.de/horizonte/h34_Krosse_Wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
<br />
===Purchasing Examples===<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros,<br />
it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.<br />
<br />
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible,<br />
hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.<br />
<br />
To pay off the credit, at no interest, <br />
<br />
one can symbolically imagine that it costs<br />
'''''"1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"'''''<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
'''''"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"'''''<br />
<br />
after which it is fully your property,<br />
although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.<br />
<br />
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.<br />
<br />
===Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase===<br />
<br />
See :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.'''<br />
<br />
Approach :<br />
<br />
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in <br />
"Viagere" / '''"Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units"''' <br />
in exchange of "Care Service Hours".<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."'''<br />
<br />
''Mutual credit'' with trusted routing,<br />
and/or ''Asymmetric exchange ?''<br />
<br />
===Living Costs and Taxes===<br />
<br />
Robrecht asks :<br />
<br />
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc<br />
of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."<br />
<br />
Anthony answers :<br />
<br />
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."<br />
<br />
==Alternative Purchasing Model==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively,<br />
without requiring to take a bank loan.<br />
<br />
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ),<br />
and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.<br />
<br />
===Examples of shareholding models in Leipzig===<br />
<br />
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html<br />
<br />
or under <br />
<br />
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :<br />
<br />
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11 <br />
<br />
http://zolle11.de/blog/<br />
<br />
more examples :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships<br />
<br />
==Lease Hold ?==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold<br />
<br />
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht<br />
<br />
==Housing Availability Search==<br />
<br />
Alternative Housing-Search<br />
Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")<br />
<br />
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :<br />
<br />
Purchase :<br />
<br />
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/anzeigen<br />
<br />
Rent :<br />
<br />
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100<br />
<br />
Land and Building Projects :<br />
<br />
http://lwbimmobilien.de/<br />
<br />
==Buildings of Interest==<br />
<br />
In Neustadt :<br />
<br />
In ...<br />
<br />
===Gasometer===<br />
<br />
<br />
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=4276236400981551169&q=gasometer+leipzig&hl=de&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=3zWVTKHsNo6h_Ab_4OXbAQ&sig2=zeauLQrFuK9fcOiOZpleGw<br />
<br />
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/<br />
<br />
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=leipzig+germany&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.817312,58.798828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Bundesrepublik+Deutschland&ll=51.352624,12.379602&spn=0.000985,0.001794&t=h&z=19<br />
<br />
it most likely looks like this from inside :<br />
<br />
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg<br />
<br />
==Modular Housing==<br />
<br />
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki<br />
<br />
==Spime Housing and Furnitecture==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
Using Tensegrity,<br />
organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders",<br />
but also architects, engineers, students...<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
==Groups for Leipzig== <br />
<br />
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.<br />
* Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig<br />
* Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing<br />
<br />
==Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure<br />
<br />
===Infrastructure Mapping===<br />
<br />
[http://www.integralcity.com/civil-society/map-visions-and-values-assets.html Link to Integral Cities]<br />
<br />
==Culture and Community==<br />
<br />
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm<br />
<br />
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )<br />
<br />
==Art Center==<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html<br />
<br />
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"<br />
<br />
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html<br />
<br />
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"<br />
<br />
==Income Streams & Local Economy==<br />
<br />
Ideally (according to [[User:Dante|Dante]]), developing "[[resilient communities]]" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from [[food]] to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "[http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology Open Source Ecology]" such as "[http://factorefarm.org/ Factor E-Farm]".<br />
<br />
===Cooperative Ecology Project===<br />
<br />
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation wiki] you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons commons]. <br />
<br />
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.<br />
<br />
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_in_Multi-Unit_Housing on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing].<br />
<br />
==="Jobless Recovery"===<br />
<br />
http://www.pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html<br />
<br />
===Example - New York Manufacturing Cooperative / Lab===<br />
<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/nyregion/brooklyn-navy-yard-is-home-to-manufacturing-cooperative.html?_r=0<br />
<br />
<br />
===Other brainstormings===<br />
<br />
====First stage ?====<br />
* Collaborative research<br />
* Plan development<br />
* Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig<br />
* Musical Parties<br />
* Added value food production ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food slow food] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksküche volks kuche] ? )<br />
* Events and [[hospitality]]<br />
<br />
====Not for Private Profit Shops====<br />
<br />
* Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/<br />
* Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres - <br />
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
* "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche<br />
<br />
====Volunteering Initiatives====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service<br />
<br />
More info regarding EVS :<br />
<br />
Overall overview with short video presentation :<br />
<br />
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html<br />
<br />
current partner organizations data base :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm<br />
<br />
procedures<br />
<br />
for volunteers :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm<br />
<br />
====Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded program ?<br />
<br />
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/<br />
<br />
=====Note : Entredonneurship=====<br />
<br />
"Entre-Donneur"<br />
<br />
= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', <br />
proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Entredonneur<br />
<br />
http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/EntreDonneur<br />
<br />
====Fablabs/Workshops====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab<br />
<br />
====Earth De-polluting Cooperative====<br />
<br />
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify<br />
industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
====Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives====<br />
<br />
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design<br />
<br />
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "<br />
<br />
====Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing====<br />
<br />
see above - <br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing<br />
<br />
====Energy====<br />
<br />
Various sources of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy renewable energy] can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water,<br />
and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
=====Internal Combustion=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle<br />
<br />
=====Electrolysis=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water<br />
<br />
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy<br />
<br />
====Alternative Engine Propulsion====<br />
<br />
See [[Resilient Engine]]<br />
<br />
====Building Open Source Cars====<br />
<br />
TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8jdx-lf2Dw<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Wikispeed<br />
<br />
http://www.wikispeed.com/<br />
<br />
====Distribution of Peer Production====<br />
<br />
=====Fair Ware=====<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare<br />
<br />
''' proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure" '''<br />
<br />
====== Fair Ware Goals ======<br />
<br />
* bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way<br />
* make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met <br />
*** creative people get their share<br />
*** producers can produce under human conditions<br />
*** users get quality and reliability<br />
* foster cooperation and improved product design<br />
* facilitate quality control by branding<br />
* exert democratic control over a brand name<br />
* create resilience towards proprietory action<br />
* empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro<br />
<br />
<br />
=====Local Food Distribution=====<br />
<br />
Open Ideo :<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/<br />
<br />
==Food Production==<br />
<br />
===Allotment Gardens===<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany<br />
<br />
''<br />
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "''<br />
<br />
===Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems===<br />
<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems<br />
<br />
<br />
===Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"===<br />
<br />
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative,<br />
"back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,<br />
<br />
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
See historical perspective :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement<br />
<br />
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading<br />
<br />
Links - Local Food Project :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100<br />
<br />
<br />
===Open Source Ecology===<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm<br />
<br />
Germany :<br />
<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/ (in English)<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/aufbau-der-ose-community-in-deutschland/ (in German)<br />
<br />
==Mesh Communication Networks==<br />
<br />
Contributing to ( ? )<br />
<br />
http://leipzig.freifunk.net/<br />
<br />
==Alternative Finance==<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies,<br />
which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.<br />
<br />
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.<br />
<br />
==Alternative University and learning infrastructures==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig<br />
<br />
==Other Hubs with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
===Other Similar Projects===<br />
<br />
http://neotribalism.net/about.htm<br />
<br />
- excerpt of vision -<br />
<br />
In the near term : <br />
To create a wide variety of socially and environmentally sustainable households that each serve as a community for 10 - 20 people who share a common vision and who compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.<br />
<br />
In the long term :<br />
To create a diverse network of sustainable neoTribal villages that are composed of 10 - 20 households that are not reliant upon the current global economy and infrastructure.<br />
<br />
==Restoring Vibrancy in Declining Cities==<br />
<br />
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/brief.html<br />
<br />
==Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy==<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy<br />
<br />
==p2p Open Urbanism==<br />
<br />
http://berlinergazette.de/open-source-stadt-gemeingut-stadtplanung/<br />
<br />
==Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City==<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
===A Vision for Shareable Cities [VIDEO]===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video<br />
<br />
===Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy===<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy<br />
<br />
===#12: Food Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing<br />
<br />
===#11: Urban Agriculture===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture<br />
<br />
===#10: Shareable Rooftops===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops<br />
<br />
===#9: Recreational Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces<br />
<br />
===#8: Shareable Workspaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces<br />
<br />
===#7: Shareable Neighborhoods===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods<br />
<br />
===#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs<br />
<br />
===#5: Shareable Housing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing<br />
<br />
===#4: Shareable Commercial Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces<br />
<br />
===#3: Bike Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing<br />
<br />
===#2: Ride Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing<br />
<br />
===#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing<br />
<br />
==People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )==<br />
<br />
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...<br />
<br />
<br />
==City Infrastructures==<br />
<br />
===Transportation===<br />
<br />
===S Bahn===<br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794 <br />
<br />
*Leipzig Linien 1 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015 <br />
<br />
*Linien 2 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442 <br />
<br />
ps: ideal when coming <br />
from some other place in Germany :<br />
regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 <br />
euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn<br />
<br />
===Tram Lines===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/<br />
<br />
===New Transportation Infrastructures===<br />
<br />
====Underground Train====<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving.<br />
Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."<br />
<br />
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut:<br />
Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"<br />
<br />
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.<br />
<br />
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Urban Planning Projects ===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/<br />
<br />
==Some Historical Facts and People==<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria#History Phantasmagoria in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Leipzig_.281723.E2.80.9350.29 Bach in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
==City History==<br />
<br />
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/<br />
<br />
==Suggested Neighbourhoods==<br />
<br />
expensive ones:<br />
<br />
Südvorstadt (south)<br />
<br />
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )<br />
<br />
connewitz ( south )<br />
<br />
becoming expensive:<br />
<br />
lindenau<br />
<br />
plagwitz<br />
here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.<br />
<br />
cheaper ones :<br />
<br />
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east<br />
<br />
Stötteritz - east<br />
<br />
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :<br />
<br />
reutnitz - east<br />
Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.<br />
<br />
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.<br />
<br />
klein zschocher - south west<br />
<br />
==Past Meetings==<br />
<br />
August 2010, 3 first weeks :<br />
<br />
http://ecotopia2010.org/<br />
<br />
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53071439438&ref=ts Ecotopia Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : [http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof,+Wiesenburg,+Germany&sll=52.237051,12.903442&sspn=0.713169,2.113495&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof+Wiesenburg,+Potsdam-Mittelmark,+Brandenburg,+Germany&t=h&ll=52.001792,12.348633&spn=1.684172,3.378296&z=8 Map Link]<br />
<br />
Contact [[User:Dante|Dante]] as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize,<br />
in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.<br />
<br />
==Geographical Layering Information==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions,<br />
for representing various data about the project on layered maps,<br />
facilitating open collaboration.<br />
<br />
See discussion on :<br />
<br />
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263<br />
<br />
also considering drupal gmap extension :<br />
<br />
http://drupal.org/project/gmap<br />
<br />
===Linked Geo Data===<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/About<br />
<br />
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.<br />
<br />
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
( based in Leipzig )<br />
<br />
==Mapping for Change==<br />
<br />
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/<br />
<br />
"Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication. Our work has a strong focus on engaging and empowering communities to make positive transformations to their localities. "<br />
<br />
==Semantic Web and Graphs==<br />
<br />
http://www.automenta.com/<br />
<br />
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) <br />
Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html <br />
<br />
===AKSW Department at University of Leipzig===<br />
<br />
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.<br />
<br />
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/<br />
<br />
==Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration==<br />
<br />
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's,<br />
and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space",<br />
and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.<br />
<br />
==Events in Leipzig==<br />
<br />
===Annual "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"===<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php<br />
<br />
''"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany''."<br />
<br />
===Bach Festival===<br />
Bachfest takes place every summer. Links:<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/index.php?id=26&L=1<br />
<br />
==Articles and Reports==<br />
<br />
===ARD German News Reportage===<br />
<br />
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/mittagsmagazin/leipzig-boomt?documentId=12240372<br />
<br />
===Market speculation in Leipzig ?===<br />
<br />
http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/leipzig/citynews/mietpreise-fuer-wohnungen-in-leipzig-deutlich-gestiegen-vor-allem-westliche-stadtteile-boomen/r-citynews-a-106789.html<br />
<br />
==Other interesting projects in Nearby Cities==<br />
<br />
Halle-Saale : http://www.postkult.de/ ( "urban development from below" )<br />
<br />
<br />
===Additional References===<br />
<br />
via Christine ( http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de ) <br />
<br />
this organisation published a <br />
<br />
====cook-book==== <br />
<br />
presenting 55 projects all located <br />
<br />
=====in kreuzberg:=====<br />
<br />
http://www.buechertisch.org/uber-uns/wer-sind-wir/<br />
<br />
health project since squatting times<br />
<br />
http://www.heilehaus-berlin.de/<br />
<br />
<br />
====poland====<br />
<br />
http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/en_info.asp?id=83326<br />
<br />
=====students organisation in szczecin=====<br />
<br />
, poland<br />
<br />
http://newfamilyway.blogspot.de/p/our-contribution-nasz-wkad.html<br />
<br />
i do know dagna and tomek. you can write in german and english.<br />
<br />
<br />
====network of collectively organised work==== <br />
<br />
i put down just three co-working spaces as example:<br />
<br />
http://www.hinkelstein-druck.de/<br />
http://www.tantehorst.de/<br />
http://schnittstelle.blogsport.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.nadeshda.org/nadeshda.html<br />
<br />
====gewerbehof, genossenschaft, kollekive zusammenschlüsse====<br />
<br />
http://www.gidak.de/<br />
http://www.mehringhof.de/<br />
http://www.kerngehaeuse.de/<br />
http://www.ufafabrik.de/intro.php<br />
<br />
====housing projects====<br />
<br />
http://www.wohnportal-berlin.de/<br />
http://www.hausprojekte-solidarfonds.de/<br />
http://www.selbstbau-eg.de/<br />
<br />
====French Pdf on Cohousing====<br />
<br />
"Vivre en cohabitat,reconstruire des villages en ville"<br />
<br />
http://public.citymined.org/MICRONOMICS/vivre%20en%20cohabitat%20lietart%20article.pdf<br />
<br />
====activists, researchers====<br />
<br />
http://www.voss.solioeko.de/<br />
http://www.technet-berlin.de/mitarbeiterinnen.html<br />
<br />
====financing====<br />
<br />
http://www.labournet.de/stiftungMundA/index.html<br />
http://www.netzwerk-selbsthilfe.de<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.haushalten.org/ Haushalten.org] (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes<br />
** [http://www.haushalten.org/de/english_summary.asp Summary in English] (en)<br />
* [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat] (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany<br />
* [http://sublab.org/ Sublab.org] (de) - Hack space in Leipzig ([http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sublab Hackerspaces entry])<br />
* [http://de.veganwiki.org/vegane_vokue#leipzig de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig] (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes<br />
* [http://kuhturm.de/ kuhturm.de] (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of [http://benn.org/ Meinhard] :)<br />
* http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.<br />
* http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)<br />
* [http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel Rockzipfel Leipzig] (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children<br />
* http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase - see link below for update)<br />
* http://schwarz10.de/ Same Housing project, Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 , a few years later <br />
* [http://www.lvz-online.de/ LVZ-Online] (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]<br />
* "Hypezig" - Article in German : http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/Hypezig;art4306,2621248<br />
* "Hypezig" - Another Article in French : http://www.slate.fr/monde/85083/leipzig-nouveau-berlin-hipster<br />
<br />
[[Category:Leipzig]]<br />
[[Category:Projects]]<br />
[[Category:Sharespaces]]<br />
[[Category:Hospitality]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&diff=23974Leipzig project2016-10-24T10:54:25Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div>In [[Leipzig]] whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little [[money]]. <br />
<br />
The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for [[sharing]].<br />
<br />
''' Update 2013''' : <br />
A more Modular Approach ? <br />
--> '''[[Spime Housing]] link'''<br />
<br />
Express Your interest [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis here] and [http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#People_interested here]<br />
<br />
more links [http://delicious.com/deliciousdante/leipzigproject here] or [http://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/leipzigproject here]<br />
<br />
<br />
Update : <br />
'''This was a 2008 / 2009 Research Project.''' <br />
The initial feeling for potential was right, <br />
and prices changed upwards dramatically in the last years since we first proposed this approach, <br />
yet there are still opportunities to be created using such approach, <br />
in Leipzig, other east german towns, and in various places in europe and the world.<br />
<br />
Note : areas in red on this map may most likely remain accessible ;)<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bild-981616-726182.html<br />
<br />
[http://www.leipzig.de/bauen-und-wohnen/stadterneuerung-in-leipzig/stadterneuerungsprojekte/netzwerk-leipziger-freiheit/ Leipzig remains fertile ground for cooperative housing projects]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Housing locations==<br />
* Put findings on [http://u.nu/3tgf4 this shared Google map]<br />
<br />
==Mind Map==<br />
<br />
Edit [http://www.metamaps.cc/users/1000497548/maps/25 MindMap here] ;<br />
<br />
[http://metamaps.cc/users/new To Register to Metamap] ( password: j0jmzgen )<br />
<br />
==Current Context==<br />
<br />
http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/who-ryder-what-edge/mission_case/permanent-collective-leipzig<br />
<br />
==Current Collective with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergingleaderlabs.org/<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/08/01/announcing-emerging-leader-labs-a-social-incubator-running-on-the-gift-economy/<br />
<br />
==A Meta Project Approach==<br />
<br />
http://thepyre.org/<br />
<br />
==Outquisition Potentials==<br />
<br />
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-an-outquisition/2008/07/20<br />
<br />
'''''"What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed. We imagined that it would need an almost missionary fervor, something like the Inquisition (which largely destroyed knowledge) in reverse, a crusade of open sharing, or as Cory promptly dubbed it, the Outquisition."'''''<br />
<br />
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.be/2008/07/outquisition-and-urbanism-camp.html<br />
<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html<br />
<br />
===Nomad Tribe===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
==Aim==<br />
<br />
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )<br />
<br />
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )<br />
<br />
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest. <br />
<br />
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -,<br />
I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, <br />
enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.<br />
<br />
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.<br />
<br />
==People interested==<br />
Isis, [http://p2pfoundation.net/Alex_Rollin Alex], [[User:Dante|Dante]], [[User:Meinhard|Meinhard]], Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, [[User:Julia|Julia]], [[User:Flawer|Flawer]], [[User:TinkerGeorge|George J.]], [[user:kardan|kardan]], [[user:bhopter|helicopter]], [http://goo.gl/2VIga kata kata motivasi], http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter <br />
<br />
''[http://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&action=edit&section=3 add yourself]''<br />
<br />
==Pictures==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Google Street View===<br />
<br />
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.<br />
<br />
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l<br />
<br />
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature,<br />
and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.<br />
<br />
==Leipzig Context==<br />
<br />
[[Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation]]<br />
<br />
==House features==<br />
* Self-Organized governance<br />
* Communal and public space in ground floor <br />
* Several flats with different parties in upper floors<br />
* Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)<br />
* Community connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace Hackerspace]/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)<br />
* Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation<br />
** Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)<br />
* Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities<br />
**Organic Community Gardening (rooftop gardening?)<br />
**Partnerships with local farms and suppliers<br />
**Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars<br />
**House and neighborhood biomass/composting program<br />
* Info cafe with people's kitchen<br />
** networking with other urban projects world-wide<br />
* Renewable and efficient [[energy]]<br />
* [[Recycling]]<br />
* Sauna (yeah!)<br />
* Regular meetings<br />
* Free shop<br />
<br />
==24/7 Lab==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs<br />
<br />
==Ideal Situation==<br />
<br />
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post <br />
industrial project in Leipzig are : <br />
<br />
* being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute <br />
walk ) <br />
* being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University<br />
* being situated nearby greenery <br />
* being situated nearby gardening allotments <br />
* being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be <br />
purchased for post-manufacturing <br />
* having a unique looking architecture / building <br />
* having a potential for the development of a diversified <br />
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the <br />
atmosphere :) ) <br />
* having access to a garden and to a view (rooftop gardening is space- and energy-efficient)<br />
* being in a calm neighborhood <br />
* additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant <br />
constructible land, <br />
to build our own construction, <br />
