[p2p-research] Wiki PaG, collective housing project

[Michel Bauwens]

this is a fascinating project Imma, looking forward to meet you in Berlin

(I'm copying some people who would be interested in learning about the
existence of your project)

Michel

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Imma Harms <imma_harms at gmx.de> wrote:

>  Hi, Michel
>
> Here comes the text for PaG-Wiki.
>
> Greeting
>
> Imma
>
> -----------------------
>
> *Who are we (PaG)?*
>
> „Houses for those who live in them, factories for those who work there“.
> These demands were meant to defeat profit-oriented thinking and the
> accumulation of capital. However over the course of the years a large part
> of the property which we had purchased as a community crept back into
> private property. This experience led to the founding of the
> ‘Projektwerkstatt auf Gegenseitigkeit’ (PaG), which is based on the concept
> of separating ownership of a property from its use. The name PaG can be
> roughly translated as  ‘workshop for mutual support’.
>
> PaG  consists of people who live and work with each other in various
> projects and seek to shape society (together with individuals not tied to a
> particular project). We share our knowledge, our (practical) work and share
> the responsibility for the grounds and the building of the property. Its
> ownership is in the hands of a foundation (which we started) and which is
> available to groups on a loan-basis. As a group we take care and assist in
> making sure that the project is doing justice to the aims it formulated.
>
> The circle of projects which co-operate with one another is meant to be
> extended. For that we are making efforts to get hold of further means  to
> effectively support new projects. In this way we are trying to get closer to
> our goal of softening up property relationships so they lose their influence
> on our social life.
>
> PaG is coming into being through collective processes and is itself an
> experiment.
>
> PaG projects so far exist near Templin (Karlshof), in Biesenthal (Wukania)
> and in Strausberg (aller_Dings).
>
>
>



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