An OpenVillage conversation between Barbara, Bernard, Fabio and Chris

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Questions: How do you effectively collaborate from local to global contexts? How do we rapidly deploy projects across borders without losing decentralized identities?

@Barbara

For me it is a place that people can come where everybody can come and contribute whatever the person feels like contributing. It is not a big hierarchy and everybody is free to come and go as they like. It is very flexible. Everybody is welcome. That is what it means to me.Well I am very interested in community places like this. I also know that the idea is very nice, but in reality not always so easy.I am interested in this topic for many years, and I visited several places, but these are different where people are already living together, and this is of course, not always easy, because there are differences in opinions, and different ideas.I live in Berlin and there are some community gardens, how to say, I don’t know how to say it…I take part in some of the activities and I want to participate more, and different focuses, of course environment is very important.

Question: How do you move forward with a common goal and not get distracted by group dynamics?

@Fabio Balli

Open Village is a social gathering, where people form the civil society, who are interested in health come together to share experience, and may be build something from it.
I relate to it, 1-2 years ago you in touch and participate in a ground application for some health projects. Last year we applied to a residence in Milano and we went with a health project “Breathing Games” for two weeks.
I want to continue on this project and hopefully find individuals or groups interested, like computer games for educational or treatment asthma, etc.

Question: What legal and economic standards do we need to change in order to ensure health for all? Why do we sit in rows and not in a circle?

@Bernard Dougas

A place to live. Is it a live work space? For me working is something artificial, if you like what you do you don’t work. The problem now is the existence of work in itself. Doing things is part of life, work is part of life.
In french the word “labour” is different. “Travaille” means torture, historically this was a type of torture. For enjoyable activity the term would be “Activite”. My partner told me I don’t work because I don’t earn money. But I work a lot, more than if I were at an office of someone else.

@Chris

The technical word is labor (in Marx’s term), work should not be that, it’s part of life.This is care. People look after each other and they’re not paid for it. If you are paid for it it’s not care.

HOW DO YOU RELATE TO IT?

@Chris

I’m trying to explain the physical roots of the economic system, from an engineering pov. The whole process of making people think that this is an action when it is not. I’m trying to make a theory about metro-logy (the science of measuring) and apply it to the economy part.
Normally you shouldn’t buy a unit of measure.I’m working on energy independence and healthcare (with breathing games). I did a lot of work in the use of magnesium and health – we have a common protein with the trees, the link with energy is clorophine: in our body this is called hemoglobin. To be autonomous is not to be alone, to associate and try to keep moving. Swarmwise should be a required reading before coming.