{"id":31,"date":"2021-10-01T15:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T14:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2021-10-01T16:13:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:13:28","slug":"inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the original inspiration &#8211; a manuscript tracked down to the bowels of the British Library storage facility near Wetherby in Yorkshire after reading a post on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/diggersanddreamers\/\">#diggersanddreamers<\/a> blog a few years ago. It&#8217;s a publication from 1973, put out by BIT Information Service, a kind of organic internet of resources serving UK alternative culture at the time. They held a competition for people to submit ideas for an alternative society and this document &#8211; &#8216;A Book Of Visions: A Directory of Alternative Society Projects&#8217; &#8211; collected around 300 of these ideas under headings like education, housing, ecology, alternative technology, the arts, information services, alternative medical and mental health projects, etc.<br><br>I found it a fascinating insight into what seemed possible at that juncture of hippy ideology and the subsequent rise of neoliberal thinking. Since stumbling across it, and feeling like we are at a similar juncture, my question has been&nbsp;&#8216;What would a new book of visions look like?&#8217;.<br><br>I managed to pick up my own copy (only 200 were printed) a few months ago so I&#8217;ll be sharing and looking deeper into some of the original ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the original inspiration &#8211; a manuscript tracked down to the bowels of the British Library storage facility near Wetherby in Yorkshire after reading a post on the #diggersanddreamers blog a few years ago. It&#8217;s a publication from 1973, put out by BIT Information Service, a kind of organic internet of resources serving UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concept","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebookofvisions.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}