What does “Culture by Design” mean?

Before we answer the question above there is probably another question coming up. What does “culture” actually mean? Culture is everything and every thing human-made, may it be physical, mental or psychological.

We cannot say how you feel and think about our current cultures. But we feel and think the cultures we grew up in are based on destructive values like fear, shame and guilt, and therefore create destructive human behavior. In these cultures human being’s main purpose is consumption and paying interest on debt. Malicious tongues would say humans are nothing but cattle. Through a constant information flood most people seem to have lost connection to their core and therefore orientation. They don’t understand anymore what is good and what is bad.

Public relations, what used to be called propaganda, is now so advanced that the institutional information machine knows how to operationalize communication and psychology in their own interests. They can tell us that bombs bring peace, or that an uncontrolled flood of migrants from very different cultures is without alternative. It is all just a question of how many times they repeat it through as many different communication channels as possible.

And nearly everybody is only a few clicks away, at all times. Newspaper, radio, television and internet are full of representations of it, promoted globalized destructive human behavior. It seems like most people have lost trust in humankind too. Only one’s individual in-group is trustworthy. For many not even their in-group and sometimes themselves. We suffer from decades of public relations aka propaganda.

We want to be a seed of change. We want to facilitate a space in which human beings can playfully develop a new approach to culture.

Designing a Culture is reflecting on and evaluating the current cultures, integrating what is good and then add a few more ingredients to make it taste better with a less bitter aftertaste. In the end we can narrow it down to the individual and its relationships. The central questions in this regard are: What and how is my relationship to nature? What and how is my relationship to myself? What and how is my relationship to others?

These questions are central because there is something fundamentally unhealthy in our relationships with ourselves, with others and with nature. We found it in ourselves and we encountered many other people who also found it in themselves. Reflect on it yourself.

With the project space we provide a place for transforming ourselves together. We become more aware of the origins of of our relationship issues and learn to integrate them. We learn what unconditional love means and how we can live from and in unconditional love. Because we believe fhe foundation for healthy relationships in general is unconditional love.

Thus a “Culture by Design” as we understand it must be based on unconditional love. Somebody who loves unconditinally is free from expectations and lives in the present moment. Perception without description is the mode in which unconditionally loving human beings experience their reality. For human beings living in unconditional love it is clear that every single being and all beings as a whole have an infinite and eternal intrinsic value. A “Culture by Design” must reflect these core values.

With this project we aim to create a space for experiencing. We want to find out which new ingredients to add to establish a culture which is based on unconditional love and the acknowledgement of the infinite and eterna intrinsic value of every thing and being that is.