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<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining, learning communities that are globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
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[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
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[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
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==Citation==<br />
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[[Franz Nahrada]]:<br />
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"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br /><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
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[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
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==Introduction==<br />
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A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
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"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy -> here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br /> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
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Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
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Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reinforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
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There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
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One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
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==Principles and Goals of the Movement==<br />
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By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
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===Principles of the Global Villages Network===<br />
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"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
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1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
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2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in ''physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural''. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that ''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us'', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
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The '''village''' (or small town) is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature - landscape, plants, the regenerative cycles - is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''''. Permaculture has proven that humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
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(Note: we believe that the degradation and deserting of natural and cultural landscape is the main cause not only of desertification, but in consequence of this also the main driver of climate change - through distortion of the cooling water cycles that influence our climate)<br />
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3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other "villages" in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coexistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures". Locality bears a "genius loci" and the main problem of our cities is the destruction of this simple truth.<br />
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===What do we want to achieve===<br />
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So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
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1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way and PUT IT INTO PRACTICE. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a '''local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge''' (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side '''with a local innovation environment (test field)''' in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process. Thus it is the ultimate answer to the crisis of the capitalist - industrial system.<br />
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2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuous cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet (something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today, when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-increasing depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants").<br />
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3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards and communities''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and '''we need basic life maintenance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival''' (Maybe a revival of the monastery idea?). We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
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We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this local world,<br />
it may get better by forming global virtual communities of practice. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in alignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and know-how.<br />
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This is, in the deepest sense, the reason why we call this new world not "Global Village" but "Global Villages" - a multitude of interconnected localities.<br />
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'''Immediate Goals'''<br />
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So the immediate goals could be<br />
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1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a village / locality and join with all likeminded institutions to a "virtual university of the villages"<br />
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2. to identify '''actors''' which will be supportive in this respect. For this we also team up with the Project Unavision (http://www.unavision.eu)<br />
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3. to identify '''contents''' shared and developed locally or in global teams, relevant to improving local life in all its dimensions.<br />
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4. to draw maps of change in all peripheral regions of the world, to identify strong centers, hotspots and achievements,<br />
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==Hannover Principles==<br />
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'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
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URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm (with some additions by Franz Nahrada)<br />
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# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness. "Everything is connected"<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist. "Design for small, incremental changes; Design for failure and learning"<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste. "cradle to cradle - the waste of the one is the food of the other"<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows ad material flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use. Keep in mind that water is the bearer of life.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. Form open Design communities. release early, release often.<br />
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The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
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Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
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When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
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* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
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==Discussion==<br />
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Franz Nahrada wrote in 2024 a few lines further explaining the concept:<br />
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===== Four Meanings of Global Village according to McLuhan =====<br />
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"There are four meanings of the metaphor "global village" in McLuhan's work, and it seems that this ambiguity did not bother him, but even pleased him. ˧<br />
Tthe first meaning is "as if": We are confronted with realities in real time that give the impression that what we experience via the media AS IF is was taking place in our immediate neighborhood. Keep in Mind: this creates not only fascination, but also pain, confusion and repulsion,<br />
The second meaning is what he often called electronic tribalization, which stands in sharp contrast to the first meaning. Cultural bubbles form, demarcated spaces shaped by common uniformity that function in a certain way like virtual tribal or village cultures. Often enough, "global villages" is used in this sense - and as I said, this is entirely in the spirit of the inventor.<br />
The third meaning, however, is the transition to the material world. The intensification of virtual relationships leads to the emergence of places that, charged with the energy of these virtual relationships, turn to the "renaissance of the local", the "cosmolocal" or "hyperlocal" formation of communal living and the focus on real local spheres of the same. This is where my concept comes in and created a lo9t of musings on this third meaning<br />
Only in this way does the fourth meaning come into being, which dissolves the illusory nature of the first meaning, the fragmented nature of the second and the isolated nature of the third into a complex reality in which the "villages" of this world actually enter into a cooperative relationship with one another and the initial phrase of the "global village" becomes fully justified after all.<br />
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===== GV as a cosmolocal idea with political consequences:=====<br />
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That is a vision that in my view is strong enough to counter the national state in the long run.<br />
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Global Villages (in the plural) are manifestations of habitat design according to aesthetic, cultural, ethical, social, etc. principles, which, precisely because of their diversity bear witness to the creative energy and potential of humans in interaction with nature, of which they are a part. The human sphere of life is not only embedded in a natural "environment", but forms an organism with it. Culture is the human contribution to this organism, determining its shape and form just as much as the laws of nature. It is able to constantly refine itself through knowledge impulses.<br />
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'''A Global Village is a local community with a knowledge center that both preserves knowledge and continuously researches in communication with the world'''. As much as a basic 'cultural tone' is needed to shape the living environment, this is energized by the encounter, differentiation and resonance with the other, the strange - this is the basic principle both on a small and large scale. Every culture that should be taken taken seriously is open and in dialog.<br />
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We live through communicative processes with others, development happens through interaction with others. We complement each other because we are different; this applies both on an intra-community level and to the global power of the diversity of cultural designs.<br />
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I remember the deepest motives for my vision of Global Villages: that the immense progress in knowledge and skills that humanity has achieved, manifests itself in a way of life in which the rediscovery of our own nature - as connected and harmonized in millions of details with external nature - leads to an intense interaction in vibrant, shimmering, radiant microcosms, radiating the one health of man and planet in colorful diversity.<br />
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All the elements of such another world are real and continue to develop with each passing day. I have always felt it to be one of the most urgent tasks to show that if humanity allows itself to be inspired by such a task, there would have to be no lack and no poverty in this world. "We" in quotation marks, i.e. '''humanity''' speculatively conceived as a unit, have the technical and organizational potential to produce enough for the basic needs of all people in the foreseeable future. In truth, the potential wealth of this world is being squandered on an immense scale, which is directly visible in war, a medium-sized version of which we are currently witnessing (and a cataclysmic big one is more likely than ever before). Global military spending has risen continuously over the last seven years to 2.1 trillion US dollars, with an estimated global gross domestic product of 96 trillion. All this for things that at best produce nothing and at worst destroy wealth and lives in their aftermath. ˧<br />
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However, waste of our real and potential wealth is also prevalent in times of peace, and it has so many dimensions that it could make you sick. On the material side, i.e. without considering the social form, we see that our production is based on the production of waste rather than on circulation. Nature is also wasteful, but in a different way: over millions of years, it has learned to create an almost perfect system of multiple cycles.<br />
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So the vision of global villages is also the vision of a deep System Change in which the focus is not on abstract wealth in the form of money, but on concrete, sensual wealth in the interaction between people and nature. We do not yet know how this system change will come about. Perhaps it is the rapid spread of self-help organizations such as Society 4.0, an initiative by Rotterdam professor Bob de Wit, which is currently spreading in the Netherlands in response to the energy crisis and inflation - cooperative associations that are regionally networked and work at a high technical level. We are hardly aware of this network of alternatives that is imperceptibly spreading in different parts of the world, but from Kurdish communities to grassroots movements in Mexico and India, at least one thing is clear: the network idea is developing more vividly than the old and new nationalisms. Balaji Shrinivasan is promoting similar ideas with the "Network State", a concviction that "Global Villages" in the second sense (Global online communities) will produce so much wealth that they can acquire land and resources (Global Villages in the third sense) to eventually challenge the Nation State.<br />
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In contrast to the currently dominant forms of geopolitics and their imperial subjects, it is about a world model in which local autonomy and cycles are strengthened through global networking. Global knowledge cooperation and targeted transfers of resources to build a new integration of human settlement and ways of life with the respective potentials of the cultural landscape worldwide as the necessary response to the obsolete world of megacities, the global depletion of resources and the various catastrophes such as climate change, species extinction, ocean acidification, poisoning and pollution and so on. The necessary response would be not to complain that "humans are massively interfering with natural processes", but to promote a massive change in our way of life that would turn our relationship with nature into a symbiotic relationship, into a truly productive interdependence.<br />
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I recently met a young woman with whom I was discussing these issues, she came out as a communist and she was very surprised to learn that I am doing everything I can to use the theorem of global villages to propagate a social model that takes seriously the radical freedom of people not to be dictated to in terms of their economic system and social form. In this I agree with Marx, who understood communism as the free association of producers, today many would say producers. Even if de facto communism has become an ideology of justification and a label for a certain kind of state power that is being reactualized in our time as the Chinese challenge, there is a broad strand of thought that takes up the challenge of making free association the basis of the theory and practice of social organization.<br />
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One thing is clear: what we call our freedom today is inextricably linked to the state, power and violence. On closer inspection, the guarantee of freedom proves to be a perfect system of rules and regulations in which state power guarantees the pursuit of people's conflicting interests and, as the saying goes, "gives them a course". One thing is already ruled out: that a significant group of people would be able to remove themselves from this coercive context and create their own form of economic activity beyond the market economy. A camel is more likely to go through the eye of a needle than for the system of money and profit to be questioned even in one single autonomous zone. Our everyday mind usually overlooks this invisible totalitarianism of our system and declares the underlying social contradictions to be natural. But in reality, we only need the state and money because we can't really communicate with each other, nor do we want to. That needs to change !<br />
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===== The essence of cooperation =====<br />
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The discourse on alternative concepts of society brings us back to ''Rousseau''. He wrote his "treatise on the social contract" as a citizen of a city-state, Geneva, and although his book was immediately banned in his home country, it is clear that it was primarily intended for manageable communities. At one point, he even speaks of the "other trees" that one must be able to join - that is in fact the thought that is central for my idea of Global Villages.<br />
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The task he sets himself is as follows: "Find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each individual member with all their combined strength, and through which everyone, by uniting with all, obeys only themselves and remains just as free as before."<br />
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Free association, i.e. networking without external coercion, is also what German author ''Christoph Spehr'' described in 2000 in his book "Gleicher als Andere. Eine Grundlegung der Freien Kooperation" [6] (in a certain analogy to Rousseau's writing on the social contract, also a piece entered in a competition). While in Rousseau's case it was the Academy of Dijon in 1749 that posed the question "Has the restoration of the arts and sciences contributed to the purification of morals?", in Spehr's case it is the question posed by the left-wing Federal Foundation Rosa Luxemburg: "Under what conditions are social equality and political freedom compatible?".<br />
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Both writings basically have the same theme, freedom and equality<br />
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however, show a substantial difference. While Rousseau invokes the principle of universal rightness, called volonté générale, for the utopian commonwealth of his vision and derives its validity beyond the rights and privileges of the nobility and royalty purely from the common good, i.e. the benefit for all [7] , Spehr denies any prior justification for the existence of the common good by referring to competing views and social contradictions:<br />
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"Free cooperation does not start with the regulation of negotiation, but with the actors. Whether a negotiation is free and equal does not depend on the rules, but on the actors: whether they are able - and if necessary willing - to say "if this is the case then just not", and whether this is possible at a reasonable and justifiable price. On this basis, the players can also negotiate the rules of the negotiation. They can create and change rules, adhere to them or no longer do so. Free cooperation does not set the rules, it strengthens the equal negotiating position of the actors. Justifications like 'scientific knowledge', 'democratic majorities' or 'social necessities' are not able to override them" <br />
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While Rousseau, with his identity of "objective interest" and "common good", must therefore also advocate the violent enforcement of the common good against individuals if necessary -<br />
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"So that the social pact is not an empty formality, it implicitly includes the following obligation, which alone can lend weight to the others: Whoever refuses to obey the common will will be forced to do so by the community. This means nothing other than that he will be forced to be free. That he will be forced to be free." [8] <br />
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- Spehr rejects this (proto-fascist) construction: <br />
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"The right of individuals (and groups) to influence the rules, to make their cooperation subject to conditions, or to reject cooperation that does not suit them, cannot be overridden by any objectifying consideration or alleged need for development, at any time. A mechanism of 'now you cannot negotiate, but later you will be free' is completely contrary to the concept of free cooperation." (S. 23)<br />
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Freedom and equality in Spehr as well as in Rousseau are not in contradiction to each other, but are mutually dependent.<br />
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"However, the concept of free cooperation insists that individuals should be equal in their power to influence the rules and to terminate or condition their cooperation at any time. Free cooperation does not imply that the participants in a cooperation are homogeneous or identical. It does, however, imply that the participants face each other in a social position of equality. Cooperation is only free if it is equal; and individuals can only be free in a cooperation where they are equal." (S. 24)<br />
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Actually, much of the social side of global village theory is due to this antagonism. In other words: If we do not assume to a certain extent a structure-forming power of cooperation as reflected in Rousseau's Volonté Generale, then reliability and coherence can hardly be assumed; the accidental and particular interests do not necessarily give rise to lasting and organic cooperation. At most, such a thing could be imagined under the conditions of nomadic association, for example in the fluid urban formations of seastading, where the termination of cooperation simultaneously means the decoupling of one's own houseboat from the existing maritime urban boat clusters, which many utopians in recent times have imagined as existing outside the sovereignty of nations and under extensive self-government.<br />
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In reality, at least for Rousseau, the Volonté Generale does not arise from the particular interests that enter into a negotiation situation. He allows an additional figure to appear, the legislator, who constructs the basic framework before the association, so to speak. In the free software world, it is the maintainer who puts a programmatic project design into the world and may or may not find fellow campaigners. Linus Thorwalds called this the function of a "well-meaning dictator". And a management theorist named Peter Koenig chose the term "source" for the first founder of a project or company to emphasize that this first person has a very special relationship to the project and the associated responsibilities and privileges - with similar phenomena occurring in all sub-projects.<br />
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This compels us to add a positive side to Christoph Spehr's negative side of free cooperation: There needs to be a generative process of projecting social designs. And that is the crucial point: what would it be like if we had a variety of associations between which we could vote with our feet?<br />
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This is the bottomline for the Global Villages political theory. Imagine a world that gives space to diverse cultures and yet assures that individuals have the freedom to leave and join whatever they resonate with. A world that has no power to coerce anybody against their will, in which there is always space to exit, nowhere land, to build alternatives."<br />
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(email, January 2024)<br />
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==Status==<br />
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===Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada===<br />
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See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
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and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
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==More Information==<br />
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More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
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Definitional work at <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
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See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
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==Key Books to Read==<br />
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The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
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1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
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crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
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'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas Schuler'''<br />
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Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
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==More Information==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining, learning communities that are globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
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[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
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[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
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==Citation==<br />
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[[Franz Nahrada]]:<br />
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"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br /><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
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[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
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==Introduction==<br />
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A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
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"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy -> here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br /> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
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Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
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Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reinforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
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There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
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One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
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==Principles and Goals of the Movement==<br />
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By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
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===Principles of the Global Villages Network===<br />
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"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
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1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
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2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in ''physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural''. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that ''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us'', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
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The '''village''' (or small town) is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature - landscape, plants, the regenerative cycles - is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''''. Permaculture has proven that humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
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(Note: we believe that the degradation and deserting of natural and cultural landscape is the main cause not only of desertification, but in consequence of this also the main driver of climate change - through distortion of the cooling water cycles that influence our climate)<br />
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3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other "villages" in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coexistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures". Locality bears a "genius loci" and the main problem of our cities is the destruction of this simple truth.<br />
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===What do we want to achieve===<br />
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So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
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1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way and PUT IT INTO PRACTICE. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a '''local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge''' (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side '''with a local innovation environment (test field)''' in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process. Thus it is the ultimate answer to the crisis of the capitalist - industrial system.<br />
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2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuous cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet (something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today, when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-increasing depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants").<br />
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3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards and communities''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and '''we need basic life maintenance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival''' (Maybe a revival of the monastery idea?). We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
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We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this local world,<br />
it may get better by forming global virtual communities of practice. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in alignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and know-how.<br />
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This is, in the deepest sense, the reason why we call this new world not "Global Village" but "Global Villages" - a multitude of interconnected localities.<br />
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'''Immediate Goals'''<br />
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So the immediate goals could be<br />
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1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a village / locality and join with all likeminded institutions to a "virtual university of the villages"<br />
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2. to identify '''actors''' which will be supportive in this respect. For this we also team up with the Project Unavision (http://www.unavision.eu)<br />
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3. to identify '''contents''' shared and developed locally or in global teams, relevant to improving local life in all its dimensions.<br />
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4. to draw maps of change in all peripheral regions of the world, to identify strong centers, hotspots and achievements,<br />
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==Hannover Principles==<br />
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'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
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URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm (with some additions by Franz Nahrada)<br />
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# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness. "Everything is connected"<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist. "Design for small, incremental changes; Design for failure and learning"<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste. "cradle to cradle - the waste of the one is the food of the other"<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows ad material flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use. Keep in mind that water is the bearer of life.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. Form open Design communities. release early, release often.<br />
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The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
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Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
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When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
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* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
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==Discussion==<br />
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Franz Nahrada wrote in 2024 a few lines further explaining the concept:<br />
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===== Four Meanings of Global Village according to McLuhan =====<br />
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"There are four meanings of the metaphor "global village" in McLuhan's work, and it seems that this ambiguity did not bother him, but even pleased him. ˧<br />
Tthe first meaning is "as if": We are confronted with realities in real time that give the impression that what we experience via the media AS IF is was taking place in our immediate neighborhood. Keep in Mind: this creates not only fascination, but also pain, confusion and repulsion,<br />
The second meaning is what he often called electronic tribalization, which stands in sharp contrast to the first meaning. Cultural bubbles form, demarcated spaces shaped by common uniformity that function in a certain way like virtual tribal or village cultures. Often enough, "global villages" is used in this sense - and as I said, this is entirely in the spirit of the inventor.<br />
The third meaning, however, is the transition to the material world. The intensification of virtual relationships leads to the emergence of places that, charged with the energy of these virtual relationships, turn to the "renaissance of the local", the "cosmolocal" or "hyperlocal" formation of communal living and the focus on real local spheres of the same. This is where my concept comes in and created a lo9t of musings on this third meaning<br />
Only in this way does the fourth meaning come into being, which dissolves the illusory nature of the first meaning, the fragmented nature of the second and the isolated nature of the third into a complex reality in which the "villages" of this world actually enter into a cooperative relationship with one another and the initial phrase of the "global village" becomes fully justified after all.<br />
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===== GV as a cosmolocal idea with political consequences:=====<br />
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That is a vision that in my view is strong enough to counter the national state in the long run.<br />
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Global Villages (in the plural) are manifestations of habitat design according to aesthetic, cultural, ethical, social, etc. principles, which, precisely because of their diversity bear witness to the creative energy and potential of humans in interaction with nature, of which they are a part. The human sphere of life is not only embedded in a natural "environment", but forms an organism with it. Culture is the human contribution to this organism, determining its shape and form just as much as the laws of nature. It is able to constantly refine itself through knowledge impulses.<br />
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'''A Global Village is a local community with a knowledge center that both preserves knowledge and continuously researches in communication with the world'''. As much as a basic 'cultural tone' is needed to shape the living environment, this is energized by the encounter, differentiation and resonance with the other, the strange - this is the basic principle both on a small and large scale. Every culture that should be taken taken seriously is open and in dialog.<br />
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We live through communicative processes with others, development happens through interaction with others. We complement each other because we are different; this applies both on an intra-community level and to the global power of the diversity of cultural designs.<br />
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I remember the deepest motives for my vision of Global Villages: that the immense progress in knowledge and skills that humanity has achieved, manifests itself in a way of life in which the rediscovery of our own nature - as connected and harmonized in millions of details with external nature - leads to an intense interaction in vibrant, shimmering, radiant microcosms, radiating the one health of man and planet in colorful diversity.<br />
