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Sébastien Broca est sociologue, maître de conférences en sciences de l'information et de la communication à l'Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis. Ses recherches portent sur le développement des communs numériques (logiciels libres, Creative Commons, etc.) dans une perspective cherchant à articuler certains apports de la théorie critique et une réflexion sur l’économie politique d’Internet.
Publication Utopie du logiciel libre, Le passager clandestin, 2013. +
I’m Laure Brossin-Pillot, living in France (Paris) after many months spent on the different banks of Mediterranean Sea during my PhD. As a librarian teacher in a "lycée" (high school) located in a northern suburb area of Paris (Saint-Denis), I try, as far as I can, to give a common dimension to my pedagogy. I’m currently involved in the « eco-responsible » program of our lycée (held by the region). I concretely contribute to the vegetable garden of our high school founded by the Biology team and try to build a network of school seed libraries. As a doctor in Greek Archaeology (Sorbonne-University), I’m now working on the Commons during Antiquity, through the prism of Ancient libraries and reading practices. +
Daphne Büllesbach is Berlin-based Director of Programmes at European Alternatives, a Europe-wide civil society organization devoted to exploring and developing the potential for transnational politics and culture. She was co-curator of last year’s Transeuropa Festival 'Beyond Fragments' that took place in Belgrade in October 2015, bringing together activists and artists debating issues such as the refugee situation, management of the commons or the seizure of institutions by new political forces. After years of gathering and connecting progressive voices around Europe, she is experienced in the difficulties of cross border political work and holds a particular interest for solutions to bridging the local to the transnational. Otherwise she has been involved in developing new online talk formats such as Talk Real (international) and talk im transit (German). +
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Yves Cabannes, urbaniste, a travaillé en Asie, Afrique, Pays Arabes et surtout en Amérique latine, au Brésil et Mexique, avec des organisations sociales des ONGs et des gouvernements locaux dans le domaine du développement local, du logement, de l’emploi, de la formation et du micro crédit. . Il a été directeur de programmes de recherche urbaine et professeur invité de plusieurs universités. De 1997 a 2004, il a coordonné, pour l’ Amérique Latine et la Caraïbe,à partir de Quito, le Programme de Gestion Urbaine ( UNDP/UN Habitat). Aprés deux années d’enseignement à l’Université d’Harvard (Graduate School of Design) et sous-directeur de son Centre de Recherche sur le Développement Urbain, il est depuis septembre 2006 Professeur et titulaire de la Chaire de la Panification du Développement à L’University College London, Unité de Planification du Développement.
Activement engagé dans la défense du droit à la ville et à l’habitation , il est membre de la direction de plusieurs organisations de la société civile. +
I would like to join this mailing list. I am a PhD student in University College Dublin looking at community involvement in biodiversity governance in Ireland and the UK, through the lens of the commons. I am also active in re - establishing the Transition Town network in Ireland. I would like to connect with 'commoners' around Europe, to learn and to participate in this movement. +
From Navarra Basque Country Spain. I'm part of the ecovillages mouvement since 35 years. Now in arterra bizimodu , a new ecovillage . Im part of the coordination team of Red Iberica de Ecoaldeas ( rie) ang Gen ( global ecovillage network)europe , and part also of Ecolise. We are looking for and living in common...developing a new culture . +
I am one of the co-organiser of the two years process that led to the creation of the Interg-group at the European Parliament on the commons. Of course I am in touch with many of them. I am part of the group facilitating the Commons Space at the WSF (next August in Montreal) I am a Brussels-based social and political activist, searcher and campaigner. The Commons are both part of my activism and my research. Together with other topic such as: right to water, right to land, women's right, migration. I have been part of the" mouvement altermondialiste" since 2001 and participated in the Occupy movement in US. I am part of several networks such as EWM, Transform!, STOP-TTIP, as an activist, and of the IASC (as a researcher). And I collaborate with many others. By education I am social scientist (PhD) and currently studying Human Rights Law. +
Né à Marseille en 1974, Julien Cantoni a occupé des fonctions de direction financière au sein de diverses structures privées et publiques. Impliqué dans les questions de l'entreprenariat social et solidaire, il a conduit notamment dans un organisme HLM un projet de labellisation RSE délivré au plan européen. Actuellement directeur financier adjoint d'une grande maison d'édition française, il s'est intéressé depuis quelques années à la question numérique tant au plan économique que politique ou culturel. Il est l'auteur d'un ouvrage paru aux éditions Inculte (juin 2014), "La société connectée", qui traite de l'impact économique, politique et individuel de la troisième révolution industrielle insufflée par l'émergence du numérique. Il plaide pour réconcilier l'économie digitale et l'économie tangible - qui pour l'heure s'affrontent brutalement - et plus largement pour que l'essor du numérique bénéficie tant aux consommateurs qu'aux citoyens. +
from Totnes in Devon, where I have lived for the last 6 years. I really look forward to being part of the Commons Assembly in Brussels, and to meeting you all. My particular interest is governance of the commons, and raising citizen responsibility for the commons in the bioregion where I live.
I partly work with Transition Network, running the livelihood-creation programme for young adults called One Year in Transition. See: http://www.oneyearintransition.org/ In April I took my students to Bristol where we made a shared enquiry into City as Commons. While I am in Brussels with you all I will be partly representing Transition Network, and partly my other work.
In my other work I have been helping communities map their assets and create a local Community Charter that asserts their responsibility to protect those assets against inappropriate or destructive development. In doing this we are addressing contemporary governance of the commons and asking questions such as “how do we move a vernacular law of the people into local law in the UK?”; "how can a community measure the well-being of its assets, what are the key performance indicators?”;
“what knowledge does a community need to manage a long-term sustainable ecology and economy?”. You can see the example of the Falkirk Charter (which was the first) here: http://www.faug.org.uk/campaign/community-charter
Now I am building a team in South Devon to set up a whole-systems change programme that moves this bio-region towards resilience. We are mindful that the water framework directive in the UK is successful in managing rivers from source to sea but is failing in community engagement and whole-systems change. Our new organisation will be the backbone of the network of actors in this place, using the language of the commons and connecting citizens to the land in many innovative and creative ways: stewards of the river, a water parliament, a watershed Charter etc. One outcome will be a bioregional learning centre for the UK.
Mauro Castro is a member of La Hidra Cooperativa and of Fundación de los Comunes. Economist and Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, with a research history on the topic of the urban commons and other related lines (territorial segregation, urban movements, processes of participation and democratic innovation at the local level, etc.). He has participated in the Organization of scientific events and research projects as well as done some scientific publications, both Latin American and Spanish magazines. +
Teodor Celakoski is a cultural worker and activist from Zagreb. His work ranges from coordinating cultural programs, networking and cultural advocacy, to institutional innovation and political activism. Celakoski co-founded the Multimedia Institute and cultural center MaMa, an organisation and venue focused on digital culture, human rights and critical theory. He helped initiate Clubture, the network for exchange of independent cultural programs within Croatia. Further, he played a key role in initiating Kultura Nova, a public foundation for the development of non-profit independent contemporary culture and POGON - a hybrid cultural center established as an institutional public-civic partnership between independent cultural actors and the city of Zagreb. He is also a coordinator of the Right to the City Zagreb, founded to fight the economic overexploitation of public space in the city of Zagreb and Croatia. +
Maître de conférences en sciences de gestion et membre du LIRSA, CNAM Paris. Ses recherches portent sur la construction sociale de l’information financière, son interprétation - tant par la finance que par les salariés des entreprises et leurs représentants – et sur les conséquences sociales qui en découlent. +
Injecteur, depuis 1992, au sein d'activités humaines terrestres, de comportements individuels et collectifs, qui soient un peu plus alignés avec, la protection, l'entretien et la restauration, des biens communs, de la Biosphere, d'une paix mondiale durable, de pratiques économiques solidaires, circulaires, fonctionnelles et distributives, sans recourir, ni à l'utilisation des techniques manipulatoires sociologiques, ni à l'utilisation des savoirs en techniques de stratégies individuelles ou collectives. Utilisateur et contributeurs des Logiciels Libres. Contributeur à la création et à l'essort du nouveau champ d'activités qu'est le matériel Libre (Open Hardware). Porteur du projet Voosilla (fr-voosilla.ouvaton.org). Admirateur de la Nature depuis toujours, espérant que des fonds bienveillants sauront devenir propriétaires de parcelles de terres remarquables pour les protéger ad-vitam-eternam, les graver dans les Biens Communs, et créer des économies autour ce cette protection afin d'en faire profiter les habitants locaux: simples naturelles et évidentes contreparties. +
Didier Christin, coordinateur du pôle recherche-intervention à Sol et Civilisation (www.soletcivilisation.fr), docteur en sciences de l’environnement et en science politique. Mes missions visent à comprendre les dynamiques territoriales, leur rôle dans la prise en charge des réalités complexes et multi-acteurs ; en faciliter l’adaptation et la réactualisation face aux grands enjeux d’aujourd’hui avec des concepts, méthodes, procédures, outils et savoir-faire adaptés.
