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  • SÆTRE Lasse Gullvåg  + (I'm doing my masters in science and technoI'm doing my masters in science and technology studies, coming from half my life consuming and contributing to free software. I'm also a human geographer and have done a good deal of OS mapping, written about linux based mobile technologies and gender equality in academia, among other things, and a previous project brought me deeper into hacker and maker culture. I want to follow all parts of the debates, especially as to how infrastructures forms and is formed by the world. Currently I'm working on a project concerning the digitization of the European railway, ERTMS.gitization of the European railway, ERTMS.)
  • SæTRE Lasse  + (I'm doing my masters in science and technoI'm doing my masters in science and technology studies, coming from half my life consuming and contributing to free software. I'm also a human geographer and have done a good deal of OS mapping, written about linux based mobile technologies and gender equality in academia, among other things, and a previous project brought me deeper into hacker and maker culture. I want to follow all parts of the debates, especially as to how infrastructures forms and is formed by the world. Currently I'm working on a project concerning the digitization of the European railway, ERTMS.gitization of the European railway, ERTMS.)
  • WYNN Mark  + (I'm probably older than most posters, in mI'm probably older than most posters, in my 50s, and have spent my life in the traditional career path (electronics/software). Beyond starting a transition town type of movement here in the South-East corner of France, which has since closed down (few people in this area seem sensitive to the issues the planet is currently facing), my credentials in the Commons area are minimal, but I'm one of the "silent few" who can see clearly what is happening in the world on a climate/ecology/political level, and yet is wondering what on earth I can or should be doing about it. Having worked all my life to afford my own home, I'm not sufficiently financially autonomous to be able to go and do something meaningful (and presumably poorly paid or unpaid). Yet I think that is what I should be focusing on from an ethical and moral standpoint, to contribute what little I may be able to, to change the way things currently are. Preferably without putting into peril the capital I've accumulated over my working life (i.e. my house), and to help my kids who are now adults, in case the world that we've created for them goes completely pear-shaped. But I'm still tempted to take the step, I just don't know where or what. I suspect (hope?) that there are many more in a similar situation.here are many more in a similar situation.)
  • KHONSARI Torange  + (In 2004 Torange Khonsari co founded the arIn 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. </br></br>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 978-1906318-05-5My home is your home ISBN 978-1906318-05-5)
  • STUDENROTH Ina  + (Ina Studenroth, born in 1978 in RecklinghaIna Studenroth, born in 1978 in Recklinghausen/Germany is a cultural manager and créatrice de liens. She is currently working for the NGO Les Têtes de l’art, member of Connected Action for the Commons network as international project manager. She holds diplomas in cultural studies and sociology from University of Bremen/ Germany. Before moving to France in April 2006, she was involved in producing projects for different German festivals and EU funded cultural projects. Between 2006 and 2009, she developed artistic encounters and exchanges with European partners for Théâtre Massalia – European centre for productions targeting young audiences in Marseille. In parallel, she has been involved in developing artistic projects for Marseille-Provence 2013 – European Capital of Culture since 2007 as part of the Cities on the Edge network before joining the team as assistant of the deputy director in charge of programming. In 2014 she joined the team of the Festival d’Avignon as production manager. Since 2013 she is training cultural managers from Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria in the frame of Kulturakademie programme at the Goethe Institut Tunis. She has a special interest in participatory art, trans-sectorial projects, and mobility of artists.ctorial projects, and mobility of artists.)
  • LOPEZ Iñaki  + (I´m a cultural agitator. Since 2003 I haveI´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.s #Globalnoise 2012 or #GlobalDebout 2015.)
  • BROSSIN-PILLOT Laure  + (I’m Laure Brossin-Pillot, living in FranceI’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.f Ancient libraries and reading practices.)
  • RADICCHI Antonella  + (I’m a registered architect and Ph.D. in UrI’m a registered architect and Ph.D. in Urban Design. As IPODI-Marie Curie fellow, I’m currently based at the Technical University Berlin - Institute of City and Regional planning, where I am working on my project “Beyond the Noise: Open Source Soundscapes."</br>Based on the assumption that quietness in cities should be considered as a commons, I’ve developed a citizen-driven methodology to analyze, evaluate and plan small, quiet areas on the local scale and I’m experimenting with it in Berlin, by means of a pilot study.</br>In order to empower people to identify and evaluate quietness in cities, I’ve also developed the Hush City app, which is free and it runs on both iOS and Android devices. Hush City app was released in April 2017 and since then quiet areas have been crowdsourced both in Europe and in the USA. In case you may want to give it a try, here you will find more info!</br>http://www.opensourcesoundscapes.org/hush-city/</br>I’d welcome the possibility to meet commoners based in Berlin, and I hope to have the possibility to join you all in next conferences/events.</br>With regards,</br>Antonellaonferences/events. With regards, Antonella)
  • DE WACHTER Joren  + (I’m trained as a lawyer, and have practiseI’m trained as a lawyer, and have practised law both in private practice (business, commercial and IP law), and in-house, in software.</br>8 years ago, I set up my own IP-strategy consultancy, with a focus on Information Technology (including Open Source and Creative Commons).</br>I have written a book on “the wealth of ideas” on why IP is a mercantilist tax on innovation.</br>I have recently joined a startup and am now a software entrepreneur.</br>I also play the guitar in a band.preneur. I also play the guitar in a band.)
  • JOURDREN Claude  + (JOURDEN Claude découvre le monde de l'ESS 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. ociale, humaine et aux thématiques du DD. )
  • MOEBUS Katharina  + (Katharina Moebus is a Berlin-based designeKatharina Moebus is a Berlin-based designer who works at the crossroads of design, art, activism and research. Her special fields of interest include critical pedagogy, peer-to-peer learning, DIT-culture, the commons, and emerging practices of design for socio-political and environmental change. She is co-editor of 'Agents of Alternatives - Re-designing Our Realities' (2015, with Alastair Fuad-Luke & Anja-Lisa Hirscher) and just about to start her PhD-studies at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. She has gathered experience in working with neighbourhoods, communities and grassroots projects and is particularly interested in ways of strengthening local engagement with attention to its transformative potentials of greater scale.ts transformative potentials of greater scale.)