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All the elements of such another world are real and continue to develop with each passing day. I have always felt it to be one of the most urgent tasks to show that if humanity allows itself to be inspired by such a task, there would have to be no lack and no poverty in this world. "We" in quotation marks, i.e. '''humanity''' speculatively conceived as a unit, have the technical and organizational potential to produce enough for the basic needs of all people in the foreseeable future. In truth, the potential wealth of this world is being squandered on an immense scale, which is directly visible in war, a medium-sized version of which we are currently witnessing (and a cataclysmic big one is more likely than ever before). Global military spending has risen continuously over the last seven years to 2.1 trillion US dollars, with an estimated global gross domestic product of 96 trillion. All this for things that at best produce nothing and at worst destroy wealth and lives in their aftermath. ˧<br />
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However, waste of our real and potential wealth is also prevalent in times of peace, and it has so many dimensions that it could make you sick. On the material side, i.e. without considering the social form, we see that our production is based on the production of waste rather than on circulation. Nature is also wasteful, but in a different way: over millions of years, it has learned to create an almost perfect system of multiple cycles.<br />
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So the vision of global villages is also the vision of a deep System Change in which the focus is not on abstract wealth in the form of money, but on concrete, sensual wealth in the interaction between people and nature. We do not yet know how this system change will come about. Perhaps it is the rapid spread of self-help organizations such as Society 4.0, an initiative by Rotterdam professor Bob de Wit, which is currently spreading in the Netherlands in response to the energy crisis and inflation - cooperative associations that are regionally networked and work at a high technical level. We are hardly aware of this network of alternatives that is imperceptibly spreading in different parts of the world, but from Kurdish communities to grassroots movements in Mexico and India, at least one thing is clear: the network idea is developing more vividly than the old and new nationalisms. Balaji Shrinivasan is promoting similar ideas with the "Network State", a concviction that "Global Villages" in the second sense (Global online communities) will produce so much wealth that they can acquire land and resources (Global Villages in the third sense) to eventually challenge the Nation State.<br />
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In contrast to the currently dominant forms of geopolitics and their imperial subjects, it is about a world model in which local autonomy and cycles are strengthened through global networking. Global knowledge cooperation and targeted transfers of resources to build a new integration of human settlement and ways of life with the respective potentials of the cultural landscape worldwide as the necessary response to the obsolete world of megacities, the global depletion of resources and the various catastrophes such as climate change, species extinction, ocean acidification, poisoning and pollution and so on. The necessary response would be not to complain that "humans are massively interfering with natural processes", but to promote a massive change in our way of life that would turn our relationship with nature into a symbiotic relationship, into a truly productive interdependence.<br />
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I recently met a young woman with whom I was discussing these issues, she came out as a communist and she was very surprised to learn that I am doing everything I can to use the theorem of global villages to propagate a social model that takes seriously the radical freedom of people not to be dictated to in terms of their economic system and social form. In this I agree with Marx, who understood communism as the free association of producers, today many would say producers. Even if de facto communism has become an ideology of justification and a label for a certain kind of state power that is being reactualized in our time as the Chinese challenge, there is a broad strand of thought that takes up the challenge of making free association the basis of the theory and practice of social organization.<br />
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One thing is clear: what we call our freedom today is inextricably linked to the state, power and violence. On closer inspection, the guarantee of freedom proves to be a perfect system of rules and regulations in which state power guarantees the pursuit of people's conflicting interests and, as the saying goes, "gives them a course". One thing is already ruled out: that a significant group of people would be able to remove themselves from this coercive context and create their own form of economic activity beyond the market economy. A camel is more likely to go through the eye of a needle than for the system of money and profit to be questioned even in one single autonomous zone. Our everyday mind usually overlooks this invisible totalitarianism of our system and declares the underlying social contradictions to be natural. But in reality, we only need the state and money because we can't really communicate with each other, nor do we want to. That needs to change !<br />
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===== The essence of cooperation =====<br />
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The discourse on alternative concepts of society brings us back to ''Rousseau''. He wrote his "treatise on the social contract" as a citizen of a city-state, Geneva, and although his book was immediately banned in his home country, it is clear that it was primarily intended for manageable communities. At one point, he even speaks of the "other trees" that one must be able to join - that is in fact the thought that is central for my idea of Global Villages.<br />
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The task he sets himself is as follows: "Find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each individual member with all their combined strength, and through which everyone, by uniting with all, obeys only themselves and remains just as free as before."<br />
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Free association, i.e. networking without external coercion, is also what German author ''Christoph Spehr'' described in 2000 in his book "Gleicher als Andere. Eine Grundlegung der Freien Kooperation" [6] (in a certain analogy to Rousseau's writing on the social contract, also a piece entered in a competition). While in Rousseau's case it was the Academy of Dijon in 1749 that posed the question "Has the restoration of the arts and sciences contributed to the purification of morals?", in Spehr's case it is the question posed by the left-wing Federal Foundation Rosa Luxemburg: "Under what conditions are social equality and political freedom compatible?".<br />
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Both writings basically have the same theme, freedom and equality<br />
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however, show a substantial difference. While Rousseau invokes the principle of universal rightness, called volonté générale, for the utopian commonwealth of his vision and derives its validity beyond the rights and privileges of the nobility and royalty purely from the common good, i.e. the benefit for all [7] , Spehr denies any prior justification for the existence of the common good by referring to competing views and social contradictions:<br />
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"Free cooperation does not start with the regulation of negotiation, but with the actors. Whether a negotiation is free and equal does not depend on the rules, but on the actors: whether they are able - and if necessary willing - to say "if this is the case then just not", and whether this is possible at a reasonable and justifiable price. On this basis, the players can also negotiate the rules of the negotiation. They can create and change rules, adhere to them or no longer do so. Free cooperation does not set the rules, it strengthens the equal negotiating position of the actors. Justifications like 'scientific knowledge', 'democratic majorities' or 'social necessities' are not able to override them" <br />
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While Rousseau, with his identity of "objective interest" and "common good", must therefore also advocate the violent enforcement of the common good against individuals if necessary -<br />
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"So that the social pact is not an empty formality, it implicitly includes the following obligation, which alone can lend weight to the others: Whoever refuses to obey the common will will be forced to do so by the community. This means nothing other than that he will be forced to be free. That he will be forced to be free." [8] <br />
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- Spehr rejects this (proto-fascist) construction: <br />
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"The right of individuals (and groups) to influence the rules, to make their cooperation subject to conditions, or to reject cooperation that does not suit them, cannot be overridden by any objectifying consideration or alleged need for development, at any time. A mechanism of 'now you cannot negotiate, but later you will be free' is completely contrary to the concept of free cooperation." (S. 23)<br />
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Freedom and equality in Spehr as well as in Rousseau are not in contradiction to each other, but are mutually dependent.<br />
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"However, the concept of free cooperation insists that individuals should be equal in their power to influence the rules and to terminate or condition their cooperation at any time. Free cooperation does not imply that the participants in a cooperation are homogeneous or identical. It does, however, imply that the participants face each other in a social position of equality. Cooperation is only free if it is equal; and individuals can only be free in a cooperation where they are equal." (S. 24)<br />
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Actually, much of the social side of global village theory is due to this antagonism. In other words: If we do not assume to a certain extent a structure-forming power of cooperation as reflected in Rousseau's Volonté Generale, then reliability and coherence can hardly be assumed; the accidental and particular interests do not necessarily give rise to lasting and organic cooperation. At most, such a thing could be imagined under the conditions of nomadic association, for example in the fluid urban formations of seastading, where the termination of cooperation simultaneously means the decoupling of one's own houseboat from the existing maritime urban boat clusters, which many utopians in recent times have imagined as existing outside the sovereignty of nations and under extensive self-government.<br />
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In reality, at least for Rousseau, the Volonté Generale does not arise from the particular interests that enter into a negotiation situation. He allows an additional figure to appear, the legislator, who constructs the basic framework before the association, so to speak. In the free software world, it is the maintainer who puts a programmatic project design into the world and may or may not find fellow campaigners. Linus Thorwalds called this the function of a "well-meaning dictator". And a management theorist named Peter Koenig chose the term "source" for the first founder of a project or company to emphasize that this first person has a very special relationship to the project and the associated responsibilities and privileges - with similar phenomena occurring in all sub-projects.<br />
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This compels us to add a positive side to Christoph Spehr's negative side of free cooperation: There needs to be a generative process of projecting social designs. And that is the crucial point: what would it be like if we had a variety of associations between which we could vote with our feet?<br />
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This is the bottomline for the Global Villages political theory. Imagine a world that gives space to diverse cultures and yet assures that individuals have the freedom to leave and join whatever they resonate with. A world that has no power to coerce anybody against their will, in which there is always space to exit, nowhere land, to build alternatives."<br />
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(email, January 2024)<br />
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==Status==<br />
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===Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada===<br />
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See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
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and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
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==More Information==<br />
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More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
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Definitional work at <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
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See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
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==Key Books to Read==<br />
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The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
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1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
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crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
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'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
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Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
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==More Information==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=139781Global Villages2024-01-27T12:13:08Z<p>FranzN: /* The essence of cooperation */</p>
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<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining, learning communities that are globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
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[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
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[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
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==Citation==<br />
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[[Franz Nahrada]]:<br />
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"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br /><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
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[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
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==Introduction==<br />
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A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
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"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy -> here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br /> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
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Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
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Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reinforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
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There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
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One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
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==Principles and Goals of the Movement==<br />
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By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
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===Principles of the Global Villages Network===<br />
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"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
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1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
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2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in ''physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural''. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that ''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us'', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
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The '''village''' (or small town) is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature - landscape, plants, the regenerative cycles - is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''''. Permaculture has proven that humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
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(Note: we believe that the degradation and deserting of natural and cultural landscape is the main cause not only of desertification, but in consequence of this also the main driver of climate change - through distortion of the cooling water cycles that influence our climate)<br />
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3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other "villages" in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coexistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures". Locality bears a "genius loci" and the main problem of our cities is the destruction of this simple truth.<br />
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===What do we want to achieve===<br />
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So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
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1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way and PUT IT INTO PRACTICE. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a '''local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge''' (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side '''with a local innovation environment (test field)''' in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process. Thus it is the ultimate answer to the crisis of the capitalist - industrial system.<br />
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2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuous cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet (something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today, when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-increasing depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants").<br />
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3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards and communities''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and '''we need basic life maintenance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival''' (Maybe a revival of the monastery idea?). We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
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We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this local world,<br />
it may get better by forming global virtual communities of practice. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in alignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and know-how.<br />
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This is, in the deepest sense, the reason why we call this new world not "Global Village" but "Global Villages" - a multitude of interconnected localities.<br />
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'''Immediate Goals'''<br />
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So the immediate goals could be<br />
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1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a village / locality and join with all likeminded institutions to a "virtual university of the villages"<br />
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2. to identify '''actors''' which will be supportive in this respect. For this we also team up with the Project Unavision (http://www.unavision.eu)<br />
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3. to identify '''contents''' shared and developed locally or in global teams, relevant to improving local life in all its dimensions.<br />
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4. to draw maps of change in all peripheral regions of the world, to identify strong centers, hotspots and achievements,<br />
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==Hannover Principles==<br />
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'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
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URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm (with some additions by Franz Nahrada)<br />
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# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness. "Everything is connected"<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist. "Design for small, incremental changes; Design for failure and learning"<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste. "cradle to cradle - the waste of the one is the food of the other"<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows ad material flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use. Keep in mind that water is the bearer of life.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. Form open Design communities. release early, release often.<br />
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The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
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Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
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When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
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* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
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==Discussion==<br />
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Franz Nahrada wrote in 2024 a few lines further explaining the concept:<br />
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===== Four Meanings of Global Village according to McLuhan =====<br />
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"There are four meanings of the metaphor "global village" in McLuhan's work, and it seems that this ambiguity did not bother him, but even pleased him. ˧<br />
Tthe first meaning is "as if": We are confronted with realities in real time that give the impression that what we experience via the media AS IF is was taking place in our immediate neighborhood. Keep in Mind: this creates not only fascination, but also pain, confusion and repulsion,<br />
The second meaning is what he often called electronic tribalization, which stands in sharp contrast to the first meaning. Cultural bubbles form, demarcated spaces shaped by common uniformity that function in a certain way like virtual tribal or village cultures. Often enough, "global villages" is used in this sense - and as I said, this is entirely in the spirit of the inventor.<br />
The third meaning, however, is the transition to the material world. The intensification of virtual relationships leads to the emergence of places that, charged with the energy of these virtual relationships, turn to the "renaissance of the local", the "cosmolocal" or "hyperlocal" formation of communal living and the focus on real local spheres of the same. This is where my concept comes in and created a lo9t of musings on this third meaning<br />
Only in this way does the fourth meaning come into being, which dissolves the illusory nature of the first meaning, the fragmented nature of the second and the isolated nature of the third into a complex reality in which the "villages" of this world actually enter into a cooperative relationship with one another and the initial phrase of the "global village" becomes fully justified after all.<br />
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===== GV as a cosmolocal idea with political consequences:=====<br />
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That is a vision that in my view is strong enough to counter the national state in the long run.<br />
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Global Villages (in the plural) are manifestations of habitat design according to aesthetic, cultural, ethical, social, etc. principles, which, precisely because of their diversity bear witness to the creative energy and potential of humans in interaction with nature, of which they are a part. The human sphere of life is not only embedded in a natural "environment", but forms an organism with it. Culture is the human contribution to this organism, determining its shape and form just as much as the laws of nature. It is able to constantly refine itself through knowledge impulses.<br />
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'''A Global Village is a local community with a knowledge center that both preserves knowledge and continuously researches in communication with the world'''. As much as a basic 'cultural tone' is needed to shape the living environment, this is energized by the encounter, differentiation and resonance with the other, the strange - this is the basic principle both on a small and large scale. Every culture that should be taken taken seriously is open and in dialog.<br />
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We live through communicative processes with others, development happens through interaction with others. We complement each other because we are different; this applies both on an intra-community level and to the global power of the diversity of cultural designs.<br />
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I remember the deepest motives for my vision of Global Villages: that the immense progress in knowledge and skills that humanity has achieved, manifests itself in a way of life in which the rediscovery of our own nature - as connected and harmonized in millions of details with external nature - leads to an intense interaction in vibrant, shimmering, radiant microcosms, radiating the one health of man and planet in colorful diversity.<br />
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All the elements of such another world are real and continue to develop with each passing day. I have always felt it to be one of the most urgent tasks to show that if humanity allows itself to be inspired by such a task, there would have to be no lack and no poverty in this world. "We" in quotation marks, i.e. '''humanity''' speculatively conceived as a unit, have the technical and organizational potential to produce enough for the basic needs of all people in the foreseeable future. In truth, the potential wealth of this world is being squandered on an immense scale, which is directly visible in war, a medium-sized version of which we are currently witnessing (and a cataclysmic big one is more likely than ever before). Global military spending has risen continuously over the last seven years to 2.1 trillion US dollars, with an estimated global gross domestic product of 96 trillion. All this for things that at best produce nothing and at worst destroy wealth and lives in their aftermath. ˧<br />
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However, waste of our real and potential wealth is also prevalent in times of peace, and it has so many dimensions that it could make you sick. On the material side, i.e. without considering the social form, we see that our production is based on the production of waste rather than on circulation. Nature is also wasteful, but in a different way: over millions of years, it has learned to create an almost perfect system of multiple cycles.<br />
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So the vision of global villages is also the vision of a deep System Change in which the focus is not on abstract wealth in the form of money, but on concrete, sensual wealth in the interaction between people and nature. We do not yet know how this system change will come about. Perhaps it is the rapid spread of self-help organizations such as Society 4.0, an initiative by Rotterdam professor Bob de Wit, which is currently spreading in the Netherlands in response to the energy crisis and inflation - cooperative associations that are regionally networked and work at a high technical level. We are hardly aware of this network of alternatives that is imperceptibly spreading in different parts of the world, but from Kurdish communities to grassroots movements in Mexico and India, at least one thing is clear: the network idea is developing more vividly than the old and new nationalisms. Balaji Shrinivasan is promoting similar ideas with the "Network State", a concviction that "Global Villages" in the second sense (Global online communities) will produce so much wealth that they can acquire land and resources (Global Villages in the third sense) to eventually challenge the Nation State.<br />
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In contrast to the currently dominant forms of geopolitics and their imperial subjects, it is about a world model in which local autonomy and cycles are strengthened through global networking. Global knowledge cooperation and targeted transfers of resources to build a new integration of human settlement and ways of life with the respective potentials of the cultural landscape worldwide as the necessary response to the obsolete world of megacities, the global depletion of resources and the various catastrophes such as climate change, species extinction, ocean acidification, poisoning and pollution and so on. The necessary response would be not to complain that "humans are massively interfering with natural processes", but to promote a massive change in our way of life that would turn our relationship with nature into a symbiotic relationship, into a truly productive interdependence.<br />
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I recently met a young woman with whom I was discussing these issues, she came out as a communist and she was very surprised to learn that I am doing everything I can to use the theorem of global villages to propagate a social model that takes seriously the radical freedom of people not to be dictated to in terms of their economic system and social form. In this I agree with Marx, who understood communism as the free association of producers, today many would say producers. Even if de facto communism has become an ideology of justification and a label for a certain kind of state power that is being reactualized in our time as the Chinese challenge, there is a broad strand of thought that takes up the challenge of making free association the basis of the theory and practice of social organization.<br />
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One thing is clear: what we call our freedom today is inextricably linked to the state, power and violence. On closer inspection, the guarantee of freedom proves to be a perfect system of rules and regulations in which state power guarantees the pursuit of people's conflicting interests and, as the saying goes, "gives them a course". One thing is already ruled out: that a significant group of people would be able to remove themselves from this coercive context and create their own form of economic activity beyond the market economy. A camel is more likely to go through the eye of a needle than for the system of money and profit to be questioned even in one single autonomous zone. Our everyday mind usually overlooks this invisible totalitarianism of our system and declares the underlying social contradictions to be natural. But in reality, we only need the state and money because we can't really communicate with each other, nor do we want to. That needs to change !<br />
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===== The essence of cooperation =====<br />
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The discourse on alternative concepts of society brings us back to Rousseau. He wrote his "treatise on the social contract" as a citizen of a city-state, Geneva, and although his book was immediately banned in his home country, it is clear that it was primarily intended for manageable communities. At one point, he even speaks of the "other trees" that one must be able to join - that is in fact the thought that is central for my idea of Global Villages.<br />
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The task he sets himself is as follows: "Find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each individual member with all their combined strength, and through which everyone, by uniting with all, obeys only themselves and remains just as free as before."<br />
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Free association, i.e. networking without external coercion, is also what German author Christoph Spehr described in 2000 in his book "Gleicher als Andere. Eine Grundlegung der Freien Kooperation" [6] (in a certain analogy to Rousseau's writing on the social contract, also a piece entered in a competition). While in Rousseau's case it was the Academy of Dijon in 1749 that posed the question "Has the restoration of the arts and sciences contributed to the purification of morals?", in Spehr's case it is the question posed by the left-wing Federal Foundation Rosa Luxemburg: "Under what conditions are social equality and political freedom compatible?".<br />
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Both writings basically have the same theme, freedom and equality<br />
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however, show a substantial difference. While Rousseau invokes the principle of universal rightness, called volonté générale, for the utopian commonwealth of his vision and derives its validity beyond the rights and privileges of the nobility and royalty purely from the common good, i.e. the benefit for all [7] , Spehr denies any prior justification for the existence of the common good by referring to competing views and social contradictions:<br />
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"Free cooperation does not start with the regulation of negotiation, but with the actors. Whether a negotiation is free and equal does not depend on the rules, but on the actors: whether they are able - and if necessary willing - to say "if this is the case then just not", and whether this is possible at a reasonable and justifiable price. On this basis, the players can also negotiate the rules of the negotiation. They can create and change rules, adhere to them or no longer do so. Free cooperation does not set the rules, it strengthens the equal negotiating position of the actors. Justifications like 'scientific knowledge', 'democratic majorities' or 'social necessities' are not able to override them" <br />
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While Rousseau, with his identity of "objective interest" and "common good", must therefore also advocate the violent enforcement of the common good against individuals if necessary -<br />
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"So that the social pact is not an empty formality, it implicitly includes the following obligation, which alone can lend weight to the others: Whoever refuses to obey the common will will be forced to do so by the community. This means nothing other than that he will be forced to be free. That he will be forced to be free." [8] <br />
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- Spehr rejects this (proto-fascist) construction: <br />
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"The right of individuals (and groups) to influence the rules, to make their cooperation subject to conditions, or to reject cooperation that does not suit them, cannot be overridden by any objectifying consideration or alleged need for development, at any time. A mechanism of 'now you cannot negotiate, but later you will be free' is completely contrary to the concept of free cooperation." (S. 23)<br />
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Freedom and equality in Spehr as well as in Rousseau are not in contradiction to each other, but are mutually dependent.<br />
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"However, the concept of free cooperation insists that individuals should be equal in their power to influence the rules and to terminate or condition their cooperation at any time. Free cooperation does not imply that the participants in a cooperation are homogeneous or identical. It does, however, imply that the participants face each other in a social position of equality. Cooperation is only free if it is equal; and individuals can only be free in a cooperation where they are equal." (S. 24)<br />
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Actually, much of the social side of global village theory is due to this antagonism. In other words: If we do not assume to a certain extent a structure-forming power of cooperation as reflected in Rousseau's Volonté Generale, then reliability and coherence can hardly be assumed; the accidental and particular interests do not necessarily give rise to lasting and organic cooperation. At most, such a thing could be imagined under the conditions of nomadic association, for example in the fluid urban formations of seastading, where the termination of cooperation simultaneously means the decoupling of one's own houseboat from the existing maritime urban boat clusters, which many utopians in recent times have imagined as existing outside the sovereignty of nations and under extensive self-government.<br />
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In reality, at least for Rousseau, the Volonté Generale does not arise from the particular interests that enter into a negotiation situation. He allows an additional figure to appear, the legislator, who constructs the basic framework before the association, so to speak. In the free software world, it is the maintainer who puts a programmatic project design into the world and may or may not find fellow campaigners. Linus Thorwalds called this the function of a "well-meaning dictator". And a management theorist named Peter Koenig chose the term "source" for the first founder of a project or company to emphasize that this first person has a very special relationship to the project and the associated responsibilities and privileges - with similar phenomena occurring in all sub-projects.<br />
