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Une liste de toutes les pages qui ont la propriété « Description » avec la valeur « Nous présentons ici un dossier réalisé en 2010 par l'association RITIMO. Télécharger le dossier en format PDF Présentation par Olivier Petitjean Les «communs», modes de création, de gestion et de partage collectifs et démocratiques basés sur la réciprocité, ont-ils un avenir en ce qui concerne la gestion des ressources naturelles ? Ou bien les crises climatique, alimentaire et environnementale sont-elles d’une telle ampleur qu’il faut désormais confier notre destin à de grandes structures économiques et technocratiques, qui seules seraient à même de gérer les problèmes de la planète ? Les expériences et les analyses présentées dans les pages qui suivent montrent que les modes de gestion des ressources naturelles basés sur les communs ne doivent pas seulement être défendus au nom des communautés qui en vivent et qui en dépendent, mais aussi parce qu’ils sont porteurs d’un modèle viable de gestion des ressources non seulement au niveau local, mais aussi au niveau planétaire. Car on pourrait aller jusqu’à dire que c’est parce que les ressources «naturelles» dont il est question ici - et cela vaut aussi bien pour les terres et l’agriculture, les forêts, l’eau, les semences ou les poissons - sont gérées comme des biens communs localement qu’elles peuvent être préservées aussi comme des «biens communs mondiaux». Ce dossier a été réalisé à l’occasion d’une rencontre sur le thème «Les biens communs, modèle de gestion des ressources naturelles» tenue à Paris le 26 mai 2010. L’un des objectifs de cette rencontre était de valoriser les analyses et les ressources accessibles sur les sites web des organisations et des réseaux qui participent à la Coredem (une initiative de mutualisation de ressources en ligne), dont plusieurs sont actives sur des thèmes liés aux ressources naturelles et aux communs. Aussi ce dossier ne reprend-il pas uniquement des articles tirés du site dph, comme le numéro précédent de Passerelle, mais des articles issus de sites aussi différents que celui du Réseau semences paysannes, de l’Agter (Association pour améliorer la gouvernance de la terre, de l’eau et des ressources naturelles), du Collectif Pêche & développement, de Vecam... La première partie, qui aborde l’enjeu des communs à un niveau plus général encore que celui des ressources naturelles, reprend également des articles issus d’un spectre plus large de sites et de revues amis et partenaires. " ==Fiche technique == Titre : Les biens communs, modèle de gestion des ressources naturelles Production : Ritimo 21 ter rue Voltaire, 75 011 Paris ISBN : 2-914180-38-1 Paris, mai 2010 Coordination et réalisation : Olivier Petitjean Conception graphique : Elsa Lescure Impression : Imprimerie Pérolle 01 40 10 06 00 Droits de reproduction La reproduction et/ou la traduction dans d’autres langues de ce dossier sont non seulement autorisées mais encouragées, à la condition de mentionner l’édition originale et d’en informer Ritimo. Illustrations : Sauf mention explicite du contraire, toutes les illustrations de ce dossier sont des images sous licence creative commons (cc) issues du site flickr : www.flickr.com/creativecommons L’illustration de couverture (qthomasbower, cc-by-sa) est une recréation du sigle Creative Commons à partir de 2500 photos sous licence cc du site flickr ». Puisqu’il n’y a que quelques résultats, les valeurs proches sont également affichées.

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Chargement/Site + (The world needs ideas for a better and sustainable future, but the ideas are not enough. The Futureperfect platform is a virtual encyclopedia of people taking initiatives, organizations and businesses who move from thinking to action. Sharing these stories aims to inform about alternative lifestyles and to encourage civic engagement.The French partners of Futureperfect, the German team of FUTURZWEI, activists and all interested public will meet to discuss the role of media in the developpement of social economy practices and sustainable lifestyles.<div class="row"><div class="span12 nurText"><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/futureperfect_visuel_web-debzt-8-octobre-2015.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-4335 size-full" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/futureperfect_visuel_web-debzt-8-octobre-2015.jpg" alt="futureperfect_visuel_web debzt 8 octobre 2015" width="337" height="803" /></a>Debate part of la Semaine des cultures étrangères held by the FICEP and in cooperation with the<a href="http://tempsdescommuns.org"> Festival Temps des communs</a>.<ul><li>Barnabé Binctin, Journaliste Reporterre</li><li>Peter Unfried, Journaliste TAZ</li><li>Benoit Cassegrain and Hélène Legay, SideWays</li><li>Mathias Lahiani, On passe à l’acte</li></ul>Moderated by Luise Tremel, FUTURZWEI and Frédéric Sultan, Remix the commons </div><div class="span12 nurText"> Goethe-Institut Paris</div><aside class="span6 artikelspalte nurText"><div class="teaserBox">17 avenue d’Iéna 75116 Paris</div>Langage : En français et en allemand Free entry, registration : 33 1 44439230 </aside></div>ong>, Journaliste Reporterre</li> <li>Peter Unfried, Journaliste TAZ</li> <li>Benoit Cassegrain and Hélène Legay, SideWays</li> <li>Mathias Lahiani, On passe à l’acte</li> </ul> Moderated by Luise Tremel, FUTURZWEI and Frédéric Sultan, Remix the commons </div> <div class="span12 nurText"> Goethe-Institut Paris</div> <aside class="span6 artikelspalte nurText"> <div class="teaserBox"> 17 avenue d’Iéna 75116 Paris </div> Langage : En français et en allemand Free entry, registration : 33 1 44439230 </aside> </div>)
Chargement/Site + (Glossary of the com … Glossary of the commonsThe aim is to have a definition exercice, in French, of the vocabulary used in our community. The Glossary will be multi-dimensional using multimedia tools and different level of meanings. We intend also to work as well with non french speaking people to set up the list of terms. It will use Charlotte Hess mapping approach to classify terms into different fields.See more information in the<a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/2013/08/un-chantier-po…-biens-communs/"> french version</a> of this post.mmons.org/2013/08/un-chantier-po…-biens-communs/"> french version</a> of this post.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Glossary of the com … Glossary of the commonsThe aim is to have a definition exercice, in French, of the vocabulary used in our community. The Glossary will be multi-dimensional using multimedia tools and different level of meanings. We intend also to work as well with non french speaking people to set up the list of terms. It will use Charlotte Hess mapping approach to classify terms into different fields.See more information in the<a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/2013/08/un-chantier-po…-biens-communs/"> french version</a> of this post.mmons.org/2013/08/un-chantier-po…-biens-communs/"> french version</a> of this post.)
Chargement/Site + (How to equip the in … How to equip the inhabitants with tools and methods that allow them to claim the consideration of a joint management of the social, cultural and economic resources of urban life? We believe that knowledge and mastery of legal mechanisms that allow urban commons to prosper, is an essential part of the answer to this question.Atlas of the Charters of the Urban Commons is to provide socio-technical device to appropriate these tools, by articulating three actions:<ol><li>achieve and maintain an open and interactive inventory of legal mechanisms dedicated to the implementation of urban commons.</li><li>provide a collective space for analysis and interpretation of the governance mechanisms of the urban commons that will produce a new shared knowledge among commoners in a cross-cultural perspective.</li><li>provide a space for exchange and mutual aid around the development of charters and legal instruments for the regeneration or creation of urban commons.</li></ol>Analysis of the Bologna regulation :<iframe style="width: 900px; height: 500px; border: 1px solid black;" src="https://framindmap.org/c/maps/198701/embed?zoom=1"> </iframe>To contribute to this work, please use <a href="https://framindmap.org/c/maps/198701/edit">framindmap.org</a> (You need to be identified)<a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Atlas_des_chartes_des_communs_urbains">More information</a> p.org</a> (You need to be identified) <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Atlas_des_chartes_des_communs_urbains">More information</a> )
Chargement/Site 2 + (Le 21 mars de 17:00 … Le 21 mars de 17:00 à 20:00, Venez, REMIXER LES BIENS COMMUNS, à la Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer, (38 rue Saint-Sabin – Paris). Le 21 mars, profitant d’une session de travail du réseau en France, nous vous proposons un moment de dialogue convivial et de partage des initiatives culturelles et médiatiques sur les biens communs avec <a href="http://www.communautique.qc.ca/">Communautique</a>, Le <a href="http://www.forumalternatives.org/">Forum Marocain des Alternatives Solidaires</a>, <a href="http://www.ker-thiossane.org/">Ker Thiossane,</a> le <a href="http://www.lartes-ifan.gouv.sn/">LARTES</a> et <a href="http://vecam.org">VECAM</a>,.Nous vous invitons à partager vos initiatives au même titre que celles du réseau Remix the Commons : la mosaïque et les chapitres de la collection multimédia, et de ses membres : les Petits déjeuners en-communs, À l’école des communs à Montréal, la Réparation Communautaire pour la transition dans la justice au Maroc, Afropixel, festival d’arts numériques sur les biens communs, les Chartes de gouvernance démocratique au Sénégal…Nous vous proposerons également de participer à la préparation d’une démarche de curation des médias sur les thèmes de la conférence : <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conference">ECONOMICS AND THE COMMON(S): FROM SEED FORM TO CORE PARADIGM</a>, qui se déroule à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai.Enfin, de 19:00 à 20:00, nous vous proposerons de profiter de la présence de membres du réseau francophone des biens communs venus de Montréal, Dakar et Rabat pour faire un tour d’horizon des initiatives en cours et un point sur le fonctionnement collectif.Merci de confirmer votre participation en vous inscrivant sur le <a href="http://framadate.org/4jhn4ulkq7okavf9 ">sondage Framadate</a>. Merci de confirmer votre participation en vous inscrivant sur le <a href="http://framadate.org/4jhn4ulkq7okavf9 ">sondage Framadate</a>.)
Chargement/Site + (Le 21 mars de 17:00 … Le 21 mars de 17:00 à 20:00, Venez, REMIXER LES BIENS COMMUNS, à la Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer, (38 rue Saint-Sabin – Paris). Le 21 mars, profitant d’une session de travail du réseau en France, nous vous proposons un moment de dialogue convivial et de partage des initiatives culturelles et médiatiques sur les biens communs avec <a href="http://www.communautique.qc.ca/">Communautique</a>, Le <a href="http://www.forumalternatives.org/">Forum Marocain des Alternatives Solidaires</a>, <a href="http://www.ker-thiossane.org/">Ker Thiossane,</a> le <a href="http://www.lartes-ifan.gouv.sn/">LARTES</a> et <a href="http://vecam.org">VECAM</a>,.Nous vous invitons à partager vos initiatives au même titre que celles du réseau Remix the Commons : la mosaïque et les chapitres de la collection multimédia, et de ses membres : les Petits déjeuners en-communs, À l’école des communs à Montréal, la Réparation Communautaire pour la transition dans la justice au Maroc, Afropixel, festival d’arts numériques sur les biens communs, les Chartes de gouvernance démocratique au Sénégal…Nous vous proposerons également de participer à la préparation d’une démarche de curation des médias sur les thèmes de la conférence : <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conference">ECONOMICS AND THE COMMON(S): FROM SEED FORM TO CORE PARADIGM</a>, qui se déroule à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai.Enfin, de 19:00 à 20:00, nous vous proposerons de profiter de la présence de membres du réseau francophone des biens communs venus de Montréal, Dakar et Rabat pour faire un tour d’horizon des initiatives en cours et un point sur le fonctionnement collectif.Merci de confirmer votre participation en vous inscrivant sur le <a href="http://framadate.org/4jhn4ulkq7okavf9 ">sondage Framadate</a>. Merci de confirmer votre participation en vous inscrivant sur le <a href="http://framadate.org/4jhn4ulkq7okavf9 ">sondage Framadate</a>.)
Chargement/Site + (A great new documentary that is c … A great new documentary that is currently in production, documenting the water struggles around Greece. The working title of the new documentary is « Wa(te)rdrops », and it aims to present, through in-depth research and fieldwork, struggles concerning water around Greece, including the struggle against the privatization of Thessaloniki’s water company (EYATH), against the gold mines in Chalkidiki and against local water reserve appropriation efforts in Volos and Crete.First few trailers in the documentary’s <a href="http://www.stagonesdoc.gr/en">web page</a>. Make sure you activate the subtitles (English or Spanish) on the top right corner of the player.It is being filmed by a group of militant filmmakers coordinated by researcher Nelly Psarou. The same people did « Golfland? » a few years ago, a doc about the disastrous effect of golf course development on the environment and local communities. You can watch « Golfland? » online <a href="http://www.golfland.gr/en/golfland_movie.php">here</a> (Soon in the Remix Catalogue). It is a_proudly independent production_ relying on crowdfunding for its completion, and the outcome will be freely accessible under a creative commons license. « Donate » button on the bottom of the documentary’s webpage.reative commons license. « Donate » button on the bottom of the documentary’s webpage.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (A great new documentary that is c … A great new documentary that is currently in production, documenting the water struggles around Greece. The working title of the new documentary is « Wa(te)rdrops », and it aims to present, through in-depth research and fieldwork, struggles concerning water around Greece, including the struggle against the privatization of Thessaloniki’s water company (EYATH), against the gold mines in Chalkidiki and against local water reserve appropriation efforts in Volos and Crete.First few trailers in the documentary’s <a href="http://www.stagonesdoc.gr/en">web page</a>. Make sure you activate the subtitles (English or Spanish) on the top right corner of the player.It is being filmed by a group of militant filmmakers coordinated by researcher Nelly Psarou. The same people did « Golfland? » a few years ago, a doc about the disastrous effect of golf course development on the environment and local communities. You can watch « Golfland? » online <a href="http://www.golfland.gr/en/golfland_movie.php">here</a> (Soon in the Remix Catalogue). It is a_proudly independent production_ relying on crowdfunding for its completion, and the outcome will be freely accessible under a creative commons license. « Donate » button on the bottom of the documentary’s webpage.reative commons license. « Donate » button on the bottom of the documentary’s webpage.)
Chargement/Site + (After the festival « Temps des co … After the festival « Temps des communes », (October 2015), a small group has decided to produce an exhibition on the commons. The idea was to do a light, self editable and easy to use collection of posters. It is dedicated to places that welcome an audience that is not particularly sensitive to the commons. We were thinking for example of community centers, libraries or schools. After a few exchanges, notably around the game <a href="http://commonspoly.cc/">Commonspoly</a>, which had been prototyped by <a href="http://www.zemos98.org/">ZEMOS98</a> a few months before during a European meeting, we produced an exhibition of 12 posters that explain and illustrate the commons.<figure style="width: 1240px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/images/ExpoLesCommunsV0_panneau01.png" width="1240" height="1753" alt=" Expo Les communs page1 CC-BY-SA." class="size-medium" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"> Expo Les communs page1 CC-BY-SA.</figcaption></figure>The exhibition proposes to discover the common through their definition and concrete illustration. The panels make us walk through different facets of the commons: the fragility of natural commons, the relationship between use and ownership, the role of hackers in the renewal of commons, the place of knowledge, and the reconquest of political space by commoners. Finally, it also proposes resources based on other cultural initiatives: Communauthèque, a best of bibliography of the 50 books on the commons, the game C@rds in common or Remix the commons of course!This exhibition is a collective work leaded by Thierry Pasquier, and edited by Rosie Howe, with the support of Espace Mendès France at Poitiers, a center for scientific, technical and industrial culture in New Aquitaine, Vecam, and Remix the commons. The publication under the license « Attribution – Sharing under the same conditions 3.0 France (CC BY-SA 3.0 FR) » allows free imagination for the diffusion and adaptation of the exhibition to each context … and languages. The next step will be to set up a dedicated website that will allow each to publish according to his/her needs. We will give you news of this project in the coming months!The PDF light version of the exhibition is available on the <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Exposition_Les_communs">wiki Remix the commons</a>. In the next few weeks we will install a wiki with the content, including Pdf in high definition, texts images that can modified, as well as all associated media and InDesign sources. Do not hesitate to ask us for any specific request or offer your help.Thierry Pasquier et Frédéric Sultanedia and InDesign sources. Do not hesitate to ask us for any specific request or offer your help. Thierry Pasquier et Frédéric Sultan)
Chargement/Site + (Après le festival Temps des commu … Après le festival Temps des communs, (octobre 2015), un petit groupe s’était retrouvé sur l’idée de produire une exposition sur les communs, légère, éditable à la demande et utilisable dans des lieux qui accueillent un public qui n’est pas spécialement sensible à ce sujet. Nous pensions alors aux centres sociaux, aux bibliothèques ou aux établissements scolaires par exemple. Après quelques échanges, notamment autour du jeu <a href="http://commonspoly.cc/">Commonspoly</a> qui avait été prototypé par <a href="http://www.zemos98.org/">ZEMOS98</a> quelques mois avant lors d’une rencontre européenne, nous avons produit 12 panneaux d’exposition qui expliquent et illustrent les communs.<figure style="width: 1240px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium" src="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/images/ExpoLesCommunsV0_panneau01.png" alt="Expo Les communs" width="1240" height="1753" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Expo Les communs – CC-BY-SA.</figcaption></figure>L’exposition propose de découvrir les communs à travers des éléments de définition et leur illustration concrète. Les panneaux font cheminer à travers différentes facettes des communs : la fragilité des communs naturels, la relation entre usage et propriété, le rôle des hackers dans le renouvellement des communs, la place de la connaissance, et la reconquête de l’espace politique par les commoners. Enfin, elle propose aussi des ressources en s’appuyant sur d’autres initiatives culturelles autour des communs : Communauthèque et sa bibliographie, le jeu C@rtes en commun ou encore Remix the commons of course !L’exposition est un travail collectif autour de Thierry Pasquier, mis en forme graphique par Rosie Howe, avec le soutien de l’Espace Mendès France — Poitiers, centre de culture scientifique, technique et industrielle en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, de l’association Vecam, et de Remix the commons. La publication sous la licence « Attribution – Partage dans les Mêmes Conditions 3.0 France (CC BY-SA 3.0 FR) » permet de laisser libre court à son imagination pour la diffusion et d’adaptation de l’exposition à chaque contexte. La prochaine étape consistera à mettre en place un site Web dédié qui permettra à chacun de publier selon ses besoins. Nous vous donnerons donc des nouvelles de ce projet dans les mois qui viennent !Une version PDF légère de l’exposition est disponible sur le <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Exposition_Les_communs">wiki Remix the commons</a>. Dans les semaines qui viennent, nous allons mettre en place un site web pour recevoir des PDF en haute définition pour l’impression en différents formats, les textes afin de permettre leur modification, correction, amendement, etc, ainsi que l’ensemble des médias associés et les sources InDesign. Le temps de mettre tout ça en place. N’hésitez pas à nous solliciter pour toute demande spécifique ou bien proposer de l’aide.Thierry Pasquier et Frédéric SultanThierry Pasquier et Frédéric Sultan)
Chargement/Site + (As we are preparing a public meet … As we are preparing a public meeting on the 16th. of September in Paris, with Michel Bauwens and Bernard Stiegler, on issues of free knowledge as commons and ecological, social and economic transition, we present here the translation into French of the interview conducted by Richard Poynder, with Michel Bauwens about FLOK Society project. This interview was published when the summit FLOK society was started in Quito in May 2014. It was published under the original title: <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/working-for-phase -transition-to-open.html "> Working for a phase of transition to an open commons-based knowledge society: Interview with Michel Bauwens. Michel Bauwens FLOK Society presents the project and the expected outcomes in Ecuador and more generally for the P2P movement, without concealing the difficulties he and his research team met.</a>Richard Poynder is a well knowed independent journalist and blogger, following the Open Access movement for a long time ago, specialised in scientific communication and open science, information technology and intellectual property. His <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk">Blog </a> is a mine of gold for every body who is interested in these issues.The interview is under Licence : CC BY NC ND. The translation has been made by Frédéric Sultan.Tuesday, May 27, 2014<figure style="width: 400px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="http://i.vimeocdn.com/video/177863970_640.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="225" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Michel Bauwens – Berlin 2012 Remix The Commons</figcaption></figure><div>Today a <a href="http://cumbredelbuenconocer.ec/">summit</a> starts in Quito, Ecuador that will discuss ways in which the country can transform itself into an open commons-based knowledge society. The team that put together the proposals is led by Michel Bauwens from the <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/">Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives</a>. What is the background to this plan, and how likely is it that it will bear fruit? With the hope of finding out I spoke recently to Bauwens.</div><div>One interesting phenomenon to emerge from the Internet has been the growth of free and open movements, including free and open source software, open politics, open government, open data, citizen journalism, creative commons, open science, open educational resources (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources">OER</a>), open access etc.</div><div>While these movements often set themselves fairly limited objectives (e.g. “<a href="http://cogprints.org/1702/">freeing the refereed literature</a>”) some network theorists maintain that the larger phenomenon they represent has the potential not just to replace traditional closed and proprietary practices with more open and transparent approaches, and not just to subordinate narrow commercial interests to the greater needs of communities and larger society but, since the network enables ordinary citizens to collaborate together on large meaningful projects in a distributed way (and absent traditional hierarchical organisations), it could have a significant impact on the way in which societies and economies organise themselves.</div><div>In his influential book <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Networks">The Wealth of Networks</a>, for instance, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochai_Benkler">Yochai Benkler</a> identifies and describes a new form of production that he sees emerging on the Internet — what he calls “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production">commons-based peer production</a>”. This, he says, is creating a new <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/macloo/networked-information-economy-benkler">Networked Information Economy</a>.</div><div>Former librarian and Belgian network theorist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Bauwens">Michel Bauwens</a> goes so far as to say that by enabling peer-to-peer (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_peer-to-peer_processes">P2P</a>) collaboration, the Internet has created a new model for the future development of human society. In addition to peer production, he <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/p2p-blueprint-for-future.html">explained to me in 2006</a>, the network also encourages the creation of peer property (i.e. commonly owned property), and peer governance (governance based on civil society rather than representative democracy).</div><div>Moreover, what is striking about peer production is that it emerges and operates outside traditional power structures and market systems. And when those operating in this domain seek funding they increasingly turn not to the established banking system, but to new P2P practices like crowdfunding and social lending.</div><div>When in 2006 I asked Bauwens what the new world he envisages would look like in practice he replied, “I see a P2P civilisation that would have to be post-capitalist, in the sense that human survival cannot co-exist with a system that destroys the biosphere; but it will nevertheless have a thriving marketplace. At the core of such a society — where immaterial production is the primary form — would be the production of value through non-reciprocal peer production, most likely supported through a basic income.”</div><h2>Unrealistic and utopian?</h2><div> So convinced was he of the potential of P2P that in 2005 Bauwens created the <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/">Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives</a>. The goal: to “research, document and promote peer-to-peer principles”</div><div>Critics dismiss Bauwens’ ideas as unrealistic and utopian, and indeed in the eight years since I first spoke with him much has happened that might seem to support the sceptics. Rather than being discredited by the 2008 financial crisis, for instance, traditional markets and neoliberalism have tightened their grip on societies, in all parts of the world.</div><div>At the same time, the democratic potential and openness Bauwens sees as characteristic of the network is being eroded in a number of ways. While social networking platforms like Facebook enable the kind of sharing and collaboration Bauwens sees lying at the heart of a P2P society, for instance, there is a growing sense that these services are in fact exploitative, not least because the significant value created by the users of these services is being monetised not for the benefit of the users themselves, but for the exclusive benefit of the large corporations that own them.</div><div>We have also seen a huge growth in proprietary mobile devices, along with the flood of apps needed to run on them — a development that caused Wired’s former editor-in-chief <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Anderson_%28writer%29">Chris Anderson</a> to <a href="http://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff_webrip">conclude</a> that we are witnessing a dramatic move “from the wide-open Web to semi closed platforms”. And this new paradigm, he added, simply “reflects the inevitable course of capitalism”.</div><div>In other words, rather than challenging or side-lining the traditional market and neoliberalism, the network seems destined to be appropriated by it — a likelihood that for many was underlined by the recent <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-net-neutrality-20140114-story.html#page=1">striking down</a> of the US net neutrality regulations.</div><div>It would also appear that some of the open movements are gradually being appropriated and/or subverted by commercial interests (e.g. the <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/the-state-of-open-access.html">open access</a> and open educational resources movements).</div><div>While conceding that a capitalist version of P2P has begun to emerge, Bauwens argues that this simply makes it all the more important to support and promote social forms of P2P. And here, he suggests, the signs are positive, with the number of free and open movements continuing to grow and the P2P model bleeding out of the world of “immaterial production” to encompass material production too — e.g. with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_design">open design</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_hardware">open hardware</a> movements, a development encouraged by the growing use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3d_printing">3D printers</a>.</div><div>Bauwens also points to a growth in mutualisation, and the emergence of new practices based around the sharing of physical resources and equipment.</div><div>Interestingly, these latter developments are often less visible than one might expect because much of what is happening in this area appears to be taking place outside the view of mainstream media in the global north.</div><div>Finally, says Bauwens, the P2P movement, or commoning (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bollier">as some prefer to call it</a>), is becoming increasingly politicised. Amongst other things, this has seen the rise of new political parties like the various <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party">Pirate Parties</a>.</div><div>Above all, Bauwens believes that the long-term success of P2P is assured because its philosophy and practices are far more sustainable than the current market-based system. “Today, we consider nature infinite and we believe that infinite resources should be made scarce in order to protect monopolistic players,” he says below. “Tomorrow, we need to consider nature as a finite resource, and we should respect the abundance of nature and the human spirit.”</div><h2>Periphery to mainstream</h2><div>And as the need for sustainability becomes ever more apparent, more people will doubtless want to listen to what Bauwens has to say. Indeed, what better sign that P2P could be about to move from the periphery to the mainstream than an invitation Bauwens received last year from three Ecuadorian governmental institutions, who asked him to lead a team tasked with coming up with proposals for transitioning the country to a society based on free and open knowledge.</div><div>The organisation overseeing the project is the FLOK Society (free, libre, open knowledge). As “commoner” <a href="http://bollier.org/about">David Bollier</a> <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/bauwens-joins-ecuador-planning-commons-based-peer-production-economy">explained</a> when the project was announced, Bauwens’ team was asked to look at many interrelated themes, “including open education; open innovation and science; ‘arts and meaning-making activities’; open design commons; distributed manufacturing; and sustainable agriculture; and open machining.”</div><div>Bollier added, “The research will also explore enabling legal and institutional frameworks to support open productive capacities; new sorts of open technical infrastructures and systems for privacy, security, data ownership and digital rights; and ways to mutualise the physical infrastructures of collective life and promote collaborative consumption.”</div><div>In other words, said Bollier, Ecuador “does not simply assume — as the ‘developed world’ does — that more iPhones and microwave ovens will bring about prosperity, modernity and happiness.”</div><div>Rather it is looking for sustainable solutions that foster “social and territorial equality, cohesion, and integration with diversity.”</div><div>The upshot: In April Bauwens’ team published a series of <a href="http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Pl">proposals</a> intended to transition Ecuador to what he calls a sustainable civic P2P economy. And these proposals will be discussed at a summit to be held this week in the capital of Ecuador (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quito">Quito</a>).</div><div>“As you can see from our proposals, we aim for a simultaneous transformation of civil society, the market and public authorities,” says Bauwens. “And we do this without inventing or imposing utopias, but by extending the working prototypes from the commoners and peer producers themselves.”</div><div>But Bauwens knows that Rome wasn’t built in a day, and he realises that he has taken on a huge task, one fraught with difficulties. Even the process of putting the proposals together has presented him and his team with considerable challenges. Shortly after they arrived in Ecuador, for instance, they were told that the project had been defunded (funding that was fortunately later reinstated). And for the moment it remains unclear whether many (or any) of the FLOK proposals will ever see the light of day.</div><div>Bauwens is nevertheless upbeat. Whatever the outcome in Ecuador, he says, an important first stab has been made at creating a template for transitioning a nation state from today’s broken model to a post-capitalist social knowledge society.</div><div>“What we have now that we didn’t have before, regardless of implementation in Ecuador, is the first global commons-oriented transition plan, and several concrete legislative proposals,” he says. “They are far from perfect, but they will be a reference that other locales, cities, (bio)regions and states will be able to make their own adapted versions of it.”</div><div>In the Q&A below Bauwens discusses the project in more detail, including the background to it, and the challenges that he and the FLOK Society have faced.</div><h2>The interview begins</h2><div>RP: We last spoke in 2006 when you discussed your ideas on a P2P (peer-to-peer) society (which I think <a href="http://www.bollier.org/">David Bollier</a> refers to as “commoning”). Briefly, what has been learned since then about the opportunities and challenges of trying to create a P2P society, and how have your thoughts on P2P changed/developed as a result?</div><div>MB: At the time, P2P dynamics were mostly visible in the process of “immaterial production”, i.e. productive communities that created commons of knowledge and code. The trend has since embraced material production itself, through <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_design">open design</a> that is linked to the production of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_hardware">open hardware</a> machinery.</div><div>Another trend is the mutualisation of physical resources. We’ve seen on the one hand an explosion in the mutualisation of open workspaces (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace">hackerspaces</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab">fab labs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coworking">co-working</a>) and the explosion of the so-called sharing economy and collaborative consumption.</div><div>This is of course linked to the emergence of distributed practices and technologies for finance (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdfunding">crowd funding</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_lending">social lending</a>); and for machinery itself (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3d_printing">3D printing</a> and other forms of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_manufacturing">distributed manufacturing</a>). Hence the emergence and growth of P2P dynamics is now clearly linked to the “distribution of everything”.</div><div>There is today no place we go where social P2P initiatives are not developing and not exponentially growing. P2P is now a social fact.</div><div>Since the crisis of 2008, we are also seeing much more clearly the political and economic dimension of P2P. There is now both a clearly capitalist P2P sector (renting and working for free is now called sharing, which is putting downward pressure on income levels) and a clearly social one. First of all, the generalised crisis of our economic system has pushed more people to search for such practical alternatives. Second, most P2P dynamics are clearly controlled by economic forces, i.e. the new “netarchical” (hierarchy of the network) platforms.</div><div>Finally, we see the increasing politicisation of P2P, with the emergence of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party">Pirate Parties</a>, network parties (Partido X in Spain) etc.</div><div>We have now to decide more clearly than before whether we want more autonomous peer production, i.e. making sure that the domination of the free social logic of permissionless aggregation is directly linked to the capacity to generate self-managed livelihoods, or, if we are happy with a system in which this value creation is controlled and exploited by platform owners and other intermediaries.</div><div>The result of all of this is that my own thoughts are now more directly political. We have developed concrete proposals and strategies to create P2P-based counter-economies that are de-linked from the accumulation of capital, but focused on cooperative accumulation and the autonomy of commons production.</div><div>RP: Indeed and last year you were <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/bauwens-joins-ecuador-planning-commons-based-peer-production-economy">asked to lead a team</a> to come up with proposals to “remake the roots of Ecuador’s economy, setting off a transition into a society of free and open knowledge”. As I understand it, this would be based on the principles of open networks, peer production and commoning. Can you say something about the project and what you hope it will lead to? Has the Ecuadoran government itself commissioned you, or a government or non-government agency in Ecuador? </div><div>MB: The project, called <a href="http://floksociety.org/">FLOKSociety.org</a>, was commissioned by three Ecuadorian governmental institutions, i.e. the <a href="http://www.conocimiento.gob.ec/">Coordinating Ministry of Knowledge and Human Talent</a>, the <a href="http://www.senescyt.gob.ec/web/guest">SENESCYT</a> (Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación) and the <a href="http://iaen.edu.ec/">IAEN</a> (Instituto de Altos Estudios del Estado).</div><div>The legitimacy and logic of the project comes from the <a href="http://www.unosd.org/content/documents/96National%20Plan%20for%20Good%20Living%20Ecuador.pdf">National Plan of Ecuador</a>, which is centred around the concept of Good Living (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/buen-vivir-philosophy-south-america-eduardo-gudynas">Buen Vivir</a>), which is a non-reductionist, non-exclusive material way to look at the economy and social life, inspired by the traditional values of the indigenous people of the Andes. The aim of FLOK is to add “Good Knowledge” as an enabler and facilitator of the good life.</div><div>The important point to make is that it is impossible for countries and people that are still in neo-colonial dependencies to evolve to more fair societies without access to shareable knowledge. And this knowledge, expressed in diverse commons that correspond to the different domains of social life (education, science, agriculture, industry), cannot itself thrive without also looking at both the material and immaterial conditions that will enable their creation and expansion.</div><h2>FLOK summit</h2><div>RP: To this end you have put together a transition plan. This includes <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/ecuador%E2%80%99s-pathbreaking-plan-commons-based-peer-production-update">a series of proposals</a> (available <a href="https://floksociety.co-ment.com/text/">here</a>), and a main report (<a href="http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan">here</a>). I assume your plan might or might not be taken up by Ecuador. What is the procedure for taking it forward, and how optimistic are you that Ecuador will embark on the transition you envisage?</div><div>MB: The transition plan provides a framework for moving from an economy founded on what we call “cognitive” and “netarchical” capitalism (based respectively on the exploitation through IP rents or social media platforms) to a “mature P2P-based civic economy”.