  • TELLO Lucas  + (Lucas (Sevilla, Spain) is member of ZEMOS9Lucas (Sevilla, Spain) is member of ZEMOS98, a cultural initiative which researches about free culture, social innovation, the commons, new media and informal education. ZEMOS98 has recently coordinated a european project within the context of the Doc Next Network and with the title: “Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons” to foster through media some social struggles related to the Commons from the UK, Turkey, Poland and Spain. Lucas is also a media-maker working on the commons, migrations and political cinema. commons, migrations and political cinema.)
  • STODOLSKY Ivor  + (Marita Muukkonen and I, Ivor Stodolsky, ruMarita Muukkonen and I, Ivor Stodolsky, run Perpetuum Mobile (PM), based in Helsinki, Berlin, Athens and the Provence. Our platforms are often commons-oriented, especially the PLURIversity ("A Co-Op of Co-Ops for Helsinki", www.Pluriversity.net), the PM Commons Collection, and The Arts Assembly (www.TheArtsAssembly.org) open social format. A current special focus is the Artists at Risk (AR) platform, which works with "immigré" (refugee) artists and people at risk in third countries. We cooperate on occasion with the P2P foundation and FairCoop, among others.P2P foundation and FairCoop, among others.)
  • MUUKKONEN Marita  + (Marita Muukkonen and I, Ivor Stodolsky, ruMarita Muukkonen and I, Ivor Stodolsky, run Perpetuum Mobile (PM), based in Helsinki, Berlin, Athens and the Provence. Our platforms are often commons-oriented, especially the PLURIversity ("A Co-Op of Co-Ops for Helsinki", www.Pluriversity.net), the PM Commons Collection, and The Arts Assembly (www.TheArtsAssembly.org) open social format. A current special focus is the Artists at Risk (AR) platform, which works with "immigré" (refugee) artists and people at risk in third countries. We cooperate on occasion with the P2P foundation and FairCoop, among others.P2P foundation and FairCoop, among others.)
  • BOUZIOURI Martha  + (Martha Bouziouri is a multidisciplinary arMartha Bouziouri is a multidisciplinary arts and humanities practitioner, dividing her work into 3 distinct but organically overlapping fields: direction of cross-media / cross-cultural projects, anthropological research and theatre. She holds a BA in Mass Media and Communication, a Diploma in Theatre and a MA in Cultural Management and Human Communication. She is currently completing her PhD in Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, Aegean University. As the co-founder and artistic director of PLAYS2PLACE (http://plays2place.com), she is involved in a series of transnational projects concerning applied models for civic transformation, raising awareness and social integration through a working method that combines elements of participatory action research and artistic intervention. Over the last five years, her work focuses on the refugee issue and the transformation of solidarity practices across EUROMENA. She is the director of the DOME PROJECT (http://thedomeproject.net & http://thedomeevent.net), a cross-media umbrella project that maps, networks and empowers solidarity initiatives in the region. In this effort, she has developed synergies and affiliations with socio-culturally active European and EUROMENA networks and organizations such as Cultural Innovators Network (http://www.culturalinnovators.org/), the Goethe Institute, Robert Bosch Foundation (http://www.bosch-stiftung.de/), Tandem/Shaml - Cultural Managers Exchange Program, (http://tandemexchange.eu/), CulturalBase (http://culturalbase.eu/) and others. More at https://gr.linkedin.com/in/bouziourimartha.at https://gr.linkedin.com/in/bouziourimartha.)
  • WALLIS Matt  + (Matt Wallis (software engineer). I work atMatt Wallis (software engineer). I work at the Institute for Solidarity Economics (ISE), Oxford, UK. Currently working on Linked Open Data for describing initiatives in the Solidarity Economy. This open source work can be found at https://github.com/p6data-coop. ISE is currently sowing the seeds for a UK Solidarity Economy Network. I'm also working on another open source project for planning long distance journeys by bicycle! https://github.com/gps-touring. In the past, I have developed software that exposes the hidden, cheaper, train fares in the UK.he hidden, cheaper, train fares in the UK.)
  • CASTRO Mauro  + (Mauro Castro is a member of La Hidra CoopeMauro 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.both Latin American and Spanish magazines.)
  • FUSTER Mayo  + (Mayo Fuster Morell is the Dimmons directorMayo 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. production at the Barcelona City Council.)
  • JARA Mazibuko  + (Mazibuko Jara was born in 1973 in MdantsanMazibuko 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. </br></br>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 </br>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 </br>(TAC). </br></br>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.e food regime in South Africa through UWC.)
  • GOMEZ-PORTUGAL Claudia  + (Mexican independent activist, creative andMexican 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.ommunication strategies for social change.)
  • TOMASONE Federico  + (My Name is Federico Tomasone and I´m working since 2014 as Prokect manager at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Brussels Office. I´m in charge inside our program about socio-ecological transformation for the component about commons and solidarity economy.)
