Eco-nomads
Collecting friend, land and tent
2024
Can humans play a responsible part in a
natural ecosystem?
Can humans play a responsible part of a natural ecosystem?
I believe the answer to this question lays in combining community (friend), understanding of ecology (land) and reshaping the relation we have with our houses (tent). To bring the possibility for housing in the hands of the people, questioning ownership of land and space. Eco-nomads presents the tool to build your own tent and provides information on nomadic lifestyle, as well as tutorials like how to build your own toilet or how to start a garden.
The zine is a collection of philosophies, try-outs and designs. This open-source format invites you to take a zine with you on the search for your ways of living, and fill the zine with your findings. In this way the project is not just mine, but from everyone who wants to contribute and learn.
Setting up the tent:
Tent
Architecture is believed to be a complicated academic practise. An architect is separate from a law-system, and politics is also a complicated academic practise. We have made the people believe they can not do it themselves and we have used the laws to construct these believes. We have taken housing, a primary necessity of life, out of the hands of the people. And even though there are many reasons why this is so and fairly they are far removed from meaning to do wrong, I do however believe housing should be in the hands of people. I would like to see the community making use of a building to be part of the designing and constructing of this building. Anyone can make a shelter. It is embedded in us from generation to generation going back to the first to wander the earth and expended to all other living species. Shelter can take many different forms. From a tree to shelter us from rain to bush-craft inspired building techniques. Tarps and hammocks, tents and caves. You can find shelter or create shelter. It is entirely up to you.
Within the context of nomadic lifestyle constructed to sustain ecosystems I was thinking it is suitable to make a tent. So that is what I’m doing. This is my personal preference as it gives me the opportunity to be surrounded with natural textiles, which I love. Also it provides a way to pack the tent and bring it to a new land. But it doesn’t always have to be a tent. I encourage the nomad to find their own chosen form of shelter.
Find your tent
Measurements and design
Material test
The zine
The zine provides a tactile open source format to share information like the designs of the tent, how to live with nature and other projects as inspiration.