</div><div>The logic here is that the dominant economic forms today are characterised by a value crisis, one in which value is extracted but it doesn’t flow back to the creators of the value. The idea is to transition to an economy in which this value feedback loop is restored.</div><div>So about fifteen of our policy proposals apply this general idea to specific domains, and suggest how open knowledge commons can be created and expanded in these particular areas.</div><div>We published these proposals on April 1st in <a href="http://www.co-ment.com/">co-ment</a>, an open source software that allows people to comment on specific concepts, phrases or paragraphs.</div><div>This week (May 27th to 30th) the crucial <a href="http://cumbredelbuenconocer.ec/">FLOK summit</a> is taking place to discuss the proposals. This will bring together government institutions, social movement advocates, and experts, from both Ecuador and abroad.</div><div>The idea is to devote three days to reaching a consensus amongst these different groups, and then try and get agreement with the governmental institutions able to carry out the proposals.</div><div>So there will be two filters: the summit itself, and then the subsequent follow-up, which will clearly face opposition from different interests.</div><div>This is not an easy project, since it is not possible to achieve all this by decree.</div><div>RP: Earlier this year you made a series of <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/flok-society-vision-post-capitalist-economy">videos</a> discussing the issues arising from what you are trying to do — which is essentially to create “a post-capitalist social knowledge society”, or “open commons-based knowledge society”. In one video you discuss three different value regimes, and I note you referred to these in your last answer — i.e. cognitive capitalism, netarchical capitalism and a civic P2P economy. Can you say a little more about how these three different regimes differ and why in your view P2P is a better approach than the other two?</div><div>MB: I define cognitive capitalism as a regime in which value is generated through a combination of rent extraction from the control of intellectual property and the control of global production networks, and expressed in terms of monetisation.</div><div>What we have learned is that the democratisation of networks, which also provides a new means of production and value distribution, means that this type of value extraction is harder and harder to achieve, and it can only be maintained either by increased legal suppression (which erodes legitimacy) and outright technological sabotage (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management">DRM</a>). Both of these strategies are not sustainable in the long term.</div><div>What we have also learned is that the network has caused a new model to emerge, one adapted to the P2P age, and which I call netarchical capitalism, i.e. “the hierarchy of the network”. In this model, we see the direct exploitation of human cooperation by means of proprietary platforms that both enable and exploit human cooperation. Crucially, while their value is derived from our communication, sharing and cooperation (an empty platform has no value), and on the use value that we are exponentially creating (Google, Facebook don’t produce the content, we do), the exchange value is exclusively extracted by the platform owners. This is unsustainable because it is easy to see that a regime in which the creators of the value get no income at all from their creation is not workable in the long; and so it poses problems for capitalism. After all, who is going to buy goods if they have no income?</div><div>So the key issue is: how do we recreate the value loop between creation, distribution, and income? The answer for me is the creation of a mature P2P civic economy that combines open contributory communities, ethical entrepreneurial coalitions able to create livelihoods for the commoners, and for-benefit institutions that can “enable and empower the infrastructure of cooperation”.</div><div>Think of the core model of our economy as the Linux economy writ large, but one in which the enterprises are actually in the hands of the value creators themselves. Imagine this micro-economic model on the macro scale of a whole society. Civil society becomes a series of commonses with citizens as contributors; the shareholding market becomes an ethical stakeholder marketplace; and the state becomes a partner state, which “enables and empowers social production” through the commonication of public services and public-commons partnerships.</div><h2>Challenges and distrust</h2><div>RP: As you indicated earlier, it is not an easy project that you have embarked on in Ecuador, particularly as it is an attempt to intervene at the level of a nation state. Gordon Cook has <a href="http://www.cookreport.com/newsletter-sp-542240406/current-issues/287-cook-report-for-may-june-2014">said</a> of the project: “it barely got off the ground before it began to crash into some of the anticipated obstacles.” Can you say something about these obstacles and how you have been overcoming them?</div><div>MB: It is true that the project started with quite negative auspices. It became the victim of internal factional struggles within the government, for instance, and was even defunded for a time after we arrived; the institutions failed to pay our wages for nearly three months, which was a serious issue for the kind of precarious scholar-activists that make up the research team.</div><div>However, in March (when one of the sides in the dispute lost, i.e. the initial sponsor <a href="http://www.elciudadano.gob.ec/new-left-review-se-presento-en-ecuador/">Carlos Prieto</a>, rector of the IAEN), we got renewed commitment from the other two institutions. Since then political support has increased, and the summit is about to get underway.</div><div>As for Gordon, he became a victim of what we will politely call a series of misinterpreted engagements for the funding of his participation, and it is entirely understandable that he has become critical of the process.</div><div>The truth is that the project was hugely contradictory in many different ways, but this is the reality of the political world everywhere, not just in Ecuador.</div><div>Indeed, the Ecuadorian government is itself engaged in sometimes contradictory policies and is perceived by civil society to have abandoned many of the early ideas of the civic movement that brought it to power. So, in our attempts at broader participation we have been stifled by the distrust many civic activists have for the government, and the sincerity of our project has been doubted.</div><div>Additionally, social P2P dynamics, which of course exist as in many other countries, are not particularly developed in their modern, digitally empowered forms in Ecuador. It has also not helped that the management of the project has been such that the research team has not been able to directly connect with the political leaders in order to test their real engagement. This has been hugely frustrating.</div><div>On the positive side, we have been entirely free to conduct our research and formulate our proposals, and it is hard not to believe that the level of funding the project has received reflects a certain degree of commitment.</div><div>So the summit is back on track, and we have received renewed commitments. Clearly, however, the proof of the pudding will be in the summit and its aftermath.</div><div></div><div>Whatever the eventual outcome, it has always been my conviction that the formulation of the first ever integrated Commons Transition Plan (which your readers will find <a href="http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan">here</a>) legitimised by a nation-state, takes the P2P and commons movement to a higher geopolitical plane. As such, it can be seen as part of the global maturation of the P2P/commons approach, even if it turns out not to work entirely in Ecuador itself.</div><div>RP: I believe that one of the issues that has arisen in putting together the FLOK proposals is that Ecuadorians who live in rural areas are concerned that a system based on sharing could see their traditional knowledge appropriated by private interests. Can you say something about this fear and how you believe your plan can address such concerns?</div><div>MB: As you are aware, traditional communities have suffered from systematic <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/biopiracy">biopiracy</a> over the last few decades, with western scientists studying their botanical knowledge, extracting patentable scientific results from it, and then commercialising it in the West.</div><div>So fully shareable licenses like the GPL would keep the knowledge in a commons, but would still allow full commercialisation without material benefits flowing back to Ecuador. So what we are proposing is a discussion about a new type of licensing, which we call <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License">Commons-Based Reciprocity Licensing</a>. This idea was first pioneered with the Peer Production License as conceived by <a href="http://www.dmytri.info/">Dmytri Kleiner</a>.</div><div>Such licences would be designed for a particular usage, say biodiversity research in a series of traditional communities. It allows for free sharing non-commercially, commercial use by not-for-profit entities, and even caters for for-profit entities who contribute back. Importantly, it creates a frontier for for-profits who do not contribute back, and asks them to pay.</div><div>What is key here is not just the potential financial flow, but to introduce the principle of reciprocity in the marketplace, thereby creating an ethical economy. The idea is that traditional communities can create their own ethical vehicles, and create an economy from which they can also benefit, and under their control.</div><div>This concept is beginning to get attention from open machining communities. However, the debate in Ecuador is only starting. Paradoxically, traditional communities are today either looking for traditional IP protection, which doesn’t really work for them, or for no-sharing options.</div><div>So we really need to develop intermediary ethical solutions for them that can benefit them while also putting them in the driving seat.</div><h2>Fundamental reversal of our civilisation</h2><h2></h2><div>RP: In today’s global economy, where practically everyone and everything seems to be interconnected and subject to the rules of neoliberalism and the market, is it really possible for a country like Ecuador to go off in such a different direction on its own? </div><div>MB: A full transition is indeed probably a global affair, but the micro-transitions need to happen at the grassroots, and a progressive government would be able to create exemplary policies and projects that show the way.</div><div>Ecuador is in a precarious neo-colonial predicament and subject to the pressures of the global market and the internal social groups that are aligned with it. There are clear signs that since 2010 the Ecuadorian government has moved away from the original radical ideas expressed in the Constitution and the National Plan, as we hear from nearly every single civic movement that we’ve spoken with.</div><div>The move for a social knowledge economy is of strategic importance to de-colonialise Ecuador but this doesn’t mean it will actually happen. However, the progressive forces have not disappeared entirely from the government institutions.</div><div>As such, it is really difficult to predict how successful this project will be. But as I say, given the investment the government has made in the process we believe there will be some progress. My personal view is that the combination of our political and theoretical achievements, and the existence of the policy papers, means that even with moderate progress in the laws and on the ground, we can be happy that we will have made a difference.</div><div>So most likely the local situation will turn out to be a hybrid mix of acceptance and refusal of our proposals, and most certainly the situation is not mature enough to accept the underlying logic of our Commons Transition Plan in toto.</div><div>In other words, the publication and the dialogue about the plan itself, and some concrete actions, legislative frameworks, and pilot projects, are the best we can hope for. What this will do is give real legitimacy to our approach and move the commons transition to the geo-political stage. Can we hope for more?</div><div>Personally, I believe that even if only 20% of our proposals are retained for action, I think we can consider it a relative success. This is the very first time such an even partial transition will have happened at the scale of the nation and, as I see it, it gives legitimacy to a whole new set of ideas about societal transition. So I believe it is worthy of our engagement.</div><div>We have to accept that the realities of power politics are incompatible with the expectations of a clean process for such a fundamental policy change. But we hope that some essential proposals of the project will make a difference, both for the people of Ecuador and all those that are watching the project.</div><div>For the future though, I have to say I seriously question the idea of trying to “hack a society” which was the initial philosophy of the project and of the people who hired us. You can’t hack a society, since a society is not an executable program. Political change needs a social and political basis, and it was very weak from the start in this case.</div><div>This is why I believe that future projects should first focus on the lower levels of political organisation, such as cities and regions, where politics is closer to the needs of the population. History though, is always full of surprises, and bold gambles can yield results. So FLOK may yet surprise the sceptics.</div><div>RP: If Ecuador did adopt your plan (or a significant part of it), what in your view would be the implications, for Ecuador, for other countries, and for the various free and open movements? What would be the implications if none of it were adopted?</div><div>MB: As I say, at this stage I see only the possibility of a few legal advances and some pilot projects as the best case scenario. These, however, would be important seeds for Ecuador, and would give extra credibility to our effort.</div><div>I realise it may surprise you to hear me say it, but I don’t see this as crucial. I say this because, we already have thousands of projects in the world that are engaged in peer production and commons transitions, and this deep trend is not going to change. The efforts to change the social and economic logic will go on with or without Ecuador.</div><div>As I noted, what we have now that we didn’t have before, regardless of implementation in Ecuador, is the first global commons-oriented transition plan, and several concrete legislative proposals. They are far from perfect, but they will be a reference that other locales, cities, (bio)regions and states will be able to make their own adapted versions of it.</div><div>In the meantime, we have to continue the grassroots transformation and rebuild commons-oriented coalitions at every level, local, regional, national, global. This will take time, but since infinite growth is not possible in a finite economy, some type of transition is inevitable. Let’s just hope it will be for the benefit of the commoners and the majority of the world population.</div><div>Essentially, we need to build the seed forms of the new counter-economy, and the social movement that can defend, facilitate and expand it. Every political and policy expression of this is a bonus.</div><div>As for the endgame, you guessed correctly. What distinguishes the effort of the P2P Foundation, and many of the FLOK researchers, is that we’re not just in the business of adding some commons and P2P dynamics to the existing capitalist framework, but aiming at a profound “phase transition”.</div><div>To work for a sustainable society and economy is absolutely crucial for the future of humanity, and while we respect the freedoms of people to engage in market dynamics for the allocation of rival goods, we cannot afford a system of infinite growth and scarcity engineering, which is what capitalism is.</div><div>In other words, today, we consider nature infinite and we believe that infinite resources should be made scarce in order to protect monopolistic players; tomorrow, we need to consider nature as a finite resource, and we should respect the abundance of nature and the human spirit.</div><div>So our endgame is to achieve that fundamental reversal of our civilisation, nothing less. As you can see from our proposals, we aim for a simultaneous transformation of civil society, the market and public authorities. And we do this without inventing or imposing utopias, but by extending the working prototypes from the commoners and peer producers themselves.</div>RP: Thanks for speaking with me. Good luck with the summit.gt; <div>I realise it may surprise you to hear me say it, but I don’t see this as crucial. I say this because, we already have thousands of projects in the world that are engaged in peer production and commons transitions, and this deep trend is not going to change. The efforts to change the social and economic logic will go on with or without Ecuador.</div> <div>As I noted, what we have now that we didn’t have before, regardless of implementation in Ecuador, is the first global commons-oriented transition plan, and several concrete legislative proposals. They are far from perfect, but they will be a reference that other locales, cities, (bio)regions and states will be able to make their own adapted versions of it.</div> <div>In the meantime, we have to continue the grassroots transformation and rebuild commons-oriented coalitions at every level, local, regional, national, global. This will take time, but since infinite growth is not possible in a finite economy, some type of transition is inevitable. Let’s just hope it will be for the benefit of the commoners and the majority of the world population.</div> <div>Essentially, we need to build the seed forms of the new counter-economy, and the social movement that can defend, facilitate and expand it. Every political and policy expression of this is a bonus.</div> <div>As for the endgame, you guessed correctly. What distinguishes the effort of the P2P Foundation, and many of the FLOK researchers, is that we’re not just in the business of adding some commons and P2P dynamics to the existing capitalist framework, but aiming at a profound “phase transition”.</div> <div>To work for a sustainable society and economy is absolutely crucial for the future of humanity, and while we respect the freedoms of people to engage in market dynamics for the allocation of rival goods, we cannot afford a system of infinite growth and scarcity engineering, which is what capitalism is.</div> <div>In other words, today, we consider nature infinite and we believe that infinite resources should be made scarce in order to protect monopolistic players; tomorrow, we need to consider nature as a finite resource, and we should respect the abundance of nature and the human spirit.</div> <div>So our endgame is to achieve that fundamental reversal of our civilisation, nothing less. As you can see from our proposals, we aim for a simultaneous transformation of civil society, the market and public authorities. And we do this without inventing or imposing utopias, but by extending the working prototypes from the commoners and peer producers themselves.</div> RP: Thanks for speaking with me. Good luck with the summit.)
Chargement/Site + (Because the practices of commonin … Because the practices of commoning fly in the face of market culture, they are frequently misunderstood. What is this process of committed collaboration toward shared goals? people may wonder. How does it work, especially when many industries want to privatize control of the resource or prevent competition via commoning?Matthieu Rhéaume, a commoner and game designer who lives Montreal, decided that a card game could be a great vehicle for introducing people to the commons. The result of his efforts is “C@rds in Common: A Game of Political Collaboration.” “I see playfulness as a sense-making tool,” Matthieu told me. “People can play casually and be surprised by the meta-learning [about the commons] that results.”It all began at the World Social Forum (WSF) conference in Montreal in August 2016. Rhéaume decided to use the opportunity to synthesize viewpoints about the commons from a group of 50 participants and use the results to develop the card game. He persuaded the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation and Gazibo, both based in France, to support development of the game. Fifty commoners more or less co-created the game with the help of several colleagues. (The process is described here.)<iframe loading="lazy" title="Les communs en jeu ... de cartes" width="880" height="495" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ISGk4-pf2Ww?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>As a game designer, Rhéaume realized that successful, fun games must embody a certain “procedural rhetoric” and reward storytelling. He had enjoyed playing “Magic: The Gathering,” a popular multiplayer card game, and wondered what that game would feel like if it were collaborative.At the WSF, Rhéaume asked participants to share their own insights about the commons by submitting suggested cards in six categories. The first four categories consist of “commoners cards” featuring “resources,” “action cards,” “project cards” and “attitude cards.” Two other types of cards — “Oppressive Forces” cards with black backs – give the game its kick by applying “negative effects” to the “Political Arena” of play. The two negative effects are “enclosures” and “crises,” to which commoners must collectively organize and respond in time.Intended for two to five players, the game usually lasts between 60 and 90 minutes. It has enough of a basic storyline to be easily understood, but enough complexity and sophisticated twists to be unpredictable and interesting. The key objective of the game is to “create a Political Arena resilient enough to defend the commons against encroaching enclosures.” The players win when there are no more enclosure cards in the Political Arena. They lose if there are more than five enclosures present at any one time.The backs of the Oppressive Forces cards feature a conquistador with a spear and text reading, “I am here to take the commons.” One of the Oppressive Force card is “Trump Elected!” which demobilizes every commons campaign underway. Another OF card, “Old Inner Culture,” prohibits the discarding of “attitudes” cards (which might otherwise hasten commoning). A “Fear of the Unknown” card prohibits players from drawing new cards for one cycle.By contrast, the commoner cards feature such things as urban gardens, First Nations, degrowth and independent media. A series of “Attitude” cards affect a player’s capacity to cooperate.WSF participants submitted a wild diversity of 240 cards to Rhéaume giving many perspectives on commoning and enclosure. Rheaume used 120 of cards and his own knowledge of game design to produce the game, printing at a local printer. He tested C@rds in Common through 25 games and four design iterations, attempting to achieve a 50% failure rate (the forces of enclosure win). Players discovered that the complexities of cooperation grow as new enclosures introduce new variables. A game booklet describes how players can make winning more difficult (by accelerating the rate of enclosure threats and reducing the time allowed to build civil society).Rhéaume concedes that the first play of C@rds in Common can be challenging, but there are YouTube videos to help new players learn the game. (See this video introduction to the game as a project, and this « how to play » video tutorial.)Rhéaume would like to refine the game further – it still has elements of the WSF event, including some French-only cards – but he is pleased that the game helps introduce players into the commons worldview and start deeper conversations about it. Following most games, players reflect on what happened and tell stories about the successful collaborations that emerged and enclosures that prevailed.The game was released in February, first with a European launch overseen by Fréderic Sultan of Gazibo. There are now more than 70 decks of C@rds in Common (in French, C@rtes en Communs) circulating there [actually more than 100 are .The Canadian launch of the game will take place in Montreal on May 11 at 17:30 to 20:30 at 5248 Boulevard Saint-Laurent in Montreal. To register for the (free) event, here is a link on Brown Paper Tickets.A deck of the game can be bought directly, at cost, via a commercial distributor, Game Crafters, at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/c-rds-in-common, for $22.40. Until May 31, Canadians can acquire the game more cheaply by signing up for a bulk order at this webpage; Rhéaume et al. will then distribute the games to individual buyers.Let me add a charming historical footnote that Rhéaume sahred with me. On the back of each commoner card, there is a drawing of a farmer with the text, “Give me my leather coat and my purse in a groat. That’s some habit for a husbandman.”Those lines are from a song in a medieval mummers play, « The Seven Champions of Christendom. » The lyrics are a heated discussion between a servingman to the king and a free and independent husbandman (commoner) about the merits and liabilities of their respective stations in life. (The song originated from Symondsbury, near Bridport, Dorset, in England — so a shout-out to STIR magazine, which is based there!).A sample exchange between the servingman and the husbandman:[Servingman] But then we do wear the finest of grandeur, My coat is trimmed with fur all around; Our shirts as white as milk and our stockings made of silk: That’s clothing for a servingman.[Husbandman] As to thy grandeur give I the coat I wear Some bushes to ramble among; Give to me a good greatcoat and in my purse a grout [coarse meal], That’s clothing for an husbandman.The full lyrics of the song can be found here.. [Husbandman] As to thy grandeur give I the coat I wear Some bushes to ramble among; Give to me a good greatcoat and in my purse a grout [coarse meal], That’s clothing for an husbandman. The full lyrics of the song can be found here.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (By Samantha Slade By Samantha Slade« From where I stand today, one of the challenges of advancing an emerging movement such as the commons lies in how we build the community and how we meet in ways that embody the values of commoning. This involves the thorny question: How can we honour the vast experience and expertise on the commons and come together inclusively and equitably in a participatory commoning fashion? The Art of Hosting certainly has something to offer here, but also, and most importantly, those that are consciously living and doing the daily work of commoning, in all its complexity, have deep learnings to share to the benefit of building our collective capacity. »see the <a href="http://www.percolab.com/2014/01/art-of-hosting-the-commons/">whole article </a>ww.percolab.com/2014/01/art-of-hosting-the-commons/">whole article </a>)
Chargement/Site + (By Samantha Slade By Samantha Slade« From where I stand today, one of the challenges of advancing an emerging movement such as the commons lies in how we build the community and how we meet in ways that embody the values of commoning. This involves the thorny question: How can we honour the vast experience and expertise on the commons and come together inclusively and equitably in a participatory commoning fashion? The Art of Hosting certainly has something to offer here, but also, and most importantly, those that are consciously living and doing the daily work of commoning, in all its complexity, have deep learnings to share to the benefit of building our collective capacity. »see the <a href="http://www.percolab.com/2014/01/art-of-hosting-the-commons/">whole article </a>ww.percolab.com/2014/01/art-of-hosting-the-commons/">whole article </a>)
Chargement/Site + (Call for Ideas ! <p& … Call for Ideas !Please submit an idea that fosters the Europe we believe in: a Europe of solidarity and openness, shaped and nurtured by people.We are living and working in an increasingly complex environment. Across Europe and its neighbouring countries, more and more people are confronted with discrimination and exclusion on a daily basis – whether economically, politically or culturally. As a result, societies are becoming increasingly fragmented, extremism is on the rise, and the divisions between people – and between individuals and institutions – are growing ever wider.Migration, distrust towards traditional institutions and the widening gap between the idea of a democratic Europe and the reality of a divided continent are among the biggest challenges that we are facing at present. These challenges are not new, but they have reached a degree that directly affects existing systems and policies, both at national and European levels.Living with a constant flow of images and information that sustains a ‘permanent state of emergency’, we often adopt defeat, the feeling that there’s-nothing-to-be-done. However, in this worrying situation, it is heartening to see citizens gathering together and taking action: countless bottom-up local, national, and transnational initiatives are enthusiastically showing that there-is-something-to-be-done, and that a more democratic, inclusive, egalitarian, and caring society is not only desired but possible.In this continent of rapidly changing communities, building bridges to help us live alongside each other is an urgent imperative. We need to reinvent and jointly value our present and develop our future together. We need to recreate shared common values and foster open and inclusive communities and societies – with a focus on social justice and human rights.Co-hosted by Platoniq in Spain, ECF’s third Idea Camp will take place from 1 to 3 March 2017. Following local elections in May 2015, which have seen several major cities and smaller towns now governed by citizen lists of candidates, Spain is on track to reinvent itself amidst a hive of social, cultural, and political activism. The many exciting new challenges this hive of activity has raised include a more inclusive and participatory society, ‘a home for all’. Although not free from contradictions, there are many tangible examples across different sectors (cultural, political, economical and social) that interweave inspiring institutional and grassroots actions. The myriad of different cross-sectoral practices in Spain constitute a resourceful laboratory for sharing and highlighting ways in which communities can promote change in Europe.Organized in collaboration with Platoniq, Idea Camp will be held from 1 to 3 March 2017 in Spain and will bring together 50 participants whose innovative ideas demonstrate a firm commitment to encourage political imagination, encourage building links and contribute to the development a society based on the principle of social justice. Based on shared values, inclusion and openness, Idea Camp offers participants a unique opportunity to meet peers from all over Europe and its neighboring countries, whose practices are different carrier chatted. Following the call for ideas, 50 participants are selected on criteria. ECF cover for the duration of the Idea Camp, the cost of travel and living in Spain a representative for each idea. After the Idea Camp, participants will be invited to submit a concrete proposal for research or implementation of their idea. 25 proposals will be selected and will receive a fellowship and development to a maximum of € 10,000.Initiated in 2014, Idea Camp is organized within the framework of « Connected Action for the Commons », an action and research program developed by ECF in collaboration with six cultural organization established in Europe: Culture 2 Commons (Croatia), Les Têtes de l’Art (France), KrytykaPolityczna (Poland), Oberliht (Moldavia), Platoniq – Goteo (Spain) et Subtopia (Sweden).To submit your idea, please fill in the application form here: http://www.culturalfoundation.eu/idea-camp-call/et Subtopia (Sweden). To submit your idea, please fill in the application form here: http://www.culturalfoundation.eu/idea-camp-call/)
Chargement/Site + (Chaque troisième mardi du mois, d … Chaque troisième mardi du mois, de 20 h à 21 h (CET – heure de Paris), Remix propose un rendez-vous public sur le modèle du « community call » pour traiter une question et partager de l’information sur les projets en cours ou les sujets chauds dans le domaine des communs, tout en laissant une trace pour les absents.Le rendez-vous est structuré selon un protocole toujours identique : durée de 60 minutes, présentation de 5 minutes, discussion de l’objet de l’appel pendant 45 minutes et enfin, conclusion et appel au prochain appel 10 minutes. Les appels en commun font l’objet d’un enregistrement audio et d’une prise de note collective sur un pad (bloc note numérique) pour préparer la rencontre, la documenter et en garder la mémoire.L’archive audio et texte des Appels en commun est accessible via le <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Appel_en_commun">wiki de Remix</a>.Pour être informé des prochains appels en commun, abonnez-vous à la liste de diffusion appel@bienscommuns.org (basse fréquence) en envoyant un courriel à <a href="mailto:info@remixthecommons.org">info@remixthecommons.org</a>.Remix the commons ne fait aucun autre usage, ni ne partage avec personne vos données personnelles sans accord de votre part! ni ne partage avec personne vos données personnelles sans accord de votre part!)
Chargement/Site + (Dans le cadre de l’initiative por … Dans le cadre de l’initiative portée par l’UNESCO sur les futurs de l’éducation, l’Institut de l’UNESCO pour l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie (UIL, Hambourg) a publié récemment un rapport d’experts multidisciplinaires de prospective sur la culture de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie (« <a href="https://uil.unesco.org/lifelong-learning/embracing-culture-lifelong-learning">Lifelong Learning </a>»)*. Dans un contexte où beaucoup d’États peinent à répondre aux besoins éducatifs de base de leur population et où les inégalités d’accès à la culture et aux savoirs se creusent de plus en plus, comment (re)donner toute sa place à une culture de l’apprentissage ouverte, accessible et inclusive qui permet à toute personne de pouvoir définir et réaliser ses projets de développement de sa capacité d’agir dans un monde de plus en plus complexe et exigeant?S’inscrivant directement dans la filiation humaniste de l’éducation des adultes (Commission internationale sur l’éducation au XXIe siècle, UNESCO 1996), les auteurs présentent une série de recommandations parmi lesquelles figure celle de faire de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie un bien commun. Dans leur énoncé de vision de la situation idéale de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie en 2050, ils décrivent :<blockquote> /To ensure that learning opportunities are accessible to all, learning spaces beyond educational institutions have been reinvented to promote and support learning. Besides using public spaces and infrastructure for learning, there are also learner-friendly work environments in all sectors and opportunities for self-employed people. To enhance the free availability of learning resources further, an educational commons has been developed. p. 13/ **</blockquote><iframe loading="lazy" title="Les communs et l'éducation tout au long de la vie" width="880" height="660" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r7c5UA5lluI?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>À titre de président du conseil d’administration de l’UIL, Daniel Baril, directeur général de l’Institut de coopération pour l’éducation des adultes (Montréal, Canada) a participé aux travaux du groupe d’expert.e.s. Dans le cadre de l’appel en commun, il nous partage ses réflexions sur le processus qui a mené à l’élaboration de ces recommandations, mais surtout sur la manière dont la notion de communs peut s’imbriquer dans l’élaboration des instruments normatifs internationaux en éducation.* Document : <a href="https://uil.unesco.org/lifelong-learning/embracing-culture-lifelong-learning">UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning Embracing a culture of lifelong learning: contribution to the Futures of Education initiative. UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2020</a>.** Traduction : /Afin de garantir que les possibilités d’apprentissage soient accessibles à tous, les espaces d’apprentissage au-delà des établissements d’enseignement ont été réinventés pour promouvoir et soutenir l’apprentissage. Outre l’utilisation d’espaces et d’infrastructures publics pour l’apprentissage, il existe également des environnements de travail conviviaux pour les apprenants dans tous les secteurs, et des possibilités pour les travailleurs indépendants. Afin d’améliorer encore la disponibilité gratuite des ressources d’apprentissage, un patrimoine éducatif commun a été développé. p. 13/)
Chargement/Site + (Droits en biens communs vise à do … Droits en biens communs vise à documenter la place du droit basé sur les biens communs dans le contexte des négociations de Rio+20.Au cours de l’année 2011, la préparation de la conférence des Nations Unies sur le développement durable (Rio+20) avec le Collectif (français) Rio+20 et les participants au Forum Social Mondial, nous a amené à proposer de faire des droits basés sur les biens communs un horizon de revendication à l’échelle internationale. Encore faudrait-il être en mesure d’expliciter ce que serait le contenu de ces droits et d’envisager de quelles manières ils pourraient être mis en oeuvre. Pour tenter de répondre à cette question, un<a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Des_droits_bas%C3%A9s_sur_les_biens_communs"> premier texte</a> à été rédigé par Silke Helfrich et Frédéric Sultan à la suite du Forum Social de Porto Alegre.Le projet de Remix « Droits en Biens Communs » est une continuation de ce travail par la voie de la vidéo et du remix réalisé à partir de captation de vidéo au cours de la conférence des Nations Unies et du Sommet des Peuples.<h3>Futur développement</h3>Le projet Droits en biens communs se prolonge à travers l’organisation d’un atelier lors de la conférence Economics, Commons Conférence le 22 mai 2°13 à Berlin. Il s’agit de poursuivre le travail d’élaboration engagé et notamment de tester les hypothèses sous-jacentes sur divers domaines et exemples, pour essayer d’avoir une vision plus globale.<h3>Collaborateurs/trices</h3>Frédéric Sultan coordonne ce projet. Emilano Bazan s’est chargé de la réalisation des vidéos.<h3>Financement</h3>Le projet Droits en biens communs bénéficie du soutien financier du Fonds Francophone des inforoutes à travers le projet Remix Biens Communs.<h3>Rôle de Remix Biens Communs</h3>Remix Biens Communs a été un espace facilitant la coopération entre Communautique et VECAM pour réaliser les vidéos pendant le sommet des peuples de Rio + 20.tant la coopération entre Communautique et VECAM pour réaliser les vidéos pendant le sommet des peuples de Rio + 20.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Droits en biens communs vise à do … Droits en biens communs vise à documenter la place du droit basé sur les biens communs dans le contexte des négociations de Rio+20.Au cours de l’année 2011, la préparation de la conférence des Nations Unies sur le développement durable (Rio+20) avec le Collectif (français) Rio+20 et les participants au Forum Social Mondial, nous a amené à proposer de faire des droits basés sur les biens communs un horizon de revendication à l’échelle internationale. Encore faudrait-il être en mesure d’expliciter ce que serait le contenu de ces droits et d’envisager de quelles manières ils pourraient être mis en oeuvre. Pour tenter de répondre à cette question, un<a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Des_droits_bas%C3%A9s_sur_les_biens_communs"> premier texte</a> à été rédigé par Silke Helfrich et Frédéric Sultan à la suite du Forum Social de Porto Alegre.Le projet de Remix « Droits en Biens Communs » est une continuation de ce travail par la voie de la vidéo et du remix réalisé à partir de captation de vidéo au cours de la conférence des Nations Unies et du Sommet des Peuples.<h3>Futur développement</h3>Le projet Droits en biens communs se prolonge à travers l’organisation d’un atelier lors de la conférence Economics, Commons Conférence le 22 mai 2°13 à Berlin. Il s’agit de poursuivre le travail d’élaboration engagé et notamment de tester les hypothèses sous-jacentes sur divers domaines et exemples, pour essayer d’avoir une vision plus globale.<h3>Collaborateurs/trices</h3>Frédéric Sultan coordonne ce projet. Emilano Bazan s’est chargé de la réalisation des vidéos.<h3>Financement</h3>Le projet Droits en biens communs bénéficie du soutien financier du Fonds Francophone des inforoutes à travers le projet Remix Biens Communs.<h3>Rôle de Remix Biens Communs</h3>Remix Biens Communs a été un espace facilitant la coopération entre Communautique et VECAM pour réaliser les vidéos pendant le sommet des peuples de Rio + 20.tant la coopération entre Communautique et VECAM pour réaliser les vidéos pendant le sommet des peuples de Rio + 20.)