* or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined <br />
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, <br />
such as a "gasometer"<br />
<br />
==Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?==<br />
<br />
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/<br />
<br />
==Ownership / Usership ==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership<br />
<br />
possibly in combination with<br />
<br />
[http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat]<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf<br />
<br />
Equity-Linked Affinity Network<br />
Interpersonal Process, Financial Structures and Legal<br />
Designs for Landed, Spirited, Joyous Urban Community<br />
<br />
( found via http://p2pfoundation.net/Balancing_Individualism_and_Communitarianism )<br />
<br />
==Funding and Costs==<br />
<br />
===Prices of Buildings===<br />
<br />
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :<br />
* around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
* 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
Anthony says :<br />
<br />
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town<br />
<br />
BUT<br />
<br />
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.<br />
<br />
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!<br />
<br />
Anthony says:<br />
<br />
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Renovation Costs===<br />
to evaluate - [[User:Dante|Dante]] is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?<br />
<br />
====about Dry Rot prevention====<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot#Treatment_of_dry_rot_timber<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot_treatment<br />
<br />
reply from T. :<br />
<br />
We have used heaters to dry wet wood<br />
<br />
It is very difficult to detect an infestation before it has reached an advanced stage. A non-visible infestation never really goes away, but does not propagate or threaten the wood if the wood is kept dry. We therefore are extremely reactive to the presence of uncontained water in the house; we treat it like fire.<br />
<br />
The chemical treatments are reportedly as expensive as replacing the wood. Replacing the wood can be expensive if it provides structural support. However, the real danger is getting denounced. If a company determines you have dry-rot, they are supposed to report it to the government. Then the government inspects all areas of the house and requires treatment of any dry-rot found, regardless of whether it is active. This can be financially devastating. Therefore, the department responsible for these inspections have ironically made German houses less safe.<br />
<br />
Fazit: don't buy a house if there is evidence of a sustained leak, regardless of whether there is evidence of schwamm / dry rot.<br />
<br />
===Funding===<br />
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat], potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest.<br />
For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.<br />
<br />
: It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)<br />
<br />
====Crowdsourcing and Fund Management Tools====<br />
<br />
When it will be operational in 2013, we may consider using the following tool :<br />
<br />
https://holvi.com/<br />
<br />
"Holvi is not a ‘traditional’ crowdfunding platform for projects, but instead it offers project groups an online bank service with a visual interface for handling their money and better finance keeping."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Holvi<br />
<br />
===Legal Frameworks===<br />
<br />
info book on legal frameworks :<br />
Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte<br />
http://www.stiftung-trias.de/infomaterial.html<br />
<br />
Some interesting PDFs:<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/fileadmin/Finanzierung_2008.pdf<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/uploads/media/RECHTSFORMEN_trias_1-2009.pdf<br />
* http://www.haushalten.org/Papers/haushalten_e.v._-_rechtsformen_fuer_wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
* http://www.koord.hs-mannheim.de/horizonte/h34_Krosse_Wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
<br />
===Purchasing Examples===<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros,<br />
it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.<br />
<br />
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible,<br />
hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.<br />
<br />
To pay off the credit, at no interest, <br />
<br />
one can symbolically imagine that it costs<br />
'''''"1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"'''''<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
'''''"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"'''''<br />
<br />
after which it is fully your property,<br />
although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.<br />
<br />
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.<br />
<br />
===Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase===<br />
<br />
See :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.'''<br />
<br />
Approach :<br />
<br />
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in <br />
"Viagere" / '''"Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units"''' <br />
in exchange of "Care Service Hours".<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."'''<br />
<br />
''Mutual credit'' with trusted routing,<br />
and/or ''Asymmetric exchange ?''<br />
<br />
===Living Costs and Taxes===<br />
<br />
Robrecht asks :<br />
<br />
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc<br />
of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."<br />
<br />
Anthony answers :<br />
<br />
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."<br />
<br />
==Alternative Purchasing Model==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively,<br />
without requiring to take a bank loan.<br />
<br />
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ),<br />
and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.<br />
<br />
===Examples of shareholding models in Leipzig===<br />
<br />
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html<br />
<br />
or under <br />
<br />
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :<br />
<br />
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11 <br />
<br />
http://zolle11.de/blog/<br />
<br />
more examples :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships<br />
<br />
==Lease Hold ?==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold<br />
<br />
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht<br />
<br />
==Housing Availability Search==<br />
<br />
Alternative Housing-Search<br />
Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")<br />
<br />
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :<br />
<br />
Purchase :<br />
<br />
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/anzeigen<br />
<br />
Rent :<br />
<br />
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100<br />
<br />
Land and Building Projects :<br />
<br />
http://lwbimmobilien.de/<br />
<br />
==Buildings of Interest==<br />
<br />
In Neustadt :<br />
<br />
In ...<br />
<br />
===Gasometer===<br />
<br />
<br />
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=4276236400981551169&q=gasometer+leipzig&hl=de&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=3zWVTKHsNo6h_Ab_4OXbAQ&sig2=zeauLQrFuK9fcOiOZpleGw<br />
<br />
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/<br />
<br />
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=leipzig+germany&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.817312,58.798828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Bundesrepublik+Deutschland&ll=51.352624,12.379602&spn=0.000985,0.001794&t=h&z=19<br />
<br />
it most likely looks like this from inside :<br />
<br />
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg<br />
<br />
==Modular Housing==<br />
<br />
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki<br />
<br />
==Spime Housing and Furnitecture==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
Using Tensegrity,<br />
organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders",<br />
but also architects, engineers, students...<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
==Groups for Leipzig== <br />
<br />
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.<br />
* Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig<br />
* Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing<br />
<br />
==Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure<br />
<br />
===Infrastructure Mapping===<br />
<br />
[http://www.integralcity.com/civil-society/map-visions-and-values-assets.html Link to Integral Cities]<br />
<br />
==Culture and Community==<br />
<br />
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm<br />
<br />
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )<br />
<br />
==Art Center==<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html<br />
<br />
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"<br />
<br />
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html<br />
<br />
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"<br />
<br />
==Income Streams & Local Economy==<br />
<br />
Ideally (according to [[User:Dante|Dante]]), developing "[[resilient communities]]" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from [[food]] to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "[http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology Open Source Ecology]" such as "[http://factorefarm.org/ Factor E-Farm]".<br />
<br />
===Cooperative Ecology Project===<br />
<br />
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation wiki] you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons commons]. <br />
<br />
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.<br />
<br />
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_in_Multi-Unit_Housing on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing].<br />
<br />
==="Jobless Recovery"===<br />
<br />
http://www.pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html<br />
<br />
===Example - New York Manufacturing Cooperative / Lab===<br />
<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/nyregion/brooklyn-navy-yard-is-home-to-manufacturing-cooperative.html?_r=0<br />
<br />
<br />
===Other brainstormings===<br />
<br />
====First stage ?====<br />
* Collaborative research<br />
* Plan development<br />
* Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig<br />
* Musical Parties<br />
* Added value food production ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food slow food] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksküche volks kuche] ? )<br />
* Events and [[hospitality]]<br />
<br />
====Not for Private Profit Shops====<br />
<br />
* Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/<br />
* Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres - <br />
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
* "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche<br />
<br />
====Volunteering Initiatives====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service<br />
<br />
More info regarding EVS :<br />
<br />
Overall overview with short video presentation :<br />
<br />
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html<br />
<br />
current partner organizations data base :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm<br />
<br />
procedures<br />
<br />
for volunteers :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm<br />
<br />
====Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded program ?<br />
<br />
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/<br />
<br />
=====Note : Entredonneurship=====<br />
<br />
"Entre-Donneur"<br />
<br />
= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', <br />
proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Entredonneur<br />
<br />
http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/EntreDonneur<br />
<br />
====Fablabs/Workshops====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab<br />
<br />
====Earth De-polluting Cooperative====<br />
<br />
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify<br />
industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
====Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives====<br />
<br />
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design<br />
<br />
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "<br />
<br />
====Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing====<br />
<br />
see above - <br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing<br />
<br />
====Energy====<br />
<br />
Various sources of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy renewable energy] can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water,<br />
and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
=====Internal Combustion=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle<br />
<br />
=====Electrolysis=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water<br />
<br />
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy<br />
<br />
====Alternative Engine Propulsion====<br />
<br />
See [[Resilient Engine]]<br />
<br />
====Building Open Source Cars====<br />
<br />
TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8jdx-lf2Dw<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Wikispeed<br />
<br />
http://www.wikispeed.com/<br />
<br />
====Distribution of Peer Production====<br />
<br />
=====Fair Ware=====<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare<br />
<br />
''' proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure" '''<br />
<br />
====== Fair Ware Goals ======<br />
<br />
* bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way<br />
* make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met <br />
*** creative people get their share<br />
*** producers can produce under human conditions<br />
*** users get quality and reliability<br />
* foster cooperation and improved product design<br />
* facilitate quality control by branding<br />
* exert democratic control over a brand name<br />
* create resilience towards proprietory action<br />
* empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro<br />
<br />
<br />
=====Local Food Distribution=====<br />
<br />
Open Ideo :<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/<br />
<br />
==Food Production==<br />
<br />
===Allotment Gardens===<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany<br />
<br />
''<br />
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "''<br />
<br />
===Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems===<br />
<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems<br />
<br />
<br />
===Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"===<br />
<br />
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative,<br />
"back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,<br />
<br />
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
See historical perspective :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement<br />
<br />
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading<br />
<br />
Links - Local Food Project :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100<br />
<br />
<br />
===Open Source Ecology===<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm<br />
<br />
Germany :<br />
<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/ (in English)<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/aufbau-der-ose-community-in-deutschland/ (in German)<br />
<br />
==Mesh Communication Networks==<br />
<br />
Contributing to ( ? )<br />
<br />
http://leipzig.freifunk.net/<br />
<br />
==Alternative Finance==<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies,<br />
which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.<br />
<br />
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.<br />
<br />
==Alternative University and learning infrastructures==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig<br />
<br />
==Other Hubs with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
===Other Similar Projects===<br />
<br />
http://neotribalism.net/about.htm<br />
<br />
- excerpt of vision -<br />
<br />
In the near term : <br />
To create a wide variety of socially and environmentally sustainable households that each serve as a community for 10 - 20 people who share a common vision and who compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.<br />
<br />
In the long term :<br />
To create a diverse network of sustainable neoTribal villages that are composed of 10 - 20 households that are not reliant upon the current global economy and infrastructure.<br />
<br />
==Restoring Vibrancy in Declining Cities==<br />
<br />
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/brief.html<br />
<br />
==Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy==<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy<br />
<br />
==p2p Open Urbanism==<br />
<br />
http://berlinergazette.de/open-source-stadt-gemeingut-stadtplanung/<br />
<br />
==Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City==<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
===A Vision for Shareable Cities [VIDEO]===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video<br />
<br />
===Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy===<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy<br />
<br />
===#12: Food Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing<br />
<br />
===#11: Urban Agriculture===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture<br />
<br />
===#10: Shareable Rooftops===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops<br />
<br />
===#9: Recreational Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces<br />
<br />
===#8: Shareable Workspaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces<br />
<br />
===#7: Shareable Neighborhoods===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods<br />
<br />
===#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs<br />
<br />
===#5: Shareable Housing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing<br />
<br />
===#4: Shareable Commercial Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces<br />
<br />
===#3: Bike Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing<br />
<br />
===#2: Ride Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing<br />
<br />
===#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing<br />
<br />
==People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )==<br />
<br />
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...<br />
<br />
<br />
==City Infrastructures==<br />
<br />
===Transportation===<br />
<br />
===S Bahn===<br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794 <br />
<br />
*Leipzig Linien 1 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015 <br />
<br />
*Linien 2 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442 <br />
<br />
ps: ideal when coming <br />
from some other place in Germany :<br />
regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 <br />
euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn<br />
<br />
===Tram Lines===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/<br />
<br />
===New Transportation Infrastructures===<br />
<br />
====Underground Train====<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving.<br />
Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."<br />
<br />
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut:<br />
Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"<br />
<br />
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.<br />
<br />
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Urban Planning Projects ===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/<br />
<br />
==Some Historical Facts and People==<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria#History Phantasmagoria in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Leipzig_.281723.E2.80.9350.29 Bach in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
==City History==<br />
<br />
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/<br />
<br />
==Suggested Neighbourhoods==<br />
<br />
expensive ones:<br />
<br />
Südvorstadt (south)<br />
<br />
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )<br />
<br />
connewitz ( south )<br />
<br />
becoming expensive:<br />
<br />
lindenau<br />
<br />
plagwitz<br />
here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.<br />
<br />
cheaper ones :<br />
<br />
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east<br />
<br />
Stötteritz - east<br />
<br />
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :<br />
<br />
reutnitz - east<br />
Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.<br />
<br />
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.<br />
<br />
klein zschocher - south west<br />
<br />
==Past Meetings==<br />
<br />
August 2010, 3 first weeks :<br />
<br />
http://ecotopia2010.org/<br />
<br />
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53071439438&ref=ts Ecotopia Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : [http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof,+Wiesenburg,+Germany&sll=52.237051,12.903442&sspn=0.713169,2.113495&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof+Wiesenburg,+Potsdam-Mittelmark,+Brandenburg,+Germany&t=h&ll=52.001792,12.348633&spn=1.684172,3.378296&z=8 Map Link]<br />
<br />
Contact [[User:Dante|Dante]] as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize,<br />
in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.<br />
<br />
==Geographical Layering Information==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions,<br />
for representing various data about the project on layered maps,<br />
facilitating open collaboration.<br />
<br />
See discussion on :<br />
<br />
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263<br />
<br />
also considering drupal gmap extension :<br />
<br />
http://drupal.org/project/gmap<br />
<br />
===Linked Geo Data===<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/About<br />
<br />
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.<br />
<br />
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
( based in Leipzig )<br />
<br />
==Mapping for Change==<br />
<br />
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/<br />
<br />
"Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication. Our work has a strong focus on engaging and empowering communities to make positive transformations to their localities. "<br />
<br />
==Semantic Web and Graphs==<br />
<br />
http://www.automenta.com/<br />
<br />
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) <br />
Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html <br />
<br />
===AKSW Department at University of Leipzig===<br />
<br />
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.<br />
<br />
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/<br />
<br />
==Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration==<br />
<br />
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's,<br />
and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space",<br />
and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.<br />
<br />
==Events in Leipzig==<br />
<br />
===Annual "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"===<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php<br />
<br />
''"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany''."<br />
<br />
===Bach Festival===<br />
Bachfest takes place every summer. Links:<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/index.php?id=26&L=1<br />
<br />
==Articles and Reports==<br />
<br />
===ARD German News Reportage===<br />
<br />
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/mittagsmagazin/leipzig-boomt?documentId=12240372<br />
<br />
===Market speculation in Leipzig ?===<br />
<br />
http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/leipzig/citynews/mietpreise-fuer-wohnungen-in-leipzig-deutlich-gestiegen-vor-allem-westliche-stadtteile-boomen/r-citynews-a-106789.html<br />
<br />
==Other interesting projects in Nearby Cities==<br />
<br />
Halle-Saale : http://www.postkult.de/ ( "urban development from below" )<br />
<br />
<br />
===Additional References===<br />
<br />
via Christine ( http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de ) <br />
<br />
this organisation published a <br />
<br />
====cook-book==== <br />
<br />
presenting 55 projects all located <br />
<br />
=====in kreuzberg:=====<br />
<br />
http://www.buechertisch.org/uber-uns/wer-sind-wir/<br />
<br />
health project since squatting times<br />
<br />
http://www.heilehaus-berlin.de/<br />
<br />
<br />
====poland====<br />
<br />
http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/en_info.asp?id=83326<br />
<br />
=====students organisation in szczecin=====<br />
<br />
, poland<br />
<br />
http://newfamilyway.blogspot.de/p/our-contribution-nasz-wkad.html<br />
<br />
i do know dagna and tomek. you can write in german and english.<br />
<br />
<br />
====network of collectively organised work==== <br />
<br />
i put down just three co-working spaces as example:<br />
<br />
http://www.hinkelstein-druck.de/<br />
http://www.tantehorst.de/<br />
http://schnittstelle.blogsport.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.nadeshda.org/nadeshda.html<br />
<br />
====gewerbehof, genossenschaft, kollekive zusammenschlüsse====<br />
<br />
http://www.gidak.de/<br />
http://www.mehringhof.de/<br />
http://www.kerngehaeuse.de/<br />
http://www.ufafabrik.de/intro.php<br />
<br />
====housing projects====<br />
<br />
http://www.wohnportal-berlin.de/<br />
http://www.hausprojekte-solidarfonds.de/<br />
http://www.selbstbau-eg.de/<br />
<br />
====French Pdf on Cohousing====<br />
<br />
"Vivre en cohabitat,reconstruire des villages en ville"<br />
<br />
http://public.citymined.org/MICRONOMICS/vivre%20en%20cohabitat%20lietart%20article.pdf<br />
<br />
====activists, researchers====<br />
<br />
http://www.voss.solioeko.de/<br />
http://www.technet-berlin.de/mitarbeiterinnen.html<br />
<br />
====financing====<br />
<br />
http://www.labournet.de/stiftungMundA/index.html<br />
http://www.netzwerk-selbsthilfe.de<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.haushalten.org/ Haushalten.org] (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes<br />
** [http://www.haushalten.org/de/english_summary.asp Summary in English] (en)<br />
* [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat] (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany<br />
* [http://sublab.org/ Sublab.org] (de) - Hack space in Leipzig ([http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sublab Hackerspaces entry])<br />
* [http://de.veganwiki.org/vegane_vokue#leipzig de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig] (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes<br />
* [http://kuhturm.de/ kuhturm.de] (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of [http://benn.org/ Meinhard] :)<br />
* http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.<br />
* http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)<br />
* [http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel Rockzipfel Leipzig] (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children<br />
* http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase - see link below for update)<br />
* http://schwarz10.de/ Same Housing project, Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 , a few years later <br />
* [http://www.lvz-online.de/ LVZ-Online] (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]<br />
* "Hypezig" - Article in German : http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/Hypezig;art4306,2621248<br />
* "Hypezig" - Another Article in French : http://www.slate.fr/monde/85083/leipzig-nouveau-berlin-hipster<br />
<br />
[[Category:Leipzig]]<br />
[[Category:Projects]]<br />
[[Category:Sharespaces]]<br />
[[Category:Hospitality]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&diff=23973Leipzig project2016-10-24T10:53:18Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div>In [[Leipzig]] whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little [[money]]. <br />
<br />
The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for [[sharing]].<br />
<br />
'''This was a 2008 / 2009 Research Project.'''<br />
<br />
Ideas and information will still be useful to anyone interested,<br />
yet prices , although more accessible than other cities, increased subtantially in the last years. <br />
<br />
[http://www.leipzig.de/bauen-und-wohnen/stadterneuerung-in-leipzig/stadterneuerungsprojekte/netzwerk-leipziger-freiheit/ Leipzig remains fertile ground for cooperative housing projects]<br />
<br />
''' Update 2013''' : <br />
A more Modular Approach ? <br />
--> '''[[Spime Housing]] link'''<br />
<br />
Express Your interest [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis here] and [http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#People_interested here]<br />
<br />
more links [http://delicious.com/deliciousdante/leipzigproject here] or [http://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/leipzigproject here]<br />
<br />
<br />
Update : the initial feeling for potential was right, <br />
and prices changed upwards dramatically in the last years since we first proposed this approach, <br />
yet there are still opportunities to be created using such approach, <br />
in Leipzig, other east german towns, and in various places in europe and the world.<br />
<br />
Note : areas in red on this map may most likely remain accessible ;)<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bild-981616-726182.html<br />
<br />
<br />
==Housing locations==<br />
* Put findings on [http://u.nu/3tgf4 this shared Google map]<br />
<br />
==Mind Map==<br />
<br />
Edit [http://www.metamaps.cc/users/1000497548/maps/25 MindMap here] ;<br />
<br />
[http://metamaps.cc/users/new To Register to Metamap] ( password: j0jmzgen )<br />
<br />
==Current Context==<br />
<br />
http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/who-ryder-what-edge/mission_case/permanent-collective-leipzig<br />
<br />
==Current Collective with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergingleaderlabs.org/<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/08/01/announcing-emerging-leader-labs-a-social-incubator-running-on-the-gift-economy/<br />
<br />
==A Meta Project Approach==<br />
<br />
http://thepyre.org/<br />