A ce titre, mieux connaitre, faire reconnaitre et améliorer la capacité des acteurs dans les territoires à « agir en commun » sont pour moi des enjeux clés. Concernant ma participation à l’atelier « Finance et biens communs », 2 choses. 1) Me tenir informé des débats qui existent sur ces thèmes, et des débatteurs qui les animent. 2) Comme je distingue l’action individuelle et l’action collective (« une organisation à l’aide de laquelle une nation se décharge sur quelques individus de ce qu’elle ne peut ou ne veut pas faire elle-même », B. Contant) de l’action en commun, il apparait que les deux grandes sources de financement des actions/institutions (pour caricaturer, pour l’intérêt individuel, le Marché ; pour l’intérêt général/collectif, l’Etat (impôts, redevances…) finalement ne permettent pas aux dispositifs « d’action en commun » dans les territoires de se développer… Je ne suis pas du tout un spécialiste de ce domaine, mais je suis donc intéressé à travailler/découvrir des dispositifs permettant réellement de financer et donc de faciliter l’action en commun (par (contre)exemple, les Agences de l’eau en France auraient pu représenter un exemple de tel dispositif, or elles ont fini par évoluer vers une organisation « collective » et non « de facilitation de l’action en commun » ; quand bien même l’eau est décrétée « patrimoine commun de la nation » dans la loi sur l’eau). +
I am a researcher at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience of Coventry University (UK). I am based in Brussels. I look forward to meeting you all at the Zinneke on the 15th (I won't be able to attend the following days). My interest in the commons is quite recent but growing.
I have done research on the creation of new human rights - right to land, biodiversity and seeds - by transnational peasant movements (such as La Via Campesina) and am now involved in negotiations at the UN on a new Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other people working in rural areas. In that context, the issue of the "traditional" commons (land, other natural resources but also seeds) has come up quite strongly, and in particular the need to recognize and protect those spaces and associated collective management practices in international law. My personal interest is in documenting natural commons practices in the European context and in exploring the legal frameworks that we need to support and defend them.
I am particularly interested in the policy proposals around ecovillages, land in Galicia, natural commons and solidarity economy. +
I am part of Prinzessinnengärten (http://prinzessinnengarten.net/about/]- a social and ecological urban gardening project in Berlin and of the Neighborhood Academy [http://www.nachbarschaftsakademie.org/en/about/]- a self-organized open platform for urban and rural knowledge sharing, cultural practice and activism I am especially interested in question of collective land use and self organized forms of „collective learning" to promote and establish new forms of ownership +
Scriptwriter and director of socially engaged documentaries since 1995. He has directed films exhibited in festivals and televisions in more than 15 countries. Some of his remarkable works are Sobre ruedas (Keep on Rolling: The Dream of the Automobile); Bendito Simulacro (Blessed Simulacrum), or Zruska (Zruska). +
Benjamin Coriat est un économiste français. Licencié de philosophie, docteur et agrégé en sciences économiques, il est depuis 1989 professeur à l'université de Paris 13. Il est coprésident du collectif des Économistes Atterrés.
Il a co-dirigé l'ANR PROPICE (http://www.mshparisnord.fr/ANR-PROPICE/) +
I work as an independent moderator and facilitator for debat, (socratic) dialogue and conference, mainly in the Netherlands, Belgium and the Baltic States. (my wife is from Estonia). In 2014 I was initiator of the first Citizens Summit in my home town Amsterdam. (www.burgertop-amsterdam.nl). I am a board member of the Dutch Moderators Association and active in the Dutch Association of Journalists.
Some words about this Citizens Summit: On the 6th of June last year 250 Amsterdammers came together to work out plans for a better, more just and more inclusive city. It was a long struggle to get this Summit off the ground, mainly because the political culture in the city is very inward-focused. But with the help of over a hundred volunteers we succeeded and the participants worked out 60 concrete plans in one day, trough a deliberative proces at 35 round tables. (If you are interested, I wrote a paper on the Summit called 'Dismantling the Theatre of Democracy’ in Estonian publication Ehituskunst, you can download it here as pdf: http://www.bartcosijn.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ehituskunst_2016_Bart-Cosijn.pdf)
In many places and cities, I experience a great willingness of ordinary citizens to invest personal time in their community. On the other hand, I am deeply worried that the willingness to participate in formal local (representative) democracies in Europe is very low. In Amsterdam the turnout in local elections is just over 50%, in some boroughs even less than 40%. New deliberative practices, online and offline, are emerging. But party-politics and elections-cycles are very dominant in our democratic systems. We need each other to redefine the democratic and public domain, to make it more open, more inclusive, more common and less politicized. +
My main work is supporting local communities governing natural commons (common governance of natural resources) in Spain (through "Iniciativa Comunales" www.icomunales.org) and at global level (through the ICCA Consortium www.iccaconsortium.org). My work focuses on enhancing the quality of the communities' governance, promote the environmental, social and economic values of their work, and providing tools and support to achieve their goals.
Based in Andalusia, Spain. Sergio is a Spanish biologist with a strong background on participatory and innovative approaches to the management and conservation of natural resources and biodiversity. Initially, he worked as field biologist for several companies and NGOs as the Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife) and as researcher for the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC). As consultant he worked on wildlife management, conducting wildlife inventories for both the governmental and the private sector in Spain. More recently, one of his key interests is creating tools to enhance the participation and commitment of rural communities on biodiversity conservation initiatives, and enhance the role and recognition of the commons in Spain and Europe. He sees the commons not only as embodying environmental, cultural and democracy values, but also as having potential to contribute to solving many of the environmental, economic and social challenges of our time. Sergio is Regional Coordinator for Europe of the ICCA Consortium and one of the co-founders of Iniciativa Comunales, a network of local communities governing commons in Spain. He is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy and World Commission on Protected Areas and works as independent consultant for several NGOs and institutions’ programs, including the European Commission LIFE program. +
Represent the European Citizenslab during the assembly of the commons in Brussels.
CitizensLab is a network of local actors of change. The aim of the network is to strengthen and connect active citizens from all sectors that are passionate about their local community. CitizensLab members engage in peer2peer learning experiences and look for generating and sharing the new narratives of their local initiatives that have a European relevance and dimension to the European political discourses. Experts from different sectors are part of the network, Community artists, Activists, Social entrepreneurs, Political scientists, Academics, Policy-makers and Door openers. Many network members have an artistic background. We adopt a participatory approach were members are involved in decision-making processes and in the constant creation and definition of the network. CitizensLab is a young network with great ambitions, the kickoff meeting was in June 2016 www.citizenslab.eu +
I graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade where I earned my doctoral degree in urban planing. The areas of my research include public property management, public space, self-organisation, DIY philosophy and urban-cultural discourse. In 2010. I co-launched one of the first initiatives aimed at fostering citizens’ participation in urban development, initiating dialogue between citizens, social activist, urban developers, architects and city officials about development of the city, called Ministry of Space. From 2012. I’m program and art director of the Street Gallery in Belgrade, first public exhibition space for community and for sharing and co-creation. In 2014. I co-initiated movement “Don’t let Belgrade d(r)own” which was set up to oppose controversial Belgrade Waterfront Project, and gained massive public attention after a wave of protests denouncing government corruption and calling for the mayor’s resignation after a series of illegal demolitions were undertaken in late April to clear land along the Sava River for the new development. I also work as teacher assistant on the Interdisciplinary studies at the Department for urban planning at Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade. I’m an author of the publication „Map of action“ about the urban activism in Serbia, for which I got a special prize. In the partnership with two NGOs from Belgrade, in November this year we started the project - Studies of the Commons, which seeks to explore, apply and experiment with the concept of commons in the local/regional context. The overall objective of the project is to encourage critical thinking and acting, to offer and examine new models of education, production, collective organization and management, with an aspiration to propose and discuss new ways of sustainable, equitable and participatory social organization. I’m a member of INURA (International Network for Urban Research and Action) and Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia.
