still in very early progress. The idea is to present this seemingly disperse research topics as intertwined.

Adult education, decentralisation in the educational system and IT

• The use and effect of IT in informal education
• Education and its influence on personal life choices in local development

The revival of local forms of governance and self-determination in the information age

• Ethnographics of the handling of participative resources in various cultures
• Observations and structures of inclusion and goal-finding in local and regional systems
• new developpments in tourism to attract and support visitors and connect them with a llocal population.

Local resource cycles and the increasing abilities of production

• the revival of agriculture in a post-petrol age, renewable energy, green chemistry and miniaturisation
• Decentralised Automation, fabrication and local resource cycles.

Urban living in rural areas

• The contribution of architecture to support participative and sustainable lifestyles
• Support structures and networks for the provision of services and the enhancement of productive abilities in rural or peripheral areas.
• the state of the art in teleworking and similar fields of making a life from Global Villages.