4 guests (Pablo Vanneste, Shoko Nagamachi, Hans Pruijt, Debra Solomon) come together to discuss and digest food forests, squatting, public space, and the commons concepts. i.e. the squatted eco-village.
“You’re not dependant on making demands to the authorities. In normal protests, you demonstrate and petition in the hope that someone will listen. But in squatting you don’t need this. You can do it on your way. You can build something. You can create something.” Hans Pruijt.
“Hardin and Ostrom point out that there are ways in living within this planet that work, working with nature, and ways of living that don’t work, working against nature, slowly digging your own grave.” Pablo Vanneste.
Pablo shares 4 things necessary for an ecologically sustainable community:
1. Recognise nature as the teacher
2. Learn through real world experience.
3. Sustainable living is deeply rooted in ecological knowledge.
4. Community & co-creation.
Pablo Vanneste is a researcher and teacher of food forestry at Wageningen University & Research, resident of P-pauw [ppauw.nl/], and member of Toekomstboeren [toekomstboeren.nl/].
Shoko Nagamachi leads the humans in the green tribe garden, is a classical pianist, and resident of the Green Tribe [greentribe.nl].
Hans Pruijt is Assistant Professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, researching squatting, organizations and organizing, member of the Squatting Everywhere Collective [eur.nl/people/hans-pruijt].
Debra Solomon investigates urban agriculture in the public space using community of praxis, artistic Director of Urbania Hoeve [urbaniahoeve.nl/], and PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam.
