The Goals of the program are:
-to bring together the diverse aspects of the community.
-to raise funds (where applicable)
-to develop leadership and communication skills.
-to strengthen community and create a shared sense of accomplishment amongst participants
-to assist individuals successfully lead their community in unfired earthen construction projects.
-to build durable functional structures with unfired earthen construction technology.
-to develop a blueprint for the successful festive earthen building event that can be replicated and that is scalable.
-to transform the cost prohibitive, labor intensive elements of unfired earthen construction techniques (adobe, rammed earth, cob, mud brick building, wattle and daub) into fun, festive, desirable community activities.
-to empower communities with the knowledge of how to create an extremely durable and non toxic building material.
-to create a culture of festive earthen builders that can work on larger projects.
-to gain hands-on experience of how to use unfired earthen construction technology to create the main components of shelter: foundation, floor, walls, furniture and roofing.
-to develop and revive the science and components of The Village.
The Mission of the program is to develop, share and proliferate the festive unfired earthen construction technology.
The Vision is a journey that begins with people coming together in the spirit of fun, cooperation, creative self expression and learning to build functional earthen structures. As the journey continues, inspired individuals attract others, creating a networked culture of festive earthen builders that organize larger events and take on larger projects. From building benches, to backyard cottages, homes, community common houses, neighborhood clusters of homes and villages. The process is refined through repetition and shared learnings. The journey reaches a point where individuals have magically acquired the means for building shelter that is aesthetically pleasing, inspirational, extremely durable, and free from any cost to the environment or financial debt and with an inherent sense of community and long term sustainability. Along the way, the lines between work and play, giving and recieving, performer and audience, reality and imagination have been blurred. A new found sense of freedom and security has been ushered in. The journey continues.