Chargement/Site + (Every 3rd Tuesday of the month fr … Every 3rd Tuesday of the month from 8pm to 9pm (CET – Paris time), Remix offers a public meeting on the model of the « community call » to address a question and share information on current projects or hot topics in the field of commons, while leaving a trace for those who are absent.The appointment is structured according to the same protocol: duration 60 minutes, presentation 5 minutes, discussion of the topic of the call 45 minutes and finally, conclusion and appeal for the next call 10 minutes.Audio recording and collective note-taking on a pad (digital notepad) are done and shared after the meeting, for documenting it and keeping the memory of it.The audio and text archives of the Commons Calls are accessible via the <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Appel_en_commun">remix wiki </a>.To be informed about future calls, send a message to the following e-mail address: <a href="mailto:info@remixthecommons.org">info@remixthecommons.org</a>.<div class="input-prepend">Remix the commons does not make any other use, nor share with anyone your personal data without your consent !</div>mix the commons does not make any other use, nor share with anyone your personal data without your consent !</div>)
Chargement/Site + (Facing economic, social and ecolo … Facing economic, social and ecological crises, many of us think that we must create the conditions for a transition from a productivist industrial world to an economy based on sharing knowledge commons and collaborative and contributing productions. The first challenge is to forge new concepts to understand the effects of automation and rethink the general interest and solidarity as possible horizons. For this, the state, as local and national authorities, the University and organized civil society, must invent all together, alternatives to individualism ownership and to the governance based on the duopoly state / market. In Ecuador, the government held a major study to try to clarify howto create the conditions for a transition based on the commons. Several researchers and international experts were mobilized, including Michel Bauwens and Bernard Stiegler.What is the role of national and local governments in the transformation of the economy towards a production of goods and services based on the principles of the commons? What should be the legal and economic instruments invented? what are the alliances between the actors involved in alternative forms of economic and social innovation needed? How to go beyond the niches successfully developed in some sectors – such as the digital economy – and enable scaling to modes of production of goods and services based on the principles of the commons?<a href="http://ouishare.net/">Ouishare</a>, <a href="www.savoirscom1.info/">Savoirscom1</a> and <a href="www.vecam.org/">VECAM</a> invite you to discuss these issues with Michel Bauwens and Bernard Stiegler during a public meeting to be held September 16, 2014 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Salle Triangle, Centre Pompidou, Paris France. <figure style="width: 400px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="" src="http://i.vimeocdn.com/video/177863970_640.jpg" width="400" height="225" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Michel Bauwens – Berlin 2012 Remix The Commons – Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0</figcaption></figure><figure id="attachment_3924" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3924" style="width: 398px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Stiegler-2_dans_les_années_2000.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Stiegler-2_dans_les_années_2000.jpg" alt="By Joseph.paris — Wikimedia commons. Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons " width="398" height="225" class="size-full wp-image-3924" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3924" class="wp-caption-text">Bernard Stiegler par Joseph.paris — Wikimedia commons. Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons</figcaption></figure><H2><a href="https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/inscription-rencontre-publique-avec-bernard-stiegler-et-michel-bauwens-1885113425?ref=elink" target="_blank" style="color:#3BE8DC" rel="noopener noreferrer">Registration</a> is over. </H2>More information in the <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/fr/2014/07/vers-une-econo…-la-transition/ ">French version of the post</a>. This conference is organized with the support of Fondation Pour le Progrès de l’Homme.in the <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/fr/2014/07/vers-une-econo…-la-transition/ ">French version of the post</a>. This conference is organized with the support of Fondation Pour le Progrès de l’Homme.)
Chargement/Site + (Le monde a besoin d’idées pour un … Le monde a besoin d’idées pour un avenir meilleur et durable, mais les idées ne suffisent pas. La plate-forme FuturePerfect est une encyclopédie virtuelle reprenant les initiatives de personnes, d’organisations et d’entreprises qui ont osé passer de la pensée à l’acte. Ces histoires visent à informer sur les modes de vie alternatifs et à inciter à l’engagement citoyen.Les partenaires français de FuturePerfect, l’équipe allemande de FUTURZWEI, des militants et tout public intéressé se retrouveront pour débattre du rôle des médias dans une perspective de pratiques d’économie sociale et de modes de vie durables.<div class="row"><div class="span12 nurText"><div class="span12 nurText"><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/futureperfect_visuel_web-debzt-8-octobre-2015.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-4335 size-full aligncenter" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/futureperfect_visuel_web-debzt-8-octobre-2015.jpg" alt="futureperfect_visuel_web debzt 8 octobre 2015" width="337" height="803" /></a></div>Débat organisé dans le cadre de la Semaine des cultures étrangères organisée par le FICEP et en coopération avec le festival Temps des CommunsAvec la participation de :<ul><li>Barnabé Binctin, Journaliste Reporterre</li><li>Peter Unfried, Journaliste TAZ</li><li>Benoit Cassegrain et Hélène Legay, fondateurs SideWays</li><li>Mathias Lahiani, fondateur On passe à l’acte</li></ul>Modéré par Luise Tremel, FUTURZWEI et Frédéric Sultan, Remix the commons </div><div class="span12 nurText">Goethe-Institut Paris</div><aside class="span6 artikelspalte nurText"><div class="teaserBox">17 avenue d’Iéna 75116 Paris</div>Langue: En français et en allemand Entrée libre, inscription : 33 1 44439230 </aside></div>gt;, Remix the commons </div> <div class="span12 nurText">Goethe-Institut Paris</div> <aside class="span6 artikelspalte nurText"> <div class="teaserBox"> 17 avenue d’Iéna 75116 Paris </div> Langue: En français et en allemand Entrée libre, inscription : 33 1 44439230 </aside> </div>)
Chargement/Site + (Les voies maritimes, une belle id … Les voies maritimes, une belle idée de vidéo autour d’un projet d’aire maritime à protéger<iframe loading="lazy" frameborder="0" width="400" height="225" src="//www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xu8azp" allowfullscreen></iframe> Par <a href="http://www.aires-marines.fr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aires-marines-protegees</a>Trois photographes ont sillonné pendant plusieurs mois le golfe normand breton qui s’étend de l’île de Bréhat au Cap de La Hague et qui fait l’objet d’un projet de parc naturel marin. Rodolphe Marics, Denis Bourges et Xavier Desmier proposent une radiographie de cet espace marin selon trois points de vue différents et complémentaires : photos aériennes, pédestres et sous-marines. Les voies maritimes est né d’un partenariat entre l’Agence des aires marines protégées et l’association Les champs photographiques. des aires marines protégées et l’association Les champs photographiques. )
Chargement/Site + (Maxime Combes a produit un <a … Maxime Combes a produit un <a href="https://www.boell.de/en/2014/01/21/valuing-natural-capital-or-devaluing-nature">rapport sur le premier « Forum mondial sur le capital naturel »</a> qui se déroulait fin novembre 2013 à Edimbourg.Ce document décrypte le processus d’élaboration des nouveaux outils de comptabilité du « capital naturel » qui valorise la nature et les services éco-systémiques en capital à grande échelle. Cette démarche est aune traduction très concrète de Rio+20 et de l’économie verte qui se justifie encore avec l’argument de la tragédie des communs.On est face à un enjeu majeur pour les communs dits naturels. Il confirme l’importance de définir des outils et les principes de gestion qui permettent de préserver les communs et la nature.Rapport réalisé pour la Fondation Heinrich Boll. Rapport réalisé pour la Fondation Heinrich Boll)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Maxime Combes a produit un <a … Maxime Combes a produit un <a href="https://www.boell.de/en/2014/01/21/valuing-natural-capital-or-devaluing-nature">rapport sur le premier « Forum mondial sur le capital naturel »</a> qui se déroulait fin novembre 2013 à Edimbourg.Ce document décrypte le processus d’élaboration des nouveaux outils de comptabilité du « capital naturel » qui valorise la nature et les services éco-systémiques en capital à grande échelle. Cette démarche est aune traduction très concrète de Rio+20 et de l’économie verte qui se justifie encore avec l’argument de la tragédie des communs.On est face à un enjeu majeur pour les communs dits naturels. Il confirme l’importance de définir des outils et les principes de gestion qui permettent de préserver les communs et la nature.Rapport réalisé pour la Fondation Heinrich Boll. Rapport réalisé pour la Fondation Heinrich Boll)
Chargement/Site + (Maxime Combes produced a <a hr … Maxime Combes produced a <a href="http://www.boell.de/en/2014/01/21/valuing-natural-capital-or-devaluing-nature"> report on the first « Global Forum on natural capital » </a> which took place in late November 2013 in Edinburgh (Scotland).The document decrypts the process of developing new tools for natural capital accounting based on the valuation of the natural and ecosystemic services in large-scale capital. This approach is a very concrete translation of the consequences of Rio +20 results and the green economy that continues to be justified with the argument of the tragedy of the commons.We are facing a major challenge for so-called natural commons. It confirms the importance of defining the tools of accounting and management principles that preserve commons and nature.Report for the Heinrich Boll Foundation hat preserve commons and nature. Report for the Heinrich Boll Foundation )
Chargement/Site 2 + (Maxime Combes produced a <a hr … Maxime Combes produced a <a href="http://www.boell.de/en/2014/01/21/valuing-natural-capital-or-devaluing-nature"> report on the first « Global Forum on natural capital » </a> which took place in late November 2013 in Edinburgh (Scotland).The document decrypts the process of developing new tools for natural capital accounting based on the valuation of the natural and ecosystemic services in large-scale capital. This approach is a very concrete translation of the consequences of Rio +20 results and the green economy that continues to be justified with the argument of the tragedy of the commons.We are facing a major challenge for so-called natural commons. It confirms the importance of defining the tools of accounting and management principles that preserve commons and nature.Report for the Heinrich Boll Foundation hat preserve commons and nature. Report for the Heinrich Boll Foundation )
Chargement/Site + (On April 19th 2012, Communautique … On April 19th 2012, Communautique organized the first working lunch <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/D%C3%A9jeuner_des_communs">« Commons lunches »</a> at its offices in Montreal. The context of the event was remarkable; for two months already an unprecedented social movement initiated and driven by students had taken over the streets of Montreal and other cities in the province, mobilizing people across all layers of society with unrivaled levels of involvement. And on this 19th of April, during what was called a “printemps érable” (or maple spring), and rightly so by the depth of its demands, on the eve of the march for Earth Day, reaching what would be the climax of the union of all sectors of the civil society, the protest was held under no other theme but the Commons and gathered nearly 300 000 people. This lunch was indeed very relevant at a time when « the Commons was on every lips », a paper issued by Communautique was widely circulated on the web. Prior to this first of a series of four in 2012, Communautique had contributed to the animation of this subject of the Commons on various occasions by organizing workshops or taking part in events in the charged ambiance of the student protests, particularly suited for participation and innovation. Each of the meetings facilitated the exchange of knowledge in a horizontal way through discussions and « learning circles » following a proven animation methodology that is increasingly used in co-creation, co-design projects and bottom-up social innovation. These methods are described by Percolab, partner of Communautique, who facilitated the discussion at the event. Each lunch was video recorded but was also followed by video productions extending the debate by illustrating some activities of the participants’ activities through interviews and shots taken on their field of operation. These productions were eventually used to fuel the debates at the next breakfasts. <H3>Futur development</H3> The continuation of Montreal lunches could be an occasion for a remix, whether in Dakar or other cities. <H3>Collaborators</H3> Alain Ambrosi and the Communautique team are assisted by Samatha Slade of Percolab. <H3>Financing</H3> Video production of Montréal lunches is made possible by support from the Ministry of Education, Recreation and Sports in the training mission and a contribution of trainees from Industry Canada’s Youth Internship program. <H3>Rôle of Remix Bien communs</H3> Remix the Commons was the melting pot for the concept of the montreal lunches, and helped by sharing views on the commons with Kër Thiossane from Dakar./> Remix the Commons was the melting pot for the concept of the montreal lunches, and helped by sharing views on the commons with Kër Thiossane from Dakar.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (On April 19th 2012, Communautique … On April 19th 2012, Communautique organized the first working lunch <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/D%C3%A9jeuner_des_communs">« Commons lunches »</a> at its offices in Montreal. The context of the event was remarkable; for two months already an unprecedented social movement initiated and driven by students had taken over the streets of Montreal and other cities in the province, mobilizing people across all layers of society with unrivaled levels of involvement. And on this 19th of April, during what was called a “printemps érable” (or maple spring), and rightly so by the depth of its demands, on the eve of the march for Earth Day, reaching what would be the climax of the union of all sectors of the civil society, the protest was held under no other theme but the Commons and gathered nearly 300 000 people. This lunch was indeed very relevant at a time when « the Commons was on every lips », a paper issued by Communautique was widely circulated on the web. Prior to this first of a series of four in 2012, Communautique had contributed to the animation of this subject of the Commons on various occasions by organizing workshops or taking part in events in the charged ambiance of the student protests, particularly suited for participation and innovation. Each of the meetings facilitated the exchange of knowledge in a horizontal way through discussions and « learning circles » following a proven animation methodology that is increasingly used in co-creation, co-design projects and bottom-up social innovation. These methods are described by Percolab, partner of Communautique, who facilitated the discussion at the event. Each lunch was video recorded but was also followed by video productions extending the debate by illustrating some activities of the participants’ activities through interviews and shots taken on their field of operation. These productions were eventually used to fuel the debates at the next breakfasts. <H3>Futur development</H3> The continuation of Montreal lunches could be an occasion for a remix, whether in Dakar or other cities. <H3>Collaborators</H3> Alain Ambrosi and the Communautique team are assisted by Samatha Slade of Percolab. <H3>Financing</H3> Video production of Montréal lunches is made possible by support from the Ministry of Education, Recreation and Sports in the training mission and a contribution of trainees from Industry Canada’s Youth Internship program. <H3>Rôle of Remix Bien communs</H3> Remix the Commons was the melting pot for the concept of the montreal lunches, and helped by sharing views on the commons with Kër Thiossane from Dakar./> Remix the Commons was the melting pot for the concept of the montreal lunches, and helped by sharing views on the commons with Kër Thiossane from Dakar.)
Chargement/Site + (Organized by Remix The Commons, V … Organized by Remix The Commons, VECAM and radio Libre @ Toi<blockquote>Projection debate: Commons in political space, Broadcast live by the radio Libre @ Toi, 7 April 2017, from 18:30 to 20:30 At the Foundation for the Progress of Man, 38, rue Saint Sabin, 75011 Paris – France<h2>What are the relations between commons and politic?</h2>After the conquest of city governement by the commons candidates in the large Spanish cities, the introduction in the constitution of « buen vivir » (Bolivia and Ecuador), the development of community’s charters in Great Britain and the regulations for the protection of the common goods by Italian cities, ZADIism and Zapatista experience, assemblies of commoners throughout the Western world, … recent years have seen the commons enrich their experience of politics. How can it inspire us in France?Come to debate after the screening of the short documentary « Les communs dans l’espace politique » (23 ‘), based on the testimonies of the actors involved in all these initiatives, of the place of the commons in the transformation of politics, the lessons that can be drawn from some of these experiences, and the challenges and dynamics of the commons movement.<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4658" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Sylviafredriksson_du-possible.jpg" alt="Sylviafredriksson_du possible" width="640" height="640" /> Par Sylvia Fredriksson Certains droits réservésAt the moment when the presidential campaign is in full swing in France. Which candidate has not yet incorporated this notion in his vocabulary, sometimes playing on the polysemy of terms and sailing between « Common Good », « common » or « common goods »? This echo indicates both a great penetration of this notion in society and a need to give a stronger consistency around the idea that we are able to develop mechanisms of cooperation that start from our needs and usages to build new rights.In this debate, we will focus more on the transformation of possible practices in the French political sequence, elections, loss of credit for the institutional system, than to make an inventory or a comparison of electoral measures or promises of the candidates and parties.« The commons in the political space » (23 ‘) is a document realized from interviews of activists met on the occasion of the World Social Forum and the World Forum of social economy GSEF which took place in Montreal in August and September 2016. The documentary and interviews will be available on http://remixthecommons.org in the coming days.Remix The Commons is an intercultural space for sharing and co-creating multimedia documents on the commons. The project is carried out by an intercultural collective composed of people and organizations who believe that the collection, exchange and remix of stories, definitions and images … of the commons are an active and convivial way to disseminate it in society. <a href="http://remixthecommons.org"> http://remixthecommons.org </a>Radio Libre @ Toi will broadcast this live debate and podcast, prefiguring the activities of the radio Causes Communes on the airwaves. <a href="http://asso.libre-a-toi.org"> http://asso.libre-a-toi.org </a>Vecam is an association that contributes to the political and social decoding of the digital age since 1995. <a href="http://vecam.org"> http://vecam.org </a></blockquote>gt; Vecam is an association that contributes to the political and social decoding of the digital age since 1995. <a href="http://vecam.org"> http://vecam.org </a></blockquote>)
Chargement/Site + (Original : <a href="https://bl … Original : <a href="https://blogs.mediapart.fr/gkrikorian/blog/260920/refuser-de-financer-la-recherche-vaccinale-en-double-aveugle">Refuser de financer la recherche vaccinale en «double aveugle»</a> 26 sept. 2020<blockquote>The scale of the COVID epidemic has led to strong and rapid public commitments by national governments. In particular, more than 10 billion Euros have been released in just a few months for vaccine research. Public investment and collective risk should go hand in hand with full transparency in the use of funds and research results. But the reality is very different.</blockquote>In normal times State support to medical research that takes place via funding of research programmes and public research institutions, partnerships with private firms, tax credits and of course, the purchase or reimbursement of health products, generally goes unnoticed. The billions being spent currently on for vaccine for Covid19 gives an unusually high-profile to the massive and dazzling involvement of public authorities in this medical research. This therefore justifies the common sense view that any effective vaccines that are developed should be considered and treated as common goods, i.e. an essential resource developed through a collective effort, whose production and access should be organised and governed in a transparent and collective manner.However, the opacity which usually prevails in the pharmaceutical economy and the control by a few actors, is still in place. On the one hand, countries with more resources are seeking to monopolise the first (and best) future vaccines through bilateral contracts with firms: the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, etc. have signed agreements with AstraZeneca, BioNTech and Pfizer, Novavax, Moderna, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, etc. They wish to cover themselves politically by securing access to possible vaccines for part of their population, but clearly do not feel more accountable than that for the use of public resources. They transfer massive amounts of public money to industry while leaving the corporations with property rights over future products, and keeping their people unaware of any of the details and the conditions of the use of the billions.The big pharmaceutical companies, on the other hand, are proving to be very bold and are using the situation to push their lobbying agenda forward. In addition to colossal public funding for Research & Development (R&D) they require the advance purchase of large quantities of the potential vaccines that will be developed. They also demand streamlined product registration systems that exempt them from providing all the data for efficacy and safety usually required, and at the same time they wish to be relieved of responsibility in the event of side effects and even be compensated by governments. Meanwhile they claim the need for confidentiality of contracts, clinical trial results, manufacturing costs and pricing structures for future vaccines – all in the name of business secrecy.The firms want to take the risk out of their actions as much as possible while still ensuring their profits. The public in contrast should assume the risks, both financial and health-related. The public finances and supplies hospitals, medical staff and volunteers by the hundreds of thousands throughout the world1. The public invests its resources without any guarantee of effectiveness or protection from dangerous side effects, or even any control over effectiveness or possibilities of dangerous side effects (since the requirements of the drug agencies are being revised downwards. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has led the way2 and the European Medical Agency (EMA) seems determined to do the same). The public to which we all belong does not have the capacity to appreciate what prices should be – since it has no access to cost data, nor to the exact sums that are granted to individual firms, the conditions under which these sums are allocated, or even to the CVs of the handful of « experts » who negotiate with the industry.The leaders of many Western countries condemned or ridiculed the positions taken by former US president Donald Trump, denounced those of conspirators and demagogues of all stripes, and claim to be the proponents of science, the real science, the one based on evidence and validated methods (« evidence-based »). However, under the pretext of urgency, the requirements are being scrapped, the transparency within the pharmaceutical field that has emerged in recent years as an imperative social demand and a political necessity is being pushed aside3. The collective risks that the world’s population is currently taking for the development of vaccines justifies public access to the results of vaccine trials in real time, to allow the greatest number of scientists (from the public, private and civil society sectors) to independently analyse the data and understand what these candidate vaccines will do not only to the virus but also to the organisms of the individuals vaccinated. This is especially true when testing technologies that have never been validated before (such as messenger RNA vaccines). And yet, things continue to be done in the secrecy demanded by a handful of firms – the new « double blind ».In these conditions, in demanding equitable access to the COVID vaccine, there is a growing feeling that this is above all a manoeuvre in the service of a few firms. In the name of the right to access, and because we know that there will be no effective fight against the virus on a global scale without sharing technologies, we demand access for all. But we cannot ignore the fact that, despite the rhetoric, no real solidarity is being put in place. The COVAX initiative is collecting crumbs, and behind what looks like a charity mechanism on the fringes, we are witnessing the consolidation of an international practice of pre-purchasing (« market advance commitment ») without clear information on costs, funding received by each companies, contracts or prices, the vast majority of which benefits the multinationals. The social demand for access then serves above all to justify the rush of public commitments without transparency or conditions; and one accepts turning a blind eye to an absurd economy, which corrupts science and medicine and makes global health look like a playground for financiers and other investment funds.As the experiences of 2020 have shown, and in particular with the fiasco in terms of care capacity and shortages of basic health products in wealthy countries, this global epidemic should lead us to seriously review the way we fund medical research and health: how we govern public resources, protect the public interest and involve the public in achieving access to health for all. Instead of this necessary reformulation of public health policies, we are witnessing a forced shift to a market logic that benefits only a few actors, and every day excludes a little more people from the right to health, in poor countries as well as in rich countries.(*) The practice of double-blinding in clinical trials consists of ensuring that neither the doctor nor the patient knows whether it is the active product being tested or a placebo that is being used. On the other hand the « double-blind » approach to research funding, which consists of refusing to make public, information on the use of resources and the results of trials leaving the public « blind », – is totally inappropriate. One scenario is designed to create impartiality and fairness the other to favour special interests and create injustice. 1 Many candidate vaccines have been or still are currently being tested in dozens of phase III trials, i.e. efficacy and benefit/risk ratio trials on volunteers; and nearly 200 candidate vaccines are being developed worldwide. See the Landscape of COVID-19, a World Health Organization (WHO) candidate vaccine: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/draft-landscape-of-covid-19-candidate-vaccines2 See statements by Stephen Hahn, Director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the end of August 2020: https://www.ft.com/content/f8ecf7b5-f8d2-4726-ba3f-233b8497b91a3 See the resolution adopted by the WHO on 28 May 2019: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329301/A72_R8-en.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=yRefuser to fund « double-blind » vaccine researchgt;3 See the resolution adopted by the WHO on 28 May 2019: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329301/A72_R8-en.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=yRefuser to fund « double-blind » vaccine research)
Chargement/Site + (Original publication from <a h … Original publication from <a href="https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/european-commons-assembly-at-medialab-prado/2017/07/24">P2P Fondation blog</a><blockquote>The European Commons Assembly (ECA) is a network of grassroots initiatives promoting commons management practices at the European level. The next stop for the network will be Medialab Prado, Madrid. These activities are part of the Transeuropa Festival program, a large meeting of political, social and environmental alternatives.</blockquote>The call to participate in the Madrid workshops will be open until August 4th.Form<a title="18.05.16 Taller" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/medialab-prado/28100107155/" data-flickr-embed="true" data-footer="true"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7379/28100107155_1659853c90_c.jpg" alt="18.05.16 Taller" width="800" height="500" /></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>The European Commons Assembly was launched in November 2016 with public events that took place in several spaces in Brussels, Belgium, including the Zinneke social center and European Parliament. This meeting gathered from different parts of Europe more than 150 commoners to promote public policies for the commons at the European level and to develop mutual support networks that enable long-term sustainability..The call to participate in the Madrid workshops will be open until August 4th. Proposed topics related to the urban commons include:<ul><li>Public space Migrations and refugees Citizen participation in urban politics Culture Food Housing Health Currency and financing for the commons Laws and legal mechanisms to protect the commons Technology for citizenship.</li></ul>You may also propose a topic not already on this list; fill out the form to propose the organization of a specific workshop, and/or to participate in any of the workshops that you find interesting.Each workshop will be co-organized by both a local and an international community project around the proposed topic. Workshops will be coordinated to offer valuable knowledge and strategies to apply to other, ongoing experiences. To this end, the ECA Madrid coordination team will hold several video conferences to connect the different initiatives and develop the workshop contents prior to the meeting. Workshops will employ facilitation methodology designed to guide the coordination team members in structuring and eventual documentation of the contents generated.When completing the form, you may indicate if you need the organization to cover travel and / or accommodation if it will not be possible to cover these expenses another way. For more information, contact nicole.leonard [at] sciencespo.fr.You can find more information on the European Commons Assembly website or fill out the form.the organization to cover travel and / or accommodation if it will not be possible to cover these expenses another way. For more information, contact nicole.leonard [at] sciencespo.fr. You can find more information on the European Commons Assembly website or fill out the form.)
Chargement/Site + (Original published on <a href= … Original published on <a href="https://commonsjosaphat.wordpress.com/">Commons Josaphat</a>. Translation by Nicole Leonard. <blockquote>Commons Josaphat is an independent platform of residents, activists and associations. You have heard talk of it as one of the flagship European initiatives for the reconquest of the city by its inhabitants. Commons Josaphat needs support from commoners to assert the work that has been accomplished over the course of the last 2 years with the public authorities in Brussels. Show your support by sending your message directly to the collective. </blockquote><img decoding="async" src="http://vecam.org/local/cache-vignettes/L566xH800/commons_josaphat-2da3d.png?1472031936" alt="" /><H1>The common good neighborhood project </H1>Commons Josaphat wants to build a proposal for the development of the city as a commons on the vacant lot of the former Josaphat training station. A new part of town will be developed there in the coming years. The challenge is to transform this piece of land, which is public property, into territory where a city for the common good can be started and established, a city district imagined and developed through partnership between the public authorities and the citizens. Our proposal, the results of two years of exchange and reflection in common, is summarized <a href="https://commonsjosaphat.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/commons-josaphat_josaphat-en-commun01light.pdf">in this document</a>. <H1>Commons Josaphat today</H1>The collective continues to work in three main ways:Effective occupation of the lot with other partners aiming to “make” this city as a commons, to immediately occupy its squares and spaces by using them. The agreement which places usage limits on individuals in order to preserve others’ use and access is an innovative first experience in the field for a new governance;Development of an “example island” of commons. This island should shape the city in common (through accessibility to the largest number of people over the long run, collective decision-making on land rents, environmental integration, promotion of the solidarity economy and open source, inscribing values of health in the design of the city, anchoring in local neighborhoods…) But it must also be realistic about the needs of public authorities (revenues generated, realization times and amounts realized). This island should serve as a point of evaluation that follows the issuing of the first phase of the master plan for the region; Building broad political conviction<li>1. Strengthening social support to the “Josaphat in common” proposal: support of associations, academics, intellectuals, unions, mutual societies 2. Strengthening cooperation with local residents to involve all those concerned in this part of town today 3. Improving conventional political support: obtain the support of PS, MR, ToT, Ecolo, PTB and CDH and their Dutch counterparts at regional and municipal levels.</li><H1>Here we reproduce their call</H1>You’ve heard of Commons Josaphat over the last two years, as they’ve been organizing action with partners – by participating in the call for ideas for the future development of the area or through the working groups themselves. Maybe you practiced fallow during the current summer festival or are participating in conferences organized around the possibility to construct the city as a commons. Today we want to shed light on these examples of support, convergence, and cooperation around the production of the city as a commons, and give it weight in public debate!<H1>What can you do? </H1> To show your support: Send an email to: <a href="mailto:ideascommonsjosaphat@gmail.com">ideascommonsjosaphat@gmail.com</a>Associations like BRAL, Pass-âge, RBDH (Rally for the right to housing), les Equipes Populaires de Schaerbeek, and SACOPAR (Health community participation non-profit association) have already done so. Academics such as Christian Laval and Tine de Moor have too. This support will be documented on the Commons Josaphat website and will support the proposal in public debate. To participate in the construction of knowledge on the commons to be diffused to the city level of production, send an email to: <a href="mailto:commons_jos_transversal@lists.entransition.be">commons_jos_transversal@lists.entransition.be</a> To get involved and work concretely with the project for transforming the lot into a common good, come to the lot the coming Sundays (7 July or 8 August), to the next general assembly on the 28th of August, or sign up on the list-serve: <a href="mailto:communs-dest@lists.entransition.be">communs-dest@lists.entransition.be</a>We count on your response from now until the 28th of August, the day of our next general assembly. We invite you there to declare your support during the aperitif planned at 19:30 (7:30pm)!We’re hoping we can count on your participation.h of August, or sign up on the list-serve: <a href="mailto:communs-dest@lists.entransition.be">communs-dest@lists.entransition.be</a> We count on your response from now until the 28th of August, the day of our next general assembly. We invite you there to declare your support during the aperitif planned at 19:30 (7:30pm)! We’re hoping we can count on your participation.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Par Samantha Slade < … Par Samantha Slade« De là où je me trouve aujourd’hui , l’un des défis de l’émergence d’un mouvement tel que celui pour la promotion des communs, réside dans la façon dont nous construisons la communauté et la façon dont nous élaborons différentes manières d’incarner les valeurs de ce qui fait le commun. Il s’agit d’une question épineuse : comment pouvons-nous reconnaître la vaste expérience et expertise sur les biens communs et nous rassembler de façon inclusive et équitable en mode d’ « en-commun » participatif ? L’ art de recevoir (Art of Hosting) a certainement quelque chose à nous offrir ici, mais aussi , et surtout, ceux qui vivent et font consciemment le travail quotidien de l' »en-commun » (commoning) dans toute sa complexité, ont de profonds enseignements à partager pour construire notre capacité collective. »Voir<a href="http://www.percolab.com/2014/01/art-of-hosting-the-commons/"> l’article</a> l’article</a>)
Chargement/Site + (Par Samantha Slade < … Par Samantha Slade« De là où je me trouve aujourd’hui , l’un des défis de l’émergence d’un mouvement tel que celui pour la promotion des communs, réside dans la façon dont nous construisons la communauté et la façon dont nous élaborons différentes manières d’incarner les valeurs de ce qui fait le commun. Il s’agit d’une question épineuse : comment pouvons-nous reconnaître la vaste expérience et expertise sur les biens communs et nous rassembler de façon inclusive et équitable en mode d’ « en-commun » participatif ? L’ art de recevoir (Art of Hosting) a certainement quelque chose à nous offrir ici, mais aussi , et surtout, ceux qui vivent et font consciemment le travail quotidien de l' »en-commun » (commoning) dans toute sa complexité, ont de profonds enseignements à partager pour construire notre capacité collective. »Voir<a href="http://www.percolab.com/2014/01/art-of-hosting-the-commons/"> l’article</a> l’article</a>)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Project « Justice transitionnelle … Project « Justice transitionnelle: l’expérience Marocaine » plans to share those extremely important Moroccan experiences about transitional justice and community reparation. In Morocco, from 1959 to 1999, Former King Hassan II often ruled his country with an iron fist. That period is called as the years of lead in Morocco, during which those who were considered a threat to the regime were subject to a wide range of human rights violations. Thousands were subjected to arbitrary arrest, torture, and enforced disappearance, leaving behind a bitter legacy.However, starting in the early 1990s, a gradual process of dealing with the past began to take root, culminating most recently in the work of the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission (Instance Équité et Réconciliation (IER)), established by the successor to the throne, King Mohammed VI.On January 7, 2004, the IER was created, which is the first truth commission in the Arab world. This also has been hailed internationally as a big step forward, and an example to the Arab world. Since that, the IER has been working on addressing the terrible legacy of this era by investigating some of the worst abuses in Morocco and arranging reparations for victims and their families.Over the duration of its mandate, the IER has amassed an archive of more than 20,000 personal testimonies from victims and their families, which has been organized in a central database in Rabat. It has conducted a range of meetings, conferences, and seminars around a multitude of issues that are keys to understanding Morocco’s past and present.It has also taken the monumental step of holding public hearings to give victims a platform from which to share their sufferings. Throughout its work, the Commission has aimed to document, preserve, and analyze the roots of the crisis in an attempt to help Morocco come to terms with its past. Project Justice transitionnelle: l’expérience Marocaine aims to share videos about this process of transitional justice and community reparation. For Morocco, the Community Reparation Project is a huge project contributed to transitional justice. A total sum of 159 million Dirhams was mobilized and total number of completed projects was 149.These videos talked about how to preserve memory of victim communities during “the years of lead” in Morocco and what kinds of public hearings took place, in fact those hearings gave the highlight of an extensive process of citizen deliberation, compassion and free expression in Morocco. They also talked about lots of stories about how community reparation project aimed to improve the living conditions of the people in victim communities and empower them. In fact, those materials mainly focused on women and children.Project Justice transitionnelle: l’expérience Marocaine believes Moroccan experiences in transitional justice as commons are useful and valuable to other countries, especially to Arabic countries have the similar history of transitional justice, such as Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Algeria and so on.As open resources, these documentaries, videos and reports are free to use for the public goods. <h3>Futur development</h3>In the next step, Project Justice transitionnelle: l’expérience Marocaine will keep on sharing more historical videos and materials about experiences in transitional justice, such as the videos of public hearings, the videos of public seminars and conferences, historical pictures and final reports of the community reparation project.<h3>People involved</h3>Ning and Mohamed Leghtas, from Alternatives Forum in Morocco(FMAS) and Portail E-joussour take in charge of this project, which both based in Rabat, Morroco.<h3>Ressources</h3>The project Transitional Justice: the Moroccan experience is financed by the funds of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER)<h3>Contribution to the projet « Justice transitionnelle</h3>Alternatives Forum in Morocco(FMAS) and Portail E-joussour take in charge of this project, which both based in Rabat, Morroco.IER) <h3>Contribution to the projet « Justice transitionnelle</h3> Alternatives Forum in Morocco(FMAS) and Portail E-joussour take in charge of this project, which both based in Rabat, Morroco.)
