Muringa vila (

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...

: 'the place of the muringa tree') is an international development project in

Kovalam Kovalam is a beach and seaside resort in the city of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India. Kovalam is located southeast of the city center. The beaches around Kovalam are popular vacation destinations for both domestic and international travelle ...

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

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, for sustainable building and income structures for the local participants. Structured after the concept of

creative participation Creative Participation is a term used in social sciences to describe the position of the observer towards the observed. ''Creative Participation'' - originally a Lucien Lévy-Bruhl term from the 1920s for analysing social relations of cultural group ...

''Muringa Vila'' integrates vital interests of its cultural creative participants as well as environmental and spiritual aspects, providing housing and income through self-created business as well as pursuing a

sustainable Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long period of time. Definitions of this term are disputed and have varied with literature, context, and time. Sustainability usually has three dimensions (or pillars): env ...

local infrastructure. The project was founded by a local fisherman and a German ethnologist in 2005 with the goal of finding practical solutions for problems of the indigenous society of this particular place which are created by a changing global environment, i.e., depleted oceans (as a source of income for the fishermen),

gentrification Gentrification is the process whereby the character of a neighborhood changes through the influx of more Wealth, affluent residents (the "gentry") and investment. There is no agreed-upon definition of gentrification. In public discourse, it has ...

of the village, emigration, educational deficits, immediate environmental threads, the take over of the beaches by tourism.Paul Drechsel
Logik der Globalisierung
Mainz, 2002

In literature

* Dr. V. Dahlheimer in: ''Die verwobene Kultur der Zukunft'' . Ethnologische Verständniswege für dynamische Metalanguage-Systeme, 2007. DDC-Notation 306 DC22ger*Creative Participation: Responsibility-Taking in the Political World, Paradigm Publishers, 2009, * Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, "''The Cultural Creatives''". New York: Harmony Books, 2000.

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