For many people another way of living starts with this book...
So you’re fed up with living in a little box. Maybe just by yourself. Maybe with your family. Just being a docile consumer alongside the billions of other docile consumers. And the combined outcome of it all is a wrecked planet.
Isn’t there something more to life than this? Couldn’t we have access to many of the best things in life without doing such harm if we were prepared to share more with our neighbours? Perhaps in an intentional community – that’s a community that has come together by intention rather than by chance.
Believe it or not, many people have been living in intentional communities like this for decades. And it’s not all hippy crash pads where nobody does the washing up! This website will open your eyes to the multifarious ways in which communal living happens in the 21st century.
It’s your way into the future!
The 12th edition of our legendary book is available from the D&D Shop
196 pages packed with articles, photo-essays, ruminations and a directory of intentional communities in Britain
Is there something that you as an individual or, perhaps, your community could contribute to the Conference?
In addition to everything else… this year’s Intentional Communities Symposium will also form part of the Conference but will also be available as a hybrid online event over the Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. Separate booking for that online access will be available in due course.
“… successfully treads the path between scholarly and general interest… richly illustrated and enlivened with humour and deep insights. Their books… should be on the shelf of anyone seriously interested in intentional community.”
Dr Bill Metcalf, University of Queensland
We now have a new book in our series of “reviews”. Following on from our Cohousing Review and our Low Impact Living Communities Review we’ve now added an Urban Communal Living Review. So if you want to get away from it all without getting away from it all then this is the book for you!
Just look at the contents list – there’s something of relevance to just about every kind of urban communal living:
- Student Co-op Homes
- Community Led Housing in the UK
- The Co-operative Principles
- Radical Hospitality
- Urban Rented Communities
- The Growth of Urban Cohousing in the UK
- How to Set Up a Cohousing Community
- What is this Coliving Thing, Anyway?
- The Meaning of Community at L’Arche
- London Street Commune
- Still an Option: Squatting in 2023
- Cults Happen
One thing that we really want you to know:
There are many different ways to live communally
Cohousing Community
Living fairly separately but with the possibility of sharing a lot of facilities. The best of both worlds perhaps!
Big House Commune
This is the classic idea of the commune in a big mansion in the country. Here are some places that fit that mould.
Keveral Farm Community
Keveral Farm has been a community since 1973. We currently have 9 members (no children). We live in a farmhouse,…
Urban Communal
These housing co-ops and big shared houses in built up areas show that not every commune has to be rural!
Spiritual Community
Having a focus often helps. These places all have some spiritual or religious belief that underlies their existence.
Pilsdon Community
Pilsdon Community offers a refuge for anyone who needs a safe place to stay at a particular point in their…
Low Impact Community
Many aspire to low impact living but these places go all the way with off-grid, low consumption lifestyles.
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The D&D Reviews are more specialised books about particular types of community
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The D&D Reviews shown above are more specialised books about particular types of community
Currently seeking... communards
Check out these noticeboards for communities that like to host volunteers as well as those that are currently looking for people to join.
Volunteering and WWOOFing are amongst the best ways to to try communal living out for yourself. Once you’ve decided that you really want to go for it then Places needing Members is the next stop.
Beech Hill Community
We regularly host volunteers to help us, to share our lovely space, skills and experiences and to enable people to…
Fruit Corner
If you are interested in joining one of our communities, please send a short email, ideally with a bit about…
So you want to start or join a forming community?
Don't underestimate the scale of the task! Maybe follow up some of these links...
Cirencester Cohousing
We are running open information sessions on Zoom on the last Thursday of each month at 7pm Ciren Coho is…
This noticeboard is for Developing Groups that are fairly well established – they may even have a building or a site lined up.
LGBTQ+ Creatives in Cyprus
I’m a queer (f) writer planning to relocate to Cyprus. Looking for others in any creative field wanting to work…
People Forming a Group is our noticeboard for those at the very early stages whereas Developing Groups are usually quite a bit further down the road.
Homestead project in SW France
Looking for a couple or up to 4 adults to rent a cottage with huge potential, for self sufficiency in…
Properties might suit Communities is where people who are trying to sell or make people aware of a particular vacant property can place a message.
And don't forget our other Noticeboards...
Looking to join a community
Hello! I'm a chef and for the last 15 years have had a very busy film catering business. Sadly the…
The dream
The dream? Organic growing and canning and preserving and fermenting and , and and.. natural living and having the energy…
Ghosts of Communes Past
What was that about people who haven't learned from history being doomed to repeat it?
Ghosts of Communes Past
What was that about people who haven't learned from history being doomed to repeat it?
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