Chargement/Site + (Project « Justice transitionnelle … Project « Justice transitionnelle: l’expérience Marocaine » plans to share those extremely important Moroccan experiences about transitional justice and community reparation. In Morocco, from 1959 to 1999, Former King Hassan II often ruled his country with an iron fist. That period is called as the years of lead in Morocco, during which those who were considered a threat to the regime were subject to a wide range of human rights violations. Thousands were subjected to arbitrary arrest, torture, and enforced disappearance, leaving behind a bitter legacy.However, starting in the early 1990s, a gradual process of dealing with the past began to take root, culminating most recently in the work of the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission (Instance Équité et Réconciliation (IER)), established by the successor to the throne, King Mohammed VI.On January 7, 2004, the IER was created, which is the first truth commission in the Arab world. This also has been hailed internationally as a big step forward, and an example to the Arab world. Since that, the IER has been working on addressing the terrible legacy of this era by investigating some of the worst abuses in Morocco and arranging reparations for victims and their families.Over the duration of its mandate, the IER has amassed an archive of more than 20,000 personal testimonies from victims and their families, which has been organized in a central database in Rabat. It has conducted a range of meetings, conferences, and seminars around a multitude of issues that are keys to understanding Morocco’s past and present.It has also taken the monumental step of holding public hearings to give victims a platform from which to share their sufferings. Throughout its work, the Commission has aimed to document, preserve, and analyze the roots of the crisis in an attempt to help Morocco come to terms with its past. Project Justice transitionnelle: l’expérience Marocaine aims to share videos about this process of transitional justice and community reparation. For Morocco, the Community Reparation Project is a huge project contributed to transitional justice. A total sum of 159 million Dirhams was mobilized and total number of completed projects was 149.These videos talked about how to preserve memory of victim communities during “the years of lead” in Morocco and what kinds of public hearings took place, in fact those hearings gave the highlight of an extensive process of citizen deliberation, compassion and free expression in Morocco. They also talked about lots of stories about how community reparation project aimed to improve the living conditions of the people in victim communities and empower them. In fact, those materials mainly focused on women and children.Project Justice transitionnelle: l’expérience Marocaine believes Moroccan experiences in transitional justice as commons are useful and valuable to other countries, especially to Arabic countries have the similar history of transitional justice, such as Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Algeria and so on.As open resources, these documentaries, videos and reports are free to use for the public goods. <h3>Futur development</h3>In the next step, Project Justice transitionnelle: l’expérience Marocaine will keep on sharing more historical videos and materials about experiences in transitional justice, such as the videos of public hearings, the videos of public seminars and conferences, historical pictures and final reports of the community reparation project.<h3>People involved</h3>Ning and Mohamed Leghtas, from Alternatives Forum in Morocco(FMAS) and Portail E-joussour take in charge of this project, which both based in Rabat, Morroco.<h3>Ressources</h3>The project Transitional Justice: the Moroccan experience is financed by the funds of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER)<h3>Contribution to the projet « Justice transitionnelle</h3>Alternatives Forum in Morocco(FMAS) and Portail E-joussour take in charge of this project, which both based in Rabat, Morroco.IER) <h3>Contribution to the projet « Justice transitionnelle</h3> Alternatives Forum in Morocco(FMAS) and Portail E-joussour take in charge of this project, which both based in Rabat, Morroco.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Publiée le 5 juil. 2013 … Publiée le 5 juil. 2013Bordeaux Forum de l’Economie Collaborative4 juillet 2013, au Rocher de Palmer.Plus d’informations sur le Forum et ses intervenants sur www.bordeaux-economie-collaborative.orgwww.facebook.com/BXecocollabwww.twitter.com/BXecocollabvia <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAZnv4IEo9g'>Michel Bauwens – "En route vers de nouveaux territoires économiques" 3/4 – YouTube</a>. Publiée le 5 juil. 2013Bordeaux Forum de l’Economie Collaborative 4 juillet 2013, au Rocher de Palmer. Plus d’informations sur le Forum et ses intervenants sur www.bordeaux-economie-collaborative.org www.facebook.com/BXecocollab www.twitter.com/BXecocollabes intervenants sur www.bordeaux-economie-collaborative.org www.facebook.com/BXecocollab www.twitter.com/BXecocollab)
Chargement/Site + (Publiée le 5 juil. 2013 … Publiée le 5 juil. 2013Bordeaux Forum de l’Economie Collaborative4 juillet 2013, au Rocher de Palmer.Plus d’informations sur le Forum et ses intervenants sur www.bordeaux-economie-collaborative.orgwww.facebook.com/BXecocollabwww.twitter.com/BXecocollabvia <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAZnv4IEo9g'>Michel Bauwens – "En route vers de nouveaux territoires économiques" 3/4 – YouTube</a>. Publiée le 5 juil. 2013Bordeaux Forum de l’Economie Collaborative 4 juillet 2013, au Rocher de Palmer. Plus d’informations sur le Forum et ses intervenants sur www.bordeaux-economie-collaborative.org www.facebook.com/BXecocollab www.twitter.com/BXecocollabes intervenants sur www.bordeaux-economie-collaborative.org www.facebook.com/BXecocollab www.twitter.com/BXecocollab)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Publiée le 5 juil. 2013 … Publiée le 5 juil. 2013Bordeaux Forum de l’Economie Collaborative4 juillet 2013, au Rocher de Palmer.Plus d’informations sur le Forum et ses intervenants sur www.bordeaux-economie-collaborative.orgwww.facebook.com/BXecocollabwww.twitter.com/BXecocollabvia <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAZnv4IEo9g'>Michel Bauwens – "En route vers de nouveaux territoires économiques" 3/4 – YouTube</a>.4IEo9g'>Michel Bauwens – "En route vers de nouveaux territoires économiques" 3/4 – YouTube</a>.)
Chargement/Site + (Publiée le 5 juil. 2013 … Publiée le 5 juil. 2013Bordeaux Forum de l’Economie Collaborative4 juillet 2013, au Rocher de Palmer.Plus d’informations sur le Forum et ses intervenants sur www.bordeaux-economie-collaborative.orgwww.facebook.com/BXecocollabwww.twitter.com/BXecocollabvia <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAZnv4IEo9g'>Michel Bauwens – "En route vers de nouveaux territoires économiques" 3/4 – YouTube</a>.4IEo9g'>Michel Bauwens – "En route vers de nouveaux territoires économiques" 3/4 – YouTube</a>.)
Chargement/Site + (Rights in Common aims at document … Rights in Common aims at documenting the place of law based on commons in the context of the Rio+20 negociations. During 2011, the preparation of the United Nations conference on sustainable development (Rio+20) with the Rio+20 french collective and the participants of the World Social Forum, lead us to suggest making the rights based on the commons a skyline of social demand at the international scale. But as a prerequisite we’d have to be able to explicit the contents of these rights and forsee how these would be implemented and enforced. To try to answer this question, a <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Des_droits_bas%C3%A9s_sur_les_biens_communs"> first text </ a> was written by Silke Helfrich and Frédéric Sultan after the Social Forum in Porto Alegre.The remix project « Rights in Commons » is the continuation of this work by means of video and the remix made from video recordings of the United Nations conference and of the Peoples Summit.<h3>Futur development</h3>The Rights in Commons project move on by the organization of a workshop during the Economics, Commons Conference on May the 22nd 2013 in Berlin. It’s about continuing the ellaboration work initiated and particularly test the underling hypotheses on various domains and use cases, to reach a more global vision.<h3>Collaborators</h3>Frédéric Sultan is coordinator of this project. Emiliano Bazan has taken charge of the video production.<h3>Financing</h3>The Rights in Commons project gets financial support from the « Fonds Francophone des inforoutes » through the project Remix the Commons.<h3>Role of Remix the Commons</h3>Remix the Commons has been a space facilitating cooperation between Communautique and VECAM to produce videos during the Peoples Summit at Rio+20.;/h3> Remix the Commons has been a space facilitating cooperation between Communautique and VECAM to produce videos during the Peoples Summit at Rio+20.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Rights in Common aims at document … Rights in Common aims at documenting the place of law based on commons in the context of the Rio+20 negociations. During 2011, the preparation of the United Nations conference on sustainable development (Rio+20) with the Rio+20 french collective and the participants of the World Social Forum, lead us to suggest making the rights based on the commons a skyline of social demand at the international scale. But as a prerequisite we’d have to be able to explicit the contents of these rights and forsee how these would be implemented and enforced. To try to answer this question, a <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Des_droits_bas%C3%A9s_sur_les_biens_communs"> first text </ a> was written by Silke Helfrich and Frédéric Sultan after the Social Forum in Porto Alegre.The remix project « Rights in Commons » is the continuation of this work by means of video and the remix made from video recordings of the United Nations conference and of the Peoples Summit.<h3>Futur development</h3>The Rights in Commons project move on by the organization of a workshop during the Economics, Commons Conference on May the 22nd 2013 in Berlin. It’s about continuing the ellaboration work initiated and particularly test the underling hypotheses on various domains and use cases, to reach a more global vision.<h3>Collaborators</h3>Frédéric Sultan is coordinator of this project. Emiliano Bazan has taken charge of the video production.<h3>Financing</h3>The Rights in Commons project gets financial support from the « Fonds Francophone des inforoutes » through the project Remix the Commons.<h3>Role of Remix the Commons</h3>Remix the Commons has been a space facilitating cooperation between Communautique and VECAM to produce videos during the Peoples Summit at Rio+20.;/h3> Remix the Commons has been a space facilitating cooperation between Communautique and VECAM to produce videos during the Peoples Summit at Rio+20.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Santiago Hoerth Moura de <a hr … Santiago Hoerth Moura de <a href="http://www.pillku.org/">Revista Pillku</a> a rencontré Alain Ambrosi à Mexico en novembre 2012 dans le cadre de la rencontre préparatoire à la <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conference">conférence Economics, Commons Conference</a>. Tous deux ont échangé sur les biens communs et le projet Remix Biens Communs. Santiago Hoerth Moura a publié l’interview suivante en espagnol.<h4></h4><h4></h4><h4>Entrevista con Alain Ambrosi</h4><h2>Remix the Commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia</h2>Alain Ambrosi es de Québec, la ciudad de Montreal en Canadá y trabaja para una organización que se llama COMMUNOTIC como investigador asociado, y específicamente para un proyecto que se llama Remix the Commons o Remezcla los comunes que es un proyecto internacional de plataforma en la web.Por Redacción Pillku¿Cuál es tu experiencia de trabajo con los comunes?Mi experiencia de trabajo en los comunes empieza en la documentación de todo lo que se hace y lo que se dice sobre los comunes desde hace ya tres años. Empezando en el Foro Social de Belém en 2009, donde tuvimos el primer Encuentro Internacional Ciencia y Democracia, donde se habló de los commons. En este tiempo se hablaba de los bienes comunes, y la declaración final de este foro social mundial de Belém integró una declaración de recuperación de los Bienes Comunes. Desde este tiempo yo hice como siguiendo un poco las manifestaciones, conferencias, que se hacían sobre los comunes, hubo después la conferencia de Berlín organizado también por el Commons Strategies Group pero con la Fundación Heinrich Böll, era el primer encuentro donde la gente de los comunes materiales y de los comunes inmateriales se encontraron por primera vez digamos. Y fue en esta ocasión que hemos pensando y lanzado la idea de un proyecto que se llama Remix the Commons.Entonces contamos un poco en qué consiste Remix the Commons.Remix the Commons es una plataforma de intercambio de difusión, de producción, de documentos multimedia sobre el tema de los comunes. Es una plataforma socio-técnica, donde preferimos hablar más de lo socio que de lo técnico, y decir que es una plataforma que es un espacio de co-creación sobre los comunes. Entonces hemos empezado con entrevistas en todas estas reuniones, foros sociales, pero estamos integrando varios documentos sobre los comunes. Pero la plataforma no es solamente una cosa que va hacer sobre internet; es realmente un espacio de trabajo de co-creación, quiere decir que ya tenemos un montón de problemas que resolver, problemas técnicos que para nosotros es algo menor, pero a nivel jurídico legal porque vamos a hacer circular imágenes, videos, lo cual es un problema grande, y a nivel económico también, porque hay que sustentar este tipo de proyectos y ya tenemos varias ideas de trabajar a nivel de los comunes, porque nosotros nos consideramos com un bien común, quiero decir el proyecto Remix the Commons, queremos funcionar como un bien común, una comunidad de “partenarios” que van a decir las reglas propias, para ir adelante con el proyecto.Entonces tenemos otras dimensiones muy importantes, como la gobernanza, como cuáles reglas vamos a poner y, también, otra dimensión que me parece muy importante que es la dimensión intercultural porque es muy difícil, por ejemplo que hemos visto desde el principio en Berlín: hace dos años tenemos una serie de entrevistas, de series que hablan de los comunes en chino o en otros idiomas, y se ve que el concepto mismo de commons corresponde a algo bien profundo en todas las culturas, y a veces hay diferencias, etc., y entonces es un desafío que me parece muy grande eso, el de la interculturalidad, las traducciones, etc.Remix The Commons es un proyecto colaborativo sobre obras multimedia. Su objetivo es documentar e ilustrar las ideas y prácticas en torno a la cuestión del bien común en el proceso creativo. Para conocer más su trabajo visita: <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org">https://www.remixthecommons.org</a>via<a href="http://www.pillku.org/article/remix-the-commons-es-una-plataforma-de-intercambio/">Remix the commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia | Revista Pillku, amantes de la libertad | Cultura Libre.</a>emixthecommons.org</a> via<a href="http://www.pillku.org/article/remix-the-commons-es-una-plataforma-de-intercambio/">Remix the commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia | Revista Pillku, amantes de la libertad | Cultura Libre.</a>)
Chargement/Site + (Santiago Hoerth Moura from <a … Santiago Hoerth Moura from <a href="http://www.pillku.org/">Revista Pillku</a> met Alain Ambrosi in Mexico City last November 2012 during the preparatory meeting for the <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conference">Economics, Commons Conference</a>. They have discussed about commons and about Remix the Commons project. Santiago Hoerth Moura has published the following interview in Spanish.<h4>Entrevista con Alain Ambrosi</h4><h2>Remix the Commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia</h2>Alain Ambrosi es de Québec, la ciudad de Montreal en Canadá y trabaja para una organización que se llama COMMUNOTIC como investigador asociado, y específicamente para un proyecto que se llama Remix the Commons o Remezcla los comunes que es un proyecto internacional de plataforma en la web.Por Redacción Pillku¿Cuál es tu experiencia de trabajo con los comunes?Mi experiencia de trabajo en los comunes empieza en la documentación de todo lo que se hace y lo que se dice sobre los comunes desde hace ya tres años. Empezando en el Foro Social de Belém en 2009, donde tuvimos el primer Encuentro Internacional Ciencia y Democracia, donde se habló de los commons. En este tiempo se hablaba de los bienes comunes, y la declaración final de este foro social mundial de Belém integró una declaración de recuperación de los Bienes Comunes. Desde este tiempo yo hice como siguiendo un poco las manifestaciones, conferencias, que se hacían sobre los comunes, hubo después la conferencia de Berlín organizado también por el Commons Strategies Group pero con la Fundación Heinrich Böll, era el primer encuentro donde la gente de los comunes materiales y de los comunes inmateriales se encontraron por primera vez digamos. Y fue en esta ocasión que hemos pensando y lanzado la idea de un proyecto que se llama Remix the Commons.Entonces contamos un poco en qué consiste Remix the Commons.Remix the Commons es una plataforma de intercambio de difusión, de producción, de documentos multimedia sobre el tema de los comunes. Es una plataforma socio-técnica, donde preferimos hablar más de lo socio que de lo técnico, y decir que es una plataforma que es un espacio de co-creación sobre los comunes. Entonces hemos empezado con entrevistas en todas estas reuniones, foros sociales, pero estamos integrando varios documentos sobre los comunes. Pero la plataforma no es solamente una cosa que va hacer sobre internet; es realmente un espacio de trabajo de co-creación, quiere decir que ya tenemos un montón de problemas que resolver, problemas técnicos que para nosotros es algo menor, pero a nivel jurídico legal porque vamos a hacer circular imágenes, videos, lo cual es un problema grande, y a nivel económico también, porque hay que sustentar este tipo de proyectos y ya tenemos varias ideas de trabajar a nivel de los comunes, porque nosotros nos consideramos com un bien común, quiero decir el proyecto Remix the Commons, queremos funcionar como un bien común, una comunidad de “partenarios” que van a decir las reglas propias, para ir adelante con el proyecto.Entonces tenemos otras dimensiones muy importantes, como la gobernanza, como cuáles reglas vamos a poner y, también, otra dimensión que me parece muy importante que es la dimensión intercultural porque es muy difícil, por ejemplo que hemos visto desde el principio en Berlín: hace dos años tenemos una serie de entrevistas, de series que hablan de los comunes en chino o en otros idiomas, y se ve que el concepto mismo de commons corresponde a algo bien profundo en todas las culturas, y a veces hay diferencias, etc., y entonces es un desafío que me parece muy grande eso, el de la interculturalidad, las traducciones, etc.Remix The Commons es un proyecto colaborativo sobre obras multimedia. Su objetivo es documentar e ilustrar las ideas y prácticas en torno a la cuestión del bien común en el proceso creativo. Para conocer más su trabajo visita: <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org">https://www.remixthecommons.org</a>via<a href="http://www.pillku.org/article/remix-the-commons-es-una-plataforma-de-intercambio/">Remix the commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia | Revista Pillku, amantes de la libertad | Cultura Libre.</a></a> via<a href="http://www.pillku.org/article/remix-the-commons-es-una-plataforma-de-intercambio/">Remix the commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia | Revista Pillku, amantes de la libertad | Cultura Libre.</a>)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Santiago Hoerth Moura from <a … Santiago Hoerth Moura from <a href="http://www.pillku.org/">Revista Pillku</a> met Alain Ambrosi in Mexico City last November 2012 during the preparatory meeting for the <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conference">Economics, Commons Conference</a>. They have discussed about commons and about Remix the Commons project. Santiago Hoerth Moura has published the following interview in Spanish.<h4>Entrevista con Alain Ambrosi</h4><h2>Remix the Commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia</h2>Alain Ambrosi es de Québec, la ciudad de Montreal en Canadá y trabaja para una organización que se llama COMMUNOTIC como investigador asociado, y específicamente para un proyecto que se llama Remix the Commons o Remezcla los comunes que es un proyecto internacional de plataforma en la web.Por Redacción Pillku¿Cuál es tu experiencia de trabajo con los comunes?Mi experiencia de trabajo en los comunes empieza en la documentación de todo lo que se hace y lo que se dice sobre los comunes desde hace ya tres años. Empezando en el Foro Social de Belém en 2009, donde tuvimos el primer Encuentro Internacional Ciencia y Democracia, donde se habló de los commons. En este tiempo se hablaba de los bienes comunes, y la declaración final de este foro social mundial de Belém integró una declaración de recuperación de los Bienes Comunes. Desde este tiempo yo hice como siguiendo un poco las manifestaciones, conferencias, que se hacían sobre los comunes, hubo después la conferencia de Berlín organizado también por el Commons Strategies Group pero con la Fundación Heinrich Böll, era el primer encuentro donde la gente de los comunes materiales y de los comunes inmateriales se encontraron por primera vez digamos. Y fue en esta ocasión que hemos pensando y lanzado la idea de un proyecto que se llama Remix the Commons.Entonces contamos un poco en qué consiste Remix the Commons.Remix the Commons es una plataforma de intercambio de difusión, de producción, de documentos multimedia sobre el tema de los comunes. Es una plataforma socio-técnica, donde preferimos hablar más de lo socio que de lo técnico, y decir que es una plataforma que es un espacio de co-creación sobre los comunes. Entonces hemos empezado con entrevistas en todas estas reuniones, foros sociales, pero estamos integrando varios documentos sobre los comunes. Pero la plataforma no es solamente una cosa que va hacer sobre internet; es realmente un espacio de trabajo de co-creación, quiere decir que ya tenemos un montón de problemas que resolver, problemas técnicos que para nosotros es algo menor, pero a nivel jurídico legal porque vamos a hacer circular imágenes, videos, lo cual es un problema grande, y a nivel económico también, porque hay que sustentar este tipo de proyectos y ya tenemos varias ideas de trabajar a nivel de los comunes, porque nosotros nos consideramos com un bien común, quiero decir el proyecto Remix the Commons, queremos funcionar como un bien común, una comunidad de “partenarios” que van a decir las reglas propias, para ir adelante con el proyecto.Entonces tenemos otras dimensiones muy importantes, como la gobernanza, como cuáles reglas vamos a poner y, también, otra dimensión que me parece muy importante que es la dimensión intercultural porque es muy difícil, por ejemplo que hemos visto desde el principio en Berlín: hace dos años tenemos una serie de entrevistas, de series que hablan de los comunes en chino o en otros idiomas, y se ve que el concepto mismo de commons corresponde a algo bien profundo en todas las culturas, y a veces hay diferencias, etc., y entonces es un desafío que me parece muy grande eso, el de la interculturalidad, las traducciones, etc.Remix The Commons es un proyecto colaborativo sobre obras multimedia. Su objetivo es documentar e ilustrar las ideas y prácticas en torno a la cuestión del bien común en el proceso creativo. Para conocer más su trabajo visita: <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org">https://www.remixthecommons.org</a>via<a href="http://www.pillku.org/article/remix-the-commons-es-una-plataforma-de-intercambio/">Remix the commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia | Revista Pillku, amantes de la libertad | Cultura Libre.</a></a> via<a href="http://www.pillku.org/article/remix-the-commons-es-una-plataforma-de-intercambio/">Remix the commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia | Revista Pillku, amantes de la libertad | Cultura Libre.</a>)
Chargement/Site + (Spain’s recent municipal and regi … Spain’s recent municipal and regional elections have transformed the entire political scene. New citizen coalitions with roots in community groups allied with small progressive political parties won unexpected victories in several large cities. This, plus the fact that two new national political parties – Podemos and Ciudadanos – burst decisively onto the political stage in the regional elections, has blocked the bipartisan (PP-PSOE) system created with the 1975 democratic transition. Victorious in 7 major cities throughout the country, including the 3 largest ones (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia), these coalitions open the door to a different sort of transition, questioning the dominant political culture and mentality, and in most cases putting in place minority governments, thus obliging various parties to negotiate joint platforms. It is interesting to note that Podemos, the young political party that made a surprise showing in the 2014 European elections and made strong gains on the regional level this year, decided not to present its own candidates in the municipal elections, but rather participated in or – more frequently – supported the new citizen coalitions in various cities.<h2>Reinventing Urban Commons for the XXIst Century</h2>These newcomers to the municipal political scene identifiy with the Commons, and in some cases even include the term in their names : Barcelona en Comù, Zaragoza en Comun… A perusal of their programmes and of the manner in which they were developed demonstrates that this is not simply an empty phrase, but the reference to the Commons introduces instead a new political discourse and horizon and, above all, a new way of ‘doing’ politics. The new candidates-elect come from different social movements and this is their first experience in electoral politics. Their ‘non-parties’ are in general less than a year old but the organisations they come from have held massive mobilisations and won significant local victories. On analysis, the new political culture they aim for is rooted in the tradition of urban struggle now revisited and improved on the basis of the citizen movements that originated in the 2008 financial crisis, the indignados of 2011, and the successive ‘waves’ (mareas) that followed in the housing, health, education, culture and urban ecology sectors. The tradition of self-management and ‘self-government’ often rooted in libertarianism and long known as ‘municipalism’ has been revisited by the culture and practices of the many anti-growth, ecological, alter-globalisation, and cultural movements inspired by the spirit of the Indignados of 2011 with an impressive mastery and intelligent use of new technologies and audiovisual media.The challenges facing this new municipalism are enormous : the problems are illustrated by the findings of two international reports revealed immediately following the May 24 elections. The firsti underlined the explosion of the level of poverty since the beginning of the crisis (increase from 9% to 18%) while the secondii demonstrated an increase of 40% of the number of extremely rich during the same period. Adding to the general morosity by reiterating prevailing logic, the IMF seized the occasion, shortly prior to the investiture of the new municipal governments, to congratulate the Spanish government on its ‘encouraging’ economic results while publicly reminding it that it must continue its austerity measures by increasing indirect taxes, cutting health and education budgets still more and lowering wages. What else could be expected from the fans of austerity?<h2>The Re-dignified Good Life In Common</h2>But such dire pronouncements do not scathe the confidence of the new mayors whose campaigns were run and programmes built on an anti-austerity stance; they are already putting in place (Barcelona is a good example) some of the measures set out in their plan of attack for affordable housing, food, accessible public utilities and transportation, and a basic living allowance. They are dedicating an unprecedented quantity of resources for municipal governments to these measures in an explicit attempt to counter the ‘de-humanising’ effects of austerity policies and to ‘restore the dignity’ of the most vulnerable. But the declared intentions of the new municipal leaders go far beyond the emergency measures of the first few months of their term. They want to turn their cities into living experiments in promoting an urban Good Life that redefines economic and social policy and municipal responsabilities as well as democratic practices on the municipal but also the regional, national and international levels. In her inaugural speech as Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau called for the creation of a ‘network of democratic cities in Southern Europe’.<h2>Transparency and Participation</h2>This incipient revolution in political culture and practice is taking place with total transparency, with the creation of a code of ethics, cutting the salaries of the elected representatives and eliminating statutory perks (official cars, per diems, etc) and, above all, by wagering on the collective intelligence and active participation of local citizens. Indeed, many of them have already taken part in the municipal programme by contributing to its elaboration prior to and during the campaign in the many neighbourhood meetings and various ‘crowd-sourcing’ moments on virtual platforms. The resulting highly structured programme remains an open document and is in itself an invitation to participate. The web page of Barcelona en Comù boldly states : ‘The programme you have before you is a programme In Common and, as you can see, that requires a major change from traditional political programmes […] it’s a document that aims to be useful to dialogue amongst citizens.’ iiiDuring her inauguration ceremony, Ada Colau asserted that ‘it is indispensable to create a new form of governance’, reminding the crowd that she is but ‘one of thousands of neighbours’, that she plans to ‘govern by obeying’ and that if she and her team do not deliver on their programme promises ‘Kick us out!’. The thousands of people watching the ceremony on giant screens in Plaza Sant Jaume greeted her speech with shouts of ‘Yes we can!’ (Si se puede), echoing the slogans of the public meetings held throughout the campaign. In a crowd so dense that she could hardly make her way through, but clearly at ease surrounded by ‘neighbours’, comrades and partisans, Ada slipped into the discourse and manner of the ex-president and activist of the PAHiv. With her charming smile, she declared to the enthusiastic crowd that ‘governing will not be easy but we are not alone’ and called on them to show responsability and to actively participate. She concluded evoking the need for empathy and invited the crowd to organise a demonstration in support of the strking telephone workers of Movistar, present in the crowd, and whose struggle she has supported throughout the campaign. The tone has been set, and indicates that it is not only the Commons but also the spirit of the Indignados movement that has come to City Hall.<h2>The Realism of the Commons</h2>In an article titled ‘It’s time for realism’, Josep Ramoneda, columnist for the catalan daily Ara, compared the proposals of Barcelona en Comù to the latest demands of the IMF, demonstrating that the ‘nihilist utopias’ – a label often used by the media and the governing right wing PP party to denigrate progressive alternatives – are instead found in the proposals of the neoliberal hardliners, incapable as they have shown themselves to be of finding a solution to the economic crisis and deepening inequality. He concludes by affirming ‘Let’s be realistic, let us consider the common good’v – a somewhat astonishing comment in this newpaper reputed to be more interested in supporting independence than the Commons. A comment that also reveals that the Commons have come not only to Town Hall, but are emerging in the collective imagination and in political discourse.<h2>A Living Laboratory, an Invitation to Commoning</h2>The emerging glocal movement of commoners and their apprentices should observe closely what transpires in this living laboratory of the urban commons. There is a lot to learn from this commons in action about the nature of the commons, the process of commoning and the possible transition to a commons society. This is also a unique opportunity to contribute peer-to-peer with our own experiences and know-how, developed all over the globe in the many different socio-cultural contexts where the Commons are being reinvented in recent years.Alain Ambrosi, Barcelona, 17 June 20151 OECD, May 2015 <a href="http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/employment/in-it-together-why-lne.ess-inequality-benefits-all_9789264235120-en">http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/employment/in-it-together-why-lne.ess-inequality-benefits-all_9789264235120-en</a> 2 Capgemini and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Wealth Management. Cited in El Pais 17 June 2015. 3 <a href="https://barcelonaencomu.cat">https://barcelonaencomu.cat</a> 4 PAH : Plataforma des los afectados por la hipoteca – Platform of those affected by mortgage (ie, against expulsions) created in 2009 in Barcelona and which now counts some 200 member associations in Spain. 5 Ara, 10 June 2015.;/a> 4 PAH : Plataforma des los afectados por la hipoteca – Platform of those affected by mortgage (ie, against expulsions) created in 2009 in Barcelona and which now counts some 200 member associations in Spain. 5 Ara, 10 June 2015.)