<br />
==Outquisition Potentials==<br />
<br />
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-an-outquisition/2008/07/20<br />
<br />
'''''"What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed. We imagined that it would need an almost missionary fervor, something like the Inquisition (which largely destroyed knowledge) in reverse, a crusade of open sharing, or as Cory promptly dubbed it, the Outquisition."'''''<br />
<br />
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.be/2008/07/outquisition-and-urbanism-camp.html<br />
<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html<br />
<br />
===Nomad Tribe===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
==Aim==<br />
<br />
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )<br />
<br />
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )<br />
<br />
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest. <br />
<br />
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -,<br />
I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, <br />
enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.<br />
<br />
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.<br />
<br />
==People interested==<br />
Isis, [http://p2pfoundation.net/Alex_Rollin Alex], [[User:Dante|Dante]], [[User:Meinhard|Meinhard]], Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, [[User:Julia|Julia]], [[User:Flawer|Flawer]], [[User:TinkerGeorge|George J.]], [[user:kardan|kardan]], [[user:bhopter|helicopter]], [http://goo.gl/2VIga kata kata motivasi], http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter <br />
<br />
''[http://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&action=edit&section=3 add yourself]''<br />
<br />
==Pictures==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Google Street View===<br />
<br />
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.<br />
<br />
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l<br />
<br />
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature,<br />
and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.<br />
<br />
==Leipzig Context==<br />
<br />
[[Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation]]<br />
<br />
==House features==<br />
* Self-Organized governance<br />
* Communal and public space in ground floor <br />
* Several flats with different parties in upper floors<br />
* Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)<br />
* Community connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace Hackerspace]/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)<br />
* Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation<br />
** Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)<br />
* Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities<br />
**Organic Community Gardening (rooftop gardening?)<br />
**Partnerships with local farms and suppliers<br />
**Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars<br />
**House and neighborhood biomass/composting program<br />
* Info cafe with people's kitchen<br />
** networking with other urban projects world-wide<br />
* Renewable and efficient [[energy]]<br />
* [[Recycling]]<br />
* Sauna (yeah!)<br />
* Regular meetings<br />
* Free shop<br />
<br />
==24/7 Lab==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs<br />
<br />
==Ideal Situation==<br />
<br />
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post <br />
industrial project in Leipzig are : <br />
<br />
* being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute <br />
walk ) <br />
* being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University<br />
* being situated nearby greenery <br />
* being situated nearby gardening allotments <br />
* being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be <br />
purchased for post-manufacturing <br />
* having a unique looking architecture / building <br />
* having a potential for the development of a diversified <br />
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the <br />
atmosphere :) ) <br />
* having access to a garden and to a view (rooftop gardening is space- and energy-efficient)<br />
* being in a calm neighborhood <br />
* additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant <br />
constructible land, <br />
to build our own construction, <br />
* or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined <br />
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, <br />
such as a "gasometer"<br />
<br />
==Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?==<br />
<br />
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/<br />
<br />
==Ownership / Usership ==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership<br />
<br />
possibly in combination with<br />
<br />
[http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat]<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf<br />
<br />
Equity-Linked Affinity Network<br />
Interpersonal Process, Financial Structures and Legal<br />
Designs for Landed, Spirited, Joyous Urban Community<br />
<br />
( found via http://p2pfoundation.net/Balancing_Individualism_and_Communitarianism )<br />
<br />
==Funding and Costs==<br />
<br />
===Prices of Buildings===<br />
<br />
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :<br />
* around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
* 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
Anthony says :<br />
<br />
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town<br />
<br />
BUT<br />
<br />
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.<br />
<br />
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!<br />
<br />
Anthony says:<br />
<br />
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Renovation Costs===<br />
to evaluate - [[User:Dante|Dante]] is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?<br />
<br />
====about Dry Rot prevention====<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot#Treatment_of_dry_rot_timber<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot_treatment<br />
<br />
reply from T. :<br />
<br />
We have used heaters to dry wet wood<br />
<br />
It is very difficult to detect an infestation before it has reached an advanced stage. A non-visible infestation never really goes away, but does not propagate or threaten the wood if the wood is kept dry. We therefore are extremely reactive to the presence of uncontained water in the house; we treat it like fire.<br />
<br />
The chemical treatments are reportedly as expensive as replacing the wood. Replacing the wood can be expensive if it provides structural support. However, the real danger is getting denounced. If a company determines you have dry-rot, they are supposed to report it to the government. Then the government inspects all areas of the house and requires treatment of any dry-rot found, regardless of whether it is active. This can be financially devastating. Therefore, the department responsible for these inspections have ironically made German houses less safe.<br />
<br />
Fazit: don't buy a house if there is evidence of a sustained leak, regardless of whether there is evidence of schwamm / dry rot.<br />
<br />
===Funding===<br />
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat], potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest.<br />
For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.<br />
<br />
: It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)<br />
<br />
====Crowdsourcing and Fund Management Tools====<br />
<br />
When it will be operational in 2013, we may consider using the following tool :<br />
<br />
https://holvi.com/<br />
<br />
"Holvi is not a ‘traditional’ crowdfunding platform for projects, but instead it offers project groups an online bank service with a visual interface for handling their money and better finance keeping."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Holvi<br />
<br />
===Legal Frameworks===<br />
<br />
info book on legal frameworks :<br />
Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte<br />
http://www.stiftung-trias.de/infomaterial.html<br />
<br />
Some interesting PDFs:<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/fileadmin/Finanzierung_2008.pdf<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/uploads/media/RECHTSFORMEN_trias_1-2009.pdf<br />
* http://www.haushalten.org/Papers/haushalten_e.v._-_rechtsformen_fuer_wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
* http://www.koord.hs-mannheim.de/horizonte/h34_Krosse_Wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
<br />
===Purchasing Examples===<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros,<br />
it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.<br />
<br />
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible,<br />
hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.<br />
<br />
To pay off the credit, at no interest, <br />
<br />
one can symbolically imagine that it costs<br />
'''''"1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"'''''<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
'''''"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"'''''<br />
<br />
after which it is fully your property,<br />
although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.<br />
<br />
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.<br />
<br />
===Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase===<br />
<br />
See :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.'''<br />
<br />
Approach :<br />
<br />
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in <br />
"Viagere" / '''"Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units"''' <br />
in exchange of "Care Service Hours".<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."'''<br />
<br />
''Mutual credit'' with trusted routing,<br />
and/or ''Asymmetric exchange ?''<br />
<br />
===Living Costs and Taxes===<br />
<br />
Robrecht asks :<br />
<br />
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc<br />
of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."<br />
<br />
Anthony answers :<br />
<br />
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."<br />
<br />
==Alternative Purchasing Model==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively,<br />
without requiring to take a bank loan.<br />
<br />
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ),<br />
and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.<br />
<br />
===Examples of shareholding models in Leipzig===<br />
<br />
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html<br />
<br />
or under <br />
<br />
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :<br />
<br />
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11 <br />
<br />
http://zolle11.de/blog/<br />
<br />
more examples :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships<br />
<br />
==Lease Hold ?==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold<br />
<br />
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht<br />
<br />
==Housing Availability Search==<br />
<br />
Alternative Housing-Search<br />
Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")<br />
<br />
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :<br />
<br />
Purchase :<br />
<br />
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/anzeigen<br />
<br />
Rent :<br />
<br />
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100<br />
<br />
Land and Building Projects :<br />
<br />
http://lwbimmobilien.de/<br />
<br />
==Buildings of Interest==<br />
<br />
In Neustadt :<br />
<br />
In ...<br />
<br />
===Gasometer===<br />
<br />
<br />
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=4276236400981551169&q=gasometer+leipzig&hl=de&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=3zWVTKHsNo6h_Ab_4OXbAQ&sig2=zeauLQrFuK9fcOiOZpleGw<br />
<br />
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/<br />
<br />
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=leipzig+germany&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.817312,58.798828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Bundesrepublik+Deutschland&ll=51.352624,12.379602&spn=0.000985,0.001794&t=h&z=19<br />
<br />
it most likely looks like this from inside :<br />
<br />
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg<br />
<br />
==Modular Housing==<br />
<br />
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki<br />
<br />
==Spime Housing and Furnitecture==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
Using Tensegrity,<br />
organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders",<br />
but also architects, engineers, students...<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
==Groups for Leipzig== <br />
<br />
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.<br />
* Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig<br />
* Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing<br />
<br />
==Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure<br />
<br />
===Infrastructure Mapping===<br />
<br />
[http://www.integralcity.com/civil-society/map-visions-and-values-assets.html Link to Integral Cities]<br />
<br />
==Culture and Community==<br />
<br />
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm<br />
<br />
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )<br />
<br />
==Art Center==<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html<br />
<br />
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"<br />
<br />
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html<br />
<br />
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"<br />
<br />
==Income Streams & Local Economy==<br />
<br />
Ideally (according to [[User:Dante|Dante]]), developing "[[resilient communities]]" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from [[food]] to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "[http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology Open Source Ecology]" such as "[http://factorefarm.org/ Factor E-Farm]".<br />
<br />
===Cooperative Ecology Project===<br />
<br />
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation wiki] you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons commons]. <br />
<br />
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.<br />
<br />
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_in_Multi-Unit_Housing on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing].<br />
<br />
==="Jobless Recovery"===<br />
<br />
http://www.pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html<br />
<br />
===Example - New York Manufacturing Cooperative / Lab===<br />
<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/nyregion/brooklyn-navy-yard-is-home-to-manufacturing-cooperative.html?_r=0<br />
<br />
<br />
===Other brainstormings===<br />
<br />
====First stage ?====<br />
* Collaborative research<br />
* Plan development<br />
* Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig<br />
* Musical Parties<br />
* Added value food production ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food slow food] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksküche volks kuche] ? )<br />
* Events and [[hospitality]]<br />
<br />
====Not for Private Profit Shops====<br />
<br />
* Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/<br />
* Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres - <br />
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
* "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche<br />
<br />
====Volunteering Initiatives====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service<br />
<br />
More info regarding EVS :<br />
<br />
Overall overview with short video presentation :<br />
<br />
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html<br />
<br />
current partner organizations data base :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm<br />
<br />
procedures<br />
<br />
for volunteers :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm<br />
<br />
====Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded program ?<br />
<br />
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/<br />
<br />
=====Note : Entredonneurship=====<br />
<br />
"Entre-Donneur"<br />
<br />
= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', <br />
proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Entredonneur<br />
<br />
http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/EntreDonneur<br />
<br />
====Fablabs/Workshops====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab<br />
<br />
====Earth De-polluting Cooperative====<br />
<br />
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify<br />
industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
====Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives====<br />
<br />
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design<br />
<br />
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "<br />
<br />
====Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing====<br />
<br />
see above - <br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing<br />
<br />
====Energy====<br />
<br />
Various sources of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy renewable energy] can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water,<br />
and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
=====Internal Combustion=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle<br />
<br />
=====Electrolysis=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water<br />
<br />
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy<br />
<br />
====Alternative Engine Propulsion====<br />
<br />
See [[Resilient Engine]]<br />
<br />
====Building Open Source Cars====<br />
<br />
TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8jdx-lf2Dw<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Wikispeed<br />
<br />
http://www.wikispeed.com/<br />
<br />
====Distribution of Peer Production====<br />
<br />
=====Fair Ware=====<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare<br />
<br />
''' proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure" '''<br />
<br />
====== Fair Ware Goals ======<br />
<br />
* bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way<br />
* make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met <br />
*** creative people get their share<br />
*** producers can produce under human conditions<br />
*** users get quality and reliability<br />
* foster cooperation and improved product design<br />
* facilitate quality control by branding<br />
* exert democratic control over a brand name<br />
* create resilience towards proprietory action<br />
* empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro<br />
<br />
<br />
=====Local Food Distribution=====<br />
<br />
Open Ideo :<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/<br />
<br />
==Food Production==<br />
<br />
===Allotment Gardens===<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany<br />
<br />
''<br />
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "''<br />
<br />
===Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems===<br />
<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems<br />
<br />
<br />
===Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"===<br />
<br />
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative,<br />
"back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,<br />
<br />
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
See historical perspective :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement<br />
<br />
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading<br />
<br />
Links - Local Food Project :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100<br />
<br />
<br />
===Open Source Ecology===<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm<br />
<br />
Germany :<br />
<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/ (in English)<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/aufbau-der-ose-community-in-deutschland/ (in German)<br />
<br />
==Mesh Communication Networks==<br />
<br />
Contributing to ( ? )<br />
<br />
http://leipzig.freifunk.net/<br />
<br />
==Alternative Finance==<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies,<br />
which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.<br />
<br />
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.<br />
<br />
==Alternative University and learning infrastructures==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig<br />
<br />
==Other Hubs with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
===Other Similar Projects===<br />
<br />
http://neotribalism.net/about.htm<br />
<br />
- excerpt of vision -<br />
<br />
In the near term : <br />
To create a wide variety of socially and environmentally sustainable households that each serve as a community for 10 - 20 people who share a common vision and who compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.<br />
<br />
In the long term :<br />
To create a diverse network of sustainable neoTribal villages that are composed of 10 - 20 households that are not reliant upon the current global economy and infrastructure.<br />
<br />
==Restoring Vibrancy in Declining Cities==<br />
<br />
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/brief.html<br />
<br />
==Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy==<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy<br />
<br />
==p2p Open Urbanism==<br />
<br />
http://berlinergazette.de/open-source-stadt-gemeingut-stadtplanung/<br />
<br />
==Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City==<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
===A Vision for Shareable Cities [VIDEO]===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video<br />
<br />
===Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy===<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy<br />
<br />
===#12: Food Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing<br />
<br />
===#11: Urban Agriculture===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture<br />
<br />
===#10: Shareable Rooftops===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops<br />
<br />
===#9: Recreational Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces<br />
<br />
===#8: Shareable Workspaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces<br />
<br />
===#7: Shareable Neighborhoods===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods<br />
<br />
===#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs<br />
<br />
===#5: Shareable Housing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing<br />
<br />
===#4: Shareable Commercial Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces<br />
<br />
===#3: Bike Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing<br />
<br />
===#2: Ride Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing<br />
<br />
===#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing<br />
<br />
==People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )==<br />
<br />
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...<br />
<br />
<br />
==City Infrastructures==<br />
<br />
===Transportation===<br />
<br />
===S Bahn===<br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794 <br />
<br />
*Leipzig Linien 1 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015 <br />
<br />
*Linien 2 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442 <br />
<br />
ps: ideal when coming <br />
from some other place in Germany :<br />
regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 <br />
euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn<br />
<br />
===Tram Lines===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/<br />
<br />
===New Transportation Infrastructures===<br />
<br />
====Underground Train====<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving.<br />
Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."<br />
<br />
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut:<br />
Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"<br />
<br />
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.<br />
<br />
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Urban Planning Projects ===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/<br />
<br />
==Some Historical Facts and People==<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria#History Phantasmagoria in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Leipzig_.281723.E2.80.9350.29 Bach in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
==City History==<br />
<br />
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/<br />
<br />
==Suggested Neighbourhoods==<br />
<br />
expensive ones:<br />
<br />
Südvorstadt (south)<br />
<br />
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )<br />
<br />
connewitz ( south )<br />
<br />
becoming expensive:<br />
<br />
lindenau<br />
<br />
plagwitz<br />
here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.<br />
<br />
cheaper ones :<br />
<br />
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east<br />
<br />
Stötteritz - east<br />
<br />
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :<br />
<br />
reutnitz - east<br />
Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.<br />
<br />
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.<br />
<br />
klein zschocher - south west<br />
<br />
==Past Meetings==<br />
<br />
August 2010, 3 first weeks :<br />
<br />
http://ecotopia2010.org/<br />
<br />
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53071439438&ref=ts Ecotopia Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : [http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof,+Wiesenburg,+Germany&sll=52.237051,12.903442&sspn=0.713169,2.113495&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof+Wiesenburg,+Potsdam-Mittelmark,+Brandenburg,+Germany&t=h&ll=52.001792,12.348633&spn=1.684172,3.378296&z=8 Map Link]<br />
<br />
Contact [[User:Dante|Dante]] as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize,<br />
in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.<br />
<br />
==Geographical Layering Information==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions,<br />
for representing various data about the project on layered maps,<br />
facilitating open collaboration.<br />
<br />
See discussion on :<br />
<br />
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263<br />
<br />
also considering drupal gmap extension :<br />
<br />
http://drupal.org/project/gmap<br />
<br />
===Linked Geo Data===<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/About<br />
<br />
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.<br />
<br />
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
( based in Leipzig )<br />
<br />
==Mapping for Change==<br />
<br />
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/<br />
<br />
"Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication. Our work has a strong focus on engaging and empowering communities to make positive transformations to their localities. "<br />
<br />
==Semantic Web and Graphs==<br />
<br />
http://www.automenta.com/<br />
<br />
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) <br />
Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html <br />
<br />
===AKSW Department at University of Leipzig===<br />
<br />
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.<br />
<br />
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/<br />
<br />
==Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration==<br />
<br />
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's,<br />
and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space",<br />
and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.<br />
<br />
==Events in Leipzig==<br />
<br />
===Annual "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"===<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php<br />
<br />
''"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany''."<br />
<br />
===Bach Festival===<br />
Bachfest takes place every summer. Links:<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/index.php?id=26&L=1<br />
<br />
==Articles and Reports==<br />
<br />
===ARD German News Reportage===<br />
<br />
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/mittagsmagazin/leipzig-boomt?documentId=12240372<br />
<br />
===Market speculation in Leipzig ?===<br />
<br />
http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/leipzig/citynews/mietpreise-fuer-wohnungen-in-leipzig-deutlich-gestiegen-vor-allem-westliche-stadtteile-boomen/r-citynews-a-106789.html<br />
<br />
==Other interesting projects in Nearby Cities==<br />
<br />
Halle-Saale : http://www.postkult.de/ ( "urban development from below" )<br />
<br />
<br />
===Additional References===<br />
<br />
via Christine ( http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de ) <br />
<br />
this organisation published a <br />
<br />
====cook-book==== <br />
<br />
presenting 55 projects all located <br />
<br />
=====in kreuzberg:=====<br />
<br />
http://www.buechertisch.org/uber-uns/wer-sind-wir/<br />
<br />
health project since squatting times<br />
<br />
http://www.heilehaus-berlin.de/<br />
<br />
<br />
====poland====<br />
<br />
http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/en_info.asp?id=83326<br />
<br />
=====students organisation in szczecin=====<br />
<br />
, poland<br />
<br />
http://newfamilyway.blogspot.de/p/our-contribution-nasz-wkad.html<br />
<br />
i do know dagna and tomek. you can write in german and english.<br />
<br />
<br />
====network of collectively organised work==== <br />
<br />
i put down just three co-working spaces as example:<br />
<br />
http://www.hinkelstein-druck.de/<br />
http://www.tantehorst.de/<br />
http://schnittstelle.blogsport.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.nadeshda.org/nadeshda.html<br />
<br />
====gewerbehof, genossenschaft, kollekive zusammenschlüsse====<br />
<br />
http://www.gidak.de/<br />
http://www.mehringhof.de/<br />
http://www.kerngehaeuse.de/<br />
http://www.ufafabrik.de/intro.php<br />
<br />
====housing projects====<br />
<br />
http://www.wohnportal-berlin.de/<br />
http://www.hausprojekte-solidarfonds.de/<br />
http://www.selbstbau-eg.de/<br />
<br />
====French Pdf on Cohousing====<br />
<br />
"Vivre en cohabitat,reconstruire des villages en ville"<br />
<br />
http://public.citymined.org/MICRONOMICS/vivre%20en%20cohabitat%20lietart%20article.pdf<br />
<br />
====activists, researchers====<br />
<br />
http://www.voss.solioeko.de/<br />
http://www.technet-berlin.de/mitarbeiterinnen.html<br />
<br />
====financing====<br />
<br />
http://www.labournet.de/stiftungMundA/index.html<br />
