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CO — OVEN 19

Co-oven aka portable pizza oven

During the Beyond Crisis Conference, organized by the MA Eco-Social Design from the Free University of Bolzano, many thoughts, concepts, and ideas about a sustainable future were shared, created, and discussed.

A lot of inspiring workshops were held among the central question “How to use the virus-induced situation to build up momentum for social-ecological “transformation?”

Our little Ortnerhof community was contributing to finding solutions for the topic of “Commoning, subsistence & sufficiency”, together with a lovely and productive group of like-minded people.

Small self-supporting communities are existing and managing their way to live off the grid, whilst generating new ideas of living in the present world. Especially during the current time, we think that life in communities and around the idea of commoning is beneficial in many ways, especially in terms of financial and social issues and challenges.

Commoning is about caring, sharing, and sustainable management of one’s self, the community as well as nature.

The challenge we faced during the workshop, was the question of how we can scale up the idea of commoning, to introduce more people and make them accept and integrate the concept into their daily lives.

Here is our Outcome:

A CO – OVEN
accessible to everyone, to bake bread, share recipes and ingredients, and overall be a meeting point.

it’s a step by step process, starting with one oven and leading towards a cloud of commoning:

  1. CO – OVEN: Shared community oven where food, ingredients, recipes, products, skills can be shared (sourdough as an icon); shared space, community and gatherings are created
  2. CO – OVEN 19: let’s spread a positive virus. create a social platform for CO – OVEN to increase visibility and reach more people (e.g. website, organize pizza festival, go to other festivals with CO-OVEN and make pizza); share knowledge, offer educational courses (e.g. how to make your sourdough); create timetables for when and where people meet (could be a smartphone app); social network
  3. CLOUD OF COMMONING: Start a supportive, decentralized network of different initiatives (e.g. bike kitchen; food saving); connect different types of service; build alliances; exchange experience, knowledge & resources; Digital and physical (e.g. open-source online platform; open map of commoning projects; physical infrastructures & tools)

If you are interested in this concept and want to read more about the content we gathered during the workshop, check out our Miro working board: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_ktpM1-8=/?fromEmbed=1

for all who love the common:

HELP US FIND A COMMUNITY; SPACE and SUPPORTERS TO BUILD OUR FIRST CO – OVEN.

stay healthy and support your community!

ZeBa

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Therapeutic fasting.

cooking a brew for fasting

During Covid19. Midterm report.

It’s always been that magic thing people talk about. A restart for the body, mind and soul balance. A cleaning of the body, to gain better health. It might be a way to find total peace and clarity, especially now during Covid19, where no one is moving and there is nothing to miss. The advice of staying home, take it easy and relax, for us, is already given.

Is fasting a transition to something new?
Is it some kind of threshold?

nature blooming whilst Covid19

WE decided to do the Therapeutic fasting after Buchinger.
WE are 5 people from our little community.

We started with 3 days of relief. Fruit salad for lunch and some vegetables in the evening. Coffee who wants to and some in-between carrot or apple snacks.
The next morning’s laxative was an exciting story. We had the same food for 3 days, but from now on our bodies react completely differently.

Urge to move, shivering bodies, nausea, sleepless nights and tiredness. But the feeling of hunger distinguishes.

What triggers renunciation in us?
How does it define itself in terms of food?

We are grateful for the nature that surrounds us and the summer-like weather. We enjoy the sun and our community. We are welding together. Little rituals for drinking the soup, consultations, exchanges make fasting easier for us. Thus, no one gets left alone with questions and decisions. Depending on how we feel, we practice Yoga, Meditation, Volleyball or do some evening walks together.

We find ourselves in this privileged situation of being able to renounce, because fasting is more than not eating, as it is very nicely described in an article by Jan Henne in GEO.

https://www.geo.de/magazine/geo-magazin/273-rtkl-ernaehrung-verzichten-heilt-warum-fasten-so-gesund-ist

2 more days to come with no food. we are already looking forward to our first small meal. A South Tirolern apple. 🙂

Yours, ZeBa

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TIME

time to play

How is time defined nowadays? Is the fast pace gone? Is slow working, slow living and slow food taking over the Italian households?

WHAT DO PEOPLE DO WITH ALL THE EXTRA TIME THEY GAINED?

Do we have extra time now or not? Is there more time to think,
to sleep, to be, to make things we always wanted to do? Or is there
too much time that needs to be killed? A waiting for better times?
Or is this situation acutally very time consuming?

