In a development area of Trollbäcken, a suburb half an hour south of central Stockholm, I have created a sustainable housing project in the form of a byggemenskap/baugemeinschaften with a focus on sustainability. With the help of friends and family members and their wishes for a future home as basis for my programme, I investigated what sustainable housing could be with a special interest in the relationship between material and immaterial sustainability, between the buildings and the community that inhabits and maintains them, aiming to create a built environment that supports the sustainable lifestyles of the residents.

För att lösa hållbarhetsproblem krävs fokus på mer självförsörjande samhällen som kräver ett lägre behov av konsumtion, energi och transporter då människans nuvarande livsstil och samhällsmål inte går att kombinera med hållbart, klimatvänligt och rättvist. Vår livsstil är dock inte bara orsaken utan även lösningen på hållbarhetsutmaningar. Forskare och medlemmar av gemenskaper menar på att den miljömässigt fördelaktiga livsstil som förknippas med ekobyar och kollektivboenden kan bidra till att uppnå hållbarhetsmål, samt att gemenskaps-baserade initiativ har potential att utgöra en mer hållbar livsstil i jämförelse med konventionella samhällen. En litteraturöversikt och tre intervjuer genomfördes med syftet att undersöka hur ekobyar, som en avsiktlig gemenskap, kan hjälpa oss att leva innanför planetens gränser och vilka sociala utmaningar som ekobyar möter. Resultaten analyserades med hjälp av planetära gränser, donut-ekonomi och nerväxt som en del av emergent normteorin. Studien visar att ekobyar som en avsiktlig gemenskap kan hjälpa oss att leva innanför planetens gränser och bidra till en miljömässigt hållbar utveckling inom sex kategorier: ekologiska system, ekologisk arkitektur, energisystem, transportsystem, matsystem och miljövänligt beteende Sociala utmaningar som upptäcktes i ekobyar är otydliga normer och regler, brist på deltagande och egenemang, ledarskap, beslutsfattande, kommunikation, odelade visioner och mål, ojämn maktbalans, etiska frågor, arbetslöshet, organisering och olika bakgrunder. / To solve sustainability problems we need to pay more attention to self sustainable societies with demand for less consumption, energy and transport as our lifestyle can not be combined with sustainability, climate-friendly and fair. Researchers and members of communities believe that the environmentally beneficial lifestyle that is associated with ecovillages and collective housing can contribute to reaching sustainable development goals and a sustainable lifestyle. A literature review and interviews were carried out with the purpose to investigate how ecovillages can help us live within the planetary boundaries and which social challenges ecovillages face. The results showed that ecovillages can help us to live within the planetary boundaries within six categories: ecological systems, ecological architecture, energy systems, transport systems, food systems and environmental friendly behaviour. Social challenges in ecovillages were leadership, decision making, undivided visions and goals, uneven balance of power, ethical questions, unemployment, organisation and different backgrounds.

In recent years, there has been a shift in interest in travel, toward an increasing interest in sustainable travel and alternative forms of travel. As a result, there is also an interest in research studying these alternative travel concepts. Therefore, this qualitative study looks at experiences in ecovillages, focusing on volunteer workers. It examines the effects of the ecovillages that influence these volunteers to become environmental stewards. For this purpose, the concept of place attachment, as the connection to the place and the people within the ecovillage, is used. As well as the concept of transformative learning, i.e., the change of views and orientations of the participants of the learning program. To get a better overview of the context of the case study, the literature on voluntourism and voluntourism in the global north (due to the location of the case study), as well as on communities and eco-communities will be examined. The case study is an ecovillage in Ireland, located in Cloughjordan, the middle of Ireland. There, 11 in-depth interviews and observations were conducted, and the volunteers were interviewed about their experiences and their time in the ecovillage. The results of this study suggest three ways in which volunteers are influenced by their ecovillage experiences to become environmental stewards. On the one hand, this is the case due to the recognition of the importance of the developed soft skills. As this is learning for oneself and improving communication with other people. Furthermore, by learning with and from each other, the volunteers are led to take stewardship actions. Finally, it is also the community itself that manages to implement stewardship among the volunteers through the way of life and togetherness and the high value of environmental actions through place attachment.

Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, an intentional community of roughly 70 members in Northeastern Missouri, is working to create societal change through radical sustainable living practices and creation of a culture of eco-friendly and feminist norms. Members agree to abide by a set of ecological covenants and sustainability guidelines, committing to practices such as using only sustainably generated electricity, and no use or storage of personally owned vehicles on community property. Situated within the context of a sustainability study, this thesis explores how Dancing Rabbit is creating a more socially and ecologically just culture and how this lifestyle affects happiness and well-being.

A pesquisa organizada em quatro partes a partir do sistema de planejamento denominado Dragon Dreaming teve como objetivo a elaboração de um modelo de diretrizes para o desenvolvimento de ecovilas urbanas que possam ser utilizadas como opção para a transformação de bairros existentes ou a criação de novos assentamentos urbanos sustentáveis. Para isso foram abordados aspectos teóricos, visitas técnicas e participação em eventos sobre o tema que, a partir de métodos colaborativos, fundamentaram o processo de criação e implantação de um estudo de caso denominado Ecovila Urbana Sta. Margarida no município de Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil, como parte experimental da pesquisa. A parte I SONHO apresenta as aspirações individuais que, expressas de forma teórica na pesquisa, estabelecem o referencial coletivo incluindo os conceitos do termo Ecovila e das Dimensões da Sustentabilidade; a parte II PLANEJAMENTO foi estruturada para adequar a teoria ao ambiente referente à parte experimental da pesquisa a partir de estratégias e alternativas; a parte III REALIZAÇÃO apresenta os conceitos e ideias viáveis e possíveis de serem postos em prática a partir da consolidação do projeto da Ecovila Sta. Margarida e dos resultados não previstos; e a parte IV CELEBRAÇÃO estabelece o fechamento do ciclo acrescentando, a partir da prática, uma nova experiência, possibilitando a reprodução do experimento e da pesquisa ampliando, desta forma, a rede de ecovilas e consequentemente a qualidade de vida. Os elementos e sistemas fundamentados na Permacultura e Avaliação de Ciclo Fechado previstos para a constituição da Ecovila Sta. Margarida, em processo de aprovação pelos órgãos públicos, que complementam a legislação urbana, levando-se em conta as normas da Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas - ABNT, caracterizam o assentamento como uma Ecovila e formam as diretrizes pretendidas organizadas em formato de um projeto de Lei Municipal, criando parâmetros para o planejamento, avaliação e aprovação de novas ecovilas. / This research, organized into four parts, based on a planning system called Dragon Dreaming, aims at creating a guideline model for the development of urban ecovillages. This model can be used as an option for transforming existing neighborhoods or creating new sustainable urban settlements. For that, technical visits, participation in events on the subject, and addressing theoretical aspects led to collaborative methods, that substantiated the process of creating and implementing a case study called Santa Margarida Urban Ecovillage in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, as part of the experimental research. Part I, DREAM, presents individual aspirations that, expressed theoretically in the research, establish the collective reference that include the concepts of the term \"ecovillage\" and the Dimensions of Sustainability; Part II, PLANNING, was structured to ensure suitability between theory and environment as presented in the experimental part of the research and was based on strategies and alternatives; Part II, PLANNING, was structured to ensure that the theory was adequate to the environment, as presented in the experimental part of the research and based on strategies and alternatives; Part III, ACHIEVEMENT, presents feasible concepts, as experienced in the consolidation of the project Santa Margarida Ecovillage, in which unanticipated results were also considered and, Part IV CELEBRATION establishes the closing of the cycle, and, based on practice, adds a new experience, that enables future reproduction of the experiment and the research, thus contributing to the expansion of ecovillage networks and consequently the quality of life. The elements and systems based on the Permaculture and Evaluation of Closed Cycle planned for the creation of the Santa Margarida Ecovillage (today undergoing government approval procedures) complement the urban legislation, that takes into account the regulations established by the Brazilian Association for Technical Standards - ABNT, characterize the settlement as an ecovillage and constitute guidelines in a format of Municipal Law project, thereby creating parameters for planning, assessment and approval of new ecovillages.