http://www.netzwerk-selbsthilfe.de<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.haushalten.org/ Haushalten.org] (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes<br />
** [http://www.haushalten.org/de/english_summary.asp Summary in English] (en)<br />
* [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat] (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany<br />
* [http://sublab.org/ Sublab.org] (de) - Hack space in Leipzig ([http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sublab Hackerspaces entry])<br />
* [http://de.veganwiki.org/vegane_vokue#leipzig de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig] (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes<br />
* [http://kuhturm.de/ kuhturm.de] (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of [http://benn.org/ Meinhard] :)<br />
* http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.<br />
* http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)<br />
* [http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel Rockzipfel Leipzig] (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children<br />
* http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase - see link below for update)<br />
* http://schwarz10.de/ Same Housing project, Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 , a few years later <br />
* [http://www.lvz-online.de/ LVZ-Online] (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]<br />
* "Hypezig" - Article in German : http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/Hypezig;art4306,2621248<br />
* "Hypezig" - Another Article in French : http://www.slate.fr/monde/85083/leipzig-nouveau-berlin-hipster<br />
<br />
[[Category:Leipzig]]<br />
[[Category:Projects]]<br />
[[Category:Sharespaces]]<br />
[[Category:Hospitality]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&diff=23972Leipzig project2016-10-24T10:51:22Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div>In [[Leipzig]] whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little [[money]]. <br />
<br />
The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for [[sharing]].<br />
<br />
'''This was a 2008 / 2009 Research Project.'''<br />
<br />
Ideas and information will still be useful to anyone interested,<br />
yet prices , although more accessible than other cities, increased subtantially in the last years. <br />
<br />
[http://www.leipzig.de/bauen-und-wohnen/stadterneuerung-in-leipzig/stadterneuerungsprojekte/netzwerk-leipziger-freiheit/ Leipzig remains fertile ground for housing projects]<br />
<br />
''' Update 2013''' : <br />
A more Modular Approach ? <br />
--> '''[[Spime Housing]] link'''<br />
<br />
Express Your interest [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis here] and [http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#People_interested here]<br />
<br />
more links [http://delicious.com/deliciousdante/leipzigproject here] or [http://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/leipzigproject here]<br />
<br />
<br />
Update : the initial feeling for potential was right, <br />
and prices changed upwards dramatically in the last years since we first proposed this approach, <br />
yet there are still opportunities to be created using such approach, <br />
in Leipzig, other east german towns, and in various places in europe and the world.<br />
<br />
Note : areas in red on this map may most likely remain accessible ;)<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bild-981616-726182.html<br />
<br />
<br />
==Housing locations==<br />
* Put findings on [http://u.nu/3tgf4 this shared Google map]<br />
<br />
==Mind Map==<br />
<br />
Edit [http://www.metamaps.cc/users/1000497548/maps/25 MindMap here] ;<br />
<br />
[http://metamaps.cc/users/new To Register to Metamap] ( password: j0jmzgen )<br />
<br />
==Current Context==<br />
<br />
http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/who-ryder-what-edge/mission_case/permanent-collective-leipzig<br />
<br />
==Current Collective with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergingleaderlabs.org/<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/08/01/announcing-emerging-leader-labs-a-social-incubator-running-on-the-gift-economy/<br />
<br />
==A Meta Project Approach==<br />
<br />
http://thepyre.org/<br />
<br />
==Outquisition Potentials==<br />
<br />
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-an-outquisition/2008/07/20<br />
<br />
'''''"What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed. We imagined that it would need an almost missionary fervor, something like the Inquisition (which largely destroyed knowledge) in reverse, a crusade of open sharing, or as Cory promptly dubbed it, the Outquisition."'''''<br />
<br />
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.be/2008/07/outquisition-and-urbanism-camp.html<br />
<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html<br />
<br />
===Nomad Tribe===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
==Aim==<br />
<br />
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )<br />
<br />
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )<br />
<br />
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest. <br />
<br />
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -,<br />
I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, <br />
enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.<br />
<br />
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.<br />
<br />
==People interested==<br />
Isis, [http://p2pfoundation.net/Alex_Rollin Alex], [[User:Dante|Dante]], [[User:Meinhard|Meinhard]], Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, [[User:Julia|Julia]], [[User:Flawer|Flawer]], [[User:TinkerGeorge|George J.]], [[user:kardan|kardan]], [[user:bhopter|helicopter]], [http://goo.gl/2VIga kata kata motivasi], http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter <br />
<br />
''[http://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&action=edit&section=3 add yourself]''<br />
<br />
==Pictures==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Google Street View===<br />
<br />
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.<br />
<br />
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l<br />
<br />
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature,<br />
and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.<br />
<br />
==Leipzig Context==<br />
<br />
[[Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation]]<br />
<br />
==House features==<br />
* Self-Organized governance<br />
* Communal and public space in ground floor <br />
* Several flats with different parties in upper floors<br />
* Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)<br />
* Community connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace Hackerspace]/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)<br />
* Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation<br />
** Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)<br />
* Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities<br />
**Organic Community Gardening (rooftop gardening?)<br />
**Partnerships with local farms and suppliers<br />
**Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars<br />
**House and neighborhood biomass/composting program<br />
* Info cafe with people's kitchen<br />
** networking with other urban projects world-wide<br />
* Renewable and efficient [[energy]]<br />
* [[Recycling]]<br />
* Sauna (yeah!)<br />
* Regular meetings<br />
* Free shop<br />
<br />
==24/7 Lab==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs<br />
<br />
==Ideal Situation==<br />
<br />
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post <br />
industrial project in Leipzig are : <br />
<br />
* being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute <br />
walk ) <br />
* being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University<br />
* being situated nearby greenery <br />
* being situated nearby gardening allotments <br />
* being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be <br />
purchased for post-manufacturing <br />
* having a unique looking architecture / building <br />
* having a potential for the development of a diversified <br />
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the <br />
atmosphere :) ) <br />
* having access to a garden and to a view (rooftop gardening is space- and energy-efficient)<br />
* being in a calm neighborhood <br />
* additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant <br />
constructible land, <br />
to build our own construction, <br />
* or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined <br />
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, <br />
such as a "gasometer"<br />
<br />
==Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?==<br />
<br />
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/<br />
<br />
==Ownership / Usership ==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership<br />
<br />
possibly in combination with<br />
<br />
[http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat]<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf<br />
<br />
Equity-Linked Affinity Network<br />
Interpersonal Process, Financial Structures and Legal<br />
Designs for Landed, Spirited, Joyous Urban Community<br />
<br />
( found via http://p2pfoundation.net/Balancing_Individualism_and_Communitarianism )<br />
<br />
==Funding and Costs==<br />
<br />
===Prices of Buildings===<br />
<br />
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :<br />
* around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
* 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
Anthony says :<br />
<br />
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town<br />
<br />
BUT<br />
<br />
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.<br />
<br />
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!<br />
<br />
Anthony says:<br />
<br />
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Renovation Costs===<br />
to evaluate - [[User:Dante|Dante]] is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?<br />
<br />
====about Dry Rot prevention====<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot#Treatment_of_dry_rot_timber<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot_treatment<br />
<br />
reply from T. :<br />
<br />
We have used heaters to dry wet wood<br />
<br />
It is very difficult to detect an infestation before it has reached an advanced stage. A non-visible infestation never really goes away, but does not propagate or threaten the wood if the wood is kept dry. We therefore are extremely reactive to the presence of uncontained water in the house; we treat it like fire.<br />
<br />
The chemical treatments are reportedly as expensive as replacing the wood. Replacing the wood can be expensive if it provides structural support. However, the real danger is getting denounced. If a company determines you have dry-rot, they are supposed to report it to the government. Then the government inspects all areas of the house and requires treatment of any dry-rot found, regardless of whether it is active. This can be financially devastating. Therefore, the department responsible for these inspections have ironically made German houses less safe.<br />
<br />
Fazit: don't buy a house if there is evidence of a sustained leak, regardless of whether there is evidence of schwamm / dry rot.<br />
<br />
===Funding===<br />
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat], potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest.<br />
For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.<br />
<br />
: It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)<br />
<br />
====Crowdsourcing and Fund Management Tools====<br />
<br />
When it will be operational in 2013, we may consider using the following tool :<br />
<br />
https://holvi.com/<br />
<br />
"Holvi is not a ‘traditional’ crowdfunding platform for projects, but instead it offers project groups an online bank service with a visual interface for handling their money and better finance keeping."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Holvi<br />
<br />
===Legal Frameworks===<br />
<br />
info book on legal frameworks :<br />
Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte<br />
http://www.stiftung-trias.de/infomaterial.html<br />
<br />
Some interesting PDFs:<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/fileadmin/Finanzierung_2008.pdf<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/uploads/media/RECHTSFORMEN_trias_1-2009.pdf<br />
* http://www.haushalten.org/Papers/haushalten_e.v._-_rechtsformen_fuer_wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
* http://www.koord.hs-mannheim.de/horizonte/h34_Krosse_Wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
<br />
===Purchasing Examples===<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros,<br />
it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.<br />
<br />
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible,<br />
hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.<br />
<br />
To pay off the credit, at no interest, <br />
<br />
one can symbolically imagine that it costs<br />
'''''"1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"'''''<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
'''''"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"'''''<br />
<br />
after which it is fully your property,<br />
although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.<br />
<br />
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.<br />
<br />
===Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase===<br />
<br />
See :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.'''<br />
<br />
Approach :<br />
<br />
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in <br />
"Viagere" / '''"Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units"''' <br />
in exchange of "Care Service Hours".<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."'''<br />
<br />
''Mutual credit'' with trusted routing,<br />
and/or ''Asymmetric exchange ?''<br />
<br />
===Living Costs and Taxes===<br />
<br />
Robrecht asks :<br />
<br />
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc<br />
of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."<br />
<br />
Anthony answers :<br />
<br />
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."<br />
<br />
==Alternative Purchasing Model==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively,<br />
without requiring to take a bank loan.<br />
<br />
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ),<br />
and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.<br />
<br />
===Examples of shareholding models in Leipzig===<br />
<br />
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html<br />
<br />
or under <br />
<br />
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :<br />
<br />
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11 <br />
<br />
http://zolle11.de/blog/<br />
<br />
more examples :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships<br />
<br />
==Lease Hold ?==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold<br />
<br />
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht<br />
<br />
==Housing Availability Search==<br />
<br />
Alternative Housing-Search<br />
Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")<br />
<br />
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :<br />
<br />
Purchase :<br />
<br />
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/anzeigen<br />
<br />
Rent :<br />
<br />
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100<br />
<br />
Land and Building Projects :<br />
<br />
http://lwbimmobilien.de/<br />
<br />
==Buildings of Interest==<br />
<br />
In Neustadt :<br />
<br />
In ...<br />
<br />
===Gasometer===<br />
<br />
<br />
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=4276236400981551169&q=gasometer+leipzig&hl=de&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=3zWVTKHsNo6h_Ab_4OXbAQ&sig2=zeauLQrFuK9fcOiOZpleGw<br />
<br />
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/<br />
<br />
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=leipzig+germany&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.817312,58.798828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Bundesrepublik+Deutschland&ll=51.352624,12.379602&spn=0.000985,0.001794&t=h&z=19<br />
<br />
it most likely looks like this from inside :<br />
<br />
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg<br />
<br />
==Modular Housing==<br />
<br />
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki<br />
<br />
==Spime Housing and Furnitecture==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
Using Tensegrity,<br />
organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders",<br />
but also architects, engineers, students...<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
==Groups for Leipzig== <br />
<br />
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.<br />
* Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig<br />
* Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing<br />
<br />
==Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure<br />
<br />
===Infrastructure Mapping===<br />
<br />
[http://www.integralcity.com/civil-society/map-visions-and-values-assets.html Link to Integral Cities]<br />
<br />
==Culture and Community==<br />
<br />
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm<br />
<br />
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )<br />
<br />
==Art Center==<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html<br />
<br />
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"<br />
<br />
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html<br />
<br />
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"<br />
<br />
==Income Streams & Local Economy==<br />
<br />
Ideally (according to [[User:Dante|Dante]]), developing "[[resilient communities]]" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from [[food]] to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "[http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology Open Source Ecology]" such as "[http://factorefarm.org/ Factor E-Farm]".<br />
<br />
===Cooperative Ecology Project===<br />
<br />
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation wiki] you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons commons]. <br />
<br />
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.<br />
<br />
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_in_Multi-Unit_Housing on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing].<br />
<br />
==="Jobless Recovery"===<br />
<br />
http://www.pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html<br />
<br />
===Example - New York Manufacturing Cooperative / Lab===<br />
<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/nyregion/brooklyn-navy-yard-is-home-to-manufacturing-cooperative.html?_r=0<br />
<br />
<br />
===Other brainstormings===<br />
<br />
====First stage ?====<br />
* Collaborative research<br />
* Plan development<br />
* Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig<br />
* Musical Parties<br />
* Added value food production ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food slow food] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksküche volks kuche] ? )<br />
* Events and [[hospitality]]<br />
<br />
====Not for Private Profit Shops====<br />
<br />
* Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/<br />
* Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres - <br />
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
* "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche<br />
<br />
====Volunteering Initiatives====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service<br />
<br />
More info regarding EVS :<br />
<br />
Overall overview with short video presentation :<br />
<br />
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html<br />
<br />
current partner organizations data base :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm<br />
<br />
procedures<br />
<br />
for volunteers :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm<br />
<br />
====Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded program ?<br />
<br />
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/<br />
<br />
=====Note : Entredonneurship=====<br />
<br />
"Entre-Donneur"<br />
<br />
= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', <br />
proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Entredonneur<br />
<br />
http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/EntreDonneur<br />
<br />
====Fablabs/Workshops====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab<br />
<br />
====Earth De-polluting Cooperative====<br />
<br />
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify<br />
industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
====Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives====<br />
<br />
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design<br />
<br />
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "<br />
<br />
====Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing====<br />
<br />
see above - <br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing<br />
<br />
====Energy====<br />
<br />
Various sources of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy renewable energy] can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water,<br />
and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
=====Internal Combustion=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle<br />
<br />
=====Electrolysis=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water<br />
<br />
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy<br />
<br />
====Alternative Engine Propulsion====<br />
<br />
See [[Resilient Engine]]<br />
<br />
====Building Open Source Cars====<br />
<br />
TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8jdx-lf2Dw<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Wikispeed<br />
<br />
http://www.wikispeed.com/<br />
<br />
====Distribution of Peer Production====<br />
<br />
=====Fair Ware=====<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare<br />
<br />
''' proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure" '''<br />
<br />
====== Fair Ware Goals ======<br />
<br />
* bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way<br />
* make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met <br />
*** creative people get their share<br />
*** producers can produce under human conditions<br />
*** users get quality and reliability<br />
* foster cooperation and improved product design<br />
* facilitate quality control by branding<br />
* exert democratic control over a brand name<br />
* create resilience towards proprietory action<br />
* empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro<br />
<br />
<br />
=====Local Food Distribution=====<br />
<br />
Open Ideo :<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/<br />
<br />
==Food Production==<br />
<br />
===Allotment Gardens===<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany<br />
<br />
''<br />
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "''<br />
<br />
===Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems===<br />
<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems<br />
<br />
<br />
===Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"===<br />
<br />
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative,<br />
"back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,<br />
<br />
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
See historical perspective :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement<br />
<br />
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading<br />
<br />
Links - Local Food Project :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100<br />
<br />
<br />
===Open Source Ecology===<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm<br />
<br />
Germany :<br />
<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/ (in English)<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/aufbau-der-ose-community-in-deutschland/ (in German)<br />
<br />
==Mesh Communication Networks==<br />
<br />
Contributing to ( ? )<br />
<br />
http://leipzig.freifunk.net/<br />
<br />
==Alternative Finance==<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies,<br />
which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.<br />
<br />
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.<br />
<br />
==Alternative University and learning infrastructures==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig<br />
<br />
==Other Hubs with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
===Other Similar Projects===<br />
<br />
http://neotribalism.net/about.htm<br />
<br />
- excerpt of vision -<br />
<br />
In the near term : <br />
To create a wide variety of socially and environmentally sustainable households that each serve as a community for 10 - 20 people who share a common vision and who compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.<br />
<br />
In the long term :<br />
To create a diverse network of sustainable neoTribal villages that are composed of 10 - 20 households that are not reliant upon the current global economy and infrastructure.<br />
<br />
==Restoring Vibrancy in Declining Cities==<br />
<br />
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/brief.html<br />
<br />
==Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy==<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy<br />
<br />
==p2p Open Urbanism==<br />
<br />
http://berlinergazette.de/open-source-stadt-gemeingut-stadtplanung/<br />
<br />
==Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City==<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
===A Vision for Shareable Cities [VIDEO]===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video<br />
<br />
===Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy===<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy<br />
<br />
===#12: Food Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing<br />
<br />
===#11: Urban Agriculture===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture<br />
<br />
===#10: Shareable Rooftops===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops<br />
<br />
===#9: Recreational Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces<br />
<br />
===#8: Shareable Workspaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces<br />
<br />
===#7: Shareable Neighborhoods===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods<br />
<br />
===#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs<br />
<br />
===#5: Shareable Housing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing<br />
<br />
===#4: Shareable Commercial Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces<br />
<br />
===#3: Bike Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing<br />
<br />
===#2: Ride Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing<br />
<br />
===#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing<br />
<br />
==People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )==<br />
<br />
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...<br />
<br />
<br />
==City Infrastructures==<br />
<br />
===Transportation===<br />
<br />
===S Bahn===<br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794 <br />
<br />
*Leipzig Linien 1 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015 <br />
<br />
*Linien 2 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442 <br />
<br />
ps: ideal when coming <br />
from some other place in Germany :<br />
regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 <br />
euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn<br />
<br />
===Tram Lines===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/<br />
<br />
===New Transportation Infrastructures===<br />
<br />
====Underground Train====<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving.<br />
Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."<br />
<br />
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut:<br />
Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"<br />
<br />
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.<br />
<br />
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Urban Planning Projects ===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/<br />
<br />
==Some Historical Facts and People==<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria#History Phantasmagoria in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Leipzig_.281723.E2.80.9350.29 Bach in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
==City History==<br />
<br />
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/<br />
<br />
==Suggested Neighbourhoods==<br />
<br />
expensive ones:<br />
<br />
Südvorstadt (south)<br />
<br />
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )<br />
<br />
connewitz ( south )<br />
<br />
becoming expensive:<br />
<br />
lindenau<br />
<br />
plagwitz<br />
here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.<br />
<br />
cheaper ones :<br />
<br />
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east<br />
<br />
Stötteritz - east<br />
<br />
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :<br />
<br />
reutnitz - east<br />
Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.<br />
<br />
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.<br />
<br />
klein zschocher - south west<br />
<br />
==Past Meetings==<br />
<br />
August 2010, 3 first weeks :<br />
<br />
http://ecotopia2010.org/<br />
<br />
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53071439438&ref=ts Ecotopia Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : [http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof,+Wiesenburg,+Germany&sll=52.237051,12.903442&sspn=0.713169,2.113495&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof+Wiesenburg,+Potsdam-Mittelmark,+Brandenburg,+Germany&t=h&ll=52.001792,12.348633&spn=1.684172,3.378296&z=8 Map Link]<br />
<br />
Contact [[User:Dante|Dante]] as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize,<br />
in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.<br />
<br />
==Geographical Layering Information==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions,<br />
for representing various data about the project on layered maps,<br />
facilitating open collaboration.<br />
<br />
See discussion on :<br />
<br />
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263<br />
<br />
