Communal spaces and places
The official site of Damanhur Fedeeration and community. Founded in 1975 by Oberto Airaudi (1950-2013). Located in the north Piedmont area of Italy. Most famous for its underground Temples of Humankind. Unique. Wonderful images of eight halls in the Temple. Not without its ‘dark side’ and controversies.
Rather wonderful book and five part TV series, featuring Dr David Bramwell and his time trips to potential world-wide Utopias.
Includes Damanhur and Christiania…
Extraordinary and good fun too!
Arts community is squatted ex-cigarette factory in the Netherlands.
They say:
“In 1980 a group of about 40 artists squatted a former Mignot cigarette factory in Eindhoven. They were determined to have space where to create and experiment with new forms of art: performance, video, installations… They were all engaged with the same aim: keep doing things as long as possible , giving complete freedom to the artistic process of creation. De Fabriek is still going on, based on the same principles.”
Dial House is located near Epping in Essex, UK.
Permacultural and arts courses AND the community that is home for founders of anarcho-punk band, Crass, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher.
Links to their facebook page and SpiralSeed permaculture site, all about ‘permacultural anarchy’ and composting toilets at Dial House.
The San Franciso Diggers were one of the legendary groups in Haight-Ashbury. The San Francisco Diggers evolved out of radical traditions that thrived in the SF Bay Area in the mid-1960s: the bohemian/underground art/theater scene, and the New Left/civil rights/peace movement. The Diggers Archives website includes a vast array of historic material.
Diggers and Dreamers website. Published the resource guide to communal living. Useful links to communities, WWOOFers and more.
The Communes Britannica Facebook Group has been renamed Diggers and Dreamers. They were always closely connected, being many of the same people involved in communal living and publications. Chris Coates co-ordinates.
Innovative housing and self-help village for homeless and impoverished Portland, USA, residents.
Their site says: “Dignity Village is a membership-based community in NE Portland, providing shelter off the streets for 60 people a night since 2001. It’s democratically self-governed with a mission to provide transitional housing that fosters community and self-empowerment– a radical experiment to end homelessness.”
Links to their main site and a ‘YES’ magazine article.
New Zealand film documentary on the NZonScreen website. Wonderful images of old-style hippy festivals and much more.
You’ll find other interesting archived films there too.
Doel in Belgium: two links to the street art and history of this alternative village that has refused to go away. Currently the port-expansion is being redrawn in favor of the village, just next to it instead of demolishing the entire polder around it. So with the houses, now permanently closed with iron platework, and some new residents Doel is getting towards a new vision.
Local resistance meets up at Engelsesteenweg 8, de Doolen (former School) every Sunday 14:00-20:00.
www.doel2020.org (site in Dutch)
Also there is a restaurant in the Windmill and a Café-restaurant Doel 5 -www.doel5.be