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:22:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mirian Cristina Lozano.pdf: 8936847 bytes, checksum: 86497d26a6d252423769fa27284380a5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-15 / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo / The purpose of this research is to study two experiences of permaculture communities and other sorts of alternative agriculture which are generally considered agroecological practices. I choose two socially distinct experiences for the reason that one of them refers to landless rural workers, whereas the ecovillage is part of an alternative communities middle-class movement. This enables us to identify the social aspects to which it is possible to assign the amount of success of those examples. The communities that have been studied were described following their history, economic and social condition, intellectual and ideological universe; in a way they could be compared to evaluate the process of how to achieve sustainability. I believe that the relevance of studying such experiences is due to the fact that they might constitute the technical support to social projects seeking to empower and to further human development of small and low-resources communities. Especially in the Brazilian context, they can work as frameworks for agrarian reform settlements, traditional communities and family agriculture in general. Ultimately, there is little scientific literature dealing with permaculture and other sorts of alternative agriculture in communities in Brazil. To summarize, there are still several challenges for those communities to achieve self-sufficiency, difficulties which can be overcome and some successes that can be reproduced. Anyhow they are on the road to agroecology / Esta pesquisa tem como finalidade o estudo de duas experiências de comunidades praticantes da permacultura e demais vertentes da agricultura alternativa, que de modo geral são consideradas práticas agroecológicas. Escolhi duas experiências socialmente distintas, pois enquanto uma reúne trabalhadores sem-terra, a outra ecovila faz parte do movimento de comunidades alternativas de classe média, o que permite identificar os aspectos sociais aos quais se possa atribuir o maior ou menor sucesso das experiências. As comunidades estudadas foram descritas de acordo com a sua história, condição social e econômica, universo intelectual e ideológico, de modo a poder serem comparadas quanto ao processo para se alcançar a sustentabilidade. Acredito que a relevância de se estudar tais experiências está no fato de que podem se constituir na sustentação técnica de projetos sociais de empoderamento e desenvolvimento humano de comunidades pequenas e com poucos recursos. No caso brasileiro, em especial, elas podem servir de modelos para assentamentos de reforma agrária, comunidades tradicionais e agricultura familiar em geral. Sobretudo porque há pouca literatura científica no estudo da permacultura e demais correntes da agricultura alternativa em comunidades no Brasil. Em síntese, ainda há muitos desafios para essas comunidades alcançarem a autossuficiência, dificuldades que podem ser superadas e acertos que devem ser replicados. De qualquer modo, estão no caminho da agroecologia

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:57:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mirian Cristina Lozano.pdf: 8936847 bytes, checksum: 86497d26a6d252423769fa27284380a5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-15 / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo / The purpose of this research is to study two experiences of permaculture communities and other sorts of alternative agriculture which are generally considered agroecological practices. I choose two socially distinct experiences for the reason that one of them refers to landless rural workers, whereas the ecovillage is part of an alternative communities middle-class movement. This enables us to identify the social aspects to which it is possible to assign the amount of success of those examples. The communities that have been studied were described following their history, economic and social condition, intellectual and ideological universe; in a way they could be compared to evaluate the process of how to achieve sustainability. I believe that the relevance of studying such experiences is due to the fact that they might constitute the technical support to social projects seeking to empower and to further human development of small and low-resources communities. Especially in the Brazilian context, they can work as frameworks for agrarian reform settlements, traditional communities and family agriculture in general. Ultimately, there is little scientific literature dealing with permaculture and other sorts of alternative agriculture in communities in Brazil. To summarize, there are still several challenges for those communities to achieve self-sufficiency, difficulties which can be overcome and some successes that can be reproduced. Anyhow they are on the road to agroecology / Esta pesquisa tem como finalidade o estudo de duas experiências de comunidades praticantes da permacultura e demais vertentes da agricultura alternativa, que de modo geral são consideradas práticas agroecológicas. Escolhi duas experiências socialmente distintas, pois enquanto uma reúne trabalhadores sem-terra, a outra ecovila faz parte do movimento de comunidades alternativas de classe média, o que permite identificar os aspectos sociais aos quais se possa atribuir o maior ou menor sucesso das experiências. As comunidades estudadas foram descritas de acordo com a sua