Chargement/Site + (The 11 and 12 November, the <a … The 11 and 12 November, the <a href=" http://www.deeep.org/"> DEEEP project </a> , co-funded by the European Union program , gathered in Johannesburg (South Africa) 200 activists from around the world to rethink the framework of development NGOs and initiate the construction of a » World Citizens Movement . » This meeting is the starting point of a process that will last two years of citizen mobilization for change and global justice. <a Href="http://movement.deeep.org"> A digital platform </a> is dedicated to it. During the conference, the participants began to learn from the work of civil society, its modes of organization and action in different areas around the world and produced a document, <a href = " http://www.deeep.org/component/content/article/395.html " >« The Johannesburg Compass: Questions and orientations »</a> to define the principles that should guide the work of the two coming years.Invited to participate in this process, I have contributed to discussions and writing text to feed as much as possible of the concept of the commons. Conceived initially as a declaration of principles supported by a shared vision, this document has become a guide for the process itself, based on a few key ideas such as the need to de-colonize our minds and de-institutionalize development organizations. The result reflects the will of renewal in both form and content of the action, but leaves unanswered, at least for the moment, questions about the nature of a worl citizen movement, if it is one motion, and the nature of the process of the two next years of workfollowing the conference.It seems to me that today , a world citizens movement has to revolutionize the way for everyone to exercise their citizenship, and to be aware of. One of the roles of NGOs and CSOs should be to support the politicization of everyday life in the field of health , nutrition , education , work, .. .. etc, within the perspective of the commons. How to do this on a massive scale ? Appart from action campaigns on strategic objectives at the regional or global level, made by organizations, that are the infrastructure of civil society, it is to renew and articulate what is in France called popular education by integration of social neighborhood and mediated by computer networks practices. Such a dynamic would allow each to be more confortable with broader perspective and the international agenda. The challenge is to build bridges with multiple communities of belonging, not to provide them with the leadership of NGOs and movements, but to recognize and legitimize their leaderships at different scales of power (from local to global).To listen to the conference participants at Johannesburg , it looks like it must also go through the (re)discovery of the commons within organizations, regardless of their size or intended to rebuild the project itself. This can be a wide perspective of the organization (NGOs / CSOs ) to continue the work from Johburg. In this sense, it will be better to work on Our commons than to define THE commons and to try to transform organizations working on their values, projects and actions, rather than seeking Commons as a theoretical or ideological framework.Another avenue is to share les lessons learned by activists of the intangible and knowledge commons that, since the emergence of the computer have been able to build a movement that defends their values, distributed forms of collaboration , openness and freedom , sharing and solidarity , personal empowerment and participation in collectives, acting on a small scale while remaining in a universal vision. This movement is generally invisible as a social movement for people who are not activists. Everyone uses free software, access to culture and free knowledge, most of the time without paying attention. Yet organizations of knowledge and free culture are structured and are » NGO » or » OCS » weighty. Just consider the most visible in the public area alike Wikimedia Foundation, or the weight of this movement in the industrial sector (IBM , Android, …) or the work of lobbying done by groups aloke EFF Quadrature net, to realize that. It is a movement to maturity. This experience and the culture it develops worth sharing. Would not it be helpful to think a similar movement in the field of materials, urban, rural and natural commons?Frédéric Sultanould not it be helpful to think a similar movement in the field of materials, urban, rural and natural commons? Frédéric Sultan)
Chargement/Site 2 + (The 11 and 12 November, the <a … The 11 and 12 November, the <a href=" http://www.deeep.org/"> DEEEP project </a> , co-funded by the European Union program , gathered in Johannesburg (South Africa) 200 activists from around the world to rethink the framework of development NGOs and initiate the construction of a » World Citizens Movement . » This meeting is the starting point of a process that will last two years of citizen mobilization for change and global justice. <a Href="http://movement.deeep.org"> A digital platform </a> is dedicated to it. During the conference, the participants began to learn from the work of civil society, its modes of organization and action in different areas around the world and produced a document, <a href = " http://www.deeep.org/component/content/article/395.html " >« The Johannesburg Compass: Questions and orientations »</a> to define the principles that should guide the work of the two coming years.Invited to participate in this process, I have contributed to discussions and writing text to feed as much as possible of the concept of the commons. Conceived initially as a declaration of principles supported by a shared vision, this document has become a guide for the process itself, based on a few key ideas such as the need to de-colonize our minds and de-institutionalize development organizations. The result reflects the will of renewal in both form and content of the action, but leaves unanswered, at least for the moment, questions about the nature of a worl citizen movement, if it is one motion, and the nature of the process of the two next years of workfollowing the conference.It seems to me that today , a world citizens movement has to revolutionize the way for everyone to exercise their citizenship, and to be aware of. One of the roles of NGOs and CSOs should be to support the politicization of everyday life in the field of health , nutrition , education , work, .. .. etc, within the perspective of the commons. How to do this on a massive scale ? Appart from action campaigns on strategic objectives at the regional or global level, made by organizations, that are the infrastructure of civil society, it is to renew and articulate what is in France called popular education by integration of social neighborhood and mediated by computer networks practices. Such a dynamic would allow each to be more confortable with broader perspective and the international agenda. The challenge is to build bridges with multiple communities of belonging, not to provide them with the leadership of NGOs and movements, but to recognize and legitimize their leaderships at different scales of power (from local to global).To listen to the conference participants at Johannesburg , it looks like it must also go through the (re)discovery of the commons within organizations, regardless of their size or intended to rebuild the project itself. This can be a wide perspective of the organization (NGOs / CSOs ) to continue the work from Johburg. In this sense, it will be better to work on Our commons than to define THE commons and to try to transform organizations working on their values, projects and actions, rather than seeking Commons as a theoretical or ideological framework.Another avenue is to share les lessons learned by activists of the intangible and knowledge commons that, since the emergence of the computer have been able to build a movement that defends their values, distributed forms of collaboration , openness and freedom , sharing and solidarity , personal empowerment and participation in collectives, acting on a small scale while remaining in a universal vision. This movement is generally invisible as a social movement for people who are not activists. Everyone uses free software, access to culture and free knowledge, most of the time without paying attention. Yet organizations of knowledge and free culture are structured and are » NGO » or » OCS » weighty. Just consider the most visible in the public area alike Wikimedia Foundation, or the weight of this movement in the industrial sector (IBM , Android, …) or the work of lobbying done by groups aloke EFF Quadrature net, to realize that. It is a movement to maturity. This experience and the culture it develops worth sharing. Would not it be helpful to think a similar movement in the field of materials, urban, rural and natural commons?Frédéric Sultanould not it be helpful to think a similar movement in the field of materials, urban, rural and natural commons? Frédéric Sultan)
Chargement/Site + (The <a href="https://wiki.remi … The <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Petit_d%C3%A9jeuner_en_commun_(Coll)">Breakfasts in-Common </a>process was initiated by Senegal’s « Centre d’Art Senegalais Kër Thiossane » and Quebec’s « Communautique », as part of the project Remix the Commons.Born from a research dynamic about endogenous definitions of commons, Breakfasts in-Common bring occasions to think collectively about what commons mean, from an artistic approach. The goal of these meetings whether in Dakar or Montréal is not only to understand but also to feel the meaning difference that exists between my « I » and the « we » of a collective process. A sensitive approach that allows to craft stories able to give some meaning to the fact of living together. Stories that help maintain the community in motion and give a purpose to one’s own existence and thriving.<H2>First light in Dakar</H2> From January 2012, in Dakar, in a violent pre-election context, in the midst of doubts about the constitution and the rise of citizenship awareness in all Senegal, Kër Thiossane started an exploratory work around Commons by organizing Breakfasts in-Common in a monthy cycle.Three Breakfasts in-Common were organized between January and April 2012 on the subjects « The commons in African cities » ; « Commons and space » and « Languages and knowledge ».These Breakfasts in-Common were moments of gathering and exchanges constituting by themselves a practice of the « in-Common », where each participates in sharing knowledge in a horizontal dynamic.Each Breakfast started by viewing a film produced by the Kër Thiossane team on an artist and his or her questioning about one aspect of the Commons in the Senegalese society.Some of the films and extracts from the breakfasts recordings are available online on the Kër Thiossane website, along with a toolbox of books, texts, interviews that anyone is welcomed to enrich with their own contributions via a wiki or at a breakfast in-Common.Afropixel Festival This material, accumulated since early 2012 and the thinking initiated among the artistic community and the inhabitants was used to prepare a variety of activities, residences, workshops and performances at the time of the Afropixel festival as part of the theme « Creation, culture and knowledge in Common », that took place in may 2012.Among this diverse and rich programming, Kër Thiossane gathered great African thinkers and artists to elaborate collectively on the question of « Artistic responsibility in the construction of the in-Common ».All around a glass of tea, Achille Mbembe, Simon Njami, Ken Bugul, Kan-Si, Felwine Sarr, Thiat and Ibrahima Wane took part in what was not an expert group but rather a meeting where everyone’s expertise was to profit the collective thinking that was woven along the talks.<h2>Kédougou, until where is your place ?</h2>In 2013, the Breakfasts in-Common keep on with the collaboration of the collective « La companyía (http://www.lacompanyia.org/). They delocalize with a first breakfast outside Dakar in March as part of the « Night of the stars » festival organised by the Multimedia Community center of Kédougou.Taking the same theme as the festival, « Kédougou, until where is your place ? », we investigated on the problematic of the Kédougou region associated with Commons. The opening of the question « where is your place » allowed to approach the questions about managing natural resources in a boundary region rich in gold and ore, as well as belonging and building of communities.<H3>Futur development</h3>The Breakfasts in-Common and the Afropixel festival organized so far have drawn a great interest, as much from artists and members of the civil society as from citizens, in Senegal. Seeds were sown and a real awareness of the stake of Commons invites us to continue these meetings in an even more open way, about other aspects of Commons, with the objective to enable and widen this collective thinking space. In 2013-2014, Kër Thiossane would like to organize other breakfasts at regular intervals and repeat more of the delocalised experiments, outside Dakar, in partnership with Senegal’s community radios network.These experiments with continue to be filmed, documented and shared with Communautique in Montréal and other partners, actors of commons elsewhere in the world (Finland, Colombia…). Videos and other documents from these with be posted online on the Remix the commons platform.<h3>Collaborators</h3>Marion Louisgrand Sylla (Ker Thiossane). Susana Moliner – Marta Vallejo Herrando ( La Companiya),<h3>Financing</h3>The Breakfasts in-Common receives financial support from the « Fonds Francophone des inforoutes » through the project Remix the Commons. The production of the Breakfasts in-Common in Dakar was made possible thanks to the financial support from Arts Collaboratory and the « Organisation Internationale de la Froncophonie in Kër Thiossane.<h3>Contribution of Remix the Commons</h3>Remix the Commons contributed in the onset of the project and spread the word of it’s existance among commoners. Remix the Commons supports formalisation of the process and the deployement of a network of similar practices.Thiossane. <h3>Contribution of Remix the Commons</h3> Remix the Commons contributed in the onset of the project and spread the word of it’s existance among commoners. Remix the Commons supports formalisation of the process and the deployement of a network of similar practices.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (The <a href="https://wiki.remi … The <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Petit_d%C3%A9jeuner_en_commun_(Coll)">Breakfasts in-Common </a>process was initiated by Senegal’s « Centre d’Art Senegalais Kër Thiossane » and Quebec’s « Communautique », as part of the project Remix the Commons.Born from a research dynamic about endogenous definitions of commons, Breakfasts in-Common bring occasions to think collectively about what commons mean, from an artistic approach. The goal of these meetings whether in Dakar or Montréal is not only to understand but also to feel the meaning difference that exists between my « I » and the « we » of a collective process. A sensitive approach that allows to craft stories able to give some meaning to the fact of living together. Stories that help maintain the community in motion and give a purpose to one’s own existence and thriving.<H2>First light in Dakar</H2> From January 2012, in Dakar, in a violent pre-election context, in the midst of doubts about the constitution and the rise of citizenship awareness in all Senegal, Kër Thiossane started an exploratory work around Commons by organizing Breakfasts in-Common in a monthy cycle.Three Breakfasts in-Common were organized between January and April 2012 on the subjects « The commons in African cities » ; « Commons and space » and « Languages and knowledge ».These Breakfasts in-Common were moments of gathering and exchanges constituting by themselves a practice of the « in-Common », where each participates in sharing knowledge in a horizontal dynamic.Each Breakfast started by viewing a film produced by the Kër Thiossane team on an artist and his or her questioning about one aspect of the Commons in the Senegalese society.Some of the films and extracts from the breakfasts recordings are available online on the Kër Thiossane website, along with a toolbox of books, texts, interviews that anyone is welcomed to enrich with their own contributions via a wiki or at a breakfast in-Common.Afropixel Festival This material, accumulated since early 2012 and the thinking initiated among the artistic community and the inhabitants was used to prepare a variety of activities, residences, workshops and performances at the time of the Afropixel festival as part of the theme « Creation, culture and knowledge in Common », that took place in may 2012.Among this diverse and rich programming, Kër Thiossane gathered great African thinkers and artists to elaborate collectively on the question of « Artistic responsibility in the construction of the in-Common ».All around a glass of tea, Achille Mbembe, Simon Njami, Ken Bugul, Kan-Si, Felwine Sarr, Thiat and Ibrahima Wane took part in what was not an expert group but rather a meeting where everyone’s expertise was to profit the collective thinking that was woven along the talks.<h2>Kédougou, until where is your place ?</h2>In 2013, the Breakfasts in-Common keep on with the collaboration of the collective « La companyía (http://www.lacompanyia.org/). They delocalize with a first breakfast outside Dakar in March as part of the « Night of the stars » festival organised by the Multimedia Community center of Kédougou.Taking the same theme as the festival, « Kédougou, until where is your place ? », we investigated on the problematic of the Kédougou region associated with Commons. The opening of the question « where is your place » allowed to approach the questions about managing natural resources in a boundary region rich in gold and ore, as well as belonging and building of communities.<H3>Futur development</h3>The Breakfasts in-Common and the Afropixel festival organized so far have drawn a great interest, as much from artists and members of the civil society as from citizens, in Senegal. Seeds were sown and a real awareness of the stake of Commons invites us to continue these meetings in an even more open way, about other aspects of Commons, with the objective to enable and widen this collective thinking space. In 2013-2014, Kër Thiossane would like to organize other breakfasts at regular intervals and repeat more of the delocalised experiments, outside Dakar, in partnership with Senegal’s community radios network.These experiments with continue to be filmed, documented and shared with Communautique in Montréal and other partners, actors of commons elsewhere in the world (Finland, Colombia…). Videos and other documents from these with be posted online on the Remix the commons platform.<h3>Collaborators</h3>Marion Louisgrand Sylla (Ker Thiossane). Susana Moliner – Marta Vallejo Herrando ( La Companiya),<h3>Financing</h3>The Breakfasts in-Common receives financial support from the « Fonds Francophone des inforoutes » through the project Remix the Commons. The production of the Breakfasts in-Common in Dakar was made possible thanks to the financial support from Arts Collaboratory and the « Organisation Internationale de la Froncophonie in Kër Thiossane.<h3>Contribution of Remix the Commons</h3>Remix the Commons contributed in the onset of the project and spread the word of it’s existance among commoners. Remix the Commons supports formalisation of the process and the deployement of a network of similar practices.Thiossane. <h3>Contribution of Remix the Commons</h3> Remix the Commons contributed in the onset of the project and spread the word of it’s existance among commoners. Remix the Commons supports formalisation of the process and the deployement of a network of similar practices.)
Chargement/Site + (The Charter of the Forest – Carta … The Charter of the Forest – Carta de Foresta – published in 1217, is recognized as the first official act that extends the protections and essential rights of the Magna Carta to the English commoners against the abuses of the aristocracy. Under this charter, the people are guaranteed the right to access forest resources. The impact of this charter has been revolutionary. It is generally considered one of the cornerstones of the British Constitution and<a href="https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_services/law_library_congress/charter_of_the_forest.html"> inspiration of the American Constitution</a> (2). It has made it possible to render vast expanses of land to the peasants, to oppose the plundering of the common goods by the monarchy and the aristocracy. In the 17th century, it has inspired the Diggers and Levellers and later protests against the enclosure of lands by the capitalist bourgeoisie. But it was repealed in 1971 by a conservative government, allowing the privatization of resources such as water for the benefit of multinational companies.Today, forests remain essential resources for housing, food sovereignty, and are essential for fighting environmental crises. A <a href="http://charteroftheforest800.org/">campaign</a> to celebrate the Forest Charter began in Britain in September and continues in November. The Lincoln Record Society has organized an international conference on the Charter of the Forest that began with a houseboat trip on the River Thames from Windsor to Runnymede, the place where was signed the Magna Carta. Experts presented the Charter of the Forest, its history and its contemporary implications. Participants were also able to see one of the original copies of the Forest Charter and participated in a guided tour of the Forest of Sherwood that (in France) we know through Robin Hood story.Today, there is a debate chaired by the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell MP, with Professors Peter Linebaugh and Guy Standing, and Julie Timbrell of <a href="https://thenewputneydebates.com/">New Putney Debates</a>. This debate is part of a week-long program (6) calling for the creation of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book">new Domesday Book</a>, a national census of UK landowners and the identification of the common goods as well as a new Commons Charter and Communities Charters. This is to question the notion of land ownership in a country where it is one of the most concentrated in the western countries, and to elaborate proposals, including a possible tax on land ownership, for a better distribution of rights and responsibilities to land.Thanks to Yves Otis for reporting the article <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/11/youve-never-heard-charter-important-magna-carta.html">Why You’ve Never Heard of a Charter as Important as the Magna Carta</a>Transcript of the Forest Charter: <a href="http://www.constitution.org/eng/charter_forest.html">http://www.constitution.org/eng/charter_forest.html</a> Forest Charter: <a href="http://www.constitution.org/eng/charter_forest.html">http://www.constitution.org/eng/charter_forest.html</a>)
Chargement/Site + (The violent destruction of the co … The violent destruction of the commons of the ZAD (Zone To Defend) of Notre-Dame-des-Landes by the French government is an infamous and revolting act. The current police offensive, led by several thousand gendarmes and CRS equipped with armored vehicles and helicopters is only the exercise of the purest State violence against a set of collective practices that are in progress or in preparation. This includes their fragile material conditions (buildings, meeting places, work tools, herds), and they are now destroyed by bulldozers and police squads.Since the first day of assault on the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, the destruction of the farm of the «Cents Noms» was a true declaration of social and political war. The destruction of this place was by no means imperative given the criteria invoked by the government in its « communication ». Nicole Klein, Prefect of Loire Region(<a href="#note1" name="retour au texte1"> 1</a>), justifies the police operation by claiming that the «Cents Noms» had not submitted an agricultural project. This is obviously false: the inhabitants of this farm were carrying an alternative agricultural project and some of them had submitted a request for regularization.What is the real reason for this destructive rage? It is not the absence of a project, it is the nature of the projects that is at stake. The State and its representatives do not support the life forms that are experimented here and now, and for the past 10 years. These life forms prefigure a society free from the ownership logic in all its dimensions. From this point of view, it is of the highest symbolic value that the inhabitants and defenders of the zone propose the Assembly of Uses to take charge of the collective management of lands and spaces from the beginning. This solution would’ve had the advantage to straightly extend the experience initiated and pursued for so many years: to make the logic of the common use which is a logic of care and nurture, or to prevail over the logic of land ownership which is a destructive and deadly logic.It is not the « Constitutional State » that defends itself, as the Prime Minister affirms, it is a State of force that wants to eliminate as quickly and completely as possible all actions that could perform the principle of the Common: associations, consumers and workers cooperatives, agricultural and craft projects, convivial modes of exchange and of life. The government wants to prevent the invention of what is a real way of producing and living by using its excessive police force. It also wants to eliminate a solidary and ecological model of life that we need today.The State shows its true face here. It is not only protecting private ownership, but it is itself completely under the logic of ownership. It is the Owner State in war against the commons. It must be defeated at all costs to preserve the treasure threatened of the commons. Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval—–Note : <a name="note1"></a>(1) The Prefect is a representative of the public authority in the department, directly appointed by the President of the Republic (and not elected as mayors).—– Original edition : <a href="http://questionmarx.typepad.fr/question-marx/2018/04/nddl-non-a-la-violence-de-letat-contre-les-communs-.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NDDL : NON A LA VIOLENCE DE L’ETAT CONTRE LES COMMUNS ! </a> Thursday, April 12 2018Translated in English by Frédéric Sultan and Alexandre Guttmanngt;NDDL : NON A LA VIOLENCE DE L’ETAT CONTRE LES COMMUNS ! </a> Thursday, April 12 2018 Translated in English by Frédéric Sultan and Alexandre Guttmann)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Un ouvrage incontournable ! </ … Un ouvrage incontournable ! La publication du dernier livre de Peter Linebaugh. <a href="http://ift.tt/O62hZa">Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance</a> (PM Press) avec des chapitres sur Karl Marx, les Luddites, William Morris, Thomas Paine, les peuples autochtones, est prévue pour le 1er mars, mais il est déjà accessible en ibook … par ailleurs auteur de Magna Carta dont on peut trouver l’introduction dans <a href="http://ift.tt/AmSWqc">Libres Savoirs</a>. A noter que 2015 sera le 800ième anniversaire de la signature de la Magna Carta en Grande Bretagne, une date à commémorer alors que se dérouleront la même année la COP 21 sur le climat, les négociations sur les OMD et que nous serons probablement à la fin de la négociation de l’accord transatlantique (TAFTA).obablement à la fin de la négociation de l’accord transatlantique (TAFTA).)
Chargement/Site + (Un ouvrage incontournable ! </ … Un ouvrage incontournable ! La publication du dernier livre de Peter Linebaugh. <a href="http://ift.tt/O62hZa">Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance</a> (PM Press) avec des chapitres sur Karl Marx, les Luddites, William Morris, Thomas Paine, les peuples autochtones, est prévue pour le 1er mars, mais il est déjà accessible en ibook … par ailleurs auteur de Magna Carta dont on peut trouver l’introduction dans <a href="http://ift.tt/AmSWqc">Libres Savoirs</a>. A noter que 2015 sera le 800ième anniversaire de la signature de la Magna Carta en Grande Bretagne, une date à commémorer alors que se dérouleront la même année la COP 21 sur le climat, les négociations sur les OMD et que nous serons probablement à la fin de la négociation de l’accord transatlantique (TAFTA).obablement à la fin de la négociation de l’accord transatlantique (TAFTA).)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Video créée par Connor Turland po … Video créée par Connor Turland pour la campagne de collecte de fonds pour l’organisation du séminaire « Commons based economy » de Quilligan School of Commoning à LondresTexte de la vidéo : <blockquote>There are at least 2 major factors at play in the universe. For our purposes we’ll call them Unity … and Diversity. Generally today, we tend to you think that you just can’t have both. And consequently, as a human, you can’t be working towards both. You’re either working towards this. Or this. And that decides which camp you’re in, warring against the other. Predictably, this gets us a net progress of … NOWHERE. The same place that 1 dimensional, polaristic thinking is getting us. So what if we thought in another dimension. Collectively, what we’ve gained over here…we’ve lost over here. The Commons is the word that encompasses all those things that have been depleted to get us where we are today. We are rapidly depleting the social, cultural, intellectual, natural, genetic, and material commons. But can we replenish this… Without losing what we’ve gained? Frankly, millions of people, and institutions, businesses, and even countries already are. And whether everyone knows it or not, we all seem to be converging… On what? … we could call it a Commons-Based Economy. But time is of the essence! As other forces threaten to throw us into a worse dark age than ever. That’s why the people in this campaign are working tirelessly for me AND we to support the emergence of a commons-based economy. Help us help the world as we build a commons for the commons. That means learning resources, a learning platform, and sharing the vital work of James Quilligan, who just gave 12 seminars in 12 days on the emergence of a commons-based economy. It will take all of our collective intentions and intelligence to learn our way together towards the more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible. To take the human project to the next dimension, we need nothing less than a mass movement. Internet, your move.</blockquote>next dimension, we need nothing less than a mass movement. Internet, your move.</blockquote>)
Chargement/Site + (Video créée par Connor Turland po … Video créée par Connor Turland pour la campagne de collecte de fonds pour l’organisation du séminaire « Commons based economy » de Quilligan School of Commoning à LondresTexte de la vidéo : <blockquote>There are at least 2 major factors at play in the universe. For our purposes we’ll call them Unity … and Diversity. Generally today, we tend to you think that you just can’t have both. And consequently, as a human, you can’t be working towards both. You’re either working towards this. Or this. And that decides which camp you’re in, warring against the other. Predictably, this gets us a net progress of … NOWHERE. The same place that 1 dimensional, polaristic thinking is getting us. So what if we thought in another dimension. Collectively, what we’ve gained over here…we’ve lost over here. The Commons is the word that encompasses all those things that have been depleted to get us where we are today. We are rapidly depleting the social, cultural, intellectual, natural, genetic, and material commons. But can we replenish this… Without losing what we’ve gained? Frankly, millions of people, and institutions, businesses, and even countries already are. And whether everyone knows it or not, we all seem to be converging… On what? … we could call it a Commons-Based Economy. But time is of the essence! As other forces threaten to throw us into a worse dark age than ever. That’s why the people in this campaign are working tirelessly for me AND we to support the emergence of a commons-based economy. Help us help the world as we build a commons for the commons. That means learning resources, a learning platform, and sharing the vital work of James Quilligan, who just gave 12 seminars in 12 days on the emergence of a commons-based economy. It will take all of our collective intentions and intelligence to learn our way together towards the more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible. To take the human project to the next dimension, we need nothing less than a mass movement. Internet, your move.</blockquote>next dimension, we need nothing less than a mass movement. Internet, your move.</blockquote>)
Chargement/Site 2 + (We are organising a Barcamp dedic … We are organising a Barcamp dedicated to video as commons in Paris the 4th of october from 14:00 to 18:00 at <a href="http://labodeledition.com/contenu/222/remix-video-tech?symfony=vek5amij7du0s2jsiqjhit6jd2">Labo de l’édition</a> 75005 Paris. Documentary production provides a largely untapped source of video, images and audio files. For each documentary produced, many hours of rushes are carried out and a large part will seldom be used. It is estimated that for every documentary produced several dozen hours of rushes for only 52 minutes used.However, the pooling of rushes could multiply the forms of collaboration such as productions geographically distributed, creations adapted to local contexts, or adopting the point of view of different producers and multiple users for the same subject or content. In addition, the sharing of rushes may be accompanied by other exchanges: tools, know-how, good ideas and ultimately generate new projects.The idea that these resources can be shared and remixed is the basis of projects such as Remix The Commons and sideways. So we invite directors, producers and users of multimedia content to explore the possibiliies of sharing and re-use in the field the documentary video.See the details of the <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/en/2013/06/barcamp-remix-video-tech-pour-la-video-en-biens-communs/">barcamp in French</a>. www.remixthecommons.org/en/2013/06/barcamp-remix-video-tech-pour-la-video-en-biens-communs/">barcamp in French</a>. )
Chargement/Site + (We are organising a Barcamp dedic … We are organising a Barcamp dedicated to video as commons in Paris the 4th of october from 14:00 to 18:00 at <a href="http://labodeledition.com/contenu/222/remix-video-tech?symfony=vek5amij7du0s2jsiqjhit6jd2">Labo de l’édition</a> 75005 Paris. Documentary production provides a largely untapped source of video, images and audio files. For each documentary produced, many hours of rushes are carried out and a large part will seldom be used. It is estimated that for every documentary produced several dozen hours of rushes for only 52 minutes used.However, the pooling of rushes could multiply the forms of collaboration such as productions geographically distributed, creations adapted to local contexts, or adopting the point of view of different producers and multiple users for the same subject or content. In addition, the sharing of rushes may be accompanied by other exchanges: tools, know-how, good ideas and ultimately generate new projects.The idea that these resources can be shared and remixed is the basis of projects such as Remix The Commons and sideways. So we invite directors, producers and users of multimedia content to explore the possibiliies of sharing and re-use in the field the documentary video.See the details of the <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/en/2013/06/barcamp-remix-video-tech-pour-la-video-en-biens-communs/">barcamp in French</a>. www.remixthecommons.org/en/2013/06/barcamp-remix-video-tech-pour-la-video-en-biens-communs/">barcamp in French</a>. )
Chargement/Site + (Which governance for the « Remix … Which governance for the « Remix the commons » project and what governance model in the commons movement ? Lead by LARTES-IFAN, the coordination of governance worked on establishing a prototype of the governance charter and of the REMIX platform. It has produced two 12 minutes documentary films on experiments of conception and implementation of charters, one for a neighbourhood of Dakar and the other on the national Senegalese charter, as an exemplary process of creation of Common good. It has also gathered a number of resources and chosen links whether to ease a documentation need or to widen the opportunity of scientific collaborations in the area of the social economy and the Commons movement.<h3>Futur development</h3>Research on the use of governance charters are going on and will be elements of reflection to the commoners.<h3>Collaborators</h3>Abdou Salam Fall and Abdou Rahmane Seck, researchers at LARTES, Sénégal<h3>Financing</h3>the « Governance charters project » is part of the research work conducted by LARTES IFAN. It was partly financed by « Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie » through « Remix the commons »<h3>The contribution of « Remix the commons »</h3>« Remix the commons » is a meeting space for researchers and practitioners towards the development of governance practices based on commons.;p>« Remix the commons » is a meeting space for researchers and practitioners towards the development of governance practices based on commons.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Which governance for the « Remix … Which governance for the « Remix the commons » project and what governance model in the commons movement ? Lead by LARTES-IFAN, the coordination of governance worked on establishing a prototype of the governance charter and of the REMIX platform. It has produced two 12 minutes documentary films on experiments of conception and implementation of charters, one for a neighbourhood of Dakar and the other on the national Senegalese charter, as an exemplary process of creation of Common good. It has also gathered a number of resources and chosen links whether to ease a documentation need or to widen the opportunity of scientific collaborations in the area of the social economy and the Commons movement.<h3>Futur development</h3>Research on the use of governance charters are going on and will be elements of reflection to the commoners.<h3>Collaborators</h3>Abdou Salam Fall and Abdou Rahmane Seck, researchers at LARTES, Sénégal<h3>Financing</h3>the « Governance charters project » is part of the research work conducted by LARTES IFAN. It was partly financed by « Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie » through « Remix the commons »<h3>The contribution of « Remix the commons »</h3>« Remix the commons » is a meeting space for researchers and practitioners towards the development of governance practices based on commons.;p>« Remix the commons » is a meeting space for researchers and practitioners towards the development of governance practices based on commons.)