also considering drupal gmap extension :<br />
<br />
http://drupal.org/project/gmap<br />
<br />
===Linked Geo Data===<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/About<br />
<br />
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.<br />
<br />
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
( based in Leipzig )<br />
<br />
==Mapping for Change==<br />
<br />
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/<br />
<br />
"Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication. Our work has a strong focus on engaging and empowering communities to make positive transformations to their localities. "<br />
<br />
==Semantic Web and Graphs==<br />
<br />
http://www.automenta.com/<br />
<br />
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) <br />
Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html <br />
<br />
===AKSW Department at University of Leipzig===<br />
<br />
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.<br />
<br />
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/<br />
<br />
==Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration==<br />
<br />
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's,<br />
and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space",<br />
and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.<br />
<br />
==Events in Leipzig==<br />
<br />
===Annual "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"===<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php<br />
<br />
''"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany''."<br />
<br />
===Bach Festival===<br />
Bachfest takes place every summer. Links:<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/index.php?id=26&L=1<br />
<br />
==Articles and Reports==<br />
<br />
===ARD German News Reportage===<br />
<br />
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/mittagsmagazin/leipzig-boomt?documentId=12240372<br />
<br />
===Market speculation in Leipzig ?===<br />
<br />
http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/leipzig/citynews/mietpreise-fuer-wohnungen-in-leipzig-deutlich-gestiegen-vor-allem-westliche-stadtteile-boomen/r-citynews-a-106789.html<br />
<br />
==Other interesting projects in Nearby Cities==<br />
<br />
Halle-Saale : http://www.postkult.de/ ( "urban development from below" )<br />
<br />
<br />
===Additional References===<br />
<br />
via Christine ( http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de ) <br />
<br />
this organisation published a <br />
<br />
====cook-book==== <br />
<br />
presenting 55 projects all located <br />
<br />
=====in kreuzberg:=====<br />
<br />
http://www.buechertisch.org/uber-uns/wer-sind-wir/<br />
<br />
health project since squatting times<br />
<br />
http://www.heilehaus-berlin.de/<br />
<br />
<br />
====poland====<br />
<br />
http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/en_info.asp?id=83326<br />
<br />
=====students organisation in szczecin=====<br />
<br />
, poland<br />
<br />
http://newfamilyway.blogspot.de/p/our-contribution-nasz-wkad.html<br />
<br />
i do know dagna and tomek. you can write in german and english.<br />
<br />
<br />
====network of collectively organised work==== <br />
<br />
i put down just three co-working spaces as example:<br />
<br />
http://www.hinkelstein-druck.de/<br />
http://www.tantehorst.de/<br />
http://schnittstelle.blogsport.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.nadeshda.org/nadeshda.html<br />
<br />
====gewerbehof, genossenschaft, kollekive zusammenschlüsse====<br />
<br />
http://www.gidak.de/<br />
http://www.mehringhof.de/<br />
http://www.kerngehaeuse.de/<br />
http://www.ufafabrik.de/intro.php<br />
<br />
====housing projects====<br />
<br />
http://www.wohnportal-berlin.de/<br />
http://www.hausprojekte-solidarfonds.de/<br />
http://www.selbstbau-eg.de/<br />
<br />
====French Pdf on Cohousing====<br />
<br />
"Vivre en cohabitat,reconstruire des villages en ville"<br />
<br />
http://public.citymined.org/MICRONOMICS/vivre%20en%20cohabitat%20lietart%20article.pdf<br />
<br />
====activists, researchers====<br />
<br />
http://www.voss.solioeko.de/<br />
http://www.technet-berlin.de/mitarbeiterinnen.html<br />
<br />
====financing====<br />
<br />
http://www.labournet.de/stiftungMundA/index.html<br />
http://www.netzwerk-selbsthilfe.de<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.haushalten.org/ Haushalten.org] (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes<br />
** [http://www.haushalten.org/de/english_summary.asp Summary in English] (en)<br />
* [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat] (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany<br />
* [http://sublab.org/ Sublab.org] (de) - Hack space in Leipzig ([http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sublab Hackerspaces entry])<br />
* [http://de.veganwiki.org/vegane_vokue#leipzig de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig] (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes<br />
* [http://kuhturm.de/ kuhturm.de] (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of [http://benn.org/ Meinhard] :)<br />
* http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.<br />
* http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)<br />
* [http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel Rockzipfel Leipzig] (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children<br />
* http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase - see link below for update)<br />
* http://schwarz10.de/ Same Housing project, Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 , a few years later <br />
* [http://www.lvz-online.de/ LVZ-Online] (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]<br />
* "Hypezig" - Article in German : http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/Hypezig;art4306,2621248<br />
* "Hypezig" - Another Article in French : http://www.slate.fr/monde/85083/leipzig-nouveau-berlin-hipster<br />
<br />
[[Category:Leipzig]]<br />
[[Category:Projects]]<br />
[[Category:Sharespaces]]<br />
[[Category:Hospitality]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&diff=23971Leipzig project2016-10-24T10:50:51Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div>In [[Leipzig]] whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little [[money]]. <br />
<br />
The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for [[sharing]].<br />
<br />
'''This was a 2008 / 2009 Research Project.'''<br />
<br />
Ideas and information will still be useful to anyone interested,<br />
yet prices , although more accessible than other cities, increased several fold in the last years. <br />
<br />
[http://www.leipzig.de/bauen-und-wohnen/stadterneuerung-in-leipzig/stadterneuerungsprojekte/netzwerk-leipziger-freiheit/ Leipzig remains fertile ground for housing projects]<br />
<br />
''' Update 2013''' : <br />
A more Modular Approach ? <br />
--> '''[[Spime Housing]] link'''<br />
<br />
Express Your interest [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis here] and [http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#People_interested here]<br />
<br />
more links [http://delicious.com/deliciousdante/leipzigproject here] or [http://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/leipzigproject here]<br />
<br />
<br />
Update : the initial feeling for potential was right, <br />
and prices changed upwards dramatically in the last years since we first proposed this approach, <br />
yet there are still opportunities to be created using such approach, <br />
in Leipzig, other east german towns, and in various places in europe and the world.<br />
<br />
Note : areas in red on this map may most likely remain accessible ;)<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bild-981616-726182.html<br />
<br />
<br />
==Housing locations==<br />
* Put findings on [http://u.nu/3tgf4 this shared Google map]<br />
<br />
==Mind Map==<br />
<br />
Edit [http://www.metamaps.cc/users/1000497548/maps/25 MindMap here] ;<br />
<br />
[http://metamaps.cc/users/new To Register to Metamap] ( password: j0jmzgen )<br />
<br />
==Current Context==<br />
<br />
http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/who-ryder-what-edge/mission_case/permanent-collective-leipzig<br />
<br />
==Current Collective with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergingleaderlabs.org/<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/08/01/announcing-emerging-leader-labs-a-social-incubator-running-on-the-gift-economy/<br />
<br />
==A Meta Project Approach==<br />
<br />
http://thepyre.org/<br />
<br />
==Outquisition Potentials==<br />
<br />
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-an-outquisition/2008/07/20<br />
<br />
'''''"What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed. We imagined that it would need an almost missionary fervor, something like the Inquisition (which largely destroyed knowledge) in reverse, a crusade of open sharing, or as Cory promptly dubbed it, the Outquisition."'''''<br />
<br />
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.be/2008/07/outquisition-and-urbanism-camp.html<br />
<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html<br />
<br />
===Nomad Tribe===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
==Aim==<br />
<br />
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )<br />
<br />
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )<br />
<br />
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest. <br />
<br />
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -,<br />
I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, <br />
enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.<br />
<br />
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.<br />
<br />
==People interested==<br />
Isis, [http://p2pfoundation.net/Alex_Rollin Alex], [[User:Dante|Dante]], [[User:Meinhard|Meinhard]], Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, [[User:Julia|Julia]], [[User:Flawer|Flawer]], [[User:TinkerGeorge|George J.]], [[user:kardan|kardan]], [[user:bhopter|helicopter]], [http://goo.gl/2VIga kata kata motivasi], http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter <br />
<br />
''[http://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&action=edit&section=3 add yourself]''<br />
<br />
==Pictures==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Google Street View===<br />
<br />
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.<br />
<br />
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l<br />
<br />
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature,<br />
and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.<br />
<br />
==Leipzig Context==<br />
<br />
[[Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation]]<br />
<br />
==House features==<br />
* Self-Organized governance<br />
* Communal and public space in ground floor <br />
* Several flats with different parties in upper floors<br />
* Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)<br />
* Community connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace Hackerspace]/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)<br />
* Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation<br />
** Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)<br />
* Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities<br />
**Organic Community Gardening (rooftop gardening?)<br />
**Partnerships with local farms and suppliers<br />
**Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars<br />
**House and neighborhood biomass/composting program<br />
* Info cafe with people's kitchen<br />
** networking with other urban projects world-wide<br />
* Renewable and efficient [[energy]]<br />
* [[Recycling]]<br />
* Sauna (yeah!)<br />
* Regular meetings<br />
* Free shop<br />
<br />
==24/7 Lab==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs<br />
<br />
==Ideal Situation==<br />
<br />
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post <br />
industrial project in Leipzig are : <br />
<br />
* being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute <br />
walk ) <br />
* being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University<br />
* being situated nearby greenery <br />
* being situated nearby gardening allotments <br />
* being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be <br />
purchased for post-manufacturing <br />
* having a unique looking architecture / building <br />
* having a potential for the development of a diversified <br />
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the <br />
atmosphere :) ) <br />
* having access to a garden and to a view (rooftop gardening is space- and energy-efficient)<br />
* being in a calm neighborhood <br />
* additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant <br />
constructible land, <br />
to build our own construction, <br />
* or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined <br />
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, <br />
such as a "gasometer"<br />
<br />
==Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?==<br />
<br />
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/<br />
<br />
==Ownership / Usership ==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership<br />
<br />
possibly in combination with<br />
<br />
[http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat]<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf<br />
<br />
Equity-Linked Affinity Network<br />
Interpersonal Process, Financial Structures and Legal<br />
Designs for Landed, Spirited, Joyous Urban Community<br />
<br />
( found via http://p2pfoundation.net/Balancing_Individualism_and_Communitarianism )<br />
<br />
==Funding and Costs==<br />
<br />
===Prices of Buildings===<br />
<br />
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :<br />
* around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
* 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
Anthony says :<br />
<br />
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town<br />
<br />
BUT<br />
<br />
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.<br />
<br />
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!<br />
<br />
Anthony says:<br />
<br />
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Renovation Costs===<br />
to evaluate - [[User:Dante|Dante]] is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?<br />
<br />
====about Dry Rot prevention====<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot#Treatment_of_dry_rot_timber<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot_treatment<br />
<br />
reply from T. :<br />
<br />
We have used heaters to dry wet wood<br />
<br />
It is very difficult to detect an infestation before it has reached an advanced stage. A non-visible infestation never really goes away, but does not propagate or threaten the wood if the wood is kept dry. We therefore are extremely reactive to the presence of uncontained water in the house; we treat it like fire.<br />
<br />
The chemical treatments are reportedly as expensive as replacing the wood. Replacing the wood can be expensive if it provides structural support. However, the real danger is getting denounced. If a company determines you have dry-rot, they are supposed to report it to the government. Then the government inspects all areas of the house and requires treatment of any dry-rot found, regardless of whether it is active. This can be financially devastating. Therefore, the department responsible for these inspections have ironically made German houses less safe.<br />
<br />
Fazit: don't buy a house if there is evidence of a sustained leak, regardless of whether there is evidence of schwamm / dry rot.<br />
<br />
===Funding===<br />
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat], potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest.<br />
For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.<br />
<br />
: It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)<br />
<br />
====Crowdsourcing and Fund Management Tools====<br />
<br />
When it will be operational in 2013, we may consider using the following tool :<br />
<br />
https://holvi.com/<br />
<br />
"Holvi is not a ‘traditional’ crowdfunding platform for projects, but instead it offers project groups an online bank service with a visual interface for handling their money and better finance keeping."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Holvi<br />
<br />
===Legal Frameworks===<br />
<br />
info book on legal frameworks :<br />
Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte<br />
http://www.stiftung-trias.de/infomaterial.html<br />
<br />
Some interesting PDFs:<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/fileadmin/Finanzierung_2008.pdf<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/uploads/media/RECHTSFORMEN_trias_1-2009.pdf<br />
* http://www.haushalten.org/Papers/haushalten_e.v._-_rechtsformen_fuer_wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
* http://www.koord.hs-mannheim.de/horizonte/h34_Krosse_Wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
<br />
===Purchasing Examples===<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros,<br />
it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.<br />
<br />
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible,<br />
hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.<br />
<br />
To pay off the credit, at no interest, <br />
<br />
one can symbolically imagine that it costs<br />
'''''"1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"'''''<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
'''''"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"'''''<br />
<br />
after which it is fully your property,<br />
although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.<br />
<br />
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.<br />
<br />
===Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase===<br />
<br />
See :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.'''<br />
<br />
Approach :<br />
<br />
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in <br />
"Viagere" / '''"Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units"''' <br />
in exchange of "Care Service Hours".<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."'''<br />
<br />
''Mutual credit'' with trusted routing,<br />
and/or ''Asymmetric exchange ?''<br />
<br />
===Living Costs and Taxes===<br />
<br />
Robrecht asks :<br />
<br />
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc<br />
of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."<br />
<br />
Anthony answers :<br />
<br />
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."<br />
<br />
==Alternative Purchasing Model==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively,<br />
without requiring to take a bank loan.<br />
<br />
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ),<br />
and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.<br />
<br />
===Examples of shareholding models in Leipzig===<br />
<br />
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html<br />
<br />
or under <br />
<br />
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :<br />
<br />
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11 <br />
<br />
http://zolle11.de/blog/<br />
<br />
more examples :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships<br />
<br />
==Lease Hold ?==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold<br />
<br />
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht<br />
<br />
==Housing Availability Search==<br />
<br />
Alternative Housing-Search<br />
Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")<br />
<br />
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :<br />
<br />
Purchase :<br />
<br />
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/anzeigen<br />
<br />
Rent :<br />
<br />
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100<br />
<br />
Land and Building Projects :<br />
<br />
http://lwbimmobilien.de/<br />
<br />
==Buildings of Interest==<br />
<br />
In Neustadt :<br />
<br />
In ...<br />
<br />
===Gasometer===<br />
<br />
<br />
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=4276236400981551169&q=gasometer+leipzig&hl=de&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=3zWVTKHsNo6h_Ab_4OXbAQ&sig2=zeauLQrFuK9fcOiOZpleGw<br />
<br />
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/<br />
<br />
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=leipzig+germany&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.817312,58.798828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Bundesrepublik+Deutschland&ll=51.352624,12.379602&spn=0.000985,0.001794&t=h&z=19<br />
<br />
it most likely looks like this from inside :<br />
<br />
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg<br />
<br />
==Modular Housing==<br />
<br />
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki<br />
<br />
==Spime Housing and Furnitecture==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
Using Tensegrity,<br />
organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders",<br />
but also architects, engineers, students...<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
==Groups for Leipzig== <br />
<br />
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.<br />
* Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig<br />
* Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing<br />
<br />
==Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure<br />
<br />
===Infrastructure Mapping===<br />
<br />
[http://www.integralcity.com/civil-society/map-visions-and-values-assets.html Link to Integral Cities]<br />
<br />
==Culture and Community==<br />
<br />
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm<br />
<br />
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )<br />
<br />
==Art Center==<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html<br />
<br />
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"<br />
<br />
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html<br />
<br />
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"<br />
<br />
==Income Streams & Local Economy==<br />
<br />
Ideally (according to [[User:Dante|Dante]]), developing "[[resilient communities]]" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from [[food]] to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "[http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology Open Source Ecology]" such as "[http://factorefarm.org/ Factor E-Farm]".<br />
<br />
===Cooperative Ecology Project===<br />
<br />
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation wiki] you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons commons]. <br />
<br />
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.<br />
<br />
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_in_Multi-Unit_Housing on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing].<br />
<br />
==="Jobless Recovery"===<br />
<br />
http://www.pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html<br />
<br />
===Example - New York Manufacturing Cooperative / Lab===<br />
<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/nyregion/brooklyn-navy-yard-is-home-to-manufacturing-cooperative.html?_r=0<br />
<br />
<br />
===Other brainstormings===<br />
<br />
====First stage ?====<br />
* Collaborative research<br />
* Plan development<br />
* Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig<br />
* Musical Parties<br />
* Added value food production ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food slow food] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksküche volks kuche] ? )<br />
* Events and [[hospitality]]<br />
<br />
====Not for Private Profit Shops====<br />
<br />
* Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/<br />
* Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres - <br />
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
* "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche<br />
<br />
====Volunteering Initiatives====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service<br />
<br />
More info regarding EVS :<br />
<br />
Overall overview with short video presentation :<br />
<br />
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html<br />
<br />
current partner organizations data base :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm<br />
<br />
procedures<br />
<br />
for volunteers :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm<br />
<br />
====Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded program ?<br />
<br />
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/<br />
<br />
=====Note : Entredonneurship=====<br />
<br />
"Entre-Donneur"<br />
<br />
= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', <br />
proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Entredonneur<br />
<br />
http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/EntreDonneur<br />
<br />
====Fablabs/Workshops====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab<br />
<br />
====Earth De-polluting Cooperative====<br />
<br />
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify<br />
industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
====Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives====<br />
<br />
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design<br />
<br />
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "<br />
<br />
====Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing====<br />
<br />
see above - <br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing<br />
<br />
====Energy====<br />
<br />
Various sources of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy renewable energy] can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water,<br />
and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
=====Internal Combustion=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle<br />
<br />
=====Electrolysis=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water<br />
<br />
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy<br />
<br />
====Alternative Engine Propulsion====<br />
<br />
See [[Resilient Engine]]<br />
<br />
====Building Open Source Cars====<br />
<br />
TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8jdx-lf2Dw<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Wikispeed<br />
<br />
http://www.wikispeed.com/<br />
<br />
====Distribution of Peer Production====<br />
<br />
=====Fair Ware=====<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare<br />
<br />
''' proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure" '''<br />
<br />
====== Fair Ware Goals ======<br />
<br />
* bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way<br />
* make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met <br />
*** creative people get their share<br />
*** producers can produce under human conditions<br />
*** users get quality and reliability<br />
* foster cooperation and improved product design<br />
* facilitate quality control by branding<br />
* exert democratic control over a brand name<br />
* create resilience towards proprietory action<br />
* empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro<br />
<br />
<br />
=====Local Food Distribution=====<br />
<br />
Open Ideo :<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/<br />
<br />
==Food Production==<br />
<br />
===Allotment Gardens===<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany<br />
<br />
''<br />
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "''<br />
<br />
===Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems===<br />
<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems<br />
<br />
<br />
===Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"===<br />
<br />
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative,<br />
"back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,<br />
<br />
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
See historical perspective :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement<br />
<br />
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading<br />
<br />
Links - Local Food Project :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100<br />
<br />
<br />
===Open Source Ecology===<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm<br />
<br />
Germany :<br />
<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/ (in English)<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/aufbau-der-ose-community-in-deutschland/ (in German)<br />
<br />
==Mesh Communication Networks==<br />
<br />
Contributing to ( ? )<br />
<br />
http://leipzig.freifunk.net/<br />
<br />
==Alternative Finance==<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies,<br />
which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.<br />
<br />
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.<br />
<br />
==Alternative University and learning infrastructures==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig<br />
<br />
==Other Hubs with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
===Other Similar Projects===<br />
<br />
http://neotribalism.net/about.htm<br />
<br />
- excerpt of vision -<br />
<br />
In the near term : <br />
To create a wide variety of socially and environmentally sustainable households that each serve as a community for 10 - 20 people who share a common vision and who compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.<br />
<br />
In the long term :<br />
To create a diverse network of sustainable neoTribal villages that are composed of 10 - 20 households that are not reliant upon the current global economy and infrastructure.<br />
<br />
==Restoring Vibrancy in Declining Cities==<br />
<br />
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/brief.html<br />
<br />
==Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy==<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy<br />
<br />
==p2p Open Urbanism==<br />
<br />
http://berlinergazette.de/open-source-stadt-gemeingut-stadtplanung/<br />
<br />
==Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City==<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
===A Vision for Shareable Cities [VIDEO]===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video<br />
<br />
===Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy===<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy<br />
<br />
===#12: Food Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing<br />
<br />
===#11: Urban Agriculture===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture<br />
<br />
