RBE10K/Settlement

The RBE10K Project focuses on sustainability, as understood from an RBEM point of view, i.e. living in accordance to the carrying capacity of the Earth, and in developing structures conducive to a peaceful, egalitarian, voluntarist, and evidence-based decision-making community. The settlement is expected to consist of 10,000 people to ensure sufficient variety of skills to be fully self-sustainable, and to ensure the social experiment is relevant. The location for the settlement is not yet defined, however it will have to be a place where there is permissiveness by the local governments to perform as intended. The project intends to be not-for-profit and fully self-funded, however the viability of the project may require extra funding, or even the implementation of the project under a company structure. The experiment will go for two years, and it is expected it will renew for subsequent two meanwhile volunteers are still interested in its continuity. The experiment will also attempt at producing a sister experiment at the end of each term, meanwhile there is sustained interest.

Why minimalist/eco-comunalist?

There are multiple reasons for choosing a primitivist approach. Some of them are listed below:

• Participants consider a priority implementing this experiment as early as practicable
• Participants consider that volunteers must self-fund this experiment to prevent RBE-incompatible agendas
• Sustainability, understood as the carrying capacity of the Earth, is essential for RBE and hence for this project, therefore the project seeks to minimise, as much as practicable, dependencies on resources or processes for which the degree of sustainability cannot be determined
• The project seeks to rethink needs according to RBE characteristics and objectives, and to build an RBE culture from the ground up, incorporating the least practicable number of inherited cultural traits
• The participants will be engaged on novel forms of behaviour and interrelationship, and this will require the least practicable number of foreign distractions

Systems Theory based social organisation

An RBEM is all about social engineering, i.e. planning a society and its culture, as opposed to letting pre-existing culture developing a society.

Things to do in daily life

Daily life in the settlement will be all but boring. There will be a significative focus in the development of health, fitness, knowledge and skills of each volunteer. The community will aim at producing rich, diverse and high-quality artistic works to be contributed free of charge through online services, including music, films, literature, visual arts. etc. The community will also aim at furthering science, and producing technology such as software, open-source hardware, and educational materials. Other activities will include refining notions of RBEM, developing this wiki for the benefit of subsequent settlements, online media for communicating developments in the community, and daily tasks for the sustenance of the community such as producing food, equipment, doing general maintenance of public spaces, and providing public services such as training, coordination, cleaning, cooking, etc.