Muringa vila
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Muringa vila is an international development project in Kovalam
, Kerala
, India
, for sustainable building and income structures for the local participants. Structured after the concept of creative participation
Muringa Vila integrates vital interests of its cultural creative participants as well as environmental and spiritual aspects, providing housing and income through self created business as well as pursuing a sustainable local infrastructure.
The project was founded by a local fisherman and a German ethnologist in 2005 with the goal of finding practical solutions for problems of the indigenous society of this particular place which are created by a changing global environment, i.e. depleted oceans (as a source of income for the fishermen), gentrification
of the village, emigration, educational deficits, immediate environmental threads, the take over of the beaches by tourism.
Kovalam
Kovalam is a beach town on the Arabian Sea in Thiruvananthapuram city, Kerala, India. It is located around 13 km from the down town of Trivandrum.-Etymology:...
, Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, for sustainable building and income structures for the local participants. Structured after the concept of creative participation
Creative participation
Creative Participation is a term used in social sciences to describe the position of the observer towards the observed. Creative Participation - originally a Lucien Lévy-Bruhl term from the 1920's for analysing social relations of cultural groupings, modified and revived by the German ethnologist -...
Muringa Vila integrates vital interests of its cultural creative participants as well as environmental and spiritual aspects, providing housing and income through self created business as well as pursuing a sustainable local infrastructure.
The project was founded by a local fisherman and a German ethnologist in 2005 with the goal of finding practical solutions for problems of the indigenous society of this particular place which are created by a changing global environment, i.e. depleted oceans (as a source of income for the fishermen), gentrification
Gentrification
Gentrification and urban gentrification refer to the changes that result when wealthier people acquire or rent property in low income and working class communities. Urban gentrification is associated with movement. Consequent to gentrification, the average income increases and average family size...
of the village, emigration, educational deficits, immediate environmental threads, the take over of the beaches by tourism.
In literature
- Dr. V. Dahlheimer in: Die verwobene Kultur der Zukunft . Ethnologische Verständniswege für dynamische Metalanguage-Systeme, 2007. DDC-Notation 306 [DDC22ger]
- Creative Participation: Responsibility-Taking in the Political World, Paradigm Publishers, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59451-718-1
- Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, "The Cultural Creatives". New York: Harmony Books, 2000. ISBN 0-609-60467-8