It was envisaged that there was a need for an entity to promote and facilitate the multifaceted cognitive ownerships and interests invested in places beyond Western institutionalised understandings of places and their 'freehold ownership'.
Ownership is ever likely to be a contested idea but the shared ownerships and interests in places is understood but not so well in Eurocentric Western mindsets where places (my/our place) are typically seen as 'property' and 'ownable' by individuals, groups and/or collectively, or in a colonial sense 'by the crown'.
It is also the case anthropologically within say FIRSTnation cultural mindsets albeit with a myriad of cultural sensibilities and sensitivities attached to the notion of 'ownership'.
Initially it was envisaged that an 'institute' might be established to undertake the task of facilitating a change in the understandings attached to 'ownership'. Rather quickly that vision proved to be contentious and especially so as it was seen as some kind of threat to the status quo.
Therefore, it turned out that the NUDGELBAH INSTITUTE transmogrified into a 'nudgelbah' – a word randomly constructed from a set of syllables drawn from 'the ether' by chance that is a noun but not a proper noun and that is to do with 'being and doing'.
A 'nudgelbah' is a kind of WALLLESSnetwork where 'placedness' is not rooted in the concept of a geographically defined place/space – a 'place' not defined by or confined by a geography. 'Walllessness' is not just about removing physical barriers, imagined or physical; rather, it's about a profound reimagining of the spaces inbetween and/or outside. Fundamentally, spaces do not exist merely within or between boundaries yet they function as opportunities for new connectivities and new unities.
So symbolically the gestation of a 'nudgebah' began as life always begins with a coming together. There is magic in new beginnings and it is truly the most powerful of the the things we know. While a nudgelbah is not a 'belief system' somehow and somewhere in the background there is the Buddha saying “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” and Buddha's telling us that there are just three things that cannot be hidden ... the sun, the moon and the truth ... and somehow all this lingers in the nudgelbah sensibility.... To read more
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