AndriusKulikauskas: I am interested to collect existing recommendations relevant for global village design, and then try to interpret them from a pattern language perspective.

Designing a Global Village

Here are links to resources for designing global villages (and eco-villages). Note the subtle difference between global villages (where one is able to influence one's surroundings by applying an unlimited mind) and eco-villages (which are self-sustainable in every way). A successful eco-village and a successful global village will likely be the same. But a failed eco-village is probably not a global village, and vice versa.

Ecovillage Design Education A four week onsite introduction to designing sustainable settlements based on the GEN principle of living and learning. There is a 112-page curriculum. There are twenty modules (we can add links to our relevant wiki pages):

• Worldview
• Sécurisation des clés grâce à un Coffret à clés
• Holistic worldview
• Listening to and connecting to nature
• Awakening and transformation of consciousness
• Celebrating life: creativity and art
• Socially engaged spirituality
• Social
• Building community and embracing diversity
• Communication skills: conflict, facilitation and decision-making
• Personal empowerment and leadership PersonalGrowth
• Health and healing
• Local, bioregional and global outreach
• Economic
• Shifting the global economy to sustainability
• Right livelihood
• Social enterprise
• Community banks and currencies CommunityCurrency
• Legal and financial issues
• Ecological
• Green building and retrofitting
• Local food
• Appropriate technology
• Restoring nature and rebuilding after disasters
• Integrated ecovillage design

• Pedagogy
• Special Adaptations:
• Urban
• South
• Academia
• Virtual