Commons Blog
“Living Design” in Context: Empowerment at Windekind Commons
Windekind Home Not Everybody gets to be a locomotive Engineer, at Windekind we empower our visitors, after careful instruction, with the ability to run trains/ In traditional housing developments, the governance model is one in which the developer, whose motives are profit-based versus community-based, makes all the land use, design, and construction decisions for…
Read More“Kindness, when given away, keeps coming back.” Amish Proverb
Windekind Home Marijke and I have always been at home in Amish communities, starting in 1963, when we were exploring a country lane near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and an observant Amish farmer noticed our curiosity in a water powered pump mechanism and invited us to join a nearby wedding…
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