Community Research Project – Page 2 – How do we want to live tomorrow?

A Large Intentional Community Turns 50

Auroville is the second community besides Findhorn that I visited, which has made it to such a commendable age. What happens in a community if it exists for such

Auroville

Auroville`s first years: “Pioneers of dawn”

13/02/2019 No Comment

The beginning years must have been an exciting and also very demanding time. The Mother invited: all men of good will and aspiration and a true and higher call, to come and participate in the building of the township that the world needs. Most of the 5000 people that came for the inauguration had left

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Auroville – the city that belongs to mankind as a whole

11/02/2019 No Comment

I moved nearer to the center now to New Creation Guesthouse, to be more accessable and meet people for interviews and storytelling – but first a bit about the history of the project. Auroville is the biggest ongoing experimental intentional community that currently exists. It celebrates its 50th birthday this year, culminating in a big

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Travelling under a lucky star

20/01/2019 No Comment

there is a strike of security staff at airports going on in Germany – and the 15th, my travel date to India, Frankfurt airport was the main target. Normally I would have taken a train to Frankfurt for enviromental reasons, but it would not have worked out timewise, so I took a connecting flight from

Field Study 7 – Gemeinschaft Schloss Tempelhof

Cooperative Agriculture

15/10/2018 No Comment

The agriculture in Tempelhof supplies the community with fresh vegetables and fruit from their professionally managed fields, gardens and green houses. Additionally some fruit orchards are leased from neighbors with an agreement to exchange tree-maintenance for fruit-harvest. There is a real production chain and constant planning together with the processing teams in the kitchen