  • ROMERO FRIAS Esteban  + (My name is Esteban Romero-Frías and I am tMy name is Esteban Romero-Frías and I am the Director of Medialab UGR - Research Laboratory for Digital Culture and Society at the University of Granada (http://medialab.ugr.es in Spanish; about us in English: http://medialab.ugr.es/what-is-ugr-medialab/).</br>Here you can find more information about me (and below about the lab): https://twitter.com/polisea, http://estebanromero.com/</br>Information about Medialab UGR:</br>MediaLab-UGR is a Citizen Lab born within the University focused to serve as a open physical and digital space to the society. It acts as a meeting point for research, analysis, and the dissemination of opportunities generated by digital technologies in the areas of culture and society.</br>MediaLab-UGR is part of the University of Granada’s Vice-Rectorate for Research and Knowledge Transfer and therefore, as institution, we have a solid reputation in managing European projects. Medialab strives to serve as an open laboratory for the generation of proposals at the University and society, as a research hub, and as an experimental space for exploring creativity and new ways of generating knowledge.</br>The best keywords that define Medialab-UGR are: public engagement, experimentation, innovation, active citizenship, openness.</br>More information about us and our projects:</br>For further information about the whole projects developed by Medialab UGR, ways of engaging with people and experimental and innovative approaches to solve social challenges carried out by our Lab, please check the comprehensive presentation in English in the following link:</br>https://www.slideshare.net/medialabugr/presentation-of-medialab-ugr-research-laboratory-for-digital-culture-and-society-projects-and-impact</br>Imágenes integradas 1</br>Here, there is a selection of relevant projects in relation to public and civic engagement:</br>LabIN Granada - a Citizen Lab for Granada (http://labingranada.org/)</br>LabIN stands for Laboratory of Innovation. The project is conceived as a citizen laboratory for Granada focused on local citizen innovation. It implements a methodology based on the generation of ideas, the prototyping of solutions and the development of projects for a territory. It entails a network of citizen participation, which has two dimensions: Physical space (like a laboratory for citizen social innovation for Granada) and Digital space (a global platform for the generation of ideas and the development of prototypes and projects.</br>This platform is under consideration at the Regional Government in Andalusia (Spain) to implement the future Social Participation Law.ement the future Social Participation Law.)
  • HARVIE Jamie  + (My name is Jamie. I’m trained as a civil 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.</br>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.y. He speaks and consults internationally.)
  • KIMMEL Jens  + (My name is Jens Kimmel, 29 years old, liviMy 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.mmons' meeting in Spring Amsterdam myself.)
  • DE BRUIN Kitty  + (My name is Kitty de Bruin, i'm Dutch and iMy 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. a bit faster. I 'm a full time volunteer.)
  • EYNAUD Léa  + (My name is Léa Eynaud, I am a PhD student 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.nt of the history of the commons movement.)
  • PEDERSEN Martin  + (My name is Martin Pedersen and I have beenMy name is Martin Pedersen and I have been doing research on and been</br>involved in a wide variety of commons, temporary and "permanent" -</br>material and "immaterial", since the early 1990s.</br></br>11 years in university began with computing science, social history,</br>law, sociology and philosophy - studying the evolution of information</br>technology from cave paintings to cyberspace with reference to the</br>development of human societies and consciousness - and ended with an</br>interdisciplinary PhD thesis titled "Property, Commoning and the</br>Politics of Free Software" [1]</br></br>I am currently involved in the creation of a global seed commons</br>inspired by open source concepts, which brings together different open</br>source seeds initiatives from around the world with a view to finding a</br>common, conceptual ground that will allow exchange between these</br>initiatives and thus realise a global commons.</br></br>A great source of inspiration for paradigmatically different ways of</br>sharing, living and learning in common has been two years working with</br>indigenous people in the Amazon, to where I will also return soon and</br>spend considerable time the next three years.</br></br>I do freelance work editing and preparing texts of various kinds for</br>publication, incl. in peer-reviewed academic journals.</br></br>cheers,</br>martin</br></br>[1]: http://www.commoner.org.uk/?p=107in [1]: http://www.commoner.org.uk/?p=107)
  • DE HEUSCH RIBASSIN Sarah  + (My name is Sarah de Heusch, I am a projectMy 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.iology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.)
  • GÓRRIZ Óscar  + (My name is Óscar Górriz, I spend most of mMy 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/</br></br>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</br></br>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</br></br>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.s projects in self-organized distributed mesh.)
  • VLACHOKYRIAKOS Vasilis  + (My work centres on designing, developing aMy work centres on designing, developing and evaluating novel, digitally-enabled models of citizen participation that engage communities in developing the future of local service provision, decision-making and democracy.</br>I am currently running the Open Lab: Athens initiative. OLAthens, through the engagement with the social and solidarity economy in Greece and the embedding of researchers in contexts of civic significance, aims at: designing and developing digital systems to facilitate and extend the civic activities of solidarity structures (e.g. systems for logistics, communications, decision-making etc.); and to invent digital systems that will extend the solidarity economy by embedding its values (i.e. equity, cooperation, environmental sustainability etc.) in the design of systems for wider reach.</br></br>My previous research projects have involved a set of experiments into participatory methods in digital systems. More generally, I am interested in the intersection of open source software and the solidarity economy, e-participation (e-deliberation, e-contestation), e-democracy and human computer interaction (HCI).racy and human computer interaction (HCI).)
  • KRAUSZ Nicolas  + (Nicolas Krausz est responsable de programmNicolas 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.n 2013 aux Editions Charles Léopold Mayer.)
  • LONZANO BRIGHT Carmen  + (Of Spanish and British background but bornOf 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 'Twitter: @carmenlozano / @goteofunding)
  • DE PAUW Geert  + (Professionally, i am working for CommunityProfessionally, i am working for Community Land Trust Brussels,an association that provides permanently affordable housing for low income groups on community land.</br>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.ood with the commons as guiding principle.)
  • AVILA Renata  + (Renata Avila is a human rights lawyer specRenata Avila is a human rights lawyer specialised in Intellectual Property and Technology. She worked as one of the lawyers representing the Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1992/) and more recently, Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Involved in Internet and Human Rights research since 2006, she works with the Web Inventor Sir Tim Berners - Lee (http://internethalloffame.org/official-biography-tim-berners-lee?gclid=CMeXtqyz7cwCFawy0wodMtwF8w) in an effort to uphold human rights in the digital age. She serves as a Board Member of Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/). She is also a member of Courage Foundation (https://couragefound.org/) advisory board, assisting whistleblowers at risk and in the D-Cent (http://dcentproject.eu/) board, exploring the potential of decentralised technologies. She is currently an Advisor of the BITS initiative by the Municipality of Barcelonanitiative by the Municipality of Barcelona)
  • MARTINEZ Rubén  + (Rubén Martínez is a member of La Hidra CooRubén 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. innovation and community based economies.)