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This compels us to add a positive side to Christoph Spehr's negative side of free cooperation: There needs to be a generative process of projecting social designs. And that is the crucial point: what would it be like if we had a variety of associations between which we could vote with our feet?<br />
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This is the bottomline for the Global Villages political theory. Imagine a world that gives space to diverse cultures and yet assures that individuals have the freedom to leave and join whatever they resonate with. A world that has no power to coerce anybody against their will, in which there is always space to exit, nowhere land, to build alternatives."<br />
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(email, January 2024)<br />
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==Status==<br />
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===Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada===<br />
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See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
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and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
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==More Information==<br />
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More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
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Definitional work at <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
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See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
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==Key Books to Read==<br />
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The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
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1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
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crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
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'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
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Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
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==More Information==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining, learning communities that are globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
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[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
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[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
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==Citation==<br />
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[[Franz Nahrada]]:<br />
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"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br /><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
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[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
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==Introduction==<br />
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A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
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"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy -> here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br /> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
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Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
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Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reinforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
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There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
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One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
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==Principles and Goals of the Movement==<br />
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By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
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===Principles of the Global Villages Network===<br />
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"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
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1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
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2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in ''physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural''. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that ''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us'', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
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The '''village''' (or small town) is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature - landscape, plants, the regenerative cycles - is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''''. Permaculture has proven that humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
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(Note: we believe that the degradation and deserting of natural and cultural landscape is the main cause not only of desertification, but in consequence of this also the main driver of climate change - through distortion of the cooling water cycles that influence our climate)<br />
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3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other "villages" in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coexistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures". Locality bears a "genius loci" and the main problem of our cities is the destruction of this simple truth.<br />
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===What do we want to achieve===<br />
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So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
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1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way and PUT IT INTO PRACTICE. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a '''local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge''' (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side '''with a local innovation environment (test field)''' in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process. Thus it is the ultimate answer to the crisis of the capitalist - industrial system.<br />
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2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuous cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet (something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today, when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-increasing depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants").<br />
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3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards and communities''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and '''we need basic life maintenance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival''' (Maybe a revival of the monastery idea?). We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
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We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this local world,<br />
it may get better by forming global virtual communities of practice. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in alignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and know-how.<br />
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This is, in the deepest sense, the reason why we call this new world not "Global Village" but "Global Villages" - a multitude of interconnected localities.<br />
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'''Immediate Goals'''<br />
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So the immediate goals could be<br />
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1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a village / locality and join with all likeminded institutions to a "virtual university of the villages"<br />
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2. to identify '''actors''' which will be supportive in this respect. For this we also team up with the Project Unavision (http://www.unavision.eu)<br />
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3. to identify '''contents''' shared and developed locally or in global teams, relevant to improving local life in all its dimensions.<br />
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4. to draw maps of change in all peripheral regions of the world, to identify strong centers, hotspots and achievements,<br />
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==Hannover Principles==<br />
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'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
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URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm (with some additions by Franz Nahrada)<br />
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# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness. "Everything is connected"<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist. "Design for small, incremental changes; Design for failure and learning"<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste. "cradle to cradle - the waste of the one is the food of the other"<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows ad material flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use. Keep in mind that water is the bearer of life.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. Form open Design communities. release early, release often.<br />
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The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
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Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
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When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
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* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
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==Discussion==<br />
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Franz Nahrada wrote in 2024 a few lines further explaining the concept:<br />
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===== Four Meanings of Global Village according to McLuhan =====<br />
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"There are four meanings of the metaphor "global village" in McLuhan's work, and it seems that this ambiguity did not bother him, but even pleased him. ˧<br />
Tthe first meaning is "as if": We are confronted with realities in real time that give the impression that what we experience via the media AS IF is was taking place in our immediate neighborhood. Keep in Mind: this creates not only fascination, but also pain, confusion and repulsion,<br />
The second meaning is what he often called electronic tribalization, which stands in sharp contrast to the first meaning. Cultural bubbles form, demarcated spaces shaped by common uniformity that function in a certain way like virtual tribal or village cultures. Often enough, "global villages" is used in this sense - and as I said, this is entirely in the spirit of the inventor.<br />
The third meaning, however, is the transition to the material world. The intensification of virtual relationships leads to the emergence of places that, charged with the energy of these virtual relationships, turn to the "renaissance of the local", the "cosmolocal" or "hyperlocal" formation of communal living and the focus on real local spheres of the same. This is where my concept comes in and created a lo9t of musings on this third meaning<br />
Only in this way does the fourth meaning come into being, which dissolves the illusory nature of the first meaning, the fragmented nature of the second and the isolated nature of the third into a complex reality in which the "villages" of this world actually enter into a cooperative relationship with one another and the initial phrase of the "global village" becomes fully justified after all.<br />
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===== GV as a cosmolocal idea with political consequences:=====<br />
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That is a vision that in my view is strong enough to counter the national state in the long run.<br />
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Global Villages (in the plural) are manifestations of habitat design according to aesthetic, cultural, ethical, social, etc. principles, which, precisely because of their diversity bear witness to the creative energy and potential of humans in interaction with nature, of which they are a part. The human sphere of life is not only embedded in a natural "environment", but forms an organism with it. Culture is the human contribution to this organism, determining its shape and form just as much as the laws of nature. It is able to constantly refine itself through knowledge impulses.<br />
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'''A Global Village is a local community with a knowledge center that both preserves knowledge and continuously researches in communication with the world'''. As much as a basic 'cultural tone' is needed to shape the living environment, this is energized by the encounter, differentiation and resonance with the other, the strange - this is the basic principle both on a small and large scale. Every culture that should be taken taken seriously is open and in dialog.<br />
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We live through communicative processes with others, development happens through interaction with others. We complement each other because we are different; this applies both on an intra-community level and to the global power of the diversity of cultural designs.<br />
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I remember the deepest motives for my vision of Global Villages: that the immense progress in knowledge and skills that humanity has achieved, manifests itself in a way of life in which the rediscovery of our own nature - as connected and harmonized in millions of details with external nature - leads to an intense interaction in vibrant, shimmering, radiant microcosms, radiating the one health of man and planet in colorful diversity.<br />
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All the elements of such another world are real and continue to develop with each passing day. I have always felt it to be one of the most urgent tasks to show that if humanity allows itself to be inspired by such a task, there would have to be no lack and no poverty in this world. "We" in quotation marks, i.e. '''humanity''' speculatively conceived as a unit, have the technical and organizational potential to produce enough for the basic needs of all people in the foreseeable future. In truth, the potential wealth of this world is being squandered on an immense scale, which is directly visible in war, a medium-sized version of which we are currently witnessing (and a cataclysmic big one is more likely than ever before). Global military spending has risen continuously over the last seven years to 2.1 trillion US dollars, with an estimated global gross domestic product of 96 trillion. All this for things that at best produce nothing and at worst destroy wealth and lives in their aftermath. ˧<br />
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However, waste of our real and potential wealth is also prevalent in times of peace, and it has so many dimensions that it could make you sick. On the material side, i.e. without considering the social form, we see that our production is based on the production of waste rather than on circulation. Nature is also wasteful, but in a different way: over millions of years, it has learned to create an almost perfect system of multiple cycles.<br />
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So the vision of global villages is also the vision of a deep System Change in which the focus is not on abstract wealth in the form of money, but on concrete, sensual wealth in the interaction between people and nature. We do not yet know how this system change will come about. Perhaps it is the rapid spread of self-help organizations such as Society 4.0, an initiative by Rotterdam professor Bob de Wit, which is currently spreading in the Netherlands in response to the energy crisis and inflation - cooperative associations that are regionally networked and work at a high technical level. We are hardly aware of this network of alternatives that is imperceptibly spreading in different parts of the world, but from Kurdish communities to grassroots movements in Mexico and India, at least one thing is clear: the network idea is developing more vividly than the old and new nationalisms. Balaji Shrinivasan is promoting similar ideas with the "Network State", a concviction that "Global Villages" in the second sense (Global online communities) will produce so much wealth that they can acquire land and resources (Global Villages in the third sense) to eventually challenge the Nation State.<br />
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In contrast to the currently dominant forms of geopolitics and their imperial subjects, it is about a world model in which local autonomy and cycles are strengthened through global networking. Global knowledge cooperation and targeted transfers of resources to build a new integration of human settlement and ways of life with the respective potentials of the cultural landscape worldwide as the necessary response to the obsolete world of megacities, the global depletion of resources and the various catastrophes such as climate change, species extinction, ocean acidification, poisoning and pollution and so on. The necessary response would be not to complain that "humans are massively interfering with natural processes", but to promote a massive change in our way of life that would turn our relationship with nature into a symbiotic relationship, into a truly productive interdependence.<br />
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I recently met a young woman with whom I was discussing these issues, she came out as a communist and she was very surprised to learn that I am doing everything I can to use the theorem of global villages to propagate a social model that takes seriously the radical freedom of people not to be dictated to in terms of their economic system and social form. In this I agree with Marx, who understood communism as the free association of producers, today many would say producers. Even if de facto communism has become an ideology of justification and a label for a certain kind of state power that is being reactualized in our time as the Chinese challenge, there is a broad strand of thought that takes up the challenge of making free association the basis of the theory and practice of social organization.<br />
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One thing is clear: what we call our freedom today is inextricably linked to the state, power and violence. On closer inspection, the guarantee of freedom proves to be a perfect system of rules and regulations in which state power guarantees the pursuit of people's conflicting interests and, as the saying goes, "gives them a course". One thing is already ruled out: that a significant group of people would be able to remove themselves from this coercive context and create their own form of economic activity beyond the market economy. A camel is more likely to go through the eye of a needle than for the system of money and profit to be questioned even in one single autonomous zone. Our everyday mind usually overlooks this invisible totalitarianism of our system and declares the underlying social contradictions to be natural. But in reality, we only need the state and money because we can't really communicate with each other, nor do we want to. That needs to change !<br />
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=== The essence of cooperation ===<br />
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The discourse on alternative concepts of society brings us back to Rousseau. He wrote his "treatise on the social contract" as a citizen of a city-state, Geneva, and although his book was immediately banned in his home country, it is clear that it was primarily intended for manageable communities. At one point, he even speaks of the "other trees" that one must be able to join - that is in fact the thought that is central for my idea of Global Villages.<br />
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The task he sets himself is as follows: "Find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each individual member with all their combined strength, and through which everyone, by uniting with all, obeys only themselves and remains just as free as before."<br />
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Free association, i.e. networking without external coercion, is also what German author Christoph Spehr described in 2000 in his book "Gleicher als Andere. Eine Grundlegung der Freien Kooperation" [6] (in a certain analogy to Rousseau's writing on the social contract, also a piece entered in a competition). While in Rousseau's case it was the Academy of Dijon in 1749 that posed the question "Has the restoration of the arts and sciences contributed to the purification of morals?", in Spehr's case it is the question posed by the left-wing Federal Foundation Rosa Luxemburg: "Under what conditions are social equality and political freedom compatible?".<br />
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Both writings basically have the same theme, freedom and equality<br />
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however, show a substantial difference. While Rousseau invokes the principle of universal rightness, called volonté générale, for the utopian commonwealth of his vision and derives its validity beyond the rights and privileges of the nobility and royalty purely from the common good, i.e. the benefit for all [7] , Spehr denies any prior justification for the existence of the common good by referring to competing views and social contradictions:<br />
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"Free cooperation does not start with the regulation of negotiation, but with the actors. Whether a negotiation is free and equal does not depend on the rules, but on the actors: whether they are able - and if necessary willing - to say "if this is the case then just not", and whether this is possible at a reasonable and justifiable price. On this basis, the players can also negotiate the rules of the negotiation. They can create and change rules, adhere to them or no longer do so. Free cooperation does not set the rules, it strengthens the equal negotiating position of the actors. Justifications like 'scientific knowledge', 'democratic majorities' or 'social necessities' are not able to override them" <br />
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While Rousseau, with his identity of "objective interest" and "common good", must therefore also advocate the violent enforcement of the common good against individuals if necessary -<br />
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"So that the social pact is not an empty formality, it implicitly includes the following obligation, which alone can lend weight to the others: Whoever refuses to obey the common will will be forced to do so by the community. This means nothing other than that he will be forced to be free. That he will be forced to be free." [8] <br />
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- Spehr rejects this (proto-fascist) construction: <br />
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"The right of individuals (and groups) to influence the rules, to make their cooperation subject to conditions, or to reject cooperation that does not suit them, cannot be overridden by any objectifying consideration or alleged need for development, at any time. A mechanism of 'now you cannot negotiate, but later you will be free' is completely contrary to the concept of free cooperation." (S. 23)<br />
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Freedom and equality in Spehr as well as in Rousseau are not in contradiction to each other, but are mutually dependent.<br />
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"However, the concept of free cooperation insists that individuals should be equal in their power to influence the rules and to terminate or condition their cooperation at any time. Free cooperation does not imply that the participants in a cooperation are homogeneous or identical. It does, however, imply that the participants face each other in a social position of equality. Cooperation is only free if it is equal; and individuals can only be free in a cooperation where they are equal." (S. 24)<br />
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Actually, much of the social side of global village theory is due to this antagonism. In other words: If we do not assume to a certain extent a structure-forming power of cooperation as reflected in Rousseau's Volonté Generale, then reliability and coherence can hardly be assumed; the accidental and particular interests do not necessarily give rise to lasting and organic cooperation. At most, such a thing could be imagined under the conditions of nomadic association, for example in the fluid urban formations of seastading, where the termination of cooperation simultaneously means the decoupling of one's own houseboat from the existing maritime urban boat clusters, which many utopians in recent times have imagined as existing outside the sovereignty of nations and under extensive self-government.<br />
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In reality, at least for Rousseau, the Volonté Generale does not arise from the particular interests that enter into a negotiation situation. He allows an additional figure to appear, the legislator, who constructs the basic framework before the association, so to speak. In the free software world, it is the maintainer who puts a programmatic project design into the world and may or may not find fellow campaigners. Linus Thorwalds called this the function of a "well-meaning dictator". And a management theorist named Peter Koenig chose the term "source" for the first founder of a project or company to emphasize that this first person has a very special relationship to the project and the associated responsibilities and privileges - with similar phenomena occurring in all sub-projects.<br />
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This compels us to add a positive side to Christoph Spehr's negative side of free cooperation: There needs to be a generative process of projecting social designs. And that is the crucial point: what would it be like if we had a variety of associations between which we could vote with our feet?<br />
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This is the bottomline for the Global Villages political theory. Imagine a world that gives space to diverse cultures and yet assures that individuals have the freedom to leave and join whatever they resonate with. A world that has no power to coerce anybody against their will, in which there is always space to exit, nowhere land, to build alternatives."<br />
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(email, January 2024)<br />
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==Status==<br />
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===Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada===<br />
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See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
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and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
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==More Information==<br />
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More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
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Definitional work at <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
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See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
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==Key Books to Read==<br />
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The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
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1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
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crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
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'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
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Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
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==More Information==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining, learning communities that are globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
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[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
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[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
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==Citation==<br />
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[[Franz Nahrada]]:<br />
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"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br /><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
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[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
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==Introduction==<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
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"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy -> here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br /> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
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Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reinforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
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There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
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One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
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==Principles and Goals of the Movement==<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
===Principles of the Global Villages Network===<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in ''physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural''. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that ''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us'', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
<br />
The '''village''' (or small town) is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature - landscape, plants, the regenerative cycles - is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''''. Permaculture has proven that humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
(Note: we believe that the degradation and deserting of natural and cultural landscape is the main cause not only of desertification, but in consequence of this also the main driver of climate change - through distortion of the cooling water cycles that influence our climate)<br />
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3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other "villages" in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coexistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures". Locality bears a "genius loci" and the main problem of our cities is the destruction of this simple truth.<br />
<br />
===What do we want to achieve===<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way and PUT IT INTO PRACTICE. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a '''local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge''' (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side '''with a local innovation environment (test field)''' in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process. Thus it is the ultimate answer to the crisis of the capitalist - industrial system.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuous cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet (something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today, when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-increasing depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants").<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards and communities''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and '''we need basic life maintenance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival''' (Maybe a revival of the monastery idea?). We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
<br />
We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this local world,<br />
it may get better by forming global virtual communities of practice. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in alignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and know-how.<br />
<br />
This is, in the deepest sense, the reason why we call this new world not "Global Village" but "Global Villages" - a multitude of interconnected localities.<br />
<br />
'''Immediate Goals'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a village / locality and join with all likeminded institutions to a "virtual university of the villages"<br />
<br />
2. to identify '''actors''' which will be supportive in this respect. For this we also team up with the Project Unavision (http://www.unavision.eu)<br />
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3. to identify '''contents''' shared and developed locally or in global teams, relevant to improving local life in all its dimensions.<br />
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4. to draw maps of change in all peripheral regions of the world, to identify strong centers, hotspots and achievements,<br />
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==Hannover Principles==<br />
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<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm (with some additions by Franz Nahrada)<br />
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# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness. "Everything is connected"<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist. "Design for small, incremental changes; Design for failure and learning"<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste. "cradle to cradle - the waste of the one is the food of the other"<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows ad material flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use. Keep in mind that water is the bearer of life.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. Form open Design communities. release early, release often.<br />
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The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
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Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
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When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
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* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
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==Discussion==<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada wrote in 2024 a few lines further explaining the concept:<br />
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===== Four Meanings of Global Village according to McLuhan =====<br />
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"There are four meanings of the metaphor "global village" in McLuhan's work, and it seems that this ambiguity did not bother him, but even pleased him. ˧<br />
Tthe first meaning is "as if": We are confronted with realities in real time that give the impression that what we experience via the media AS IF is was taking place in our immediate neighborhood. Keep in Mind: this creates not only fascination, but also pain, confusion and repulsion,<br />
The second meaning is what he often called electronic tribalization, which stands in sharp contrast to the first meaning. Cultural bubbles form, demarcated spaces shaped by common uniformity that function in a certain way like virtual tribal or village cultures. Often enough, "global villages" is used in this sense - and as I said, this is entirely in the spirit of the inventor.<br />
The third meaning, however, is the transition to the material world. The intensification of virtual relationships leads to the emergence of places that, charged with the energy of these virtual relationships, turn to the "renaissance of the local", the "cosmolocal" or "hyperlocal" formation of communal living and the focus on real local spheres of the same. This is where my concept comes in and created a lo9t of musings on this third meaning<br />
Only in this way does the fourth meaning come into being, which dissolves the illusory nature of the first meaning, the fragmented nature of the second and the isolated nature of the third into a complex reality in which the "villages" of this world actually enter into a cooperative relationship with one another and the initial phrase of the "global village" becomes fully justified after all.<br />
<br />
=== GV as a cosmolocal idea with political consequences:==<br />
<br />
That is a vision that in my view is strong enough to counter the national state in the long run.<br />
<br />
Global Villages (in the plural) are manifestations of habitat design according to aesthetic, cultural, ethical, social, etc. principles, which, precisely because of their diversity bear witness to the creative energy and potential of humans in interaction with nature, of which they are a part. The human sphere of life is not only embedded in a natural "environment", but forms an organism with it. Culture is the human contribution to this organism, determining its shape and form just as much as the laws of nature. It is able to constantly refine itself through knowledge impulses.<br />
<br />
'''A Global Village is a local community with a knowledge center that both preserves knowledge and continuously researches in communication with the world'''. As much as a basic 'cultural tone' is needed to shape the living environment, this is energized by the encounter, differentiation and resonance with the other, the strange - this is the basic principle both on a small and large scale. Every culture that should be taken taken seriously is open and in dialog.<br />
<br />
We live through communicative processes with others, development happens through interaction with others. We complement each other because we are different; this applies both on an intra-community level and to the global power of the diversity of cultural designs.<br />
<br />
