Intentional Community

[ragani]

I really want to create/participate in an intentional community. It has been one of my dreams for years, and one that I still want to see as a reality. Especially when(if) I become a parent. This would be such a great environment to be raised as a child.

My mom sent me a link to Dragonvale, an intentional community being developed in Main. We could so do something like this here is we could find the land (and in the bay area, that is a big if).

This concept of an intentional community has a lot of appeal, although it is not the reason I want to be part of one, and I am not sure that it is the kind I would want to develop myself.

What do you think, guys, can you imagine our very own sustainable community with a Renaissance Faire built in? And if so, what should we call it?

Comments

[terpsichoros.livejournal.com]

Reading the descriptions over at the Co-housing site you linked to, I'd consider something like that, though I'm not sure my temperament is terribly well suited for it. It sounds like I thought it might (above), and I don't see any inherent problems with it.

The descriptions of Dragonvale make my skin crawl, though some of that is a matter of taste. I predict that if it is successful, it will remain a fairly small core group of residents - essentially a small, "intentional family"-run Faire and SCA venue. If the residential/communal group gets much larger, I suspect they'll either become much less communal, or they'll fail. There's a strong element of overplanning - they've got 14 guilds figured out even though they've only got six members? And check out the description of the "Wenches Guild".