  • HELFRICH Silke  + (Since 2007 I work as independent author, aSince 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.</br></br>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).</br></br>I am cofounder of Commons Strategies Group and the Commons-Institut e.V. and blog (mainly in German, sometimes in English) on CommonsBlog.</br></br>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. work on a Patterns Language of Commoning.)
  • EULER Johannes  + (So, my name is Johannes Euler and I live cSo, 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.</br></br>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.</br></br>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.t an actual transformation can take place.)
  • SPRINCEANA Vitalie  + (Sociologist, blogger, journalist and urbanSociologist, blogger, journalist and urban activist based in Chisinau. Moldova. I am also a co-redactor at PLATZFORMA.MD, a web platform for social, economic and political criticism. I am interested in and I argue for inclusive democratic public spaces, social justice, free knowledge, plurality of worldviews and practices. With OBERLIHT Young Artist Association we are working in Chisinau area, trying to use art as a tool for community change and building communities through artistic expression.g communities through artistic expression.)
  • HAMMERSTEIN David  + (Sociologist. Co-initiator of the Commons NSociologist. 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: @DaHammersteinvidhammerstein.com twitter: @DaHammerstein)
  • BROCA Sébastien  + (Sébastien Broca est sociologue, maître de 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.</br></br>Publication Utopie du logiciel libre, Le passager clandestin, 2013.iciel libre, Le passager clandestin, 2013.)
  • TUSCHEN Stefan  + (Tackling issues of climate justice on behaTackling issues of climate justice on behalf of a catholic organisation, the Pope's encyclical - declaring the climate a commons - has been motivation, support and challenge at once. The main message – environmental and social problems have to be thought and fought together – has not been easy to accept for a „development“ organisation. I was surprised to see the great resonance among environmental groups – or maybe not...? I think (commitment to) change has a fundamentally ethical dimension. No surprise: the encyclical contains many disputable things, too, for example a chapter about (the concept of) work, limiting it mostly to employment. Reimagining the future of my own work, I would love to reduce my employed time in favour of more "Eigenarbeit" and conviviality, dedicating time to my family, kids (8, 9, 11), friends and the Commons-Institute I co-founded. I see a chance for the commons paradigm to gain ground within my professional environment, however, so far it has mainly been my personal commitment.it has mainly been my personal commitment.)
  • CELAKOSKI Teodor  + (Teodor Celakoski is a cultural worker and 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.c space in the city of Zagreb and Croatia.)
  • LOESCHMANN Heike  + (With the Heinrich Boell Foundation (HBF), 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.</br>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.</br> </br>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/</br> </br>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.</br>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.olitics in favor of commons and commoning.)
  • CARLISLE Isabel  + (from Totnes in Devon, where I have lived ffrom 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.</br></br>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.</br></br>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?”; </br>“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</br></br>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. a bioregional learning centre for the UK.)
  • MEIXIDE Andreu  + (member of Panorama180, a non-profit associmember of Panorama180, a non-profit association from Barcelona focused on cinema and audiovisual experimentation done with XXI century criteria: digitalization, net, compromise, agitation, change, empowerment, community... always opened to news and proposals that intend to get over the problems generated by an obsolete conception of copyright in the digital era.</br> </br>Since 2010 we organize the BccN Barcelona Creative Commons Film Festival, the first film festival focused on Creative Commons understanding the license as a tool (not a purpose) which is part of an approach and individual/collective political position that, at the same time, tries to match the free culture philosophy and the commons with cinema and audiovisual. Through practical experimentation, this leads to new models of positive relationship with Internet logics and the common benefit.</br></br>During 2012 we also applied to the own festival a CC license promoting the CCWorld Audiovisual Commons Net, a global net with local festivals self-sustainables copy-derivated of the Barcelona's ones and spreeded in differents towns and cities all around the world, specially in Latin-American countries. We are more than 30 festivals sharing and collaborating in a decentralized the knowledge and sources and connecting communities, messages and struggles through the audiovisual language. There are festivals in Madrid, Valladolid, Bogotá, Medellín, Sevilla, Donosti, Leon, Huesca, Almeria, Cali, Lima, Helsinki, Montevideo, ciudad de México, Sofia, Buenos Aires, Barranquilla, Santiago de Chile, etc…</br></br>We still believe in digital culture and, specifically, in audiovisual language and cinema as tools for social transformation, capable of articulating narratives and generating constructions and resistances totally necessary these days. As always, but more than ever now.e days. As always, but more than ever now.)