We can only talk about our experience. We should have more time, but the days are passing as fast as before. The weather is determining more then ever how we feel and act. Unmotivated or full of energy.
We have many small projects, work to finish, new work to start.
Quality time with our community, – like we never had before . . .

After easter, we plan to make a therapeutic fasting – finally there is the
TIME to do that. They say for a 5 day long diet, you should take holidays, – stay at home. Perfect! Take time to relax, to move a little and have someone along with you. We will report on that the following week and we would be curious to hear about your time
struggle and experiences.

Keep your rythm.

Yours, ZeBa

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CLEAR BLUE

clear blue sky in Ulm
Ulm, 29th of April 2020
Clear blue sky in Bolzano
Bolzano, 31st of April 2020
Clear blue sky in Ulm
Ulm, 29th of April 2020
Blue Sky in Soprabolzano
Soprabolzano, 28th of April 2020
Clear blue sky in Bolzano
Bolzano, 31st of April 2020
Clear blue sky in Vienna
Vienna, 31st of April 2020
Clear blue sky in Sarentino
Sarentino, 31st of April 2020
Clear blue sky in Amsterdam
Amsterdam, 31st of April 2020
Vienna, 2nd of March 2020

Blue sky, with no vapour trails, wherever you are. How do YOU feel about it?

Does it mean clean air for everyone? The clean air we need to be able to obtain best health?

Can the blue sky give us solace and help us to find piece within this challenging situation?

Your welcome to send us your Sky pictures and thoughts, so we can fill our gallery.

Stay healthy, stay positive. ZeBa

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CLEAR SKY – Freedom or oppression?

How does it feel when you look into the sky?

I see a blue sky, within different shades of blues. Some clouds and some birds are introducing spring with their sounds. There are no vapour trails from the aircraft visible. The pure blue sky is with no human traces. I feel free but also caught. Something is clearly changing.

The situation affects our mind and body. Do we feel freedom or opression? Freedom for our mind, oppression for the body? Or is the clean air purifying our bodies and therefore making us stronger and more resistant to do what we want?

Is there a new dynamic and understanding evolving, that brings a different form of freedom and movement?

In one point we can be certain. The reduced air pollution is beneficial for our health.

“Air pollution, research shows, lowers our ability to fight off infections.” The article by Jamie Smith Hopkins discusses the effects and affects of polluted air in cities and industrial areas compared to the health of humans, in speciality lung problems.

Now, most of the companies and industries lowered their production, therefore the air quality should rise?

Will the situation change aswell in Alto Adige? And how?

The link to the article “A likely but hidden Coronavirus Risk Factor: Pollution”: https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/a-likely-but-hidden-coronavirus-risk-factor-pollution/

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Think locally, act locally

think locally, act locally

The local is gaining in importance again.
New local initiatives are emerging.

Many local initiatives have emerged in recent weeks, offering supplies of food and consumer goods, as well as help in all forms.

For instance, there is now an “Online Shop in South Tyrol for the Promotion of Local Shopping” in which everyone can offer and ask for products and services. The facebook group was intended to “Help everyone to strengthen the trade in South Tyrol in the crisis!” https://www.facebook.com/groups/270258110629872/?fref=nf

THIS IS GREAT!

BUT WHY DID IT NOT EXIST BEFORE?

The central idea is on a common helping of each other. If my community is well, then I have the best chances to be well aswell.…?

In times of Covid19 people who live nearby will be close to us and we can form a stronger cohesion, so we can manage to provide save and best help to each other. Is local the future? Local, the old global will be awesome again.

But how does it exactly work? How did it work?

Let’s take it a step back.
Barter goods and services.
Money looses importance.
What do we actually need? Is it love and a good community or tropical fruits and coffee? Yes, coffee, please but also love!

With the possibilities of digital networking we have today, we could create a new local network. What are the positive sides of barter and the former local networking and trading and how can we pick out what is interesting for our time and generate a new local? What were the advantages and disadvantages?

Only now I realize that there are MANY local possibilities. Many small companies selling nearly everything. Many small existences that need to be supported. Now and also after the Covid19 crisis!

Let us build a network that will sustain! Local, regional and global!

We are happy about numerous links to local-social initiatives!

Help to strengthen the local trade in the crisis!

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SLOW – DOWN

Slow Down in times of Covid19

What is happening to our mind and body when we slow down?

From a lot of people you hear that they enjoy their “slowed down” life. We have more time at home, because we can not move. There are no overcrowded public busses, nightlong parties, meetings we have to rush to and social live we have to manage.

