A Series of Podcasts by Franz Nahrada

produced on anchor.fm

These pages contain the text of a podcast series in English language roughly based on a radio program in Austria. ˧

Episodes

1. What is a "Global Village"?

Background

Centralising industrialisation leads to its opposite: decentralising automation and biomorphic technologies, which have not only been copied from nature at breathtaking speed, but which can also teach us to more deeply understand and respect the complex interplay and self-control of natural processes. ˧ ˧

Even if these techniques are still in the service of a feudal economic oligarchy today: electricity, electronics, the internet and its potentials for free exchange of knowledge could be combined with photovoltaics, sensor technology, permaculture, aquaponics, plant chemistry, fabricators and a hundred other building blocks to form a new system of regenerative cycles: our living space can become organic and self-producing like a plant. ˧ ˧

Consequently, we are now experiencing a new drop-out movement that no longer ends in withdrawal and isolation, but rather addresses the question of how, in times of an economy that has literally become superfluous and precisely for that reason so aggressive, sustainable and crisis-proof living spaces could be (re)created that win the competition for the hearts and brains of city-dwelling people. ˧ ˧

These "Global Villages" or at least their building blocks are emerging before our eyes - and some already conceive of themselves as germ cells of a currently planetary regeneration. The old and the new are entering into many interesting syntheses, some of which will be shown in this series of programmes. ˧