Hello all, I am new here and wanted to introduce myself and hear y’all’s opinion on something’s I’ve been working on.
I am a multidisciplinary designer with a concentration in architecture and environmental design. Lately I’ve been researching and exploring novel approaches to organized efforts, infrastructure development, and strategic implementation. The above image is mostly an unrelated snapshot example of my past work and design approach. It utilizes 80% up-cycled transportation repair materials such as scrap road-plate steel, treated lumber, common masonry, common schedule steel pipes, and polyethylene tubing to create an expanded public transit stop which uses solar heat gain to de-ice the surrounding ground during colder months.
Currently my focus has been on complex business model design. While I can’t share much of the details yet, I will say that it interlocks with more than a dozen symbiotic business models and social governance solutions into an approximate one square mile area through 400 pages of documentation; and can serve up to 1,000 people with a minimum of 100-120 people’s maintained efforts.
Everyone here would be doing me a huge favor towards such ends by providing short feedback to a brief set of questions related to the broad-stoke lived experience of what belonging to such an effort may be like.
Questions:
-
How willing are you and how willing do you believe millennials and gen-z are to relocate their life some number of hours away to participate in a funded solar punk initiative?
-
How willing are you and how willing do you believe millennials and gen-z are to share a 800 square foot all seasons yurt with one other person for 5-6 years?
-
How willing are you and how willing do you believe millennials and gen-z are to participate in a flexible productivity schedule which typically requires 8-24 hours of blue collar work, 8-24 hours of white collar work, 8-24 hours of learning/teaching, and 8-24 hours of leisure weekly?
-
If satisfactorily completing question 2 and maintaining question 3 legally assures lifetime private residency in a 2,000 square foot passive house with no rent or mortgage, utility or repair expenses, and gives rights of first refusal to ones children; would you still be interested if it means you do not own the house on paper?
-
If your only income is from a cooperative owner-operated business model which straddles a couple of symbiotic businesses and professional expertise how satisfactory would this be to you?
-
How willing are you and how willing do you believe millennials and gen-z are to work towards perpetually improved labor automation by sweating approximately 8-24 hours a week for as long as it takes?
-
How might your answers change if the above things together resulted in a housing addition from 2,000 square feet to as much as 4,000 square feet after 10-12 years?
-
How might your answers change if you are assured direct democracy over virtually all collective efforts supported by subject experts advocacy?
-
What is your first reaction to the idea that the only way for someone to be removed from their residence and the community is through reaching a 85% community-wide vote?
-
How might your answers change if the above allows for relocating to another networked community with a largely similar framework and governance as may be necessary and or available?
I wouldn’t be able to give you an honest answer to this unless I knew what we were building and what the compensation model looked like.
So far it sounds very vague.
That is fair, I am trying to explain as much as possible without giving too much away for strategic reasons. Think it as somewhat subversive efforts akin to market Aikido that uses its own weight against itself to move towards its broader obsolescence and replacement.
I’ll also add that someone’s early exposure in spending 1-2 months using available social media and video meeting tools to collect and get to know groups of 80-120 people of diverse expertise asynchronously through posts and comments throughout the week, and 1-2 hour loosely guided video meetings. Ultimately turning into a one week trip to intended site so everyone can get to know each other in person before fully committing.
I am also designing the funding mechanisms for all of this. So assume you and 80-120 others would spend 5-6 years utilizing 20-35 million in funding towards actualizing the meritocratic and direct democratic communal infrastructure design.
A brief list of the things to build includes: permaculture, regenerative agriculture, polyculture farming practices, design software, manufacturing software, governance software, education models, aquaponics, animal husbandry, sustainable electricity and other utilities, modular housing manufacturing methods, rapid deploy off grid housing kits, information architecture, and more/