===#10: Shareable Rooftops===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops<br />
<br />
===#9: Recreational Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces<br />
<br />
===#8: Shareable Workspaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces<br />
<br />
===#7: Shareable Neighborhoods===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods<br />
<br />
===#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs<br />
<br />
===#5: Shareable Housing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing<br />
<br />
===#4: Shareable Commercial Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces<br />
<br />
===#3: Bike Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing<br />
<br />
===#2: Ride Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing<br />
<br />
===#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing<br />
<br />
==People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )==<br />
<br />
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...<br />
<br />
<br />
==City Infrastructures==<br />
<br />
===Transportation===<br />
<br />
===S Bahn===<br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794 <br />
<br />
*Leipzig Linien 1 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015 <br />
<br />
*Linien 2 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442 <br />
<br />
ps: ideal when coming <br />
from some other place in Germany :<br />
regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 <br />
euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn<br />
<br />
===Tram Lines===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/<br />
<br />
===New Transportation Infrastructures===<br />
<br />
====Underground Train====<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving.<br />
Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."<br />
<br />
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut:<br />
Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"<br />
<br />
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.<br />
<br />
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Urban Planning Projects ===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/<br />
<br />
==Some Historical Facts and People==<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria#History Phantasmagoria in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Leipzig_.281723.E2.80.9350.29 Bach in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
==City History==<br />
<br />
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/<br />
<br />
==Suggested Neighbourhoods==<br />
<br />
expensive ones:<br />
<br />
Südvorstadt (south)<br />
<br />
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )<br />
<br />
connewitz ( south )<br />
<br />
becoming expensive:<br />
<br />
lindenau<br />
<br />
plagwitz<br />
here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.<br />
<br />
cheaper ones :<br />
<br />
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east<br />
<br />
Stötteritz - east<br />
<br />
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :<br />
<br />
reutnitz - east<br />
Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.<br />
<br />
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.<br />
<br />
klein zschocher - south west<br />
<br />
==Past Meetings==<br />
<br />
August 2010, 3 first weeks :<br />
<br />
http://ecotopia2010.org/<br />
<br />
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53071439438&ref=ts Ecotopia Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : [http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof,+Wiesenburg,+Germany&sll=52.237051,12.903442&sspn=0.713169,2.113495&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof+Wiesenburg,+Potsdam-Mittelmark,+Brandenburg,+Germany&t=h&ll=52.001792,12.348633&spn=1.684172,3.378296&z=8 Map Link]<br />
<br />
Contact [[User:Dante|Dante]] as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize,<br />
in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.<br />
<br />
==Geographical Layering Information==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions,<br />
for representing various data about the project on layered maps,<br />
facilitating open collaboration.<br />
<br />
See discussion on :<br />
<br />
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263<br />
<br />
also considering drupal gmap extension :<br />
<br />
http://drupal.org/project/gmap<br />
<br />
===Linked Geo Data===<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/About<br />
<br />
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.<br />
<br />
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
( based in Leipzig )<br />
<br />
==Mapping for Change==<br />
<br />
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/<br />
<br />
"Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication. Our work has a strong focus on engaging and empowering communities to make positive transformations to their localities. "<br />
<br />
==Semantic Web and Graphs==<br />
<br />
http://www.automenta.com/<br />
<br />
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) <br />
Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html <br />
<br />
===AKSW Department at University of Leipzig===<br />
<br />
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.<br />
<br />
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/<br />
<br />
==Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration==<br />
<br />
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's,<br />
and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space",<br />
and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.<br />
<br />
==Events in Leipzig==<br />
<br />
===Annual "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"===<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php<br />
<br />
''"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany''."<br />
<br />
===Bach Festival===<br />
Bachfest takes place every summer. Links:<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/index.php?id=26&L=1<br />
<br />
==Articles and Reports==<br />
<br />
===ARD German News Reportage===<br />
<br />
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/mittagsmagazin/leipzig-boomt?documentId=12240372<br />
<br />
===Market speculation in Leipzig ?===<br />
<br />
http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/leipzig/citynews/mietpreise-fuer-wohnungen-in-leipzig-deutlich-gestiegen-vor-allem-westliche-stadtteile-boomen/r-citynews-a-106789.html<br />
<br />
==Other interesting projects in Nearby Cities==<br />
<br />
Halle-Saale : http://www.postkult.de/ ( "urban development from below" )<br />
<br />
<br />
===Additional References===<br />
<br />
via Christine ( http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de ) <br />
<br />
this organisation published a <br />
<br />
====cook-book==== <br />
<br />
presenting 55 projects all located <br />
<br />
=====in kreuzberg:=====<br />
<br />
http://www.buechertisch.org/uber-uns/wer-sind-wir/<br />
<br />
health project since squatting times<br />
<br />
http://www.heilehaus-berlin.de/<br />
<br />
<br />
====poland====<br />
<br />
http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/en_info.asp?id=83326<br />
<br />
=====students organisation in szczecin=====<br />
<br />
, poland<br />
<br />
http://newfamilyway.blogspot.de/p/our-contribution-nasz-wkad.html<br />
<br />
i do know dagna and tomek. you can write in german and english.<br />
<br />
<br />
====network of collectively organised work==== <br />
<br />
i put down just three co-working spaces as example:<br />
<br />
http://www.hinkelstein-druck.de/<br />
http://www.tantehorst.de/<br />
http://schnittstelle.blogsport.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.nadeshda.org/nadeshda.html<br />
<br />
====gewerbehof, genossenschaft, kollekive zusammenschlüsse====<br />
<br />
http://www.gidak.de/<br />
http://www.mehringhof.de/<br />
http://www.kerngehaeuse.de/<br />
http://www.ufafabrik.de/intro.php<br />
<br />
====housing projects====<br />
<br />
http://www.wohnportal-berlin.de/<br />
http://www.hausprojekte-solidarfonds.de/<br />
http://www.selbstbau-eg.de/<br />
<br />
====French Pdf on Cohousing====<br />
<br />
"Vivre en cohabitat,reconstruire des villages en ville"<br />
<br />
http://public.citymined.org/MICRONOMICS/vivre%20en%20cohabitat%20lietart%20article.pdf<br />
<br />
====activists, researchers====<br />
<br />
http://www.voss.solioeko.de/<br />
http://www.technet-berlin.de/mitarbeiterinnen.html<br />
<br />
====financing====<br />
<br />
http://www.labournet.de/stiftungMundA/index.html<br />
http://www.netzwerk-selbsthilfe.de<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.haushalten.org/ Haushalten.org] (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes<br />
** [http://www.haushalten.org/de/english_summary.asp Summary in English] (en)<br />
* [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat] (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany<br />
* [http://sublab.org/ Sublab.org] (de) - Hack space in Leipzig ([http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sublab Hackerspaces entry])<br />
* [http://de.veganwiki.org/vegane_vokue#leipzig de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig] (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes<br />
* [http://kuhturm.de/ kuhturm.de] (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of [http://benn.org/ Meinhard] :)<br />
* http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.<br />
* http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)<br />
* [http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel Rockzipfel Leipzig] (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children<br />
* http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase - see link below for update)<br />
* http://schwarz10.de/ Same Housing project, Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 , a few years later <br />
* [http://www.lvz-online.de/ LVZ-Online] (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]<br />
* "Hypezig" - Article in German : http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/Hypezig;art4306,2621248<br />
* "Hypezig" - Another Article in French : http://www.slate.fr/monde/85083/leipzig-nouveau-berlin-hipster<br />
<br />
[[Category:Leipzig]]<br />
[[Category:Projects]]<br />
[[Category:Sharespaces]]<br />
[[Category:Hospitality]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&diff=23970Leipzig project2016-10-24T10:44:42Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div>In [[Leipzig]] whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little [[money]]. <br />
<br />
The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for [[sharing]].<br />
<br />
'''This was a 2008 / 2009 Research Project.'''<br />
<br />
''' Update 2013''' : <br />
A more Modular Approach ? <br />
--> '''[[Spime Housing]] link'''<br />
<br />
Express Your interest [http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis here] and [http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#People_interested here]<br />
<br />
more links [http://delicious.com/deliciousdante/leipzigproject here] or [http://www.diigo.com/user/dante-gabryell/leipzigproject here]<br />
<br />
<br />
Update : the initial feeling for potential was right, <br />
and prices changed upwards dramatically in the last years since we first proposed this approach, <br />
yet there are still opportunities to be created using such approach, <br />
in Leipzig, other east german towns, and in various places in europe and the world.<br />
<br />
Note : areas in red on this map may most likely remain accessible ;)<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bild-981616-726182.html<br />
<br />
<br />
==Housing locations==<br />
* Put findings on [http://u.nu/3tgf4 this shared Google map]<br />
<br />
==Mind Map==<br />
<br />
Edit [http://www.metamaps.cc/users/1000497548/maps/25 MindMap here] ;<br />
<br />
[http://metamaps.cc/users/new To Register to Metamap] ( password: j0jmzgen )<br />
<br />
==Current Context==<br />
<br />
http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/who-ryder-what-edge/mission_case/permanent-collective-leipzig<br />
<br />
==Current Collective with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergingleaderlabs.org/<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/08/01/announcing-emerging-leader-labs-a-social-incubator-running-on-the-gift-economy/<br />
<br />
==A Meta Project Approach==<br />
<br />
http://thepyre.org/<br />
<br />
==Outquisition Potentials==<br />
<br />
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-an-outquisition/2008/07/20<br />
<br />
'''''"What would it be like, we wondered, if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed. We imagined that it would need an almost missionary fervor, something like the Inquisition (which largely destroyed knowledge) in reverse, a crusade of open sharing, or as Cory promptly dubbed it, the Outquisition."'''''<br />
<br />
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.be/2008/07/outquisition-and-urbanism-camp.html<br />
<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html<br />
<br />
===Nomad Tribe===<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
==Aim==<br />
<br />
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )<br />
<br />
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )<br />
<br />
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest. <br />
<br />
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -,<br />
I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, <br />
enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.<br />
<br />
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.<br />
<br />
==People interested==<br />
Isis, [http://p2pfoundation.net/Alex_Rollin Alex], [[User:Dante|Dante]], [[User:Meinhard|Meinhard]], Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, [[User:Julia|Julia]], [[User:Flawer|Flawer]], [[User:TinkerGeorge|George J.]], [[user:kardan|kardan]], [[user:bhopter|helicopter]], [http://goo.gl/2VIga kata kata motivasi], http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php/people:peter <br />
<br />
''[http://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig_project&action=edit&section=3 add yourself]''<br />
<br />
==Pictures==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Google Street View===<br />
<br />
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.<br />
<br />
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l<br />
<br />
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature,<br />
and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.<br />
<br />
==Leipzig Context==<br />
<br />
[[Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation]]<br />
<br />
==House features==<br />
* Self-Organized governance<br />
* Communal and public space in ground floor <br />
* Several flats with different parties in upper floors<br />
* Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)<br />
* Community connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace Hackerspace]/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)<br />
* Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation<br />
** Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)<br />
** We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)<br />
* Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities<br />
**Organic Community Gardening (rooftop gardening?)<br />
**Partnerships with local farms and suppliers<br />
**Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars<br />
**House and neighborhood biomass/composting program<br />
* Info cafe with people's kitchen<br />
** networking with other urban projects world-wide<br />
* Renewable and efficient [[energy]]<br />
* [[Recycling]]<br />
* Sauna (yeah!)<br />
* Regular meetings<br />
* Free shop<br />
<br />
==24/7 Lab==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs<br />
<br />
==Ideal Situation==<br />
<br />
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post <br />
industrial project in Leipzig are : <br />
<br />
* being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute <br />
walk ) <br />
* being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University<br />
* being situated nearby greenery <br />
* being situated nearby gardening allotments <br />
* being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be <br />
purchased for post-manufacturing <br />
* having a unique looking architecture / building <br />
* having a potential for the development of a diversified <br />
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the <br />
atmosphere :) ) <br />
* having access to a garden and to a view (rooftop gardening is space- and energy-efficient)<br />
* being in a calm neighborhood <br />
* additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant <br />
constructible land, <br />
to build our own construction, <br />
* or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined <br />
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, <br />
such as a "gasometer"<br />
<br />
==Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?==<br />
<br />
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/<br />
<br />
==Ownership / Usership ==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership<br />
<br />
possibly in combination with<br />
<br />
[http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat]<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
<br />
https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf<br />
<br />
Equity-Linked Affinity Network<br />
Interpersonal Process, Financial Structures and Legal<br />
Designs for Landed, Spirited, Joyous Urban Community<br />
<br />
( found via http://p2pfoundation.net/Balancing_Individualism_and_Communitarianism )<br />
<br />
==Funding and Costs==<br />
<br />
===Prices of Buildings===<br />
<br />
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :<br />
* around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
* 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
Anthony says :<br />
<br />
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town<br />
<br />
BUT<br />
<br />
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.<br />
<br />
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!<br />
<br />
Anthony says:<br />
<br />
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Renovation Costs===<br />
to evaluate - [[User:Dante|Dante]] is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?<br />
<br />
====about Dry Rot prevention====<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot#Treatment_of_dry_rot_timber<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot_treatment<br />
<br />
reply from T. :<br />
<br />
We have used heaters to dry wet wood<br />
<br />
It is very difficult to detect an infestation before it has reached an advanced stage. A non-visible infestation never really goes away, but does not propagate or threaten the wood if the wood is kept dry. We therefore are extremely reactive to the presence of uncontained water in the house; we treat it like fire.<br />
<br />
The chemical treatments are reportedly as expensive as replacing the wood. Replacing the wood can be expensive if it provides structural support. However, the real danger is getting denounced. If a company determines you have dry-rot, they are supposed to report it to the government. Then the government inspects all areas of the house and requires treatment of any dry-rot found, regardless of whether it is active. This can be financially devastating. Therefore, the department responsible for these inspections have ironically made German houses less safe.<br />
<br />
Fazit: don't buy a house if there is evidence of a sustained leak, regardless of whether there is evidence of schwamm / dry rot.<br />
<br />
===Funding===<br />
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat], potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest.<br />
For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.<br />
<br />
: It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)<br />
<br />
====Crowdsourcing and Fund Management Tools====<br />
<br />
When it will be operational in 2013, we may consider using the following tool :<br />
<br />
https://holvi.com/<br />
<br />
"Holvi is not a ‘traditional’ crowdfunding platform for projects, but instead it offers project groups an online bank service with a visual interface for handling their money and better finance keeping."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Holvi<br />
<br />
===Legal Frameworks===<br />
<br />
info book on legal frameworks :<br />
Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte<br />
http://www.stiftung-trias.de/infomaterial.html<br />
<br />
Some interesting PDFs:<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/fileadmin/Finanzierung_2008.pdf<br />
* http://www.stiftung-trias.de/uploads/media/RECHTSFORMEN_trias_1-2009.pdf<br />
* http://www.haushalten.org/Papers/haushalten_e.v._-_rechtsformen_fuer_wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
* http://www.koord.hs-mannheim.de/horizonte/h34_Krosse_Wohnprojekte.pdf<br />
<br />
===Purchasing Examples===<br />
<br />
For example,<br />
to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros,<br />
it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.<br />
<br />
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible,<br />
hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.<br />
<br />
To pay off the credit, at no interest, <br />
<br />
one can symbolically imagine that it costs<br />
'''''"1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"'''''<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
'''''"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"'''''<br />
<br />
after which it is fully your property,<br />
although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.<br />
<br />
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.<br />
<br />
===Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase===<br />
<br />
See :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design<br />
<br />
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.'''<br />
<br />
Approach :<br />
<br />
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in <br />
"Viagere" / '''"Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units"''' <br />
in exchange of "Care Service Hours".<br />
<br />
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )<br />
<br />
'''"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."'''<br />
<br />
''Mutual credit'' with trusted routing,<br />
and/or ''Asymmetric exchange ?''<br />
<br />
===Living Costs and Taxes===<br />
<br />
Robrecht asks :<br />
<br />
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc<br />
of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."<br />
<br />
Anthony answers :<br />
<br />
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."<br />
<br />
==Alternative Purchasing Model==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively,<br />
without requiring to take a bank loan.<br />
<br />
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ),<br />
and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.<br />
<br />
===Examples of shareholding models in Leipzig===<br />
<br />
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html<br />
<br />
or under <br />
<br />
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :<br />
<br />
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11 <br />
<br />
http://zolle11.de/blog/<br />
<br />
more examples :<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships<br />
<br />
==Lease Hold ?==<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold<br />
<br />
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht<br />
<br />
==Housing Availability Search==<br />
<br />
Alternative Housing-Search<br />
Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")<br />
<br />
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :<br />
<br />
Purchase :<br />
<br />
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/anzeigen<br />
<br />
Rent :<br />
<br />
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100<br />
<br />
Land and Building Projects :<br />
<br />
http://lwbimmobilien.de/<br />
<br />
==Buildings of Interest==<br />
<br />
In Neustadt :<br />
<br />
In ...<br />
<br />
===Gasometer===<br />
<br />
<br />
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=4276236400981551169&q=gasometer+leipzig&hl=de&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=3zWVTKHsNo6h_Ab_4OXbAQ&sig2=zeauLQrFuK9fcOiOZpleGw<br />
<br />
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/<br />
<br />
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :<br />
<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=leipzig+germany&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.817312,58.798828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Leipzig,+Sachsen,+Bundesrepublik+Deutschland&ll=51.352624,12.379602&spn=0.000985,0.001794&t=h&z=19<br />
<br />
it most likely looks like this from inside :<br />
<br />
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg<br />
<br />
==Modular Housing==<br />
<br />
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki<br />
<br />
==Spime Housing and Furnitecture==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Spime_Housing<br />
<br />
===Tensegrity===<br />
<br />
Using Tensegrity,<br />
organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders",<br />
but also architects, engineers, students...<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe<br />
<br />
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949<br />
<br />
==Groups for Leipzig== <br />
<br />
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.<br />
* Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig<br />
* Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing<br />
<br />
==Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure<br />
<br />
===Infrastructure Mapping===<br />
<br />
[http://www.integralcity.com/civil-society/map-visions-and-values-assets.html Link to Integral Cities]<br />
<br />
==Culture and Community==<br />
<br />
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm<br />
<br />
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles<br />
<br />
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )<br />
<br />
==Art Center==<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html<br />
<br />
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"<br />
<br />
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html<br />
<br />
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"<br />
<br />
==Income Streams & Local Economy==<br />
<br />
Ideally (according to [[User:Dante|Dante]]), developing "[[resilient communities]]" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from [[food]] to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "[http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology Open Source Ecology]" such as "[http://factorefarm.org/ Factor E-Farm]".<br />
<br />
===Cooperative Ecology Project===<br />
<br />
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation wiki] you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons commons]. <br />
<br />
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project<br />
<br />
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.<br />
<br />
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_in_Multi-Unit_Housing on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing].<br />
<br />
==="Jobless Recovery"===<br />
<br />
http://www.pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html<br />
<br />
===Example - New York Manufacturing Cooperative / Lab===<br />
<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/nyregion/brooklyn-navy-yard-is-home-to-manufacturing-cooperative.html?_r=0<br />
<br />
<br />
===Other brainstormings===<br />
<br />
====First stage ?====<br />
* Collaborative research<br />
* Plan development<br />
* Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig<br />
* Musical Parties<br />
* Added value food production ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food slow food] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksküche volks kuche] ? )<br />
* Events and [[hospitality]]<br />
<br />
====Not for Private Profit Shops====<br />
<br />
* Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/<br />
* Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres - <br />
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
* "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche<br />
<br />
====Volunteering Initiatives====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service<br />
<br />
More info regarding EVS :<br />
<br />
Overall overview with short video presentation :<br />
<br />
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html<br />
<br />
current partner organizations data base :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm<br />
<br />
procedures<br />
<br />
for volunteers :<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm<br />
<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm<br />
<br />
====Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres====<br />
<br />
Participating in a EU funded program ?<br />
<br />
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/<br />
<br />
=====Note : Entredonneurship=====<br />
<br />
"Entre-Donneur"<br />
<br />
= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', <br />
proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Entredonneur<br />
<br />
http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/EntreDonneur<br />
<br />
====Fablabs/Workshops====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab<br />
<br />
====Earth De-polluting Cooperative====<br />
<br />
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify<br />
industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.<br />
<br />
====Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives====<br />
<br />
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design<br />
<br />
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling<br />
<br />
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "<br />
<br />
====Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing====<br />
<br />
see above - <br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing<br />
<br />
====Energy====<br />
<br />
Various sources of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy renewable energy] can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water,<br />
and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
