User:Becha/Lika

"Lika" is a for me a symbol of unspoiled nature, rural living and escape from the civilisation.

Visitor instructions: 
http://tinyurl.com/Lika-Lodge 

2024

• WON AN AWARD!!! for "Getting Lika Connected", by IEEE
• https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/Lika/DeGrowth-practice-lab
• Mastodon Thread #LikaLodge https://social.v.st/tags/LikaLodge

2023

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/Lika/LikaCamp2023
• NEW PROJECT: Connecting Lika / https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/Lika/ProjekatPovezanoPolje

+ 2 more small projects:

-> a pond! placing a big plastic sheet in a hole, then letting it fill with rain & grow local water plants, so that the frogs move in & the birds too...

-> Hügelkultur: a "raised bed" made of trunks & earth/mulch...

-> add LikaLodge to DeGrowth listings: https://map.degrowth.net & [["practice lab"][1]] by Milica kočović mickocovic @ gmail

-> apply for more funding: https://greenscreen.network/en/faq/

2022

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/Lika/LikaCamp2022
• Neighbor house for sale!!! https://www.njuskalo.hr/nekretnine/kuca-gubavcevo-polje-gracac-dvije-kamene-kuce-60000-oglas-36788286

2021 Dream

• Long-term dream: living with multiple families in the Intentional Community in/near my (eco) village in Lika, Croatia (in 2026-2050 onwards)
  • I would like to attract many people to come and live In Lika, in that area, with us – in a commune, or in a village, or in the little town; in the rural area, in the mountains, on the farms... Land is "biological" as it was not used since the war (1991-1997); houses are cheap, but the existing peoples are ageing and moving to cities, and still traumatised by wars, poverty, corruption...
• Mid-term plan (2022-2026): spending part of the year in my house in Lika
• Short-term plan: offering Lika Lodge as a retreat / vacation place to friends, based on FLOSS ethics http://tinyurl.com/Lika-Lodge

2013 Dreams

This is the area where I am planning to "return", back to wilderness and feral state, in order to make a "rural hackerspace" and a community of likeminded friends and family, in the year -2022 (when I am 50, and Alisa is 19 and Charlie 17...)-. (maybe 2025?)

(more: User:Becha/Lika/2013-plans

Gubavcevo Polje

"Gubavcevo Polje" is a village in Lika, Croatia, where my grandparents used to live, and I used to spend every summer from 1972 to 1990 (when the war started).

It's literally "in the middle of nowhere" (closest city is Gracac, the least populated arena in Croatia), and therefore has unspoiled nature and, absurdly, lots of peace, since all the refugees who left during Oluja in 1997 did not return any more.

How to Get There

Address: Gubavcevo Polje 11 , Gracac, Lika, Croatia

OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=44.34056&mlon=15.93629#map=17/44.34056/15.93629

User:Becha/Lika/Lodge#How_to_get_there

Nearby Attractions

Nikola Tesla

Birth house of Nikola Tesla is in the village Smiljan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiljan , 70 km away from Gubavcevo Polje

In Deringaj, 3km away, is the ruin of the church where uncle of Nikola Tesla was a priest.

Caves

• Cerovacke Pecine

1km away from Gracac

http://www.showcaves.com/english/hr/showcaves/Cerovacke.html

Events

2021

 LikaCamp 2021

2019

Arnd went to Lika alone, from Barbariga; dropped off beds, bikes & brewed beer with Kruno.

2018

• LikaCamp2018
•  !!!!!!! BOGDAN DIED! https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/Lika/Bogdan :(
  • https://becha.home.xs4all.nl/bogdan

2017

• LODGE Page [House instructions]

• User:Becha/Lika2017

2016

• LikaCamp 2016 project page: LikaCamp2016

• The report: https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/File:Pdf-about_LikaCamp2016-story_in_pictures.pdf // File:Pdf-about LikaCamp2016-story in pictures.pdf

Announcement during CCCamp2015

https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Lightning:Wild_Village_Adventure

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hau7ivcHZYE#t=20m30s

Slides: File:Lika-cccamp2015-gray.pdf

Slides File:Lika-cccamp2015-w&b.pdf

2015

http://gentlejunk.net/projects/doku.php?id=mmk_15_workpage

2014

Vesna, Arnd, Alisa & Charlie will be visiting 5-10.7. 2014. with a car, tent and other vacation materials.

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MM Kamp 2014: Gračac, Croatia 19 - 24 Aug 2014

http://gentlejunk.net/projects/doku.php?id=mmkamp_14_workpage

"Multimedia camp 2014 is an international camp with the transdisciplinary strategies focusing on the theme “Future Environments”. MMKamp'14 is two months extended/hybrid cultural event, situated in rural area of Croatia, near the city of Gračac, in region of Lika."

2013

https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/Lika/2013-plans

Examples

• Vis, the island (link?)

• Kunst in der Natur (Austria) https://www.altshiftfestival.org/location/

• https://www.ecosystemrestorationcommunities.org/community/rocciaviva-italy/?skill=medicinal-herbalist

a refugium, a place for ongoing departures and perpetual homecomings, 
for temporary respite or lifelong retreat.

• https://fo.am/events/reveil-2023/?fbclid=IwAR0jiZr5xE3_SB5r4dL0rppbc1KhZWA4KUGcirHtiAzhneMAW_BSNromCUo

• Rural Tourism: https://www.ideasforchange.com/en/blog-archive/depopulation-and-accessibility-the-combination-to-boost-a-tourist-destination

• The Community Network Roadmap is a tool designed to help communities create their own broadband network solutions for connectivity. It covers topics from community organising to network planning, technical training, organisational stability, community inclusivity and accountability, among others. https://cn-roadmap.github.io

• "Life after growth": Annual summer school, looking to explore a post-growth glimpse of life, work, and organization at the village of Kalentzi, tucked in the Tzoumerka mountains in Greece. https://www.cosmolocalism.eu/summer-school-life-after-growth/

• Pirate Ben, near Berlin: "One man's 10 year plan to build a post climate-catastrophe community" https://thebarracks.substack.com

• Rosie, (re)building her own hut in Sweden!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NOtKSx4ssk
  • https://roamingwildrosie.com

• Collective in Hungary https://cargonomia.hu/a-roof-is-best-built-with-neighbours-support-cargonomias-communiity-house-project/