SHE invitation

A gathering to connect nomadbases: SHE goes MAD!
Open space conference on nomad-culture in Berlin in the last ten days of November, with the main conference from the 27th to 30th of November 2009.

From hospitality exchange networks and nomads who want to live and work where-ever they feel like, towards a culture of shared places. SHE is a conference that intends to connect people who want to build up networks of shared nomad houses: places where you feel at home, participate, teach, learn and share - as a way of life.

In the past years, many of us have taken up initiatives to set up different types of shared nomad houses, lived the life of a nomad or have set up infrastructure to host travelers permanently. We host this event to foster our networks and to exchange our experiences, knowledge and inspirations.

Main questions we share: What are these homes? Who are nomads? What connects us? What is the culture we create? Where can we go from here?

We are still working on a location but the idea is to gather and share our ideas by open space technology: the conference is fluid, everyone can add points to the agenda and everyone has equal influence how this (un)conference takes shape, while we intend to keep our focus on the culture of shared houses and work-spaces, nomadic culture and how to sustain and extend our current networks.


 * wiki: http://sharewiki.org/en/she
 * mail: https://lists.0xb5.org/mm/listinfo/nomadbase
 * net : https://we.riseup.net/nomadbase
 * web : http://nomadbase.org

Who is SHE?
SHE or 'Sustainable Hospitality Exchange' was an conference type event that took place in Amsterdam, June 2008.

Its main focus was how hospitality exchange could be (more) sustainable on a personal, inter-personal (guest-host relationship), community and network-level (bewelcome and couchsurfing for example). Thirty people shared ideas and experiences about forms of hospitality exchange, learning while traveling and implications for our lives.
 * More info: http://www.bevolunteer.org/wiki/Category:SHE

It took place in what is currently called a nomadbase, a self-organised house for both traveling and stationary nomads. In this house inhabitants experimented with the idea of how to be 'hospitable sustainably'. Over the past year, this has inspired even more people to set up similar places, while at the same time (and also before), other people have already been creating those. The event-conference SHE goes MAD (It is SHE again), wants to connect such initiatives for mutual inspiration and learning.