I remember the deepest motives for my vision of Global Villages: that the immense progress in knowledge and skills that humanity has achieved, manifests itself in a way of life in which the rediscovery of our own nature - as connected and harmonized in millions of details with external nature - leads to an intense interaction in vibrant, shimmering, radiant microcosms, radiating the one health of man and planet in colorful diversity.<br />
<br />
All the elements of such another world are real and continue to develop with each passing day. I have always felt it to be one of the most urgent tasks to show that if humanity allows itself to be inspired by such a task, there would have to be no lack and no poverty in this world. "We" in quotation marks, i.e. '''humanity''' speculatively conceived as a unit, have the technical and organizational potential to produce enough for the basic needs of all people in the foreseeable future. In truth, the potential wealth of this world is being squandered on an immense scale, which is directly visible in war, a medium-sized version of which we are currently witnessing (and a cataclysmic big one is more likely than ever before). Global military spending has risen continuously over the last seven years to 2.1 trillion US dollars, with an estimated global gross domestic product of 96 trillion. All this for things that at best produce nothing and at worst destroy wealth and lives in their aftermath. ˧<br />
<br />
However, waste of our real and potential wealth is also prevalent in times of peace, and it has so many dimensions that it could make you sick. On the material side, i.e. without considering the social form, we see that our production is based on the production of waste rather than on circulation. Nature is also wasteful, but in a different way: over millions of years, it has learned to create an almost perfect system of multiple cycles.<br />
<br />
So the vision of global villages is also the vision of a deep System Change in which the focus is not on abstract wealth in the form of money, but on concrete, sensual wealth in the interaction between people and nature. We do not yet know how this system change will come about. Perhaps it is the rapid spread of self-help organizations such as Society 4.0, an initiative by Rotterdam professor Bob de Wit, which is currently spreading in the Netherlands in response to the energy crisis and inflation - cooperative associations that are regionally networked and work at a high technical level. We are hardly aware of this network of alternatives that is imperceptibly spreading in different parts of the world, but from Kurdish communities to grassroots movements in Mexico and India, at least one thing is clear: the network idea is developing more vividly than the old and new nationalisms. Balaji Shrinivasan is promoting similar ideas with the "Network State", a concviction that "Global Villages" in the second sense (Global online communities) will produce so much wealth that they can acquire land and resources (Global Villages in the third sense) to eventually challenge the Nation State.<br />
<br />
In contrast to the currently dominant forms of geopolitics and their imperial subjects, it is about a world model in which local autonomy and cycles are strengthened through global networking. Global knowledge cooperation and targeted transfers of resources to build a new integration of human settlement and ways of life with the respective potentials of the cultural landscape worldwide as the necessary response to the obsolete world of megacities, the global depletion of resources and the various catastrophes such as climate change, species extinction, ocean acidification, poisoning and pollution and so on. The necessary response would be not to complain that "humans are massively interfering with natural processes", but to promote a massive change in our way of life that would turn our relationship with nature into a symbiotic relationship, into a truly productive interdependence.<br />
<br />
I recently met a young woman with whom I was discussing these issues, she came out as a communist and she was very surprised to learn that I am doing everything I can to use the theorem of global villages to propagate a social model that takes seriously the radical freedom of people not to be dictated to in terms of their economic system and social form. In this I agree with Marx, who understood communism as the free association of producers, today many would say producers. Even if de facto communism has become an ideology of justification and a label for a certain kind of state power that is being reactualized in our time as the Chinese challenge, there is a broad strand of thought that takes up the challenge of making free association the basis of the theory and practice of social organization.<br />
<br />
One thing is clear: what we call our freedom today is inextricably linked to the state, power and violence. On closer inspection, the guarantee of freedom proves to be a perfect system of rules and regulations in which state power guarantees the pursuit of people's conflicting interests and, as the saying goes, "gives them a course". One thing is already ruled out: that a significant group of people would be able to remove themselves from this coercive context and create their own form of economic activity beyond the market economy. A camel is more likely to go through the eye of a needle than for the system of money and profit to be questioned even in one single autonomous zone. Our everyday mind usually overlooks this invisible totalitarianism of our system and declares the underlying social contradictions to be natural. But in reality, we only need the state and money because we can't really communicate with each other, nor do we want to. That needs to change !<br />
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=== The essence of cooperation ===<br />
<br />
The discourse on alternative concepts of society brings us back to Rousseau. He wrote his "treatise on the social contract" as a citizen of a city-state, Geneva, and although his book was immediately banned in his home country, it is clear that it was primarily intended for manageable communities. At one point, he even speaks of the "other trees" that one must be able to join - that is in fact the thought that is central for my idea of Global Villages.<br />
<br />
The task he sets himself is as follows: "Find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each individual member with all their combined strength, and through which everyone, by uniting with all, obeys only themselves and remains just as free as before."<br />
<br />
Free association, i.e. networking without external coercion, is also what German author Christoph Spehr described in 2000 in his book "Gleicher als Andere. Eine Grundlegung der Freien Kooperation" [6] (in a certain analogy to Rousseau's writing on the social contract, also a piece entered in a competition). While in Rousseau's case it was the Academy of Dijon in 1749 that posed the question "Has the restoration of the arts and sciences contributed to the purification of morals?", in Spehr's case it is the question posed by the left-wing Federal Foundation Rosa Luxemburg: "Under what conditions are social equality and political freedom compatible?".<br />
<br />
Both writings basically have the same theme, freedom and equality<br />
<br />
however, show a substantial difference. While Rousseau invokes the principle of universal rightness, called volonté générale, for the utopian commonwealth of his vision and derives its validity beyond the rights and privileges of the nobility and royalty purely from the common good, i.e. the benefit for all [7] , Spehr denies any prior justification for the existence of the common good by referring to competing views and social contradictions:<br />
<br />
"Free cooperation does not start with the regulation of negotiation, but with the actors. Whether a negotiation is free and equal does not depend on the rules, but on the actors: whether they are able - and if necessary willing - to say "if this is the case then just not", and whether this is possible at a reasonable and justifiable price. On this basis, the players can also negotiate the rules of the negotiation. They can create and change rules, adhere to them or no longer do so. Free cooperation does not set the rules, it strengthens the equal negotiating position of the actors. Justifications like 'scientific knowledge', 'democratic majorities' or 'social necessities' are not able to override them" <br />
<br />
While Rousseau, with his identity of "objective interest" and "common good", must therefore also advocate the violent enforcement of the common good against individuals if necessary -<br />
<br />
"So that the social pact is not an empty formality, it implicitly includes the following obligation, which alone can lend weight to the others: Whoever refuses to obey the common will will be forced to do so by the community. This means nothing other than that he will be forced to be free. That he will be forced to be free." [8] <br />
<br />
- Spehr rejects this (proto-fascist) construction: <br />
<br />
"The right of individuals (and groups) to influence the rules, to make their cooperation subject to conditions, or to reject cooperation that does not suit them, cannot be overridden by any objectifying consideration or alleged need for development, at any time. A mechanism of 'now you cannot negotiate, but later you will be free' is completely contrary to the concept of free cooperation." (S. 23)<br />
<br />
Freedom and equality in Spehr as well as in Rousseau are not in contradiction to each other, but are mutually dependent.<br />
<br />
"However, the concept of free cooperation insists that individuals should be equal in their power to influence the rules and to terminate or condition their cooperation at any time. Free cooperation does not imply that the participants in a cooperation are homogeneous or identical. It does, however, imply that the participants face each other in a social position of equality. Cooperation is only free if it is equal; and individuals can only be free in a cooperation where they are equal." (S. 24)<br />
<br />
Actually, much of the social side of global village theory is due to this antagonism. In other words: If we do not assume to a certain extent a structure-forming power of cooperation as reflected in Rousseau's Volonté Generale, then reliability and coherence can hardly be assumed; the accidental and particular interests do not necessarily give rise to lasting and organic cooperation. At most, such a thing could be imagined under the conditions of nomadic association, for example in the fluid urban formations of seastading, where the termination of cooperation simultaneously means the decoupling of one's own houseboat from the existing maritime urban boat clusters, which many utopians in recent times have imagined as existing outside the sovereignty of nations and under extensive self-government.<br />
<br />
In reality, at least for Rousseau, the Volonté Generale does not arise from the particular interests that enter into a negotiation situation. He allows an additional figure to appear, the legislator, who constructs the basic framework before the association, so to speak. In the free software world, it is the maintainer who puts a programmatic project design into the world and may or may not find fellow campaigners. Linus Thorwalds called this the function of a "well-meaning dictator". And a management theorist named Peter Koenig chose the term "source" for the first founder of a project or company to emphasize that this first person has a very special relationship to the project and the associated responsibilities and privileges - with similar phenomena occurring in all sub-projects.<br />
<br />
This compels us to add a positive side to Christoph Spehr's negative side of free cooperation: There needs to be a generative process of projecting social designs. And that is the crucial point: what would it be like if we had a variety of associations between which we could vote with our feet?<br />
<br />
This is the bottomline for the Global Villages political theory. Imagine a world that gives space to diverse cultures and yet assures that individuals have the freedom to leave and join whatever they resonate with. A world that has no power to coerce anybody against their will, in which there is always space to exit, nowhere land, to build alternatives."<br />
<br />
(email, January 2024)<br />
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==Status==<br />
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===Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada===<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
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==More Information==<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
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Definitional work at <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
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See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
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==Key Books to Read==<br />
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The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
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1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
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crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
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'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
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Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
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==More Information==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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==Citation==<br />
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[[Franz Nahrada]]:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br /><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
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==Introduction==<br />
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A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
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"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy -> here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br /> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
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Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
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Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reinforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
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There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
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One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
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==Principles and Goals of the Movement==<br />
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By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
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===Principles of the Global Villages Network===<br />
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"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
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1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
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2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in ''physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural''. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that ''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us'', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
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The '''village''' (or small town) is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature - landscape, plants, the regenerative cycles - is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''''. Permaculture has proven that humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
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(Note: we believe that the degradation and deserting of natural and cultural landscape is the main cause not only of desertification, but in consequence of this also the main driver of climate change - through distortion of the cooling water cycles that influence our climate)<br />
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3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other "villages" in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coexistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures". Locality bears a "genius loci" and the main problem of our cities is the destruction of this simple truth.<br />
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===What do we want to achieve===<br />
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So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
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1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way and PUT IT INTO PRACTICE. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a '''local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge''' (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side '''with a local innovation environment (test field)''' in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process. Thus it is the ultimate answer to the crisis of the capitalist - industrial system.<br />
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2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuous cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet (something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today, when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-increasing depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants").<br />
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3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards and communities''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and '''we need basic life maintenance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival''' (Maybe a revival of the monastery idea?). We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
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We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this local world,<br />
it may get better by forming global virtual communities of practice. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in alignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and know-how.<br />
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This is, in the deepest sense, the reason why we call this new world not "Global Village" but "Global Villages" - a multitude of interconnected localities.<br />
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'''Immediate Goals'''<br />
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So the immediate goals could be<br />
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1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a village / locality and join with all likeminded institutions to a "virtual university of the villages"<br />
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2. to identify '''actors''' which will be supportive in this respect. For this we also team up with the Project Unavision (http://www.unavision.eu)<br />
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3. to identify '''contents''' shared and developed locally or in global teams, relevant to improving local life in all its dimensions.<br />
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4. to draw maps of change in all peripheral regions of the world, to identify strong centers, hotspots and achievements,<br />
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==Hannover Principles==<br />
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'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
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URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm (with some additions by Franz Nahrada)<br />
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# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness. "Everything is connected"<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist. "Design for small, incremental changes; Design for failure and learning"<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste. "cradle to cradle - the waste of the one is the food of the other"<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows ad material flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use. Keep in mind that water is the bearer of life.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. Form open Design communities. release early, release often.<br />
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The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
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Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
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When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
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* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
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==Discussion==<br />
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Franz Nahrada wrote in 2024 a few lines further explaining the concept:<br />
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=== Four Meanings of Global Village according to McLuhan ===<br />
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"There are four meanings of the metaphor "global village" in McLuhan's work, and it seems that this ambiguity did not bother him, but even pleased him. ˧<br />
Tthe first meaning is "as if": We are confronted with realities in real time that give the impression that what we experience via the media AS IF is was taking place in our immediate neighborhood. Keep in Mind: this creates not only fascination, but also pain, confusion and repulsion,<br />
The second meaning is what he often called electronic tribalization, which stands in sharp contrast to the first meaning. Cultural bubbles form, demarcated spaces shaped by common uniformity that function in a certain way like virtual tribal or village cultures. Often enough, "global villages" is used in this sense - and as I said, this is entirely in the spirit of the inventor.<br />
The third meaning, however, is the transition to the material world. The intensification of virtual relationships leads to the emergence of places that, charged with the energy of these virtual relationships, turn to the "renaissance of the local", the "cosmolocal" or "hyperlocal" formation of communal living and the focus on real local spheres of the same. This is where my concept comes in and created a lo9t of musings on this third meaning<br />
Only in this way does the fourth meaning come into being, which dissolves the illusory nature of the first meaning, the fragmented nature of the second and the isolated nature of the third into a complex reality in which the "villages" of this world actually enter into a cooperative relationship with one another and the initial phrase of the "global village" becomes fully justified after all.<br />
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=== GV as a cosmolocal idea with political consequences:==<br />
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That is a vision that in my view is strong enough to counter the national state in the long run.<br />
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Global Villages (in the plural) are manifestations of habitat design according to aesthetic, cultural, ethical, social, etc. principles, which, precisely because of their diversity bear witness to the creative energy and potential of humans in interaction with nature, of which they are a part. The human sphere of life is not only embedded in a natural "environment", but forms an organism with it. Culture is the human contribution to this organism, determining its shape and form just as much as the laws of nature. It is able to constantly refine itself through knowledge impulses.<br />
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'''A Global Village is a local community with a knowledge center that both preserves knowledge and continuously researches in communication with the world'''. As much as a basic 'cultural tone' is needed to shape the living environment, this is energized by the encounter, differentiation and resonance with the other, the strange - this is the basic principle both on a small and large scale. Every culture that should be taken taken seriously is open and in dialog.<br />
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We live through communicative processes with others, development happens through interaction with others. We complement each other because we are different; this applies both on an intra-community level and to the global power of the diversity of cultural designs.<br />
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I remember the deepest motives for my vision of Global Villages: that the immense progress in knowledge and skills that humanity has achieved, manifests itself in a way of life in which the rediscovery of our own nature - as connected and harmonized in millions of details with external nature - leads to an intense interaction in vibrant, shimmering, radiant microcosms, radiating the one health of man and planet in colorful diversity.<br />
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All the elements of such another world are real and continue to develop with each passing day. I have always felt it to be one of the most urgent tasks to show that if humanity allows itself to be inspired by such a task, there would have to be no lack and no poverty in this world. "We" in quotation marks, i.e. '''humanity''' speculatively conceived as a unit, have the technical and organizational potential to produce enough for the basic needs of all people in the foreseeable future. In truth, the potential wealth of this world is being squandered on an immense scale, which is directly visible in war, a medium-sized version of which we are currently witnessing (and a cataclysmic big one is more likely than ever before). Global military spending has risen continuously over the last seven years to 2.1 trillion US dollars, with an estimated global gross domestic product of 96 trillion. All this for things that at best produce nothing and at worst destroy wealth and lives in their aftermath. ˧<br />
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However, waste of our real and potential wealth is also prevalent in times of peace, and it has so many dimensions that it could make you sick. On the material side, i.e. without considering the social form, we see that our production is based on the production of waste rather than on circulation. Nature is also wasteful, but in a different way: over millions of years, it has learned to create an almost perfect system of multiple cycles.<br />
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So the vision of global villages is also the vision of a deep System Change in which the focus is not on abstract wealth in the form of money, but on concrete, sensual wealth in the interaction between people and nature. We do not yet know how this system change will come about. Perhaps it is the rapid spread of self-help organizations such as Society 4.0, an initiative by Rotterdam professor Bob de Wit, which is currently spreading in the Netherlands in response to the energy crisis and inflation - cooperative associations that are regionally networked and work at a high technical level. We are hardly aware of this network of alternatives that is imperceptibly spreading in different parts of the world, but from Kurdish communities to grassroots movements in Mexico and India, at least one thing is clear: the network idea is developing more vividly than the old and new nationalisms. Balaji Shrinivasan is promoting similar ideas with the "Network State", a concviction that "Global Villages" in the second sense (Global online communities) will produce so much wealth that they can acquire land and resources (Global Villages in the third sense) to eventually challenge the Nation State.<br />
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In contrast to the currently dominant forms of geopolitics and their imperial subjects, it is about a world model in which local autonomy and cycles are strengthened through global networking. Global knowledge cooperation and targeted transfers of resources to build a new integration of human settlement and ways of life with the respective potentials of the cultural landscape worldwide as the necessary response to the obsolete world of megacities, the global depletion of resources and the various catastrophes such as climate change, species extinction, ocean acidification, poisoning and pollution and so on. The necessary response would be not to complain that "humans are massively interfering with natural processes", but to promote a massive change in our way of life that would turn our relationship with nature into a symbiotic relationship, into a truly productive interdependence.<br />
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I recently met a young woman with whom I was discussing these issues, she came out as a communist and she was very surprised to learn that I am doing everything I can to use the theorem of global villages to propagate a social model that takes seriously the radical freedom of people not to be dictated to in terms of their economic system and social form. In this I agree with Marx, who understood communism as the free association of producers, today many would say producers. Even if de facto communism has become an ideology of justification and a label for a certain kind of state power that is being reactualized in our time as the Chinese challenge, there is a broad strand of thought that takes up the challenge of making free association the basis of the theory and practice of social organization.<br />
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One thing is clear: what we call our freedom today is inextricably linked to the state, power and violence. On closer inspection, the guarantee of freedom proves to be a perfect system of rules and regulations in which state power guarantees the pursuit of people's conflicting interests and, as the saying goes, "gives them a course". One thing is already ruled out: that a significant group of people would be able to remove themselves from this coercive context and create their own form of economic activity beyond the market economy. A camel is more likely to go through the eye of a needle than for the system of money and profit to be questioned even in one single autonomous zone. Our everyday mind usually overlooks this invisible totalitarianism of our system and declares the underlying social contradictions to be natural. But in reality, we only need the state and money because we can't really communicate with each other, nor do we want to. That needs to change !<br />
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=== The essence of cooperation ===<br />
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The discourse on alternative concepts of society brings us back to Rousseau. He wrote his "treatise on the social contract" as a citizen of a city-state, Geneva, and although his book was immediately banned in his home country, it is clear that it was primarily intended for manageable communities. At one point, he even speaks of the "other trees" that one must be able to join - that is in fact the thought that is central for my idea of Global Villages.<br />
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The task he sets himself is as follows: "Find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each individual member with all their combined strength, and through which everyone, by uniting with all, obeys only themselves and remains just as free as before."<br />
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Free association, i.e. networking without external coercion, is also what German author Christoph Spehr described in 2000 in his book "Gleicher als Andere. Eine Grundlegung der Freien Kooperation" [6] (in a certain analogy to Rousseau's writing on the social contract, also a piece entered in a competition). While in Rousseau's case it was the Academy of Dijon in 1749 that posed the question "Has the restoration of the arts and sciences contributed to the purification of morals?", in Spehr's case it is the question posed by the left-wing Federal Foundation Rosa Luxemburg: "Under what conditions are social equality and political freedom compatible?".<br />
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Both writings basically have the same theme, freedom and equality<br />
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however, show a substantial difference. While Rousseau invokes the principle of universal rightness, called volonté générale, for the utopian commonwealth of his vision and derives its validity beyond the rights and privileges of the nobility and royalty purely from the common good, i.e. the benefit for all [7] , Spehr denies any prior justification for the existence of the common good by referring to competing views and social contradictions:<br />
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"Free cooperation does not start with the regulation of negotiation, but with the actors. Whether a negotiation is free and equal does not depend on the rules, but on the actors: whether they are able - and if necessary willing - to say "if this is the case then just not", and whether this is possible at a reasonable and justifiable price. On this basis, the players can also negotiate the rules of the negotiation. They can create and change rules, adhere to them or no longer do so. Free cooperation does not set the rules, it strengthens the equal negotiating position of the actors. Justifications like 'scientific knowledge', 'democratic majorities' or 'social necessities' are not able to override them" <br />
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While Rousseau, with his identity of "objective interest" and "common good", must therefore also advocate the violent enforcement of the common good against individuals if necessary -<br />
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"So that the social pact is not an empty formality, it implicitly includes the following obligation, which alone can lend weight to the others: Whoever refuses to obey the common will will be forced to do so by the community. This means nothing other than that he will be forced to be free. That he will be forced to be free." [8] <br />
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- Spehr rejects this (proto-fascist) construction: <br />
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"The right of individuals (and groups) to influence the rules, to make their cooperation subject to conditions, or to reject cooperation that does not suit them, cannot be overridden by any objectifying consideration or alleged need for development, at any time. A mechanism of 'now you cannot negotiate, but later you will be free' is completely contrary to the concept of free cooperation." (S. 23)<br />
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Freedom and equality in Spehr as well as in Rousseau are not in contradiction to each other, but are mutually dependent.<br />
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"However, the concept of free cooperation insists that individuals should be equal in their power to influence the rules and to terminate or condition their cooperation at any time. Free cooperation does not imply that the participants in a cooperation are homogeneous or identical. It does, however, imply that the participants face each other in a social position of equality. Cooperation is only free if it is equal; and individuals can only be free in a cooperation where they are equal." (S. 24)<br />
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Actually, much of the social side of global village theory is due to this antagonism. In other words: If we do not assume to a certain extent a structure-forming power of cooperation as reflected in Rousseau's Volonté Generale, then reliability and coherence can hardly be assumed; the accidental and particular interests do not necessarily give rise to lasting and organic cooperation. At most, such a thing could be imagined under the conditions of nomadic association, for example in the fluid urban formations of seastading, where the termination of cooperation simultaneously means the decoupling of one's own houseboat from the existing maritime urban boat clusters, which many utopians in recent times have imagined as existing outside the sovereignty of nations and under extensive self-government.<br />
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In reality, at least for Rousseau, the Volonté Generale does not arise from the particular interests that enter into a negotiation situation. He allows an additional figure to appear, the legislator, who constructs the basic framework before the association, so to speak. In the free software world, it is the maintainer who puts a programmatic project design into the world and may or may not find fellow campaigners. Linus Thorwalds called this the function of a "well-meaning dictator". And a management theorist named Peter Koenig chose the term "source" for the first founder of a project or company to emphasize that this first person has a very special relationship to the project and the associated responsibilities and privileges - with similar phenomena occurring in all sub-projects.<br />
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This compels us to add a positive side to Christoph Spehr's negative side of free cooperation: There needs to be a generative process of projecting social designs. And that is the crucial point: what would it be like if we had a variety of associations between which we could vote with our feet?<br />
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This is the bottomline for the Global Villages political theory. Imagine a world that gives space to diverse cultures and yet assures that individuals have the freedom to leave and join whatever they resonate with. A world that has no power to coerce anybody against their will, in which there is always space to exit, nowhere land, to build alternatives."<br />
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(email, January 2024)<br />
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==Status==<br />
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===Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada===<br />
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See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
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and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
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==More Information==<br />
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More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
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Definitional work at <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
