{"id":3651,"date":"2020-09-15T22:20:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T22:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2020-09-16T00:13:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T00:13:50","slug":"the-clearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/thoughts\/the-clearing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clearing, a report from the future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I found out recently about an excellent project: The Clearing, A Report From The Future<\/em> by Alex Hartley<\/a> and Tom James<\/a>. They \u201cset out to build a living, breathing encampment where people could learn how to live in the collapsing world coming our way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In 2017 they constructed with the help of volunteers a geodesic dome from scavenged materials and for several months invited people to workshops on skills that might be useful in the future (fire making, bread oven, democracy, radio, loo\u2026).<\/p>\n

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Public engagement was very rich and a temporary community of sorts emerged. The artists have published a full report on the experience, photocopied by hand, with a cover made from used cardboard boxes. I recommend this informative and inspiring read.<\/p>\n

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The report is available at https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1FrdLTkW8bA8OITUCHrqHqcG-wA496G0Y<\/a><\/p>\n

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A year after the end of the clearing, Hartley and James wrote that \u201cthe more time we spent at The Clearing, the better we felt. The Clearing made us feel hopeful, and confident, and capable, and even happy. Perhaps this is how it could be in the future> Softer and simpler and slower. Perhaps the end of this world, and the beginning of a new one, could even be good?\u201d<\/p>\n

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I found out recently about an excellent project: The Clearing, A Report From The Future by Alex Hartley and Tom James. They \u201cset out to build a living, breathing encampment where people could learn how to live in the collapsing world coming our way.\u201d   In 2017 they constructed with the help of volunteers a geodesic dome from scavenged materials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,65,29,12,44,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}