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I am Giacomo, Ph.D. in ecological economics and instructor in political ecology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where I am part of the degrowth community, a group of researchers that try to explore how to imagine and implement a liveable society without growth. I have been working on waste metabolism and illegal waste trafficking for a decade. Soon, I will start a research project on commoning as post-doc in Coimbra at the Centre of Social Study. As an activist, I fought against the privatization of water in Naples between 2003 and 2006. +
DANZIGER Raymond a eu un double parcours professionnel : d’une part comme responsable d’un grand cabinet d’expertise comptable et d’audit, d’autre part comme professeur associé à l’U. Paris Dauphine. Devenu émérite, il s’intéresse aux relations entre économie, finance et éthique, notamment les prescriptions bibliques. +
I am working for a local non-profit organisation in Brussels where we support citizen groups and advocate for more participation in urban planning. We are also part of the collective Commons Josaphat in Brussels.
I participated in the IASC 2017 in Utrecht and would like to be more informed about what is happening around the topic of the commons internationally.
For more information on our work please check: http://bral.brussels/en +
My name is Kitty de Bruin, i'm Dutch and i live since my retirement in France ( south west) with my husband on a small farm with an orchard, chickens and veggie garden. During my professional life i worked in the computer industrie ( Northern Telecom, Digital Equipment and others ) as transing, sales and marketing manager.In 1994 i worked as president for a NGO to stimulate teleworking in the Netherlands. Because of my expertise i was involved in various international subsidy programs for DGXIII ( at that time) of the European commisssion. Always as subcontracter, because i hate administration.In 2010 i started an website to converge the transition initiatives in France www.transitionfrance.fr . I plan to hand that over to youngsters end of this year. Since Digital was very involved in open networks, internet , and all this open functonality is now locked by huge providers , i would like to work together and use my expertise where it is needed. My vision is than common and open will be the future, and with initiatives like this, the change could be a bit faster. I 'm a full time volunteer. +
Noémie de Grenier, co-directrice générale de Coopaname depuis décembre 2015, a commencé sa vie professionnelle en Argentine, auprès de structures de développement local et d’entreprises récupérées. Embauchée en 2008 à Coopaname, elle devient la responsable de la coopérative en Seine-Saint-Denis, ainsi que la co-pilote de la commission recherche. Administratrice de la coopérative de 2010 à 2013, elle est en charge des programmes d’éducation à la citoyenneté économique destinés aux jeunes. Au sein de l’actuelle équipe de direction, elle est en charge des partenariats et de la recherche. +
My name is Sarah de Heusch, I am a project officer for the Development & Strategy Unit of SMart. Currently addressing the issue of access to social protection and labor market evolutions, I mainly build partnerships and collaborate at international level with organizations and academics that share SMarts’ values and concerns. SMart is a social enterprise born in Belgium in 1998 that works on the principle of mutualisation. It is currently on the verge of becoming a cooperative and helps freelancers develop their activities in a secured frame. Previously I was involved in the internationalization of SMart and addressed issues of professional mobility of artists and cultural professionals. Before working for SMart I was a dancer for and Co-founded Transe-en-Dance company. I also worked as the Assistant to the Secretary General at UNICA (University Network of Capitals of Europe). I hold a Masters in Political Sociology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. +
Professionally, i am working for Community Land Trust Brussels,an association that provides permanently affordable housing for low income groups on community land.
As an activist, I am involved in Commons Josaphat, a collectif that strives for the development of the Josaphat wasteland in Brussels as a neighborhood with the commons as guiding principle. +
Avocat associé dans un cabinet d’affaires américain, Hubert de Vauplane a travaillé plus de 25 ans dans le secteur bancaire et financier, aussi bien en tant que juriste et opérateur en salle de marché.
Avant de rejoindre le Barreau de Paris en septembre 2011, il était directeur juridique et de la conformité du groupe Crédit Agricole S.A.
Il est professeur associé à l’Université de Panthéon – Assas et expert auprès de l’AMF, de la Commission européenne et de la Banque centrale européenne.
Collaborateur régulier de la revue Banque, il est également l'auteur avec Jean-Pierre Bornet d'un traité de Droit des marchés financiers, récompensé en 1999 par un prix de l'académie des sciences morales et politiques. +
I’m trained as a lawyer, and have practised law both in private practice (business, commercial and IP law), and in-house, in software.
8 years ago, I set up my own IP-strategy consultancy, with a focus on Information Technology (including Open Source and Creative Commons).
I have written a book on “the wealth of ideas” on why IP is a mercantilist tax on innovation.
I have recently joined a startup and am now a software entrepreneur.
I also play the guitar in a band. +
Eclectic person, I used to study the biology and the psychology. I worked in numerous contexts: secretary-accountant, the project manager in a Web agency and as a freelance, storekeeper (shop of fair trade and organic products)... Always with the writing in counterpoint: columnist, journalist, editorial webmaster, blogger... After a burn-out, I found the way of a new coherent social activity by creating www.semeoz.info and contributing to P2P/Commons projects, for example the Assembly of Commons of Lille (France) or European Commons Assembly. +
I am an artist, an activist and a social educator. I studied Fine Arts and also Intercultural Education, and have been working and doing some research on inclusive education.
I work for Citizenship Academy, based in Lisbon, and our main goal, as a non-profit association, is to promote active citizenship through the empowerment of persons and other organizations. I am currently responsible for one project in CA, which is community building in a social neighbourhood in Lisbon. +
I am a belgian activist working&being in the fields of : transition, self-organization, citizen initiatives, inner transition&work that reconnects. I am part of the organization Réseau de consommateurs responsables (www.asblrcr.be) and currently working in the Mycelium project alongside with the Belgian French-speaking Hub of Transition Network (www.reseautransition.be). +
Dimi is a Bulgarian political scientist who currently works as Free Knowledge Ambassador of the Wikimedia Movement to the EU. He is based in Brussels where his major focus is to „fix copyright”. Having lived in Libya, Austria, Poland and his native Bulgaria, he initiatlly researched minority rights, hate speech and discrimination issues before Wikipedia and the ACTA negotiations sparked his passion for digital rights and the commons. He is now dedicated on promoting the structural and functional public domain. Dimi loves coffee, hates carrot juice and considers Twitter a benign version of the internet. +
I am a Lecturer in Economics, Finance, Accounting and related topics (Hanze University and Avans UAS, Netherlands). My broad research focus is sustainable lifestyles and new economic paradigm. My narrower research interest is on commons' governance and local currencies. I am also providing advice and support (and sometimes initiating) local projects relating to community building, local currencies and/or non-monetary finance. +
Fiona Dove has been Executive Director of Transnational Institute (TNI) since 1995. She holds degrees in Development Studies and Industrial Sociology, and a post-graduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation Methods. A second generation African of Anglo-Irish descent, Dove was born in Zambia and grew up in South Africa. As a teenager, she became active in the anti-apartheid movement within South Africa. Dove played a leading role in feminist and anti-militarist organisations and from the mid-1980s, served the non-racial labour movement. She worked as a trade union magazine editor for Umanyano Publications in Johannesburg, and as an official of the South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers' Union. Dove in currently active in TNI's New Politics project, which is in the process of becoming a decentralised think thank on counter-hegemonic politics to boost the development of desirable, viable and achievable alternatives aimed at transcending current oppressive and exploitative structures. +
DUPRE Denis est enseignant-chercheur ; il enseigne à l'Université de Grenoble et est spécialiste des risques financiers et écologiques et de la mise en œuvre des projets d'autonomie. Thématiques : finance, économie financière, éthique et écologie. Il propose sur son site une éthique de l'action pour faire face à la superposition des crises. +
I want to join the mailing lis of ECA and connect Faircoop and the Bank of the commons with the European commons assembly. +
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Juan has been working as sound designer and editor since 2006. He has worked in socially engaged documentaries as well as big fiction film productions, such as Keep on Rolling, Grupo 7, Carmina o revienta, La mujer y el agua or Bolivian Woman. +
Coming from Valencia (East coast of Spain), as a social consultant at Empodera consultores (www.empodera-consultores.org) and militant I'm working in two main issues related with commons: Commons and natural resources. If you are interested please look at http://www.terre-citoyenne.org/des-initiatives/guerande-2013.html; Commons and local public policies in Spain. Please look at http://www.commonspolis.org/ All these initiatives are built with trans-local and international networks trying to share experiences and knowledge between different territories. +
I am a social scientist-activist, currently based at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa - ISCTE-IUL. Since 2014, I have been engaged in several participatory action research projects on Social and Solidarity Economy and the management of the commons in Southern Europe, as well as North and South America. I am currently carrying out a 6-year research project, funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, entitled "The Emerging Action Fields of Solidarity Economy", which analyses the factors that promote the social and economic sustainability of commons-oriented alternative economic projects. I am comparing four different models in four countries: An Ecovillage in Portugal; A grassroots commercialization network promoted by an Ecclesial Base Community; An Integral Cooperative in Catalonia; An Agroecological Producer-Consumer Network in Italy. +
So, my name is Johannes Euler and I live close to Bonn in the Western part of Germany. I started to get involved with the whole commons-thing in 2012 - at first mainly out of an intellectual interest but I very soon realized that there is so much more to it. So I participated in the first German-speaking commons summer school out of which the Commons-Institut was founded. That is what I am still an active part of.
