Community

A Social Experiment

Digger Street is a living social experiment in working out ways to live outside the traditional consumerist model.

It does ask some serious questions and so far has come up with some really good answers.

Digger Street asks the same of each participant. By recognising that through the community effort of those who have gone before we have worked out ways to provide food, pay bills, supply internet and phone at an amount that is not achievable in the Single Unit House. this allows also allows us the greater privilege of each having more time to pursue what is really important to one self whether it be arts, environment or community building.

Some terms that might apply to Digger Street, New Urban, Co-Hosting, Intentional Community, Artist in Residence and yes that old perennial Commune

Single Unit Living was the Experiment

The idea that we should each own our own has made many of us poor and some of us rich. We are isolating ourselves out of a thousand skillsets we have known since our inception.

Maybe its time to have a look at "the single house block" theory and see how far it has got us.
Have we have sacrificed too much and lost sight of what it is like to live within a neighbourhood

Pull down the fence

By pooling the resources of four neighbouring houses we have been able to substantially reduce running costs and reduce the overall communal hours versus sum of individual block hours.

Environmentally better

By only buying in bulk have we reduced our consumption of waste packaging, become shopping bag free, reduced the number of Council picks ups by 75%, created more common ground allowing for community gardens, chickens and open areas for kids to run further without crossing the road.

Eat Better

We buy our fruit and veggies from the local markets and other stocks are purchased in bulk. Through our bulk buying of food we have reduced our food expenditure dramatically with no more trips to the supermarket anymore? As a result impulse buying goes away.

There is nothing to buy inside Digger Street

We can sort this out as a community in a far more efficient, enabling and freeing system.

Living together as family, as clan or tribe is the human way and by removing the fences and learning to rebuild communities around a number of houses is one way to reduce you footprint, have more time for the good things in your life and from your learning's teach and share with those around you

Digger Street is an experiment and if you would like to participate then we would like to hear from YOU!