List of intentional communities explained

This is a list of intentional communities. An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle. They typically share responsibilities and resources. Intentional communities include collective households, co-housing communities, co-living, ecovillages, monasteries, communes, survivalist retreats, kibbutzim, ashrams, and housing cooperatives. For directories, see external links below.

Africa

Ethiopia

• Awra Amba in the Amhara Region^[1]

South Africa

• Orania near Kimberley in Northern Cape

Asia and Oceania

Australia

• Gondwana Sanctuary, Byron Bay, New South Wales
• House of Freedom (community), Brisbane, Queensland, founder Athol Gill
• House of the Gentle Bunyip, Melbourne, Victoria, founder Athol Gill
• House of the New World, Sydney, New South Wales, founder John Hirt
• Moora Moora, near Healesville, Victoria
• Rocky Cape Christian Community, Tasmania

India

• Auroville, Tamil Nadu

Israel

• Kibbutz Ketura
• Neve Shalom, Jerusalem

Japan

• Atarashiki-mura
• Owa Hutterite Colony

New Zealand

• Centrepoint (founded 1977)
• Gloriavale Christian Community (founded)
• Jerusalem/Hiruharama (1970-1972)
• Maungapohatu (founded 1907)
• Ohu communities (1974-)
• Parihaka (founded)
• Rātana Pā (founded)
• Riverside Community, New Zealand (founded 1941)

Syria

• Jinwar (founded 2016)^[2]

Europe

France

• Community of the Ark, La Borie Noble
• Longo Maï, Limans (1973–present)
• Taizé Community, Taizé, France

Denmark

• Det Nødvendige Seminarium (DNS)^[3]
• Freetown Christiania, Copenhagen
• (2002–present) ^{[4] [5]}
• Svanholm

Italy

• Federation of Damanhur, Piedmont
• Nomadelfia

Germany

• Bruderhof Communities, originally in Germany but spread to other countries since^[6]
• Kommune Niederkaufungen
• ZEGG

Greece

• Eutopia project (community)^[7]
• Free and Real

Montenegro

• Montelibero, a libertarian community^[8] based on ideas of the Free State Project

Portugal

• Ecoaldea Vegetariana Espiral, Cabeceiras de Basto^{[9] [10]}
• Tamera

Russia

• Life and Labor Commune (1921–1939)

Spain

• in Lacabe^[11]
• in Cervera del Maestre (CS)^[12]
• Global Tribe, Andalucia

Sweden

• Ängsbacka

United Kingdom

• Braziers Park in South Oxfordshire, England
• Brithdir Mawr in Pembrokeshire, Wales
• Chemin Neuf Community and Community of Saint Anselm, Canterbury, England^[13]
• Dial House in England (1970–present)^[14]
• Findhorn in Scotland
• New Creation Christian Community (closed)
• Tinker's Bubble in England
• Rubha Phoil in Scotland^[15]
• Stapleton Colony in England (1921–present)^[16]
• Whiteway Colony^{[17] [18]}

North America

Canada

• Community Farm of the Brethren, Ontario
• Hutterite Christian Communities, existing in Australia, Canada, and the United States, but founded in Frenchman Butte, Saskatchewan
• New Oasis for Life Commune^[19]
• Orthodox Mennonites, existing throughout Canada and the United States but founded in Ontario
• Poole's Land, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
• Treehouse Village Ecohousing, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
• Whole Village, Alton, Ontario^[20]
• Yarrow Ecovillage, Chilliwack, British Columbia

United States

Midwestern United States

• Bishop Hill Colony, Bishop Hill, Illinois, founded by Swedish pietist Eric Jansson
• Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Rutledge, Missouri^[21]
• Dreamtime Village, West Lima, Wisconsin
• East Wind Community, Tecumseh, Missouri
• Elmendorf Christian Community, Mountain Lake, Minnesota
• Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage, Cincinnati, Ohio^[22]
• The Homestead at Denison University, Granville, Ohio
• Jesus People USA (JPUSA), Chicago, Illinois
• Nottingham Housing Cooperative in Madison, Wisconsin
• People of Praise, South Bend, Indiana
• Reba Place Fellowship is an intentional Christian community located in Evanston, Illinois within the Chicago metro area
• Stelle, Illinois, until 1982 an intentional community of the Stelle group
• Sunrise Colony, Saginaw, Michigan
• Sunward Cohousing, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Tenacious Unicorn Ranch, Colorado
• Trumbullplex, Detroit, Michigan^[23]
• Utopia, Ohio^[24]
• Word of God (community), Ann Arbor, Michigan

