Peritia, The Graphic Novel
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Peritia
Peritia is the name of a proposed first settlement implementing the Minimalistic Resource-Based Economy (MRBE) socioeconomic model, a minimalistic low-budget socioeconomic system inspired on The Venus Project's Resource-Based Economy (RBE) and The Zeitgeist Movement's About the Natural Law Resource Based Economy (NLRBE). The RBE10K Project (a design for implementing MRBE) and Peritia (a proposed first experimental implementation of RBE10K) were conceived in 2013, and was crowdsourced and supported by people all over the world, with the goal of implementing in 2015, but it didn't manage to sustain the momentum needed to make the project a reality, and most crowdsourcing activity ceased mid 2014.
Lifestyle
The Peritian lifestyle is somewhat similar to that of an isolated University campus, with the lifestyle focused on learning, teaching, discussion, activities, social life, doing and enjoying art, and partying. The main differences are that all studies in Peritia are informal and personalised, that the dorms have capsule beds instead of shared bedrooms, and that all Peritians take care of the teaching and general maintenance, as well as the learning.
In Peritia, all activities and interactions are mediated with a few different software applications, such as Coordinate.
Peritia: The Graphic Novel
Peritia: The Graphic Novel is a graphic novel of 40 chapters, 160 pages, situated in Peritia, a town founded in 2027 in the northern island of Fiji (Vanua Levu), near Savusavu city, developed on an old coconut farm by ten thousand volunteers trialling the MRBE socioeconomic model using the RBE10K system. The story focuses on the events leading to founding of the second MRBE settlement, in 2029, as narrated by Dinarah Muni, a journalist with The Guardian Media Group, and Janus, the founder of the Peritia project.
Characters
The graphic novel includes Dinarah, an English journalist invited to the settlement for a few weeks to write an article about Peritia, and eleven Peritians: Athena, Diana, Mark, Rhea, Jenny, Dinarah, Fortunata, Pawel, Daoji, Selene, Janus, and Guanyu.
Storyline
The storyline of Peritia: The Graphic Novel opens with Dinarah, an English journalist, finding about Peritia and being sent to write a story for The Guardian's The Observer. During the introduction, we learn about Dinarah's life in England, and Janus' life in Peritia, who is rushing to push for the implementation of a new MRBE settlement. Dinarah eventually travels to Peritia, where she spends two weeks learning about the Peritian way of life, its inhabitants, its origins, its values, art and style, and its future. There she meets and interviews many Peritians, always accompanied by Guanyu, Peritia's journalist and documentarist, and they develop chemistry and a romance. By the end of Dinarah's planned stay, it is decided that she will stay one more month to assist with an upcoming documentary film about the founding of a new MRBE settlement, in which Dinarah, Guanyu and Janus work together with the rest of the main characters. By the end of her stay, Dinarah is torn between returning to her life in England or joining the new settlement.
The original storyline draft was written in April 2015.
Writing tools
The storyline is currently structured using the Save The Cat! toolkit, without a defined genre.
For character names, this name generator is good.
MRBE Resources
The Minimalist Resource-Based Economic socio-economic system (MRBE) that Peritia implements is unique but takes elements and inspiration on multiple existing and planned projects, including The Venus Project, The Zeitgeist Movement, Earthship Biotecture, OneCommunity Global, Open Source Ecology, and multiple others. See MRBE Resources for a comprehensive list.
Our Team
We're a small team with members in Australia and Argentina.
Cho
Cho is a ...
Ruzi
Tatu
Tatu is a ...
Bauti Bauti
Toddo Toddo
Xiao Xiao is a french architect from Paris. She is interested in participatory architecture, and led research projects focusing on gender and temporary housing in France. She is curently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and works on topics related to eco conscious architecture and self sufficient housing.
Ziggy
Ziggy is a software developer and the founder of The RBE10K Project. He's passionate about multiculturalism, poststructuralism, the natural environment, the New Human Rights Movement, automation, zero-waste, Open Source and Creative Commons, UBI, and MRBE. For a while, he helped coordinate The Zeitgeist Movement Sydney Chapter.
