Published in Field of the Future Blog I am sitting in a train on the Räthische Railway riding back from Pontresina, high in the beautiful Swiss Alps. Surrounded by the presence of melting glaciers I reflect on two gatherings that happened here earlier...
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One of the First Community Members, Dennis Orme - Voices of the Findhorn Foundation
Dennis was one of the first, if not the very first, community member to join the founders Peter, Eileen and Dorothy at Findhorn Bay Holiday Park in 1967. He ...
Read moreInner Climate Change Documentary_Findhorn Foundation
Visit our website: http://findhorn.org/InnerClimateChange This is the documentary INNER CLIMATE CHANGE, a Findhorn Foundation production inspired by the peop...
Read moreCreative Communities Workshop Documentation
So the first day of the architecture workshop startet with a tour around an in the cathedral led by Ulrich Gehmann and Heiner Weigand. The workshop officially startet with lectures by John Marx and by basislager8 Bernard Prigge
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Impressions of the Creative Communities Architecture Workshop at basislager8 the ponstructions team camp Impressions of the International Creative Communities Workshop Event with John Marx Architecture and Art Director burning man San Francisco; Federico...
Read moreCreative Communities- build.future.cities Workshop Event
First impressions of an extraordinary event and kick off for a new network with the topic: build.future.cities and creative communities...with the initiators Ulrich Gehman ideal space and Heiner Weigand karmacom with the ponstruction team. The workshop...
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- creative-communities-invitation-lettre_20191107.pdf „Man is the measure of all things.“ Protagoras If there are no reliable constants and truths, if the individual is the point of all reference, scale, and orientation, how can architecture, with its...
Read more7 amazing ecovillages green-minded travelers can volunteer at
Source: MATADOR Network by Ali Wunderman Ecovillages are like bright spots in all the darkness. While most of the world struggles to find solutions to the causes of our worldwide illnesses, ecovillages are communities who are entirely dedicated to eliminating...
Read moreEventworkshop CREATIVE COMMUNITIES building.future.cities
We want to comprehend the needs of „living people“ and shed light on what insights can be obtained into creative and dynamic urban development removed from immediate constraints. We therefore cordially invite you: ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP CREATIVE COMMUNITIES...
Read moreEUTOPIAN VISIONS - possible revolutions
Throughout history men and women have tried to create an ideal world made up of justice, peace, wealth, health, equality and dignity - free from suffering and fear and charged with a new meaning of coexistence, be it spiritual, philosophical and/or political....
Read moreAuroville University Confluence | Re-imagining Univers-City | SAIIER 2019
Being a process, and seeing in relationships
Wikimedia en:User:Edgy01 (Dan Lindsay) I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe. R. Buckminster...
Read moreExploring the Future Beyond Cyberpunk’s Neon and Noir
From Afrofuturism to the New Weird, nine sci-fi subgenres for understanding what’s to come Source: Medium Daily Digest by Jay Owens “Cyberpunk” has been the go-to imagery of the future for a startlingly long time — Bruce Bethke’s short story of that name...
Read moreThe Highway or The Higherway / Documentary About Proposed Highway around Auroville
A highway is proposed to go though the intentional township of auroville.... This short documentary explores what this would mean.... https://www.auroville.o...
Read moreClean Up Drive at the Pondicherry Rock Beach_How personal initiatives changes a paradigma and creates mindfullness.
See how a casual morning walk of Lt. Governor Dr. Kiran Bedi on the Rock Beach of Puducherry turned into a cleanup drive giving rise to new strict guidelines to maintain beaches. See how a casual morning walk of Lt. Governor Dr. Kiran Bedi on the Rock...
Read moreCoconat - a woraktion retreat
Coconat just turned 1, and wow, we have done a lot in that time. Here is a bit about what we are up to and what we are about. Written and narrated by Julianne Becker Coconat - Space for anyone to be inspired, concentrate, work, and play in the countr...
Read moreAuroville: A Test Run for the Future | Anu Majumdar | TEDxChennai
How would a city engage with the needs of the future? Would it only look at buildings, technology or the environment? Or would it start with humanity, education and an integrated plan that can make it a catalyst for change? Anu Majumdar is the author...
Read moreLow-rise planet. Measure in urban geography
We are deeply convinced that the best stimulus for work is a personal example. That's why we took paper and pencils and started creating sketches and notes that have later become the model of landscape-estate urbanization introduced in this video. We...
Read moreHow Findhorn Eco-Village Serves Planet with Whole-Hearted Principles, Essence & Guidelines
In 2017’s newsletter with a Planet focus , I explored 2 prototypes for an Integral City – one was Durant, Oklahoma, and the other Findhorn Eco-Village, Scotland. A year later I find myself and Integral City endeavours relocated to Findhorn Eco-Village...
Read moreWhales and dolphins have rich 'human-like' cultures and societies
Whales and dolphins (Cetaceans) live in tightly-knit social groups, have complex relationships, talk to each other and even have regional dialects - much like human societies. A major new study, published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, has linked...
Read moreExperiment Auroville I Living in Utopia (german with english subtitles)
50 Years AUROVILLE_Live Streaming of Events in Auroville Dawn Fire & Water Ceremony on February 28th, 2018. 5am - 7am IST
28th Feb 2018 - Auroville Matri Mandir Dawn Bonfire and Water Ceremony Live_Stream of the event from 5:10 am to 7:30 am.
Read moreFULL EVENT: PM Modi addresses gathering at Auroville Foundation in Puducherry
PM Modi addresses gathering at Auroville Foundation on the occasion of its Golden Jubilee Week in Puducherry .............................................................................................. 'DD News' is the News Channel of India's Public...
Read moreA wonderfully GOOD story from rural New Zealand_The Living in Peace Project
From our friend Brigitte right now on the road in New Zealand: Karamea. A community of 650 people in rural New Zealand. A small community with a big vision. Imagine if every traveller and every business took responsibility for their carbon footprint....
Read moreIntegral City Prototypes for a Planet in Transition
People often ask what is an Integral City or which cities are Integral Cities? The answer often seems to disappoint them, in that you can say “Integral” is not an ideal for a city, but rather a framework for understanding the city as a human system in...
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