This is a real ‘web’, just like a spider’s – a place of connections – ideas – information – of dreams!
Our aim is to make it a Web of Hubs for alternative and free cultural spaces and people
The idea is to provide a loose-knit, non-hierarchical, web-based resource network for a wide range of what we are calling ‘Free Cultural Spaces’ (FCS). They wouldn’t necessarily use that term to describe themselves, but we need a simple, non-threatening term!
Danish community formed out of the early 1970s ‘New Society’ festival. It refers to itself as a ‘social experiment’. Their three rules are:
No hard drugs. No violence No theft
The second link is to a video about their festival in 2014 - in Danish, but with music.
A long-standing eco-community in Somerset in the UK. Dedicated to sustainability. Links to their blogsite which includes lots of day-to-day commentary and pics. And a link to Harvey Quirke and friends’ 2015 documentary. Plus a new wonderful collection of pics from Ed Gold, with commentary from the BBC site.
The oldest and arguably the most ’hippy’ of the UK’s intentional (perhaps) eco-communities since being established in 1976. It is located in deeply rural Wales. Links here to an interesting and pretty honest article in ‘Huck magazine about the diverse range of folk who live in the valley. In the article, Sarah Bentley suggests,
“After spending time at Tipi Valley, I’m struck by the variety of lifestyles, dwellings and characters harmoniously housed within it. From yogis holed up in tents on three-year retreats to families living in farmhouses running renowned tipi-building businesses and festivals such as The Big Green Gathering, it’s all here with no hard or fast protocol.”
Links to their internet link to Diggers and Dreamers directory and the 2008 Huck article. Be careful as things change at Tipi Valley.
A method called Total Art, described by it's creator as a soft way out of the Matrix, but meanwhile also a real place in the French Vogese Mountains (Lotharingen). The site is only available in German (English, French, and Dutch versions are still under construction. Founder Coen Reith a.k.a. Swami Anand Coen is ex-Baghwan and has been preparing this 'TAO-experience' for years, mentioning about 30 different upcoming experience-fields in the whole park. It's goal is to release it's participants from imprinted rightbrainpatterns to improve the World as a whole, by reeducation through Total Art.
Accomodation is possible in several levels of luxury, including camping (because the terrain is connected to a regular smallsized Camping of owner Conrad Reith. On the long-term, a intentional community seems to be the target in the French-German border area, but probably it is so opensourced that they'll be happy to share more about the TAO-methods to make more places where it is taught/lived.
A hacker-based collective of some students, living somewhere on the (ex-Atlantian) Canary Islands.
They've been creating an oasis, cyberhippies they are calling themselves and are very much worth a visit if you end up on one of those bountifull Islands near the African Coast. However, on Spanish ground they've been squatting a piece of land with putting up tents. In their own words: It will be creating new & deploying existing free technology, theory and art. The goal is to create a functional technological and behavioural recipe/typology (a "lifestyle infrastructure") for a free, post-capitalist society. A lot of work has already been done by the hackbase, and by other people & projects. Everybody is welcome + it's really cheap.
Dutch-based, but world-wide site linking up artist in residence and communities programmes.
Trans Europe Halles (TEH) is a Europe-based network of cultural centres initiated by citizens and artists. TEH says that they have, “been at the forefront of re-purposing Europe’s industrial buildings for arts, culture and activism since 1983. As of 2018, TEH has brought together nearly 102 multidisciplinary cultural centres and other cultural organisations from across Europe.
Our mission is to strengthen the sustainable development of non-governmental cultural centres and encourage new initiatives by connecting, supporting and promoting them.”
Rohit asked to have his blog site included.
Lots of tales about travel, spirituality, the environment and special places across India. It is a commercial site. However, independent travellers might get some useful ideas from the information and images on offer.
Traveller Homes is the great site curated by Traveller Dave. Lots of fabulous images of live-in homes around the world.
The charity started in 1988 due to an increased need amongst Traveller children for educational support, independent of mainstream education. Over the years has run the Skool Bus and produced a large amount of off-site educational materials. A limited website.