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See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
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==Key Books to Read==<br />
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The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
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1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
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crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
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'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
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Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
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==More Information==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Village2Village&diff=102468Village2Village2016-12-24T17:35:49Z<p>FranzN: </p>
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<div>A term related to the cooperation of local communities, see [[Global Villages]] and [[Global Villages Network]]<br />
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The term surfaced on 4th of July 2010 in a meeting in Vienna. Les Squires introduced the "G2G concept" as "Group to Group" and Franz Nahrada answered "Then we could also call it "Village to Village"<br />
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Village2Village - V2V is a special form of P2P.<br />
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(to be written)<br />
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[[Category:Villages]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Village2Village&diff=102467Village2Village2016-12-24T17:35:21Z<p>FranzN: </p>
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<div>A term related to the cooperation of local communities, see [[Global Villages]] and [[Global Villages Network]]<br />
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The term surfaced on 4th of July 2010 in a meeting in Vienna. Les Squires introduced the "G2G concept" as "Group to Group" and Franz Nahrada answered "Then we could also call it "Village to Village"<br />
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Village2Village is a special form of P2P.<br />
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(to be written)<br />
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[[Category:Villages]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages_Network&diff=102466Global Villages Network2016-12-24T17:34:40Z<p>FranzN: </p>
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<div>An ongoing effort to create a dedicated group if people to enhance [[Village2Village]] cooperation<br />
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see [[Global_Villages]] in this Wiki for the concept and the future main page: http://www.globalvillages.org<br />
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=== Foundation 1997 ===<br />
<br />
* http://www.give.at/give/gvn/gvndraft.htm<br />
<br />
=== AndriusKulikauskas input 2004 ===<br />
<br />
* http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/globalvillages -- largely inactive<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info -- largely inactive<br />
<br />
=== Online Community Reboot 2009 ===<br />
<br />
* '''https://www.facebook.com/groups/globalvillages/''' - '''currently the most "alive" venue !'''<br />
* http://globalvillages.ning.com -- will be terminated soon<br />
<br />
=== Online Community Extension 2010 ===<br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.org -- will be developed soon as central venue<br />
* http://transitionus.ning.com/group/globalvillagesintransition<br />
* [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3197648 Linked In Group "Global Villages Link"]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Villages]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Urbanism]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Movements]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages_Network&diff=102465Global Villages Network2016-12-24T17:32:03Z<p>FranzN: /* Online Community Reboot 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>An ongoing effort to create a dedicated group if people to enhance [[Village2Village]] cooperation<br />
<br />
see [[Global_Villages]] in this Wiki for the concept and the future main page: http://www.globalvillages.org<br />
<br />
=== Foundation 1997 ===<br />
<br />
* http://www.give.at/give/gvn/gvndraft.htm<br />
<br />
=== AndriusKulikauskas input 2004 ===<br />
<br />
* http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/globalvillages<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info<br />
<br />
=== Online Community Reboot 2009 ===<br />
<br />
* https://www.facebook.com/groups/globalvillages/<br />
* http://globalvillages.ning.com<br />
<br />
=== Online Community Extension 2010 ===<br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.org<br />
* http://transitionus.ning.com/group/globalvillagesintransition<br />
* [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3197648 Linked In Group "Global Villages Link"]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Villages]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Urbanism]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Movements]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=102464Global Villages2016-12-24T17:26:48Z<p>FranzN: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining, learning communities that are globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy -> here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''Principles of the Global Villages Network'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in ''physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural''. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that ''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us'', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
<br />
The '''village''' (or small town) is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature - landscape, plants, the regenerative cycles - is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''''. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
(Note: we believe that the degradation and deserting of natural and cultural landscape is the main cause not only of desertification, but in consequence of this also the main driver of climate change - through distortion of the cooling water cycles that influence our climate)<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other "villages" in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coexistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures". Locality bears a "genius loci" and the main problem of our cities is the destruction of this simple truth.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''What do we want to achieve'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way and PUT IT INTO PRACTISE. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a '''local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge''' (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side '''with a local innovation environment (test field)''' in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process. Thus it is the ultimate answer to the crisis of the capitalist - industrial system.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuos cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet (something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today, when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-increasing depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants").<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards and communities''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and '''we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival''' (Maybe a revival of the monastery idea?). We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
<br />
We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this local world,<br />
it may get better by forming global virtual communities of practise. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and knowhow.<br />
<br />
This is, in the deepest sense, the reason why we call this new world not "Global Village" but "Global Villages" - a mulitude of interconnected localities.<br />
<br />
'''Immediate Goals'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a village / locality and join with all likeminded institutions to a "virttual university of the villages"<br />
<br />
2. to identify '''actors''' which will be supportive in this respect. For this we also team up with the Project Unavision (http://www.unavision.eu)<br />
<br />
3. to identify '''contents''' shared and developed locally or in global teams, relevant to improving local life in all its dimensions.<br />
<br />
4. to draw maps of change in all peripheral regions of the world, to identify strong centers, hotspots and achievemments,<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm (with some additions by Franz Nahrada)<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness. "Everything is connected"<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist. "Design for small, incremental changes; Design for failure and learning"<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste. "cradle to cradle - the waste of the one is the food of the other"<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows ad material flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use. Keep in mind that water is the bearer of life.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. Form open Design communities. release early, release often.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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[[Category:Villages]]<br />
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[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
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[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=102463Global Villages2016-12-24T17:20:18Z<p>FranzN: /* Principles and Goals of the Movement */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy -> here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''Principles of the Global Villages Network'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in ''physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural''. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that ''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us'', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
<br />
The '''village''' (or small town) is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature - landscape, plants, the regenerative cycles - is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''''. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
(Note: we believe that the degradation and deserting of natural and cultural landscape is the main cause not only of desertification, but in consequence of this also the main driver of climate change - through distortion of the cooling water cycles that influence our climate)<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other "villages" in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coexistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures". Locality bears a "genius loci" and the main problem of our cities is the destruction of this simple truth.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''What do we want to achieve'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way and PUT IT INTO PRACTISE. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a '''local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge''' (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side '''with a local innovation environment (test field)''' in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process. Thus it is the ultimate answer to the crisis of the capitalist - industrial system.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuos cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet (something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today, when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-increasing depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants").<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards and communities''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and '''we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival''' (Maybe a revival of the monastery idea?). We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
<br />
We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this local world,<br />
it may get better by forming global virtual communities of practise. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and knowhow.<br />
<br />
This is, in the deepest sense, the reason why we call this new world not "Global Village" but "Global Villages" - a mulitude of interconnected localities.<br />
<br />
'''Immediate Goals'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a village / locality and join with all likeminded institutions to a "virttual university of the villages"<br />
<br />
2. to identify '''actors''' which will be supportive in this respect. For this we also team up with the Project Unavision (http://www.unavision.eu)<br />
<br />
3. to identify '''contents''' shared and developed locally or in global teams, relevant to improving local life in all its dimensions.<br />
<br />
4. to draw maps of change in all peripheral regions of the world, to identify strong centers, hotspots and achievemments,<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm (with some additions by Franz Nahrada)<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness. "Everything is connected"<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist. "Design for small, incremental changes; Design for failure and learning"<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste. "cradle to cradle - the waste of the one is the food of the other"<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows ad material flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use. Keep in mind that water is the bearer of life.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. Form open Design communities. release early, release often.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Movements]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Villages]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=102462Global Villages2016-12-24T17:00:19Z<p>FranzN: /* Principles and Goals of the Movement */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy -> here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''Principles of the Global Villages Network'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that '''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us''', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
<br />
The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuos cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
<br />
We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this world,<br />
it may get better by forming virtual communities of practise. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and knowhow.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village / locality and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Movements]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Villages]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=102461Global Villages2016-12-24T16:59:17Z<p>FranzN: /* Citation */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy -> here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''B'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that '''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us''', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
<br />
The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuos cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
<br />
We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this world,<br />
it may get better by forming virtual communities of practise. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and knowhow.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village / locality and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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<div>An ongoing effort to create a dedicated group if people to enhance [[Village2Village]] cooperation<br />
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see [[Global_Villages]] in this Wiki for the concept and the future main page: http://www.globalvillages.org<br />
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=== Foundation 1997 ===<br />
<br />
* http://www.give.at/give/gvn/gvndraft.htm<br />
<br />
=== AndriusKulikauskas input 2004 ===<br />
<br />
* http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/globalvillages<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info<br />
<br />
=== Online Community Reboot 2009 ===<br />
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* http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=120509750784<br />
* http://globalvillages.ning.com<br />
<br />
=== Online Community Extension 2010 ===<br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.org<br />
* http://transitionus.ning.com/group/globalvillagesintransition<br />
* [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3197648 Linked In Group "Global Villages Link"]<br />
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<div>'''Franz Nahrada is an Austrian [[Global Villages]] advocate.'''<br />
<br />
He lives in Vienna, Austria where for many years he worked to run a culturally creative [http://www.karolinenhof.at hotel] and still maintains the Austrian [http://www.give.at research group] on [http://p2pfoundation.net/Global_Villages Global Villages] and is along this line building a network of village visionaries and activists, the [[Global_Villages_Network]], whose primary goal is to establish global knowledge cooperation between villages and also their urban supporters. <br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/FranzNahrada see CV, writings and blogs here] <br />
<br />
is contributor here with two IDs: [[User:FranzN]] and [[User:FNahrada]]<br />
<br />
He maintains affiliation with the following networks:<br />
* Transition Towns (strong)<br />
* New Work (strong)<br />
* WOAL (living together without age limit) (strong)<br />
* New Towns for Migrants (strong)<br />
* demonetize.it (author)<br />
* keimform.de (author)<br />
* Commons (currently dormant)<br />
and many others.<br />
<br />
==Bio==<br />
<br />
* "Franz Nahrada, Vienna, Austria, * 1954, Sociologist and Writer, Ex - Hotel Manager, Member of the p2p Foundation in Austria<br />
* academic studies in sociology, philosophy and political science led to research on the genesis and failure of academic institutions to provide practical knowledge and eventually to a critique of current science in the context of various marxist political approaches. The discontent with both neglectiveness of theory and the need for social alternatives led to a quest how both can be reconciliated. In the meantime, on the professional side, because of the refusal to work towards an academic career, several factors converged: involvement in tourism (management of the family hotel), first steps in software development and work for Apple Computers (1987 - 1992 HyperCard developer support), knowledge organisation. <br><br />
* Experiences with the destructive social impact of tourism on traditional village structures in Samos, Greece, led to ideas of new integrative village development (alliance of nomadic knowledge workers and traditional village population = Global Villages). In seven field trips to California and other US states (1988 - 1995) both technology development and the social innovations that make them meaningful were the main subject (for example [http://www.arcosanti.org Arcosanti]). <br><br />
* Tried to apply this strand in Austria, succeeded with the Global Village conferences (1993 - 2000) and the Cultural Heritage in the Global Village (CULTH) conferences (1998 - 2002). Founded the [[http://globalvillages.ning.com GlobalVillagesNetwork]] in 1997 to create a worldwide community of village innovators. Worked on redefinition of locations: Electronic Cafés, Monasteries, Libraries. <br />
* On the political side: working on NewWork movement for radically facing permanent unemployment and nonmonetary economies, studied patterns of emerging civil society, worked with Oekonux and co organized the third conference, studied traditional native concil wisdom and timeless cultural patterns with several teachers. Still seeks to build up a research institution (GIVE - Laboratory for Global Villages). Currently working with Andreas Exner and others on Transition Austria and SOLCOM, with Andrius Kulikauskas on a global learning & life maintainance community called Worknets, with others on Open Source Ecology, and is also president of ECOVAST (European Council of Villages and Small Towns) in Austria. <br />
* Finished a book "invisible intelligence" (following a conference organized together with Peter Weibel) to foster theory-culture that connects serious analyses, bold visions and diligent practice. Curently working also on a "pattern language for the postindustrial society" in general and a "pattern language of the solar age" in particular."<br />
(original source: http://gemeingut.wikidot.com/future-of-the-commons)<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
* User Contributions: [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FNahrada] [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FranzN] <br />
<br />
[[Category:Bios]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:ActiveContributor]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Austria]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Franz_Nahrada&diff=97740Franz Nahrada2016-01-26T11:31:29Z<p>FranzN: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Franz Nahrada is an Austrian [[Global Villages]] advocate.'''<br />
<br />
He lives in Vienna, Austria where for many years he worked to run a culturally creative [http://www.karolinenhof.at hotel] and still maintains the Austrian [http://www.give.at research group] on [http://p2pfoundation.net/Global_Villages Global Villages] and is along this line building a network of village visionaries and activists, the [Global_Villages_Network], whose primary goal is to establish global knowledge cooperation between villages and also their urban supporters. <br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/FranzNahrada see CV, writings and blogs here] <br />
<br />
is contributor here with two IDs: [[User:FranzN]] and [[User:FNahrada]]<br />
<br />
He maintains affiliation with the following networks:<br />
* Transition Towns (strong)<br />
* New Work (strong)<br />
* WOAL (living together without age limit) (strong)<br />
* New Towns for Migrants (strong)<br />
* demonetize.it (author)<br />
* keimform.de (author)<br />
* Commons (currently dormant)<br />
and many others.<br />
<br />
==Bio==<br />
<br />
* "Franz Nahrada, Vienna, Austria, * 1954, Sociologist and Writer, Ex - Hotel Manager, Member of the p2p Foundation in Austria<br />
* academic studies in sociology, philosophy and political science led to research on the genesis and failure of academic institutions to provide practical knowledge and eventually to a critique of current science in the context of various marxist political approaches. The discontent with both neglectiveness of theory and the need for social alternatives led to a quest how both can be reconciliated. In the meantime, on the professional side, because of the refusal to work towards an academic career, several factors converged: involvement in tourism (management of the family hotel), first steps in software development and work for Apple Computers (1987 - 1992 HyperCard developer support), knowledge organisation. <br><br />
* Experiences with the destructive social impact of tourism on traditional village structures in Samos, Greece, led to ideas of new integrative village development (alliance of nomadic knowledge workers and traditional village population = Global Villages). In seven field trips to California and other US states (1988 - 1995) both technology development and the social innovations that make them meaningful were the main subject (for example [http://www.arcosanti.org Arcosanti]). <br><br />
* Tried to apply this strand in Austria, succeeded with the Global Village conferences (1993 - 2000) and the Cultural Heritage in the Global Village (CULTH) conferences (1998 - 2002). Founded the [[http://globalvillages.ning.com GlobalVillagesNetwork]] in 1997 to create a worldwide community of village innovators. Worked on redefinition of locations: Electronic Cafés, Monasteries, Libraries. <br />
* On the political side: working on NewWork movement for radically facing permanent unemployment and nonmonetary economies, studied patterns of emerging civil society, worked with Oekonux and co organized the third conference, studied traditional native concil wisdom and timeless cultural patterns with several teachers. Still seeks to build up a research institution (GIVE - Laboratory for Global Villages). Currently working with Andreas Exner and others on Transition Austria and SOLCOM, with Andrius Kulikauskas on a global learning & life maintainance community called Worknets, with others on Open Source Ecology, and is also president of ECOVAST (European Council of Villages and Small Towns) in Austria. <br />
* Finished a book "invisible intelligence" (following a conference organized together with Peter Weibel) to foster theory-culture that connects serious analyses, bold visions and diligent practice. Curently working also on a "pattern language for the postindustrial society" in general and a "pattern language of the solar age" in particular."<br />
(original source: http://gemeingut.wikidot.com/future-of-the-commons)<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
* User Contributions: [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FNahrada] [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FranzN] <br />
<br />
[[Category:Bios]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:ActiveContributor]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Austria]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Franz_Nahrada&diff=97739Franz Nahrada2016-01-26T11:30:06Z<p>FranzN: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Franz Nahrada is an Austrian [[Global Villages]] advocate.'''<br />
<br />
He lives in Vienna, Austria where for many years he worked to run a culturally creative [http://www.karolinenhof.at hotel] and still maintains the Austrian [http://www.give.at research group] on [http://p2pfoundation.net/Global_Villages Global Villages] and is along this line building a network of village visionaries and activists, the [Global_Villages_Network], whose primary goal is to establish global knowledge cooperation between villages and also their urban supporters. <br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/FranzNahrada see CV, writings and blogs here] <br />
<br />
is contributor here with two IDs: [[User:FranzN]] and [[User:FNahrada]]<br />
<br />
He maintains affiliation with the following networks:<br />
* Transition Towns (strong)<br />
* New Work (strong)<br />
* WOAL (living together without age limit) (strong)<br />
* New Towns for Migrants (strong)<br />
* demonetize.it (author)<br />
* keimform.de (author)<br />
* Commons (currently dormant)<br />
and many others.<br />
<br />
==Bio==<br />
<br />
"Franz Nahrada, Vienna, Austria, * 1954, Sociologist and Writer, Ex - Hotel Manager, Member of the p2p Foundation in Austria<br />
* academic studies in sociology, philosophy and political science led to research on the genesis and failure of academic institutions to provide practical knowledge and eventually to a critique of current science in the context of various marxist political approaches. The discontent with both neglectiveness of theory and the need for social alternatives led to a quest how both can be reconciliated. In the meantime, on the professional side, because of the refusal to work towards an academic career, several factors converged: involvement in tourism (management of the family hotel), first steps in software development and work for Apple Computers (1987 - 1992 HyperCard developer support), knowledge organisation. <br><br />
* Experiences with the destructive social impact of tourism on traditional village structures in Samos, Greece, led to ideas of new integrative village development (alliance of nomadic knowledge workers and traditional village population = Global Villages). In seven field trips to California and other US states (1988 - 1995) both technology development and the social innovations that make them meaningful were the main subject (for example [http://www.arcosanti.org Arcosanti]). <br><br />
* Tried to apply this strand in Austria, succeeded with the Global Village conferences (1993 - 2000) and the Cultural Heritage in the Global Village (CULTH) conferences (1998 - 2002). Founded the [[http://globalvillages.ning.com GlobalVillagesNetwork]] in 1997 to create a worldwide community of village innovators. Worked on redefinition of locations: Electronic Cafés, Monasteries, Libraries. <br />
* On the political side: working on NewWork movement for radically facing permanent unemployment and nonmonetary economies, studied patterns of emerging civil society, worked with Oekonux and co organized the third conference, studied traditional native concil wisdom and timeless cultural patterns with several teachers. Still seeks to build up a research institution (GIVE - Laboratory for Global Villages). Currently working with Andreas Exner and others on Transition Austria and SOLCOM, with Andrius Kulikauskas on a global learning & life maintainance community called Worknets, with others on Open Source Ecology, and is also president of ECOVAST (European Council of Villages and Small Towns) in Austria. <br />
* Finished a book "invisible intelligence" (following a conference organized together with Peter Weibel) to foster theory-culture that connects serious analyses, bold visions and diligent practice. Curently working also on a "pattern language for the postindustrial society" in general and a "pattern language of the solar age" in particular."<br />
(original source: http://gemeingut.wikidot.com/future-of-the-commons)<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
* User Contributions: [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FNahrada] [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FranzN] <br />
<br />
[[Category:Bios]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:ActiveContributor]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Austria]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Franz_Nahrada&diff=97738Franz Nahrada2016-01-26T11:28:57Z<p>FranzN: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Franz Nahrada is an Austrian [[Global Villages]] advocate.'''<br />
<br />
He lives in Vienna, Austria where for many years he used to run a culturally creative [http://www.karolinenhof.at hotel] and still maintains a [http://www.give.at research group] on [http://p2pfoundation.net/Global_Villages Global Villages] and is along this line building a network of village visionaries and activists, the [Global_Villages_Network], whose primary goal is to establish global knowledge cooperation between villages and also their urban supporters. <br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/FranzNahrada see CV, writings and blogs here] <br />
<br />
is contributor here with two IDs: [[User:FranzN]] and [[User:FNahrada]]<br />
<br />
He maintains affiliation with the following networks:<br />
* Transition Towns (strong)<br />
* New Work (strong)<br />
* WOAL (living together without age limit) (strong)<br />
* New Towns for Migrants (strong)<br />
* demonetize.it (author)<br />
* keimform.de (author)<br />
* Commons (currently dormant)<br />
and many others.<br />
<br />
==Bio==<br />
<br />
"Franz Nahrada, Vienna, Austria, * 1954, Sociologist and Writer, Ex - Hotel Manager, Member of the p2p Foundation in Austria<br />
* academic studies in sociology, philosophy and political science led to research on the genesis and failure of academic institutions to provide practical knowledge and eventually to a critique of current science in the context of various marxist political approaches. The discontent with both neglectiveness of theory and the need for social alternatives led to a quest how both can be reconciliated. In the meantime, on the professional side, because of the refusal to work towards an academic career, several factors converged: involvement in tourism (management of the family hotel), first steps in software development and work for Apple Computers (1987 - 1992 HyperCard developer support), knowledge organisation. <br><br />
* Experiences with the destructive social impact of tourism on traditional village structures in Samos, Greece, led to ideas of new integrative village development (alliance of nomadic knowledge workers and traditional village population = Global Villages). In seven field trips to California and other US states (1988 - 1995) both technology development and the social innovations that make them meaningful were the main subject (for example [http://www.arcosanti.org Arcosanti]). <br><br />
* Tried to apply this strand in Austria, succeeded with the Global Village conferences (1993 - 2000) and the Cultural Heritage in the Global Village (CULTH) conferences (1998 - 2002). Founded the [[http://globalvillages.ning.com GlobalVillagesNetwork]] in 1997 to create a worldwide community of village innovators. Worked on redefinition of locations: Electronic Cafés, Monasteries, Libraries. <br />
* On the political side: working on NewWork movement for radically facing permanent unemployment and nonmonetary economies, studied patterns of emerging civil society, worked with Oekonux and co organized the third conference, studied traditional native concil wisdom and timeless cultural patterns with several teachers. Still seeks to build up a research institution (GIVE - Laboratory for Global Villages). Currently working with Andreas Exner and others on Transition Austria and SOLCOM, with Andrius Kulikauskas on a global learning & life maintainance community called Worknets, with others on Open Source Ecology, and is also president of ECOVAST (European Council of Villages and Small Towns) in Austria. <br />
* Finished a book "invisible intelligence" (following a conference organized together with Peter Weibel) to foster theory-culture that connects serious analyses, bold visions and diligent practice. Curently working also on a "pattern language for the postindustrial society" in general and a "pattern language of the solar age" in particular."<br />
(original source: http://gemeingut.wikidot.com/future-of-the-commons)<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
* User Contributions: [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FNahrada] [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FranzN] <br />
<br />
[[Category:Bios]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:ActiveContributor]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Austria]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Franz_Nahrada&diff=97737Franz Nahrada2016-01-26T11:28:07Z<p>FranzN: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Franz Nahrada is an Austrian [[Global Villages]] advocate.'''<br />
<br />
He lives in Vienna, Austria where for many years he used to run a culturally creative [http://www.karolinenhof.at hotel] and still maintains a [http://www.give.at research group] on [http://p2pfoundation.net/Global_Villages Global Villages] and is along this line building a network of village visionaries and activists, the [Global_Villages_Network], whose primary goal is to establish global knowledge cooperation between villages and also their urban supporters. <br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/FranzNahrada see CV, writing and blogs here] <br />
<br />
is contributor here with two IDs: [[User:FranzN]] and [[User:FNahrada]]<br />
<br />
He maintains affiliation with the following networks:<br />
* Transition Towns (strong)<br />
* New Work (strong)<br />
* WOAL (living together without age limit) (strong)<br />
* New Towns for Migrants (strong)<br />
* demonetize.it (author)<br />
* keimform.de (author)<br />
* Commons (currently dormant)<br />
and many others.<br />
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==Bio==<br />
<br />
"Franz Nahrada, Vienna, Austria, * 1954, Sociologist and Writer, Ex - Hotel Manager, Member of the p2p Foundation in Austria<br />
* academic studies in sociology, philosophy and political science led to research on the genesis and failure of academic institutions to provide practical knowledge and eventually to a critique of current science in the context of various marxist political approaches. The discontent with both neglectiveness of theory and the need for social alternatives led to a quest how both can be reconciliated. In the meantime, on the professional side, because of the refusal to work towards an academic career, several factors converged: involvement in tourism (management of the family hotel), first steps in software development and work for Apple Computers (1987 - 1992 HyperCard developer support), knowledge organisation. <br><br />
* Experiences with the destructive social impact of tourism on traditional village structures in Samos, Greece, led to ideas of new integrative village development (alliance of nomadic knowledge workers and traditional village population = Global Villages). In seven field trips to California and other US states (1988 - 1995) both technology development and the social innovations that make them meaningful were the main subject (for example [http://www.arcosanti.org Arcosanti]). <br><br />
* Tried to apply this strand in Austria, succeeded with the Global Village conferences (1993 - 2000) and the Cultural Heritage in the Global Village (CULTH) conferences (1998 - 2002). Founded the [[http://globalvillages.ning.com GlobalVillagesNetwork]] in 1997 to create a worldwide community of village innovators. Worked on redefinition of locations: Electronic Cafés, Monasteries, Libraries. <br />
* On the political side: working on NewWork movement for radically facing permanent unemployment and nonmonetary economies, studied patterns of emerging civil society, worked with Oekonux and co organized the third conference, studied traditional native concil wisdom and timeless cultural patterns with several teachers. Still seeks to build up a research institution (GIVE - Laboratory for Global Villages). Currently working with Andreas Exner and others on Transition Austria and SOLCOM, with Andrius Kulikauskas on a global learning & life maintainance community called Worknets, with others on Open Source Ecology, and is also president of ECOVAST (European Council of Villages and Small Towns) in Austria. <br />
* Finished a book "invisible intelligence" (following a conference organized together with Peter Weibel) to foster theory-culture that connects serious analyses, bold visions and diligent practice. Curently working also on a "pattern language for the postindustrial society" in general and a "pattern language of the solar age" in particular."<br />