I took this energy to first write my Thesis (M.Sc. Politics, Economics and Philosophy) about the commons and now I am writing on my PhD in Economics about conflicts in water management and the possibilities of commoning. I am arguing that through the shift in paradigms and societal structures that commoning may initiate conflicts can be tackled in new ways. So, you already see that I am really convinced of the transformative potential of commoning.
But the commons is not only something that I think write and talk about but something that I practice. For example in our commons housing project and the community-supported agriculture project that I am part of. In my view the transition can only be done through commoning which is why I am convinced that we should also take the commons assemblies as spaces of commoning. Only if we practice commoning among ourselves the processes that we create can carry ourselves as well as develop enough strength so that an actual transformation can take place. +
My name is Léa Eynaud, I am a PhD student in sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and in environmental science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. My research is concerned with the notion of the commons and its link to that of urban sustainable transition. It consists of two main parts. On the one hand, I am interested in the work of actors who give shape to the notion at the encounter between theory and politics - hence my interest for the work of many participants to Commonswatch. On the other hand, I am involved in three key sectors with regard to urban transition: that of waste, energy and urban nature. In each case, my research targets citizen initiatives that appear to comply to the minimum definition of a commons: community reuse centers; renewable energy cooperatives and community gardens. I investigate the actual practices of these actors, the manner in which they interact with other actors and the State, as well as the narrative they use to describe their activities. I lead this part of my research in two main cities: Paris and Berlin. A crucial point to make regarding my research concerns methodology, which can be described as mainly inductive. As a matter of fact, my ambition is to account for what actually happens on the ground - for what counts in the eyes of the people involved, depending on the situations and the (social) worlds in which they engage. Such an approach entails understanding the history and development of the movement as an exploratory process. It means taking the back and fourths, the negotiations as well as the concrete support of action as significant elements as to what it actually mean to "give shape to the concept of the commons" in a given context. This is why my engagement on the field translates into intensive note-taking (provided, of course, that information is not presented as confidential). It seems to me that such a material (i.e. the precise and almost exhaustive account of the discussions, including the hesitations of the group and possible misunderstandings) can be used by commonswatch members as a useful support for self-reflection - or simply an interesting record of what was debated and thought, at a given point of the history of the commons movement.
Philippe Eynaud est maître de conférences en sciences de gestion à l’IAE de Paris (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne). Il est lauréat du prix Robert Reix 2008 pour la meilleure thèse en systèmes d’information (thèse réalisée sur le terrain associatif). Il est habilité à diriger des recherches. Ses domaines de recherche portent sur la société civile et les organisations de l’économie sociale et solidaire. Il a notamment travaillé sur les solidarités numériques, l’innovation sociale et la gouvernance des associations. Il a coordonné, avec Jean-Louis Laville et Dennis Young, en 2015, aux Éditions Routledge, un livre intitulé « Civil Society, the Third Sector, Social Enterprise : Governance and Democracy ». Il a publié, en décembre 2015, un ouvrage intitulé « La gouvernance entre diversité et normalisation » chez Dalloz, Juris éditions. Il vient de publier en avril 2016 un ouvrage co-écrit avec Corinne Vercher-Chaptal, Olivier Maurel et Julien Bernet intitulé « La gestion des associations » aux éditions Eres. +
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Daniela Festa is a jurist and social geographer. PhD degree in urban and social geography and Post-Doctoral Fellowship in social sciences (EHESS), Paris. She’s an activist and author of several articles and book contributions. Next year she’ll join an ERC project at Sciences Po, Paris on « inclusive properties », collective properties and collective housing experiences. Her main research themes are: urban processes and project; urban movements, active citizenship, urban self-organised practices . Participatory democracy and participatory budget; Urban commons; Town planning practices affecting issues of spatial justice, urban democracy, right to the city; Lawmaking bottom up process.; Action research methodology. +
Brésilienne, Janice Figueiredo était chercheuse du projet "FLOK Society" en Équateur. Elle était responsable de coordonner la ligne de travail "Infrastructures ouvertes pour la vie collective", qui explorait comment les citoyen-ne-s et leurs communautés pouvaient se bénéficier d'une économie basée sur la connaissance libre et ouverte. La recherche s'est centré sur trois axes:
#les infrastructures ouvertes pour la vie collective : habitation, systèmes d'alimentation
#Territorialité de la connaissance : la valorisation d'une diversité des connaissances
#Connaissances traditionnelles et ancestrales (indigènes, afro-équatoriens)
Au Brésil Janice se dédie à étudier les dynamiques P2P, les mouvements collaboratifs et les modèles alternatifs aux paradigmes économiques conventionnels basés sur la centralité et de la rareté. +
I desire to understand better , what’s about the change of decisional processes today,the discard of authority in front of authoritativeness,crossing the assemblees . How processes of mutualism-commoning are rimapping the use of territory. The way the art’s activism opens to research of a new type/posture of decisioning. From the studies in museografy, the doctorate in the University of Architecture and the PhD in museography and exhibition design, giving particular attention to the rivitalization of the ‘ diffused’ museum –concept from the 70’s based on branch pratice and the connectiveness to use/safeguard/rigeneration of territory like sedime in the culture of work in opposition to the folklore – to crossing Macao, indipendent cultural centre in Milan, being part to make happen the NowHere.Active residence : debut of artistic coproduction based on putting together the resources of l’Open Program Workcenter of Jerzi Grotowski and Thomas Richards http://www.macaomilano.org/workcenter/spip.php?article37&lang=en http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/chefare/nowhere-residenze-attive-macao coming together with Freddy Paul Grunert (associate curator at the ZKM – GlobalActivism) e philosopher/artist, sympathizer of Teatro Valle), to give life to Ceçi n’est pas une table: 1.st experiment of an unexpected ‘ agora’ agitated by contemporary art rejectioning the tables-tabula-tablet-tabloid- actif geometrical enclosures of negotiation. 1st (but the experimentation is going on) on the 1st Commons International Festival in Chieri (TO), 2015, http://www.festivalbenicomuni.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PROGRAMMA-ONLINE.pdf.
