Kavitha presenting Auroville at the Global Ecovillage Network Summit in Scotland.
Kavitha was one of four
Aurovilians who recently attended the Global Eco-village Networks’ (GEN) 20+
Summit, held in Findhorn, Scotland. There she represented Auroville as well as
Youth Link. Auroville Today caught up with Kavitha to learn more about her
experience at the Summit.
How did you come to know about the conference?
When I was studying at
university in the Netherlands,I wrote my thesis about the work of GEN,
particularly its Eco-village Design Education (EDE) curriculum and its
relevance to Auroville, so I’ve been researching their work since 2012. Other
conferences have been expensive to get to, but I didn’t want to miss this one.
It was a celebration of 20 years of GEN and 10 years of Gaia Education, from
which the EDE has emerged.
What was it like to represent Auroville at the conference?
It was great. People
there generally knew about Auroville; they’...
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