(original source: http://gemeingut.wikidot.com/future-of-the-commons)<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
* User Contributions: [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FNahrada] [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FranzN] <br />
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<div>'''Franz Nahrada is an Austrian [[Global Villages]] advocate.'''<br />
<br />
He lives in Vienna, Austria where he ran a [http://www.karolinenhof.at hotel] and still maintains a [http://www.give.at research group] on [http://p2pfoundation.net/Global_Villages Global Villages] and is along this line building a network of village visionaries and activists, the [Global_Villages_Network], whose primary goal is to establish global knowledge cooperation between villages and also their urban supporters. <br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/FranzNahrada see CV, writing and blogs here] <br />
<br />
is contributor here with two IDs: [[User:FranzN]] and [[User:FNahrada]]<br />
<br />
He maintains affiliation with the following networks:<br />
* Transition Towns (strong)<br />
* <br />
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==Bio==<br />
<br />
"Franz Nahrada, Vienna, Austria, * 1954, Sociologist and Writer, Ex - Hotel Manager, Member of the p2p Foundation in Austria<br />
* academic studies in sociology, philosophy and political science led to research on the genesis and failure of academic institutions to provide practical knowledge and eventually to a critique of current science in the context of various marxist political approaches. The discontent with both neglectiveness of theory and the need for social alternatives led to a quest how both can be reconciliated. In the meantime, on the professional side, because of the refusal to work towards an academic career, several factors converged: involvement in tourism (management of the family hotel), first steps in software development and work for Apple Computers (1987 - 1992 HyperCard developer support), knowledge organisation. <br><br />
* Experiences with the destructive social impact of tourism on traditional village structures in Samos, Greece, led to ideas of new integrative village development (alliance of nomadic knowledge workers and traditional village population = Global Villages). In seven field trips to California and other US states (1988 - 1995) both technology development and the social innovations that make them meaningful were the main subject (for example [http://www.arcosanti.org Arcosanti]). <br><br />
* Tried to apply this strand in Austria, succeeded with the Global Village conferences (1993 - 2000) and the Cultural Heritage in the Global Village (CULTH) conferences (1998 - 2002). Founded the [[http://globalvillages.ning.com GlobalVillagesNetwork]] in 1997 to create a worldwide community of village innovators. Worked on redefinition of locations: Electronic Cafés, Monasteries, Libraries. <br />
* On the political side: working on NewWork movement for radically facing permanent unemployment and nonmonetary economies, studied patterns of emerging civil society, worked with Oekonux and co organized the third conference, studied traditional native concil wisdom and timeless cultural patterns with several teachers. Still seeks to build up a research institution (GIVE - Laboratory for Global Villages). Currently working with Andreas Exner and others on Transition Austria and SOLCOM, with Andrius Kulikauskas on a global learning & life maintainance community called Worknets, with others on Open Source Ecology, and is also president of ECOVAST (European Council of Villages and Small Towns) in Austria. <br />
* Finished a book "invisible intelligence" (following a conference organized together with Peter Weibel) to foster theory-culture that connects serious analyses, bold visions and diligent practice. Curently working also on a "pattern language for the postindustrial society" in general and a "pattern language of the solar age" in particular."<br />
(original source: http://gemeingut.wikidot.com/future-of-the-commons)<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
* User Contributions: [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FNahrada] [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FranzN] <br />
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[[Category:Bios]]<br />
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[[Category:ActiveContributor]]<br />
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<div>'''Franz Nahrada is an Austrian [[Global Villages]] advocate.'''<br />
<br />
He lives in Vienna, Austria where he ran a [http://www.karolinenhof.at hotel] and still maintains a [http://www.give.at research group] on Global_Villages and is building a network of village visionaries and activists.<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/FranzNahrada see CV, writing and blogs here] <br />
<br />
<br />
is contributor here with two IDs: [[User:FranzN]] and [[User:FNahrada]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Bio==<br />
<br />
"Franz Nahrada, Vienna, Austria, * 1954, Sociologist and Writer, Ex - Hotel Manager, Member of the p2p Foundation in Austria<br />
* academic studies in sociology, philosophy and political science led to research on the genesis and failure of academic institutions to provide practical knowledge and eventually to a critique of current science in the context of various marxist political approaches. The discontent with both neglectiveness of theory and the need for social alternatives led to a quest how both can be reconciliated. In the meantime, on the professional side, because of the refusal to work towards an academic career, several factors converged: involvement in tourism (management of the family hotel), first steps in software development and work for Apple Computers (1987 - 1992 HyperCard developer support), knowledge organisation. <br><br />
* Experiences with the destructive social impact of tourism on traditional village structures in Samos, Greece, led to ideas of new integrative village development (alliance of nomadic knowledge workers and traditional village population = Global Villages). In seven field trips to California and other US states (1988 - 1995) both technology development and the social innovations that make them meaningful were the main subject (for example [http://www.arcosanti.org Arcosanti]). <br><br />
* Tried to apply this strand in Austria, succeeded with the Global Village conferences (1993 - 2000) and the Cultural Heritage in the Global Village (CULTH) conferences (1998 - 2002). Founded the [[http://globalvillages.ning.com GlobalVillagesNetwork]] in 1997 to create a worldwide community of village innovators. Worked on redefinition of locations: Electronic Cafés, Monasteries, Libraries. <br />
* On the political side: working on NewWork movement for radically facing permanent unemployment and nonmonetary economies, studied patterns of emerging civil society, worked with Oekonux and co organized the third conference, studied traditional native concil wisdom and timeless cultural patterns with several teachers. Still seeks to build up a research institution (GIVE - Laboratory for Global Villages). Currently working with Andreas Exner and others on Transition Austria and SOLCOM, with Andrius Kulikauskas on a global learning & life maintainance community called Worknets, with others on Open Source Ecology, and is also president of ECOVAST (European Council of Villages and Small Towns) in Austria. <br />
* Finished a book "invisible intelligence" (following a conference organized together with Peter Weibel) to foster theory-culture that connects serious analyses, bold visions and diligent practice. Curently working also on a "pattern language for the postindustrial society" in general and a "pattern language of the solar age" in particular."<br />
(original source: http://gemeingut.wikidot.com/future-of-the-commons)<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
* User Contributions: [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FNahrada] [http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/FranzN] <br />
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[[Category:Bios]]<br />
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[[Category:Commons]]<br />
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[[Category:ActiveContributor]]<br />
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<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
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[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
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<br><br />
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<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
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=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
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=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy -> here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''B'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that '''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us''', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
<br />
The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuos cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
<br />
We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this world,<br />
it may get better by forming virtual communities of practise. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and knowhow.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village / locality and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
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# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
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=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Cycles_of_Mutual_Support&diff=93587Cycles of Mutual Support2015-08-08T12:08:16Z<p>FranzN: /* Discussion */</p>
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=Discussion=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
In some distinction to [[Circular Economy]] the term "Kreislaufwirtschaft" in German refers to all kinds of economic activities. The element of intentional support and mutuality between economic / social actors is essential. Cycles of Mutual Support can be mediated by a local or group exclusive exchange medium, or they can be mediated by intention and feedback loops and thus become an important element of Demonetisation.<br />
<br />
A very basic form of these cycles existed in traditional societies, for example in the habitual way to feed begging monks in Buddhist countries. One could argue this was a non - contractual way of living out imaginary or factual synergies between cultural and material creators.<br />
<br />
If we could model and appreciate the benefit of a particular function in the cycles, it would help us to call for support. Crowdfunding, Sponsoring, Donating, Community Spupported Everything are some monetary forms that could be increasingly replaced with mutually stabilizing agreements that reflect the material optimisation potentials in the flow of resources and human efforts.<br />
<br />
Biological metaphor:<br />
<br />
Every giving needs some kind of receiving, acts of giving would be reflected in this light: what do you need to simply be able to better support others? The "cycle" appears as a "fulguration", as a progres in evolution as did the "HyperCycle" in biological evolution: "The hypercycle is a cyclic reaction scheme, wherein each replicator acts as a catalyst for the replication of the following, until the last which then assists in replication of the former, thus completing a cycle. Hypercycle elements should be simultaneously catalysts (enzymes) and replicators. They must have the ability to replicate itself and produce enzymes, that means, have a metabolism." (http://creationwiki.org/Hypercycle). "By establishing a cross-catalytic system, otherwise competing replicators could coexist, and by means of individual sequences, each one below the information error threshold, a larger genetic message could be stored. Hence the informational problem of earlier self-replicating molecules could have been solved." (http://complex.upf.es/~josep/research.html#Hypercycles)<br />
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[[Category:Demonetization]]<br />
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=Discussion=<br />
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Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
In some distinction to [[Circular Economy]] the term "Kreislaufwirtschaft" in German refers to all kinds of economic activities. The element of intentional support and mutuality between economic / social actors is essential. Cycles of Mutual Support can be mediated by a local or group exclusive exchange medium, or they can be mediated by intention and feedback loops and thus become an important element of Demonetisation.<br />
<br />
A very basic form of these cycles existed in traditional societies, for example in the habitual way to feed begging monks in Buddhist countries. One could argue this was a non - contractual way of living out imaginary or factual synergies between cultural and material creators.<br />
<br />
If we could model and appreciate the benefit of a particular function in the cycles, it would help us to call for support. Crowdfunding, Sponsoring, Donating, Community Spupported Everything are some monetary forms that could be increasingly replaced with mutually stabilizing agreements that reflect the material optimisation potentials in the flow of resources and human efforts.<br />
<br />
Every giving needs some kind of receiving, acts of giving would be reflected in this light: what do you need to simply be able to better support others? The "cycle" appears as a "fulguration" as did the "HyperCycle" in biological evolution: "The hypercycle is a cyclic reaction scheme, wherein each replicator acts as a catalyst for the replication of the following, until the last which then assists in replication of the former, thus completing a cycle. Hypercycle elements should be simultaneously catalysts (enzymes) and replicators. They must have the ability to replicate itself and produce enzymes, that means, have a metabolism." (http://creationwiki.org/Hypercycle). "By establishing a cross-catalytic system, otherwise competing replicators could coexist, and by means of individual sequences, each one below the information error threshold, a larger genetic message could be stored. Hence the informational problem of earlier self-replicating molecules could have been solved." (http://complex.upf.es/~josep/research.html#Hypercycles)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Economics]] <br />
<br />
[[Category:Demonetization]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mutual Coordination]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Cycles_of_Mutual_Support&diff=93585Cycles of Mutual Support2015-08-08T11:59:24Z<p>FranzN: Hypercycle</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
In some distinction to [[Circular Economy]] the term "Kreislaufwirtschaft" in German refers to all kinds of economic activities. The element of intentional support and mutuality between economic / social actors is essential. Cycles of Mutual Support can be mediated by a local or group exclusive exchange medium, or they can be mediated by intention and feedback loops and thus become an important element of Demonetisation.<br />
<br />
A very basic form of these cycles existed in traditional societies, for example in the habitual way to feed begging monks in Buddhist countries. One could argue this was a non - contractual way of living out imaginary or factual synergies between cultural and material creators.<br />
<br />
If we could model and appreciate the benefit of a particular function in the cycles, it would help us to call for support. Crowdfunding, Sponsoring, Donating, Community Spupported Everything are some monetary forms that could be increasingly replaced with mutually stabilizing agreements that reflect the material optimisation potentials in the flow of resources and human efforts.<br />
<br />
Every giving needs some kind of receiving, acts of giving would be reflected in this light: what do you need to simply be able to better support others? The "cycle" appears as a "fulguration" as did the "HyperCycle" in biological evolution: "The hypercycle is a cyclic reaction scheme, wherein each replicator acts as a catalyst for the replication of the following, until the last which then assists in replication of the former, thus completing a cycle. Hypercycle elements should be simultaneously catalysts (enzymes) and replicators. They must have the ability to replicate itself and produce enzymes, that means, have a metabolism." (http://creationwiki.org/Hypercycle)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Economics]] <br />
<br />
[[Category:Demonetization]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mutual Coordination]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Cycles_of_Mutual_Support&diff=93584Cycles of Mutual Support2015-08-08T11:50:58Z<p>FranzN: from monetary to semi - monetary - to non - monetary</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
In some distinction to [[Circular Economy]] the term "Kreislaufwirtschaft" in German refers to all kinds of economic activities. The element of intentional support and mutuality between economic / social actors is essential. Cycles of Mutual Support can be mediated by a local or group exclusive exchange medium, or they can be mediated by intention and feedback loops and thus become an important element of Demonetisation.<br />
<br />
A very basic form of these cycles existed in traditional societies, for example in the habitual way to feed begging monks in Buddhist countries. One could argue this was a non - contractual way of living out imaginary or factual synergies between cultural and material creators.<br />
<br />
If we could model and appreciate the benefit of a particular function in the cycles, it would help us to call for support. Crowdfunding, Sponsoring, Donating, Community Spupported Everything are some monetary forms that could be increasingly replaced with mutually stabilizing agreements that reflect the material optimisation potentials in the flow of resources and human efforts.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Economics]] <br />
<br />
[[Category:Demonetization]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mutual Coordination]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=93570Global Villages2015-08-07T16:40:10Z<p>FranzN: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy -> here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''B'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that '''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us''', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
<br />
The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuos cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
<br />
We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this world,<br />
it may get better by forming virtual communities of practise. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and knowhow.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village / locality and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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[[Category:Movements]]<br />
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[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
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[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=93569Global Villages2015-08-07T16:39:37Z<p>FranzN: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason[http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''B'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that '''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us''', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
<br />
The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuos cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
<br />
We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this world,<br />
it may get better by forming virtual communities of practise. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and knowhow.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village / locality and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Movements]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Villages]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=93568Global Villages2015-08-07T16:38:47Z<p>FranzN: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (also sometimes named "Planetary Villages", see the reason[http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy |here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''B'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that '''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us''', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
<br />
The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuos cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
<br />
We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this world,<br />
it may get better by forming virtual communities of practise. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and knowhow.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village / locality and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Movements]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Villages]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=93567Global Villages2015-08-07T16:37:40Z<p>FranzN: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) (or should they be named "Planetary Villages", see [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Economics#Comparison_of_a_Global_Economy_and_Planetary_Systemic_Economy |here]) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''B'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that '''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us''', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
<br />
The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuos cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
<br />
We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this world,<br />
it may get better by forming virtual communities of practise. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and knowhow.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village / locality and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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[[Category:Governance]]<br />
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[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
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[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Cycles_of_Mutual_Support&diff=93566Cycles of Mutual Support2015-08-07T16:33:47Z<p>FranzN: </p>
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<div>In some distinction to [[Circular Economy]] the term "Kreislaufwirtschaft" in German refers to all kinds of economic activities. The element of intentional support and mutuality between economic / social actors is essential. Cycles of Mutual Support can be mediated by a local or group exclusive exchange medium, or they can be mediated by intention and feedback loops and thus become an important element of Demonetisation.<br />
<br />
A very basic form of these cycles existed in traditional societies, for example in the habitual way to feed begging monks in Buddhist countries. One could argue this was a non - contractual way of living out imaginary or factual synergies between cultural and material creators.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Economics]] [[Category:Demonetization]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Circular_Economies&diff=93565Circular Economies2015-08-07T16:33:04Z<p>FranzN: </p>
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* see: [[Circular Economy]]<br />
* see: [[Cycles of Mutual Support]] (Demonetisation)</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Cycles_of_Mutual_Support&diff=93564Cycles of Mutual Support2015-08-07T16:31:47Z<p>FranzN: </p>
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<div>In some distinction to [[Circular Economy]] the term "Kreislaufwirtschaft" in German refers to all kinds of economic activities. The element of intentional support and mutuality between economic / social actors is essential. Cycles of Mutual Support can be mediated by a local or group exclusive exchange medium, or they can be mediated by intention and feedback loops and thus become an important element of Demonetisation.<br />
<br />
A very basic form of these cycles existed in traditional societies, for example in the habitual way to feed begging monks in Buddhist countries. One could argue this was a non - contractual way of living out imaginary synergies between cultural and material creators.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Economics]] [[Category:Demonetization]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Cycles_of_Mutual_Support&diff=93563Cycles of Mutual Support2015-08-07T16:30:49Z<p>FranzN: </p>
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<div>In some distinction to [[Circular Economy]] the term "Kreislaufwirtschaft" in German refers to all kinds of economic activities. The element of intentional support and mutuality between economic / social actors is essential. Cycles of Mutual Support can be mediated by a local or group exclusive exchange medium, or they can be mediated by intention and feedback loops and thus become an important element of Demonetisation.<br />
<br />
A very basic form of these cycles existed in traditional societies, for example in the habitual way to feed begging monks in Buddhist countries.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Economics]] [[Category:Demonetization]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Cycles_of_Mutual_Support&diff=93562Cycles of Mutual Support2015-08-07T16:28:24Z<p>FranzN: </p>
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<div>In some distinction to [[Circular Economy]] the term "Kreislaufwirtschaft" in German refers to all kinds of economic activities. The element of intentional support and mutuality between economic / social actors is essential. Cycles of Mutual Support can be mediated by a local or group exclusive exchange medium, or they can be mediated by intention and feedback loops.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Economics]] [[Category:Demonetization]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Cycles_of_Mutual_Support&diff=93561Cycles of Mutual Support2015-08-07T16:26:40Z<p>FranzN: Created page with "In some distinction to Circular Economy the term "Kreislaufwirtschaft" in German refers to all kinds of economic activities. The element of intentional support and mutuali..."</p>
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<div>In some distinction to [[Circular Economy]] the term "Kreislaufwirtschaft" in German refers to all kinds of economic activities. The element of intentional support and mutuality between economic / social actors is essential. Cycles of Mutual Support can be mediated by a local or group exclusive exchange medium, or they can be mediated by intention and feedback loops.</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Circular_Economies&diff=93560Circular Economies2015-08-07T16:23:05Z<p>FranzN: </p>
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* see: [[Circular Economy]]<br />
* see: [[Cycles of Mutual Support]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Patterns_Of_Demonetization&diff=93559Patterns Of Demonetization2015-08-07T15:40:13Z<p>FranzN: </p>
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<div>an attempt to sketch / list the elements of a Pattern Language for a society beyond money. The idea is that such a society can only emerge on the base of understanding of its complex design issues. Its a very early stage of a political proposition.<br />
<br />
Source: via Franz Nahrada at http://www.theoriekultur.at/wiki?Patterns_Of_Demonetisation<br />
<br />
Note by editor Michel Bauwens, I have augmented the page with links to documentation in our own wiki<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
'''Patterns of a demonetised society'''<br />
<br />
Money, the means of buying and selling in the market, is the central social nexus of modern societies.<br />
<br />
It is the form in which practically all individuals, be they producers or consumers relate to each other. * It is the form in which the wealth of nations is expressed and measured, managed and allocated.<br />
<br />
With a highly developed division of labor, everybodies well-being and survival depends on money.<br />
<br />
Life without money seems to be at best a primitive atavism. The fall of communism is interpreted as the ultimate failure of the dream of a moneyless or money - free society.<br />
<br />
At the same time, our global society is currently experiencing an economic crisis based on the increasing dissociation between what is called the "real economy" and the economy of money and its derivatives. There is much reason to assume that there is a systemic reason for this dissociation, characterised for example by Jeremy Rifkin as the "Zero Marginal Cost Dilemma": The more productivity is created by automation and integrated logistics, the more precarious the business of production for monetary returns becomes, because the monetary value of commodities tends to fall and eventually vanish. The consequences for the productive sector of society are enormous.<br />
<br />
''“Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.” "The modern industrial revolution is bound to devalue the human brain at least in its simpler and more routine decisions. The average human being [will have] nothing to sell that is worth anyone's money to buy. The answer, of course, is to have a society based on human values other than buying or selling."''(Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics)<br />
<br />
At the same time the very same system abounds in material wealth, which makes it possible to maintain the illusion for some time, maybe even many decades, by creating debts. The creation of money based on financial self-reference therefore has been exploding, simulating the lack of sufficient social value creation and leading to tremendous social disparities and disfunctionalities - besides its imminent contradiction of being an outright long term fraud.<br />
<br />
Yet very few attempts have been undertaken to conceive a society that crosses the money border. Even the political left has broadly accepted the market as a key element of future societies. Some fantastic assumptions about technocratic solutions, distribution done by algorithms and computer systems are still around, but they are not tested in practise - to say the least.<br />
<br />
We lack a transformative design that really implies a living interplay of various patterns mediating nonmonetary social relations. The following collection is in some points leaving traditional pathways of the political left."<br />
<br />
* Why Demonetise?<br />
<br />
#Money is increasingly losing its relation to economic value<br />
#Increasing precarity by disappearance of jobs<br />
#Material abundance conflicts with the lack of buying power of the many<br />
#Money gives the wrong signals to society, especially when it is in the hands of a few (system B)<br />
<br />
But:<br />
<br />
#Money can be a training ground for demonetisation<br />
<br />
<br />
* Why Patterns ?<br />
<br />
#No monolithic system, but design challenge<br />
#Not wishful thinking, but proven elements<br />
<br />
=Pattern Collection Directory=<br />
<br />
Note: This is just a sketch, waiting for your contribution!<br />
<br />
<br />
==Basic Patterns of Human Relations==<br />
<br />
For general documentation: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Relational<br />
<br />
* Thinking As Human Being in General<br />
** How do we perceive ourselves and our actions - "Categoric imperative" as guide to do things right and do the right thing, not success, but reproduceability as highest criterion.<br />
<br />
* Living A Progressing [[Gift Economy]] - Mothering, "positive spin" of eliminating deficiencies, paying forward<br />
<br />
* Establishing [http://p2pfoundation/Category:Participation Participatory Resources] - Optimising the use for everybody. Knowledge as the prime economic resource that is participatory in nature.<br />
<br />
* Establishing [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Education Technical Competence] for better collaboration and enabling of self-supporting work<br />
<br />
* Understanding And [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Relational Fostering Diversity] which runs counter to the notion of equivalent exchange.<br />
<br />
==Traditional Societal / Cultural Practises==<br />
<br />
For general documentation, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Neotraditional<br />
<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Jubilee_Economics Jubilee Year] in which all debts are cancelled.<br />
<br />
* [[Potlatch]] (a tradition Native American gifting ceremony in the Northwest)<br />
<br />
==Beyond Industrial Society - the new productive forces==<br />
<br />
For general info, see: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Peerproduction<br />
<br />
''"In terms of the ways in which the machine altered our relations to one another and to ourselves, it mattered not in the least whether it turned out cornflakes or cadillacs. The restructuring of human work and association was shaped by the technique of fragmentation that is the essence of machine technology. The essence of automation technology is the opposite. It is integral and decentralist in depth, just as the machine was fragmentary, centralist, and superficial in its patterning of human relationships.”'' (McLuhan)<br />
<br />
* The Prosumer and Prosumer Communities<br />
* Flow<br />
* Embeddedness and [[Circular Economies]]<br />
* [[Permaculture]] and Agroforestry - cybernetic perspectives and procedures in dealing with nature.<br />
* The Integrated Multifunctional Living Space (Permaculture - Prinziples)<br />
<br />
==Specific Patterns of Transformation in Current Capitalistic Systems==<br />
<br />
* Science and Self-Reflection (models, forecasts, simulation, scenarios)<br />
* Societal Maintenance (welfare state, environmental politics, development politics - Elements of "system A in System B")<br />
* Ressource Protection<br />
* Basic Support<br />
* [[Cooperatives]] In Production And Distribution<br />
* Decentral Planning ([[Community-Supported Agriculture]], [[Community-Supported Business]]; [[Crowdfunding]])<br />
* [[Open Source]] and [[User-Led Product Development]] ([[Open Innovation]])<br />
* [[Participation]] and [[Co-Creation]] as System Requirement<br />
* Flatrate<br />
<br />
<br />
==Communication Instead of Market== <br />
<br />
- towards a factual coordination of social actions<br />
<br />
For general info: see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Mutual Coordination<br />
<br />
Money cannot simply be "abolished"; it would need conscsious action and design to implement something that serves needs better.<br />
<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P Accounting Evaluation and Indices]<br />
* Sustainability Negociation Game<br />
* (much more ?)<br />
<br />
==Patterns of Survival and Rational Production==<br />
<br />
For general info, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Sustainable Manufacturing<br />
<br />
The times of seeming identity of economic growth and wellbeing are over; globalized production and auutomation led to redistribution of wealth and production. One expresion of this is the dwindling of welfare-state institutions around the globe. We are most likely at the beginning of this process which put more and more people out of the regular labor process and forces them to look for sources of survival. <br />
<br />
In addition to this, the "anthropocene" caused by globalisation and global integral factory is also recklessly distroying the natural foundation of human life. The necessity of establishing a sustainable societal metabolism embedded in natural cycles conflicts with the .<br />
<br />
* Collective Appropriation Of Resources and Means Of Production<br />
* Cooperative Cycles<br />
* Rooms for Prosumption - [[Makerspaces]], Automation und Prosumption as industrial products<br />
* [[Free Knowledge]] / [[Open Hardware]] - physical technologies for building, cultivating, energy etc.<br />
* Biogenical Turn - [[Resource-Based Economy]] as general paradigm<br />
<br />
==Patterns of Segregated Spaces / Spheres of Collective Self - Determination==<br />
<br />
For general info, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Villages<br />
<br />
* Community Places (Monastery, [[Ecovillages]])<br />
* Community as resonance Online Communities and Arrangements (Share and Care Movement)<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Stigmergy Stigmergical Systems] as mediation between need and offer<br />
<br />
==Visions of another society==<br />
<br />
- [[Utopia]] has vanished, because it is implausible<br />
<br />
- Dystopia has succeeded as mass entertainment attitude<br />
<br />
<br />
Therefore, the shere work with Utopias is inherently political and it also is necessary to ground single steps in an overarching context. But the positive Description of the future requires more productive fantasy than ever.<br />
<br />
* Literary Utopias: Bolo'Bolo, The Glass Bead Game etc.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Demonetization]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Patterns_Of_Demonetization&diff=93558Patterns Of Demonetization2015-08-07T15:37:30Z<p>FranzN: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
Source: via Franz Nahrada at http://www.theoriekultur.at/wiki?Patterns_Of_Demonetisation<br />
<br />
Note by editor Michel Bauwens, I have augmented the page with links to documentation in our own wiki<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
'''Patterns of a demonetised society'''<br />
<br />
Money, the means of buying and selling in the market, is the central social nexus of modern societies.<br />
<br />
It is the form in which practically all individuals, be they producers or consumers relate to each other. * It is the form in which the wealth of nations is expressed and measured, managed and allocated.<br />
<br />
With a highly developed division of labor, everybodies well-being and survival depends on money.<br />
<br />
Life without money seems to be at best a primitive atavism. The fall of communism is interpreted as the ultimate failure of the dream of a moneyless or money - free society.<br />
<br />
