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Post by shirley on Sept 22, 2021 13:22:21 GMT
Hello, I am a university student. I'm recently working on a design project about a hippie co-housing（ I was interested in the subculture）. If you have time, could you help me answer a few questions? Thank you very much！ Here are the questions if you can answer them It would greatly be appreciated!!  1.What are the important items in hippie culture? 2. Would you like to live in a co-housing unit? Why? 3. Do you know anything about goths? 4. Would you like to live in a co-housing with goths? 5. What do you think of this co-housing for two groups to live in? If you were the tenant, what would you do?Or how do you feel about it? |
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Post by graceomalley on Sept 22, 2021 15:43:54 GMT
Hi id love to answer your questions,but firstly a few of my own,as your questions are very loose,and not solely dedicated to hippy culture..how is hippy culture related to with goths?why goths ? Important items??as in clothing,living ,housing,food?we ve pretty much the same requirements as "normal folk😊
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Post by shirley on Sept 22, 2021 16:17:51 GMT
First of all thank you so much for your answer, it broadened my mind! Because this shared housing I hope to build is not just for hippies. Rather, it allows for more possibilities and collisions between the two groups within this living space. As for why the Goths, it was because during my research, I found some commonalities between the two groups.
So I would love to know what ideas and suggestions real hippies have for this shared housing space full of unknowns! Thanks again for your answer!
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Post by oldkeith on Sept 22, 2021 22:50:41 GMT
I am not sure anyone gets along too well in co-housing, I guess it depends just how close you are sharing with people, and if you can have your own quiet place when you want to.
Have you done any research on the hippie communes in the 1960's and '70's? It's a great idea at first, but because people - and especially alternative-minded people - are so individualistic, it is difficult to 'run' a commune. I guess people would have to be committed to doing particular things and at particular times, for example. Like so many hours each day for the communal garden, so many for the housework, so many for the handyperson jobs that always need doing. There would have to be times for making music, arts and crafts, reading, just sitting around, loafing and chatting. Especially the latter!
Most of these time-related things take discipline, and that means someone sort of, well, in charge....
The communes tended to drift apart after a few years or less, for various reasons. Like folk not wanting an ordered approach, or perhaps some couples felt like they had found each other and wanted a twosome from there on, and stopped sharing themselves with other folks, maybe wanted to raise a family on their own. Some communes fell apart from cash mismanagement, not many people working outside to bring anything in, or from those who were working either in or out of the commune getting annoyed with those who weren't, etc.
Must admit I just hadn't figured Goths in the same scene, but as you say there are some similarities with hippies, like wanting to wear unconventional dress, study unconventional stuff, a shared distrust of order and authority. Goths came after hippies on the timeline, so some people - more the gals - who started hippy ended up Goth, I've known one or two myself, still do see 'em around, dam' near as old as me, with their grey hair still dyed purple! Far out!
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Post by shirley on Sept 23, 2021 11:52:44 GMT
Very detailed and valuable answer! Very helpful to me😊
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