How to build coliving or a rural creative space
GENERAL INFORMATION
Location: Senderiz, Galicia, ES
Organization(s) Involved: Sende
Email: contact@sende.co
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SUMMARY
The “How to build coliving or a rural creative space” project is surrounded by like-minded changemakers from Serbia, Italy, and Spain. Help us to discover how to start and run your own coliving or a creative/community space in your rural area, while living in a picturesque village, Small social spaces can transform local communities.
Especially the rural ones. Building a coliving space in a big city is often more a problem than a solution. However, when you start one in a village where everyone speaks about abandonment and the lack of opportunities, then coliving suddenly becomes one of the proven ways to bring back the culture, economy and people to the countryside.
OBJECTIVES
We equip you with tools and methodologies so you can develop and create your own coliving spaces in the countryside.You will learn how to map and find a proper space. How to build, design, and fix space with limited budget, how to design unique and singular events and programs, how to involve and attract locals, and how to tell the world that your space exists and bring anyone from anywhere to your little space. We will use non-formal education methods, encouraging you to teach others, share, experiment, test, research, get dirty, build, and publish.
IMPLEMENTATION: ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGIES
Project activities:
- How to build: Presentation and various practical exercises on how to build your own rural coliving site.
- How to create something with little: Inspiring workshops on how to make use of existing resources and create something new.
- Creative workshop: Participants will have the opportunity to share their talents and skills with others.
- Communication: How to engage local people and supporters.
- Website and marketing: How to create, stand out and stay yourself.
- Cooking workshop: Learn about different cultures and become closer.
- Recycling workshops: Think outside the box and turn waste materials into valuable new items.
PROJECT OUTCOMES & LESSONS LEARNED
- Hands-on activities: Participants had the chance to create something with their own hands and contribute to recycling.
- Network building: The project involved getting to know people from different countries, spending days together and sharing contacts and suggestions.
- Inspiration and creativity: Participants worked in a variety of groups, solving challenges and generating new ideas.
- Widening horizons: The experience showed and taught people that it doesn’t take a lot to achieve your dreams and that you can start from small.
- Developing local life: The organisers of this place gave young people an opportunity to see and learn about the benefits and necessity of involving the community.
- Self-reconnecting: Offered to the possibility to take time to reflect, explore and understand yourself in a slower-paced environment.
IMPACT
- Involving local people and promoting village life.
- These small world changers help us to see the beauty of nature, the nurturing power of silence and the importance of community.
- Providing a supportive and inspiring place for creative people.
- Helping to see the magic of ruined places and generating new and exciting ideas for transforming them.
- Widening the horizons of participants and bringing people from different backgrounds together to create something wonderful.