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Section One
FIRST PHASE OF UNFOLDING
 INDIVIDUAL UNFOLDINGS
Section 1
Startup & Vision




Get your teeth into the project: do the first things you need to get the project rolling

1.1 
PARAMETERS
Writing down your first idea of the neighborhood. What is its character? Where is it? How big?

1.2 
PEOPLE
Starting to work with those people who will play a natural part in creating this neighborhood.

1.3 
VISION
Imagining, physically and viscerally, the sort of place that -- ideally -- you have in mind to build.

1.4 
BASE MAP
Making, or getting, a rough base map which shows the land where you are thinking of building.

1.5 
POETIC LANGUAGE
Describing, in words -- perhaps even in poetic words -- what kinds of things will be happening, and what activities will give the neighborhood its character.

The purpose of this phase of work

Every construction project, small or large, begins with that most human thing -- a gleam in someone's eye, a desire to make a new place -- even a new community. Before anything, then, there must come a vision. It may be a great vision; it may be a tiny vision... enough of a vision, anyway, that it lays down a map, a target, a rough consensus, something to strive for, which others can understand, enjoy, and over the years, pursue. To do this, we need to establish a few fixed points.

First, a rough idea of where, what kind of thing, how big, who is it for. You have a chance to address these things in Parameters.

Next, it is essential from the very beginning to begin working with the people who will (or who you hope will) live and work in the place you propose to build. Also the people who live and work nearby. Everything hinges on how seriously you take these people, and how seriously you include them, from the beginning, in the process of thinking and creating.People.

Next, with the people you have gathered you need to begin shaping a vision of the place which is to be. In all likelihood, you already have ideas about this. But it is important that the vision making process includes many others -- both because the ideas will be richer, and because sharing this process will begin to form a human community, from the very start. Vision.

To anchor these ideas in a physical reality, it is time now to make a basemap of the place where you intend to build. There are a variety of way of doing this, described in Basemap.

Finally, to cement the visionary nature of your new community, we encourage you to write down a poetic pattern language which will embody the real feelings you hope to nourish in this place. Please consult the discussion in which addresses these things in Poetic Pattern Language.

Once this first phase is completed, you should have a good grounding in the nature of what you hope to accomplish, You should be ready, now to undertake a diagnosis of the land, before proceeeding further.

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