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SO HAPPY YOU ARE HERE! NEWS JUST IN! The first we'll do if we raise this money is use this as our contribution to achieve a dream goal - get local older school kids - to visit the farm and work on their own mission: "Strengthen Your Inner GPS". Using nature and animals to get there. Kids and young people today - up to 40% are struggling with stress, anxiety and loneliness. Nature is such a proven thing to help. Let's redefine good life together with the future of our world. The local schools are already in - but we need money to actually execute a cool project like this. Together we are applying for more funds to be able to do this project. Your contribution here helps BIG TIME! And this is just ONE of the projects we can do with the Creative Hub.
Everyone say's we need to be a unicorn til achieve our goal - and that Kickstarter isn't the right place for a mission like ours. Do you agree? We say our journey to becoming a unicorn is ON.
We've won awards for our design, but the best award we could get is your appreciation of this mission! When we finish this place - we hope to spread everything we learn to the whole world - and especially invite small groups of people who could use a strengthening of their inner compas to the farm. We already write books and share our learnings with all our clients. And we hope big companies will begin taking goals to destress seriously too.
So... Step 1 - watch the video:0) Step 2 - see what you can pledge:0) If you can't see what you can pledge - you might be on a phone and need to flip your phone horisontally to see the rewards. If you'd like another pledge - REACH OUT - we have huge ears, and gigantic hopes for our world so all inputs are welcome. Thanks so much for caring enough to check us out!
ABOUT US
I'm Ida Brinck-Lund and my husband is Sune Roland Jensen. We bought the farm for my company, because we both believe that spaces and experiences can empower us and shift our mindset. We've both been in the media business since the late 90's. We'd love to build a whole group of people who believe we can change stuff by approaching life differently.
In all the big companies I've worked with - including our own ventures - my team and I have experienced first hand how incredible things people can create - coming out of extraordinary spaces and alternative work methods.
Imagine that you can get energy and increase your abilities - by using nature, animals and your surroundings and experience how it positively changes your life. And then imagine that your contribution - will help us make a blueprint on a work/ life environment that brings down stress and increases our abilities. Now that's a blueprint worth creating and sharing.
Imagine a place dedicated to challenging the way we work, think - all using nature and animals as our helper. It's time to show how much of a life quality enhancer nature can be.
Adiso - is inspired by the italian word PAR-adiso which means paradise. We want to empower people to enhance their creativity, destress and just take really good care of their inner compass. We call it constantly redefining what the concept of good life can be - from work life to private life. We do this work by creating tools for creativity and designing surroundings. In a way this place will never be finished, but always be a place to share the newest insights and innovation on redefining good life.
ABOUT THE ADISO CREATIVE HUB: THE FARM
We can't help but create ourselves - and have done so for years. With this project the creative hub - the farm - we will create an amazing nursery and surroundings showing how flowers, design, spaces, projects and different environments and work methods, can make a positive impact in peoples life.
Imagine you - or school kids - or companies - in small groups in these quiet settings - come and work through strengthening their inner compas - using the nature and the spaces we have designed to empower the life they want.
It took us five years to get to the point where we could raise enough money to buy our creative hub. Now we've come to a point where the banks have reached their limit – and we've invested so much in the farm, but to really make an impact we need to do much more. And we need your help.
We'd like to raise as much money as possible - to create enough examples - that we can expand this knowledge from local to global scale.
WHAT'S THE CONTRIBUTION FOR?
Creating outdoor spaces at the farm
We want to create an environment where you can get inspired both inside and outside. The 35.000m2 of land (3,6 Ha) will be designed into calm and empowering nursery and spaces. Our masterplan incorporates organic production, biodiversity, climate adaptation, prototyping of new methods and designs.
Minimum of two spaces for empowerment:
- At least one space with focus on a destress environment (more greens and pastel colours)
- And one space that can inspire to action (more lively and with colours).
- The more money that comes in - the more spaces we can design.
