book 1, beginning
and drafting a town experiment
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Beschreibung
Alice Adler sets out to convince the US billionaire Tom Holbon to build a town experiment. The aim of the experiment is to rethink — well, everything.
Eventually Tom Holbon agrees to assemble a team of experts who compile a first draft for the town and for the experiments.
The experiments will help the teams to create an environment which will allow humans to thrive.
While the focus is initially on the neurological patient, and everything that is beneficial for the recovering brain, additional features gain importance, such as business ideas and business compositions, town layouts and architecture, ecology and agriculture, the role of arts & crafts in a vibrant town, digital approaches, special gardens such as the Senses Garden or the Challenge Garden, educational squares, work/life balance and job shaking and quite a bit more.
The characters bring their personal stories, and the occasional flare-up, clash and heartache are unavoidable.
Some of the other characters include: Jack, a famous actor, who struggles to find his place in the project. Andy, a talented but kind of insecure programmer, who is responsible for the simulations. And Andy’s two young colleagues Daria and Noel, who are their very own characters. Andy, Daria and Noel become anchors for Alice and are involved in some of the big secrets in the story.
While most of this story takes place at Tom’s estate, and some of it in New York, the team is international from the start, and the overall story connects to all corners of the planet.
For more see: https://www.easy-town-books.com/
Autor*in
Charlie Alice Raya
Charlie Alice Raya
explorer, creator, author & photographer,
born in 1972 in the then divided city of Berlin.
Charlie Alice Raya writes explorative and Make it happen stories.
The easy town books (book 1-12) are an exploration into what kind of environment the human needs to thrive and that while restoring and coexisting with nature. The basis of this thought experiment is a town which is planned, built and eventually run by the main characters of the story. Pretty much every aspect of life in town, of human well-being, of business compositions and practices, of education, arts, health, ecology and agriculture are encompassed in this story, alongside with the character’s own journeys.
Charlie Alice Raya’s life offers so many peculiarities that a comprehensive background story is difficult to compile. But all the author’s studies, works, travels, experiences and traumata have become seeds for questions which enrich the author’s work.
Since 2019 the author focuses on the easy town books, and in summer 2021, they picked up their artistic photographic work again in support of the easy town projects. The same year, the author rewrote book 1, beginning, and completed both parts of book 2, travelling. In these books several ideas for businesses and for more towns were developed.
2022 saw the author build nine websites for the easy town projects & ideas, write an accidental book (the dot.story), and do some nine new photo series.
In 2023 the author’s body went on strike, after years of overwork.
In September 2024, the author returns with four new books (book 3/1, shaping, arrivals & shaping, book 3/2, entanglements & then there was silence, book 4/1, building, campaigns & getting started and The end of all wars, planet one, the roots of war. Plus there are six new websites and ideas for more: breastless, Views from around the universe, Charlie Alice cooks.
2024 also sees the author’s first serious steps into the public eye.
‘My work is like a bag of seeds. It’s full of questions, ideas and visions which can be picked up, planted, fertilised and nurtured to grow. I dedicate my work to rethinking what might need a rethink, to doing my bit for shaping life on our planet and to restoring our planet.’
Charlie Alice Raya, September 2024
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Themen in »book 1, beginning«
human future testing ideas human wellbeing town experiment shaping the future rethinking town development business practices ecology climate action urbanism architecture healthcare system