Chargement/Site + (<ul> We invite you to participate in … <ul>We invite you to participate in the Commons Space which will be hosted at the the World Social Forum 2016 taking place from the 9th to the14th of August in Montreal. This is a space for experimentation, exchange and construction of commons based alternatives to the current economic model. This space will welcome and support the strategic process of convergence of commoners and social movements throughout the WSF. Here is the invitation.</ul><h3 class="spip">Commons…</h3>In 2009 at the Social Forum in Belem Chico Whitaker launched the Manifesto Reclaim the Commons which was adopted by members of the International Council of the WSF [<a class="spip_url spip_out auto" href="http://bienscommuns.org/signature/appel/index.php?a=du&c=nfg1de" rel="nofollow external">http://bienscommuns.org/signature/appel/index.php?a=du&c=nfg1de</a>]. Since then, social movements have adopted this cause. At the WSF in Dakar in 2011, Silke Helfrich reported on the increased visibility of workshops and activities sharing the theme of thecommons.[<a class="spip_url spip_out auto" href="http://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/wsf-dakar-shifting-from-the-logic-of-the-market-to-the-logic-of-the-commons/" rel="nofollow external">http://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/wsf-dakar-shifting-from-the-logic-of-the-market-to-the-logic-of-the-commons/</a>].In 2012, the commons was the central slogan of the People’s Summit in Rio calling « for Social and Environmental Justice in defense of the commons, against the commodification of life ».[<a class="spip_url spip_out auto" href="http://rio20.net/en/propuestas/final-declaration-of-the-people%E2%80%99s-summit-in-rio-20/" rel="nofollow external">http://rio20.net/en/propuestas/final-declaration-of-the-people%E2%80%99s-summit-in-rio-20/</a>] Again in 2012 on International Earth Day in Montreal at one of the biggest rallies of the « Printemps érable » (Maple Spring) protestors carried signs, flags and banners calling for the protection of the commons from privatization.Ideas and practices based on Commons, P2P, Open Cooperativism continue to grow and are being developed by activists in many areas : Social Solidarity Economy, Collaborative & Sharing Economy, resistance to enclosure such as land grabs, defending water as a commons,Struggles against financialization and Climate change to name but a few. Activists find each other at events and festivals dedicated to the commons, like Afropixel (Dakar, 2012), Pixelache Festival (Helsinki,, 2014), Art of Commoning (Montreal, 2014), International Festival of the Commons (Chieri, Italy, 2015), Festival Temps des communs (Francophonie, 2015), CommonsFest (Athens, 2015), Procomun (Barcelona, 2016), and many more.With a shared ambition to make another world possible activists are working together to develop commons based policies that deepen citizen participation. In local assemblies and civic laboratories, new spaces for civic engagement based on the commons are emerging. Commons are playing a leading role in the development of new thinking essential to the renewal of democracy.Sharing practices and building alliances for the defense and creation of the commons, Developing and sharing commons based policies for cities, regions and countries, Building a convergence of commoners through continued dialogue on shared causes and strategies with movements working on transition such as : Degrowth, Political Ecology, Social Solidarity Economy, etc.<h3 class="spip">Self organized and distributed Commons Space</h3>The Commons Space at the WSF in Montreal will be open for the duration of the forum to anyone or any organization that is concerned with the commons, and wants to organize a workshop or any activity.We propose a space in the spirit of the School of the Commons which aims at :<ul class="spip"><li>documenting and disseminating knowledge on the Commons based on shared experiences and learning.</li><li>to concretely support the creation, reappropriation or conservation of existing and emerging commons through actions or projects based on mutual assistance and commitment.</li><li>to develop the practice of Commoning based on creative and collaborative skills and as a way of life.</li></ul>There will be an open and flexible schedule to accommodate a variety of activities and topics including both pre-programmed events and space for impromtu sessions. Most importantly we wish invite you to participate in the assemblies and convergence sessions.The following topics have already been proposed :<ul class="spip"><li>Urban Commons/City as a Commons/Municipal Movements</li><li>The Common as a New Political Subject</li><li>Open/Platform Cooperativism</li></ul>The Commons Space will be open and distributed in Montréal, in collaboration with the coworking spaces in the city. Its headquarters will be located at ECTO, a coworking coop [<a class="spip_url spip_out auto" href="http://www.ecto.coop" rel="nofollow external">www.ecto.coop</a>] in the heart of creative Montreal. Other coworking spaces (Salon 1861, Temps libre) and inter-cultural places will host activities.The WSF is a unique opportunity to connect and work with activists from all over the world North/South/East/West to progress the cause of the Commons. This is an open call for proposals and activities. We invite you and your organisation to participate in co-organizing and facilitating the Commons Space. You can express your interest in participating and submit proposals for workshops, presentation, arts and cultural interventions simply by writing to the signatories of this announcement. To participate in discussion and to keep informed as the program of activities develops you can sign up to our mailing list.<a class="spip_url spip_out auto" href="http://lists.p2pfoundation.net/wws/review/wsf2016" rel="nofollow external">http://lists.p2pfoundation.net/wws/review/wsf2016</a>Looking forward seeing you in MTL<ul class="spip"><li>Frédéric Sultan [fredericsultan@gmail.com]</li><li>Yves Otis [yves@percolab.com]</li><li>Kevin Flanagan [kevin@p2pfoundation.net] – <a class="spip_url spip_out auto" href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/" rel="nofollow external">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/</a></li><li>Elisabetta Cangelosi [betta.cangelosi@gmail.com]</li><li>Alain Ambrosi [ambrosia@web.ca]</li><li>Abdou Salam Fall [asfall@refer.sn]</li><li>Monique Chartrand [direction@communautique.qc.ca]</li></ul>This is an initiative of Gazibo, Remix the Commons, Communautique, LARTES, percolab, P2P Foundation, VECAM, and supported by the Foundation for Human Progress.l">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/</a></li> <li>Elisabetta Cangelosi [betta.cangelosi@gmail.com]</li> <li>Alain Ambrosi [ambrosia@web.ca]</li> <li>Abdou Salam Fall [asfall@refer.sn]</li> <li>Monique Chartrand [direction@communautique.qc.ca]</li> </ul> This is an initiative of Gazibo, Remix the Commons, Communautique, LARTES, percolab, P2P Foundation, VECAM, and supported by the Foundation for Human Progress.)
Hommage Silke Helfrich - 01 Introduction + (Accueil et présentation de l'hommage)
Le « Commun » : une alternative politique au néolibéralisme + (Après une définition du commun, Christian … Après une définition du commun, Christian Laval propose dans la conférence "Le « Commun » : une alternative politique au néolibéralisme", un historique de l'émergence des communs comme question centrale dans l'espace public. Cette conférence fait partie du cycle "Comprendre et Agir" organisé par l'INRIA GRENOBLE RHÔNE-ALPES en 2020. par l'INRIA GRENOBLE RHÔNE-ALPES en 2020.)
Bassin Versant Solidaire de Forest + (Bassin Versant Solidaire de Forest est une … Bassin Versant Solidaire de Forest est une démarche de mobilisation citoyenne qui vise à proposer des solutions co-gérées avec la société civile pour l'aménagement d'un bassin versant à Bruxelles. Cette démarche est conduite par les Etats Généraux de l'Eau à Bruxelles.r les Etats Généraux de l'Eau à Bruxelles.)
Remettre l'eau au cœur du débat public + (Cet étude examine deux démarches participa … Cet étude examine deux démarches participatives de la Métropole de Lyon : la création de l’Assemblée des usagers de l’eau, en accompagnement de la nouvelle régie publique, et Eau futurE, une expérience de prospective participative. L'idée qui accompagne ces projets était de proposer aux habitants des espaces, des temps et des méthodes pour s’informer, réfléchir aux enjeux, se projeter vers l’avenir et peser sur les décisions, facilitant l’émergence d’une dynamique citoyenne autour de l’eau, de sa gestion et de sa préservation. Dans ce rapport on retrouve racontées ces deux initiatives afin de partager leurs méthodes, leurs partis-pris, leurs apports et leurs limites, aux professionnels de laparticipation citoyenne et à toute personne intéressée par la vie démocratique.rsonne intéressée par la vie démocratique.)
Murs à Pêches de Montreuil + (Cette page rassemble la documentation sur les initiatives de conservation des murs à pêche à Montreuil en Ile de France)
D'où vient l'eau potable du Grand Lyon ? + (Cette vidéo retrace de manière très simple … Cette vidéo retrace de manière très simple et claire le cycle de l'eau à partir du ruissellement dans la source jusqu'à la distribution dans le Grand Lyon en montrant étape par étape (ruissellement, infiltration, captage, production, stockage, distribution) comment ce parcours se déroule.tribution) comment ce parcours se déroule.)
Politique de l'eau en France + (Cette vidéo réalisée par les agences de l' … Cette vidéo réalisée par les agences de l'eau à l'occasion du 6ème Forum mondial de l'eau retrace l'histoire de la politique de l'eau, les principes, les enjeux et décrit les acteurs qui la mettent en œuvre. Cette reconstruction est faite à partir des lois principales adoptées à niveau national et européen et elle essaie d'encadrer ces mesures dans l'évolution de l'économie française. La vidéo explique aussi le fonctionnement des instances de gouvernance et contrôle créées à cette fin.ouvernance et contrôle créées à cette fin.)
Charte Remix - Version 6 mai 2013 + (Charte de Remix Biens Communs - Version 0.1 - 6 mai 2013)
Comprendre le mouvement des communs + (Comprendre le mouvement de commun est une récolte d’articles qui analysent différents aspects du mouvement des communs : approches, activités, stratégies, ...etc. Les documents constituent une exploration de la complexité du mouvement.)
Convention de financement structurel 2015 - 2017 par la Fondation pour le Progrès de l'Homme + (Convention de soutien structurel pour Remix the commons)
Épisode 2 L'homme augmenté en eau + (Dans ce podcast Jean-Sébastien Steyer (pal … Dans ce podcast Jean-Sébastien Steyer (paléontologue au CNRS et au MNHN de Paris), Christian Clot (explorateur-chercheur) et Guillaume Levrier (chercheur au CEVIPOF en Politique Comparée) nous parle des possibilités d'adaptation de l'humain dans des conditions de rareté des ressources en eau à la croisée entre démarche scientifique et science-fiction. Chacun avec sa propre perspective, les intervenants approche cette question sous différents angles : technologique, scientifique et comportemental.nologique, scientifique et comportemental.)
Épisode 1 Croissance sobre, oxymore ou projet de société ? + (Dans ce podcast on peut écouter Emma Haziz … Dans ce podcast on peut écouter Emma Haziza (hydrologue), Laurence Lemouzy (docteure en sciences politiques) et Eric Vidalenc (directeur régional adjoint à l'ADEME Hauts-de-France) aborder la question de la croissance économique à la lumière des urgences écologiques contemporaines. Dans cet effort de concilier incitations économiques et exigences climatiques en refléchissant à une version sobre de la croissance les intervenant.e.s questionne en particulier la place de l'eau dans le processus de transition. de l'eau dans le processus de transition.)
Pénuries, montées d'eaux, canicules : comment s'adapter ? + (Dans cet entretien Alexandre Magnan, co-au … Dans cet entretien Alexandre Magnan, co-auteur du groupe II du GIEC et chercheur senior en "adaptation au changement climatique" à l’IDDRI, nous parle du sixième rapport du GIEC (Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat). Le rapport non seulement constate l'aggravation des risques climatiques mais propose aussi des solutions possible pour s'adapter, absorber les crises futures et construire un avenir meilleur. futures et construire un avenir meilleur.)
Manque d'eau : comment éviter la catastrophe ? + (Dans cet entretien Emma Haziza, hydrologue … Dans cet entretien Emma Haziza, hydrologue, aborde le problème du manque d'eau, de plus en plus urgent en France dans les dernières années à cause de longues périodes de sécheresse dues au réchauffement climatique. L'hydrologue dessine des solutions possibles et des stratégies d'adaptation face à cette émergence.égies d'adaptation face à cette émergence.)
Questions à Sabine Girard (Saillans dans la Drôme) + (Dans cet entretien Sabine Girard (audition … Dans cet entretien Sabine Girard (auditionnée par la Section de l'éducation, de la culture et de la communication du CESE dans le cadre de la saisine : "L'éducation populaire, une exigence du 21ème siècle") nous explique les mécanismes de participation à la base de la liste citoyenne dans laquelle elle a été élue, ainsi que les effets positifs de cet engagement des habitants. positifs de cet engagement des habitants.)
L’eau en partage + (Dans cet épisode titré « L'eau en partage … Dans cet épisode titré « L'eau en partage » Emeline Hassenforder et Chamseddine Harrabi nous parle du programme mis en place en Tunisie pour répondre aux problèmes liés au manque d'eau dans le secteur de l'agriculture. Ce programme lancé par le gouvernement tunisien vise à améliorer la gouvernance des ressources naturelles, en l'occurrence de l'eau, en misant sur la participation citoyenne. en misant sur la participation citoyenne.)
À la découverte des communs + (Dans cette brève vidéo de présentation de … Dans cette brève vidéo de présentation de son engagement dans les communs, l'Agence Française du Développement (AFD) propose une définition nuancée et intelligente des communs à partir de trois exemples situés dans des contextes culturels et économiques et sociaux différents. Un Fab lab à Lomé, une association qui facilite l’accès aux terres pour les agriculteurs, une association d’usagers qui organise l’accès à l’eau à Kinshasa, à travers ces trois exemples cette vidéo met en évidence les mécanismes de partage, d'interdépendance et les enjeux sociaux économiques et environnementaux.x sociaux économiques et environnementaux.)
La charte des engagements d'Eau publique du Grand Lyon + (Dans cette charte on retrouve les engageme … Dans cette charte on retrouve les engagements divisés par points de l'acteur public maintenant en charge de la gestion de l'eau dans la Métropole de Lyon. Ces engagements visent à assurer la qualité et l'accessibilité de l'eau ainsi que la disponibilité et la transparence de l'agence dans la relation avec les usagers ce qui concerne le partage des informations mais aussi la réactivité de la réponse dans le cas où il y ait de problèmes.onse dans le cas où il y ait de problèmes.)
Petite histoire de la gestion de l'eau dans la Métropole de Lyon + (Dans cette présentation on retrouve une re … Dans cette présentation on retrouve une reconstruction chronologique synthétique des étapes qui ont marqué l'histoire de la gestion de l'eau à Lyon du 19ème siècle à aujourd'hui. Produite par le collectif EAU BIEN COMMUN ce texte vise à promouvoir la mise en place d'une gestion publique et citoyenne de l'eau, ce qui a été finalement réalisé.de l'eau, ce qui a été finalement réalisé.)
Les résistances territorialisées aux réformes de modernisation des services d'eau + (Dans cette vidéo Antoine Brochet nous fait … Dans cette vidéo Antoine Brochet nous fait une synthèse de son travail de recherche. Le titre étant « Les résistances territorialisées aux réformes de modernisation des services d'eau » la thèse porte justement sur les reformes européennes et d'inspiration économique qui visent à croître la performance des services d'eau.croître la performance des services d'eau.)
Projet de territoire de gestion de l'eau du bassin du Clain + (Dans cette vidéo Christine Graval (conseil … Dans cette vidéo Christine Graval (conseillère régionale de la Vienne), Nicolas Fortin (secrétaire national Confédération Paysanne), Jean-Claude Hallouin (conseiller juridique Vienne Nature) et Jean-Pierre Coillot (vice-président UFC que choisir de la Vienne) présentent le projet territorial de gestion de l'eau du bassin du Clain. Chacun et chacune à partir de sa propre perspective (politique, juridique, sanitaire, agricole) les intervenants nous expliquent les raisons qui ont motivé le lancement de ce projet, ainsi que les défis, les enjeux et les objectifs qui concernent surtout la répartition équitable, l'accessibilité et la qualité de l'eau.e, l'accessibilité et la qualité de l'eau.)
La Gestion de l'eau en France + (Dans cette vidéo de la chaîne Youtube « Le … Dans cette vidéo de la chaîne Youtube « Le monde de l'hydrobiologie » il nous est expliqué comment la gestion de l'eau s'articule en France. On retrouve une présentation synthétique des trois grandes lois (1964 Gestion de l'eau par grands bassins, 1992 Loi sur l'eau, 2006 Loi sur l'eau et les milieux aquatiques) autour desquelles cette gestion est aménagée. Pour chacune des lois il y a une description des mesures et des organes spécifiques mis en place pour régler la gestion de l'eau. en place pour régler la gestion de l'eau.)
Méga-bassines, sécheresse : la France va-t-elle manquer d'eau ? + (Dans cette vidéo il nous est expliqué la c … Dans cette vidéo il nous est expliqué la crise de l'eau que depuis quelques années traverse la France. Avec le changement climatique, les vagues de chaleurs et la sécheresse, la question qu'il faut se poser est si la France aura assez d’eau pour cultiver ses champs et nourrir sa population. Ici on retrouve des témoignages d'agriculteurs et une problématisation de la crise de l'eau qui vise à mettre en exergue les facteurs qui la causent, les enjeux et les solutions possible.ent, les enjeux et les solutions possible.)
Accompagner la gouvernance concertée des eaux souterraines - Limaoua + (Dans cette vidéo on retrouve le travail de … Dans cette vidéo on retrouve le travail de conception des politiques de gestion de l'eau mises en place à Limaoua en Tunisie. L'idée était d'adopter une démarche participative pour arriver à une gouvernance concertées des eaux souterraines. Professionnels, agriculteurs et d'autres acteurs concernés nous expliquent les raisons qui ont motivé ce choix.quent les raisons qui ont motivé ce choix.)
Accompagner la gouvernance concertée des eaux souterraines - Aousja + (Dans cette vidéo on retrouve une rétrospéc … Dans cette vidéo on retrouve une rétrospéctive des politiques de gestion de l'eau mises en place à Aousja en Tunisie. L'idée était d'adopter une démarche participative pour arriver à une gouvernance concertées des eaux souterraines. Professionnels, agriculteurs et d'autres acteurs concernés nous expliquent les raisons qui ont motivé ce choix et comment le processus s'est déroulé.oix et comment le processus s'est déroulé.)
Mégabassines, histoire secrète d'un mensonge d'État + (Dans cette vidéo réalisée par Clarisse Fél … Dans cette vidéo réalisée par Clarisse Félétin on parle de la question des mégabassines à partir du cas particulier de la zone humide du Marais poitevin. L'enquête montre, d'un côté, les intérêts financiers sous-jacents les discours promouvant et justifiant les mégabassines avec le soutien inconditionnel de l'État et dévoile, de l'autre, la nature mensongère de ces discours avec les effets néfastes que cette gestion engendre (pénurie d'eau, pollution, destruction des écosystèmes etc.).lution, destruction des écosystèmes etc.).)
L'eau est un bien commun + (Dans le cas de l'eau il ne s'agit pas de p … Dans le cas de l'eau il ne s'agit pas de penser à cette ressource en tant que naturellement et intrinsèquement commune. Au contraire, l'eau devient un bien commun lorsqu'un collectif l'institue comme bien commun, c'est-à-dire en fait une ressource commune par un processus démocratique qui définissent les termes dans lesquels l'eau est utilisée, produite et distribuée.'eau est utilisée, produite et distribuée.)
Co-construction d’une nouvelle structure tarifaire solidaire et environnementale + (Dans le contexte de la mise en place de la … Dans le contexte de la mise en place de la Régie publique de l’Eau, la Métropole de Lyon et la Régie ont proposé unpremier cycle de travail à l’Assemblée des Usagers de l'eau sur la mise en place d’une tarification solidaire et environnementale de l’eau potable. Ce projet s’inscrit dans une réflexion plus large sur le « droit à l’eau ». La spécificité de la démarche proposée par la Métropole et la Régie à l’Assemblée a résidé dans sa volonté d’une co-construction des évolutions du cadre tarifaire entre les usagers, à travers l’Assemblée, les services de la Métropole et de la Régie et les élus. Dans ce bilan on retrouve décrit le processus qui a accompagné cette démarche, ses résultats et ses perspectives futures.ses résultats et ses perspectives futures.)
Itinéraires en Biens Communs + (Description::Itinéraires en Biens Communs est une initiative d'Alain Ambrosi. Celui-ci nous invite à contribuer de manière créative et interactive à la l'appropriation des concepts et des pratiques autour de la notion de communs.)
L'approche COOPLAGE + (Développé à partir du 2004, l'approche « C … Développé à partir du 2004, l'approche « CoOPLAGE (Coupler des Outils Ouverts et Participatifs pour Laisser les Acteurs s’adapter pour la Gestion de l’Eau » a été élaboré par les chercheurs INRAE de l’Unité Mixte de Recherche gestion de l’Eau, Acteurs, Usages à Montpellier. Il s'agit d'une suite intégrée d’outils et protocoles participatifs destinés à accompagner et autonomiser des groupes d’acteurs de tous niveaux vers une discussion et un engagement réel dans des stratégies de changement social et environnemental. Outre la présentation générale de cette approche dans cette page on retrouve aussi une fiche téléchargeable en anglais qui explique les différentes étapes.glais qui explique les différentes étapes.)
Voyage à Chieri et Milan 2015 + (Entrevues réalisées à l'occasion du festival international des communs de Chieri et d'une visite des centres sociaux à Milan.)
Épisode 3 Conflits d’eau, enjeux de pouvoir - De la géopolitique au dialogue territorial + (Face à l'émergence et à la démultiplicatio … Face à l'émergence et à la démultiplication des conflits de l'eau à niveau local, national et international Emma Haziza (hydrologue), Julie Trottier (directrice de recherche au CNRS) et Fadi Comair (viceprésident du Programme Hydrologique Intergouvernemental de l'UNESCO) interrogent et problématisent ces tensions pour mettre en exergue enjeux, raisons et solutions possibles. L'une des pistes suggérées par les intervenant.e.s porte précisément sur la possibilité de centrer la gestion de l'eau sur la demande plutôt que sur l'offre.eau sur la demande plutôt que sur l'offre.)
Commons Ecosystems - Écosystèmes des communs + (Faire alliance autour du renforcement des écosystèmes de communs)
École des communs de l'alimentation + (Faire émerger l’alimentation comme « acteu … Faire émerger l’alimentation comme « acteur/réseau » en tissant le champ d'intermédiation entre les communs urbains, naturels & culturels, participe des alternatives au régime alimentaire international néolibéral. L’École des communs propose de soumettre à l’enquête les savoirs et savoir-faire des acteurs de l’alimentation en commun entre 4 sites : Marseille, Montreuil et Toulouse et Autrans pour produire un commun de la connaissance sur la transition écologique par l'alimentation. Elle prend la forme de 4 chantiers pour faire école : interconnecter et fairecommunauté, rendre visible et renforcer ces pratiques. Ce projet servira de modèle pour développer 1) de nouveaux communs de l’alimentation et 2) de nouvelles écoles des communs dans d’autres domaines.les écoles des communs dans d’autres domaines.)
Les communs urbains à Naples + (Ici, nous documentons l'expérience des communs urbains à Naples sous l'angle de l'Atlas des chartes des communs urbains.)
Les communs urbains à Rome + (Ici, nous documentons l'expérience des communs urbains à Rome sous l'angle de l'Atlas des chartes des communs urbains.)
Les communs urbains à Bologne + (Ici, nous documentons l'expérience des communs urbains à Bologne sous l'angle de l'Atlas des chartes des communs urbains.)
Chapitre 3 : Auto-organiser le soin en commun + (L'urgence de la crise du Covid a créé une … L'urgence de la crise du Covid a créé une situation où les professionnels de la santé ont pu dans beaucoup de cas reprendre le contrôle de l'activité soignante en implémentant des formes de gouvernance participative et centrées sur le service offert à la population. Qu'est qu'il faut retenir de ces expériences pour les prolonger au-delà d'une situation exceptionnelle ? Comment se charger collectivement du soin et faire de la santé une véritable commun ?t faire de la santé une véritable commun ?)
Maison des Utopies en Expérimentation (MUE) + (La Maison des utopies est un projet de création de lieu de refuge, de ressourcement et d'activité pour les collectifs militants engagés pour une transformation radicale.)
Sécheresse hivernale, manque d'eau : la catastrophe qui se profile + (La journaliste Paloma Moritz nous montre d … La journaliste Paloma Moritz nous montre dans cette vidéo les implications de la période de sécheresse hivernale qui a touché la France du 21 janvier au 22 février 2023. Elle explore les risques liés au manque d'eau, risques qui affectent à la fois l'usage de l'eau dans l'agriculture et la disponibilité d'eau potable.culture et la disponibilité d'eau potable.)
Administration coopérative et communs à Grenoble + (Le 28 mars 2022, le conseil municipal de Grenoble a délibéré et validé les principes d’une politique de démocratie plus contributive en s’appuyant sur la notion des communs, de la coopération et des exemples italiens des pactes de collaboration.)
Se rejoindre - se raconter! + (Le projet École des communs est un projet qui veut créer un espace d’auto-formation sur la gouvernance des lieux en commun et des espaces auto-gérés.)
Discussion autour de « Que Faire ? » de Ludivine Bantigny + (Ludivine Bantigny et Francesco Brancaccio … Ludivine Bantigny et Francesco Brancaccio ont profité de cette occasion pour dresser un bilan des luttes du printemps et de l'été 2023, mais aussi pour esquisser des perspectives pour les luttes des mois à venir. Le prétexte à partir duquel développer ces réflexions a été justement la publication du livre de Bantigny « Que Faire ? Exemples et propositions d'hier et d'aujourd'hui pour repenser travail, propriété et démocratie ».penser travail, propriété et démocratie ».)
Assemblée des communs française + (L’Assemblée des communs est une rencontre nationale pour mettre les communs à l’agenda, partager les expériences et les relier, débattre, se doter d’outils et de stratégies pour la reconnaissance des communs.)
Canicules, feux, inondations : comment éviter le pire ? + (Magali Reghezza, géographe et membre du Ha … Magali Reghezza, géographe et membre du Haut Conseil pour le climat, se focalise sur les risques climatiques dans la mesure où de plus en plus chaque année les impacts des vagues de chaleur, des sécheresses ou des inondations s’aggravent, avec des conséquences toujours plus fortes pour la santé humaine et l’économie. Reghezza nous propose des mesures à prendre pour être, d'un côté, moins vulnérables aux feux de forêts, aux inondations, aux vagues de chaleur et, de l'autre, pour envisager un futur différent.'autre, pour envisager un futur différent.)
Chartes de gouvernance au Sénégal + (Nous reprenons ici le travail documentatio … Nous reprenons ici le travail documentation de l'élaboration de deux chartes de gouvernance réalisé par le LARTES IFAN en 2013 dans le cadre des démarches de préfiguration de Remix the commons. L'une est la charte de bon voisinage d'une association d'ahabitants d'un quartier à Dakar, et l'autre est la charte de Gouvernance démocratique élaborée tout au long des Assises Nationales du Sénégal qui ont préparé les élections présidentielles au Sénégal en 2009.ctions présidentielles au Sénégal en 2009.)
GIRE locale dans les Niayes au Sénégal + (Projet d'opérationnalisation du GRET d'une GIRE locale dans les Niayes au Sénégal : faire commun pour préserver les ressources en eaux souterraines.)
Remix the commons + (Remix Biens Communs est un espace interculturel de partage et de co-création de connaissance sur les communs et de projets qui outillent les militants commoners.)
Eau Lyon (titre temporaire) + (Schéma récapitulatif des rôles de l'Assemblée des usagers de l'eau dans la démarche de gestion publique de l'eau mise en place par la Métropole de Lyon)
Hommage à Silke Helfrich + (Silke Helfrich est décédée lors d’un accident de montagne au Liechtenstein le 10 novembre 2021. Remix lui a rendu hommage à travers un temps de rencontre dédié au partage et à la continuation de son travail.)
Les îles de Crépieux-Charmy, eau potable et nature + (Situées au nord de Lyon, les îles de Crépi … Situées au nord de Lyon, les îles de Crépieux-Charmy abritent le champ captant, principale source d'alimentation en eau potable de la Métropole de Lyon. Protégé, ce site classé en aire de protection de biotope, a une exceptionnelle biodiversité. 98% de l'eau distribuée sur la Métropole de Lyon est puisée dans les nappes souterraines du Rhône, prélevées dans ce champ captant qui est le plus grand d'Europe. Situé au nord de Lyon, ce territoire compte 114 puits sur 375 hectaresrritoire compte 114 puits sur 375 hectares)
Journal du Portrait Nature des champs captants + (Synthèse des observations et propositions … Synthèse des observations et propositions issues du Portrait Nature des Champs Captants du Sud de Lille (2021-22). Diagnostic citoyen animé par l'association Entrelianes à partir des questions suivantes : comment mieux protéger la nappe de la craie du Sud de Lille et comment mieux la recharger ?d de Lille et comment mieux la recharger ?)
La culture des communs est-elle indispensable pour la bascule ? + (Table ronde avec plusieurs professionnels … Table ronde avec plusieurs professionnels engagés dans l'agenda du Développement Durale et de la RSE en Europe. Remettre au centre les ressources, initier de nouvelles conditions de partage, instituer la possibilité de “faire ensemble” : c'étaient les thématiques abordée lors de cette rencontre en se posant la question si la culture des communs peut être un point de départ pour faire face à ces enjeux.nt de départ pour faire face à ces enjeux.)
Modèle de Soutenabilité des Communs en français + (Traduire en français, italien et anglais et permettre une appropriation la méthode pour la soutenabilité des communs par les commoners francophones)
Définition des communs + (Une collection de fichiers vidéo contenant … Une collection de fichiers vidéo contenant des définitions des communs, réalisés à partir d'entrevues faites à Berlin lors de la Conférence Internationale sur les communs en 2010. Dans cette collection, chacun et chacune utilise la langue de son choix , cette dimension linguistique reflète la dimension interculturelle du projet Remix the Commons. Cette collection s'est enrichie au fil du temps et des rencontres.nrichie au fil du temps et des rencontres.)
Entrevue David Bollier et Benjamin Coriat + (Une discussion animée entre David Bollier … Une discussion animée entre David Bollier et Benjamin Coriat en différents fichiers audio. Une recolte d'une contribution importante pour le débat sur les commons. Les fichiers audio contienent des réflexions de D.Bollier et B. Coriat sur le mouvement des communs, sur l'ambiance française, la litérature française sur les communs et l'apport sur les commons.r les communs et l'apport sur les commons.)
Assemblées Populaires des Gilets Jaunes + (Une page pour décrire la dynamique d’Assemblées Populaires initiée avec le Mouvement des Gilets Jaunes (à la suite de l’appel de Commercy de Novembre 2018) avec le langage des communs.)
FLOK Society - Séminaire de Villarceaux + (Comment la réflexion sur la place des comm … Comment la réflexion sur la place des communs de la connaissance inspire-t-elle les forces de la transition ? Quels agendas bâtir ou rejoindre ? Sur quels territoires et à quelles échelles doit-on mobiliser les communs de la connaissance pour une transformation sociale, culturelle, économique et politique vers une société plus juste, plus participative et, consciente et respectueuse des limites de la planète ? Ce séminaire, loin d'épuiser le sujet, est un moment pour ébaucher les pistes de travail qui permettent de mobiliser les forces de la transition, qu'il s'agisse d'activistes ou de chercheurs, de acteurs publics ou de la société civile.Pour explorer ces questions, le séminaire se structure autour de trois temps de dialogues, correspondant aux trois axes objets en transformation : le marché, la puissance publique et la société civile. Pour chacun de ces temps, il s'agit d'analyser les apports des communs de la connaissance aux débats et aux luttes sociales et politiques en cours, puis, dans la mesure du possible, d'élaborer des propositions, dégager des lignes de forces et des stratégies de convergence sectorielles et territoriales. Le dialogue sur ces trois axes de travail sera précédé d'une présentation du projet FLOK Society par Michel Bauwens et suivi d'un temps de bilan du séminaire.et suivi d'un temps de bilan du séminaire.)
Atelier sur les biens communs à la Ferme des Bouillons + (À la demande de l'association de la Ferme … À la demande de l'association de la Ferme des bouillons, nous avons organisé deux jours de formation des militants autour de la notion de communs. Cette formation se déroule dans le contexte de la lutte pour la préservation de la ferme occupée. Elle s'appuie sur une mise à jour de l'histoire des communs dans les domaines de l'alimentation, du foncier, de la culture et du vivre ensemble.ncier, de la culture et du vivre ensemble.)
European Commons Assembly + (European Commons Assembly is an ongoing pr … European Commons Assembly is an ongoing process that facilitates pluralistic debate regarding the strategy and agenda for a fundamentally united political vision. It supports activists’ continued engagement in concrete, collaborative and bottom-up actions and campaigns in Europe, and ultimately helps to build a flourishing European political civil society movement for the commons. The main objectives were defined in the initial meeting CommonsWatch (see Commons Watch Report):* to stand in solidarity around our diverse struggles for the commons,* to exchange experiences, case studies and other information,* to develop and govern resources in an open, participatory and inclusive manner (funding, infrastructures...) to support our activities,* to develop policies to preserve the commons and commoners and participate in lawmaking processes,* to strenghten, gain visibility and campaign betterghten, gain visibility and campaign better)
Expo sur les communs + (L'exposition itinérante Les communs propos … L'exposition itinérante Les communs propose au «grand public» de découvrir cette notion à travers la présentation du principe illustré par des exemples concrets issus de différents secteurs d'activité, son histoire et les perspectives qu'il ouvre pour changer notre société. L'exposition est conçue pour pouvoir être utilisée facilement dans le plus grand nombre possible de lieux recevant du public. Les panneaux qui la composent peuvent être imprimés (individuellement ou bien l'ensemble) en différents formats, afin de s'adapter à un espace selon ses dimensions et sa fréquentation par le public.ensions et sa fréquentation par le public.)
Justice transitionnelle: l'expérience Marocaine + (Project Justice transitionnelle, l'expérie … Project Justice transitionnelle, l'expérience Marocaine aims to share videos about the process of transitional justice and community reparation and to preserve memory of victim communities during “the years of lead” in Morocco and what kinds of public hearings took place, in fact those hearings gave the highlight of an extensive process of citizen deliberation, compassion and free expression in Morocco. They also talked about lots of stories about how community reparation project aimed to improve the living conditions of the people in victim communities and empower them. In fact, those materials mainly focused on women and children.ials mainly focused on women and children.)
TRAVAILLER ENSEMBLE en Territoire Zéro Chômeur de Longue Durée + (« TRAVAILLER ENSEMBLE EN TERRITOIRE ZÉRO C … « TRAVAILLER ENSEMBLE EN TERRITOIRE ZÉRO CHÔMEUR DE LONGUE DURÉE » est un film documentaire réalisé par l’association « Autour du Premier Mai » avec de l’Entreprise à but d’emploi « La Fabrique », en Lorraine. Ce film permet de rentrer dans le quotidien de cette expérience de retour à l’emploi pour des chômeurs de longue durée et de les entendre échanger sur le travail avec Florence Jany-Catrice, une économiste spécialiste de cette initiative.conomiste spécialiste de cette initiative.)