At the same time, our global society is currently experiencing an economic crisis based on the increasing dissociation between what is called the "real economy" and the economy of money and its derivatives. There is much reason to assume that there is a systemic reason for this dissociation, characterised for example by Jeremy Rifkin as the "Zero Marginal Cost Dilemma": The more productivity is created by automation and integrated logistics, the more precarious the business of production for monetary returns becomes, because the monetary value of commodities tends to fall and eventually vanish. The consequences for the productive sector of society are enormous.<br />
<br />
''“Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.” "The modern industrial revolution is bound to devalue the human brain at least in its simpler and more routine decisions. The average human being [will have] nothing to sell that is worth anyone's money to buy. The answer, of course, is to have a society based on human values other than buying or selling."''(Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics)<br />
<br />
At the same time the very same system abounds in material wealth, which makes it possible to maintain the illusion for some time, maybe even many decades, by creating debts. The creation of money based on financial self-reference therefore has been exploding, simulating the lack of sufficient social value creation and leading to tremendous social disparities and disfunctionalities - besides its imminent contradiction of being an outright long term fraud.<br />
<br />
Yet very few attempts have been undertaken to conceive a society that crosses the money border. Even the political left has broadly accepted the market as a key element of future societies. Some fantastic assumptions about technocratic solutions, distribution done by algorithms and computer systems are still around, but they are not tested in practise - to say the least.<br />
<br />
We lack a transformative design that really implies a living interplay of various patterns mediating nonmonetary social relations. The following collection is in some points leaving traditional pathways of the political left."<br />
<br />
* Why Demonetise?<br />
<br />
#Money is increasingly losing its relation to economic value<br />
#Increasing precarity by disappearance of jobs<br />
#Material abundance conflicts with the lack of buying power of the many<br />
#Money gives the wrong signals to society, especially when it is in the hands of a few (system B)<br />
<br />
But:<br />
<br />
#Money can be a training ground for demonetisation<br />
<br />
<br />
* Why Patterns ?<br />
<br />
#No monolithic system, but design challenge<br />
#Not wishful thinking, but proven elements<br />
<br />
=Pattern Collection Directory=<br />
<br />
Note: This is just a sketch, waiting for your contribution!<br />
<br />
<br />
==Basic Patterns of Human Relations==<br />
<br />
For general documentation: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Relational<br />
<br />
* Thinking As Human Being in General<br />
** How do we perceive ourselves and our actions - "Categoric imperative" as guide to do things right and do the right thing, not success, but reproduceability as highest criterion.<br />
<br />
* Living A Progressing [[Gift Economy]] - Mothering, "positive spin" of eliminating deficiencies, paying forward<br />
<br />
* Establishing [http://p2pfoundation/Category:Participation Participatory Resources] - Optimising the use for everybody. Knowledge as the prime economic resource that is participatory in nature.<br />
<br />
* Establishing [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Education Technical Competence] for better collaboration and enabling of self-supporting work<br />
<br />
* Understanding And [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Relational Fostering Diversity] which runs counter to the notion of equivalent exchange.<br />
<br />
==Traditional Societal / Cultural Practises==<br />
<br />
For general documentation, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Neotraditional<br />
<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Jubilee_Economics Jubilee Year] in which all debts are cancelled.<br />
<br />
* [[Potlatch]] (a tradition Native American gifting ceremony in the Northwest)<br />
<br />
==Beyond Industrial Society - the new productive forces==<br />
<br />
For general info, see: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Peerproduction<br />
<br />
''"In terms of the ways in which the machine altered our relations to one another and to ourselves, it mattered not in the least whether it turned out cornflakes or cadillacs. The restructuring of human work and association was shaped by the technique of fragmentation that is the essence of machine technology. The essence of automation technology is the opposite. It is integral and decentralist in depth, just as the machine was fragmentary, centralist, and superficial in its patterning of human relationships.”'' (McLuhan)<br />
<br />
* The Prosumer and Prosumer Communities<br />
* Flow<br />
* Embeddedness and [[Circular Economies]]<br />
* [[Permaculture]] and Agroforestry - cybernetic perspectives and procedures in dealing with nature.<br />
* The Integrated Multifunctional Living Space (Permaculture - Prinziples)<br />
<br />
==Specific Patterns of Transformation in Current Capitalistic Systems==<br />
<br />
* Science and Self-Reflection (models, forecasts, simulation, scenarios)<br />
* Societal Maintenance (welfare state, environmental politics, development politics - Elements of "system A in System B")<br />
* Ressource Protection<br />
* Basic Support<br />
* [[Cooperatives]] In Production And Distribution<br />
* Decentral Planning ([[Community-Supported Agriculture]], [[Community-Supported Business]]; [[Crowdfunding]])<br />
* [[Open Source]] and [[User-Led Product Development]] ([[Open Innovation]])<br />
* [[Participation]] and [[Co-Creation]] as System Requirement<br />
* Flatrate<br />
<br />
<br />
==Communication Instead of Market== <br />
<br />
- towards a factual coordination of social actions<br />
<br />
For general info: see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Mutual Coordination<br />
<br />
Money cannot simply be "abolished"; it would need conscsious action and design to implement something that serves needs better.<br />
<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P Accounting Evaluation and Indices]<br />
* Sustainability Negociation Game<br />
* (much more ?)<br />
<br />
==Patterns of Survival and Rational Production==<br />
<br />
For general info, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Sustainable Manufacturing<br />
<br />
The times of seeming identity of economic growth and wellbeing are over; globalized production and auutomation led to redistribution of wealth and production. One expresion of this is the dwindling of welfare-state institutions around the globe. We are most likely at the beginning of this process which put more and more people out of the regular labor process and forces them to look for sources of survival. <br />
<br />
In addition to this, the "anthropocene" caused by globalisation and global integral factory is also recklessly distroying the natural foundation of human life. The necessity of establishing a sustainable societal metabolism embedded in natural cycles conflicts with the .<br />
<br />
* Collective Appropriation Of Resources and Means Of Production<br />
* Cooperative Cycles<br />
* Rooms for Prosumption - [[Makerspaces]], Automation und Prosumption as industrial products<br />
* [[Free Knowledge]] / [[Open Hardware]] - physical technologies for building, cultivating, energy etc.<br />
* Biogenical Turn - [[Resource-Based Economy]] as general paradigm<br />
<br />
==Patterns of Segregated Spaces / Spheres of Collective Self - Determination==<br />
<br />
For general info, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Villages<br />
<br />
* Community Places (Monastery, [[Ecovillages]])<br />
* Community as resonance Online Communities and Arrangements (Share and Care Movement)<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Stigmergy Stigmergical Systems] as mediation between need and offer<br />
<br />
==Visions of another society==<br />
<br />
- [[Utopia]] has vanished, because it is implausible<br />
<br />
- Dystopia has succeeded as mass entertainment attitude<br />
<br />
<br />
Therefore, the shere work with Utopias is inherently political and it also is necessary to ground single steps in an overarching context. But the positive Description of the future requires more productive fantasy than ever.<br />
<br />
* Literary Utopias: Bolo'Bolo, The Glass Bead Game etc.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Demonetization]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Patterns_Of_Demonetization&diff=93556Patterns Of Demonetization2015-08-07T15:36:37Z<p>FranzN: Thanks Michel, almost too much honor....</p>
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Source: via Franz Nahrada at http://www.theoriekultur.at/wiki?Patterns_Of_Demonetisation<br />
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Note by editor Michel Bauwens, I have augmented the page with links to documentation in our own wiki<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"Patterns of a demonetised society<br />
<br />
Money, the means of buying and selling in the market, is the central social nexus of modern societies.<br />
<br />
It is the form in which practically all individuals, be they producers or consumers relate to each other. * It is the form in which the wealth of nations is expressed and measured, managed and allocated.<br />
<br />
With a highly developed division of labor, everybodies well-being and survival depends on money.<br />
<br />
Life without money seems to be at best a primitive atavism. The fall of communism is interpreted as the ultimate failure of the dream of a moneyless or money - free society.<br />
<br />
At the same time, our global society is currently experiencing an economic crisis based on the increasing dissociation between what is called the "real economy" and the economy of money and its derivatives. There is much reason to assume that there is a systemic reason for this dissociation, characterised for example by Jeremy Rifkin as the "Zero Marginal Cost Dilemma": The more productivity is created by automation and integrated logistics, the more precarious the business of production for monetary returns becomes, because the monetary value of commodities tends to fall and eventually vanish. The consequences for the productive sector of society are enormous.<br />
<br />
''“Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.” "The modern industrial revolution is bound to devalue the human brain at least in its simpler and more routine decisions. The average human being [will have] nothing to sell that is worth anyone's money to buy. The answer, of course, is to have a society based on human values other than buying or selling."''(Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics)<br />
<br />
At the same time the very same system abounds in material wealth, which makes it possible to maintain the illusion for some time, maybe even many decades, by creating debts. The creation of money based on financial self-reference therefore has been exploding, simulating the lack of sufficient social value creation and leading to tremendous social disparities and disfunctionalities - besides its imminent contradiction of being an outright long term fraud.<br />
<br />
Yet very few attempts have been undertaken to conceive a society that crosses the money border. Even the political left has broadly accepted the market as a key element of future societies. Some fantastic assumptions about technocratic solutions, distribution done by algorithms and computer systems are still around, but they are not tested in practise - to say the least.<br />
<br />
We lack a transformative design that really implies a living interplay of various patterns mediating nonmonetary social relations. The following collection is in some points leaving traditional pathways of the political left."<br />
<br />
* Why Demonetise?<br />
<br />
#Money is increasingly losing its relation to economic value<br />
#Increasing precarity by disappearance of jobs<br />
#Material abundance conflicts with the lack of buying power of the many<br />
#Money gives the wrong signals to society, especially when it is in the hands of a few (system B)<br />
<br />
But:<br />
<br />
#Money can be a training ground for demonetisation<br />
<br />
<br />
* Why Patterns ?<br />
<br />
#No monolithic system, but design challenge<br />
#Not wishful thinking, but proven elements<br />
<br />
=Pattern Collection Directory=<br />
<br />
Note: This is just a sketch, waiting for your contribution!<br />
<br />
<br />
==Basic Patterns of Human Relations==<br />
<br />
For general documentation: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Relational<br />
<br />
* Thinking As Human Being in General<br />
** How do we perceive ourselves and our actions - "Categoric imperative" as guide to do things right and do the right thing, not success, but reproduceability as highest criterion.<br />
<br />
* Living A Progressing [[Gift Economy]] - Mothering, "positive spin" of eliminating deficiencies, paying forward<br />
<br />
* Establishing [http://p2pfoundation/Category:Participation Participatory Resources] - Optimising the use for everybody. Knowledge as the prime economic resource that is participatory in nature.<br />
<br />
* Establishing [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Education Technical Competence] for better collaboration and enabling of self-supporting work<br />
<br />
* Understanding And [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Relational Fostering Diversity] which runs counter to the notion of equivalent exchange.<br />
<br />
==Traditional Societal / Cultural Practises==<br />
<br />
For general documentation, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Neotraditional<br />
<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Jubilee_Economics Jubilee Year] in which all debts are cancelled.<br />
<br />
* [[Potlatch]] (a tradition Native American gifting ceremony in the Northwest)<br />
<br />
==Beyond Industrial Society - the new productive forces==<br />
<br />
For general info, see: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Peerproduction<br />
<br />
''"In terms of the ways in which the machine altered our relations to one another and to ourselves, it mattered not in the least whether it turned out cornflakes or cadillacs. The restructuring of human work and association was shaped by the technique of fragmentation that is the essence of machine technology. The essence of automation technology is the opposite. It is integral and decentralist in depth, just as the machine was fragmentary, centralist, and superficial in its patterning of human relationships.”'' (McLuhan)<br />
<br />
* The Prosumer and Prosumer Communities<br />
* Flow<br />
* Embeddedness and [[Circular Economies]]<br />
* [[Permaculture]] and Agroforestry - cybernetic perspectives and procedures in dealing with nature.<br />
* The Integrated Multifunctional Living Space (Permaculture - Prinziples)<br />
<br />
==Specific Patterns of Transformation in Current Capitalistic Systems==<br />
<br />
* Science and Self-Reflection (models, forecasts, simulation, scenarios)<br />
* Societal Maintenance (welfare state, environmental politics, development politics - Elements of "system A in System B")<br />
* Ressource Protection<br />
* Basic Support<br />
* [[Cooperatives]] In Production And Distribution<br />
* Decentral Planning ([[Community-Supported Agriculture]], [[Community-Supported Business]]; [[Crowdfunding]])<br />
* [[Open Source]] and [[User-Led Product Development]] ([[Open Innovation]])<br />
* [[Participation]] and [[Co-Creation]] as System Requirement<br />
* Flatrate<br />
<br />
<br />
==Communication Instead of Market== <br />
<br />
- towards a factual coordination of social actions<br />
<br />
For general info: see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Mutual Coordination<br />
<br />
Money cannot simply be "abolished"; it would need conscsious action and design to implement something that serves needs better.<br />
<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P Accounting Evaluation and Indices]<br />
* Sustainability Negociation Game<br />
* (much more ?)<br />
<br />
==Patterns of Survival and Rational Production==<br />
<br />
For general info, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Sustainable Manufacturing<br />
<br />
The times of seeming identity of economic growth and wellbeing are over; globalized production and auutomation led to redistribution of wealth and production. One expresion of this is the dwindling of welfare-state institutions around the globe. We are most likely at the beginning of this process which put more and more people out of the regular labor process and forces them to look for sources of survival. <br />
<br />
In addition to this, the "anthropocene" caused by globalisation and global integral factory is also recklessly distroying the natural foundation of human life. The necessity of establishing a sustainable societal metabolism embedded in natural cycles conflicts with the .<br />
<br />
* Collective Appropriation Of Resources and Means Of Production<br />
* Cooperative Cycles<br />
* Rooms for Prosumption - [[Makerspaces]], Automation und Prosumption as industrial products<br />
* [[Free Knowledge]] / [[Open Hardware]] - physical technologies for building, cultivating, energy etc.<br />
* Biogenical Turn - [[Resource-Based Economy]] as general paradigm<br />
<br />
==Patterns of Segregated Spaces / Spheres of Collective Self - Determination==<br />
<br />
For general info, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Villages<br />
<br />
* Community Places (Monastery, [[Ecovillages]])<br />
* Community as resonance Online Communities and Arrangements (Share and Care Movement)<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Stigmergy Stigmergical Systems] as mediation between need and offer<br />
<br />
==Visions of another society==<br />
<br />
- [[Utopia]] has vanished, because it is implausible<br />
<br />
- Dystopia has succeeded as mass entertainment attitude<br />
<br />
<br />
Therefore, the shere work with Utopias is inherently political and it also is necessary to ground single steps in an overarching context. But the positive Description of the future requires more productive fantasy than ever.<br />
<br />
* Literary Utopias: Bolo'Bolo, The Glass Bead Game etc.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Demonetization]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Peer_Production_License&diff=86683Peer Production License2014-08-24T10:12:12Z<p>FranzN: /* Why the General Public License Falls short */</p>
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=Discussion=<br />
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==Why I still don't believe in the p2p license==<br />
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'''Tiberius Brastaviceanu:'''<br />
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"A license for a technology is a limitation of use of that technology. A newly created technology is not a scare city by nature, because it is something that lives in the realm of knowledge, which has very low distribution costs. It is only scarce in terms to the number of individuals who can understand it and to put it into practice. A license creates artificial scarcity, it is in some way going against the nature of the thing.<br />
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So why do we have licenses and patents then? They exist because they play a role, because it is more advantageous to have them than not to have them.<br />
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The reason for their existence is actually economical. In a world deprived of information technology, the costs of innovation are quite high, because developing a new technology requires putting people with specific technical skills together, under the same roof, and having them use their own intellectual resources and existing knowledge, which in not easy to come by, use specialized equipment, not to mention addressing their human needs. It makes sense to restrict the use of the new technology in order to allow those who invest in it to recover their sunk costs and to make some profit, which in return represents an incentive to innovate more.<br />
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But we must note that patents have an expiry date. There is a reason for that too. The full potential of innovation for a society is only developed when it is opened. Therefore, the duration of patents is a compromise between encouraging innovation at the individual level and benefit from it at the social level.<br />
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In today's world, the costs of innovation has dropped dramatically, because more and more people are able to exchange ideas online and use computer programs for design and simulation. Moreover, open source communities allow a wider distribution of costs, and a wider sharing of risks. Furthermore, the speed of innovation is also higher within open communities, who make extensive use of digital technology. This partially explains why we are seeing the emergence of open source products.<br />
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Since the cost of innovation has dropped, limiting access to a technology makes less sense. By opening a technology one can lose market share, but this disadvantage is offset by the higher innovation speed that we observe within open communities. The predominant strategy becomes ''first to market'' and we're transitioning from a ''knowledge economy'' to a ''know low economy'', which means to offer the newest thing first, of high quality and with a good service around it. Scarcity doesn't apply to innovation, but to the means to put it practice.<br />
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One might argue that this doesn't apply in all areas. For example, innovation in the medical field is still very expensive and risky, because of the high costs of research and because of all the regulations around it.<br />
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The argument for the p2p license is to insure that value flows predominantly towards the new economy, which is based on commons and open innovation. It is in fact a defensive or protective mechanism, that implies a weakness of the new economy. Value flows in all directions, but it generally flows predominantly from the economically weak to the economically strong. It is the economically weak who needs protective measures. The economically strong is generally interested in not adding barriers to value flows. This is why the USA goes around and signs free trade agreements, which are very disruptive for smaller economies, because the deal ends up displacing local economic agents, disturbing the local ecosystem.<br />
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I actually believe that the p2p economy, once its infrastructure will be in place, will be stronger than the actual economy, therefore I don't see the need for protective measures. We should be the ones to advocate total openness.<br />
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One of the most common argument I hear for protective measures, for the p2p license, is that a classical corporation can reduce its costs by feeding on open innovation created by open communities, and can use its market potential to distribute products based on that open innovation, without giving something back to the open community. There are a few implied assumptions in this argument.<br />
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The first one is that open communities that produce open innovation have no capability to market products. They are not capable of large scale production, they don't have distribution channels, etc. This is in fact largely true today. Corporations do have these capabilities and they normally fill in the gap, praying open open source, and this upsets a lot of people. That frustration blinds some us from seeing a bit further. But others are turning it into positive action. SENSORICA is evolving to solve that problem. It is a market-oriented open community, integrating manufacturing and distribution capabilities.<br />
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The second implied assumption is that a corporation can actually market open source products. Our experience tells us that open products are not always compatible with the corporate business model. The corporation, if interested in an open product, will sell it as a closed product. That puts it at a disadvantage, assuming that it is competing with entities like SENSORICA, because the open product is superior to the closed product. The value structure of open products is really different from closed products. They are usually modular, allow greater compatibility and interoperability, have a longer life, are customizable, are supported by a community, are transparent and cannot be programmed for obsolescence or ''milked'' for consumables, which usually comprise patented features, etc. Not to mention the fact that open innovation doesn't guarantee a competitive advantage to corporations, against other corporations, because it can be immediately copied by others. An open value network like SENSORICA can offer all that value and turn all these features into an advantage. .<br />
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The third implied assumption is that copying technology is actually easy. This is true for low tech stuff. When the level of complexity increases know how becomes important. So it takes some effort to develop effective in house processes to produce and service the product. By the time that becomes a given, the open value network is working on the next generation of products.<br />
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If we believe that open value networks can evolve into an economically superior organization, we then have an incentive to allow corporations to integrate open innovation into their products, as long as that open innovation has transitive properties, i.e. if someone builds on top of it the entire thing would become open. This is in fact a subversive tactic to extract value from the present/old economy. Corporations spend their own resources to add on top of the open innovation, they must open the entire thing, they most probably do a bad job marketing the open product, which is after picked up by an entity like SENSORICA, further improved and marketed successfully. I actually see open innovation as a Trojan horse into the old economy. We actually want corporations to take the bate.<br />
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Another important but largely unnoticed problem with the p2p license is that it assumes that corporations actually want open innovation. Our practice/experience tell us that open innovation is actually not valued highly by corporations, because open products usually don't match their business model and don't offer a competitive advantage, within their business paradigm. Therefore, corporations are not ready to pay a lot money to license open technology. They would rather copy it subversively, and present it as proprietary, which would give them a competitive advantage. But that is not very legal. Most of them prefer to continue old practices, which is to innovate internally or to import IP through licensing or acquisitions."<br />
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==Why I now do believe in the P2P license==<br />
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'''Revlin John'''<br />
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I just wanted to respond to a line of thought in the above critique, best exemplified by this passage:<br />
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" ''The argument for the p2p license is to insure that value flows predominantly towards the new economy, which is based on commons and open innovation. It is in fact a defensive or protective mechanism, that implies a weakness of the new economy... "<br />
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Essentially I agree with this characterization, but I disagree that "protective" measures are ineffectual in supporting a ''delicate'' economy (a term I find more appropriate than "weak", which is full of obvious biases, most significantly the failure to note the this "weak" economy has a much higher creative intellectual potential than the "strong" economy). <br />
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The very actor used here as an example of a strong economic party, the US, was once a delicate market, and one on the margins of a much more developed and robust market, England. In that time tariffs or taxes on imported products were used by the US to strengthen it's domestic productivity. We can see that these ''protective'' measures were very successful, ''when implemented properly and over a significant time period''. As I said, in principle I agree that CopyFarLeft approaches are essentially protectionism for a developing open market and I would further argue: that's a ''good thing!''<br />
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However, all of the above is presented under a false premise: that there are two intellectual markets, a traditional proprietary market and a new open source market. Actually, all IPs make use of public domain and open source knowledge. All proprietary products benefit from the great store of commons data, new and old, raw and developing. There is no proprietary market apart from the commons. It's a subset of the commons. What p2p does is essentially say, "You ''cannot'' put a fence around this piece of information, this part of the collective knowledge pool." This license does not move a project from one market to another. It ''protects'' that project from becoming inaccessible to the greater market in which it was developed. All projects begin in the commons because all projects are a synthesizing of prior knowledge into new applications. Fundamentally this is about protecting knowledge from the kind of distortion, obscurity and exploitation that is based on secrets and hidden agendas, i.e. privilege and power.<br />
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Further more, I would like to put out a neighborly reminder to anyone reading this discussion:<br />
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Whether it be in the form of face-to-face communication, analogue media or digital data, KNOWLEDGE is ''primary wealth''. All other products our ''secondary'' wealth because all other products are the result of the ''application of knowledge''. Even the ''use'' of previously produced wealth is only possible through the application of knowledge. If we ever want to find ourselves living in a fair and open society, we need to continue to innovate ''open forms of participation'' in the preservation of knowledge, the distribution of knowledge and the application of knowledge in the creation of new wealth. I believe that the license posted above is one such innovation.<br />
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''(see Cybersquat)[http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26996936]''<br />
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==An integrated view==<br />
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'''* Article: From the Communism of Capital to Capital for the Commons: Towards an Open Co-operativism. By Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis. Triple C, Vol 12, No 1 (2014)''' <br />
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URL = http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/561<br />
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Two prominent social progressive movements are faced with a few contradictions and a paradox. On the one side, we have a re-emergence of the co-operative movement and worker-owned enterprises which suffer from certain structural weaknesses. On the other, we have an emergent field of open and Commons-oriented peer production initiatives which create common pools of knowledge for the whole of humanity, but are dominated by start-ups and large multinational enterprises using the same Commons. Thus we have a paradox: the more communist the sharing license used in the peer production of free software or open hardware, the more capitalist the practice. To tackle this paradox and the aforementioned contradictions, we tentatively suggest a new convergence that would combine both Commons-oriented open peer production models with common ownership and governance models, such as those of the co-operatives and the solidarity economic models."<br />
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==Advantages and Drawbacks==<br />
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'''* Article: [http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-4-value-and-currency/invited-comments/between-copyleft-and-copyfarleft-advance-reciprocity-for-the-commons/ Between copyleft and copyfarleft: advance reciprocity for the commons]. By Miguel Said Vieira & Primavera De Filippi. Journal of Peer Production, Issue #4: Value and currency '''<br />
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'''FROM COPYLEFT TO COPYFARLEFT'''<br />
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Free culture licenses had as their most relevant predecessor the GPL (GNU General Public License), a free software license which makes no distinction regarding commercial and noncommercial usages. This distinction first appeared in some Creative Commons licenses, with the introduction of the noncommercial clause which only allows unauthorized use for noncommercial exploitation. While these licenses are widely used, there has been a large debate regarding what exactly constitutes a commercial use, and whether the noncommercial clause is indeed likely to ultimately benefit the knowledge commons.<br />
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The copyfarleft licensing scheme proposed by Dmytri Kleiner (2007)1 stipulates similar restrictions to the noncommercial copyleft model, but provides additional conditions on the kind of usages which are effectively permitted under the license. Specifically, while all noncommercial usages are allowed (subject to the restrictions imposed by the copyleft clause), the copyfarleft model distinguish between commercial usages enacted by worker-owned collectives, cooperatives, or any other institution where profits are distributed (equally) amongst all workers, and those enacted by commercial entities or corporations whose businesses are exclusively based on the exploitation of wage labour. While the former kind of commercial exploitation is generally allowed under the copyfarleft licensing scheme (as opposed to what is usually the case in noncommercial licenses), the latter kinds remain prohibited – although they can still be negotiated outside the scope of the license.<br />
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This licensing scheme lies, thus, somewhere between a standard copyleft license (as in a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA) and a noncommercial copyleft license (as in a CC-BY-NC-SA). The reason underlying this choice is that, while, on the one hand, a standard copyleft license allows corporate entities to exploit and profit from the labour employed in building the commons, without having to give back to them –something which Kleiner points out as highly problematic, and particularly so outside of the realm of software production–2 on the other hand, a noncommercial license precludes even commons-based producers (such as many of the workers-owned enterprises) from commercially exploiting a work (and as Kleiner argues, this can also be counterproductive for the transformative potential of these licenses).<br />
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====A. ADVANTAGES====<br />
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By breaching the gap between standard copyleft and noncommercial copyleft regimes, the copyfarleft model allows for certain commercial exploitations of the licensed works those that could help sustain creators and foster a decentralized “ecosystem” of self-organized, commons-based producers which own their means of production. At the same time, the copyfarleft model precludes free-riding by any commercial entity that operates based on the exploitation of wage labour. Yet, the model does not discriminate against commercial activity per se: as in much of the free software world, it considers commerce an important element for the long-term viability of commons-based production. What it does go against is the exploitation of wage labour by those who own the capital and means of production. Indeed, concentrated ownership is regarded by Kleiner as one of the pillars for the fundamental inequality that characterizes existing capitalism: “Where property is sovereign, the owners of scarce property can deny life by denying access to property, or if not outright deny life, then make the living work like slaves for no pay beyond their reproduction costs”.<br />
This model seems, to us, an interesting alternative to the deadlocks that debates on commercial vs. noncommercial licenses frequently lead to. It also expands the opportunities for workers to subsist through self-organization, with less dependency on wage labour from corporate entities, and thus reducing the ability of these corporations to co-opt and/or influence commons-based production.3 Yet, the copyfarleft licensing model is not devoid of any drawbacks, some of which will be analysed below.<br />
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This section will explore the link between (de)commodification and copyfarleft licenses, by analyzing some of the critiques they have been subject to, such as: the risk of actually hampering the commons because of the discretionary exclusion of corporate entities (Rhodes, Bauwens), the fact that existing successful commons-based projects do not present this kind of exclusion criteria (Toner), and, finally, the excessive focus on ownership rather than on production structures (Meretz).<br />
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'''1. Rhodes, Bauwens'''<br />
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Stan Rhodes, founder of the Peer Trust Network Project,4 has two main criticisms of copyfarleft.5 The first he sees as its failure of principle: copyfarleft excludes particular businesses’ use of inherently non-rival goods, and that goes against the wider public good, regardless of the intentions underlying the exclusion. According to Rhodes this can be contrasted to copyleft, which seeks to restore and maintain nonrivalry for all creative works. In other words, the copyleft clause is there to guarantee that everything descended from the commons is and remains free for anyone to use and reuse. His second criticism of copyfarleft is on the grounds of practical adoption: copyleft’s barrier to entry is low for all uses and users of the good, whereas copyfarleft’s barrier to entry is low for some, and high for others. This difference makes copyleft generally preferable, particularly for any artists who cannot rule out the possibility of businesses paying them in the future. While copyleft guarantees their free access to their work and all derivatives no matter their use, copyfarleft does not. Thus, regardless of any political principles, it would seem the safer bet. Rhodes generalizes copyfarleft’s two difficulties to any regime that seeks to exclude any entity from using nonrival goods, regardless of the reasons behind the exclusion.6 Michel Bauwens, founder of the Foundation for P2P Alternatives,7 seconds these concerns. Yet, Bauwens’ critique of Kleiner’s position is admittedly paradoxical: while he disagrees with the radical anti-capitalist perspective of Kleiner’s licensing scheme and believes that the premises and analysis upon which it is based are mistaken, Bauwens nonetheless endorses the Peer Production License itself, claiming that the copyfarleft model is a plausible tool to advance commons-based peer production as a new mode of production (Bauwens, 2012).<br />