Northeastern United States

• The Abode of the Message, New Lebanon, New York
• Bruderhof Communities New York^[25]
• Bryn Gweled Homesteads, Southampton, Pennsylvania^{[26] [27]}
• Community of Jesus, Orleans, Massachusetts
• Mariapolis Luminosa (Focolare), Hyde Park, New York
• The Free State Project, a state where libertarians concentrate their numbers in the state of New Hampshire to influence democracy
• Ganas, Staten Island, New York
• Modern Times, Brentwood, New York^[28]
• Mohegan Colony, Mohegan Lake, New York
• Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester, Maine

Southern United States

• Acorn Community, Mineral, Virginia^[29]
• Adelphi, Texas
• Alleluia Community, Augusta, Georgia^[30]
• Believers in Christ, Lobelville, Tennessee
• Caneyville Christian Community, Caneyville, Kentucky
• Celo Community, Burnsville, North Carolina, United States
• The Farm, Summertown, Tennessee
• Heathcote Community Freeland, Maryland^[31]
• Koinonia Farm, near Americus, Georgia
• Living energy farm, Louisa, Virginia
• Miccosukee Land Co-op, Tallahassee, Florida
• Noah Hoover Mennonites, existing in Belize, Canada, and the United States, but centered on Scottsville, Kentucky
• Paulville, Texas, a planned community for supporters of Ron Paul
• Serenbe, Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia
• Twelve Tribes communities, existing worldwide but founded in Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Twin Oaks Community, Louisa, Virginia
• Vernon Community, Hestand, Kentucky
• The Werehouse, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Western United States

• Alpha Farm, Deadwood, Oregon^[32]
• Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage, founded by the Global Community Communications Alliance, Tumacacori, Arizona^{[33] [34]}
• Black Bear Ranch, an 80-acre intentional community located in Siskiyou County, California
• Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (2020)
• Drop City, Colorado
• Equality Colony, Washington
• Halcyon, California
• Home, Washington^[35]
• Kaliflower Commune, San Francisco, California
• Lafayette Morehouse, Lafayette, California
• Slab City, California (–present)
• Stone Curves, Tucson, Arizona^[36]
• The Seasteading Institute, an attempt to create artificial land in the ocean for libertarian migration. It is trying to build its first seastead in the San Francisco Bay, California.

Latin America

Brazil

• Cecília Colony^[37]

Colombia

• Gaviotas

Mexico

• Mazunte

See also

• Cohousing
• Communities Directory
• Cooperatives
• Ecovillage
• Egalitarian Communities
• Intentional community
• New Age communities
• Utopian socialism
• List of American utopian communities

External links

• • Foundation for Intentional Community database
• Links to Christian Intentional Communities
• Diggers & Dreamers UK Directory
• Gondwana Sanctuary

