User:Becha/Lika
Notes about Lika
Contents
Gubavcevo Polje
Visits
1st visit: July 2014
Vesna, Arnd, Alisa & Charlie will be visiting 5-10.7. 2014. with a car, tent and other vacation materials.
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
2016
- TIME : July - August!
- One week preparation
- One week workshops
- One week cleanup
Name
- GrExit (Grachac-Exit, by Arnd!)
- LIKA: Li-ttle KA-mp...
- UnXpected Squirrels
- Family ReUnion Earth & Ocean (FREO)
- Rural Hackers
- Hacker Tribe
- Tribe of the Squirrel
Funding?
- VonWou foundation??
- MeshNet funding...
Participants
- Vesna
- Arnd
- Alisa
- Charlie
- Nana? + 3
- Nina? + 4
Available
- Space for camping for 30 people on the fields & in the orchard
- Electricity from the grid
- Water from the aqua-system (voDoVoD)
- Old house with kitchen & bathroom & wood-stove
- Old stable for the case it rains
Collaborators
- MMK !!!???
- connect with unMonastery!
- connect with Nomadic Village! http://nomadic.cd/index.html
- connect with Ship of Fools http://azart.org
- connect with BalCCon ??
2015
http://gentlejunk.net/projects/doku.php?id=mmk_15_workpage
2014
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."
People
Kruno Jost <udrugauke@gmail.com>
Danijela Zoroja <danijela.zoroja@gmail.com>
BecHa / Vesna Manojlovic <BECHA@xs4all.nl>
Nina: nikolina manojlovic vracar <ninaman@net.hr>
Elements
- 8 things for off-the-grid: land, shelter, water, food, waste-disposal, electricity, storage, WILL http://www.offgridworld.com/how-to-live-off-the-grid-8-things-you-need-now/
Setting-up Community Mesh Wireless Internet
Library
- BiblioTech
- MarcelMars: Everyone is a Librarian!
Sauna
- ... and skinny-dippng ;-) http://uk.weather.com/story/travel/skinny-dipping-destinations-world-20140911
Orchid
- AgroForestry - trees on farms http://www.worldagroforestry.org/downloads/publications/pdfs/wp14064.pdf
Residency / inviting guests
- Artist in Residence
- Hacker in residence Hacker_in_residence // place for the traveling hackers to stop by: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Nomad_Hacker
Theory / other examples
- They Built it, no-one came http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html
Reusable templates
- unMonastery
Becha: my situation in 2013 & long-term plan
- I was born in Belgrade, but my parents come from Croatia: Lika & Dalmatia
- I have two small children that I feel responsible for, but I share their care with their father - we don't live together, but are both bound to stay close to the kids.
- I wish to do the best for my children, which, until rcently, meant "I want them to have Dutch passports" for the stability and prosperity that Holland meant for me, since I am from Yugoslavia -- country that does not exist any more...my parents are from Croatia but they are Serbian, so two out of 3 of my childhood homes are either unaccessible or destroyed, and the third is in the state of "early accumulation of capital", a.k.a. "candidate for the EU membership"...
... and since last year, I think that "the best for them" would be to take them out of school, out of the city, out of this sinking country (pun intended), out of the "civilization", and *back* to the war-wounded Croatian mountains, "behind God's back".
- I was raised on atheism (communism?) and science, and in 1991, when I discovered "the Internet", I thought - this is the best thing, this is where I'll be living from now on. And I do: I work for the (NGO, not-for-protit) that "governs" the Internet; I play with hackers and frequent and build hackerspaces, I spend my vacations on hackers conferences...
...however, virtual reality is becoming too un-natural for me, and recently the most spiritual connections I estabilished with myself and the world were while walking "in nature", such as it is available - parks in Amsterdam.
My current plan is to spend next 10 years learning, preparing, and building a community for "natural living". I still don't know what does that mean... that's the "learning" part. I will visit existing "communes", workshops, festivals... I will make connections with like-minded people -- YOU! I will raise my kids "in captivity", for now, and when they are "grown up" (legally, 18), I will be able to go on with a different kind of life, giving them a choice to build their own, or take part in mine...