Last participation: the real of reality, novembre 2016, http://zkm.de/en/event/2016/11/the-real-of-reality. +
I am working the commons and sport. +
Mayo Fuster Morell is the Dimmons director of research on collaborative economy at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Open University of Catalonia. Additionally, she is faculty affiliated at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and at Institute of Govern and Public Policies at Autonomous University of Barcelona (IGOPnet). In 2010, she concluded her PhD thesis at the European University Institute in Florence on the governance of common-based peer production, and have numerous publications in the field. She is the principal investigator for the European project P2Pvalue: Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production. She is also responsible of the experts group BarCola on collaborative economy and commons production at the Barcelona City Council. +
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I am part of Commons Josapaht (citizen and associative initiative to create a neighborhood as a commons). In an other hand, I have coordinated with others the "Temps des Communs" in Belgium and Brussels last year. +
I am one of the founders of the Transition movement (Transition towns) and work for Transitionentwork.org <http://transitionentwork.org>
Communing is one of the key parts of what we do sharing, open source, the practice and experience of how to transition our local economies to low environmental, high well being places.
I have a particular interest in that i coordinate the learning function of Transition network and am interested in what makes a knowledge commons work. +
Économiste et gestiologue, est MCF-HDR à l’Université de Rennes 2 et co-responsable du RgoRESS, Thématiques : comptabilité et gestion des entreprises d’ESS, finances solidaires, microfinance (Afrique Sub-saharienne et PECO), finance internationale, entreprises solidaires apprenantes et insertion. pascal.glemain@wanadoo.fr +
Mexican independent activist, creative and researcher. Founder and coordinator of the Archipelago Initiative, conformed to activate and connect new knowledge and learning around the practices of recovery, regeneration and creation of the commons, and thus nourish the multiple movement of community recovery based on critical thinking, particularly in Latin America and the social and community experiences in which it is expressed. I currently participate and facilitate spaces for critical dialogue, knowledge and wisdom exchange, and revitalization of the community. Over the last 12 years, I’ve been creating communication strategies for social change. +
Born in 1979, João Gonçalves is growing his tap root in Chao Sobral, a 100 people + 500 year old hamlet standing on convex and ridge slopes that reach 1200 mts altitude, in the central Portugal Goshawk mountains.
For the last 30 years, he has been participating in a broad range of activities (agriculture, forestry, recreation, community organisation, non-formal education) that compose the subsistence mountain ridge polycultural family farming system and self-reliant community.
Since 2008 he has a degree in Social Education and Community Development (Leisure and Social Pedagogy - from the Coimbra Polytechnic College of Education). It was during his internship research on "sustainable communities" that he encoutered for the first time the concept of "permaculture".
To enhance is observation skills and bring influence to his work from multiple approaches to Permaculture and Regenerative Design Education he earned PDC's in Portugal/2009 with Doug Crouch (USA), in Spain/2011 with Richard Perkins (UK) and Darren Doherty (Australia), in Portugal/2012 with Bernard Alonso (Canada), a Regenerative Agriculture Workshop in Portugal/2011 with Darren Doherty, and a Permaculture Teacher Training Course in Portugal/2012 with Rosemary Morrow (Australia). +
My name is Óscar Górriz, I spend most of my time working in the "Casa Colorida", a Commons lab and artists/activists/researchers' hub in Nigrán, a sea village close to the city of Vigo. We are about 8 people now, living together under common economy and resources, working in fronts like sharing economies, networking, culture, degrowth, eco-gardening, social activism, communication... and offering room, food and resources to other agents for communitary development processes. http://casacolorida.net/
I/we are also engaged in a network called GZimaxinaria, about Libre & Digital Culture and the Commons. Inside this network we have been building close relationships all around our region from Galiza to Porto among several collectives and agents working in diverse stuff like techs, urbanism, arts, integral revolution, philosophy, local commons, direct democracy... We have common applications like annual meeting fairs, digital networks and tools for collaboration. http://imaxinaria.org
Althoug most of our work is donde locally or in a regional basis, we are as well giving some time to work in the FairCoop project for a rebel and ethic glo-cal economy worldwide, based in digital tokens and a network of conscious people and collectives trading in common global/local markets. http://fair.coop
My biggest interest to participate here is to hear/learn from processes all around Europe and make some connections that would strengthen our resillience as local autonomous projects in self-organized distributed mesh. +
I have a background in Sociology and am originally from the UK. Currently I'm studying between several cities (Brussels-Vienna-Copenhagen-Madrid) as part of my Masters in Urban Studies.
For my thesis I'm exploring the institutional change and governance conditions required to foster the realisation of the urban commons. I'm really interested in comparing the place-based specificities of urban commons between different governance regimes and historical contexts. +
I'm the initiator of speakGreen.com and the fonder of hcOrG.com, both are described and linked in the signature above. I am working as a transformation catalyst, personal growth supporter and social dynamics host in the Middle East and Sub-saharan Africa. +
I coordinate the Source network of the New Economics Foundation. The New Economics Foundation is the only people-powered think tank. We work to build a new economy where people really take control.
Source is an online network bringing together academics, policy professionals and civil society organisers from across Europe – committed to tackling the biggest economic, environmental and social challenges we face today. +
Bastien Guerry est développeur et consultant, spécialiste des questions liées au logiciel libre et à l'éducation numérique. Il milite pour les libertés numériques depuis la fin du XXème siècle, date à laquelle il découvre simultanément GNU/Linux, les communautés de libristes, et la programmation. +
Centre Maurice Halbwachs – CNRS +
Roberta Guido, PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, International PhD Programme - Department of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (DADU) Alghero, University of Sassari (Italy) in partnership with the University of Karabuk, Turkey, Visiting PhD at the Polytechnic of Turin. She graduated with honors in Law, with a Master's thesis on Fundamental Rights in Europe and the Environment Law. She worked in Strasbourg at the European Court of Human Rights and the Permanent Mission of Italy to the Council of Europe; she was involved in works for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention, the instruments dedicated to participation, management, protection and cooperation. In a complementary manner to the legal profession, she studied Urban Planning at DADU and then obtained an International Master in Mediterranean Landscape Urbanism (DADU Alghero / Berlin, Paris), with a thesis on the outcomes of participatory processes in regulatory plans and systems. H Then she worked at the General Directorate of Local Authorities, Urban Planning and Finances at the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, at the Task Force of Municipalities' Association for the adaptation to the Regional Landscape Plan of the Urban Plans, in Detailed Plans of historic centers, and the development of participating laboratories to planning and pilot projects for local development. She worked at the Chamber of Commerce of Northern Sardinia for local development projects and the Office of Enterprise Europe Network. She obtained a Master of Community Planning and one in EU Planning and Policies and management of complex projects in international cooperation, promoted by the University of Cagliari in coordination with the organizations of the Third sector. She is an active partner of the Association An Island - Shared Idea (Un'Isola - Idea Condivisa) that practices of exercise of right to the city and promotes urban opportunities for active participation also with the institutions. She currently works as a researcher and pratictioner at Labsus - Laboratorio per la Sussidiarietà and she is involved in processes taking place in the urban context of production from below and grassroots, and shared administration of the commons, in particular she belongs to the mouvement of Cavallerizza Reale in Turin. She would like to do ActionResearch on legal arrangements and dispositives that are able to governing and to embrace transformations, to find new intervention tactics. She would like to study the coherence with the European urban policy and to work on the design of public policies and services.
Alexandre Guttmann est basé sur New York et Paris, et il fait actuellement une thèse doctorale à l'Université Paris 13 du laboratoire de la CEPN. Sa thèse porte sur la façon dont l'autonomie gouvernementale et l'action collectif dans les communes urbaines peut préparer les grandes villes à affronter les tendances prédatrices du capitalisme et les menaces imprévues du changement climatique. Ses contributions au Remix des Communs incluent l'écriture de concepts clés de biens communs urbains dérivés par des articles scientifiques, la création des catégories pour ces concepts clés, la participation au contenu du 'Community Chartering Manifesto' et des contributions sur l'Atlas des Chartres des Communs Urbaines. +
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Nicolas Haeringer est sociologue. Il travaille sur les formes d'organisation des acteurs de la société civile, en particulier le mouvement altermondialiste et les forums sociaux. Il est par ailleurs membre d'Attac France et participe à l'animation de son Conseil Scientifique. +
Sociologist. Co-initiator of the Commons Network. commonsnetwork.eu Former Green Member of the European Parliament 2004-9. Advocate on acccess to knowledge and access to medicines for TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue 2010-2015. tacd-ip.org Personal blog: davidhammerstein.com twitter: @DaHammerstein +
My name is Jamie. I’m trained as a civil engineer and for the past two decades have been working at the intersection of health, community, food systems and healthcare, working to help us navigate the great transition. I serve as the Executive Director of the Institute for a Sustainable and founder of the Commons Health Network, established to connect and advance place-based models of health creation and a new operating system. I also serve as the Coordinating Director of The Food Commons, a new economic paradigm and whole system approach for regional food combining community ownership and vertical integration to create wealth and good food access, with a successful prototype in Fresno California.