Practical, but important stuff:
- Landscape our parking lot with stone material ensuring safe access
- "Mudproofing" of paths and horse tracks - ensures safe road access
- First design on water management - climate adaptation of the farm by infiltration, irrigation and reuse of water by designing and establishing a pound, infiltration trench, drain gutters and rainwater barrels
- Overall maintenance of the green spaces and the first steps to the nursery
- Plant around the parking lot and the horse fences to create more privacy and zen for everyone from visitors to neighbours
- Design some extra practical adjustments to hide all the stuff that disturbs the peace like – trailers, machines etc.
The feather - Design and first step of our Recreational and edible garden
A fraction of a greater plan is our vegetable production. First step is to grow food for 5 families and sell excess food to the local community. This experiment is combining beauty and aesthetics with practicality and sacred geometry to create a garden of beauty that feeds the soul in more than one way. The idea is to create at space that can reduce the busy pace that this modern society sometimes generate and make us come back to "earth" and feel natures vibrant energy. This will be a scalable model. We will share everything we learn on how to do this in your own backyard (at workshops and in articles), but also how to scale it to large communities. It will be a new and healthy way to interact with vegetables and fruits. In this kickstarter campaign we will
- Physically mark out the exact shape of the feather
- Depending on how much we raise we will continue to build this garden
Furniture with originality
We want to mix new unique design with homemade affordable design that we create ourselves. We will show how interior decorating can shift peoples mindset.
- We need to furbish the club lounge, dining room and make sure we have all the equipment for presentations and guests
- There are two rooms with fireplaces - one is working - the other needs renovation. We love the hygge from fireplaces so the furniture has to fit with the magic of our high ceiling rooms and fireplaces.
Design our organic plant and flower nursery
This is a big project - and one that will never really finish - we hope. What we do know is that we want to create an organic plant nursery - one day even with a greenhouse.
We will change the normal way of producing in planting productions – (inspired by polyculture and permaculture if you know about this stuff). We also want avoid ugly farmer constructions that ruin the atmosphere for the surroundings, local community and us who work here. It's about beauty. We don't expect to build a nursery from this money, but we want to create the whole design and next steps to move forward.
The more money you contribute with - the more we can work on getting the organic flower/plant nursery/greenhouse designed and moving forward, so that in the end, you can not only get inspired globally, but actually get products from us to your home locally.
OUR PEOPLE PLAN
We dream of being able to create a surrounding that holds so much empowerment that we can also embrace employees with difficulties – that usually wouldn’t be able to fit in – to work with us. We want to prove that great design can empower people who normally don't feel they can fit in - to function and show how a different working culture can enhance a different work/life reality. We know by experience that it can be done. We have a strong history with gardener students with mental issues and employees that come to us stressed and leave stronger than they came to us. Image that your contribution is a contribution to creating a blueprint for a work/life environment that brings down stress and increases our abilities.
DEVELOPING PEOPLE THROUGH OUR HORSES
The horses have great walking paddocks already and will function as providers of nutrition for our nursery. We have things we'd like to improve like haystoring - mud on tracks for winter which would be amazing to have. But the most important thing is that extra special thing they can conribute with.
We are certified with EAGALA personal development through horses - a global scientific acknowledged equine-assisted system to drive change for people. You don't even have to be in with the horses to try it out. The system is based on work from the ground, high safety and ethics, solution orientated development. Horses are flight animals which means they have an incredible ability to pick up on people's emotions - even the ones people don't know of themselves. In the same way that LEGO Serious Play externalizes a reality by building a simulation of your work - horses provide an amazing playground for looking at issues in an entertaining and different way. The magical part being that the horses actually interact. Once you see a single person transform after spending time with a horse - it becomes addictive. It's not rocket science - but it is GOOD stuff.
CAN WE DO ALL THAT OURSELVES?
