Community building

Book chapter from the Witzenhausen course on community building.

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1. introduction ( 3 pages)

1.    subject of the module- community building ( what kind of texts apply to it?)
2. connection/relevance of degrowth ( text about the lack of community deriving from growth society and it negative outreaches, text about community building processes with scientific background of prooving ressource saving and better mental health/ less crime etc...)
3. Aim of the module

- participants getting to know practically and methodologic ways of community building

-enabling participants to transfer experiences in their own communities

- enabling participants to get the capazity to evaluate critically methods and projects on the base of degrowth thinking

- enabling participants to raise awareness on critical points of community building

- building up a stronger community within Transition Witzenhausen by organising this course and sharing the way we did it as example for community building events in other places

2. content part (10 pages)

1. Mainstream approach to the topic ( lack of communities, activley destruction of communities via architecture, life and workstyles, landgrabbing...)
2. degrowth approach ( urban gardening, public space reclaim, intentional communities building, transition towns, transition streets etc...)
3. Alternatives

- methods and existing alternatives ( from projektbörse, short explanation about the projects, their aim as well as the critique and evaluation of the participants regarding degrowth sources

3. Experience of the course ( 15 pages)

1. what was done and how

- organisational description with focus on community building before and during the course for TT WIZ, (this can go into boxes with ideas whom and how to connect-->needs to be transferable)

- special focus on the food supply ( Katja) ( this can go into boxes, with numbers, prices, calories, sources of food etc.)

- description on all methods , best practise ( based on evaluation)

- Transition Town Workshop Outline

http://co-munity.net/system/files/documents/media/gliederung_transition_...

- experience of jurtenwesen.de 

http://jurtenwesen.de/doku.php?id=witzenhausen_doku

available :

*** Klangraum: Working Experience

Drumcircle

Sabine Knappe: pdf on womens movement

outline Transition Movement Farid Melko

Ivan Illich Text for Walk (see related content)

Ingenerational approach
stillneeded:

- Input Susanne Weber Rappe ( Audio)

- Silvia Hable:

methodlogy: intergenerational walk (see also/expand on the "philosophical walk on degrowth" methodology)

open space

world café

Gualter: Input on GROWL (this is available elsewhere / part of book introduction)

Sources of Degrowth (related the content here; will be part of theory chapter)

TTT

Katja: contact improvisation

Heike und Eva: danced speech

Olli: Intro to jurtenwesen

Helge: Input on council

Ella und Helge: Men and Women Circle

Francois und Steffi: pdf on vortrag/discussions

Gregor uns Frühstückgruppe: Rezepte und Erfahrungsbericht

- annex with all pdf and some worked out discussions ( on learning), texts ( on women in reformist movement)

- experiences from participants ( boxes, esp. contact impro, practical working experiences and the yurt)

    2. pictures ( from burkardo)

4. conclusions (2 pages)

5. Reference List (3 pages)

- links to authors ( eg Eisentein)

links to movements ( Reconomy)

links to papers...