  • VUARIN Pierre  + (Ancien responsable de programmes à la FondAncien responsable de programmes à la Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer (FPH), programmes relatifs aux organisations paysannes et de pêcheurs, aux populations de montagnes du monde, à la transition vers des systèmes alimentaires durables, à la formation des leaders sociaux et aux démarches de changements systémiques . Il est un des co-créateurs de l'Alliance Terre Citoyenne et de l'Université Internationale Terre Citoyenne (UITC) qui met au centre de son action la création de nouvelles connaissances utiles pour l'action résultant du croisement de savoirs différents portés par les dynamiques sociales, la société civile, les universités.</br></br>Il participe à un collectif « Sel des communs » créé à l'issue de la rencontre de Guérande en 2013, centrée sur «Défendons, gérons nos communs, Territoires, Connaissances, Communautés » qui a réunit des communautés de pêcheurs, de paysans, de montagnards autour de ces thèmes. http://www.terre-citoyenne.org/des-initiatives/guerande-2013.htmlnne.org/des-initiatives/guerande-2013.html)
  • BOLLIER David  + (David Bollier est un auteur, activiste, blDavid Bollier est un auteur, activiste, blogueur et chercheur indépendant qui se concentre principalement sur les communs comme un nouveau paradigme de l'économie, de la politique et de la culture. Il poursuit ce travail principalement en tant que co-fondateur du Commons Strtegies Group, un projet international. de conseil et de plaidoyer pour le mouvement des communs Le travail de David Bollier sur les communs se concentre sur la culture numérique, le droit et la politique, la gouvernance écologique et le croisement des pratiques des communs.</br></br>Bollier a écrit ou édité huit livres sur les biens communs : La renaissance des communs (Think Like a Commoner) une brève introduction à la vie des communs (2014); Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Commons (2013), coécrit avec Ken Burns Weston; et Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (2010). Avec HELFRICH Silke, il a co-édité deux recueils d'essais originaux, Patterns of Commoning (2015) et The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State (2012).</br></br>Bollier a passé de nombreuses années dans divers emplois de plaidoyer politique à Washington, dans les années 1970 et 1980, avec un membre du Congrès, l'organisme de réglementation de la sécurité automobile, et les organisations d'intérêt public. De 1985 à 2010, Bollier a collaboré avec le producteur de télévision, écrivain et activiste Norman Lear sur une grande variété de projets traitant des affaires publiques et de politiques. En 2001, Bollier a co-fondé Public Knowledge, une organisation de défense des citoyens, engagée sur les thématiques liées à la propriété intellectuelle et qui milite en faveur d’un Internet de format ouvert construit sur le principe de bout-à-bout. Bollier écrit dans bollier.org et vit à Amherst, Massachusetts.llier.org et vit à Amherst, Massachusetts.)
  • VAN DER WEKKEN Ruby  + (Ruby van der Wekken - I am a co-founder anRuby van der Wekken - I am a co-founder and active in the development of Helsinki Timebank - https://stadinaikapankki.wordpress.com/in-english/helsinki-timebanks-abc/. I am also active in a process wanting to take forward a Solidarity Economy network buidling process and through this a furthering of our commons and commoning - up on Commons.fi. I work for Siemenpuu environmental foundation which executes Finnish development cooperation and which supports actors in Global South around issues of ecological democracy.uth around issues of ecological democracy.)
  • SULTAN Frédéric  + (SULTAN Frédéric contribue à la facilitatioSULTAN Frédéric contribue à la facilitation du « réseau francophone des biens communs » à travers les projets d'appropriation des idées et des pratiques des communs réalisés par la société coopérative Gazibo (fondée en 2008) Il coordonne Remix the commons et a participé à la rédaction du manifeste pour la récupération des biens communs (en 2009). Il est membre de l'association Vecam.</br></br>SULTAN Frédéric helps to facilitate the networking on the commons in the francophone area through projects that present ideas and practices of commoning carried out by the coop Gazibo (founded in 2008) He coordinates Remix the commons and has participated in the drafting manifesto Reclaim the common (in 2009). He is a member of the association Vecam.. He is a member of the association Vecam.)
  • SARAZIN Simon  + (Simon SARAZIN travaille sur plusieurs expéSimon SARAZIN travaille sur plusieurs expériences menées à Lille : http//unisson.co : plateforme mettant en avant quelques pistes d'ingrédients pour construire des communs, http:// encommuns.org, http://imagination.social (2 plateformes open sources visant à repérer recenser des communs et des initiatives citoyennes). Il contribue au lancement lors de l'événement les ROUMICS 2015, d'un travail de préfiguration de l'assemblée des communs, qui se tient à Lille chaque dernier jeudi du mois. Il est aussi régulièrement en lien avec les contributeurs de Sharelex et travaille également sur la création d'une LSC (Legal Service for Commons http://unisson.co/wiki/lsc visant à héberger et à protéger des communs. Durant l'été 2015, avec Marion Rousseau, il a animé une coopérative de jeunes à Boulogne sur Mer (Entre'Coop).de jeunes à Boulogne sur Mer (Entre'Coop).)
  • REKESTAD Emilia  + (I´m living in in the area of Järna south oI´m living in in the area of Järna south of Stockholm, Sweden. I´m involved in community/ commons based projects on different levels, mainly through the Transition- and Permaculture Network of Sweden. Unfortunately, I won´t have the possibility to join this time, but I would like to send you a paper which we made within the project REALS - Resilient and Ecological Approaches for Living Sustainably . Even if sent late, perhaps it could inspire some of the work during the coming days? I especially want to highlight the third section focused on landstewardship which highlights the importance of eg agroecological foodsystems. </br>You find it here: http://realsproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/REALS-policy-recommendations-2016.pdf6/08/REALS-policy-recommendations-2016.pdf)
  • SANTOS Patrícia  + (<https://www.linkedin.com/in/santospatricia> "Action-research on participatory approaches for integrated development in agroforestry dependent socio-ecological systems.")
  • RESTAKIS John  + (Active in the co-operative movement for ovActive in the co-operative movement for over twenty years, John Restakis is former Executive Director of the BC Co-operative Association in Vancouver, a position he held since 1998. He is currently Executive Director of Inspiration in Action (IIA) in Vancouver. His professional background includes community organizing, adult and popular education, and co-op development. Restakis was Research Co-ordinator on Social Infrastructure and Institutional Innovation for the FLOK Project in Ecuador. He has done consulting work on international co-op development projects, researches and teaches on co-operative economies and the social economy, and lectures widely on the subject of globalization, regional development, and alternative economics. Restakis has also been an advisor to Syriza in Greece for the development of a national strategy for the social and solidarity economy. He is also Research Associate for Co-operatives UK. Restakis earned his BA at the University of Toronto with a Major degree in East Asian Studies and specialist studies in Sanskrit and Classical Greek. He holds a Masters Degree in Philosophy of Religion. Masters Degree in Philosophy of Religion.)
