Existing in a community where everyone is different, where the nationality is not a measurable scale for splitting people by their skin or language, a place where “my values and goods are also yours” its apparently an utopic imagine in these days. Why did I use “hope”? Cause we need an optimistic point of view for our own perspectives and for the future communities.
“Auroville wants to be an universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.” says one of their fundamental declarations of principles.
The city is located in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, south India and it was founded in 1968 by Mirra Richard (“[The] Mother”) and designed by architect Roger Anger.
Today Auroville is recognised as the first and only internationally endorsed ongoing experiment in human unity and transformation of consciousness, also concerned with sustainable living and the future cultural, environmental, social and spiritual needs of mankind. All about Auroville you will find here.
3 Comments
ioan
May 21, 2010 at 9:02 amHey, we have that here in Romania too… its called Bucharest! Its a city where all kind of different people, from all over the world, with different political or religious views, try to live together as a big comunity… Unfortunetly, they usually fail, somewhere between envying the person next to you and stabing them in the back to get his place :))
Who am i kidding, its a nice town. To bad its not more like this one you are showing here. If more towns were like that, maybe it would make a better world in the end… at least until people with white socks and black shoes will come visit and start trowing garbage everywhere…
Tudor
June 1, 2010 at 1:25 pmHello, Ioan!
Sadly, the contemporary consciousness acts like an umbrella in the rain, no one else is allowed under “my” space, my air. Well, in this experimental city things are opposite to what we all experienced. They are giving us a choice for a better inside and outside world… And I won`t take the chance to speak about Bucharest.:P
cesar valdivieso
January 23, 2018 at 11:48 pmA CITY TO SAVE THE WORLD
Despite the high quality of life that some of the so-called developed nations have achieved, the truth is that the world, considered as a group of countries located in a fragile and geographically limited biosphere, is threatened with extinction due to human conflicts and the depredation of the environment.
Notwithstanding the good and very important actions taken by groups and individuals in favor of a better world, deterioration at all levels continues to increase dangerously.
After more than thirty years dedicated to these matters, and since “an image is worth a thousand words” we have come up with a novel idea of designing a model city that has all the characteristics of infrastructure and organization inherent to the peaceful and sustainable society that we want for ourselves and our descendants, whose representation in the form of scale models, animated series, feature films, video games and theme parks, would constitute a model to follow to generate the necessary changes.
The prototype that we present has some characteristics that are opposed, sometimes in a radical way, to the religious, economic, political and educational traditions and customs that have been transmitted from generation to generation, yet are the causes of the aforementioned problems, and therefore must be transformed.
If you are interested in knowing about this project, or even participating in it, we invite you to visit our website https://elmundofelizdelfuturo.blogspot.com/ (written in Spanish and English), where we are working in that sense.