The Common Ground / an open question
What if the future already exists in the knowledge around us?
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How do you want to come in?
What kind of time do you have?
Common Roots
Membership is ₹2,000 for one year. WhatsApp updates, priority for events and workshops, and member rates where they apply.
Gatherings
Workshops
Long-term at Dhaanyam
Minimum one month. This is the volunteering application for the food forest.
Regular
Short-term
Filmmaking
Join the community
The Common Roots WhatsApp is where updates, events, and conversations actually move.
A sustainable space
Independent spaces working with climate practice, community, food, building, or travel. The team reads it and writes back if there is a way to connect.
Online
A stay is not open.
You can still come and work, or learn with your hands.
What it is
A commune. A learning space. A movement.
Common Ground brings people, places and practices together around one question: how can we live in a way that works better for people and the earth? It is not only a property. Building, growing, making and learning sit in the same circle.
How it works
Creation over consumption.
There is no single perfect model. We try small things, notice what happens, and share what someone else can use. Observe. Explore. Experiment. Evolve. Modern tools where they help. Knowledge already held in a place, where it already works.
From the field
Verticals
All verticals
Project
Common Spaces
Dhaanyam and Mayavadi. The places the work is tried.
Project
Common Architecture
Earth, bamboo, and rooms that answer the weather.
Project
Production
Film, music, and the visual record of the work.
Project
Common Cupboard
A place for makers. Still in beta.
Project
Common Ground Lab
Workshops, schools, and learning by doing.