Larry Harvey, a co-founder of Burning Man, penned the 10 Principles in 2004 as direction for the just launched Regional Network. They were created as a mirror of the community's ethos and culture as it had naturally evolved from the event's start, not as a prescription of how individuals should be and behave.
Extreme Integration
Burning Man can be attended by everyone. We value the stranger and embrace him. Prerequisites for involvement in our community do not exist.
Presenting Gifts
Burning Man is committed to deeds of gift-giving. A gift has only one value: unqualified. Giving does not call for a return or a trade for something equal worth.
Decommodion
Our group aims to foster social settings free from commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising thereby preserving the spirit of gifting. We are here ready to save our culture from such plunder. We fight the replacement of participatory experience for consumption.
Extreme self-reliance
Burning Man challenges the person to explore, practice, and depend on their inner resources.
Extreme Personal Expression
Radical self-expression originates from the particular talents of the person. Nobody else save the person or a working group can decide on its content. It is presented to other people as a gift. In this regard, the giver should honor the recipient's rights and liberties.
Collective Effort
Our society celebrates innovative teamwork and cooperation. We seek to create, advertise, preserve public areas, works of art, and means of communication that encourage such engagement from social networks to public spaces.
Civic Accountability
We value civil society. Those who plan events should take care of public welfare and try to let participants understand their civic obligations. They also have to take responsibility for organizing events compliant with municipal, state, and federal regulations.
Leaving No Trace
People in our community value the surroundings. We promise to leave no physical evidence of our activity anywhere we assemble. We try, wherever we can, to leave such locations in a better condition than when we discovered them; we also clean after ourselves.
Involvement
Our community is dedicated to a really participatory ethic. We think that only very intimate involvement can bring about transforming change—in the person as much as in society. We reach being by means of activity. Everyone is expected to be working. Everyone is welcome to participate. Actions that open the heart help us to bring the world real.
Instant clarity
In many respects, immediate experience is the most valuable touchstone available in our society. We want to get beyond obstacles separating us from a knowledge of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, social engagement, and interaction with a natural environment more than human capability. Nothing can replace this knowledge.
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Pirkko Koskitalo
Larry Harvey, a co-founder of Burning Man, penned the 10 Principles in 2004 as direction for the just launched Regional Network. They were created as a mirror of the community's ethos and culture as it had naturally evolved from the event's start, not as a prescription of how individuals should be and behave.
Extreme Integration
Burning Man can be attended by everyone. We value the stranger and embrace him. Prerequisites for involvement in our community do not exist.
Presenting Gifts
Burning Man is committed to deeds of gift-giving. A gift has only one value: unqualified. Giving does not call for a return or a trade for something equal worth.
Decommodion
Our group aims to foster social settings free from commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising thereby preserving the spirit of gifting. We are here ready to save our culture from such plunder. We fight the replacement of participatory experience for consumption.
Extreme self-reliance
Burning Man challenges the person to explore, practice, and depend on their inner resources.
Extreme Personal Expression
Radical self-expression originates from the particular talents of the person. Nobody else save the person or a working group can decide on its content. It is presented to other people as a gift. In this regard, the giver should honor the recipient's rights and liberties.
Collective Effort
Our society celebrates innovative teamwork and cooperation. We seek to create, advertise, preserve public areas, works of art, and means of communication that encourage such engagement from social networks to public spaces.
Civic Accountability
We value civil society. Those who plan events should take care of public welfare and try to let participants understand their civic obligations. They also have to take responsibility for organizing events compliant with municipal, state, and federal regulations.
Leaving No Trace
People in our community value the surroundings. We promise to leave no physical evidence of our activity anywhere we assemble. We try, wherever we can, to leave such locations in a better condition than when we discovered them; we also clean after ourselves.
Involvement
Our community is dedicated to a really participatory ethic. We think that only very intimate involvement can bring about transforming change—in the person as much as in society. We reach being by means of activity. Everyone is expected to be working. Everyone is welcome to participate. Actions that open the heart help us to bring the world real.
Instant clarity
In many respects, immediate experience is the most valuable touchstone available in our society. We want to get beyond obstacles separating us from a knowledge of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, social engagement, and interaction with a natural environment more than human capability. Nothing can replace this knowledge.
Read: Why do people dress weird for Burning Man?