Flip the Script: Housing Ideas

Day Seventy-five

Housing Ideas

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” ~R. Buckminster Fuller

Nomadic Homes — Vardos

Many of our ancestors lived a nomadic life traveling to different locations for food and shelter. Historically, Saami people of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia were nomadic. They would migrate with reindeer herds and carry tents or yurts with them for homes.

By the 1800’s, the Roma and Irish traveller community, traveled with tilted carts and then traditional homes called “vardos.” Another word for a vardo might be horse-drawn coach. Decorative craftsmanship with door carvings and symbols that were connected to different regions.

There have been many nomadic tribes in Africa, the Middle East and India who travel by camel and with cattle and other animals.

There are fewer of us following the ancient ways of our ancestors by traveling to different locations with vardos or in canoes or transporting yurts or traveling across deserts. The nomadic imprint in our DNA is still with us, it just looks different. In the modern world, we have become digital nomads with house free lifestyles or owners of…