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The experimental township of Auroville was founded 50 years ago in Tamil Nadu with an eco-utopian vision that promised to reinstate faith in humanity.
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The GEN Desk in Auroville aims to build and strengthen relationships with other national and international communities particularly the GENOA (Global Ecovillage Network – Oceania and Asia) network. One of its core objectives is to help develop an effective and relevant curriculum for an ecovillage design education course (EDE) for different context...
The NextGEN youth branch of GEN, currently led by the younger members of the GEN Auroville Desk, is also being established at YouthLink, our Auroville youth-initiated service. YouthLink has supported engaging youth in the two-day mini-EDE and will play a key role in designing and implementing the planned December 2016 Auroville EDE. YouthLink’s Nex...
With Ethan Hirsh-Tauber from GEN International facilitating, we held a two day mini-introduction to the EDE in Pitchandikulam Forest with 25 people participating: primarily youth from Auroville and its bioregional area. A very successful workshop, it generated a lot of energy and enthusiasm for a longer EDE later this year, with feedback suggesting...
Other aims of the GEN Desk in coming year includes the facilitation of funded exchange programs between communities, the creation of spaces welcoming people moving between ecovillages, creating youth-led educational experiences, being a resource point for best practices within and outside Auroville, working towards the 2018 February target (Aurovil...
Nikethana Venkatesan– Nikki joins the team as one of the coordinators of the GEN Auroville Desk, facilitating communication and helping design the curriculum for the potential EDE this December. She previously worked in Camphill Community, Scotland for one year, volunteered for a few months at Solitude Farm in Auroville, and will now be staying and...
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Jul 8, 2022 · This paper presents the case of Auroville, an early attempt to establish an ecovillage in Southern India. We draw primarily from the ethnographic living and working experience of the authors in...
It’s an experiment that began 50 years ago — Auroville or the “global village.” Back then, there was nothing much here apart from dusty, red sand. Today, huge banyan, fig and cashew trees provide much-needed shade for Auroville’s estimated 2,000 inhabitants. No two houses are the same in Auroville.
Auroville is first and foremost an international township with a spiritual objective—to embody the ideal of human unity—and its ecological work comes as a consequence. Auroville’s overarching vision is grounded in the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, which understands biophysical reality as an evolutionary unfoldment of Spirit.
Mar 2, 2016 · A visit to Auroville starts from Matrimandir, a swollen globe of gold-leaf-plated discs designed to be the town’s ‘soul’. An interesting feature of Auroville is the number of public-use buildings that have been allowed to find form in a township with a population of just over 2,000 inhabitants.
Mar 22, 2018 · Auroville, “The City of Dawn” founded in 1968, just celebrated 50 years as a “universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities.”
