Live and Learn - Education, Research, and Experimentarium

Program, Christiania

A shift in worldview and values seem to be a necessary condition for creating a sustainable culture on Earth from below. Many doubt that it is possible. Experiences and indigenous cultures show us that it is possible. 
Ecovillages have built a sustainable culture on the past 50 years and now offer their experience further in several courses. Other education and social experimentation will be also presented.
 
Moderators:
- Morning:  Hildur Jackson, Duemosegaard, DK
- Afternoon:  May East, Findhorn / Brazil
- Evening:  Kosha Joubert, Sieben Linden 
 
10.00-13.00 How do we teach a new worldview and new values? 
 
Ingvar Villido, Valley of Flowers, Estonia:
Intuition as the basis for all learning - how we develop
 
May East, Findhorn and Brazil
Vinya Ariyaratne, Bhuddistisk teacher, Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka:
From greed to compassion. Teaching of changing values, Spiral dynamics.
 
Hanne Strong, Creston and ERC (Earth Restoration Corps.)
Meditation for global integration. Learning to be "wise men".
What spiritual systems are effective?
 
Michael Stubberup & Kaj Hansen:
Children's wisdom.
And how to educate our children, who can build the new society out of a consumer society?
 
Lars Myrthy, ECONET:
To introduce ecological values.
ECONET is a Danish NGO, which for years has worked to introduce
ecology at school.
 
Dialogue with the above speakers: How do we promote all of this?

14.00-14.15 TODAY'S Funeral: The Linear Thinking. A Lineal Worldview that creates Separation.
With tombstone made by ceramist Christelle Bamford.

14.15-17.00 Studies
- that re-design human interaction with the earth and create new jobs. Ecovillages have accumulated 30 years of experience in cooperation with nature and living sustainably.
 
Gaia Education / EDE
(Ecovillage Design Education) Gedser (Gaia Education, Design for Sustainability)
and Eco-University from 1998 two 2009)
 
May East, Findhorn, program director in Brazil. (Powerpoint Presentation)
Deniz Dincel, EDE in Turkey
Marti Muller, Auroville, India, Visions-collector for GEN
Kosha, Sieben Linden, Germany: "EDE and" learning partnerships "
Ismael Diallo, President of Senegal Network: EDE in Africa
John, Orissa, India: "Presents the 4000 original villages as Nari Samaj Women  Movement and represent Thread
 
ERC (Earth Restoration Corps)
 
Hanne Strong and Bremley Lyngdoh, Worldview Impact, Himalaya:
Jobs for trillions in the Southern Hemisphere.
 
Vandana Shiva & Satish Kumar, Editor of Resurgence:
Bija Vidyapeeth
- This training center in the Himalayas in India teaches sustainability locally and globally. They cooperate with Schumacher College in England.

Education in Renewable Energy in the People's Center
 
Preben Maegaard Nordic People's Center: PowerPoint Presentation
- The Nordic People Center In Thy has been pioneer in introducing and teaching about renewable energy. Preben Maegaard has taught all over the world, he is president of the World Wind Energy and has been co-initiator of IRENA.
 
Ibrahim Togola, Mali People's Center: PowerPoint Presentation
- In Mali leads Ibrahim Togola a People's Center. How do we develop this concept and create jobs across the globe.
 
SEM (Spirit in Education Movement), Thailand
 
Pracha, leader of Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand
- This grassroots teach sustainability in 4 countries:
Cambodia, Laos, Burma and Thailand)
 
A teaching tool is presented
Wendy Brawer: OpenGreenMap
Dialog with participants above:
How can these programs work together?
How can they be financed? 
 
19.00-21.30 Experimental Zones 
 
SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS
 
Achim Ecker & Tamera,
Zegg - Ecovillage are social experiments that integrate all aspects of sustainability. They have a much smaller footprint than traditional settlements. One of their strengths is their knowledge about how we can learn to live together in peace and resolve conflicts.
 
- Film on "Forum" 
 

Allan Lausten
’Christiania som Eksperimentarium’

Britta Lillesøe & Tina Bryld
'Christiania and other experimental places'
 
Esperide Ananas & Macaco, Damanhur
'A new people and a new culture in northern Italy'
- Together, they excavated 8 large underground halls.
They have a school and a university. In the mirror hall they’ll give a concert with music made by plants.
 
Victor Leon Ades, Brazil Ecovillage Network and Ecovila Clareando
'Our planet is our home, Transformation Towns
- An ongoing program in an area of Sao Paoulo brings økosamfundsprincipperne into the urban reality. Associates EDE in Sao Paoulo for Transition-town movement .A permanent program in one neighborhood of Sao Paulo bring The Ecovillage principles to the urban environment.
 
Steen Moller, Friland
Short films and a talk with Scott Miller
- Steen Møller established a collaboration with the Danish national TV while a group built their "village" on the following principles: no waste, no loans and half of the family had to work on site. Several other projects have arisen from the same conceptual framework.
 
Hiu, the 51 Give Movement
Sustainability in China?
 
Dialogue with the audience:

How can we get human genius and creative power to unfold in order to build a new culture?