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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. +
