Team:Basic Needs
Activities: Define Basic Needs, according to Maslow and others, to identify clearly what Human Needs will be required to be met by IMAR and the community
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Define content for the RBE10K/Needs page, which will serve to identify the basic requirements of the whole project.
Summary
The cornerstone of basic needs research is most probably Maslow's hierarchy (pyramid) of needs. The pyramid has 5 levels: physiological needs (food, drink, air, sleep, sex), safety, love and friendship, self-esteem/status and self-actualisation. The basic underlying idea is that the lower level needs come first, then if they're satisfied one can move higher. There have been alternative versions of the pyramid, one putting high emphasis on evolutionary needs (breeding and parenting) and also noting that lower level needs never disappear even if you generally have them covered[1].
In RBE10k, we aim to provide everything required for both the body and the spirit. One problem here is that we will all come from a capitalist system and will be more or less conditioned to desire things we don't need. However, most of us have probably realised the harmful effects of television and advertising and have removed them from our lives. The current planning focuses mainly on physiological needs, which will take up the bulk of the budget and workload. This includes building houses with furniture, buying food for 2 years plus seeds and plants, ensuring water supply, having electricity, thinking about medical care. Belonging needs will mostly be covered by working together but we will surely also have fun together! Musical instruments, sports instruments etc would provide group activity. We will also retain connection with the outside world via the Internet, posting videos and blogging about our lives. Self-esteem is mainly a question of mindset. If you aren't constantly comparing yourself to others and instead focus on what you love about yourself, it will come naturally. Self-actualisation will in fact be the project itself! Although everyone is free to pursue their own interests while in the community. Since the materials required will vary greatly, we will consider this later on.
Existing studies
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Metamotivation and ERG theory
- Manfred Max-Neef's fundamental human needs
- Murray's system of needs
- [[w:Juan Antonio Pérez López#Motivations_and_motives|]]
- Human needs mind maps
- Alternative and esoteric views on needs:
- Tony Robbin's 6 Human Needs and The Egoic Needs
- Leadership needs (Note: in RBE everybody is their own leader)
- Alek Vila's The cycle of needs
- Brenton and Rebekah Russell on Maslow's and William Glasser's basic needs
- The primary needs chart (Note: "advanced alchemy")
- Scott Grossberg's The alchemy of human needs
- Other related material:
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