Les biens communs, modèle de gestion des ressources naturelles + (Nous présentons ici un dossier réalisé en … Nous présentons ici un dossier réalisé en 2010 par l'association RITIMO. Télécharger le dossier en format PDF Présentation par Olivier PetitjeanLes «communs», modes de création, de gestion et de partage collectifs et démocratiques basés sur la réciprocité, ont-ils un avenir en ce qui concerne la gestion des ressources naturelles ? Ou bien les crises climatique, alimentaire et environnementale sont-elles d’une telle ampleur qu’il faut désormais confier notre destin à de grandes structures économiques et technocratiques, qui seules seraient à même de gérer les problèmes de la planète ?Les expériences et les analyses présentées dans les pages qui suivent montrent que les modes de gestion des ressources naturelles basés sur les communs ne doivent pas seulement être défendus au nom des communautés qui en vivent et qui en dépendent, mais aussi parce qu’ils sont porteurs d’un modèle viable de gestion des ressources non seulement au niveau local, mais aussi au niveau planétaire. Car on pourrait aller jusqu’à dire que c’est parce que les ressources «naturelles» dont il est question ici - et cela vaut aussi bien pour les terres et l’agriculture, les forêts, l’eau, les semences ou les poissons - sont gérées comme des biens communs localement qu’elles peuvent être préservées aussi comme des «biens communs mondiaux». Ce dossier a été réalisé à l’occasion d’une rencontre sur le thème «Les biens communs, modèle de gestion des ressources naturelles» tenue à Paris le 26 mai 2010. L’un des objectifs de cette rencontre était de valoriser les analyses et les ressources accessibles sur les sites web des organisations et des réseaux qui participent à la Coredem (une initiative de mutualisation de ressources en ligne), dont plusieurs sont actives sur des thèmes liés aux ressources naturelles et aux communs. Aussi ce dossier ne reprend-il pas uniquement des articles tirés du site dph, comme le numéro précédent de Passerelle, mais des articles issus de sites aussi différents que celui du Réseau semences paysannes, de l’Agter (Association pour améliorer la gouvernance de la terre, de l’eau et des ressources naturelles), du Collectif Pêche & développement, de Vecam... La première partie, qui aborde l’enjeu des communs à un niveau plus général encore que celui des ressources naturelles, reprend également des articles issus d’un spectre plus large de sites et de revues amis et partenaires. "==Fiche technique ==Titre : Les biens communs, modèle de gestion des ressources naturellesProduction : Ritimo 21 ter rue Voltaire, 75 011 ParisISBN : 2-914180-38-1Paris, mai 2010Coordination et réalisation : Olivier PetitjeanConception graphique : Elsa LescureImpression : Imprimerie Pérolle 01 40 10 06 00Droits de reproductionLa reproduction et/ou la traduction dans d’autres langues de ce dossier sont non seulement autorisées mais encouragées, à la condition de mentionner l’édition originale et d’en informer Ritimo. Illustrations : Sauf mention explicite du contraire, toutes les illustrations de ce dossier sont des images sous licence creative commons (cc) issues du site flickr : www.flickr.com/creativecommonsL’illustration de couverture (qthomasbower, cc-by-sa) est une recréation du sigle Creative Commons à partir de 2500 photos sous licence cc du site flickr de 2500 photos sous licence cc du site flickr)

Définition des communs selon Michel Bauwens (2013) + ("Basically for me the commons is leading y … "Basically for me the commons is leading your life and always thinking about how all other beings can benefit from it; so not only humanity but actually all living beings. So just yes it has to nourish yourself, but to do it in such a way that it also nourishes and spreads the benefits to more and more people. As opposed to the way it is supposed to work in our system which is simply as a question “how does it benefit me?”, and just hoping that somehow, indirectly, others may benefit from our selfishness. So I think we have to more directly pose the necessity and idea of everything we do has to create value for all living beings".as to create value for all living beings".)
Du public au commun + ("Contribuer à frayer de nouvelles voies à la pensée sociale et politique", telle était l’ambition du séminaire « Du public au commun » qui s'est tenue en 2010-2011 à Paris.)
La forêt comestible de Juan Anton + ("Il faut que tout le monde puisse manger. … "Il faut que tout le monde puisse manger. Et comme la nourriture vient de la terre, produisons nous-même notre propre nourriture !" Apprendre à produire sa nourriture avec Juan Anton. Le tournage a été réalisé à Alzira, au sud de Valence - Episode 5 de la web-série itinérante SideWays, cette vidéo est la première partie de l'épisode. La seconde est un webmag interactif à découvrir sur http://side-ways.net/episode5 . Plus d'info à http://side-ways.net/episode5/#sthash.kKGrAHrZ.dpufde-ways.net/episode5/#sthash.kKGrAHrZ.dpuf)
La terre, bien commun + ("La terre, bien commun" présente le mouvement Terre de liens de façon didactique à destination du grand public. En immersion au cœur du mouvement, ce film suit les problématiques quotidiennes et la mise en œuvre concrète des idées.)
Médiévalpes 041 - Les Escartons du Briançonnais + ("Les Escartons du Briançonnais". Quarante et unième numéro de la série "Les Médiévalpes", par Olivier Hanne, agrégé et docteur en Histoire médiévale. Une série d'histoires médiévales du diocèse de Gap et d'Embrun.)
Définition des communs selon Hervé Le Crosnier + ("Les communs c'est avant tout une ressource partagée qui pourrait être victime d'enclosure.")
Définition des communs selon Alain Ambrosi + ("Les communs c'est un mode d'être et de vi … "Les communs c'est un mode d'être et de vivre ensemble, de faire ensemble et de devenir ensemble. Et pour faire tout ça et dans tout ça chaque individualité, chaque personne, chaque être humain fait ça en étant partie de quelque chose, en prenant part à quelque chose et en partageant quelque chose".que chose et en partageant quelque chose".)
Puits + ("Quand le puits est sec, on sait ce que va … "Quand le puits est sec, on sait ce que vaut l'eau."Ou encore, "c'est avec l'eau du corps qu'on tire celle du puits."Vous trouverez beaucoup de ces proverbes africains, car le puits est un symbole connu de l'accès à l'eau en Afrique. Pendant notre séjour, nous avons vu une diversité de puits. Aussi, les jeunes ont pu essayer de leurs propres mains la courroie de l'accès.Une petite capsule remix pour une ode aux puits.Tout en travaillant à documenter leur stage humanitaire au Bénin, les jeunes du Collège Sainte-Anne de Lachine (Montréal (Québec)) ont été amené à porter leur regard sur trois thèmes choisis pendant le dernier camp de formation (eau, éducation, culture) afin de réaliser des capsules à partager sur la plate-forme de Remix Biens Communs.Musique: "Odmiyasin" de Youssouf Karembe Musique: "Odmiyasin" de Youssouf Karembe)
19.06 Médias et communs - médias des communs + ('''L'Appel en commun de juin 2019''' a été … '''L'Appel en commun de juin 2019''' a été dédié à un temps d'échange sur les média et les communs. Les discussions ont permi de faire le point sur les initiatives de médias sur les communs avec les personnes engagé.e.s dans un projet de cette nature. Cette rencontre avait pour objectifs de faire connaître nos différentes initiatives, de faire émerger les besoins, les attentes et les propositions tant des porteurs des projets que des utilisateurs et utilisatrices.ets que des utilisateurs et utilisatrices.)
19.10 Plaidoyers pour les communs dans le contexte municipal + ('''L'Appel en commun du 23 octobre 2019''' … '''L'Appel en commun du 23 octobre 2019''' était dédié à un temps d'échange sur les différentes formes de plaidoyers pour les communs dans le contexte municipal et leurs enjeux. A quelques mois des élections municipales (en France), que ces démarches soient engagées de longue date, ou bien des initiatives nouvelles et en construction, leur mise en lumière offre l'opportunité de revisiter la géographie du mouvement des communs sous l'angle des relations entre société civile et puissance publique.ntre société civile et puissance publique.)
Anniversaire des 800 ans de la Magna Carta + ('''Présentation''' A l’occasion du 800 iè … '''Présentation'''A l’occasion du 800 ième anniversaire de la signature de la Magna Carta (2015), le Festival Temps des communs organisait une conférence de presse durant laquelle différentes associations ont présenté les enjeux sur lesquels ils se mobilisent pour les temps des communs en passant des communs naturels aux outils numériques et juridiques, à l'éducation: des examples des enjeux.s, à l'éducation: des examples des enjeux.)
Facilitatrice, protectrice, instituante, contributrice - la loi et les communs + ('''Résumé par l'auteur :''' Après l’expér … '''Résumé par l'auteur :'''Après l’expérience déceptive de la loi numérique adoptée en France 2016, la question de la pertinence de l’outil législatif pour protéger et / où encourager les communs reste ouverte. Après un retour sur l’expérience vécue en 2015/2016 tout au long de la double consultation en ligne menée en amont de la loi et sur les résultats de cette consultation, nous nous interrogerons sur les entrées juridiques susceptibles d’être convoquées (droit d’auteur, droit du travail, loi ESS réformée...) pour solidifier les communs comme sur l’intérêt et le calendrier possible de cette mobilisation. Plus généralement, nous nous demanderons comment l’acteur public étatique ou territorial peut se positionner à l’égard des communs.peut se positionner à l’égard des communs.)
08 Déplier la finance + (''Déplier la finance, retour sur le rôle d … ''Déplier la finance, retour sur le rôle de passeur de connaissances du séminaire de SSFA 1998-2018'' a été présenté lors de la Table ronde : La finance depuis le prisme des sciences sociales, organisée dans le cadre de la Semaine du Management, FNEGE 1968-2018, Session RIODD - FINANCE AUTREMENT le 25 mai 2018. RIODD - FINANCE AUTREMENT le 25 mai 2018.)
Ici, ailleurs... la terre qui nous nourrit + (''Ici, ailleurs... la terre qui nous nourr … ''Ici, ailleurs... la terre qui nous nourrit'' suit l’itinéraire de Gavin, jeune maraîcher bio anglais qui travaille dans une ferme du sud de l’Angleterre. Confronté à la perte de ses terres agricoles, il prend conscience de la difficulté de trouver des terres pour développer des projets d’agriculture de proximité comme le sien. Il part alors à la rencontre d’autres fermiers européens qui ont eux aussi bataillé pour trouver des terres et les conserver dans la durée. Ce faisant, il rencontre des organisations qui se mobilisent pour préserver les terres nourricières et faciliter l’installation d’une nouvelle génération d’agriculteurs.Introduction très concrète à la question de l’accès à la terre en Europe, ce film offre le panorama d’un mouvement en émergence qui voit fermiers, citoyens et orgnisations de la société civile s’unir pour préserver des terres pour une agriculture et une alimentation de proximité et de qualité.Plus d'information : * http://www.accesstoland.eu/film-Land-for-our-food* http://www.accesstoland.eu/IMG/pdf/overview_-_the_land_for_our_food.pdfG/pdf/overview_-_the_land_for_our_food.pdf)
100 en 1 jour Montréal: la ville comme bien commun + (100 actions citoyennes le 5 octobre 2013 à Montréal. Un festival de création urbaine durant lequel les citoyens se réapproprient leur ville et y créent un meilleur endroit où vivre." http://www.100en1jourmontreal.com/)
Balade de l'oppidum de Verduron - 11 Histoire de l'oppidum + (2léments de l'histoire de l'oppidum et de son rôle dans l'origine de la ville de Marseille)
Agrocité de Gennevilliers - RAPTZ + (2ème émission de radio Les communs urbains, l'Atl sur l'Agrocité de Gennevilliers réalisée avec RAPTZ.com.)
Balade urbaine autour des communs + (3 balades urbaines sur le thème des communs, organisées à Paris, Marseille et Lille.)
Water (Istanbul Commons) + (70% de la planète est recouvert d'eau. Tou … 70% de la planète est recouvert d'eau. Toute la vie sur la planète terre en dépend. Sa composition façonnée par des milliards d'années d'évolution sur Terre, en fait l'un des éléments de base de l'existence quotidienne de la vie ordinaire des humains. Avec l'air, l'eau est notre bien commun naturel le plus élémentaire.Voir la suite sur Mapping The Commons (http://mappingthecommons.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/water-as-a-commons/#more-584)m/2012/11/14/water-as-a-commons/#more-584))
Land Rush - Why Poverty? + (75% of Mali's population are farmers, but … 75% of Mali's population are farmers, but rich, land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas into agribusiness farms. Many Malian peasants do not welcome these efforts, seeing them as yet another manifestation of imperialism. As Mali experiences a military coup, the developers are scared off - but can Mali's farmers combat food shortages and escape poverty on their own terms?ges and escape poverty on their own terms?)
How Does the Commons Work? + ( :FR Cette animation vidéo, illustre quelq … :FRCette animation vidéo, illustre quelques-unes des principales caractéristiques de la vision de David Bollier sur la façon dont nous pouvons gérer «les biens communs» de manière équitable pour transformer le système actuel sur la base du paradigme des communs.:ENHow can we use "commoning" as a process to transform the social paradigm of our current system? In this paper for our "New Systems: Possibilities and Proposals" series exploring viable political-economic alternatives to the present order, economist David Bollier suggests we rethink the traditional "tragedy of the commons" argument, moving instead toward new and innovative ways to equitably manage shared resources. In this stop-motion video animation, we illustrate some of the principal features of David Bollier’s vision for how we can manage "the commons" in an equitable fashion to transform our current system.le fashion to transform our current system. )
01 Les communs, quelle (im)pertinence ? + ( :Pourquoi les communs ? Pourquoi les rapp … :Pourquoi les communs ? Pourquoi les rapprocher de l’éducation permanente ? Quelle convergence (ou pas) avec les politiques culturelles publiques ? Pourquoi publier un ouvrage pour stimuler la rencontre entre communs, opérateurs et droits culturels ?:Avant-propos de l'ouvrage ''Neuf essentiels pour penser la culture en commun(s)'' par Pierre Hemptinne Directeur de la médiation culturelle à PointCulture, Administrateur de Culture & Démocratieure, Administrateur de Culture & Démocratie )
Good Copy Bad Copy + ( :Un documentaire sur l'état du copyright et de la culture par Andreas Johsen, Ralf Christensen et Henrik Moltke. :Sous-titrage dans de nombreuses langues : français, espagnol, Allemand, russe et plus )
14 Notice sur "Culture libre" de Lawrence Lessig + ( :Une notice sur l'ouvrage ''Culture libre … :Une notice sur l'ouvrage ''Culture libre. Comment les médias utilisent la loi pour confisquer la culture et contrôler la créativité'' de Lawrence Lessig, :Traduction collective de l’anglais via Wikisource https://www.ebooksgratuits.com/pdf/lessing_freeculture.pdfoksgratuits.com/pdf/lessing_freeculture.pdf )
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote> <div class="clearfix … <blockquote><div class="clearfix with-navigation">This post is a re-publication of the introduction of David Bollier’s blog from Monday 01/19/2015. David Bollier is presenting the report of a two-day workshop, “Toward an Open Co-operativism,” held in August 2014 in Germany. This post is translated in the French and available in the <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/fr/2015/01/the-promise-of-open-co-operativism-david-bollier/">French part of blog Remix The Commons</a>. You can read the introduction below and the original <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/promise-%E2%80%9Copen-co-operativism%E2%80%9D">there</a>. </div><div class="clearfix with-navigation"></div></blockquote><div id="main" class="clearfix with-navigation">Is it possible to imagine a new sort of synthesis or synergy between the emerging peer production and commons movement on the one hand, and growing, innovative elements of the co-operative and solidarity economy movements on the other?<div id="content" class="column"><div class="section"><div id="content-area"><div id="node-1138" class="node node-type-blog node-promoted build-mode-full clearfix"><div class="content">That was the animating question behind a two-day workshop, “Toward an Open Co-operativism,” held in August 2014 and now chronicled in <a href="http://bollier.org/open-co-operativism-report">a new report </a>by UK co-operative expert Pat Conaty and me. (Pat is a Fellow of the New Economics Foundation and a Research Associate of Co-operatives UK, and attended the workshop.)The workshop was convened because the commons movement and peer production share a great deal with co-operatives….but they also differ in profound ways. Both share a deep commitment to social cooperation as a constructive social and economic force. Yet both draw upon very different histories, cultures, identities and aspirations in formulating their visions of the future. There is great promise in the two movements growing more closely together, but also significant barriers to that occurring.The workshop explored this topic, as captured by the subtitle of the report: “A New Social Economy Based on Open Platforms, Co-operative Models and the Commons,” hosted by the Commons Strategies Group in Berlin, Germany, on August 27 and 28, 2014. The workshop was supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, with assistance with the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation of France.Below, the Introduction to the report followed by the Contents page. You can download a pdf of the full report (28 pages) <a href="http://bollier.org/open-co-operativism-report">here.</a> The entire report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (BY-SA) 3.0 license, so feel free to re-post it.Read on <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/promise-%E2%80%9Copen-co-operativism%E2%80%9D">David Bollier’s blog </a></div></div></div></div></div></div>A) 3.0 license, so feel free to re-post it. Read on <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/promise-%E2%80%9Copen-co-operativism%E2%80%9D">David Bollier’s blog </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote> In the coming … <blockquote> In the coming months, three of the partners of Remix The Commons, LARTES, Communautique and VECAM, will initiate an experiment to formalize popular workshops for mapping the commons, develop tools and a free and open practice manual (FLOSS manual) for share this work with those who want the lead it in their own community. </ blockquote>Mapping Common in Africa (Cartographier les Communs en Afrique) is an initiative whose center of gravity is located in Senegal, between Saint Louis and Dakar. It is to design an ambitious and popular process of learning and empowering people on their commons. It mobilizes activists, intellectuals and researchers from different geographical and cultural backgrounds and disciplinary who share the ambition to rebuild commitment and citizen participation on public property.Commons are goods or things that do not belong to anyone in particular, but whose use is common to all, and management established on a cooperative and democratic basis, ie it allows each to take part in the development of rules and decisions that affect himself.Examine commons from the point of view of production of social and symbolic links, is questioning how men are all together human community and how by accident or necessity, they can show their capacity to know or not that they are trying to consolidate this link or to lose it, how they are able or not to build and take care of commons (Abdourahmane Seck).Based on the experiences and issues specific to the African continent, the Commons Mapping Project in Africa is to develop methods of interpretation and representation, including mapping, of the issues relative to the commons, to systematize and to organize their mutual enrichment in an open and collaborative base for the purpose of empowering people.This project will contribute to the networking of commoners in Africa, and to strengthen their interaction with the rest of the world, through the sharing of visions and practices and the contribution to the development of methods and tools for mapping the commons.Folow this work (in French) in the <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Communs_en_Afrique">wiki</a> of Remix The Commons and read more in the <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/fr/2014/07/cartographier-…uns-en-afrique/">French version of this post</a>.ix The Commons and read more in the <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/fr/2014/07/cartographier-…uns-en-afrique/">French version of this post</a>.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote> Interview de P … <blockquote> Interview de Philippe Minard sur l’ouvrage de l’historien britannique E. P. Thompson: Whigs and Hunters : The Origin of the Black Act, traduit et publié en français en 2014.</blockquote><iframe loading="lazy" frameborder="0" width="400" height="225" src="http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x1b1xbe?logo=0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1b1xbe_philippe-minard-boite-a-idees_news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Philippe Minard. Boîte à Idées</a> par <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/Mediapart" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mediapart</a>A propos de la Guerre des Forêts, de Edward P. ThompsonL’ouvrage, paru à Londres en 1975, est une enquête vivante d’histoire sociale : au début du XVIIIe siècle, un conflit oppose, d’un côté, les propriétaires et administrateurs de la forêt – celle de Windsor notamment – et, de l’autre, ses usagers. Au point qu’une loi promulguée en 1723 punit de mort certains des usages coutumiers : ce « Black Act », ainsi nommé parce que les braconniers se couvraient le visage de suie, est particulièrement impitoyable : si un vol de cerf est un crime capital, l’abattage de jeunes arbres ou la mutilation du bétail peuvent conduire aussi la potence. Les habitants des forêts opposent, à cette répression « sanguinaire », le droit coutumier des usages collectifs (droits de pâturage, d’extraction de tourbe, d’abattage et de ramassage du bois…).Ainsi, outre la mise en place d’une évidente « politique de classes », ce que Thompson, grande figure intellectuelle inspirée par le marxisme et pionnier de « l’histoire par le bas », nous oblige à penser, c’est un monde dans lequel survivaient, avant que le XVIIIe siècle ne les arase au profit d’une conception exclusive, des modes et des degrés de propriété fort différents : « Ce qui était en jeu, écrit-il, (…) c’était des définitions concurrentes du droit de la propriété : pour le propriétaire terrien, l’enclosure ; pour le petit paysan, les droits collectifs ; pour les autorités de la forêt, les “chasses gardées” des cerfs ; pour les habitants des forêts, le droit de prélever de la tourbe ».Selon Philippe Minard, c’est l’un des aspects les plus frappants de cet ouvrage : « Thompson nous aide à penser la diversité des régimes d’accès possibles, tout ce qui existe entre la propriété individuelle et l’absence totale de propriété. » Resurgi dans les années 1970, à la faveur de l’écologie (quand il a fallu déterminer à qui appartenaient les forêts, les océans ou encore l’atmosphère, en passe d’être durablement souillés), ce questionnement s’est poursuivi avec le développement d’Internet. Depuis la fin des années 1990, des activistes se battent contre tout ce qui entrave la circulation et l’appropriation collective des connaissances, en faisant explicitement référence aux pratiques des droits collectifs et des commons. Il se déroule sur le Net, selon eux, ce que Thompson décrivait dans les forêts anglaises : « Un conflit entre les utilisateurs et les exploiteurs. »Extrait de : A l’usage de tous. « La Guerre des forêts », d’Edward P. Thompson dans LE MONDE DES LIVRES | 23.01.2014 | Julie Clarini ;/p> Extrait de : A l’usage de tous. « La Guerre des forêts », d’Edward P. Thompson dans LE MONDE DES LIVRES | 23.01.2014 | Julie Clarini )
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote> Some experimen … <blockquote> Some experiments for mapping the commons, from the definitions and brief descriptions of commoning actions or initiatives, with an instance of Chimere installed by Frédéric Léon at Brest. Chimere allows to place on a maps « points of interest » as defined by their geographic coordinates, text + multimedia documents (video , audio, images). Points of interest can be classified into categories organized by families. Maps are defined by selections of geographical zones and categories. </ blockquote><iframe width='660' height='350' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0' src='http://remixthecommons.infini.fr/def-commons/simple'></iframe> <a target='_blank' href='http://remixthecommons.infini.fr/def-commons' rel="noopener noreferrer">Agrandir</a> – <a target='_blank' href='http://remixthecommons.infini.fr/def-commons/edit/' rel="noopener noreferrer">Participer</a>The first idea, starting this experiment was to locate on a map hundred of definitions of the commons made since the Berlin Conference of 2010, and look at how to use this medium as a collective means of expression on the notion of commons. For the test, a douzen of definitions is placed on the map. The integration of all the hundreds of available definitions give more card provided. They are searchable by language. Sorting by tag does not exist. It is the next step we are chalenging. It will allow to make more visible the « issues » generated on the Remix The Commons website. The integration of this map in the site remix is done by widget in a blog post or page. Eventually, the card could be powered by mashup multimedia services.Second experiment : <a href="http://remixthecommons.infini.fr/type-de-biens-communs">mapping documents of commoning practices</a> by category « types of commons » (only with the parents of the categories of Charlotte Hess’ classification, used on the web site Remix the Commons) . The maps can be made by geographical areas. <a href="http://remixthecommons.infini.fr/visages-des-communs">Here</a> a map of a few points in Quebec .Chimere freely allows the addition of new points of interest by users via <a href="http://remixthecommons.infini.fr/type-de-biens-communs/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a form</a> pretty simple. Each zone provides to the users a form that allows to classify points of interest by the category of the zone.At this level, it would be useful to complete chimere with elements such as a device of tags of points of interest, a synchronization of files on the map, a synchronization of the points of interest in the catalog of Remix the Commons.But to go further, it should be necessary to work on approaches of mapping the commons. The identification of resources is the first degree of a mapping of the commons. Should imagine mapping commons based modes of administration of resources, or models of distribution of property rights, or value systems attached to commoning practices and certainly other things.Frédéric Sultanng commons based modes of administration of resources, or models of distribution of property rights, or value systems attached to commoning practices and certainly other things. Frédéric Sultan)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>6 months after … <blockquote>6 months after the World Social Forum, our Documentation / Card Play tool on the commons is ready to circulate, to animate conversations and to help you to move the commons close to you!</blockquote><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4621" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_0071-1024x768-300x225.jpg" alt="IMG_0071-1024x768" width="800" height="600" />C@rds in Common is a game where 2 to 5 players collaborate to build a resilient civil society that defends the commons against the forces of monopolization. Apart from the pleasure of playing, C@rds in common was conceived as a means of documenting the presence of the commons at the Commons Space, an ephemeral encounter at the World Social Forum in Montreal in August 2016. The cards that composed the game were designed by volunteers who shared their vision and experience of the commons and the game mecanism designed by Mathieu Rhéaume and his team. This experience suggests that it would be possible to use the same approach and these methodological tools to document the commons in other local contexts, alike your neighborhood, or thematics as the commons of knowledge for example. We look forward to such experiments!To learn more about the game, have a look at the <a href="http://cartesencommun.cc">website</a>.The game is released on demand by The Game Crafter in the US for $ 22.99 each plus shipping and customs via: <a href="https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/c-rds-in-common">https://www.thegamecrafter.com</a>To reduce shipping and customs for Europeans, we are launching a bulk order and hopefully this will bring the cost of each game delivered to Europe to around US $ 30/35.If you wish to participate in this first bulk order, fill in <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVa7DsY3rbjkxPoui-KzHqpPtmhhV1_KBstEMebKWVceaPnQ/viewform?c=0&w=1">the form</a> before March 18th at 20:00 GMT.You will also have to pay an advance corresponding only to the price of the game(s) ordered. The remainder to be paid (port and customs) will be asked when the order is completed, when we will know the costs of postage and customs.Then, be patient! The group order will be initiated on 19 March and will arrive in Paris during the month of April. As soon as they arrive in Paris, the games will be mailed to their recipients.>Then, be patient! The group order will be initiated on 19 March and will arrive in Paris during the month of April. As soon as they arrive in Paris, the games will be mailed to their recipients.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Defin … <blockquote>Define the commons #1, is the first serie of 20 videos and remixes of definitions of the commons, (presented below), produced by Communautique and VECAM for <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun">Define The commons</a>. This serie has been gathered at the <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference">International Commons Conference</a>, co-organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the<a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Strategies_Group"> Commons Strategies Group</a>, in Berlin, November 1 and 2, 2010,</blockquote><h3>Presentation</h3><a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun&action">Define The Commons</a> is a multilingual project sharing definitions of commons. It is a process of collecting spontaneous and very brief definitions of the commons, made over several years and in different places around the world.The project started in the first by interviewing people during the first <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference">International Commons Conference</a>, co-organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the<a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Strategies_Group"> Commons Strategies Group</a>, in Berlin November 1 and 2, 2010. The conference organizers and participants were invited to define the commons with just one sentence in their own langage. Since 2010, many other definitions have been collected during other meetings.<h3>Future developpement</h3>Collection of the definitions of the commons continues. It is open to individuals and organizations contributions to define the paradigm of the commons. Publications and uses of the collection of definitions are in preparation, such as a mapping of the definitions of the commons. This project will also contribute to the creation of a glossary of commons through the identification of the terms used in the definitions.If you want to participate, please sent an email to Alain Ambrosi (ambrosia/at/web.ca) or Frédéric Sultan (fredericsultan/at/gmail.com).<h3>Collaborators</h3>This initiative is an idea of Alain Ambrosi. Join contributors in the <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun"> wiki-page</a>.<h3>Funding</h3>The project have been launched within the framework of the prototyping phase of Remix The Commons supported by the International Organization of Francophonie and the Foundation for the Progress of Human (FPH).<h3>Contribution of Remix The Commons</h3>Remix The Commons is the methodological and technical support of this approach.ork of the prototyping phase of Remix The Commons supported by the International Organization of Francophonie and the Foundation for the Progress of Human (FPH). <h3>Contribution of Remix The Commons</h3> Remix The Commons is the methodological and technical support of this approach.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Defin … <blockquote>Define the commons #5, is the fifth serie of short videos of definitions of the commons, produced by Communautique and Gazibo for <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun&action">Define The Commons</a>. It contains 12 capsules presented below. This serie has been gathered at the Internationale conference <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference">ECONOMICS AND THE COMMON(S): FROM SEED FORM TO CORE PARADIGM</a> , co-organized by <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Strategies_Group"> Commons Strategies Group</a>, the <a href="http://www.boell.de">Heinrich Böll</a> and <a href="http://www.fph.ch">Charles Leopold Mayer Pour le Progrès de l’Homme</a> Foundations and <a href="http://remixthecommons.org">Remix The Commons</a>, in Berlin, May 24 and 25, 2013.</blockquote><h3>Presentation</h3><a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun">Define The Commons</a> is a multilingual project sharing definitions of commons. It is a process of collecting spontaneous and very brief definitions of the commons, made over several years and in different places around the world. The project started in the first by interviewing people during the first <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference">International Commons Conference</a>, co-organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the<a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Strategies_Group"> Commons Strategies Group</a>, in Berlin November 1 and 2, 2010. The conference organizers and participants were invited to define the commons with just one sentence in their own langage. Since 2010, many other definitions have been collected during other meetings. <h3>Future developpement</h3>Collection of the definitions of the commons continues. It is open to individuals and organizations contributions to define the paradigm of the commons. Publications and uses of the collection of definitions are in preparation, such as a mapping of the definitions of the commons. This project will also contribute to the creation of a glossary of commons through the identification of the terms used in the definitions.If you want to participate, please sent an email to Alain Ambrosi (ambrosia/at/web.ca) or Frédéric Sultan (fredericsultan/at/gmail.com). <h3>Collaborators</h3>This initiative is an idea of Alain Ambrosi. Join contributors in the <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun&action"> wiki-page</a>.<h3>Funding</h3>The project have been launched within the framework of the prototyping phase of Remix The Commons supported by the International Organization of Francophonie and the Foundation for the Progress of Human (FPH).<h3>Contribution of Remix The Commons</h3>Remix The Commons is the methodological and technical support of this approach.ve been launched within the framework of the prototyping phase of Remix The Commons supported by the International Organization of Francophonie and the Foundation for the Progress of Human (FPH). <h3>Contribution of Remix The Commons</h3> Remix The Commons is the methodological and technical support of this approach.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Defin … <blockquote>Define the commons #5, is the fifth serie of short videos of definitions of the commons, produced by Communautique and Gazibo for <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun&action">Define The Commons</a>. It contains 12 capsules presented below. This serie has been gathered at the Internationale conference <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference">ECONOMICS AND THE COMMON(S): FROM SEED FORM TO CORE PARADIGM</a> , co-organized by <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Strategies_Group"> Commons Strategies Group</a>, the <a href="http://www.boell.de">Heinrich Böll</a> and <a href="http://www.fph.ch">Charles Leopold Mayer Pour le Progrès de l’Homme</a> Foundations and <a href="http://remixthecommons.org">Remix The Commons</a>, in Berlin, May 24 and 25, 2013.</blockquote><h3>Presentation</h3><a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun">Define The Commons</a> is a multilingual project sharing definitions of commons. It is a process of collecting spontaneous and very brief definitions of the commons, made over several years and in different places around the world. The project started in the first by interviewing people during the first <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference">International Commons Conference</a>, co-organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the<a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Strategies_Group"> Commons Strategies Group</a>, in Berlin November 1 and 2, 2010. The conference organizers and participants were invited to define the commons with just one sentence in their own langage. Since 2010, many other definitions have been collected during other meetings. <h3>Future developpement</h3>Collection of the definitions of the commons continues. It is open to individuals and organizations contributions to define the paradigm of the commons. Publications and uses of the collection of definitions are in preparation, such as a mapping of the definitions of the commons. This project will also contribute to the creation of a glossary of commons through the identification of the terms used in the definitions.If you want to participate, please sent an email to Alain Ambrosi (ambrosia/at/web.ca) or Frédéric Sultan (fredericsultan/at/gmail.com). <h3>Collaborators</h3>This initiative is an idea of Alain Ambrosi. Join contributors in the <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun&action"> wiki-page</a>.<h3>Funding</h3>The project have been launched within the framework of the prototyping phase of Remix The Commons supported by the International Organization of Francophonie and the Foundation for the Progress of Human (FPH).<h3>Contribution of Remix The Commons</h3>Remix The Commons is the methodological and technical support of this approach.ve been launched within the framework of the prototyping phase of Remix The Commons supported by the International Organization of Francophonie and the Foundation for the Progress of Human (FPH). <h3>Contribution of Remix The Commons</h3> Remix The Commons is the methodological and technical support of this approach.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Defin … <blockquote>Define the commons #3, is the third serie of short videos of definitions of the commons, produced by Communautique and Gazibo for <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun&action">Define The Commons</a>. It contains 16 capsules presented below. This serie has been gathered at the Internationale conference <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference">ECONOMICS AND THE COMMON(S): FROM SEED FORM TO CORE PARADIGM</a> , co-organized by <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Strategies_Group"> Commons Strategies Group</a>, the <a href="http://www.boell.de">Heinrich Böll</a> and <a href="http://www.fph.ch">Charles Leopold Mayer Pour le Progrès de l’Homme</a> Foundations and <a href="http://remixthecommons.org">Remix The Commons</a>, in Berlin, May 24 and 25, 2013.</blockquote><h3>Presentation</h3><a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun">Define The Commons</a> is a multilingual project sharing definitions of commons. It is a process of collecting spontaneous and very brief definitions of the commons, made over several years and in different places around the world. The project started in the first by interviewing people during the first <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference">International Commons Conference</a>, co-organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the<a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Strategies_Group"> Commons Strategies Group</a>, in Berlin November 1 and 2, 2010. The conference organizers and participants were invited to define the commons with just one sentence in their own langage. Since 2010, many other definitions have been collected during other meetings. <h3>Future developpement</h3>Collection of the definitions of the commons continues. It is open to individuals and organizations contributions to define the paradigm of the commons. Publications and uses of the collection of definitions are in preparation, such as a mapping of the definitions of the commons. This project will also contribute to the creation of a glossary of commons through the identification of the terms used in the definitions.If you want to participate, please sent an email to Alain Ambrosi (ambrosia/at/web.ca) or Frédéric Sultan (fredericsultan/at/gmail.com). <h3>Collaborators</h3>This initiative is an idea of Alain Ambrosi. Join contributors in the <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun&action"> wiki-page</a>.