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_Dense residence_ may be the most available form of Tribal Housing. Yet it is usually provisional, so I will talk about it later, along with a little-known fact about Tribal Housing. The sustainable form of it within reach of most of us is the _urban micro-village_, so let's take the grand tour of an imaginary one. | ||
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[**NOTE:** I have changed my mind about this. I now believe a _rural microvillage_, set either in the country or suburban backyards, has the highest chances of success. I have worked on structures for it in the last couple years. See my [photo gallery](https://andrewdurham.shutterfly.com/) and [links](/other-writings/links/)for more about this.] | ||
[**NOTE:** I have changed my mind about this. I now believe a _rural microvillage_, set either in the country or suburban backyards, has the highest chances of success. I have worked on structures for it in the last couple years. See my [photo gallery](https://andrewdurham.shutterfly.com/) and [links](/other/links/)for more about this.] | ||
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It is late spring. We are walking in the old industrial district of a mid-sized city, 10 minutes by bike from its civic, cultural, and commercial centers. We stop before a single-story building that could have been a small shoe factory or a printing shop. We knock and are shown in by a soft-spoken six year-old who then disappears to the right. The space is rectangular and long from front to back. Light streams in through the many, tall, side windows, and a few skylights, over fabric and wood huts in the back. The wood-floored, brick building is clean and in good repair. Interior walls are wood, fabric, and paper. Ornament is eclectic and cheery. Sounds come from every corner of the building: muffled ones from the back and clearer, occasionally loud ones from the front. Through the open windows passes a draft. Somewhere ahead, people of all ages play and talk, and others are enjoying their work in a hushed buzz to the right. Two grandmothers pass by us in silence on their way out. A youth catches up to them with a library book to be returned, which they accept with a smile. The place gives the overwhelming impression of being lived in. | ||
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Just the costs of the repairs and simple improvements to the building and the investment in the interior structures remain. We can both salvage and purchase materials. Builders discard wood by the grove at construction sites; billions of small-diameter conifers in the National "Forests" need thinning; and civilized people abandon tons of useful stuff weekly (just stroll through nice neighborhoods the evening before their garbage day). We'll recover money for materials from both the savings on and proceeds from the expensive stuff in our lives, including cars. For permanent and structural improvements to their buildings, landlords sometimes deduct the costs of materials and labor from rent. | ||
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Techniques of [ORDO](/other-writings/ordo), an American art of placement, are useful in arranging a space: put its entrance in a corner (multiple entrances in adjacent corners); inwardly swinging doors latch toward the corner (and vice-versa); walkways lead around, not through, rooms, and furniture settings, which are toward a room's center; a setting faces the room's most attractive feature directly and its main entrance obliquely; settings are square internally and off-square with the room; clutter is revealed and eliminated. As in nature, still entities are thus neatly toward the center of space and motion. | ||
Techniques of [ORDO](/other/ordo), an American art of placement, are useful in arranging a space: put its entrance in a corner (multiple entrances in adjacent corners); inwardly swinging doors latch toward the corner (and vice-versa); walkways lead around, not through, rooms, and furniture settings, which are toward a room's center; a setting faces the room's most attractive feature directly and its main entrance obliquely; settings are square internally and off-square with the room; clutter is revealed and eliminated. As in nature, still entities are thus neatly toward the center of space and motion. | ||
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### Summary | ||
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That's Tribal Housing. So much for loneliness, inclement weather, and the grind. By working together, as tribes have done for eons, we are immediately able to have what we need. Without selling out. While interacting with the system. Without looking for it to crash. Without waiting for the entire world to get it. There is nothing to it. Get with three or four of your people, keep reading this article and website, and act immediately on what parts of it you now see clearly. | ||
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Find the latest version of this secret-dense article and other New Tribal writings online at [darkroomretreat.com](/other-writings/). It is in the public domain; please pass it on. Properly formatted and printed, it photocopies onto the front and back of a ledger-size piece of paper. Below, I have listed books that have informed the design. They are also guaranteed to clean your clock. To request help with design for your group or your inclusion on a Tribal Housing mailing list, write me at [email protected]. To individuals with questions: before asking me, please reread the article a few times, sleep on it, use your own good sense, and talk with friends about it. Please let me in on what you come up with. | ||
Find the latest version of this secret-dense article and other New Tribal writings online at [darkroomretreat.com](/other/). It is in the public domain; please pass it on. Properly formatted and printed, it photocopies onto the front and back of a ledger-size piece of paper. Below, I have listed books that have informed the design. They are also guaranteed to clean your clock. To request help with design for your group or your inclusion on a Tribal Housing mailing list, write me at [email protected]. To individuals with questions: before asking me, please reread the article a few times, sleep on it, use your own good sense, and talk with friends about it. Please let me in on what you come up with. | ||
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There is no, one, right way to create Tribal Housing. We can take minutes or months. We can do it bankrolled or broke, quick and dirty, or slow and precise. We can be few or many, rude or courteous, learned or just plain gung ho. However it happens, this house is a place for us, as we are. | ||
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[**NOTE:** While the mechanics of Tribal Housing as described below are still mostly valid, my thinking about its social context has changed significantly. While I have slightly edited the article to reflect this change, please read [Sociality Undenied](/other-writings/sociality-undenied/) for a full presentation of my new view of social organization] | ||
[NOTE 2: Sociality Undenied was subsequently obsoleted by the ideas in [psychosis](/conjecture/psychosis/) and [hygiene](/hygiene#capacity) and even later, [individualism](/other-writings/individualism)] | ||
[**NOTE:** While the mechanics of Tribal Housing as described below are still mostly valid, my thinking about its social context has changed significantly. While I have slightly edited the article to reflect this change, please read [Sociality Undenied](/other/sociality-undenied/) for a full presentation of my new view of social organization] | ||
[NOTE 2: Sociality Undenied was subsequently obsoleted by the ideas in [psychosis](/conjecture/psychosis/) and [hygiene](/hygiene#capacity) and even later, [individualism](/other/individualism)] |
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