Dreamtime Village (DTV) is emerging as an experiment in ecovillage design whose mission is to create new planetary culture. By consciously drawing from the more biodiverse and imaginative resources of present-day and ancient cultures, we garden the complex interface between plant, animal, and human worlds. Our challenge is to design a landscape that is functional, alive, and phantasmagorical while simultaneously serving as an ecovillage demonstration and a hands-on learning environment for people of all ages. We delight in discovery, innovation, and experimentation.

We lean toward open systems and self-organization, allowing the ecovillage to grow as an organism. A diversity of DTV residents and visitors tends to create an eclectic mix; folks are drawn here through a broad variety of channels. Studios, woods, wetlands, gardens, orchards, a huge 1920 brick school building, five other buildings, and 80 acres of land form the facility for DTV workshops, gatherings, retreats, and more. Our focus is on permaculture and "hypermedia" (a term we use to expand on common notions of "art" and "media"). Dreamtimers past or present have been involved in pottery, yoga, musical improvisation and instrument making, woodturning, gourds, herbs, computers, natural building, bookmaking, etc.