história, condição social e econômica, universo intelectual e ideológico, de modo a poder serem comparadas quanto ao processo para se alcançar a sustentabilidade. Acredito que a relevância de se estudar tais experiências está no fato de que podem se constituir na sustentação técnica de projetos sociais de empoderamento e desenvolvimento humano de comunidades pequenas e com poucos recursos. No caso brasileiro, em especial, elas podem servir de modelos para assentamentos de reforma agrária, comunidades tradicionais e agricultura familiar em geral. Sobretudo porque há pouca literatura científica no estudo da permacultura e demais correntes da agricultura alternativa em comunidades no Brasil. Em síntese, ainda há muitos desafios para essas comunidades alcançarem a autossuficiência, dificuldades que podem ser superadas e acertos que devem ser replicados. De qualquer modo, estão no caminho da agroecologia

Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar os aspectos culturais de uma ecovila: seu cotidiano, suas práticas, as relações que seus membros estabelecem entre si e com a natureza, seus projetos e conflitos. A pesquisa de campo compreendeu observações e entrevistas em uma ecovila específica, desenvolvendo-se com base nos conceitos de olhar, de Simone Weil e Walter Benjamin; da simpatia, de Ecléa Bosi e Henri Bergson e da alternância entre sujeito e objeto, de Paulo de Salles Oliveira. Este trabalho buscou apresentar, também, conceitos como comunidade, de Martin Buber; cultura, de Alfredo Bosi e James Jasper; e resistência, de Ernesto Sabato. Partindo de um olhar crítico sobre a cultura da sociedade de consumo (Richard Sennett), a ecovila foi entendida, então, como criadora de uma cultura alternativa: afirmando-se como resistência a determinadas práticas e valores da cultura dominante e, ao mesmo tempo, propondo novas possibilidades de vida, trabalho, lazer e relacionamentos. Este estudo procurou, ao final, aprofundar a reflexão sobre aquelas dimensões da vida em ecovila que apontam para uma construção cultural de resistência e proposição alternativa, bem como sobre as dimensões que apresentam desafios para a mudança cultural. Oferece questionamentos sobre algumas de suas práticas e assinala possíveis caminhos para a superação dos desafios percebidos / This research aimed at investigating the cultural aspects of an ecovillage: its routine activities, practices, the relationship its members establish among themselves and with nature, their projects and conflicts. The field research included observations and interviews in a specific ecovillage, and was based on the concepts of gaze, from Simone Weil and Walter Benjamin; of sympathy, from Ecléa Bosi and Henri Bergson and of alternation between subject and object, from Paulo de Salles Oliveira. This study also presented concepts like community, from Martin Buber; culture, from Alfredo Bosi and James Jasper; and resistance, from Ernesto Sabato. Starting from a critical analysis of the culture of the consumer society (Richard Sennett), the ecovillage was then understood as a creator of an alternative culture: affirming itself as resistance to certain values and practices of the dominant culture, and, at the same time, proposing new possibilities of life, work, leisure, and relationships. At the end, this study attempted to deepen the reflection about those dimensions of life in ecovillage that point to a cultural construction of resistance and alternative proposition, as well as about the dimensions that present challenges to cultural change. It questions some of their practices and indicates possible ways to overcome the perceived challenges

Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar os aspectos culturais de uma ecovila: seu cotidiano, suas práticas, as relações que seus membros estabelecem entre si e com a natureza, seus projetos e conflitos. A pesquisa de campo compreendeu observações e entrevistas em uma ecovila específica, desenvolvendo-se com base nos conceitos de olhar, de Simone Weil e Walter Benjamin; da simpatia, de Ecléa Bosi e Henri Bergson e da alternância entre sujeito e objeto, de Paulo de Salles Oliveira. Este trabalho buscou apresentar, também, conceitos como comunidade, de Martin Buber; cultura, de Alfredo Bosi e James Jasper; e resistência, de Ernesto Sabato. Partindo de um olhar crítico sobre a cultura da sociedade de consumo (Richard Sennett), a ecovila foi entendida, então, como criadora de uma cultura alternativa: afirmando-se como resistência a determinadas práticas e valores da cultura dominante e, ao mesmo tempo, propondo novas possibilidades de vida, trabalho, lazer e relacionamentos. Este estudo procurou, ao final, aprofundar a reflexão sobre aquelas dimensões da vida em ecovila que apontam para uma construção cultural de resistência e proposição alternativa, bem como sobre as dimensões que apresentam desafios para a mudança cultural. Oferece questionamentos sobre algumas de suas práticas e assinala possíveis caminhos para a superação dos desafios percebidos / This research aimed at investigating the cultural aspects of an ecovillage: its routine activities, practices, the relationship its members establish among themselves and with nature, their projects and conflicts. The field research included observations and interviews in a specific ecovillage, and