Designing for Solutions
Design Activism for a more peaceful lifestyle - Embracing Earth Manners
Acres of Peace offers a foundation to inspire, support and legitimize eco-friendly lifestyle choices. We support the creation and maintenance of earth friendly neighborhoods we like to call Peace Hamlets. Our vision is to have over a hundred Peace Hamlets in every county, providing economic security, environmental regeneration and much more. We support the DIY Low Cost-Quick Action approach presented by Mark Lakeman.
Mark Lakeman is an ecological architect who encourages communities to be more sustainable and collaborative by design. He calls it Design Activism. It’s more than just drawing pretty pictures, it’s a different approach to developing our neighborhoods. This article is inspired from a talk by Mark Lakeman. He has a proven track record and is sharing some of the success stories. Contact Mark at https://www.communitecture.net/
Overview: Acres of Peace promotes earth friendly living arrangements in eco-friendly neighborhoods focused on regenerative practices, co-operation and compassion. By employing peaceful communication, regenerative lifestyle practices, and natural building we can significantly reduce the cost of living for people and the planet. Mark Lakeman’s experience in designing and constructing communities illuminates the feasibility and rewards of designing for peaceful coexistence. We can do it ourselves. We become the developer, contractor, investor, shareholder, manager and keep the money local. He calls it a DIY (do it yourself) village. This article explores many facets involved in the recipe for manifesting a DIY hamlet in any place (village/rural/town/city) near us. We are designing for Placemaking.
Placemaking inspires people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces
as the heart of every community. Strengthening the connection between people
and the places they share, placemaking refers to a collaborative process by which
we can shape our public realm in order to maximize shared value.
https://www.pps.org/category/placemaking
Looking at common living space:
● We want to cultivate ecologically friendly lifestyle choices ● We need our neighborhoods to offer more satisfying, co-creative opportunities for the people who live there ● It’s better to live and work in the same place ● Let’s have a village square-central place to meet ● How about common spaces - community parks, gardens and trails 1 https://wfhb.org/news-public-affairs/unhoused-ecovillages-and-urban-permaculture-with-mark-lakeman-of-communite cture-eco-report-xtra/ 04-20-24 Page 2 ● Then there’s amenities - stores, coffee shop, barber, spa/sauna/bathhouse, herbal remedies, infirmary, restaurant, bakery, pizza parlor, brewery, library, gym, office and more, all within walking distance
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