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The Living Project

A journey to explore in which ways you can live. Do we have only one possibility? A recurring question. The answer: There are many possibilities how to live... House, tent, hammock... Alone or in community... City or jungle. Only to mention some.

The important thing is to ask questiones.

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Daniel

In Mérida, Mexico

Daniel has been hosting couchsurfers from all around the world for about 10 years. By now he has had approximately 900 guests staying with him in his room in his parents' house. As a programmer Daniel works mostly from home and since he has guests all the time he is used to not having a lot of privacy. He has been living in this room for the last 20 years and his bed is the hammock. There are plans to do some changes to his living space and Daniel has started some time ago by making another window.

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Bea

In Zutut'Ha, Mexico

Bea from France has been on the road for 10 years and is an artist in many ways. She does handicraft, paints and loves dancing with her fire staff by which she makes money for her permanent travels. People's lives are like the lives of birds, she says: Some live at the same place all the time, others migrate to far away places - and both is good and necessary. She sees herself in the role of a messenger telling people about her life. For Bea everything is possible and she does what she loves. Her bus is the closest thing to a permanent home she has.

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Arnaud

In Zutut'Ha, Mexico

Arnaud lives in the off-grid community Zutut'Ha in Mexico which he and a group of friends founded about three years ago. The family of his mother is French so he likes to speak French with visitors from France who come to the community. He studied Biology and is his part in the community is gardening which he totally loves. There are no houses for the community members so far, so he and his girlfriend live in a tent.

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Ema

In Zutut'Ha, Mexico

Ema also lives in the off-grid community Zutut'Ha in Mexico and is as well part of the group which founded it about three years ago. His favorite aspects of the community life are: fixing things, the spacious compost toilet, and sleeping in his hammock. Unlike everyone else in Zutut'Ha he does not live in a tent but puts up his hammock every night. Like this he often sleeps under the palm leaf roof of the community workshop or at times somewhere in the jungle. Ema does not need more privacy but his dream is to live in his own tree house eventually.

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Sarah Angelhair

In Punta Gorda, Belize

Sarah from the United States has been living in Belize for one year now. She likes this country because of the "Belizean way", and engages herself in the local politics. On the picture in her room she is grounding herself by attaching herself with special cables to the plug and in the buckets she collects rainwater for drinking. She likes her apartment which is associated to a hostel but the problem is the rooster carking during the night in front of her window. Due to that soon after this picture was taken Sarah moved to another nearby house.

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Leanne

In the jungle near Punta Gorda, Belize

Leanne from New Zealand has been living in the Belizean jungle for six years now. Her company are five big dogs and changing voluntary workers. This place is perfect for Leanne because she enjoys the high humidity and likes weird insects. She owns a big part of the jungle she lives in, which is now a reserve. Her trail cam sometimes records jaguars or pumas and there is an electric fence around her estate for protection. Her home is only accessible by a boat ride on the closeby river and then by a one kilometer long path through the jungle.

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Dream

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La laguna

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Maya culture

Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

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Mystical Maya ceremonies

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Elliot

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Mercado

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Chicken bus

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Shouting from the roof

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Andrews & Charles

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To live is to flow, to flow is to leave