=====Internal Combustion=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle<br />
<br />
=====Electrolysis=====<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water<br />
<br />
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy<br />
<br />
====Alternative Engine Propulsion====<br />
<br />
See [[Resilient Engine]]<br />
<br />
====Building Open Source Cars====<br />
<br />
TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed<br />
<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8jdx-lf2Dw<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Wikispeed<br />
<br />
http://www.wikispeed.com/<br />
<br />
====Distribution of Peer Production====<br />
<br />
=====Fair Ware=====<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare<br />
<br />
''' proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure" '''<br />
<br />
====== Fair Ware Goals ======<br />
<br />
* bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way<br />
* make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met <br />
*** creative people get their share<br />
*** producers can produce under human conditions<br />
*** users get quality and reliability<br />
* foster cooperation and improved product design<br />
* facilitate quality control by branding<br />
* exert democratic control over a brand name<br />
* create resilience towards proprietory action<br />
* empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro<br />
<br />
<br />
=====Local Food Distribution=====<br />
<br />
Open Ideo :<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/<br />
<br />
==Food Production==<br />
<br />
===Allotment Gardens===<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany<br />
<br />
''<br />
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "''<br />
<br />
===Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems===<br />
<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems<br />
<br />
<br />
===Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"===<br />
<br />
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative,<br />
"back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,<br />
<br />
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.<br />
<br />
See historical perspective :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement<br />
<br />
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :<br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading<br />
<br />
Links - Local Food Project :<br />
<br />
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100<br />
<br />
<br />
===Open Source Ecology===<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/<br />
<br />
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm<br />
<br />
Germany :<br />
<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/ (in English)<br />
http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/aufbau-der-ose-community-in-deutschland/ (in German)<br />
<br />
==Mesh Communication Networks==<br />
<br />
Contributing to ( ? )<br />
<br />
http://leipzig.freifunk.net/<br />
<br />
==Alternative Finance==<br />
<br />
[[User:Dante|Dante]] feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies,<br />
which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.<br />
<br />
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.<br />
<br />
==Alternative University and learning infrastructures==<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig<br />
<br />
==Other Hubs with Similar Memes==<br />
<br />
http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/08/93-superhero-schools-collaboratories-incubators-accelerators-hubs-for-social-tech-innovation/<br />
<br />
===Other Similar Projects===<br />
<br />
http://neotribalism.net/about.htm<br />
<br />
- excerpt of vision -<br />
<br />
In the near term : <br />
To create a wide variety of socially and environmentally sustainable households that each serve as a community for 10 - 20 people who share a common vision and who compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.<br />
<br />
In the long term :<br />
To create a diverse network of sustainable neoTribal villages that are composed of 10 - 20 households that are not reliant upon the current global economy and infrastructure.<br />
<br />
==Restoring Vibrancy in Declining Cities==<br />
<br />
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?<br />
<br />
http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/brief.html<br />
<br />
==Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy==<br />
<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy<br />
<br />
==p2p Open Urbanism==<br />
<br />
http://berlinergazette.de/open-source-stadt-gemeingut-stadtplanung/<br />
<br />
==Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City==<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city<br />
<br />
===A Vision for Shareable Cities [VIDEO]===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video<br />
<br />
===Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy===<br />
<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy<br />
<br />
===#12: Food Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing<br />
<br />
===#11: Urban Agriculture===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture<br />
<br />
===#10: Shareable Rooftops===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops<br />
<br />
===#9: Recreational Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces<br />
<br />
===#8: Shareable Workspaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces<br />
<br />
===#7: Shareable Neighborhoods===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods<br />
<br />
===#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs<br />
<br />
===#5: Shareable Housing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing<br />
<br />
===#4: Shareable Commercial Spaces===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces<br />
<br />
===#3: Bike Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing<br />
<br />
===#2: Ride Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing<br />
<br />
===#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing===<br />
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing<br />
<br />
==People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )==<br />
<br />
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...<br />
<br />
<br />
==City Infrastructures==<br />
<br />
===Transportation===<br />
<br />
===S Bahn===<br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794 <br />
<br />
*Leipzig Linien 1 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015 <br />
<br />
*Linien 2 <br />
<br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 <br />
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442 <br />
<br />
ps: ideal when coming <br />
from some other place in Germany :<br />
regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 <br />
euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn<br />
<br />
===Tram Lines===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/<br />
<br />
===New Transportation Infrastructures===<br />
<br />
====Underground Train====<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."<br />
<br />
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving.<br />
Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."<br />
<br />
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut:<br />
Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"<br />
<br />
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.<br />
<br />
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Urban Planning Projects ===<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/<br />
<br />
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/<br />
<br />
==Some Historical Facts and People==<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria#History Phantasmagoria in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Leipzig_.281723.E2.80.9350.29 Bach in Leipzig]<br />
<br />
==City History==<br />
<br />
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"<br />
<br />
http://www.spinnerei.de/<br />
<br />
==Suggested Neighbourhoods==<br />
<br />
expensive ones:<br />
<br />
Südvorstadt (south)<br />
<br />
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )<br />
<br />
connewitz ( south )<br />
<br />
becoming expensive:<br />
<br />
lindenau<br />
<br />
plagwitz<br />
here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.<br />
<br />
cheaper ones :<br />
<br />
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east<br />
<br />
Stötteritz - east<br />
<br />
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :<br />
<br />
reutnitz - east<br />
Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.<br />
<br />
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.<br />
<br />
klein zschocher - south west<br />
<br />
==Past Meetings==<br />
<br />
August 2010, 3 first weeks :<br />
<br />
http://ecotopia2010.org/<br />
<br />
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53071439438&ref=ts Ecotopia Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : [http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof,+Wiesenburg,+Germany&sll=52.237051,12.903442&sspn=0.713169,2.113495&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wiesenburg+Bahnhof+Wiesenburg,+Potsdam-Mittelmark,+Brandenburg,+Germany&t=h&ll=52.001792,12.348633&spn=1.684172,3.378296&z=8 Map Link]<br />
<br />
Contact [[User:Dante|Dante]] as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize,<br />
in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.<br />
<br />
==Geographical Layering Information==<br />
<br />
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions,<br />
for representing various data about the project on layered maps,<br />
facilitating open collaboration.<br />
<br />
See discussion on :<br />
<br />
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263<br />
<br />
also considering drupal gmap extension :<br />
<br />
http://drupal.org/project/gmap<br />
<br />
===Linked Geo Data===<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/About<br />
<br />
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.<br />
<br />
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/<br />
<br />
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
( based in Leipzig )<br />
<br />
==Mapping for Change==<br />
<br />
http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/<br />
<br />
"Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication. Our work has a strong focus on engaging and empowering communities to make positive transformations to their localities. "<br />
<br />
==Semantic Web and Graphs==<br />
<br />
http://www.automenta.com/<br />
<br />
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) <br />
Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html <br />
<br />
===AKSW Department at University of Leipzig===<br />
<br />
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)<br />
<br />
http://aksw.org/About<br />
<br />
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.<br />
<br />
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/<br />
<br />
==Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration==<br />
<br />
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's,<br />
and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space",<br />
and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.<br />
<br />
==Events in Leipzig==<br />
<br />
===Annual "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"===<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php<br />
<br />
''"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany''."<br />
<br />
===Bach Festival===<br />
Bachfest takes place every summer. Links:<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/<br />
* http://www.bach-leipzig.de/index.php?id=26&L=1<br />
<br />
==Articles and Reports==<br />
<br />
===ARD German News Reportage===<br />
<br />
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/mittagsmagazin/leipzig-boomt?documentId=12240372<br />
<br />
===Market speculation in Leipzig ?===<br />
<br />
http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/leipzig/citynews/mietpreise-fuer-wohnungen-in-leipzig-deutlich-gestiegen-vor-allem-westliche-stadtteile-boomen/r-citynews-a-106789.html<br />
<br />
==Other interesting projects in Nearby Cities==<br />
<br />
Halle-Saale : http://www.postkult.de/ ( "urban development from below" )<br />
<br />
<br />
===Additional References===<br />
<br />
via Christine ( http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de ) <br />
<br />
this organisation published a <br />
<br />
====cook-book==== <br />
<br />
presenting 55 projects all located <br />
<br />
=====in kreuzberg:=====<br />
<br />
http://www.buechertisch.org/uber-uns/wer-sind-wir/<br />
<br />
health project since squatting times<br />
<br />
http://www.heilehaus-berlin.de/<br />
<br />
<br />
====poland====<br />
<br />
http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/en_info.asp?id=83326<br />
<br />
=====students organisation in szczecin=====<br />
<br />
, poland<br />
<br />
http://newfamilyway.blogspot.de/p/our-contribution-nasz-wkad.html<br />
<br />
i do know dagna and tomek. you can write in german and english.<br />
<br />
<br />
====network of collectively organised work==== <br />
<br />
i put down just three co-working spaces as example:<br />
<br />
http://www.hinkelstein-druck.de/<br />
http://www.tantehorst.de/<br />
http://schnittstelle.blogsport.de/<br />
<br />
http://www.nadeshda.org/nadeshda.html<br />
<br />
====gewerbehof, genossenschaft, kollekive zusammenschlüsse====<br />
<br />
http://www.gidak.de/<br />
http://www.mehringhof.de/<br />
http://www.kerngehaeuse.de/<br />
http://www.ufafabrik.de/intro.php<br />
<br />
====housing projects====<br />
<br />
http://www.wohnportal-berlin.de/<br />
http://www.hausprojekte-solidarfonds.de/<br />
http://www.selbstbau-eg.de/<br />
<br />
====French Pdf on Cohousing====<br />
<br />
"Vivre en cohabitat,reconstruire des villages en ville"<br />
<br />
http://public.citymined.org/MICRONOMICS/vivre%20en%20cohabitat%20lietart%20article.pdf<br />
<br />
====activists, researchers====<br />
<br />
http://www.voss.solioeko.de/<br />
http://www.technet-berlin.de/mitarbeiterinnen.html<br />
<br />
====financing====<br />
<br />
http://www.labournet.de/stiftungMundA/index.html<br />
http://www.netzwerk-selbsthilfe.de<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.haushalten.org/ Haushalten.org] (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes<br />
** [http://www.haushalten.org/de/english_summary.asp Summary in English] (en)<br />
* [http://www.syndikat.org/ Syndikat] (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany<br />
* [http://sublab.org/ Sublab.org] (de) - Hack space in Leipzig ([http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sublab Hackerspaces entry])<br />
* [http://de.veganwiki.org/vegane_vokue#leipzig de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig] (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes<br />
* [http://kuhturm.de/ kuhturm.de] (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of [http://benn.org/ Meinhard] :)<br />
* http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.<br />
* http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)<br />
* [http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel Rockzipfel Leipzig] (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children<br />
* http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase - see link below for update)<br />
* http://schwarz10.de/ Same Housing project, Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 , a few years later <br />
* [http://www.lvz-online.de/ LVZ-Online] (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]<br />
* "Hypezig" - Article in German : http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/Hypezig;art4306,2621248<br />
* "Hypezig" - Another Article in French : http://www.slate.fr/monde/85083/leipzig-nouveau-berlin-hipster<br />
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[[Category:Hospitality]]</div>Dantehttps://sharewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Social_Reproduction&diff=23969Social Reproduction2016-10-23T17:22:08Z<p>Dante: </p>
<hr />
<div>What is shared below is not about Social Reproduction. This needs to be retitled to shared child rearing<br />
<br />
Aimed at discussing potential strategies and alternatives to cover the costs of certain aspects of social reproduction ...<br />
<br />
also see :<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Parenting<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Emergent_Synthesis<br />
<br />
http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php<br />
<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Antwerp_Collective<br />
<br />
=Shared Email Archives=<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
<br />
" socialized child rearing " - in hospitality network style ? / networked intentional collaborative individualism<br />
<br />
http://dante.ecobytes.net/2008/07/05/rhizome-socialized-child-rearing/<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/econowmix/8XXsOFD11Rg/sUihgFbDIhgJ<br />
<br />
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/hc_ecology/conversations/topics/572<br />
<br />
( Single and Individuated ) Networked Parents and Children in Contribution based Communal Shareholding ?<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/econowmix/qe8W4J0t2uQ/xPlLDs6NBKQJ<br />
<br />
When you'r young : What to start with , with whom , where ?<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/econowmix/imagine$20knowledge/econowmix/h89JQW7xDm8/S9Tnp47p_a4J<br />
<br />
==Socialized Child rearing==<br />
<br />
Forwarded conversation<br />
Subject: " socialized child rearing " - in hospitality network style ? / networked intentional collaborative individualism<br />
------------------------<br />
<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:34 PM<br />
To: Michel B<br />
Cc: Marilyn M<br />
<br />
<br />
Thanks Marilyn and Michel. ( cc: hc ecology )<br />
<br />
What if " socialized child rearing " would be extented , not simply to the family , but to intentional networks / new forms of intention based peer tribes. <br />
<br />
Not going back to collectivist care , but moving on towards collaborative individualist care.<br />
<br />
In western europe , at the current moment and in the last years , it seems that most of the socialization people are having is within their " work / office space " , or with their family , if they still have any ties with their family.<br />
<br />
What if the complete socialization aspects of most of the population would change , as it already seems to be , through the greater ease with which we might be able to travel and eventually connect with our " intentional tribes ".<br />
<br />
For example , Michel , imagine that you would come back to Belgium , for one or two months , with your family , where perhaps you would not have the same extended family as in Thailand , yet would be able to count on a whole network of peers that are part of intentional networks in which you are active in and contribute to.<br />
<br />
We would " pool " child care into specific intentional community " logistics " , to people we believe we can trust , and each of us could take care according to opportunities we find.<br />
<br />
For example , I am now in Tartu , Estonia. I could take care of children of a certain age ,<br />
and probably I would be even more interested to care care of children of friends , or potential friends.<br />
<br />
It could even be a opening for me in the community with whom I would feel I share the most intentions with , and would open up not only opportunities and wealth creation through shared care for the community here , but also for me , as I would have access to new friendships and new information about the situation and issues I could collaborate on.<br />
<br />
And when I would move on to Helsinki , I would already be able to dispose of a certain credibility m that would eventually open up opportunities with other intentional networks.<br />
<br />
There would probably be a difference in the way one would imagine " community " in a collaborative individualist realm , compared to a collectivist realm - I think for example as hospitality networks being a community I connect to , yet I do not have to conform to changing decisions in my life because of some strong influence of the community on the way I rule my life - so it is not , as I perceive it , collectivist.<br />
<br />
And the same with connecting with intentional network communities when I would travel , and eventually take care of their children , or gardens , or computers , or ... whatever ... my trust could increase ( or decline ) as on hospitality networks ( and my hospitality profiles ) ,<br />
<br />
yet I do not specifically need to conform totally , as I am not specifically dependent on them - I can move on if none of us agrees.<br />
<br />
When we can start creating such kind of logistics , as hospitality networks already do with hosting , we can create new opportunities for wealth creation.<br />
<br />
And it does not even need to be dependent on money - even though we could imagine creating our own currencies used accross intentional networks.<br />
<br />
So there is no specific dependence on the mainstrean financial system.<br />
<br />
But these tools do not seem to be existing yet , although two years ago I was talking at the couchsurfing collective in austria about ideas that where going in this direction. Unfortunatly because of internal cs politics all the ideas have not been open for implementation , but perhaps it can be done through other social network tools that are slowely emerging. ( open social , etc )<br />
<br />
I would like to go to Helsinki , where this project is being developped<br />
<br />
http://www.helsinkivirtualvillage.fi/Resource.phx/adc/inenglish/index.htx<br />
<br />
and see if they are open for such kind of social experimentation.<br />
<br />
Hugs<br />
<br />
Dante<br />
<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:26 PM<br />
To: Michel B<br />
Cc: Marilyn M<br />
<br />
<br />
Hi Michel , Marilyn ( cc: hc ecology )<br />
<br />
Michel : " I can indeed imagine such networks arising in the future, though see zero hints of it at present, "<br />
<br />
with all the ideas in relation to alternative forms of collaboration , alternative governance , and with the networks of researchers growing around them ,<br />
<br />
I wonder how can we best facilitate support and collaboration between progressive social and lifestyle change activists ,<br />
to bring forward , experiment , develop such kind of solutions ?<br />
<br />
I remember an event I attended in England , which had the intention of connecting the academic world with the activist world , called knowledge lab , yet such a temporary event , I feel , is not enough to build up a real open , inclusive and networked environment space that facilitates the gathering of individuals interested in developing their creative and caring collaborative intentions. ( many other events and camps , especially in the summer , such as http://eyfa.org/ecotopia might have similar opportuniites for sharing ideas and meeting others - but all too often , because of their temporary and holliday nature , do not build up much further then awareness raising )<br />
<br />
I m still looking forward to find some right combination of resources and spirit that could facilitate the emergence of such kind of spaces / hubs.<br />
<br />
Yes , there are squats - but they too are all too often limited in their access to resources.<br />
<br />
So anyway , as to continue on this search for partners , I might end up in Helsinki soon - I ve heard of some re-development of the Arabiaranta neighborhood.<br />
<br />
I heard about the project when going to a conference in Brussels - yet most of the people pushing for the project and getting money for it ( from european institutuions for example ) , at that meeting , seemed to be bureaucrats ,<br />
<br />
and the approach is very much centered around business and technology , supported by learning environments needed to maintain high levels of solution development , and with eventual potential social network experimentation around it. <br />
<br />
I m not ( yet ? ) a business man , I do not have $$$ to invest or banks to back me up , ... <br />
<br />
where do I start ?<br />
<br />
I ve asked this question earlier - and got some answers - yet , still , I end up being limited by basic questions like : where will I sleep tonight , where will I get the money for food , how long can I stay here , ... ?<br />
<br />
But still , yes , where do I , do we , start ?<br />
<br />
Creating alliances between academic environments ? between organizations ? <br />
<br />
But thats already contrary to the peer to peer approach , even though it could eventually try to promote it. ( although my experience with youth movements , and of what the hierarchic information structures grants require , made me very suspicious after a number of experiences with projects )<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
I met a lot of young people out there - although they might be a minority of the population.<br />
<br />
A minority which nevertheless seems to be growing , and who seems to be willing to spend some time in living a different kind of life , open to develop new solutions , but they do not know how to survive during such an enterprise on a permanent basis.<br />
<br />
And only few dare to go into the world without any backup , without any money , without any support. Which makes it even more difficult to find ways to gather and develop solutions together.<br />
<br />
This is a dilemna I hope we can solve at some point.<br />
<br />
I wrote this proposal - hoping it could help leading us to experimental networked projects , which could get ad hoc support :<br />
<br />
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hc_ecology/message/565<br />
<br />
Although it seems that perhaps I express it in a way that is too confused or complex for many people to understand ... hmm<br />
<br />
Anyone out there with some suggestions ?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br />
Date: Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:02 PM<br />
Subject: <br />
<br />
==When you'r young : What to start with , with whom , where ?==<br />
<br />
Re: Build up of mutually empowered critical mass of prosumers ?<br />
To: jeff <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Great to hear from you Jeff.<br />
<br />
hmm , I feel like re-writing some kind of overview , from what I see and experienced in the last years - I have set some phrases into bold character in case you feel like scanning through it.<br />
<br />
It could be called , overview of : <br />
<br />
" I M YOUNG , <br />
HAVE AFFIRMED SOME NEGATIVE LIBERTY ,<br />
AND AM DETERMINED TO BUILD OUR MUTUALLY EMPOWERED POSITIVE LIBERTY "<br />
<br />
Where , with whom , what to start with ? ...<br />
<br />
or towards " using the internet to trans-connect to existing localized intentional networks anywhere. "<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Hmm , perhaps the first step many of us go through , is to affirm our " NEGATIVE LIBERTY " ,<br />
rejecting what feels meaningless or destructive and what is not intrinsically motivating , what does not make our life worth living for.<br />
<br />
And then after going such a process , we might go through a process of finding out what has meaning for us , and what our intentions may be.<br />
<br />
And when finding out , there still seems to be a long road towards empowering POSITIVE LIBERTY<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Here is a little overview , from this point on ...<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Yes , it feels that out there there is a potentially huge " intentional network " ,<br />
and some of us manage to connect and interact through the net.<br />
<br />
Some of us are also gathering into " intentional communities " - such as Arcosanti , Auroville , and many other , smaller EcoVillages , where sometimes the " intentional network " comes and visit the " intentional living community ".<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Sometimes " intentional networks " gather , through big meet ups - events , whether it are researchers , hackers , sports enthusiasts , music enthusiasts , hitch hikers , etc<br />
<br />
yet I am still facing the question : <br />
<br />
How to mutually empower intentional networks ,<br />
into creating viable alternative systems , not only in certain areas / eco-villages / communities ,<br />
<br />
but anywhere ?<br />
<br />
And I guess that in some way or another it is a question many of us may be asking.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Hospitality Networks ( such as http://couchsurfing.com . http://hospitalityclub.org , http://bewelcome.org ) have now members from almost every region in the world , <br />
and in some way it has facilitated , for me , an alternative lifestyle , and sharing all accross europe or the world if I wanted to.<br />
<br />
Yet it is not an alternative society by itself , even if it includes many open and trusting individuals.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
The " cluster " model is becoming more and more popular in the way that businesses think of their development , or at least , their research and development.<br />
<br />
I sometimes feel that we are creating some new kind of decentralized business , <br />
and that it is important for us to see the various resources , in various different fields of solution development , with the various intentional social networks , <br />
<br />
and find ways to more effectively empower each other , develop solutions , experiment , share best practices and multiply them.<br />
<br />
I would be interested in facilitating the identification all the different " hubs " , and all the different " intentional social networks " that we could , as a first step , think of collaborating between each other.<br />
<br />
The facilitate the emergence of tools so that they can understand or position each others questions , issues , visions , initiatives <br />
<br />
and how they can learn together and collaborate<br />
<br />
, and offer the same tools for and between individuals.<br />
( some emerging solutions and softwares are being developped in this field - for example :<br />
