DVP

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Project Summary

experimental place

Project Description

Project dvp

Some time ago, we bought a house, it should serve as a space for various activities and for execution of projects. Gradually, there develop a place based on specific principles, on an attempt to verify these principles through practices and enlarge, recover or invent different conception of living.

In the concrete, then it concerns a liking for an autonomous lifestyle, an accentuation of employing of local resources, so rejection and natural decomposition of those common lifefunctions in this society – rich, though always voracious, which is able to force, humiliate and abuse its political authority and economical power.
Disagreement with the functionning of the society brings us to an effort to create a place, that would be able to allow for a different fun, but the consummerism, activities different from those profitable ones.
We cannot offer any tinsel, rather an opposite reality of an old neglected building, where, in particular, many repairs have to be done and where a lot of energy is needed, so that a place can grow up, a place open to people, where it is possible to put into life various traditionally activist or brand new actions.
So far, we think about a creation of a computer workspace, regardful and natural garden, a sewing machine use, medicinal plants picking.
Actually, all those projects mentionned have started. In the attic, there’s a provisory workroom with few machines, in the garden, invaded by weeds, a bit of vegetables are growing and first nettles and spinning-wheels are being dried. However, things are by far not as we’d like them to be in our plans.
We’re going to make a computer action in September, where we’d like to point out free software and hacktivism. Computer workshop is just a permanent process and we learn new things every day, so you can come almost anytime, reveal the world of computer activism and wildly squeeze the keyboard.
Though we have some experience with communities or squatters‘ collectives, we’re not always consequential and we don’t know all possible variations of the free behaviour. We want to be open to the critics, fill up with new impulsions and be inspired by ideas of other individuals, let ourselves be surprised by things that others are able to do, and not to end as a couple of isolated creatures.
There exist a huge number of good activities that only stay in the level of the fantasy, because there doesn’t exist any dynamics of some collective of individuals, who would be able to make them together, surpass laziness or personnal antipathy and misunderstandings – because, to our opinion, the problem doesn’t consist in the lack of resources, but in people.
We want to do our bit to the development of new iniciatives. We don’t want to drown this project and we invite everyone to share the process of its gradual objectification. We invite others to support us or think about our progress.
The house is in a bad state. We could lose many years earning money, looking up for sponsors, begging for grants, to be able to hunt out resources to repair all different parts of the house. But we don’t want to force anyone to work and pay…the reality is complicated, yet our ideas about the functionning are different, so we’d prefer to become a part of a larger collective of people who would actively participate on the repairs of the building and could use it then, people, who would help to repair the house, as much as possible without profisupport or paid services.
For example, the house needs some new windows… that would be terribly mad if there were someone who would know how to do this, someone else who would have the right tools, materials… we may not be able to wait until all this becomes true, but we are not the only project that would need knowledge…
Similar experiences often end up with many people, who put energy into them and find themselves thrown out, mainly by those who are the owners of the spaces. Hm, it seems that always someone will claim to something, but if a place shall exist and deny the sovereignty of private property, while somewhere, on some paper it is owned by someone, then it must be functionning on some different principle.
We may call it a moral ownership. Then it is unimportant, who owns the building, but who is using it, taking care of it etc. We want to deny our ownership and share the space and activities. Otherwise it would be boring over here.
The house need a lot of stuff, so every help would be good for it, benefit actions or things, that may be recycled, used again, when they’ve lost value for the previous owner.
But anyway, we don’t want to tell you what to do and think about this place, we don’t want to make decisions for you, especially when our decisions leed to a strange fact, that this house doesn’t really belong to us only…and we are curious what may happen with it…
We support consumption reducing of animal products, so our kitchen may adapt to the vegetarian, vegan or various alimentation philosophies.

Writing and thinking is one thing, though important, but now, excuse me, I’m going to do it —

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