Migrobirdo's Vision

"Everybody has the right to dream, to have visions and to speak about them."

Here at the house we did not know about Migrobirdo before, until we got news of last week's events. So let's share some more information about this project. Migrobordo's idea was born in Tübingen, Germany. The idea was to set sail to South America to "create connections between people who are politically and artistically active, subsistence farmers and social institutions."

In addition, the crew-members wanted to hold seminars, perform street entertainment sessions and to invite guests onto the boat, called Der Taube (The Pigeon). In doing this, the crew advocated radical skill-sharing: "Everybody is pupil and teacher at the same time. Equality and openness are most important."

And in order to come to a world where such a practice of skill-sharing has become more normal, "we steadily have to reconsider our ways of thinking. Visions are necessary for this change, for ideas and creativity." By sailing through Europe towards South America, Der Taube wanted to help stimulate creative thinking in what type of world you want to live in. The boat as such is a means and a medium to openly show the principles the group stands for.

Der Taube set first sail late summer 2007. Before that time many young people participated in this project, building the ship. A year later Der Taube set sail towards Amsterdam and further down to Portugal and Spain. In december 2008, the boat continued its trail to the Canaries, to make the jump to Latin America after that. Along the way, many new crewmembers joined, while others went on joining still other projects. Very sadly though, the boat didn't reach its destination.

According to mainstream news-sources, the boat capsized at the entrance to the Port of Mahdia (interactive map), near Kenitra. But bad weather and rough seas made a sea search impossible. One girl was able to swim ashore and fortunately also she has already left hospital. As far as we are aware though neither Aris, nor the other crew-members or the boat, have been found so far.

Comments

stove's picture

SatNet

Hacking Satellite internet (at least from providers here in the states) is rather trivial with a little bit of hardware.

I think having a nomad base on a sailboat would kick ass, but it is not without dangerous (pirates, weather, etc) as well as cost (fuel, repairs, port fees).

Perhaps in the future, when HHing gets old...

sitarane's picture

Nomad nomad base

Sorry for not sharing the mourning, I'm not good at that. The future is in the future, and death awaits every single one of us there.

Sailing is the most expensive sport in the world (I read that somewhere, it's more expensive than even mechanical sports). Access to it is relatively restricted to super-rich people that are unlikely to turn a keen eye on social equality.

But a sail boat is the ultimate nomad base. It's ecologic, sustainable, mobile and not subjected to the possibly too restrictive law of one given country.

Would be cool if a significant part of the nomad population had sailing skills. That's probably even harder than finding sail boat. And hacking satellite internet...