Values
On the border of Berlin’s historic Treptower Park stands a significant building: Moos. This edifice once housed the Moosdorf & Hochhäusler factory, renowned for producing the world's first rocking bathtub.
Today, the storied Moos building has transformed into a vibrant hub, home to a diverse range of communities, businesses, and initiatives. While each project maintains its distinct legal structure, team, and set of activities, they coexist in harmony. These multifaceted groups come together to shape a "community of communities", mutually supporting one another and ensuring the venue remains spirited and alive.
Now, we wish to pen a new chapter in this building's illustrious history. After hosting various short-term co-living experiments with people from around the world residing in Moos, we are transitioning to a long-term co-living experience. Allow us to share more about this exciting venture.
Moos General Photo Gallery
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✊ Respect, courage and humility. Combined with diversity and solidarity as a collective.
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🤲 Cultures of reciprocity, care, and abundance. Embodying a future relational state of being.
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👂 Deep trust in the paths our bodies provide and felt resonance in the present.
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Who is Moos seeking?
Organisers, Community-Builders and Creatives
Moos garden invites artists and community-builders from around the world to Berlin for short visits from a few weeks up to 3 months, to engage with our extended community and develop new frameworks for:
- 👥 Self organisation, community manifestation and effective collaborative environments.
- 🎨 Collaborative, participatory and transcendental art.
- ♻️ Practices for collective living, self organisation, radical new culture, and emotional expression.
- ⭕ Alternative currencies, regenerative token systems, and sacred economies.
- 🖼 Collective visioning of symbiotic space-making and hubs of sovereign community.
- 🌱 Reciprocity, tending and care for relationships, systems, stories and ecologists.
How we currently create at Moos Garden.
- We pursue self organised, high agency collaborations.
- In light of ideal governance, we take responsibility and action where we see need or possibility. Upholding standards of open communication and an advice process with whoever may be affected in our actions but moving forward where we see need.
- If we see something that needs doing, we ask if not me, then who? If we need help, or context, or resources, we ask it, if we do not get we make what we can.
- We seek input from those holding responsibility, listen attentively to perspectives, objections and nuance. Always starting from a place of trust, and always seeking synthesis and reconciliation in opposition.
- We seek transparency of static and dynamic hierarchies, and are willing to step up with humility to the centre if something calls us.
- We will always find information asymmetry, and with it the contentious game of power. Yet we recognise the struggle in it’s necessity for meaningful change, and seek it’s dissolution as an obstacle and the clinging of control through our openness, mutual positive regard, and faith in the intention of our collaborators. We are all crew, we are team human.
- We hold empathy for those at the centre of communication in complex systems, and recognise the veil of ignorance we hold from the outside. Compounding expectations and responsibility create strain, and when we see it in others we do our best to relieve.
- We seek practical solutions from deep alignment, momentum toward unity, and cultivating mystery in our complexity.
- We aim to act from a place of clarity in how we see things together. Always from a place of care, an assumption of trust, and recognition of self in the other.
- We pay attention to the process and the flow from initiation, and steward it to ever more reciprocity, balance and coherence.
- In curiosity and darkness, we play with what can be, rooted in surprise and humility, yet holding a confidence under playfulness and fiction.
- We show deep gratitude, in the recognition of significance and contribution.
- We seek to make visible the respect and admiration shared among us for those bringing about visions in our community. We are stewards of stories started before us. We hope to be always striving for accuracy and beauty, in how we tell this story of our evolution. Both in moos, and as a wider movement of change.
[Map link](https://goo.gl/maps/W9QEnPbr3ot8Ak1Z8)
Map link
Partners
How you can help
Support
Offer your skills or support to the core team and become involved in this new phase of Moos Garden.
Money
Please donate as generously as is comfortable at our events and gatherings.
We will always seek for these to be accessible to these no matter their own situations, so if you’re able to express some abundance to enable that for the community, it will be gratefully appreciated.
Moos - Open Collective
Circles
Circles is one of the projects stewarded by Moos for experimenting our way to a solidarity economy.
Circles is a UBI (universal basic income) to see what happens when a community accepts and offers services and goods with Circles. There is no formal way to change circles to Euros so it creates a tight micro-economy.
Support Circles here
Household items
We would be very glad for donations of housewares, furniture, art and decorations from those in the Berlin community.
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🙌 Connect with us
Join our Telegram group: https://t.me/+SzOLgVC53mhaim_l
Email us: [email protected]
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Voices
Many people have contributed to this vision over the past few years. A number of them helped manage and maintain the moos to become what it is today.
You can see interviews with key community members in the below short snippets of Rosano’s Youtube channel
https://tube.moos.garden
Residents archive