The girl is telling her future self what she had learned about sustainability in architecture.
A sustainable house can maintain itself without any artificial energy, it's in harmony with nature, with its surroundings. Since nature is different everywhere, there are no ready to use solutions.
How did she learn all that so fast? After settling down her family started hosting travelers, and one of them was an architect.
The future-self is explaining that people started connecting to each other in a new way, neither paid, not for free. Thanks to the sharing economy people noticed that there’s a great balance in humanity.
The characters discuss that this new way is different from doing things for free, it’s different from demanding from others. It has never been done before.
In the last part of the film the future self is telling about new technologies, that appeared after people overcame the need to pay or to be paid for their lives.
At the end two architects compare: a modern human in the future is like a sustainable house, in harmony with its surroundings, requiring no artificial outer energy.
The characters of the film Architecture Life Dialogue started connecting to each other. They overcame limitations of a two way exchange. They noticed a great balance, and started seeing beyond a few connections.
If I give you - I don't need to ask anything back from you, there's someone around who wants to give what I need, whose life is an answer to my need. We are all balanced. Before we perceived our connections as a stick with two ends (i give you, if you give me), but we are a more complicated beautiful network, that can look more like a network of neurons.
If I give you - I don't need to ask anything back from you, there's someone around who wants to give what I need, whose life is an answer to my need. We are all balanced. Before we perceived our connections as a stick with two ends (i give you, if you give me), but we are a more complicated beautiful network, that can look more like a network of neurons.
Here are the platforms where no money is involved, where giving is gaining, where taking is giving.
Amazing people that we met thanks to these platforms showed us that there's a great balance in the humanity. The moment I need something, someone's life is an answer to my question.
These web-platforms help people in what they want (accommodation, help, food), but they are not only about services, they are about people.
Hosting an architect changed the lives of our characters: helped the girl to become an architect, helped the architect to see new solutions.
Hosting an architect changed the lives of our characters: helped the girl to become an architect, helped the architect to see new solutions.
Sharing skills worldwide:
Timerepublik - users share their skills, gaining "time" on their profiles. Later they can use this time - when they need help from others. On your profile you have minutes or hours of time, you can ask anyone to help you with anything for this amount of time. (walk your dog, build you a webpage).
Here’s everything about the platform: timerepublik.com/faq
(you can sign up on the main page timerepublik.com or welcome to join with my invitation: https://timerepublik.com/referer/inessakraft)
Couchsurfing - the message of this platform is written on their home page: you have friends in ... - you just haven't met them yet. So, create your profile, and find: there are your friends, there are your "twins", your people in the city you've never been before. It's truly rewarding and it's an amazing adventure, to meet a likeminded person, to know there are people just like you.
CS is one of the oldest peer-to-peer platforms, and it has gained a lot of critique, though it's usually from people who just tried to use it as a free hotel.
CS is one of the oldest peer-to-peer platforms, and it has gained a lot of critique, though it's usually from people who just tried to use it as a free hotel.
Workaway - World travelers connect with locals. Travelers help hosts for 3-5 hours per day, while hosts accommodate and feed travelers. Tasks range from help with computers to training horses and building houses, but again the meaning of the site is help, not a free labour, nor a free accommodation.
There are more platforms, for example: Hostwriter.org, EducatorsHomeShare.org and others.
Foodsharing -
A lot of said in the film about food sharing. A talented journalist couldn't buy her own dinner.
Connecting the journalist had dinner and a fantastic idea for her new articles, while the traveler stopped waisting food, and stopped wasting her chef's talent.
Here's a food sharing website - olioex.com, in its FAQ it's said:
Only share food that you would be willing to eat yourself, or non-food items that could be of value to someone else.
It doesn’t matter if you only give, only take, or do a little bit of both. It takes two to tango after all.
-Do I have to give and take?
-No. Many people will do both, but some people will only add, and others will only request. It’s up to you.
And there are numerous local groups in facebook, for example:
In 2011, collaborative consumption was named one of TIME magazine's 10 ideas that will change the world. The film is about one of the alternative futures, where this idea indeed changed the world, where a human acts like a sustainable house - in harmony with its surroundings, requiring no artificial energy. Living a new life full of Light, Energy, and Delight.
Here I'll start a group, to gather as many links to the sharing economy websites as possible:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/571406203292830/
You are welcome to join.
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