  • GUTTMANN Alexandre  + (Alexandre Guttmann est basé sur New York eAlexandre 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.l'Atlas des Chartres des Communs Urbaines.)
  • JANSEN Amanda  + (Amanda Jansen is OuiShare connector NetherAmanda 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.n invasive tech & growing awareness is her next expertise.)
  • MIRANDA Ana  + (Ana Miranda, spokesperson of the politicalAna Miranda, spokesperson of the political party BNG from Galiza, former galician member of the European Parliament (MEP) and next MEP in 2018-2019. We work in different common issues in our stateless Nation, Galiza, and also here in Brussels, translating to the EC different proposals, resolutions and doing political incidence helping people and communities with the social, environmental and participative focus. We are in permanent contact with the galician land commons organisation (Organización Galega de Comunidades de Montes Vecinhais en Man Común-ORGACCMM), voice of the land commons and they contact me to participate in the next Assembly. Alfredo Pereira, the president fot ORGACCMM and other common are coming for the event.</br></br> </br></br>This land system in Galiza in this kind of special common property with germanic origin (Montes Vecinhais de Man Commún) are commons collective land and the property belong to the community, with independence of the change of members, the only condition to be co-owner and have rights on the land is to be neighbourg and the rights of transmission is collective and not individually; the management of common resources are also collective and democratic. The "Montes en Mán Común" have a social, ecological and productive fonction in the rural areas. The land commons have 2900 communities in 248 You can find more information about them here: http://orgaccmm.blogaliza.org/encontrandonos/p://orgaccmm.blogaliza.org/encontrandonos/)
  • SIMONNEAU Claire  + (As a researcher in urban planning and a citizen living in Brussels, I am interested in the topic of commons, especially related to housing and the right to the city.)
  • GONÇALVES João  + (Born in 1979, João Gonçalves is growing hiBorn 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.</br>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.</br></br>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".</br></br>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).gal/2012 with Rosemary Morrow (Australia).)
  • MEYER Camille  + (Camille Meyer is a Ph.D. candidate in econCamille Meyer is a Ph.D. candidate in economics and management at Université libre de Bruxelles. His work focuses on social finance (community banks and complementary currencies) and analyze the extent to which grassroots financial organizations and services can be considered as commons. He realized field works in Brazil and lived in several European countries.l and lived in several European countries.)
  • ESCRIBANO Sergi  + (Coming from Valencia (East coast of Spain)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.d knowledge between different territories.)
  • PETCOU Constantin  + (Constantin Petcou is a Paris-based architeConstantin Petcou is a Paris-based architect whose work stresses the intersections between architecture, urbanism and semiotics. He is a co-founder of atelier d’architecture autogérée (aaa), a collective engaged in explorations, activities and research concerning sociopolitical practices in the contemporary city. aaa works with ‘urban tactics’, encouraging residents to manage disused urban spaces themselves, engage in nomadic and reversible projects, and initiate interstitial practices. aaa has been awarded the European Prize for Urban Public Space and the Prix Grand Public des Architectures Contemporaines en Métropole Parisienne, both in 2010. Constantin has co-edited Urban Act: A handbook for alternative practice (2007) and Trans-local-Act: Cultural practices within and across (2010) and R-Urban Act: a participative strategy of urban resilienceparticipative strategy of urban resilience)
  • BOUQUERY Jean-Marie  + (Consultant sénior Cabinet AND-InternationaConsultant sénior Cabinet AND-International et AgroParisTech Massy, Académie d’Agriculture, ancien président ACIA et AREA. Domaines : politique, économie et gestion des filières, territoires, acteurs et auxiliaires des systèmes agro-industriels et alimentaires systèmes agro-industriels et alimentaires)
  • KICHLER Nikolas  + (Currently I'm working at the Vienna UniverCurrently 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.</br></br>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.</br></br>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.hile avoiding potential excessive demands.)
  • TELLI Asli  + (Currently a freelance researcher in IstanbCurrently a freelance researcher in Istanbul, I'm working on a coop initiative among scholars/researchers with high levels of job insecurities acting as commons collective. We have exciting ideas flowing in about trans-nationalizing the initiative on common grounds, so your suggestions would be most welcome. The platform cooperativism event I attended in 2015 at the New School, NY opened new horizons to the civic solidarity networks I've been contributing since late '90s.ks I've been contributing since late '90s.)
  • FESTA Daniela  + (Daniela Festa is a jurist and social geogrDaniela 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. up process.; Action research methodology.)
  • PATTI Daniela  + (Daniela Patti is a co-founder of EutropianDaniela Patti is a co-founder of Eutropian. She is an Italian and British architect and planner who studied in Rome, London, Porto and Vienna. Specialised in urban regeneration and environmental planning through collaborative processes, her recent research and projects focus on the governance of peri-urban landscape, the revitalisation oflocal food markets and new economic models for urban development. In recent years she has worked within theURBACT program ad Lead Expert in the Interactive Cities network, dealing with social media governance, and as Project Manager in the TUTUR – Temporary Use as a Tool for Urban Regeneration network. Furthermore, in 2014 and 2015 she worked for the Rome Municipality, where she elaborated the strategy for the access to the European Structural Funds to be invested on urban regeneration. Since 2012, she is Board Member of the Wonderland Platform for European Architecture, responsible for its collaborative planning series. Between 2010 and 2013, she has been a researcher at the Central European Institute of Technology, where she was responsible for the Project Management of EU Smart Cities and urban regeneration projects. Moreover, she has been a guest lecturer at the University of Roma Tre, Tor Vergata and Universidad de Buenos Aires.r Vergata and Universidad de Buenos Aires.)
  • BUELLESBACH Daphne  + (Daphne Büllesbach is Berlin-based DirectorDaphne 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).ternational) and talk im transit (German).)
  • DIMITROV Dimi  + (Dimi is a Bulgarian political scientist whDimi 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. Twitter a benign version of the internet.)