http://kluster.com/ - and conference platforms such as http://www.ted.com/ are trying to spread some inspiring ideas and gather people arond them )<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Ecovillages , Schools , Universities , Cooperatives , ... and all kinds of social networks related to some of the intentions being promoted by certain organizations.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
And I stress " the social networks related to ... " , as I have experienced the huge difference between the social networks related to an organization , and the organization itself , as the power structures of an organization , by my experience , very often promotes its own internal structures of power , sometimes even to the extent of contradicting its own intentions / see for example some of my comments in relation to an organization I have been volunteering with for some time : <br />
http://www.forum.fyeg.org/viewforum.php?f=11&sid=3272c0dc1cf65793791fd7c2d3828f01 <br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Offering open and transparent mutually empowered local production and solutions , <br />
as an alternative to the mainstream , everywhere.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Biological farming has and is becoming more and more popular in western europe , yet is now being developed also by big corporations who apply to the conditions for the label , <br />
<br />
but have very different social structures as small biological farms.<br />
<br />
I imagine a series of new labels to emerge , and I feel that both producer cooperatives and consumer cooperatives can work hand in hand ,<br />
<br />
if and when we can set up the communication channels to facilitate it.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
As new intentional networks emerge or interconnect , the trust and potential for transactions between them may lead to alternative currencies , empowered by softwares such as http://ripple.sourceforge.net/<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
I am very interested to understand the impact , on their surroundings , of intentional communities.<br />
<br />
Do they close themselves on themselves , of do they have a greater reach ?<br />
<br />
And what may be the parallels with , for example , monasteries in europe ( or elsewhere in the world ) in the middle ages ?<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
So , yes , its a broad map ... :-)<br />
<br />
And to be honest , I do not necessarily know where to start with :-)<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Some day I feel I should start by touring and connecting schools , the other day I feel like working with cooperatives , another day I feel like creating inter-disciplinary communities of practice around questions between various students from various faculties , another day I feel like I should settle down and try to focus on learning programming - as to program yet one midst other starting points : some kind of mapping system in itself , ...<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
At the same time I feel that my strenght is to bridge networks , people , ideas , <br />
and push towards some broad trans-visions. Which I feel is what connects many of us. <br />
<br />
So sometimes I feel I should connect further with documentary making , ... <br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
But ... to start with , I realize I need to find myself a place to come back to , with people awaiting me , ... yet at the same time a place where people tend to converge , a hub.<br />
<br />
So often I feel that one of the starting points and connections with the rest is ... a space for gathering people with common synthesis intentions.<br />
<br />
A intentional network " base / hub " of very mobile people that connect communities and spread practices , while facilitating processes of awareness raising , mutual learning , experimentation , and solution development. ... ... which again leads me to the same questions - where am I best capable of finding such environment ? While at the same time making some kind of living with it ?<br />
<br />
This is my current dilemma :-p<br />
<br />
And to find a solution to it , I guess that I m trying to talk about it to people around me , to see who is interested , and what we can do together.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
When one does not have money / capital , using a nomadic strategy , hopping from one community to another ( one school to another , one cooperative to another , etc ) , feels like an effective way of extending and connecting each others circle of influence ... which can then use its experience and dynamics , to report and further extend its reach through information technologies.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
But to start with , it feels best to " engaged " with more then our own selves :-)<br />
And somehow , I have found it rather difficult to find partners willing to live without , or with very little money.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
So there is some kind of turning into circles that needs to be broken - <br />
<br />
... some funds need to come from somewhere , following smaller visions that need to be defined , by a small group of very enthusiastic friends.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
A few years ago , I was thinking about crowdfunding solutions ( old brainstorming : http://oikoumene.coforum.net/OpenWorld ).<br />
<br />
Such kind of crowdfunding technical solutions / platforms are now , seemingly , starting to emerge.<br />
( http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante/MagicHat , http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante/funding )<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
I have met and got in touch with a lot of people in the last years , <br />
while trying to put together these different pieces of the puzzle , and while trying to find some next " starting point ".<br />
<br />
I did not yet find an environment , that suited some of these needs , or more precisely , not an open environment , except here , on the internet.<br />
<br />
No organization with power structures was open up enough - <br />
<br />
I understand that the solution needs to come from our own interconnections , and if possible , without creating further power structures.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
From my own experience , Even projects that did not have an organization or official power structures , often ended up creating power structures related to its communication channels and ownership of communication channels.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
So one of the challenges I see is to be able to create alternative communication channels ,<br />
around specific issues or questions ,<br />
which can be effective , open communities of practice , <br />
and can facilitate the emergence of a miriad of communities of practice , <br />
between volunteers , but also between businesses , and paid employees ,<br />
while creating a intrinsically motivating , and meaningful feeling.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
And for this , the starting point becomes a question , an issue ,<br />
for which we might want to find solutions for together.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Hmm , well , this starts to sound like ... Minciu Sodas , or P2P foundation - convergence points , ... :-)<br />
http://www.ms.lt/ - Laboratory of independent thinkers ; http://p2pfoundation.net<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Then , perhaps the question becomes " What issue to focus on first " ?<br />
<br />
And when one realizes they are all inter-connected , perhaps the question , and issue one might have is :<br />
<br />
How can we become aware of the inter connections , and benefit more easily from inter-disciplinarity ?<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
Visualizing the relations between the ideas , questions , issues , various resources , and the various different actors in such issues ( including the social networks that are interested in finding solutions to such questions ) ,<br />
<br />
as to determine priorities , strategies , and actions between ourselves.<br />
<br />
some related links : http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante/referencemaps ; <br />
http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante/visualization , ...<br />
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//<br />
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Some of the intentional networks I found on the internet , including the one through which I may have connected / got introduced to some of your activities and interests ,<br />
are great , yet they stay in the virtual world , and bridging the individuals related to these communication networks often would mean for me to go and meet them individually , in various different places , or to go to various punctual meet ups accross europe by hitch hiking , which I did.<br />
<br />
It has its strenght , but it does not help me that much to really focus and work on a project.<br />
For this I need ( socializing , entrepreneurial and creative ? ) people around me , to which I develop a strong friendship and bound with.<br />
<br />
And as I am not a student , I do not have access to the kind of opportunities that certain kind of learning environments offer.<br />
<br />
I actually fled the mainstream learning environments ( school , university )<br />
as I felt it was tempering my ... potential to learn , interact , discover , collaborate.<br />
<br />
Most often , such mainstream learning environments still function according to a industrial paradigm , <br />
and very often there is no space , or very little space , for intrinsic motivation to learning to be developped ,<br />
and one needs to be really lucky to have had the opportunity to discover before starting studies , what one is passionnate about.<br />
<br />
In a world that is constantly facing new issues , our passion might well be a field that does not exist yet - one we might create.<br />
<br />
How can we shift towards more open , trans-disciplinary , multi-environment learning networks and resources , based on CREATION and new initiatives ( mutually questioning , connecting and re-mixing existing knowledge according to needs ) instead of REPRODUCTION of knowledge and practices according to patterns imposed by a curriculum or head teacher.<br />
<br />
... although , for university students not to get lost , such approach needs to be implemented from a very early age , building on the natural curiosity and intrinsic motivation for learning of children , instead of oppressing this natural tendency and associating the idea of learning to boding and oppressing reproduction of knowledge and practices.<br />
<br />
I collect some links about learning on <br />
<br />
http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante/alternativelearning<br />
<br />
http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante/learning , ...<br />
<br />
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What I do have access to is learning and interacting through the internet - I have been rather successfull in using it.<br />
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//<br />
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For example , I am now in Helsinki. <br />
<br />
My intention was to try to connect to some groups of people and resources related to <br />
<br />
http://www.helsinkivirtualvillage.fi/Resource.phx/adc/inenglish/index.htx<br />
<br />
and its Art School.<br />
<br />
http://www.taik.fi/en/<br />
<br />
I know that one of their approaches includes trans-disciplinarity in innovation , urban development , <br />
and eventually also lifestyles.<br />
<br />
Yet I realize it is not easy to connect with other individuals involved in such projects. - or to find our own position in relation to them to further interact and collaborate.<br />
<br />
And it is even more difficult to find the people with whom we really get a long with and feel like working with.<br />
<br />
In other words , finding opportunities to become friends.<br />
<br />
There are some conferences , but they are mostly lectures.<br />
<br />
There are some events , but they are punctual in time.<br />
<br />
and when adressing myself to the bureaucracy related to such institutions , the answers tend to be that " it does not match with their procedures " - and to match procedures most often does not correspond to my profile , nor even to my objectives.<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
But I have been using another medium : hospitality networks.<br />
<br />
Through hospitality networks , I managed to connect with open and friendly people , some of which with whom I share common interests , and that suggested me to come to certain meetings.<br />
<br />
Yet , these individuals themselves are most often students , and do not have many resources , or are very busy with their studies and/or work ( to pay their living ) , and can not take further some ideas they feel enthusiastic about.<br />
<br />
Although at some point , if they continue their studies , they might have access to a doctoral grant , extend their social networks and access to resources through academia , and collaboration programs between academia and the business world - governmental organizations - non-governmental organizations , ...<br />
<br />
Which is great , but still too limited !<br />
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//<br />
<br />
Alright , this overview can go on and on ...<br />
<br />
Now I m faced to finding partners - at a time where I am getting tired of hitch hiking constantly , am not sure how I will finance my food within the next week , and am not sure if I should stay in Helsinki or use my last financial resources to move back to some other city where I may have more chances of finding a job ... :-p<br />
<br />
... and I end up being on the net , spending time deepening overviews and relations , <br />
while knowing that it may not lead much further.<br />
<br />
And probably I am not the only one.<br />
<br />
By connecting with each other we are trying to create opportunities with each other ,<br />
trying to definine certain issues to work on , <br />
<br />
trying to define projects to apply for resources , ...<br />
<br />
and eventually create new solutions and economic resources to re-invest ...<br />
<br />
I interacted , over the last years , with many organizations , <br />
and yet dramatically mutually empowering each other and building outside of status quo is constantly discouraged as long as one faces power structures.<br />
<br />
I ve attended courses , many seminars , youth organizations , ... <br />
<br />
but what I look forward to does not exist yet.<br />
<br />
We are setting the visions , and now its about finding people willing to share visions , <br />
without falling back into power structures , and while deifning a open framework ,<br />
not only through the internet , but with the internet to connect to existing localized intentional networks anywhere.<br />
<br />
... beyond " meet up " :-)<br />
... beyond " a cup of tea " ...<br />
<br />
Greetings<br />
<br />
Dante<br />
<br />
==( Single and Individuated ) Networked Parents and Children in Contribution based Communal Shareholding ?==<br />
<br />
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/econowmix/qe8W4J0t2uQ/xPlLDs6NBKQJ<br />
<br />
this is shared on the mailinglist related to a group in formation, supported by programmers who have 1000 Bitcoins to invest in a community project<br />
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---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante@ecobytes.net><br />
Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:05 PM<br />
Subject: [bestwecando] Living together : mutual caring - challenges for an integral transition approach, including social reproduction ( was Re: New to the list: introduction: Becha )<br />
To: "bestwecando@lists.riseup.net" <bestwecando@lists.riseup.net><br />
<br />
<br />
Hi Vesna, Hi All<br />
<br />
thank you for being here, on http://bwcd.vdcn.org/doku.php<br />
<br />
I look forward to hear more from others who have experienced roles including that of a parent,<br />
or for those of us who already imagine such potential. <br />
<br />
I initially thought about re-titling this post<br />
" ( Single and Individuated ) Networked Parents and Children in Contribution based Communal Shareholding ? "<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
I personally sense that the creation of shared contexts satisfying the needs of ( single ) parents and children, the development of community by including all these dimensions ( and hopefully also dimensions related to even more generations ), is a whole new meaningful stage of life I look forward to aim for, bringing sustainability to a community.<br />
<br />
I feel children are a powerful mirror for the emancipation of "adults" , or rather, for our emancipation by reconnecting to our inner child, and our capacity to be response-able, caring, listening to needs, finding solutions.<br />
<br />
I am curious as to understand if this contrasts, or not, with what may potentially be some more individualistic needs of some younger people , including some on this list ? And understand if various needs can co-habit, or if it would need to be all-together different projects.<br />
<br />
Personally , even if I am not a father ( in the biological sense ), I am grateful I went through the opportunity to spend time with rather emancipated women in the last years, who are single mothers with one , two or three children , and who share aspects of some aspirations I read from your message.<br />
<br />
We created a local group gathering ( mostly ? ) single parents, here in the city. ( in Brussels )<br />
<br />
I realized over time , as in many groups, that there are various levels of needs and engagement. Single mothers who could not as much count on the support of the fathers likely feeling the most openness to share engagement in new forms of interdependencies, beyond a more traditional papa-mama-children nuclear family.<br />
<br />
I realize many aspects are to be taken into account, a lot of listening, and in some cases also quite a lot of sociocultural de-conditioning.<br />
<br />
I shared my life for a year with a lady who has two young children ( 1 and 3 years old at the time ). I discovered that being a parent , especially if it needs to adapt to that of the school system, requires a special rhythm. <br />
<br />
Each can be individual, though I realize some patterns depending on contexts.<br />
I may not be best positioned to talk about it, yet still feel like bringing it up.<br />
<br />
I feel like starting from the urban context, as I realize many of the single mothers I met come from an urban context, and look forward to a transition.<br />
<br />
I also want to explore further the role of fathers, and have a better understanding of male-female energies.<br />
<br />
I of course notice differences between those mothers who live in a more mainstream setting of 9 to 5 work, and those who do freelance creative work and who may not be bound by the same hours, yet may still need time and space of their own for their creative work. ( or some who would like to do more creative work, yet feel stuck in 9 to 5 work to make a living to support their children )<br />
<br />
I also realize a lot depends on the age of the children, and their changing needs.<br />
<br />
It seemed easier for me to connect with single mothers, then single fathers.<br />
And easier, though this may be a matter of personality, and perhaps not only of context,<br />
to connect with rather self empowered ( and individuated ? ) women, often active artistically / creatively, and feeling engaged in relation to societal development.<br />
<br />
For me it felt like bringing a healthy component back to life, not merely to share with a woman, but to share with children, and take into account broader considerations.<br />
<br />
A component of inter-dependency, in a city where in my experience many relations seem to depend on "consumption" of others, including through short lived events, after which often isolation returns.<br />
<br />
Yet I also realized with my partner of the time that there was also a lot of frustration from her not to be able to do what she wanted , when she wanted ( loosing a certain kind of freedom she may have been used to, before having children ? ) because of the weight of the role of single mother, even when the kids spent a third or half of their time with the father, and even if I felt I did what I could to support her when she was with her kids. I realize there may have been the expectation from me, even if the father was around the corner, to become a replacement father, which is not what I wanted. <br />
<br />
I somehow, at certain times, felt her envy of my freedom, even if in my own perception I did not have all that much freedom as she thought I had, and even if I was present to support her with the kids much ( but not all ) of the time. I also personally feel it can take some time to learn how to live in certain contexts. It may be a personal thing, related to one person, yet I realize similar patterns of frustration shared by other single mothers, and hence felt the potential in networking them with each other, enabling potentials for more distributed support to each other, reduce specific expectations towards any one specific person.<br />
<br />
<br />
I also realized that spending time sharing situations could enable , mostly in the case of my lady friends who where single mothers, to enjoy their time together when they had "children free" time.<br />
<br />
Isolation seems to be a main issue, for single mothers ( and fathers ? ), ...<br />
<br />
I could relate to this, and felt that supporting their needs could generate a ( healthy ? ) set of inter-dependencies, rooted into certain priorities, creating a form of contribution economy, that in turn also supported me in getting out of a certain form of isolation , or more exactly, an absence of shared life flow ... generating some form of community.<br />
<br />
One of the main hurdles I realize we faced is access and creation of space, for convergence with children, in a non monetized framework, especially in the colder months, when it becomes less easy to go out with the children in parks.<br />
<br />
I notice some friends have been supporting solutions to enable such mutual support, enabling a combination of mutualized child care, for example this project in Leipzig :<br />
<br />
http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel<br />
<br />
hosted in this house project http://schwarz10.de/<br />
<br />
There was also talk about getting out of the city. Some ( from the Brussels network ) did "escape", going southwards, to France for example.<br />
<br />
Most often the question of money also intervened.<br />
Or of money vs place, as living out in the countryside, for many, meant finding other sources of income.<br />
<br />
In many cases, some are bound to stay in the countries where they can have access to an existing network of friends and family to support.<br />
<br />
Or, if it exists in their country, some form of social income.<br />
Or a combination of the two.<br />
<br />
In some cases, the location of the father plays an important role ( sometimes also imposed by court ), in other cases, the father of the child ended up dis-invested, or in some cases an agreement between the parents leaving such freedom to the mother to go where she pleases to live with their child(ren).<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
I realize, most often, that the problems do not come from the children, but from the parents themselves ... <br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
The power relations , and notions of family, are also interesting paths for me to explore.<br />
Including male / female energies in each of us,<br />
but also at a network level ( which some would consider a group ? ).<br />
<br />
I am aware of matriarchal cultures. I sense that the culture I experienced in such networks of single parents is mostly matriarchal, yet interfacing and limited by a still dominant patriarchal society when it comes to certain resources.<br />
<br />
I realize that the position of men in such networks / groups is not necessarily easy to find, and realized that unless they are still in a couple, single fathers , from what I noticed, in some cases seemed somewhat lost.<br />
<br />
I also notice that there may also be cases of abuses, of men towards woman, but also of woman towards man ( in some cases using children to keep control on the man )<br />
<br />
I realize there are many variables, ... <br />
<br />
Some older societies have a long experience with matriarchy ( though now facing changes related to tourism and so called economic development ? ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo#Role_of_women<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbzG0n3shTM&list=PLf6zccGy3reDM7-WqKWt0F7aA7k-gUWYw&index=1<br />
<br />
I realize that north west european countries ( Germanic / Scandinavian especially ? ) ,<br />
and perhaps more generally urban centres with networks of creative people ( green and beyond vMemes ? http://www.calresco.org/wp/spiral.htm ) seem to also have more of a matriachal functioning ?<br />
<br />
I wish to understand how to enable men to reposition themselves more easily, and embody a contribution based approach including both male and female energies, enable this also for women, and enable a balance in such new found roles.<br />
<br />
I also wonder if it is desirable, despite some potential idealization of it, to end up isolated in the countryside.<br />
I noticed some people , including single parents, who do such experience , if there is no community of friends around them to support them,<br />
may feel compelled to return to the city.<br />
<br />
I now remember I have been writing about distributed forms of mutual support, a number of years ago :<br />
socialized child rearing / distributed care within intentional networks<br />
http://sharewiki.org/en/Social_Reproduction<br />
<br />
I see schools ( or rather, unschooling shared learning environments ? )<br />
as an approach to facilitate convergence, and open up starting points for reflection,<br />
around shared learning processes, shared ( mutual ) understanding, and what we want to learn to create what we wish to (co)create.<br />
<br />
There is a question of resources. I realize it took a number of years, in certain communities; before they could open up a school of their own, by their own.<br />
<br />
I am interested in understanding how convergence with public state support can overlap,<br />
and how this may intervene also in the way the learning process can happen.<br />
<br />
In some countries, there is state funded places such as Folkhighschools.<br />
( I wrote the following to one of them : http://dante.ecobytes.net/2008/04/28/open-letter-towards-grundtvig-21-beta/ )<br />
<br />
In many ways, I sense this can be an opportunity for a constant incubation flow :)<br />
<br />
I find interesting to investigate festival vs spectacle<br />
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism<br />
<br />
and let children guide us into rediscovering festival :)<br />
<br />
I also find interesting to find out the potential convergence for various subcultures.<br />
For example, on this list we can find subcultures inspired by diy self organized programmer movements / or hacker movements in a more general sense ( maker movements, ... ),<br />
but I also see potential for overlap ( who some of us already emobody ? ) in agro-foresttry / permaculture movements,<br />
<br />
with each already having a certain audience and language on which to build on, in terms of communication.<br />
<br />
I notice this school, who inspires itself from Montessori, Steiner, Freinet, etc<br />
http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2013/01/11/chez-la-fille-de-pierre-rabhi-une-ecole-ou-ladulte-sadapte-lenfant-238499<br />
<br />
A school that aims at being in the centre of a settlement project.<br />
<br />
http://www.lesamanins.com/<br />
<br />
//<br />
<br />
I sense that what I, and possibly others aim towards, is certain forms of interdependency , building on various forms of relational dynamics ( http://p2pfoundation.net/Relational_Model_Typology_-_Fiske ) <br />
<br />
while enabling each to support in priority forms of contribution based communal shareholding,<br />
<br />
building beyond individuation<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation<br />
<br />
and into forms of contribution based holistic/integral selfless actualization<br />
http://realitysandwich.com/1207/next_buddha_will_be_a_collective/<br />
<br />
which can include new modes of localized production and networked collaboration.<br />
<br />
<br />
///<br />
<br />
How can we best match existing resources and infrastructure, with various variables we want to take into account ?<br />
( including the legal and bureaucratic variables )<br />
<br />
Using Semantic Technologies for Collective Intelligence ?<br />
<br />
Netention may be a tool for this ?<br />
https://github.com/automenta/netjs<br />
<br />
http://docs.google.com/presentation/d/156YzIeH-eoYFl9nMzFxofQ55KVoksqusS0pYYL4WVaA/edit<br />
<br />
Or can a semi nomadic approach enable a balance betweel exploration of different contexts, our own (shared) emancipation, and spreading practices and cultures that support the regeneration of social and ecological systems ? <br />
<br />
Which may be a vision empowered further by this kind of habitat ? <br />
<br />
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19g_XYezo_jHEZINUqZNZUswZaLsuNHpvbsT3vNkW3eU/edit#slide=id.p<br />
<br />
Making use of vacant spaces, and re-question ownership all together , while having access to infrastructure; and promoting new forms of infrastructure creation in support of the commons ?<br />
<br />
( we discuss this, midst others, on https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/op-n-m )<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
How can we include our roles as care takers for each other ?<br />
While interfacing and building on existing infrastructures our european societies can provide us with ?<br />
( including the healthcare topic raised earlier on )<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parenting]]</div>Dante