Experience week in Los Portales, Spain

Del 14 al 17 de agosto, en Lakabe, un pequeño paraje del prepirineo navarro fue el lugar donde se celebró el VI Encuentro Nacional de Ecoaldeas (ENE) que patrocina la Red Ibérica de Ecoaldeas (RIE). Más de 300 personas, de varias generaciones y venidas de todos los rincones, se reunieron durante cuatro inolvidables días para hablar y aprender todo aquello que les sirviese para vivir en comunidad. Entre intercambios y reuniones, diferentes grupos han trabajado para poner en común experiencias. Las charlas y los talleres se sucedieron a elección de los asistentes. El objetivo básico de estos encuentros es poner en contacto a personas interesadas en realizar proyectos de ecoaldeas y tratar temas que puedan ayudar en la consecución de este fin. Los talleres de comunicación, resolución de conflictos, educación, viabilidad de proyectos, permacultura, bioconstrucción y energías renovables tienen una gran aceptación y son tratados un año tras otro. También se analizó el presente de las ecoaldeas, en su mayoría rurales, y se vio la necesidad de desarrollar proyectos urbanos. Ha sido asombrosa la impecabilidad y la fluidez de cómo se han ido sucediendo los acontecimientos durante este encuentro, “la gente ha respondido de maravilla demostrando una gran madurez”, comenta Mabel, de las fundadoras de la ecoaldea de Lakabe que durante estos cuatro días, junto a todos los habitantes el pueblo y algunos voluntarios, han estado al pie del cañón atendiendo a esta multitud de visitantes. También recalca que “ha sido una experiencia muy importante para los habitantes del pueblo”. Todo ha estado a punto gracias a la dedicación de los habitantes de Lakabe. Incluso los adolescentes han trabajado de lleno, atendiendo la guardería y el pequeño bar donde se servían limonadas e infusiones a los visitantes. Pero no todo ha sido trabajo. Las jornadas de reuniones daban paso a la música y la celebración con las actuaciones del grupo local Hurto (compuesto por los jóvenes del lugar), bai

Welcome to the Donuimun Eco-Village Common House, a place to share and learn, rest and play, in the heart of Seoul’s most appealing new neighbourhood. This project interprets the inaugural Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism theme, Imminent Commons, as a call to practical and collective action. We take the public occasion of the Biennale to imagine—at once playfully and seriously—that after the exhibition closes, this cultural zone might be retrofitted to become a new eco-village for Seoul (inspired by the Los Angeles Eco-Village). The resulting community would reuse these buildings to house its residents equitably, incubate enterprises of right livelihood, and enhance the ecological and sociable values of the spaces it shares with its neighbours and visitors. In the spirit of the Recycling Common, our exhibition at 35-40 Saemunan-ro contains a Give and Take shelf, where Biennale visitors are invited to donate and adopt pre-loved household items, from utensils to clothing to plants. Many Biennale visitors have already been taking items home, and we also encourage people to bring clean, working items to share with others. Items can simply be placed on the designated shelves within the exhibition. Thank you for your collaboration! 서울에서 가장 호감 가는 새 이웃의 중심부에서 공유하고 배우고, 쉬면서 놀 수도 있는 돈의문 이코빌리지(Eco-Village) 커먼하우스(공동주택)에 오신 것을 환영합니다. 이 프로젝트는 비엔날레 개최 주제인 ‘공유도시’를 실용적이고 집단적인 행동의 요구로 해석합니다. 우리는 공개석상과 같은 비엔날레를 장난스럽고도 진지하게, 전시가 끝났을 떄 이 문화적 공간이 서울의 새로운 이코빌리지로 재탄생하는 모습을 상상해봅니다. 그로 말미암아 탄생한 공동체는 이곳의 건물을 재사용하여 주민들을 공평하게 수용하고, 올바른 사회적 기업들을 유치하며, 이웃과 방문객들이 함께하여 이들이 공유하는 공간의 친환경(생태계)적, 사회적 가치를 향상시킬 것입니다. 다시쓰기란 주제에 맞도록, 세문안로 35-40에서 열리는 저희의 전시에서는 비엔날레를 찾으시는 모든 분들께서 사랑받던 자신의 식기부터 옷까지 물품들을 기증하고 또 다른 분들의 기증품을가져올 수 있는 교환코너가 마련되어 있습니다. 이미 많은 방문자분들께서 기증된 물품들을 집으로 가져가시고 있으며 저희는 방문객들의

Volunteers to the Eco-Castle community develop common and public infrastructure through work-trade systems where every hour of volunteer time earns the volunteer $3 USD in Private unit sponsorships which: • builds common and public Eco-Castle facilities by Eco-Castle residents, making facilities and systems in the Eco-Castle connected to permanent residents, • decreases costs associated with staffing in labor intensive construction efforts, • educates a large number of people with the knowledge and skills of natural building, and passive and renewable system design and construction which can be expanded to other projects and communities around the world, • generates and strengthens community social ties through cooperative efforts in infrastructure development,and • enable Eco-Castle community unit sponsorship to low income populations without financial contribution requirements Please contact Jeni Shurley the Eco-Castle Community Association Director at +855 963354717 or se****************@***il.com All volunteers must provide their own tents, food, and other personal requirements for the course of their volunteer services

HUB na cidade de São Paulo, compartilhando sobre o conteúdo do Summit e sobre iniciativas locais de construção de comunidade.