In the right company, at the right place and with things to do, it can be a blessing to stay at home. It might become a sitauation of reconnecting to family and friends.
But, staying home can also cause conflicts. And Loneliness can hit one or the other.

What is happening to our mind and body when we slow down? Covid19 stayhome

What is happening to our mind and body when we slow down?

Some thoughts came up . . . during slowing down . . .

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Clarity can only be found
within oneself, in the deep heart of being –
which is always available!

The vulnerability of the outside is no longer
perceptible on the inside, – but vulnerable. 

The clear being in such a critical, different
situation as we are experiencing now makes
us experience other thoughts, thoughts that
might have been hard to grasp in the past.

A new diversity is the storm before a 
holistic renewal – a global new world in 
the we.

The creation, understanding and linking of
new forms, colours and structures and a way of thinking
that gives us hope and does not let us stand still!

How does a new way of thinking define new actualities?

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social –––––––……….. distancing

Social Distancing in times of Covid19

This very unhuman action is OUR challenge to reduce infections.

But paradoxically, we need to have much closer contact with our loved ones during this time to prevent loneliness. How can we do this without being able to hug each other?

SEND LOVE, SHARE THOUGHTS

Safety and Health Magazin has generated a list of tips for you: “COVID-19 pandemic: Tips to remain ‘sane and safe’ during social distancing”, March 18, 2020 // https://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/19578-covid-19-pandemic-tips-to-remain-sane-and-safe-during-social-distancing

Are there any other positive effects of social distancing besides stopping the virus?

We think YES. It’s not bad if everyone slows down a little. But we also know, that dealing with yourself is not always easy. If you manage though, you might love it! 😉

We also came across an article today that shows some positive impacts about social distancing in big cities:

read the article about cicyling. in Bogota, by Stefan Weißenborn vom 18.03.2020:

https://www.spiegel.de/auto/corona-krise-warum-fahrradfahren-gleich-doppelt-schuetzt-a-46196d09-4aa4-4041-97e3-1fd1ff094c3f

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How can we foster change?

Studies show, that in some regions the abrupt stop of our activities lead to a quick recovery of nature. We have to say that this is a state – we, as eco social designers, dreamed of. Just not under those circumstances.

But that’s where we are now. What can we do with it?

Our concern is, that everything will go back to „normality“ when we mastered the crisis. But we think that if we can make a change now, we can be better prepared for the future, with all the new challenges that might come.

Can we foster a change?

A few articles we find worth reading dealing with the environmental change:

“There’s an unlikely beneficiary of coronavirus: The planet” by Rebecca Wright, CNN, March 17, 2020 // https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/16/asia/china-pollution-coronavirus-hnk-intl/index.html

“Empty Cities and Stalled Industrial Production, New Analysis Shows Coronavirus Has Cut China’s Carbon Emissions by 100 Million Metric Tons” – Akshat Rathi and Jeremy Hodges, February 19, 2020 // https://time.com/5786634/coronavirus-carbon-emissions-china/

“Offsetting The Coronavirus And Other Lessons For the Climate Crisis” – Raz Godelnik, February 18, 2020 // https://medium.com/@razgo/offsetting-the-coronavirus-and-other-lessons-for-the-climate-crisis-d1639dfb7055

“Corona: By dystopic foretaste to utopian momentum?” – Kris Krois, March 8, 2020 // https://designdisaster.unibz.it/corona-by-dystopic-foretaste-to-utopian-momentum/

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I AM HOME

The first week in isolation.

I am a freelance designer and my apartment is my studio. This was also the case before the shutdown last Tuesday. So you would think that my daily life didn’t change a lot? Well, …

With isolation came dullness.


Why and What should I work?


– I’m running out of wool. (Sheep wool is THE material I work with and color lately.) And my suppliers have closed.
– My first market, where I wanted to sell my objects out of wool, got canceled.
– London is waiting for a delivery, but even if I could finish the objects, they might have to close the shop soon as well? And am I even allowed to send packages?

And climbing? – Am I allowed to go to the crag?

After two days of hanging, eating and drinking wine, I luckily found motivation again.


Rethink. Adapt. Get started.

– Now I just dye old clothes and sheets instead of wool.
– The climbing got replaced by yoga. (Thanks to our landlords we have our own “studio” for this now)
– “Futureing us” instead of Netflix!

Doesn’t sound too bad? At least it feels good to have a plan again. Let’s see how long it lasts.