  • VESELINOVIć Dobrica  + (Dobrica Veselinović was born in 1981 in BeDobrica Veselinović was born in 1981 in Belgrade/Serbia. He is active in the civil sector for the last 10 years, and in the last few years has been fighting for public spaces and greater citizens’ participation in decision making process in regard to urban development issues. The areas of interest are political theory, ecology and urban development, the counter-cultural movements. Every year he maintains the large number of lectures and presentations.</br></br>Currently one of leaders of movement "Let's not drown Belgrade" which is raised against Belgrade waterfront mega urban development project, and part of Ministry of space collective from Belgrade, Serbia.of space collective from Belgrade, Serbia.)
  • DEREVA Maïa  + (Eclectic person, I used to study the bioloEclectic 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.lle (France) or European Commons Assembly.)
  • HUNT Elizabeth  + (Elizabeth Hunt is a member of percolab (MoElizabeth 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. ways of knowing are put front and centre.)
  • VAN HAL Fanny  + (Fanny van Hal (Membership Officer at GEN-EFanny van Hal (Membership Officer at GEN-Europe) grew up in an intentional community of 18 households located in the fruit basket region of the Netherlands. She moved to the Arterra Bizimodu community in Spain in 2015. Fanny finished her four-year Bachelor of Management of the Living Environment (BSc) at Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences focusing on sustainable rural development through networks and did her final thesis project with the Council of Sustainable Settlements of Latin America (CASA) and their national network CASA Colombia. Always having had an interest in communal living, Fanny traveled and visited several eco projects around the world, ranging from occupied villages to self-sufficient farms and ecovillages. Fanny is an entrepreneurial, creative and positively critical person who is passionate about working in international teams facilitating change towards a more green and inclusive world. Currently Fanny is setting up a Community Supported Agriculture in Spain and works for GEN-Europe as Membership Officer, keeping contact and information flow within the network and bringing up the voice of ecovillages on a higher level.he voice of ecovillages on a higher level.)
  • DOVE Fiona  + (Fiona Dove has been Executive Director of 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.nt oppressive and exploitative structures.)
  • CAÑADA Mauge  + (From Navarra Basque Country Spain. I'm parFrom 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 .ing in common...developing a new culture .)
  • TEST  + (Frédéric Sultan contribue à la facilitatioFrédéric Sultan contribue à la facilitation du « Réseau francophone des biens communs » à travers les projets d'appropriation des idées et des pratiques des communs réalisés par la société coopérative Gazibo (fondée en 2008) Il coordonne Remix the commons et a participé à la rédaction du manifeste pour la récupération des biens communs (en 2009). Il est membre de l'association Vecam.09). Il est membre de l'association Vecam.)
  • KRIKORIAN Gaelle  + (Gaëlle Krikorian leaves in France. She iisGaëlle 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.t she is part of several groups in France.)
  • VAN REUSEL Hanne  + (Hanne Van Reusel will participate at the CHanne Van Reusel will participate at the Commons Watch conference as member of Commons Josaphat. Her work within this citizen collective is in line with her PhD research at the Faculty of Architecture of the KU Leuven (campus Sint-Lucas Brussel). Within the Incubators of Publics Spaces research project she actively takes part in processes of collective visioning and local place-making at and around the Josaphat site. Commons Josaphat is a politically autonomous citizen initiative. We aim to bring the principles of the commons into practice at the Josaphat site in Brussels. In our ambition to lay the foundations for of a more sustainable, participative and just city we focus on this huge wasteland, which the Brussels Capital Region plans to develop into an entire new neighborhood. Departing from already existing commons initiatives, we are collectively working on a realistic proposal to develop the Josaphat neighborhood as a commons.op the Josaphat neighborhood as a commons.)
  • DALISA Giacomo  + (I am Giacomo, Ph.D. in ecological economicI 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. of water in Naples between 2003 and 2006.)
  • KOVANEN Sunna  + (I am Sunna Kovanen, a regional geographer 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.</br></br>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.</br></br>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.</br></br>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.sed economy with local communities in Finland.)
  • DIOJDESCU dan  + (I am a Lecturer in Economics, Finance, AccI 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.al currencies and/or non-monetary finance.)
  • KARAGIANNI Maria  + (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.)
  • DIDIER Julien  + (I am a belgian activist working&being 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).b of Transition Network (www.reseautransition.be).)
  • JERRAM Sophie  + (I am a co-director Letting Space, an arts 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.and architecture practice and the commons.)
  • PIM Joám Evans  + (I am a commoner at the Froxán Commons CommI am a commoner at the Froxán Commons Community, a small village in</br>the Galizan municipality of Lousame, close to Santiago de Compostela.</br>Our rural Community has 100 hectares of woodlands which are managed</br>through direct assembly democracy and also self-manages important</br>services such as village water supply. The Community faces</br>considerable threats from the mining industry and has been drawn into</br>a protracted conflict with the companies.</br></br>The municipality of Lousame, in which I have recently served as local</br>councillor, is a good example of the reality of land commons in</br>Galiza. common land is 50% of the total in the municipality, with 33</br>commons community assemblies managing its resources, that also include</br>in most cases basic services such as supply of water.</br></br>In this corner of Europe, the commons are a crucial aspect of our</br>life. 1/3 of the land in Galiza is "commons", some 650.000 hectares</br>that contribute to the livelihood of more than half a million people.</br>Galizan "commons" is a form of "property" which is neither State-owned</br>nor individual, but belonging to communities as open and fluid groups</br>of people settled in the land that steward its resources.</br></br>With this context in mind, we are mostly interested in traditional</br>mechanisms for commons management through rural assembly democracy.</br>But we are also very interested in expanding the notion of the commons</br>to other practises and places. I am also involved with the iComunales</br>initiative (http://www.icomunales.org/), connected to the global ICCA</br>Consortium (http://www.iccaconsortium.org/).</br></br>Finally, I would like to draw your attention to a massive conflict</br>that currently involved several other commons communities in our</br>municipality regarding a project to set up a massive industrial waste</br>landfill for a million tons in prime agricultural and forest lands</br>that directly affects dozens of farmers and drinking water supplies of</br>many of our villages. It would be of great support if the European</br>Commons Assembly would consider issuing a Resolution in support for</br>the commoners movement againts this landfill, uniting their voice with</br>that of the commoners of Europe.oice with that of the commoners of Europe.)
