Weekly Record Sheet

26th February 2020

What did we do this week? Was it effective?

1. Weekly meeting - presentation from Tore Salge about “Warnings and challenges intentional communities”. Shamita joined the meeting and gained support for her ‘Co-Living’ project.Very effective, as it underlined different challenges and possible ‘conflict topics’ that we have already been talking about.

2. Connected with a Professor of Transformation in Architecture (Tore Trondeide) - can advise us on activist planning, things that can go wrong etc. Possible academic collaboration with his course.

3. Kunst-Live-Mote - agreed plan for the Kunst workshop, assigned tasks and agreed vision. Potential conflict over the location of the workshop and slightly diverging visions. Effective.

4. Meeting with Alanna Lennon and Annika: PhD students examining the sustainability of local communities adjacent to Ecovillages/Intentional Communities. Gained some literature and possible future insights.

5. LITERATURE: a. A1) Could Community-Public-Partnerships between municipal authorities and intentional communities contribute to sustainable development? i. Defining CPP ii. Examples from Christiania b. A2) Can vacant or abandoned buildings serve as an initiator or tool for community housing provision and create a sustained narrative for neighbourhood revitalisation? i. Focus on ‘meanwhile’ spaces - vacant spaces facilitated by the municipality

1. Trondheim, Vienna, Gorlitz (Germany)

2. Information on the benefits/ long-term impacts

3. Community land trust model (residents, neighbourhood, municipality) a. Has Svartlamon considered such a model c. B1) How can a diverse intentional community work towards winning the trust of planning authorities? i. Ordered articles by Diana Leaf Christiansen

To do’s until next time

● Add to questionnaire (google survey)

● Think about the research questions if we can make them more autoethnographic - ask David and Rolee about that

● Conflict Workshop?

○ Consider it as a follow-on from the workshop

○ Wait to hear back from posts, contact ppl

○ Record in log book

● Brainstorming about film-storyline / Contact Oda for filming? Add to the storyboard.