{"id":39,"date":"2008-07-03T12:08:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T15:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigital.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2009-02-01T22:15:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T00:15:06","slug":"global-nomadic-expatriates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/2008\/07\/global-nomadic-expatriates\/","title":{"rendered":"Global nomadic expatriates"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read on the frogblog<\/a> an article by Tim Leberecht (based on another article, published in Wallpaper<\/a>) that hit the nail on the head on a topic that has been the center of our lives during the last ten years. Now I have a term for what I consider ourselves since that moment, back then in 1998, were we left Argentina with a scholarship in the Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/a> in Stuttgart, Germany. Now It seems to be that we are Global Nomadic Expatriates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Our nomadic life<\/strong> started \u2013 as I mentioned \u2013 in 1998 and lead us to live in many places: in different locations around Stuttgart<\/strong>, for a short period in Berlin<\/strong>, for a semester in Halle (Saale)<\/strong>, in several places in Buenos Aires<\/strong> (like the tango says, \u2018siempre se vuelve al primer amor\u2026\u2019), many months in San Mart\u00edn de los Andes<\/strong> and two non consecutive semesters (winter-spring \u201806 and \u201807) in Dunedin<\/strong>, New Zealand. Our moves were not only dictated by professional goals as many times we have spent long periods closer to our families, living in Buenos Aires, Gonz\u00e1les Chaves, C\u00f3rdoba and San Mart\u00edn de los Andes, all places in Argentina. This could be a difference with the people mentioned in the original article (which I haven’t read yet).<\/p>\n

During all these years \u2013 that look as brief moments to us \u2013 we have discovered many different ways of dressing, cooking, behaving, understanding (and misunderstanding), speaking, travelling, enjoying and, basically, living. And blured the borders between working \/ living spaces, working days \/ holidays, and so on. Paraphrasing Zygmunt Bauman<\/a>, living liquid times<\/strong>. Bottom line: the most important thing seems to be to maintain the freedom of movement and avoid collecting many material things (I wrote \u2013 in Spanish \u2013 about mobility, cyberspace, design and our experience here: Dise\u00f1o y Ciberespacio<\/a>) And we\u2019d been only in a few mostly urban \/ suburban and occidental places!<\/p>\n

Going to the point, it seems to be that this concept is emerging: the paper Nomadic way of life \u2013 Project policies<\/a> that will be presented in the conference Changing the Change<\/a> in Torino, Italy by Lara Leite Barbosa<\/strong>, and now this article from Leberecht.<\/p>\n

I will have to read the mentioned book The Global Soul<\/a><\/em> by Pico Iyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being in motion for the last ten years, we have started to recognize that the concept of nomadism<\/strong> is having more presence in articles, papers and books. →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19,18,17],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-general","tag-expatriate","tag-global","tag-nomadic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t