Casa Robino

Two years ago we introduced the concept of "sustainable hospitality exchange", as an approach to understand hospitality and as a framework to see how we can be hospitatible 'sustainably': on a personal level (that we can remain hospitable), on a group level (host-guest relationships) and on a network level (the social networks behind hospitality exchange).

Shortly after we also started to use the term sustainable hospitality as a tagline for the casa-website. The other day though I was rethinking this and thought that we could better replace the term sustainable with the term shared when it comes down to casa. Casa as an example of "shared hospitality".

I thought that such a tagline would be more appropriate for us, would appeal more, create less confusion (as most people associate it merely with environmental issues) and so I just changed this on the website.

And why not? The house is shared; we all live here together temporarily and we are used to say that we are all hosts here. And also, we embody the praxis of sharing hospitality among each-other more, than it being 'sustainable'. I think the concept embraces more of our hospitality practice than any other concept and it even might open other ways of thinking and understanding what casa is about.