was based on the concepts of gaze, from Simone Weil and Walter Benjamin; of sympathy, from Ecléa Bosi and Henri Bergson and of alternation between subject and object, from Paulo de Salles Oliveira. This study also presented concepts like community, from Martin Buber; culture, from Alfredo Bosi and James Jasper; and resistance, from Ernesto Sabato. Starting from a critical analysis of the culture of the consumer society (Richard Sennett), the ecovillage was then understood as a creator of an alternative culture: affirming itself as resistance to certain values and practices of the dominant culture, and, at the same time, proposing new possibilities of life, work, leisure, and relationships. At the end, this study attempted to deepen the reflection about those dimensions of life in ecovillage that point to a cultural construction of resistance and alternative proposition, as well as about the dimensions that present challenges to cultural change. It questions some of their practices and indicates possible ways to overcome the perceived challenges

A pesquisa organizada em quatro partes a partir do sistema de planejamento denominado Dragon Dreaming teve como objetivo a elaboração de um modelo de diretrizes para o desenvolvimento de ecovilas urbanas que possam ser utilizadas como opção para a transformação de bairros existentes ou a criação de novos assentamentos urbanos sustentáveis. Para isso foram abordados aspectos teóricos, visitas técnicas e participação em eventos sobre o tema que, a partir de métodos colaborativos, fundamentaram o processo de criação e implantação de um estudo de caso denominado Ecovila Urbana Sta. Margarida no município de Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil, como parte experimental da pesquisa. A parte I SONHO apresenta as aspirações individuais que, expressas de forma teórica na pesquisa, estabelecem o referencial coletivo incluindo os conceitos do termo Ecovila e das Dimensões da Sustentabilidade; a parte II PLANEJAMENTO foi estruturada para adequar a teoria ao ambiente referente à parte experimental da pesquisa a partir de estratégias e alternativas; a parte III REALIZAÇÃO apresenta os conceitos e ideias viáveis e possíveis de serem postos em prática a partir da consolidação do projeto da Ecovila Sta. Margarida e dos resultados não previstos; e a parte IV CELEBRAÇÃO estabelece o fechamento do ciclo acrescentando, a partir da prática, uma nova experiência, possibilitando a reprodução do experimento e da pesquisa ampliando, desta forma, a rede de ecovilas e consequentemente a qualidade de vida. Os elementos e sistemas fundamentados na Permacultura e Avaliação de Ciclo Fechado previstos para a constituição da Ecovila Sta. Margarida, em processo de aprovação pelos órgãos públicos, que complementam a legislação urbana, levando-se em conta as normas da Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas - ABNT, caracterizam o assentamento como uma Ecovila e formam as diretrizes pretendidas organizadas em formato de um projeto de Lei Municipal, criando parâmetros para o planejamento, avaliação e aprovação de novas ecovilas. / This research, organized into four parts, based on a planning system called Dragon Dreaming, aims at creating a guideline model for the development of urban ecovillages. This model can be used as an option for transforming existing neighborhoods or creating new sustainable urban settlements. For that, technical visits, participation in events on the subject, and addressing theoretical aspects led to collaborative methods, that substantiated the process of creating and implementing a case study called Santa Margarida Urban Ecovillage in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, as part of the experimental research. Part I, DREAM, presents individual aspirations that, expressed theoretically in the research, establish the collective reference that include the concepts of the term \"ecovillage\" and the Dimensions of Sustainability; Part II, PLANNING, was structured to ensure suitability between theory and environment as presented in the experimental part of the research and was based on strategies and alternatives; Part II, PLANNING, was structured to ensure that the theory was adequate to the environment, as presented in the experimental part of the research and based on strategies and alternatives; Part III, ACHIEVEMENT, presents feasible concepts, as experienced in the consolidation of the project Santa Margarida Ecovillage, in which unanticipated results were also considered and, Part IV CELEBRATION establishes the closing of the cycle, and, based on practice, adds a new experience, that enables future reproduction of the experiment and the research, thus contributing to the expansion of ecovillage networks and consequently the quality of life. The elements and systems based on the Permaculture and Evaluation of Closed Cycle planned for the creation of the Santa Margarida Ecovillage (today undergoing government approval procedures) complement the urban legislation, that takes into account the regulations established by the Brazilian Association for Technical Standards - ABNT, characterize the settlement as an ecovillage and constitute guidelines in a format of Municipal Law project, thereby creating parameters for planning, assessment and approval of new ecovillages.