  • HOOVER Elona  + (I am a doctoral student at the University 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.</br>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.mmoning network and community of practice.)
  • VERMEERSCH Laure  + (I am a documentary filmmaker, French, baseI am a documentary filmmaker, French, based in Paris, who lived 17 years in London. I have recently produced the film Halcyons in Greece on the structures of solidarity. I collaborate with the quarterly Vacarme. (vacarme.org). I am a founder of the association Interdemos, which aim is to contribute to the elaboration of a european civil society (Demos).ation of a european civil society (Demos).)
  • AVLONA Natalia-Rozalia  + (I am a researcher and activist on commons I am a researcher and activist on commons over the last seven years. I have been actively involved in many "commons" initiatives both in UK and Greece, as well as in the Commons Festival in Athens where I co-organised the workshop "Feminist approaches to the commons", inspired by the work of Sylvia Federici. I am particularly interested in the notion of labour and reciprocity in digital commons communities and the political subjectivation around the commoning practices, which i study along with contemporary social movements. Being involved with a Social and Solidarity Economy initiative in Athens over the last year, I came to understand the necessity of studying the collaborative commons economies under the light of the tradition of cooperatives and more broadly the social and solidarity economy initiatives. Last but not least, I do claim that it is of particular importance to reinvent a contemporary feminist approach within the commons culture, since it seems that it has been a domain dominated by men and masculine perception.dominated by men and masculine perception.)
  • ESTEVES Ana Margarida  + (I am a social scientist-activist, currentlI 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.ogical Producer-Consumer Network in Italy.)
  • VIVERO Jose Luis  + (I am an agricultural engineer (academic quI am an agricultural engineer (academic qualification) and anti-hunger activist (vocation) with experience on food security and nutrition policies and programmes, right to food advocacy and food sovereignty practices in Latin America, Africa and Europe. Currently, a PhD Research Fellow on food governance and agri-food transitions in the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). I am exploring the idea and praxis of food as a commonss, from a normative and heuristics point of view. Preparing an academic book on "Food as a Commons" with three co-editors and 30 authors to launch the debate at global level. Why is food not treated as a commons? Why is food not governed as a public good such as health or education? </br></br>In this Assembly, I would be interested in meeting other commoners, partners and colleagues that have an interest in food. So. count on me whether specific exercises on "Mapping the food commons" are envisioned as part of the concrete steps to walk the talk. I have just been uploaded an article to the Wiki of Commons Transition on The Food Commons Transition </br>http://wiki.commonstransition.org/wiki/The_Food_Commons_Transition:_Collective_actions_for_food_and_nutrition_securityve_actions_for_food_and_nutrition_security)
  • ANASTASOPOULOS Nicholas  + (I am an architect, academic, researcher anI am an architect, academic, researcher and activist, interested in aspects and forms of community, urban commons, sustainability and complexity. My doctoral -and ongoing research of many years involves alternative communities and their spatial and social characteristics, including ecocommunities, the kibbutz movement, intentional communities and over the past 2-1/2 years, indigenous communities.</br></br>We just completed a joint workshop between NTUA/Athens and PUCE/Quito for the community of Chamanga on the Pacific Coast of Ecuador, designing its public communal space with a participatory design process while the ongoing MET workshop building peer-to-peer knowledge and cooperation around the cases of ports of air and water in transition was presented in the form of a Side Event we organized last week in the context of Habitat III (Quito). In this process several workshops, research projects, presentations, and activist actions reveal commoning developments. By switching scales from local to global and by overcoming national frameworks, we attempt to understand horizontally the nature of several complex processes underway. We intervene by facilitating exchange of knowledge and experience, and by forming a transnational research network with partners urbanists, researchers and activists across cities, currently in Europe and Latin America.es, currently in Europe and Latin America.)
  • DIAS Joana  + (I am an artist, an activist and a social eI 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.</br></br>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.lding in a social neighbourhood in Lisbon.)
  • SENE Ismaël  + (I am both a community-based researcher, anI am both a community-based researcher, and a consultant, based in France Brittany. I am also an Administrator of the SCIENCES CITOYENNES NGO, based in Paris. Citizen Science, Social Innovation and the Commons are the three key words to describe my field of interestkey words to describe my field of interest)
  • CANGELOSI Elisabetta  + (I am one of the co-organiser of the two yeI 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.) and currently studying Human Rights Law.)
  • GIANGRANDE Naresh  + (I am one of the founders of the TransitionI am one of the founders of the Transition movement (Transition towns) and work for Transitionentwork.org <http://transitionentwork.org></br>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.</br>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.terested in what makes a knowledge commons work.)
  • GERONNEZ Loïc  + (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.)
  • CLAUSEN Marco  + (I am part of Prinzessinnengärten (http://pI 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 ownershipomote and establish new forms of ownership)
  • DE BRANT Toha  + (I am working for a local non-profit organiI 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.</br>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.</br>For more information on our work please check: http://bral.brussels/enwork please check: http://bral.brussels/en)
  • FISHER Caitlin  + (I am working the commons and sport.)
  • LECAILLE Julien  + (I discovered the dynamism of commons movemI 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.bodies emerging common interests me first.)
  • ČUKIĆ Iva  + (I graduated from the Faculty of ArchitectuI 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. and Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia.)
  • GRIGG Katie  + (I have a background in Sociology and am orI 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.</br>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.overnance regimes and historical contexts.)