It was envisaged that there was a need for an entity to promote and facilitate the multifaceted cognitive ownerships and interests invested in places beyond Western institutionalised understandings of places and their 'freehold ownership'. Ownership is ever likely to be a contested idea but the shared ownerships and interests in places is understood but not so well in Eurocentric Western mindsets where places (my/our place) are typically seen as 'property' and 'ownable' by individuals, groups and/or collectively, or in a colonial sense 'by the crown'.
It is also the case anthropologically within say FIRSTnation cultural mindsets albeit with a myriad of cultural sensibilities and sensitivities attached to the notion of 'ownership'.
Initially it was envisaged that an 'institute' might be established to undertake the task of facilitating a change in the understandings attached to 'ownership'. Rather quickly that vision proved to be contentious and especially so as it was seen as some kind of threat to the status quo. So, it turned out that the NUDGELBAH INSTITUTE transmogrified into a 'nudgelbah' – a word randomly constructed from a set of syllables drawn from 'the ether' by chance that is a noun but not a proper noun and that is to do with 'being and doing'.
A 'nudgelbah' is a kind of WALLLESSnetwork where 'placedness' is not rooted in the concept of a geographically defined place/space – a 'place' not defined by or confined by a geography. 'Walllessness' is not just about removing physical barriers, imagined or physical; rather, it's about a profound reimagining of the spaces inbetween and/or outside. Fundamentally, spaces do not exist merely within or between boundaries yet they function as opportunities for new connectivities and new unities.
So symbolically the gestation began as life always begins with a coming together. There is magic in new beginnings and it is truly the most powerful of the the things we know. While a nudgelbah is not a 'belief system' somehow and somewhere in the background there is the Buddha saying “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” and Buddha's telling us that there are just three things that cannot be hidden ... the sun, the moon and the truth ... and somehow all this lingers in the nudgelbah sensibility.... To read more click here.
https://auditingplacedness.blogspot.com/
https://eoipatersonstreet.blogspot.com/p/carparknudgelbah.html
kibbutz, – Hebrew: “gathering” or “collective” – Israeli collective settlement, usually agricultural and often also industrial, in which all wealth is held in common. Profits are reinvested in the settlement after members have been provided with food, clothing, and shelter and with social and medical service
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| Circa 1990 |
In a certain tradition, the journeyman years (Wanderjahre) is a time of travel for several years after completing an apprenticeship as a craftsman/maker where the 'traveller' builds her/his network of networks and wins real world experience that enables 'the journeyman' to become the 'Master' – FREEman – of their own destiny as makers beyond the journey.
While the institution of the journeyman years is original to craftsmen, the concept has spread to other professions. As such, a priest could set out on an extended journey to do research in the libraries of monasteries across Europe and gain wider knowledge and experience.
A travelling book –Wanderbuch – was given to the journeyman and in each new town, he/she would go to the town office asking for a stamp. This qualifies both as a record of his journey and also replaces the residence registration that would otherwise be required. In contemporary brotherhoods, the "Walz" is required to last at least three years and one day
– sometimes two years and one day.
neoCOMMUNITIES 21st C
PROPOSITION
On the evidence that is increasingly revealing itself the 'investment driven' PROPERTYmarket is largely responsible for the increasing numbers of people who find themselves suffering 'housing stress'. Somewhat erroneously this is being characterised as 'homelessness' when, on the available evidence, these people are being displace from the PROPERTYmarket on the grounds that they are not meeting the expectations of INVESTMENTbankers and the LANDlords who they fund in PROPERTYmarket.
A 'home' is not an 'investment' it is a human right.
Clearly the PROPERTYmarket is careless of the social and cultural sensibilities to do with 'rights'. While the PROPERTYmarket may well claim it has 'the bright to trade for a profit' it also has an 'obligation' to do so ethically – however that may be imagined.
Sadly, the point has been reached where the 'investors' have distorted the CULTURALlandscape to the point where the STATUSquo is unsustainable and indeed quite dysfunctional. If it weren't, then those currently suffering housing stress' would be minuscule in number and that way for many other reasons than fiscal delinquency.
Disrupting the STATUSquo will be a heroic effort given all that its beneficiaries have invested in it, and so heavily in its maintenance – given that it is their wellbeing, their status, their wealth, their power that is at risk. Change is clearly not on their agenda.Indeed it is not there in order to reinforce or further secure the paradigm that exists. Change will be resisted at every turn.
Fundamentally, what is required is a new order of thinking within the system, albeit that it will need to draw upon the world's DEEPhistories and anthropology in order to give substance to the enterprise – the CHANGEenterprise.
Interestingly, 'the enlightenment' is unlikely to offer anything much any time soon in the way of utility albeit that the power of knowledge will without doubt be a vector for the changes that will ultimately disrupt the status quo.
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