Panga

Supporting experimental approaches to collectively meeting our daily needs of shelter, food, transport, care, and connection.

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Landscape

We want something better than the individualist isolation, brutal unfairness and impending ecological collapse of late-stage capitalism, and we don’t want to wait for top-down change to provide it for us.

Sprouting from the cracks in late stage capitalism, Panga supports explorations of potential better futures - trying them out now to build better lives for ourselves, and helping develop models useful to others. It’s not a singular utopia, it’s a way of collaborating just enough to support multiple autonomous experiments and to connect with all the great projects that already exist.

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Invitation Principles

Panga is a project to support experimental approaches to housing that collectively meet our daily needs of food, care, shelter, energy, transport, and safety.

Inviting new people to participate in various aspects of Panga Anyone involved Panga can support new people to participate with them by following a transparent invitation process. Collectivist experiments have highlighted the value of cultivating informal networks large enough to support multiple self-governing groups yet small enough that everyone is connected to everyone else, either directly or via someone they trust. Panga is intended to complement the continued flourishing of such networks, by focusing on supporting small self-governing groups to participate in multiple place-based experiments in collectively meeting our basic needs.

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The Panga Campfire

Why a Campfire? Collectivist experiments have highlighted the value of cultivating decentralised networks large enough to support multiple self-governing groups yet small enough that everyone is connected to everyone else, either directly or via someone they trust. Complementing the continued flourishing of existing networks, Panga is a project seeking to combine networked relationships with small-group self-governance to cultivate multiple place-based experiments in collectively meeting our daily needs. As part of this vision, we are invoking a metaphorical Campfire to gather around and immerse in hopepunk conversations about potential better futures.

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