We’ve come really far and we already feel so grateful! We know we have to create stepping stones and develop all this bit by bit - and that it might even take up to ten years for all our dreams to be manifested. But, the more help we get now - the more solid ground we will be standing on - to make the right long term choices for the Creative Hub.
PEOPLE
We have supporting partners that have built companies, organisations and methods for companies that already have shown a unique way of thinking. The more money we raise - the more we are able to bring on these partners more - and in that way expand our empowerment toolboxes and methods.
We have Malene - We say her mission is to clear ... for example doubt. She is an Urban Landscape Engineer and a Landscape Architect with a big interest in Health Design. Malene has a deeply rooted goal to show people how well designed surroundings affects our well being. The way she rejoices on what we've achieved all together already - make us all work harder and appreciate the entire journey.
We have Jakob - who's job is to plan and help building the dream. He is a Construction Gardener and Landscape Architect. He has spent 7 years developing ways to plan and construct hybrid communities that will create a balanced environment for the energy system of the human body. It's Jakob's mission to create optimal conditions to live out our human potentials. He loves stones - and is a hard core yoga man and has such a passion that it is completely contagious.
We have Geoffrey - who designs the outreach to people so we keep inventing ways for the learnings to reach anyone - from local to global. Geoff lights up and get's so many insights that he returns to us when we have created something new, that make us all believe it's the right thing we are doing.
We have Theis and Søren who design our digital outreach. They are so down to earth and creative with good taste around what we put out and with hearts of gold. With them on board we always tighten up our game and get focused while rethinking the digital space - often with bare feet outdoors. Together we have innovated and creatively output for many huge companies - and we still do. What's exciting here is to also create a brand that has the focus on sharing insights with others.
We have so many other people surrounding us - some people have joined the journey, some are freelancers for a period. It Varies and will hopefully keep on varying - that's the whole point. Rikke keeps control of our numbers (thank goodness), Palle we OWE you and Albjerg), edits our stuff (Michael - cudos for the night editing and all), markets our stuff (Christian - you patient man), packs our stuff (school girls, Clara, Lucca, Natacha - you're small ministars), decorates and build our stuff (thank you Susanne, Fylla, Fabian, Kristian, Axel, Morten).
And then there are all the partners like Stark, CMA, Søren, Lars Hø, Anders, Asger, Claes, Vytas & Co and so many more, who work their magic for us. Aswell as fans, families and friends - thank you all for always believing in us!!
Looking for companies who would like to improve their work environment?
We have introduced bigger rewards specially aimed at companies and organisations who want to be part of our project. We hope to see local as well as international businesses who share our values. We hope you know this is a unique chance for a visit, since the next steps for the farm will be dependant on the funds we raise.
Want to help in other ways than backing our campaign?
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you want to be a part of the project. We always love getting to know new people.
If you want to get in touch or have any questions please don't hesitate to write an email on info@adiso.dk.
Risks and challenges
We have come a long way, but there is always a risk that the money we raise is too little for what's needed to keep the farm going. But we know we will be far enough inside and out to at least give you a great experience. Your contribution is vital for us to keep the project going for a longer period of time until we will be running by ourselves.
Even though we try to be as low cost as possible, we still need a farmer, a gardener, a designer and communication people to get the stories out in whatever format is the most relevant in the moment.
The more help we get, the better we can secure that we can pay for our expences while improving the farm. Just the cost of running the farm alone, with no people, costs more than 50 Thousand danish Kroner per month. And that's without designing and creating showcase spaces.
On top of our organic flower garden nursery, we are applying for funds to do projects with young people at the farm - to help them design their own inner GPS and navigate their way in society.
But getting the funds and assembling these big groups takes time.
Your contribution helps buy us that time - to create small hopping stones to jump on, that will slowly lead us to the place being able to stand on its own two legs.
But what we have done is taken the hardest risk ourselves. And we have the place so close to ready that we think inviting you for the unique visits will be possible after summer all depending on how finished you want the place to be when you visit.
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