:: remote campus ::
I'm back to the Asylum City meme, my rubric for talking about human settlements and their planning, maintenance, decommissioning. We may not think in terms of decommissioning normally, but I'm thinking of Burning Man in this regard. Camps. Many cultures (we call them "nomadic" sometimes) are good at making villages, even towns (campuses) come and go.
The giant warehouse, possibly a dome, is where people send their garage full of excess belongings. "One garage" is roughly one shipping container. A truck comes to haul it away and your stuff is there when you arrive, and so is the stuff from many other families. This is your opportunity to share, swap, let stuff go. Our center may actually be in the export business, once this excess is sorted through.
"Woah, are you saying my middle class belongings will all be confiscated? They'll take my pets?" I hear the FUD already. Asylum City is for volunteers wishing to engage in specific social experiments, researched ahead of time. Come check us out. Visit. Roll your own. This particular scenario involves recycling vintage stuff, giving families opportunities to both discard, and to keep.
"Do you have some beef against single people? What's all this family stuff?" I'm working to stay economical with my imagery. I'm talking about a place that's inter-generational, cradle to grave in terms of age representation. That's not quite the same as a rock concert like Woodstock or Vortex 1, although some brought kids. We've got grandmas and grandpas here. The families may not be "nuclear" (a sociological term).
The giant warehouse is about continuing to mix it up, as new stuff keeps coming in. The campus needs to have policies. Do we want a lot of couches? If the rule is "fill a container" then it's really up to the participants to decide what to ship. Many of them are hobbyists and plan on both pursuing, and sharing / teaching their hobby to apprentices. This will be the basis for an economy.
Long time readers of these blogs will be able to connect the dots to my "EPCOT West" modeling. We're in a "tiny house" phase at the moment, a genre featuring lots of innovation these days. The idea of a rigid shelter that's more than a tent, takes us to "tiny house" as well as to "yurt". Dymaxion Yurt. That's being economical (with concepts, with imagery).
