Making Home

The world currently faces unprecedented cultural, economic and ecological challenge. This is a text book; an instructional guide for myself, my family, and future generations to follow in growing a new culture of humans as a fundamently positive presence for each other, and the world.

makinghome / ‘meɪkɪŋhəʊm /  v. 1. [General] The creation and management of a house, especially as an abiding place of ancestors, affections and people gathering; 2. The re-classification of all jobs to do with 'makinghome' as belonging to one category 3. An inquiry into ‘what if every act of design, construction and management of a house made the world a better place? 4. A restorative show house and garden project in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Anchor timescale
MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD. Nature /// Permanent ecologies on the earth's surface (slow change)

15,000 YEARS OLD. Permanent modern human existence, culture and family

10,000 YEARS OLD. Permanent residential edifice (Architecture, Building)

6,000 YEARS OLD. Permanent residential gardens

Anchor identities
We see ourselves (or at least one person for each identity) in the house as embodying the following 3 identities:
 * 1) Positive humans (post-colonial's Pakeha, belonging in a post-re-colonisation era, positive settlers, post-feminism, post-mythopoetic masulinity, belonging, citizen's, Eudaimonic's, biographers, storytellers, artists, genealogists, ancestral recovery)
 * 2) Designers (Builder, Architect, Engineers, Plumbers, Electrician etc)
 * 3) Gardeners (Nature observers, gatherers, hunters, providers, famers, cooks etc)

Anchor methods
We use the following families of knowledge as methods to use in carrying out makinghome. Support methods
 * 1) Ecology (Biology, Botany, Animal husbandry)
 * 2)  Kauapapa Pakeha (culture first approach)
 * 3) Anthropology
 * 4) History
 * 5) Family history
 * 6)  Architecture, building and home-making
 * 7) Natural building
 * 8) Living Building Challenge
 * 9) Permaculture Design
 * 10) Radical home making
 * 11)  Gardening
 * 12) Ancient gardening
 * 13) 'Organic' gardening
 * 14) Biointensive gardening
 * 15) Permaculture methods
 * 16) Edible shrublands
 * 17) Restoration agriculture
 * 1) Community cultural development (Cultural studies)
 * 2) Leadership development
 * 3) Social enterprise
 * 4) Psychology
 * 5) Fundamental human needs theory (Manfred Maxneef)

Anchor urban formula
Based on a detached house on a free hold NZ section.

1/3 of the section occupied by the house/ deck

2/3 of the section occupied by the garden

House/ deck

2/6 bedrooms

2/6 living/ kitchen

1/6 bath/ laundry/ ensuite

1/6 deck

For example, at 11 Nottingham Crescent the section is:

450 m2 section =

150 m2 house/ deck

300 m2 garden

Garden

3/6 edible shrubland (perennial)

2/6 cultivated beds (annual)

1/6 everything else (yoga lawn, paths, chicken coop)

For example, at 11 Nottingham Crescent the section is:

150m2 edible shrubland (perennial)

100m2 cultivated beds (annual)

50m2 everything else (yoga lawn, paths, chicken coop)