Notes and References

1. Web site: Awra Amba: the anarcho-feminist utopia that actually works . 3 October 2016 . 11 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181011172946/https://new-faces-new-places.com/2016/10/03/awra-amba-the-anarcho-feminist-utopia-that-actually-works/ . 11 October 2018 . live.
2. Web site: Rosen . Kenneth R. . March 31, 2021 . Jinwar Women's Village: Carving a Progressive Enclave Amid Syria's Civil War . 2022-12-05 . The Washington Institute . en.
3. Web site: What is DNS? . DNS The Necessary Teacher Training College . 2018-02-08 . 2020-08-13.
4. Web site: Official Website of Friland . https://web.archive.org/web/20190104051100/http://www.friland.org/ . 4 January 2019 . live.
5. Web site: DR Friland . https://web.archive.org/web/20120913084634/http://www.dr.dk/tv/program/dr-friland . 13 September 2012.
6. News: Bruderhof - Fellowship for Intentional Community. Fellowship for Intentional Community. 2017-05-24. en-US.
7. Book: Apoifis, Nicholas . Anarchy in athens : an ethnography of militancy, emotions and violence . Manchester University Press . Manchester . 2016 . 978-1-5261-0803-6 . 989813040 . 158 .
8. Web site: Crna Gora jes' malena…al će biti libertarijanska? . vijesti.me.
9. Web site: Las ecoaldeas en la península ibérica . news.soliclima.com . es . 2023-03-19.
10. Web site: QUE HACER PARA VISITAR LA ECOALDEA . What to do to visit La Ecoaldea . Ecoaldea Vegetariana ESPIRAL . 2012-06-20 . pt . 2023-03-19.
11. Web site: Lakabe Ecovillage GEN sites. 2016-05-12. sites.ecovillage.org.
12. Web site: Familiafeliz .EU. 2024-04-12. www.familiafeliz.eu.
13. News: UK initiatives seek monastic renewal. 5 December 2014. Dodd. Liz. National Catholic Reporter. The Free Library. 51. 4. 15 January 2019.
14. See "crass retirement cottage," nest magazine #21, summer 2003, pp 106-121
15. Web site: Rubha Phoil . 2023-07-31. www.rubhaphoil.org.
16. Book: Hardy . Dennis . Utopian England: Community Experiments, 1900-1945 . 2000 . Psychology Press . 978-0-419-24670-1 . 181.
17. Book: Franks . Benjamin . Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms . 2006 . AK Press/Dark Star . 978-1-904859-40-6 . 4 . Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms.
18. Book: Headley . Gwyn . Gwyn Headley . Meulenkamp . Wim . Follies, grottoes & garden buildings. 1999 . Aurum . 250 . 9781854106254.
19. Web site: Lifechanyuan International Family Society. Lifechanyuan International Family Society.
20. Web site: https://www.wholevillage.org/.
21. Web site: Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage – Communal Living | Sustainable Living | Community Living. www.dancingrabbit.org.
22. Web site: Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage. Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage.
23. News: Osborne . Domenique . Radically wholesome . 13 April 2011 . 9 November 2002 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20110330063415/http://www2.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=3681 . 30 March 2011 . live.
24. Book: Martin, James J.. 1970. 1953. The Colonial Period: Utopia and "Modern Times". Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827-1908. Colorado Springs. Ralph Myles Publisher. 9780879260064. 8827896. 56–64.
25. News: Inside radical christian sect. Mirror . 2019-10-26. en-US.
26. Web site: Bryn Gweled Homesteads Welcome Page. bryngweled.org. 2020-01-13.
27. Web site: At Bryn Gweled Homesteads, intentionally making a community for 75 years. Writer. Alan J. Heavens, Inquirer Real Estate. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 26 April 2015 . en-US. 2020-01-13.
28. Web site: An Experiment in Anarchy: Modern Times, the notorious and short-lived utopian village that preceded Brentwood . https://web.archive.org/web/20140809191756/http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/WarrenJosiah/hs526a.htm . 9 August 2014 . dead.
29. News: Searching For Happiness In 'Utopia' . . 11 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192022/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/24/utopian-communities_n_4906105.html . 3 March 2016 . live . Acorn Community Farm [is] a self-described “farm-based, anarchist, eco-conscienced, secular, egalitarian community”.
30. Web site: Pentecostal Monasticism: Communities of the Spirit Both Past and Potential. February 5, 2020.
31. Web site: Heathcote Community. www.heathcote.org.
32. Web site: Robinson . Paul . Community at its finest: Alpha Farm provides a tight-knit cooperative outside Eugene . Daily Emerald . 2019-06-03 . 2023-03-19.
33. Web site: Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage . Global Ecovillage Network . 2022-03-14 . 2023-03-19.
34. Web site: Blust . Kendal . EcoVillage residents live apart, reach out . Nogales International . 2023-02-13 . 2023-03-19.
35. Book: LeWarne . Charles Pierce . Utopias on Puget Sound: 1885 - 1915 . . Seattle . 1975 . 168–226 . 0295974443.
36. Web site: Fimbres . Gabrielle . Stone Curves turns 10 with strong sense of community . Arizona Daily Star . 2023-03-10 . 2023-03-19.
37. Book: Marshall, Peter H. . Peter Marshall (author) . . . 1993 . 978-0-00-686245-1 . . 507–508 . 1042028128 . [I]n 1890 Dr Giovanni Rossi, an Italian agronomist, founded in the famous Cecilia colony in Parana one of the first anarchist communities in Latin America..