Jamie led the successful US healthcare mercury elimination efforts and initiated and directed the national Healthy Food in Healthcare Campaign. Working at the nexus of health, healthcare, food systems and community he has received recognition as a national thought leader and for lifelong public health leadership and advocacy. He speaks and consults internationally. +
HAYEM Etienne est fondateur et gérant de la coopérative Symba, monnaie complémentaire B2B pour la région île de France, membre de OuiShare. Thématique principale : ouverture des différents domaines du privé et propriétaire vers le partage et les biens communs. +
Since 2007 I work as independent author, activist and scholar, with a variety of international and domestic partners; I do quite a bit of networking (f.i. in the context of the World Social Forum, of Thematic Fora; international Conferences both in social and academic contexts or framed by what we call TAPAS = There Are Plenty of AlternativeS). I've been editing and co-authoring several books on the Commons, among them: Who Owns the World? The Rediscovery of the Commons, Munich 2009 (in Spanish: Genes, Bytes y Emisiones. Bienes Comunes y Ciudadania, Mexico-City 2008), have been editing articles of Elinor Ostrom and translated them into German, f.i. Was mehr wird, wenn wir teilen",2011.
And worked with my colleague David Bollier and the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation on two pretty international anthologies on the Commons: Commons. Für eine neue Politik jenseits von Markt und Staat, Bielefeld 2012 (English version The Wealth of the Commons beyond Market and State, Amherst/MA, 2012) and most recently Die Welt der Commons. Muster Gemeinsamen Handelns -http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3245-3/die-welt-der-commons , 2015 (engl: The Patterns of Commoning, Amherst/MA).
I am cofounder of Commons Strategies Group and the Commons-Institut e.V. and blog (mainly in German, sometimes in English) on CommonsBlog.
My new passion is to integrate the approach and thinking of Christopher Alexander as a philosopher of wholeness and enlivenment with the socio-economic and political rethinking and reshaping of the world. I.e. I plan to work on a Patterns Language of Commoning. +
David HIEZ était jusqu'en 2006 maître de conférences en droit privé à l'Université de Lille 2 et membre du Centre René Demogue (d'étude des doctrines juridiques et du droit des contrats). Après une formation classique en droit civil et en théorie du droit, il a préparé un doctorat, sous la direction du Professeur Philippe JESTAZ (Université Paris 12), présenté en 2000, sur la notion de patrimoine en droit civil (publication LGDJ). Ses recherches se sont ensuite orientées dans deux directions principales : l'économie sociale et la théorie du droit, principalement la théorie du contrat. Il a orienté ces dernières années une partie de ses recherches vers le droit africain.
Il est aujourd'hui Professeur en Droit civil et Directeur du Département Droit à l'Université du Luxembourg. +
Après un début de carrière dans le privé,rejoint la Délégation à l’économie sociale peu de temps après sa création et participe pendant près de 20 ans à l’élaboration et la mise en place des politiques gouvernementales dans le domaine de l’économie sociale. A partir de 2001 poursuit ses activités dans un certain nombre d’institutions financières : E SFIN-IDES ,société de capital-risque de l’économie sociale, SOFINEI,société de financement des entreprises d’insertion, INAISE,réseau international de financeurs dans l’ESS, Caisse Solidaire du NORD-Pas-de-Calais Actuellement, administrateur de la Caisse Solidaire et de la RECMA,revue internationale de l’économie sociale. Egalement membre de FONDA, un think tank Associatif. +
I am a doctoral student at the University of Brighton – I’m interested in the potential for urban commoning practices to nurture relational ethics and politics of openness.
I have a background in community-engaged research, sustainable and alternative food initiatives and organisational values and am relatively new to the commoning network and community of practice. +
Elizabeth Hunt is a member of percolab (Montréal, Québec, Canada) whose mission is to reinforce participatory and collaborative practices within organizations and communities in order that they may better respond to complex issues in service of the common good. She has been developing and co-creating community-based learning spaces and large-scale learning events for the past 15 years. She is dedicated to upheaving traditional notions of “expertise” and to creating spaces where participants’ experience, knowledge, and ways of knowing are put front and centre. +
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Amanda Jansen is OuiShare connector Netherlands & freelancer and involved in two cutting edge decentralized startups: Foundups and Noomap & Synergy Space Network based in Japan and the Netherlands. Amanda is a originally a social worker and a senior advisor for municipalities and govs. Four years ago she became involved in the collaborative economy movement of OuiShare and the P2P Foundation. She organized hackathons on p2p solutions and collaboration from a completely open source perspective, OuiShare meetups and a satellite event of OuiShare Fest and co-organized the Peer Value Conference in Amsterdam. She specializes in p2p dynamics, digitalization issues and collaboration as a core topic in all that she does. Currently she is a vlogger for the global emergence & abundance fest at Synergy Hub 1.0 Rotterdam during the month of October as well as involved in FLOW: a movement to bring across teal for organizations and a deeper connection within. Amanda teaches at a Master of Science on Information & Management about commons and p2p dynamics and information management and collaboration techniques. As the next phase of p2p she sees a global connection of nodes that are currently connected by several initiatives that aim to unite movements and create a seed crystal or social body that can be scaled globally. With this movement commons initiatives move out of the shadows or margins of the regular economy. The focus now is aimed at a changing consciousness and telepathical tooling with software applications such as Noomap. Scaling non invasive tech & growing awareness is her next expertise. +
Mazibuko Jara was born in 1973 in Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape. He has worked for more than ten years in the non-governmental sector in South Africa, spanning such fields as human rights advocacy, HIV/Aids, communications, public education, economic develop ment, local government and financial sector transformation, as well as land and agrarian reform. From 2000 until 2005, he served as the chief spokesperson and strategist of the SACP.
Previously, he was employed as a Project Coordinator and then National Director at the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality. He was a founder member of the Alliance of Land and Agrarian Reform Movements, and has sat on the boards of trustees of the Community Health
Media Trust, the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project, the Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust, the Goedgedacht Forum for Social Reflection, the Media Development and Diversity Agency and the Ntaba ka Ndoda Heritage Festival. He was Founding Chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign
(TAC).
Jara currently works as a Senior Researcher at the UCT Law, Race and Gender Research Unit. He is also an Associate Editor of Amandla! – a bi-monthly magazine that was launched in 2007. He holds an MPhil degree from the University of the Western Cape (UWC), and is presently conducting doctoral research on the political economy of the food regime in South Africa through UWC. +
I am a co-director Letting Space, an arts organisation in Wellington, New Zealand concerned with broadening the commons. I was a founding director of Loomio software company and am part of the Enspiral Network. I am researching toward a PhD in Europe (University of Copenhagen) concerned with art and architecture practice and the commons. +
JOURDEN Claude découvre le monde de l'ESS au début des années 2000 et s'implique depuis dans des mouvements de transition éthique de l'économie et dans des actions finalisées du domaine de l'écologie et de l'humanisme. Il s'intéresse aux mouvements de la transition écologique, sociale, humaine et aux thématiques du DD. +
Represent the European Citizenslab during the assembly of the commons in Brussels.
