Charter
Table of Contents
Vision
New forms of community life are emerging to meet the constraints of modern life.
We assume that a set of people, men and women, young and old, coming from varied backgrounds, may feel universal common needs, to share a dream with changing contours and collectively invest their resources and their will to build a lifestyle that can reconcile the comfort and security of a sedentary lifestyle as well as the continuously changing and varied aspect of a nomadic way of life.
It is in order to make this reality possible that we propose the concept of Nomad Base Camp (NBC): A suitable living environment for homads: a nomad with a home and accept to live there according to these values.
From this dream stems a vision of the whole which is stated as follows:
We are a nomadic community that craves lasting connections.
We are open to the world around us
We promote communication, sharing and mutual support in a multi-cultural reality
We welcome difference and seek a balance between privacy and community life
We welcome stability and change and seek a balance between sedentary and nomadic life
We are realizing our dream of living healthily and harmoniously inside a cohabiting house for the needs of Digital Nomads by reducing our ecological footprint and to build an environment that adapts and evolves according to different lifestyles.
We will choose the social and economic purposes specific to this defined form of co-housing to which we graft the purpose of nomadic life.
NBC exists first and foremost by and for people who demonstrate, through their attitude and actions, their support To the homade way of life and its implications. These are the inhabitants, at the same time members, owners and occupiers of the premises. They have the emotional maturity to engage in such a project and work to communicate with each other with kindness.
We imagine that such a group of people brought together in the design, animation and realization of such a project, Will inevitably succeed in reducing the costs related to their lifestyle. We seek quality for human relations And for the physical location with people with the financial maturity to invest there. Each owner purchasing a unit from the project can expect a significantly lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Weaker than a conventional unit (house) on the surrounding real estate market.
From these observations, the statement of our mission is articulated in the next section.
Mission
NBC’s mission is to buy or build and adapt one or more buildings to meet the homad lifestyle.
To create and animate a pleasant cohabitant for its members-owners-occupants and guests.
Reduce the cost of acquiring a property as well as living expenses.
Create an international network of NBC to allow the homads to promote exchanges and enrich their nomadic life.
Values and Principles
Our values express the conventions by which we have resolved together to satisfy our individual needs.
A real manifestation of our values, our principles express the measurable means by which we agree
Modulate our individual and collective attitudes and actions.
Values and Principles
Our values express the conventions by which we have resolved together to satisfy our individual needs.
A real manifestation of our values, our principles express the measurable means by which we agree
Modulate our individual and collective attitudes and actions.
Friendliness
Warmness of relationships between people within a group
Sedentary aspect:
We want to live in an environment that promotes good neighborliness, exchange, communication, trust and
the development of lasting and warm relationships between its members by:
– participating in social life;
– promoting group activities;
– encouraging conscious and responsible communication between the members
– maintaining lively and pleasant common spaces
– allowing the transformation of spaces according to needs.
Nomadic aspect:
We want to develop a global NBC network to promote exchanges and the nomadic way of life.
– create around 100 NBCs around the world;
– create a network of mutual aid and service sharing between the NBCs
– promote exchanges of stays between the NCBs
– promote cultural exchanges and life experiences for homads
– promote mutual aid for teleworkers (finances, contracts, mentoring, etc.)
Mutual Aid
Help that we carry each other
We want to live in a physical and human environment that promotes mutual aid and mutual support between its members by:
– rendering service to those in need
– pooling resources and skills
– respecting sharing and balance in community tasks.
Respect for the Person
Taking into consideration the dignity of the human person.
We want to create a human environment where attitudes and behaviors aim for mutual respect and harmony by:
– promoting benevolence
– prioritizing conflict resolution
– prioritizing emotional responsibility
– respecting the balance between private life and community life
– recognizing the importance of everyone in decision-making
– respecting the participatory process
– adopting clear operating rules chosen by all
Authenticity
Manifestation, beyond appearances, of the truest, deepest being, which reflects the deep personality of an individual.
We want to live in an environment that encourages true and responsible attitudes and behaviors that express sincerity and the franchise in:
– favoring the setting up of spaces of expression allowing
– trust and openness (ambience, atmosphere)
– fostering the development of members’ communication skills
Respect the Environment
The act of valuing and protecting what our planet provides us with.
We want to demonstrate our respect for the environment through ecological and responsible developments and behaviors, with a concern for sustainable development, thinking globally and acting locally to reduce our ecological footprint by:
– favoring the use of green technologies
– using or reusing materials/goods of environmental quality
– favoring local and/or group purchases
– maintaining infrastructures promoting recycling and composting
– organizing transportation efficiently
– promoting intelligent and efficient construction
– thus reducing individual car use as much as possible
Diversity
Reception of different aspects, characters, things, circumstances, elements, functions, interests, the world, objects, opinions.
We want to live in an environment that welcomes intergenerational, social and cultural diversity by:
– promoting intergenerational diversity
– welcoming social diversity
– encouraging cultural expression within the community
– favoring spaces adapted to the needs of the group
– elcoming differences
Healthy Lifestyle
The community desires to live in an environment that promotes attitudes and behaviors associated with a healthy lifestyle both from the point of view of the body and that of the spirit by:
– promoting healthy eating at community meals
– encouraging physical activity;
– favoring a community organization that leaves space for rest periods
– developing a preventive attitude
– developing places and infrastructures that express beauty and aesthetics
Simplicity
Way of being that promotes naturalness and spontaneity, without affectation or pretension; character of one who has simple tastes, without excess luxury, refinement.
We want to promote simple operating rules as well as choices and fittings that express simplicity by:
– favoring the necessary over the superfluous and the natural over the artificial
– reducing our dependence on money
– favoring being over having
Opening on the world
Ease of understanding, of taking an interest in things, in the world.
We want to open up to the world around us by:
– involving ourselves in the community
– sharing our experiences and welcoming those of others