Muringa vila (
Malayalam: 'the place of the
muringa tree') is an international development project in
Kovalam
Kovalam is a region in the city of Trivandrum, around 13 km southwest of the city center, whose beaches are a tourist destination.
Etymology
Kovalam means "coconut grove," after the coconut trees which are common there.
History
Kovala ...
,
Kerala,
India, 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 grou ...
''Muringa Vila'' integrates vital interests of its
cultural creative
''The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World'' is a nonfiction social sciences and sociology book by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson (born 1942), The authors introduced the term "Cultural Cr ...
participants as well as environmental and spiritual aspects, providing housing and income through self-created business as well as pursuing a
sustainable
Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livin ...
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 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.
References
External links
Muringa Vila webpagebuilding muringa vila
Social anthropology
Cultural anthropology
Urban planning
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