CitizensLab is a network of local actors of change. The aim of the network is to strengthen and connect active citizens from all sectors that are passionate about their local community. CitizensLab members engage in peer2peer learning experiences and look for generating and sharing the new narratives of their local initiatives that have a European relevance and dimension to the European political discourses. Experts from different sectors are part of the network, Community artists, Activists, Social entrepreneurs, Political scientists, Academics, Policy-makers and Door openers. Many network members have an artistic background. We adopt a participatory approach were members are involved in decision-making processes and in the constant creation and definition of the network. CitizensLab is a young network with great ambitions, the kickoff meeting was in June 2016 www.citizenslab.eu +
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I am a PhD student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki working on issues related to the urban environment and the urban commons. I am specifically interested in bottom-up commoning initiatives in cities that produce new urban spaces. +
I am head of communications in EDUin, NGO deeply involved in field of education. EDUin serves as a watchdog permanently confronting education policies in Czech Republic and as an information joint among government, businesses, schools and another NGOs. We also run several projects. Their common base is focus on innovations. One of them is support to the Open Education Resources, project financed by Open Society Fund. We has created Alliance for open education which members are organizations and individuals engaged in education, technologies etc.
More details about our activities in English: http://www.eduin.cz/en/. Personally: I do regularly publish about education in many of Czech media and serves as regular media commentator of educational events. Teacher at University of Economics and Management in Prague. I do contribute to launch business start up Education Republic. In 2015 I participated on the content and realization of Forum 2000 in Prague, one of the most high profile annual event in Czech Republic. Last year was education choosen as main theme of conference. Together with the Center of contemporary culture DOX I have created Map of social stereotypes. I do participate on the implementation of Philip Zimbardo’s Heroic Imaginations Project into the newly starting Silent memorial Bubny in prague etc. He focus not only education, his next field of interest are media. He is editor of Czech critical internet daily Britské listy. I have graduated from Pedagogical Faculty and Faculty of Sports Studies MU in Brno and hold PhD from Media Institute at Faculty of Social Sciences UK in Prague. +
Catherine Karyotis, docteur en Sciences de gestion, HDR, est professeur de finance, NEOMA Business School Campus de Reims, chercheur associé au LIRSA, CNAM Paris, responsable du Mastère Spécialisé Analyse Financière Internationale du campus de Reims. Spécialisée en banque et marché, ses recherches portent sur la gouvernance du système financier et le ré-encastrement de la finance au service de l’économie et de la société.
Elle est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages en banque et finance, ainsi que d’articles professionnels et académiques. Ses recherches portent sur l’efficience et la gouvernance des systèmes financiers. Elle dénonce l’hyperfinanciarisation des économies et questionne en conséquence le besoin de remettre la finance au service de l’économie et de la société. +
I'm a senior web developer in innovative web projects since 15years, looking at the world in a common way, thinking out of the box to build new open source approaches to benefit the commons.
Since 4years, I'm managing and working on an NGO project, building an openSource citizen societal network called communecter.org with commoners like Maia, Julien (I can see on the list :-). We are trying to build the platform itself as a common. I'm also actively interested in modeling and mapping out commons in territories, cities and organisations. I'm very active in creating tools for Open Organisations, in order to make them glocaly(localy and globaly) more efficient.
I also Animate the "Forum des communs", Alternatiba in Reunion Island. +
Eleni is a professional architect, instructor and PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University. She has worked on community planning and visioning projects in Pittsburgh. Her interests include community planning, sharing and collaboration, urban sustainability, green infrastructure and closed loop systems. She is the co-curator of AUTONOMA conference (2016) and the co-founder of the Vacant Home Tour program, which was one of the four finalists for the National Fels Public Policy Challenge in 2015. Prior to her work in the US, she collaborated with several firms in Athens, Greece and worked independently as an architect. Her projects have taken part in exhibitions in Pittsburgh, Washington, Philadelphia, Barcelona, Puerto Rico and the Biennale for Young Greek Architects in Athens.
Eleni is a Fulbright and Onassis scholar and a registered architect in Greece. She obtained her diploma in Architectural Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), her MS in Sustainable Design from Carnegie Mellon University and she has studied urban design in Barcelona. +
In 2004 Torange Khonsari co founded the art and architecture practice public works, an interdisciplinary practice working in the threshold of participatory and performative art, architecture and related fields of anthropology, always engaged with notions of civic in the city. Their projects are socially and politically motivated and directly impacts public space, working with local organisations, communities, government bodies and stakeholders.
As a practice it is a vehicle and an umbrella that both hosts and tests the academic research undertaken within university teaching. Torange is currently a director of public works- social and political art and architecture practice, and teaches architecture and activism at UMA school of architecture Sweden where she is an Adjunct professor. The direct two -way communication between academia and practice has enabled and enriched an exploratory environment within which public works is now operating. Published work include ‘public works enjoying the in between’ planning the unplanned, 2015, ISBN 9783869840635, ‘contemporary initiative in participatory art and architecture practice’, Open house international journal, 2007. My home is your home ISBN 978-1906318-05-5 +
Currently I'm working at the Vienna University of Technology researching and developing forms of Open Architecture. We try to transform existing technical DIY solutions to reach height (up to of 6 floors) on the basis of renewable and affordable materials in a modular way. Our results will be summed up in the form of a toolkit (CC-BY-SA), that should be ready by April. Also at the moment, I’m providing texts to the Shareable’s book project on Commons and Sharing Cities, where I'm focusing on exisiting Water and Housing model policies.
My relation to the Commons emerged in 2011 during my master thesis when dealing with "participatory design processes" in the context of urban planning. In 2013, I attended the Commons Summer School in Germany. Resulting further meetings eventually led to the foundation of the "Commons Institut e.V.", where I'm a part of.
From that point I’ve been drafting, particularly with David Steinwender, an imaginative Commons-society under the name of “City of Workshops”. In the context of the Commons Institute, especially with Christian Siefkes, we currently try to find ways how various initiatives can form something like a "Commons association", so people involved can fulfill their needs in a broader spectrum through commoning while avoiding potential excessive demands. +
My name is Jens Kimmel, 29 years old, living in Amsterdam, working at research centre ACCESS EUROPE. I am generally interested in new political/democratic developments in Europe on which I write both academically and publicly. I am also planning to organize a sort of 'commons' meeting in Spring Amsterdam myself. +
'Dimitris Koukoulakis has studied Information Systems Engineering at the University of Surrey, UK where he completed his Master of Research with an EPSRC scholarship. Worked for two years at the R&D of NOKIA UK and then returned to Greece where he continued working as a software engineer at an IPTV company. Since 2009 has been active with several local and international grassroots movements driven by the concern of scarcity and inequality. A turning point has been the co-organization of CommonsFest in Heraklion for the last three years. Recently co-founded a social co-op working on free software and open source hardware, the CommonsLab. +
I am Sunna Kovanen, a regional geographer and freelance writer from Finland. I have been working in different NGOs in Finland and for a regional office of East and North Finland in Brussels.
With Commons I have mostly been involved during my studies and freetime. I have been active in Commons.fi / Solidarity economy network Finland, mapping solidarity economy actors in the country and researching and writing for our blog and some academic publications.
My themes have included common learning of embodied knowledge via theater improvization in comparison to common digital knowledge processes, and institutionalization and upscaling of common self-organized service production. The interest to embodied knowledge comes from my hobby in theater improvization. The theme of my next article ist care commons and feminist economies.
I have lived the last year in Berlin, getting known to german-speaking commons movements and supporting the organizational development of our CSA-farm in Brandenburg. Latest I have been working for Berlin & Brandenburg ImWandel, an online media and map about alternatives of collaborative economy in and around Berlin. Starting from next year I am planning to work and study with a Cooperative "Ehta Raha" in Helsinki, which develops needs-based economy with local communities in Finland. +
Nicolas Krausz est responsable de programmes à la Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer à Lausanne (Suisse) depuis 2011. Il est en charge d'un ensemble de programmes concernant "la transition écologique et socialement juste vers une autre économie", les communs comme paradigme du changement, le Forum Chine-Europe (avec son collègue Julien Woessner), l'éthique de la responsabilité et le dialogue interreligieux. Après avoir étudié la philosophie à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, il a travaillé dans l'édition, en particulier sur les questions religieuses et interreligieuses. Il a ensuite travaillé pendant cinq ans dans le milieu politique français, essentiellement à l'Assemblée Nationale. Puis il a dirigé pendant trois ans une ONG internationale, l'Association des Populations des Montagnes du Monde (APMM). Entre 2007 et 2011, il a travaillé comme assistant parlementaire d'un député dans le Sud-Ouest de la France. Il est co-auteur de La Ville qui mange, un essai pour une gouvernance urbaine du système alimentaire publié en 2013 aux Editions Charles Léopold Mayer. +
Gaëlle Krikorian leaves in France. She iis a sociologist and a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Social Issues. Social Sciences, Politics and Health (IRIS). Her researches focused a lot on the way health issues are taken into account during the negotiation of intellectual property in Free Trade Agreements. Until recently and during 4 years she was an advisor on Access to Knowledge and Intellectual Property issues for the Greens at the European Parliament. She is the author of articles about the Commons, Intellectual property issues, Access to medicines, Access to knowledge. She co-edited a book on social mobilizations in this field: Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property (Zone Books Eds: New York). For almost 10 years and until 2004 she was an AIDS working with Act Up in Paris. As a feminist she is part of several groups in France. +
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Après avoir été dix ans conservateur d'une bibliothèque scientifique, Il rejoint l'enseignement à l'Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, et la recherche en collaboration avec l'Institut des Sciences de la communication du CNRS.
