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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 learning the communal processes of those who have lived here before, you can be involved in learning ways to provide food, pay bills, supply internet at an amount that is not achievable in the Single Unit House. This allows each of us the greater privilege of having more time to pursue what is really important to one's 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
The idea that we should each own our own has made many of us poor and some of us rich. We are isolating ourselves and some are making extraordinary profits in doing so. Battery caged humans, never been a more profitable livestock to farm. Each needing their own multiple set of appliances and whitegood's, each with it's own personal diet, clothing and music which co-incidentally increases the individual hours one must work to achieve them. In a nutshell we are being farmed and the way they do it is making most of us sick and some others very rich. So if we are to be farmed, then lets start with small steps in improving the animals quality of life, lets just aim for Free Range Humans. Digger Street is about creating this new paradigm ina practical, replicable way. It is a community where values outweigh things, where more money means nothing, quality of life over xbox, where mateship expects the best of you and most of all you can pursue what is important to you with less destractions, ideal for artists and peaceful co-existers.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