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'''2. Toner'''<br />
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While appreciating the spirit of the shift from a “non-commercial” to a “non-alienation” clause, Alan Toner (2007), intellectual property and communications researcher, expressed serious doubts on the practical operability of this clause. It is already difficult to assess whether a particular exploitation should be regarded as being commercial or non-commercial, it might be even harder to determine objectively whether or not any given actor or institution is guilty of exploiting wage labour. Moreover, Toner sees Kleiner’s approach as prioritizing the articulation of an ideological project over the construction of tools that could make it happen. While he concedes that both are important (and mutually constitutive) aspects in political struggles regarding access to knowledge, for instance, he also points out that some of the most successful copyleft initiatives (such as GNU/Linux, Wikipedia, etc) went the opposite way, prioritizing the creation of “functioning economic resources for their users”, while “limiting the political dimension to that which is directly pertinent to that field of activity” (Toner, 2007). Because of that, Toner believes that the copyfarleft movement, in spite of its preliminary appeal, might be unlikely to mobilize a sufficient amount of people for it to be actually effective.<br />
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'''3. Meretz'''<br />
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Stefan Meretz, a German commons advocate affiliated with the Oekonux group,8 has written a thoughtful critique to Kleiner’s approach which deserves being taken into account (Meretz, 2008). It constitutes an interesting counterpart to Rhodes’ and Toner’s critique, as it comes from an almost opposite side of the discussion’s spectrum. Kleiner (2010) considers that property –as in private property– is theft because property owners can extract rent from the labor of propertyless workers. He claims that rent should only be extracted by workers applying their own labor to the benefit of their community. The fruit of such labor can be used by other workers who are themselves part of the commons, but not by property owners who use wage labor. Thus Kleiner criticizes the copyleft approach on the grounds that it is not concerned with “ownership” but only with regulating the “usage” of property. Copyfarleft tries to go one step further, by encouraging a change in the ownership structure. This is done by creating a distinction between a commons based economy (more precisely, a collective ownership-based economy, which is allowed to commercially exploit the commons) and a wage labour based one (which is precluded to do so).<br />
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Stefan Meretz criticizes the radical copyleft model proposed by Kleiner as being simplistic and in general incorrect, based on categories from David Ricardo that, Meretz argues, have been superseded by Marx’s analysis. The main criticism presented by Meretz is that Kleiner focuses too much in the aspects of ownership (particularly of the means of production) and circulation, while considering production itself to be a neutral sphere. Indeed, his criticism of property as “theft” only refers to the “rent”9 extracted by commercial companies exploiting wage labor, but not to sale of the commodities on the market. For Meretz, the reappropriation of the means of production is, of course, a necessary step to promote a more equal distribution of wealth. Yet, it will only succeed in transforming society to the extent that it also involves a change in the mode of production, to go beyond the logic of exploitation and exchange; without this additional transformation, worker-owned collectives tend to succumb to external pressures and end up behaving quite similarly to wage-labour based companies.10<br />
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Finally, an additional limitation we identify in the copyfarleft model is that, while it attempts to deal with the power inequality between corporate and workers-owned entities (by fostering self-organization through the latter), it does not tackle another important issue: the fact that many of those corporate entities that use works from the commons might not be contributing to these commons, even though they are capable of doing so. This is an important aspect for the long-term provisioning and sustainability of the commons, which we tried to address more specifically in our proposal to extend or improve the copyfarleft model elaborated by Dmytri Kleiner."<br />
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==Why the General Public License Falls short==<br />
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Likely source: Pedersen, J.M. (2010) ‘Free Software as Property’, The Commoner, Special Issue, Volume 14, Winter 2010, 211-286.<br />
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"The GNU General Public License is a very interesting document from a jurisprudential point of view and from a commoning perspective. It gives structure to a software commons through its articulation of (conditional) reciprocity in perpetuity. Free Software is therefore not an open-access commons, but have in the GPL a boundary that is only permeable under certain conditions, which prevent the software pool from drying up. The culture of hackers sitting at home and in their work places coding while selling their labour for other purposes, however, is not protected from enclosure. The development of Free Software code – including the design of graphical user interfaces, which in effect shape most people’s (cognitive) relations/interactions with cyberspace – is no longer an emergent property of global civil society, no longer led by voluntary associations (Debian being one of the main exceptions to prove the rule), but is controlled in corporate environments, led by such corporate giants as IBM and Novell, as well as Red Hat. That is, guided as the usual business.<br />
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The philosophical problems inherent in “information exceptionalism” and their consequences for Free Software and Free Culture politics result in a very important recursive relation being absent, namely with the tangible realm. The Free Software movement is “vitally concerned” with copyright reform and abolition of software patents, but they are not vitally concerned with substantial reforms of property relations in the tangible realm, on the contrary. The material foundations of cyberspace – and thus the realm in which software development takes place – is certainly part of the infrastructure that allows Free Software to come into being in the first place. Without a critical approach to ownership in the tangible realm the Free Software movement will remain vulnerable to enclosure led by those capital interests.<br />
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The most important commons is the commons of the land and the tangible means of production and distribution. That is the shared material reality of humanity from which all other possibilities arise, whether tangible or intangible. The information commons is a luxury, the icing on the cake. It is costly and it is precious and has excelled in perpetuating the seemingly ubiquitous propensity of human beings to engage in sharing and cooperation when constraints are lifted. The liquid architecture of cyberspace has facilitated these emergent processes very well. But the proliferation of sharing and cooperating, which attracts so much attention – from rent seekers and anti-capitalists alike – is not confined to cyberspace, nor to the intangible realm.<br />
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The difference between tangible and intangible is not what determines whether people share and cooperate. As we have seen there is a long, rich history of commoning. Commoning is a shared skill of humanity and not a skill that suddenly, morphogenetically appeared on a global scale when the doors to cyberspace were opened. Rather, cyberspace provided people with a space that was not yet enclosed. There were few fences in cyberspace, so sharing and cooperating was possible. It was possible because the constraints of private property – present in almost all other dimensions of life – were absent. Now they are invading cyberspace, seeking rent and expansion of capital interest. It is laudable to form a movement to strike back and protect cyberspace, but a more reflexive approach would not stop at the gates of the tangible realm. The threats of capital will not go away as long as capital exists in its particular form. It will return, it will continue to seek new ways of enclosure, which suggests that it is necessary to address this problem of capital at the most fundamental level, namely with regards to ownership.<br />
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Addressing merely the symptoms of avarice and capital expansion in the intangible realm condemns Free Culture to an eternal and defensive battle and separates Free Software and Free Culture from the global movement of movements struggling to take back the land and the means of production. Without acknowledging and acting upon its recursive relationship to the tangible realm, Free Software remains a virtual commons that is detached from the struggles for real commons. Having witnessed the phenomenal emergence of commoning in cyberspace – when the constraints of private property were lifted – we can only imagine what transformations the tangible realm would undergo if constraints were lifted there. As I said above, the opposition here is not tangible versus intangible, but private property versus forms of property that facilitate collective creativity and self-organisation.<br />
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Nevertheless, the achievements of the Free Software movement are remarkable."<br />
(https://commoning.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/misunderstanding-the-gnu-general-public-license-reciprocity-in-perpetuity/)<br />
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==Why it is dangerous to differentiate between "good" and "bad" users (Ralf Schlatterbeck)==<br />
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This essay by Open Source practicioner Ralf Schlatterbeck from Austria rejects the P2P License out of fundamental considerations:<br />
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* [http://guerrillatranslation.com Guerrilla Translation]<br />
* [http://www.sharelex.org/ ShareLex]<br />
* [https://networg.wordpress.com/ NetwOrg]<br />
* [http://utopia.partidopirata.com.ar Utopía Pirata]<br />
* [http://endefensadelsl.org En Defensa del Software Libre], starting with their Spanish translation of the Telekommunist Manifesto<br />
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=Additional Resources=<br />
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* [http://wiki.hackcoop.com.ar/Categor%C3%ADa:Licencia_de_Producci%C3%B3n_de_Pares Categoría:Licencia de Producción de Pares|HackLab de Barracas]<br />
* [http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/guerrilla-translation-on-adopting-the-peer-production-license/2013/09/17 Guerrilla Translation on Adopting the Peer Production License]<br />
* [http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/from-the-communism-of-capital-to-a-capital-for-the-commons/2014/03/22 From the Communism of Capital to a Capital for the Commons]<br />
* [http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-proposed-open-cooperativism-strategy-for-the-commons-based-phase-transition/2014/02/09 A proposed ‘open cooperativism’ strategy for the commons-based phase transition]<br />
* [http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/responding-to-stefan-meretzs-critique-of-the-peer-production-license/2014/03/20 Responding to Stefan Meretz’s critique of the Peer Production License]<br />
* [http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/responding-to-stefan-meretzs-critique-of-reciprocity-based-commons-licenses-part-2/2014/03/27 Responding to Stefan Meretz’s critique of Reciprocity-based Commons Licenses, part 2]<br />
* [http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-4-value-and-currency/invited-comments/between-copyleft-and-copyfarleft-advance-reciprocity-for-the-commons/ Between copyleft and copyfarleft: advance reciprocity for the commons]<br />
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Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''B'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a '''cellular-fractal world''' of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that '''nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us''', but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. <br><br />
<br />
The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us, but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
'''Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments'''. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our '''diverse cultural designs'''; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a '''positive virtuos cycle''' that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of the self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples to feed the reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need '''virtual design boards''' for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of r&d labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. <br />
<br />
We also need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own, special, particular way. Whatever one does in this world,<br />
it may get better by forming virtual communities of practise. <br />
The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion, give support and knowhow.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village / locality and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=85274Global Villages2014-07-19T12:06:47Z<p>FranzN: /* Introduction */</p>
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<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that help us to achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''B'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a cellular-fractal world of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us, but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our diverse cultural designs; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a positive virtuos cycle that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of a self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples of this reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need virtual design boards for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. We need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own,special, particular way. The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village / locality and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Movements]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Villages]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=85273Global Villages2014-07-19T12:06:30Z<p>FranzN: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
One important aim of the Global Villages Movement / Network is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that helpu us to achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''B'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a cellular-fractal world of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us, but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our diverse cultural designs; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a positive virtuos cycle that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of a self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples of this reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need virtual design boards for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. We need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own,special, particular way. The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village / locality and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Movements]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Villages]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=85272Global Villages2014-07-19T12:05:38Z<p>FranzN: /* Principles and Goals of the Movement */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
The aim of the Global Villages Movement is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''B'''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a cellular-fractal world of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us, but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our diverse cultural designs; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a positive virtuos cycle that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of a self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples of this reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need virtual design boards for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. We need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own,special, particular way. The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village / locality and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Movements]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Villages]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=85271Global Villages2014-07-19T12:04:28Z<p>FranzN: /* Principles and Goals of the Movement */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
The aim of the Global Villages Movement is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
'''B''''<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a cellular-fractal world of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us, but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our diverse cultural designs; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a positive virtuos cycle that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of a self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples of this reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need virtual design boards for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. We need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own,special, particular way. The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify '''learning centers''' that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village / locality and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Movements]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Villages]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=85270Global Villages2014-07-19T12:02:22Z<p>FranzN: /* Principles and Goals of the Movement */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
The aim of the Global Villages Movement is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a cellular-fractal world of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us, but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our diverse cultural designs; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a positive virtuos cycle that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of a self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples of this reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need virtual design boards for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. We need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own,special, particular way. The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify learning centers that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Movements]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Villages]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=85269Global Villages2014-07-19T12:01:31Z<p>FranzN: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. <br> <br />
So the question is if this circumstance already exists, if it is even possible, if it is thgere in embryonic form etc. That is what we are researching on and the general result of our findings is that the pattern increasingly comes into existence, while lots of functional solutions still have to be met. We seek to create a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other.<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources and therefore their activity is heavily knowledge - dependent.<br />
<br />
Their human relation does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity (exchange, mostly monetary), this is a rather primitive and unusual form from the point of view of a system flows and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities - so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement and cycles. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
The aim of the Global Villages Movement is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that achieve these goals.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a cellular-fractal world of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us, but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our diverse cultural designs; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a positive virtuos cycle that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of a self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples of this reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need virtual design boards for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. We need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own,special, particular way. The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
<br />
1. to identify learning centers that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
<br />
2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
<br />
3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
<br />
==Hannover Principles==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
<br />
Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
<br />
<br />
When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
<br />
<br />
* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
<br />
* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
<br />
* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
<br />
The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
<br />
See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
<br />
and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
<br />
<br />
Definitional work at <br />
<br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
<br />
<br />
See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
<br />
=Key Books to Read=<br />
<br />
The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
<br />
crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
<br />
Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Movements]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Villages]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Ecology]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Geography]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Urbanism]]</div>FranzNhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Global_Villages&diff=85268Global Villages2014-07-19T11:56:47Z<p>FranzN: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Global Villages = local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected''' , combining the immaterial wealth of global connectedness and peer design with the material wealth of local natural resource cycles and human community.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|left| This image is giving a visual expression of what a truly Global Village might be and look like is courtesy of [http://www.tonygwilliam.com Tony S. Gwilliam] /Global Villager of the first hour. ]] <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki?GlobalVillages The Concept of Global Villages ] <br><br />
[[Global Villages Network]] - come and join where you feel at home!<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
=Citation=<br />
<br />
Franz Nahrada:<br />
<br />
"The '''core subject''' of Global Villages is the way we can live physically if<br />
we have all the support that the communication revolution can give us.<br><br><br />
The '''core assumption''' is that we can, for the first time, deeply follow<br />
the insight of Kohr and Schumacher that smaller units of social living are<br />
potentially more rich in terms of human experience and compassion."<br />
<br />
[[Image:Synchroni-city.jpg|200px|thumb|right| go to the original Global Village conferences of the nineties: http://www.give.at ]]<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
A contribution of [[Franz Nahrada]], who played some role in the Oekonux mailing list and their third conference in Vienna 2004, on the concept of Global Villages, local, self-sustaining communities that are nevertheless globally connected and collaborating - to even increase their degree of autonomy..<br />
<br />
<br />
"'''Global Villages''' (in plural!) is the name for the vision of a new human habitat - offering virtually all of the services and amenities of cities (or even better equivalents!) while still preserving the rural quality of life and care for healing and human dimension. ...so the question is if this already exists, if it is even possible. Thats what we are researching on and the result of our findings is that the pattern comes into existence, while still lots of functions still have to be met. We created a directory so we can look at more individual examples of what are or might become GlobalVillages. There is innumerable attempts around the globe, and they have a need to be connected to each other:<br />
<br />
Global Villages as conceptualized around a free but organized material resource "flow" like in a biotope. '''That means producers and participants of a humane ecosystem are planning the flow and transformation of material resources.'''<br />
<br />
It does not necessarily mean direct reciprocity, this is rather primitive and unusual from the point of view of a system and you do not see too much reciprocity in ecosystems. Rather it is a challenge of design of interrelatedness of human activities so their material component mediates mutual reenforcement. '''It is neither exchange nor automatic unlimited availability; it is systemic symbiosis.'''<br />
<br />
There are important preconditions for that. The system is based on the McDonough-Braungart formula of "There is no waste in clever production".<br />
<br />
The aim of the Global Villages Movement is to focus [[Peer Production]] on tools that achieve these goals. Which means that there is a lot of matter involved.<br />
<br />
=Principles and Goals of the Movement=<br />
<br />
By Franz Nahrada [http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles]:<br />
<br />
"I want to focus on the special goals of the Global<br />
Villages Network based on the following underlying assumptions:<br />
<br />
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our<br />
lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a<br />
physical transformation from a world of large industrial and<br />
administrative centers to a cellular-fractal world of highly sophisticated<br />
villages.<br />
<br />
2. We do not want to loose the achievements of science and technology, of<br />
culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that<br />
represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the<br />
underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have<br />
discovered that nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us, but in<br />
itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that<br />
transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in<br />
ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. The village is an<br />
environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist<br />
and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with<br />
nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it<br />
is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us but our limited<br />
understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary<br />
economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying<br />
power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and<br />
exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run,<br />
Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration<br />
of natural environments. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely<br />
enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying<br />
them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable<br />
abundance.<br />
<br />
3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to<br />
represent our diverse cultural designs; it allows people to live and<br />
breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people<br />
in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of<br />
reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can<br />
result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different<br />
solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not<br />
require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have<br />
successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher<br />
Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures".<br />
<br />
<br />
'''C'''<br />
<br />
So there result some intermediary goals:<br />
<br />
1. Make the concept of a Global Village clearer and operationalize it in<br />
the most simplest way. So the proposed formula is: a Global Village is<br />
simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning<br />
center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on<br />
one side with a local environment in which this knowledge can be applied,<br />
tested, enhanced on the other side. A Global Village needs to be<br />
resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as<br />
it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material -<br />
energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a<br />
Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure<br />
and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the<br />
local life process.<br />
<br />
2. Paradoxically, the main means to accelerate this process is to increase<br />
the number of likeminded places around the world. Because of the enormous<br />
knowledge and ingenuity needed to fulfill their task, Global Villages have<br />
a strong positive interest in the growth of partner villages around the<br />
world, a positive virtuos cycle that we see eventually ending in their<br />
becoming the dominant form of human community of this planet - something<br />
which seems almost crazy to predict today when we are still hardly at the<br />
end of a self-supporting depopulation wave towards and in favor of big<br />
cities. It is therefore very important especially today to start creating<br />
and showing more and more examples of this reversal trend. It is not<br />
important to focus on quantity today, but on the quality of design and the<br />
scope of cooperative and generative activities. Global Villages of today<br />
are "pioneer plants" .<br />
<br />
3. Creating the infrastructure and the technology to make these villages<br />
co-developing and co-producing. We need virtual design boards for machines<br />
and devices that can be assembled locally, we need the tools and the<br />
regenerative skills to obtain local materials for assembly and production,<br />
as we need design languages to facilitate effective cooperation on complex<br />
issues. We need ways to quickly and effectively assign tasks in a virtual<br />
division of labour, and we need basic life maintainance agreements to free<br />
our designing ingenuity from the individual struggle for survival. We need<br />
to exchange and evaluate different forms of local economic organisation,<br />
be it monetary or non-monetary. We need to empower people who have not yet<br />
discovered this potential to cross the digital divide in their<br />
own,special, particular way. The healer, the baker, the shoemaker, the<br />
artist, the thinker, the singer, the resource broker .... everyone has the<br />
opportunity and the challenge to develop their individual talent and<br />
contribution in allignment with global cultural communities that support<br />
competence and passion.<br />
<br />
'''D'''<br />
<br />
So the immediate goals could be<br />
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1. to identify learning centers that have the potential to feed into a<br />
village and on the other hand villages that have the potential to generate<br />
a learning center. We might want to make a difference between these two<br />
approaches, because the first one is more focussed on "germs" and smaller<br />
institutions (or even single people!) that bring a larger potential to a<br />
locality, whilst the second one is focusing on communities and large,<br />
official institutions, regional features, achievements etc.<br />
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2. to develop and deliver a criteria catalogue for BOTH appoaches without<br />
confusing them.<br />
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3. To turn this into a questionaire because the potential GlobalVillages<br />
all over the world are lining up!"<br />
(http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Principles)<br />
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==Hannover Principles==<br />
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'''Global Villages follow the Hannover Principles'''<br />
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URL = http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hannover-Principles.htm<br />
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# Insist on rights of humanity and nature to '''co-exist''' in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.<br />
# Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design '''interact with and depend upon the natural world''', with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.<br />
# Respect relationships between '''spirit and matter'''. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.<br />
# Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.<br />
# Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.<br />
# Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.<br />
# Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.<br />
# Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.<br />
# Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.<br />
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The Hannover Principles should be seen as a living document committed to the transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves.<br />
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Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities to protect it. The Principles encourage all of us - you, your organization, your suppliers and customers - to link long term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and to re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity. <br />
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When you make decisions in your organization, remember these essential '''Principles''':<br />
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* Recognize interdependence. Simply put: everything you do personally, in your organization and through your work interacts with and depends upon the natural world, at every scale, both locally and across the globe.<br />
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* Eliminate the concept of waste. Are you considering the full, life-cycle consequences of what you create or buy?<br />
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* Understand the limitations of design. Treat nature as a model, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled."<br />
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The Hannover Principles, 1992 http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mp/gsa/sd2.html USGSA website; Definitions used in Hannover Principles, at http://www.fac.unc.edu/eag/Definitions.htm<br />
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=Discussion=<br />
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==Vision Statement on Global Villages by Franz Nahrada==<br />
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See: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2008]]<br />
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and: [[Global Village Movement Status Report 2010]]<br />
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=More Information=<br />
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More info from the [[GIVE]] initiative: <br />
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* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/Directory; <br />
* http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/DiscussGlobalVillages<br />
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Definitional work at <br />
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* http://www.globalvillages.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition<br />
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See also related concepts such as [[Multi-local Societies]] and [[Glocalized Networks]]<br />
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=Key Books to Read=<br />
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The following 2 books are recommended by Franz Nahrada:<br />
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1. '''Design Outlaws''', at http://www.designoutlaws.org/<br />
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crossing architecture, ecology and technology.<br />
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'''2. Local Action / Global Interaction Edited by Peter Day and Douglas<br />
Schuler'''<br />
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Info at http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/books/community-practice.toc.html<br />
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==See Also==<br />
*[[Global Ecovillage Network]]<br />
*[[Open Digital Village]]<br />
*[[Global Village Construction Set]] (GVCS)<br />
*[[Marcin Jakubowski on Building the World's First Replicable Open Source Global Village]]<br />
*The [[Venus Project]]<br />
*[[Damanhur]]<br />
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