Ses cours et sa recherche portent sur les technologies du web et sur la culture numérique. Il participe à l'équipe Sydonie qui propose un nouveau modèle de document sur le web qui croise les apports du web et l'expérience des bibliothèques.
Ses travaux concernent l'impact de l'internet sur la société, la question des communs. +
I discovered the dynamism of commons movement via a walk around urban commons http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Balade_urbaines_sur_les_communs. I have been a contributor to several local commons on my territory and to the Assemblée des communs de Lille : http://assemblee.encommuns.org/index.php?title=Lille. Being an elected official , I am particularly interested in the question of public policies design, especially regarding mobility and accessibility. The issue of representation of public and exchanges of experience among the various governance bodies emerging common interests me first. +
I'm a free software contributor and wikimedian since 2005, I'm especially interested in the digital commons based on copyleft, meant as tools for culture, tolerance/laïcité, democracy and social advancement. I've been a board member for Wikimedia Italia and the University of Milan, where I helped add Open Access to the bylaws. In Italy I support the broader commons via environmentalist and atheist associations (Legambiente, UAAR), housing and fair trade coops (Dar, Chico Mendes) etc. +
Fabien Locher mène une recherche sur l'histoire des communs environnementaux aux Etats-Unis, depuis 1945, à partir d'archives américaines. Une première publication en est issue : http://cairn-int.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=E_RHMC_601_0007 en accès libre ici:
https://we.riseup.net/assets/158987/hardin-trag%C3%83%C2%A9diedescommuns.pdf
Il est aussi maître d'oeuvre du projet international GOVENPRO, financé par l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche, sur l'histoire du gouvernement de l'environnement par la propriété, fin 18e siècle-présent, Europe-USA-Mondes (post)coloniaux. Ce projet est centré sur l'histoire des interactions entre propriété et environnement: il traite donc des communs, mais aussi de toutes les autres formes de propriété (domanialité, propriété exclusive, dissociée, concessions, etc etc.). Il ne traite pas, en revanche, de tout ce qui concerne le monde numérique (sauf dans son lien aux questions de propriété sur le génome).
Le séminaire associé : http://www.ehess.fr/fr/enseignement/enseignements/2014/ue/604/ +
With the Heinrich Boell Foundation (HBF), based in Berlin/Germany. HBF is a publically financed foundation, the political affiliate of the German Alliance 90/The Greens Party.
Since 2010, my project is been to nurture and support commoners and the commons and the search for the alternatives that we so badly need, alternatives to the neoliberal model of globalisation, the current world disorder and the ill conceived economic recipies that lead to plunder of people and the planet.
I am working for quite some years now with Michel Bauwens, HELFRICH Silke and their American collegue David Bollier of the Commons Strategies Group, http://commonsstrategies.org/. Together we have organised with commoners from many countries two major conferences in 2010 (International Commons Conference ICC and in 2013 the Economics and the Commons Conference ECC; two volumes have been published by Silke and David on the Commons that many of you probably know: http://www.wealthofthecommons.org/ and more recently: http://patternsofcommoning.org/about/
I have worked with Stacco Troncoso of the P2P Foundation, Frederic Sultan and Sophie Bloeme who have both in different ways contributed to the gathering in the coming days and I am very happy to see that a big network unfolds and hope that the Assembly process is bearing fruits for networking, mutual learning and a strategic side by side to of the many initiatives to make our Europe a place of tolernance, respect and wellbeing for the many.
I am also happy to see friends and allies from the Charles Léopold Meyer Foundation, Nicolas Krausz, and the European Cultural Foundation with whom we are aligned in our support for policies and politics in favor of commons and commoning. +
Of Spanish and British background but born in Colombia, she lives in Madrid since 2012, where she experiences and researches the rising transformation of citizen laboratories and P2P practices. In 2015, she's joined the team of Goteo/Platoniq, a platform that incentives the growth of the commons through crowdfunding. During 2015, she developed a project on peer-to-peer initiatives that are transforming public space through Southern Europe: 'P2P Plazas: a Southern European Network'. 'Twitter: @carmenlozano / @goteofunding +
I´m a cultural agitator. Since 2003 I have been working as a cultural coordinator and transmedia artist, developing social and participatory processes. I live and work on Galician rural area, so i´m related to rural commons. From rural association i develop social and cultural activities on rural areas. Last years we have been co-working hardly in Montenoso, this project won a Honour Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2014, in "Digital Communities" Category. As a political agitator i have been involved since 2011 on a kind of #15m international commission, a type of decentralized and espontaneous activist net that has been appearing and disappearing depending on global events linked to movements as #15m #occupy #yosoy132 #Manifencours, #direngezy, #NuitDebout, etc. We support each other in solidarity on issues such as education, human rights, migration, austerity or financial fraud and economic corruption, coordinating some global demos as #Globalnoise 2012 or #GlobalDebout 2015. +
Anne-Catherine Lorrain is a lawyer with expertise in copyright law. She is currently Policy Advisor in the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament for the Greens/EFA political group. From September 2014 until September 2015, she was accredited parliamentary assistant / policy advisor to Julia Reda, Member of the European Parliament in the Greens/EFA group and member of the Pirate Party, focusing on the drafting and on the discussion of the 'Reda Report' on the implementation of the InfoSoc Directive.
She is associated researcher at the CERDI research institute (Université Paris Sud-11, France), where she has conducted PhD research on the issue of territoriality of copyright in the digital environment. She is co-founder of the COMMUNIA Association, an international non-for-profit organisation promoting the digital public domain ([http://www.communia-association.org]).
She used to work as a legal advisor in the music industry for the French division of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in Paris (France), before representing the interests of consumers as the coordinator of the IP Policy Committee of the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) in Brussels (Belgium) and Washington D.C. (US). She was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition (Munich, Germany) in 2011-2013. +
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Rubén Martínez is a member of La Hidra Cooperativa and of Fundación de los Comunes. Masters degree in Political Science and Social Transformation at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. FPI Fellowship Grant linked with TRANSGOB research https://transgob.net he is currently doing his PhD at the IGOP http://igop.uab.cat/en His research focuses on the analysis of public policies that foster social innovation, its articulation with community based processes and changes in the social power relations. He had published several articles and books about cultural economy, participatory governance, critical approach to social innovation and community based economies. +
Lionel Maurel est juriste de formation et conservateur de bibliothèques, en poste à l'université Paris Lumières où il est en charge de la valorisation de l'information scientifique et technique. Auteur du blog S.I.Lex depuis 2009, il est spécialisé dans les questions de propriété intellectuelle et de droit du numérique. Co-fondateur du collectif SavoirsCom1 dédié aux politiques publiques des biens communs de la connaissance, il est également membre du collège d'orientation stratégique de la Quadrature du Net, association de défense des libertés dans l'environnement numérique. +
I am the Executive Director of the newly French Foundation “Terre Solidaire” created in July 2016. The “Fondation Terre Solidaire” aims to address ecological and social transition issues by supporting and promoting local alternatives and new ways of thinking in order to move toward a new model that could achieve sustainable social justice and well-being for all.
During the previous years, I was the Head of the Africa Desk at CCFD-Terre Solidaire that is the foremost French NGO of solidarity for development. I was particularly involved in issues relating to biodiversity, agro ecological, commons, citizen mobilizations against GMOs. +
