Diggers and Dreamers
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Diggers and Dreamers is a group that promotes intentional communities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
History
[edit]Diggers and Dreamers started out as a book based directory, first published in 1989 as a resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities and communal living in the UK. The project was an offshoot of the Communes Network, a loose organisation that was established at a meeting on 15–16 February 1975 organised by the Communes Movement,[1] which itself was started in 1968 by Selene Community,[1] and which had achieved a distribution of 3000 copies of its journal, Communes: Journal of the Communes Movement, in March 1971.[2]
The Guide to Communal Living (and from 1999 accompanying website) focusses on all aspects of communal living. Alongside the journal there is a directory of communal groups. More recently Diggers and Dreamers have published a number of book reviews, conference presentations and books other than the Guide to Communal Living.
Themes
[edit]Over the years the publication has covered a wide variety of topics connected with communal living and has featured articles by both those living communally and those studying it. The themes covered by articles include:
- Decision-making
- Manual labour
- Childcare
- Income pooling
- Developmental communalism
- Developing Cohousing in the UK
- Why Feminism needs Utopianism
- Voluntary Simplicity
- Low Impact Development
- Degrowth
- The value of art in community
- Research and development for Utopia
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Dawling, Pam (1992–1993). "What is the Communes Network?" (PDF). Diggers & Dreamers. Diggers & Dreamers Publications. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
- ^ Christensen, Karen; Levinson, David (2003). Encyclopedia of community: from the village to the virtual world, Volume 1. Berkshire Publishing Group. ISBN 9780761925989. Retrieved 2010-05-28.