<h3>Funding</h3>The project have been launched within the framework of the prototyping phase of Remix The Commons supported by the International Organization of Francophonie and the Foundation for the Progress of Human (FPH).<h3>Contribution of Remix The Commons</h3>Remix The Commons is the methodological and technical support of this approach.ve been launched within the framework of the prototyping phase of Remix The Commons supported by the International Organization of Francophonie and the Foundation for the Progress of Human (FPH). <h3>Contribution of Remix The Commons</h3> Remix The Commons is the methodological and technical support of this approach.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Defin … <blockquote>Define the commons #2, is the second serie of 10 videos of definitions of the commons, (presented below), produced by Communautique and VECAM for <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun">Define The Commons</a>. This serie has been gathered at the World Science and Democracy Forum, organized at Dakar in February 2011, </blockquote><h3>Presentation</h3><a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun&action">Define The Commons</a> is a multilingual project sharing definitions of commons. It is a process of collecting spontaneous and very brief definitions of the commons, made over several years and in different places around the world. The project started in the first by interviewing people during the first <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference">International Commons Conference</a>, co-organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the<a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Strategies_Group"> Commons Strategies Group</a>, in Berlin November 1 and 2, 2010. The conference organizers and participants were invited to define the commons with just one sentence in their own langage. Since 2010, many other definitions have been collected during other meetings. <h3>Future developpement</h3>Collection of the definitions of the commons continues. It is open to individuals and organizations contributions to define the paradigm of the commons. Publications and uses of the collection of definitions are in preparation, such as a mapping of the definitions of the commons. This project will also contribute to the creation of a glossary of commons through the identification of the terms used in the definitions.If you want to participate, please sent an email to Alain Ambrosi (ambrosia/at/web.ca) or Frédéric Sultan (fredericsultan/at/gmail.com). <h3>Collaborators</h3>This initiative is an idea of Alain Ambrosi. Join contributors in the <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Definir_le_bien_commun"> wiki-page</a>.<h3>Funding</h3>The project have been launched within the framework of the prototyping phase of Remix The Commons supported by the International Organization of Francophonie and the Foundation for the Progress of Human (FPH).<h3>Contribution of Remix The Commons</h3>Remix The Commons is the methodological and technical support of this approach.hase of Remix The Commons supported by the International Organization of Francophonie and the Foundation for the Progress of Human (FPH). <h3>Contribution of Remix The Commons</h3> Remix The Commons is the methodological and technical support of this approach.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>E … <blockquote>Entrevue avec Joan Subirats(1) par Alain Ambrosi Mai 2018 </blockquote><blockquote>Joan Subirats est commissaire à la culture de la ville de Barcelone, dirigée par le groupe Barcelona en comu. Il est également professeur de sciences politiques à l’Universitat autonoma de Barcelona et fondateur de l’Institut sur la gouvernance et les politiques publiques (IGOP). Dans cette interview en anglais, il présente les enjeux de la politique culturelle pour la municipalité de Barcelone actuellement dirigée par Barcelona en Comù.</blockquote><figure style="width: 800px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full" src="https://s1.qwant.com/thumbr/0x380/b/4/cf4cf4f48af794bc54dc5384e88975c9e7cd020dbccf80dc35882a989230be/joan%20subirats.jpg?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fepsu.es%2Fimage%2Fjoan%2520subirats.jpg&q=0&b=1&p=0&a=1" alt="Joan Subirats (UAB) Conferencia FEPSU 2016" width="800" height="400" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Joan Subirats (UAB) Conferencia FEPSU 2016</figcaption></figure>AA<ul>: In your recent article in La Vanguardia(2), you set out a framework for a cultural policy, you refer to putting into practice the key community values that should underpin that policy… Maybe we could start there?</ul>JS: For me, whereas in the 20th century the defining conflict was between freedom and equality – and this marked the tension between right and left throughout the 20th century because in a way this is the frame in which capitalism and the need for social protection evolved together with the commodification of life while at the same time the market called for freedom – ie: no rules, no submission. But the need for protection demanded equality. But in the 21st century there is rejection of the notion of protection linked to statism: Nancy Fraser published an article(3) in the New Left Review, it is a re-reading of Polanyi and she claims that this double movement between commodification and protection is still valid, but that the State-based protection typical of the 20th century, where equality is guaranteed by the State, clashes since the end of the 20th century with the growing importance of heterogeneity, diversity and personal autonomy. Therefore, if in order to obtain equality, we have to be dependent on what the State does, this is going to be a contradiction…. So we could translate those values that informed the definition of policies in the 20th century, in 21st century terms they would be the idea of freedom (or personal autonomy, the idea of empowerment, not subjection, non-dependence) and at the same time equality, but no longer simply equality of opportunities but also equality of condition because we have to compensate for what is not the same (equal) in society. If you say « equal opportunities », that everyone has access to cultural facilities, to libraries, you are disregarding the fact that the starting conditions of people are not the same, this is the great contribution of Amartya Sen, no? You have to compensate for unequal starting situations because otherwise you depoliticize inequality and consider that inequality is the result of people’s lack of effort to get out of poverty. So equality yes, but the approach is different. And we must incorporate the idea of diversity as a key element in the recognition of people and groups on the basis of their specific dignity. That seems easy to say, but in reality it is complicated, especially if you relate it to culture, because culture has to do with all these things: it has to do with the construction of your personality, it has to do with equal access to culture just as cultural rights and culture have to do with the recognition of different forms of knowledge and culture – canonical culture, high culture, popular culture, everyday culture, neighbourhood culture … So for me, a cultural policy should be framed within the triple focus of personal autonomy, equality and diversity. And this is contradictory, in part, with the cultural policies developed in the past, where there is usually confusion between equality and homogeneity. In other words, the left has tended to consider that equality meant the same thing for everyone and that is wrong, isn’t it?, because you are confusing equality with homogeneity. The opposite of equality is inequality, the opposite of homogeneity is diversity. So you have to work with equality and diversity as values that are not antagonistic, but can be complementary. And this is a challenge for public institutions because they do not like heterogeneity, they find it complicated because it is simpler to treat everyone the same, as the administrative law manual used to prescribe `indifferent efficiency’: it is a way of understanding inequality as indifference, right?AA<ul>: In your article you also talk about the opposition between investing in infrastructures versus creating spaces and environments that are attractive to creators and you put an emphasis on the generation of spaces. What is being done, what has been done, what could be done about this?</ul>JS : In Barcelona we want to ensure that the city’s cultural policies do not imply producing culture itself, but rather to try to influence the values in the production processes that already exist, in the facilities, in the cultural and artistic infrastructures: the role of the city council, of the municipality, is not so much to produce culture as to contribute to the production of culture. Which is different, helping to produce culture…. Obviously, the city council will give priority to those initiatives that coincide with the values, with the normative approach that we promote. There are some exceptions, for example, the Grec festival in Barcelona(4) in July, or the Mercé(5), which is the Festa Mayor, where the city council does in fact subsidize the production of culture, so some productions are subsidised but generally what we have is a policy of aid to creators. What is being done is that 11 creative factories (fablabs) have been built, these are factories with collectives that manage them chosen through public tenders. There are now 3 factories of circus and visual arts, 2 factories of dance creation, one factory of more global creation housed at Fabra & Coats, 3 theatre factories and 2 visual arts and technology sites. So there are 11 factories of different sorts and there are plans to create others, for example in the field of feminist culture where we are in discussion with a very well consolidated group : normally all these creative factories have their management entrusted to collectives that already become highly consolidated in the process of creation and that need a space to ensure their continuity. Often the city council will cede municipal spaces to these collectives, sometimes through public competitions where the creators are asked to present their project for directing a factory. This is one aspect. Another aspect is what is called living culture, which is a programme for the promotion of cultural activities that arise from the community or from collectives in the form of cooperatives and this is a process of aid to collectives that are already functioning, or occasionally to highlight cultural activities and cultural dynamics that have existed for a long time but have not been dignified, that have not been valued, for example the Catalan rumba of the Gypsies, which is a very important movement in Barcelona that emerged from the gypsy community of El Raval, where there were some very famous artists like Peret. There we invested in creating a group to work on the historical memory of the rumba, looking for the roots of this movement, where it came from and why. Then some signposts were set up in streets where this took place, such as La Cera in El Raval, where there are two murals that symbolise the history of the Catalan rumba and the gypsy community in this area so that this type of thing is publicly visible. That is the key issue for culture: a recognition that there are many different cultures.Then there is the area of civic centres: approximately 15% of the civic centres in the city are managed by civic entities as citizen heritage, and those civic centres also have cultural activities that they decide on, and the city council, the municipality helps them develop the ideas put forward by the entities that manage those centres.So, if we put all those things together, we could talk about a culture of the urban commons. It is still early stages, this is still more of a concept than a reality, but the underlying idea is that in the end the density and the autonomous cultural-social fabric will be strong enough to be resilient to political changes. In other words, that you have helped to build cultural practices and communities that are strong and autonomous enough that they are not dependent on the political conjuncture. This would be ideal. A bit like the example I often cite about the housing cooperatives in Copenhagen, that there was 50% public housing in Copenhagen, and a right-wing government privatised 17% of that public housing, but it couldn’t touch the 33% of housing that was in the hands of co-operatives. Collective social capital has been more resilient than state assets: the latter is more vulnerable to changes in political majorities.AA<ul>: You also speak of situated culture which I think is very important: setting it in time and space. Now Facebook has announced it is coming to Barcelona so the Barcelona brand is going to be a brand that includes Facebook and its allies. But your conception of a situated culture is more about a culture where social innovation, participation, popular creativity in the community are very important…</ul>JS : Yes, it seems contradictory. In fact what you’re asking is the extent to which it makes sense to talk about situated culture in an increasingly globalized environment which is more and more dependent on global platforms. I believe that tension exists and conflict exists, this is undeniable, the city is a zone of conflict, therefore, the first thing we have to accept is that the city is a battleground between political alternatives with different cultural models. It is very difficult for a city council to set out univocal views of a cultural reality that is intrinsically plural. Talking about situated culture is an attempt to highlight the significance of the distinguishing factors that Barcelona possesses in its cultural production. This does not mean that this situated culture should be a strictly localist culture – a situated culture does not mean a culture that cuts off global links – it is a culture that relates to the global on the basis of its own specificity. What is most reprehensible from my point of view are cultural dynamics that have a global logic but that can just as well be here or anywhere else. And it’s true that the platforms generate this. An example: the other day the former minister of culture of Brazil, Lluca Ferreira, was here and talked about a program of living culture they developed, and they posted a photograph of some indigenous people where the man wore something that covered his pubic parts but the woman’s breasts were naked. So Facebook took the photograph off the site, and when the Minister called Facebook Brazil to say ‘what is going on?’, they told him that they didn’t have any duty towards the Brazilian government, that the only control over them was from a judge in San Francisco and that, therefore, if the judge in San Francisco forced them to put the photograph back, they would put it back, otherwise they wouldn’t have to listen to any minister from Brazil or anywhere else. In the end, there was a public movement of protest, and they put the photo back. The same thing happened here a few days ago, a group from a municipal theatre creation factory put up a poster with a man’s ass advertising a play by Virginia Wolff and Facebook took their entire account off the net – not just the photograph, they totally removed them from Facebook. And here too Facebook said that they are independent and that only the judge from San Francisco and so on. I believe that this is the opposite of situated culture because it is a global cultural logic, but at the same time it allows itself to be censored in Saudi Arabia, in China, that is to say it has different codes in each place. So to speak of situated culture means to speak of social transformation, of the relationship between culture and social transformation situated in the context in which you are working. But at the same time to have the will to dialogue with similar processes that exist in any other part of the world and that is the strength of a situated culture. And those processes of mutuality, of hybridization, that can happen when you have a Pakistani community here, you have a Filipino community, you have a Chinese community, you have a Gypsy community, you have an Italian community, you have an Argentinean community: they can be treated as typical folkloric elements in a theme park, or you can try to generate hybridization processes. Now at the Festival Grec this year there will be poetry in Urdu from the Pakistanis, there will be a Filipino theatre coming and a Filipino film fest at the Filmoteca – and this means mixing, situating, the cultural debate in the space where it is happening and trying to steep it in issues of cultural diversity. What I understand is that we need to strive for a local that is increasingly global, that this dialogue between the local and the global is very important.AA<ul>: Returning to social innovation and popular creativity, social innovation is also a concept taken up pretty much everywhere: how is it understood here? Taking into account that in the world of the commons, Catalonia, and especially Barcelona, is very well known for its fablabs, which are also situated in this new era. How then do you understand social innovation and how do you see the relationship between education and social innovation?</ul>JS : What I am trying to convey is that the traditional education system is doing little to prepare people and to enhance inclusive logics in our changing and transforming society, so in very broad lines I would say that if health and education were the basic redistributive policies of the 20th century, in the 21st century we must incorporate culture as a basic redistributive policy. Because before, the job market had very specific demands for the education sector: it knew very well what types of job profiles it needed because there was a very Taylorist logic to the world of work – what is the profile of a baker, of a plumber, of a miller? How many years you have to study for this kind of work. There is now a great deal of uncertainty about the future of the labour market, about how people will be able to work in the future and the key words that appear are innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, flexibility, ability to understand a diverse world, teamwork , being open to new ideas: this has little to do with traditional educational profiles, but it has much to do with culture, with things that allow you to acquire that backpack of basic tools that will help you navigate in a much more uncertain environment. And for me, to find the right connection between culture and education is very important because it allows the educational system to constantly transform itself by taking advantage of the creative potential of an environment that is much more accessible now than before because of new technologies, and therefore to make the transition from a deductive system where there is a teacher who knows and tells people what they need to know – to an inductive system: how do we explore what we need to know in order to be able to act. And that more inductive, more experimental logic has to do with creativity whereas the traditional education system didn’t postulate creativity, it postulated your ability to learn what someone else had decided you needed to study. It’s art, it is culture that allows you to play in that field much more easily … Translated from Spanish by Nancy Thede.1 Joan Subirats is Commissioner for culture in the city government of Barcelona led by the group Barcelona en comu. He is also professor of political science at the Universitat autonoma de Barcelona and founder of the Institute on Governance and Public Policy.2 « Salvara la cultura a las ciudades? », La Vanguardia (Barcelona), Culturals supplement, 12 May 2018, pp. 20-21. https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20180511/443518454074/cultura-ciudadesbarcelona-crisis.html3 Nancy Fraser, « A Triple Movement », New Left Review 81, May-June 2013. Published in Spanish in Jean-Louis Laville and José Luis Coraggio (Eds.), La izquierda del siglo XXI. Ideas y diálogo Norte-Sur para un proyecto necesario Icaria, Madrid 2018.4 Festival Grec, an annual multidisciplinary festival in Barcelona, now in its 42nd year. It is named for the Greek Theatre built for the 1929 Universal Exhibition in Barcelona: http://lameva.barcelona.cat/grec/en/.5 Barcelona’s annual ‘Festival of Festivals’ begins on Sept 24, day of Our Lady of Mercy, a city holiday in Barcelona. It especially highlights catalan and barcelonian cultural traditions and in recent years has especially featured neighbourhood cultural activities like street theatre. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mercè.nnual ‘Festival of Festivals’ begins on Sept 24, day of Our Lady of Mercy, a city holiday in Barcelona. It especially highlights catalan and barcelonian cultural traditions and in recent years has especially featured neighbourhood cultural activities like street theatre. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mercè.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>E … <blockquote>Entrevue avec Joan Subirats(1) par Alain Ambrosi Mai 2018 </blockquote><blockquote>Joan Subirats est commissaire à la culture de la ville de Barcelone, dirigée par le groupe Barcelona en comu. Il est également professeur de sciences politiques à l’Universitat autonoma de Barcelona et fondateur de l’Institut sur la gouvernance et les politiques publiques (IGOP). Dans cette interview en anglais, il présente les enjeux de la politique culturelle pour la municipalité de Barcelone actuellement dirigée par Barcelona en Comù.</blockquote><figure style="width: 800px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full" src="https://s1.qwant.com/thumbr/0x380/b/4/cf4cf4f48af794bc54dc5384e88975c9e7cd020dbccf80dc35882a989230be/joan%20subirats.jpg?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fepsu.es%2Fimage%2Fjoan%2520subirats.jpg&q=0&b=1&p=0&a=1" alt="Joan Subirats (UAB) Conferencia FEPSU 2016" width="800" height="400" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Joan Subirats (UAB) Conferencia FEPSU 2016</figcaption></figure>AA<ul>: In your recent article in La Vanguardia(2), you set out a framework for a cultural policy, you refer to putting into practice the key community values that should underpin that policy… Maybe we could start there?</ul>JS: For me, whereas in the 20th century the defining conflict was between freedom and equality – and this marked the tension between right and left throughout the 20th century because in a way this is the frame in which capitalism and the need for social protection evolved together with the commodification of life while at the same time the market called for freedom – ie: no rules, no submission. But the need for protection demanded equality. But in the 21st century there is rejection of the notion of protection linked to statism: Nancy Fraser published an article(3) in the New Left Review, it is a re-reading of Polanyi and she claims that this double movement between commodification and protection is still valid, but that the State-based protection typical of the 20th century, where equality is guaranteed by the State, clashes since the end of the 20th century with the growing importance of heterogeneity, diversity and personal autonomy. Therefore, if in order to obtain equality, we have to be dependent on what the State does, this is going to be a contradiction…. So we could translate those values that informed the definition of policies in the 20th century, in 21st century terms they would be the idea of freedom (or personal autonomy, the idea of empowerment, not subjection, non-dependence) and at the same time equality, but no longer simply equality of opportunities but also equality of condition because we have to compensate for what is not the same (equal) in society. If you say « equal opportunities », that everyone has access to cultural facilities, to libraries, you are disregarding the fact that the starting conditions of people are not the same, this is the great contribution of Amartya Sen, no? You have to compensate for unequal starting situations because otherwise you depoliticize inequality and consider that inequality is the result of people’s lack of effort to get out of poverty. So equality yes, but the approach is different. And we must incorporate the idea of diversity as a key element in the recognition of people and groups on the basis of their specific dignity. That seems easy to say, but in reality it is complicated, especially if you relate it to culture, because culture has to do with all these things: it has to do with the construction of your personality, it has to do with equal access to culture just as cultural rights and culture have to do with the recognition of different forms of knowledge and culture – canonical culture, high culture, popular culture, everyday culture, neighbourhood culture … So for me, a cultural policy should be framed within the triple focus of personal autonomy, equality and diversity. And this is contradictory, in part, with the cultural policies developed in the past, where there is usually confusion between equality and homogeneity. In other words, the left has tended to consider that equality meant the same thing for everyone and that is wrong, isn’t it?, because you are confusing equality with homogeneity. The opposite of equality is inequality, the opposite of homogeneity is diversity. So you have to work with equality and diversity as values that are not antagonistic, but can be complementary. And this is a challenge for public institutions because they do not like heterogeneity, they find it complicated because it is simpler to treat everyone the same, as the administrative law manual used to prescribe `indifferent efficiency’: it is a way of understanding inequality as indifference, right?AA<ul>: In your article you also talk about the opposition between investing in infrastructures versus creating spaces and environments that are attractive to creators and you put an emphasis on the generation of spaces. What is being done, what has been done, what could be done about this?</ul>JS : In Barcelona we want to ensure that the city’s cultural policies do not imply producing culture itself, but rather to try to influence the values in the production processes that already exist, in the facilities, in the cultural and artistic infrastructures: the role of the city council, of the municipality, is not so much to produce culture as to contribute to the production of culture. Which is different, helping to produce culture…. Obviously, the city council will give priority to those initiatives that coincide with the values, with the normative approach that we promote. There are some exceptions, for example, the Grec festival in Barcelona(4) in July, or the Mercé(5), which is the Festa Mayor, where the city council does in fact subsidize the production of culture, so some productions are subsidised but generally what we have is a policy of aid to creators. What is being done is that 11 creative factories (fablabs) have been built, these are factories with collectives that manage them chosen through public tenders. There are now 3 factories of circus and visual arts, 2 factories of dance creation, one factory of more global creation housed at Fabra & Coats, 3 theatre factories and 2 visual arts and technology sites. So there are 11 factories of different sorts and there are plans to create others, for example in the field of feminist culture where we are in discussion with a very well consolidated group : normally all these creative factories have their management entrusted to collectives that already become highly consolidated in the process of creation and that need a space to ensure their continuity. Often the city council will cede municipal spaces to these collectives, sometimes through public competitions where the creators are asked to present their project for directing a factory. This is one aspect. Another aspect is what is called living culture, which is a programme for the promotion of cultural activities that arise from the community or from collectives in the form of cooperatives and this is a process of aid to collectives that are already functioning, or occasionally to highlight cultural activities and cultural dynamics that have existed for a long time but have not been dignified, that have not been valued, for example the Catalan rumba of the Gypsies, which is a very important movement in Barcelona that emerged from the gypsy community of El Raval, where there were some very famous artists like Peret. There we invested in creating a group to work on the historical memory of the rumba, looking for the roots of this movement, where it came from and why. Then some signposts were set up in streets where this took place, such as La Cera in El Raval, where there are two murals that symbolise the history of the Catalan rumba and the gypsy community in this area so that this type of thing is publicly visible. That is the key issue for culture: a recognition that there are many different cultures.Then there is the area of civic centres: approximately 15% of the civic centres in the city are managed by civic entities as citizen heritage, and those civic centres also have cultural activities that they decide on, and the city council, the municipality helps them develop the ideas put forward by the entities that manage those centres.So, if we put all those things together, we could talk about a culture of the urban commons. It is still early stages, this is still more of a concept than a reality, but the underlying idea is that in the end the density and the autonomous cultural-social fabric will be strong enough to be resilient to political changes. In other words, that you have helped to build cultural practices and communities that are strong and autonomous enough that they are not dependent on the political conjuncture. This would be ideal. A bit like the example I often cite about the housing cooperatives in Copenhagen, that there was 50% public housing in Copenhagen, and a right-wing government privatised 17% of that public housing, but it couldn’t touch the 33% of housing that was in the hands of co-operatives. Collective social capital has been more resilient than state assets: the latter is more vulnerable to changes in political majorities.AA<ul>: You also speak of situated culture which I think is very important: setting it in time and space. Now Facebook has announced it is coming to Barcelona so the Barcelona brand is going to be a brand that includes Facebook and its allies. But your conception of a situated culture is more about a culture where social innovation, participation, popular creativity in the community are very important…</ul>JS : Yes, it seems contradictory. In fact what you’re asking is the extent to which it makes sense to talk about situated culture in an increasingly globalized environment which is more and more dependent on global platforms. I believe that tension exists and conflict exists, this is undeniable, the city is a zone of conflict, therefore, the first thing we have to accept is that the city is a battleground between political alternatives with different cultural models. It is very difficult for a city council to set out univocal views of a cultural reality that is intrinsically plural. Talking about situated culture is an attempt to highlight the significance of the distinguishing factors that Barcelona possesses in its cultural production. This does not mean that this situated culture should be a strictly localist culture – a situated culture does not mean a culture that cuts off global links – it is a culture that relates to the global on the basis of its own specificity. What is most reprehensible from my point of view are cultural dynamics that have a global logic but that can just as well be here or anywhere else. And it’s true that the platforms generate this. An example: the other day the former minister of culture of Brazil, Lluca Ferreira, was here and talked about a program of living culture they developed, and they posted a photograph of some indigenous people where the man wore something that covered his pubic parts but the woman’s breasts were naked. So Facebook took the photograph off the site, and when the Minister called Facebook Brazil to say ‘what is going on?’, they told him that they didn’t have any duty towards the Brazilian government, that the only control over them was from a judge in San Francisco and that, therefore, if the judge in San Francisco forced them to put the photograph back, they would put it back, otherwise they wouldn’t have to listen to any minister from Brazil or anywhere else. In the end, there was a public movement of protest, and they put the photo back. The same thing happened here a few days ago, a group from a municipal theatre creation factory put up a poster with a man’s ass advertising a play by Virginia Wolff and Facebook took their entire account off the net – not just the photograph, they totally removed them from Facebook. And here too Facebook said that they are independent and that only the judge from San Francisco and so on. I believe that this is the opposite of situated culture because it is a global cultural logic, but at the same time it allows itself to be censored in Saudi Arabia, in China, that is to say it has different codes in each place. So to speak of situated culture means to speak of social transformation, of the relationship between culture and social transformation situated in the context in which you are working. But at the same time to have the will to dialogue with similar processes that exist in any other part of the world and that is the strength of a situated culture. And those processes of mutuality, of hybridization, that can happen when you have a Pakistani community here, you have a Filipino community, you have a Chinese community, you have a Gypsy community, you have an Italian community, you have an Argentinean community: they can be treated as typical folkloric elements in a theme park, or you can try to generate hybridization processes. Now at the Festival Grec this year there will be poetry in Urdu from the Pakistanis, there will be a Filipino theatre coming and a Filipino film fest at the Filmoteca – and this means mixing, situating, the cultural debate in the space where it is happening and trying to steep it in issues of cultural diversity. What I understand is that we need to strive for a local that is increasingly global, that this dialogue between the local and the global is very important.AA<ul>: Returning to social innovation and popular creativity, social innovation is also a concept taken up pretty much everywhere: how is it understood here? Taking into account that in the world of the commons, Catalonia, and especially Barcelona, is very well known for its fablabs, which are also situated in this new era. How then do you understand social innovation and how do you see the relationship between education and social innovation?</ul>JS : What I am trying to convey is that the traditional education system is doing little to prepare people and to enhance inclusive logics in our changing and transforming society, so in very broad lines I would say that if health and education were the basic redistributive policies of the 20th century, in the 21st century we must incorporate culture as a basic redistributive policy. Because before, the job market had very specific demands for the education sector: it knew very well what types of job profiles it needed because there was a very Taylorist logic to the world of work – what is the profile of a baker, of a plumber, of a miller? How many years you have to study for this kind of work. There is now a great deal of uncertainty about the future of the labour market, about how people will be able to work in the future and the key words that appear are innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, flexibility, ability to understand a diverse world, teamwork , being open to new ideas: this has little to do with traditional educational profiles, but it has much to do with culture, with things that allow you to acquire that backpack of basic tools that will help you navigate in a much more uncertain environment. And for me, to find the right connection between culture and education is very important because it allows the educational system to constantly transform itself by taking advantage of the creative potential of an environment that is much more accessible now than before because of new technologies, and therefore to make the transition from a deductive system where there is a teacher who knows and tells people what they need to know – to an inductive system: how do we explore what we need to know in order to be able to act. And that more inductive, more experimental logic has to do with creativity whereas the traditional education system didn’t postulate creativity, it postulated your ability to learn what someone else had decided you needed to study. It’s art, it is culture that allows you to play in that field much more easily … Translated from Spanish by Nancy Thede.1 Joan Subirats is Commissioner for culture in the city government of Barcelona led by the group Barcelona en comu. He is also professor of political science at the Universitat autonoma de Barcelona and founder of the Institute on Governance and Public Policy.2 « Salvara la cultura a las ciudades? », La Vanguardia (Barcelona), Culturals supplement, 12 May 2018, pp. 20-21. https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20180511/443518454074/cultura-ciudadesbarcelona-crisis.html3 Nancy Fraser, « A Triple Movement », New Left Review 81, May-June 2013. Published in Spanish in Jean-Louis Laville and José Luis Coraggio (Eds.), La izquierda del siglo XXI. Ideas y diálogo Norte-Sur para un proyecto necesario Icaria, Madrid 2018.4 Festival Grec, an annual multidisciplinary festival in Barcelona, now in its 42nd year. It is named for the Greek Theatre built for the 1929 Universal Exhibition in Barcelona: http://lameva.barcelona.cat/grec/en/.5 Barcelona’s annual ‘Festival of Festivals’ begins on Sept 24, day of Our Lady of Mercy, a city holiday in Barcelona. It especially highlights catalan and barcelonian cultural traditions and in recent years has especially featured neighbourhood cultural activities like street theatre. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mercè.nnual ‘Festival of Festivals’ begins on Sept 24, day of Our Lady of Mercy, a city holiday in Barcelona. It especially highlights catalan and barcelonian cultural traditions and in recent years has especially featured neighbourhood cultural activities like street theatre. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mercè.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>A workshop < … <blockquote>A workshop <a href="http://mappingthecommons.net/">mapping the commons</a> will take place at Rio (Brazil) from 18 to 26 of october 2013, coordinated by <a href="http://hackitectura.net/">Pablo de Soto</a> with the collaboration of <a href="http://www.bernardogutierrez.es/">Bernardo Gutiérrez</a> and the support of MediaLab (Madrid).</blockquote><iframe loading="lazy" width="400" height="225" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Nrtbi9gbuWw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Mapping the commons was developed by Pablo Soto. This initiative aims to produce with inhabitants, activists in the place, living maps, consisting of short video documentaries and vidéoposts. The proposed approach takes the form of an intense multi-day workshop with communication students and activists to find the Commons, define and make them visible in the territory by producing media that form the map.Pablo Soto initiated this approach around urban commons of <a href="http://mappingthecommons.net/map-of-istanbul-commons/">istanbul</a> and <a href = "http://mappingthecommons.net/map-of-athens-commons/"> Athens </ a>. See the work done about <a href="http://mappingthecommons.net/taksim-square/"> Taksim Square </a>, whose privatization was one of the starting points of protest in Turkey this year. The mapping is a strategic tool. To research of the urban commons is a process of mapping the space, that Pablo Soto understand « as proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, and used many artists and activists during the last decade, as a <a href="http://cartografiaciudadana.net/athenscommons/auto.php"> performance</a> which can be thinking, artistic work, or social change ».On 20 March 2013, a wikisprint was performed in Barcelona using the same principles and methodology . Under the title » Global P2P » , it was to map Common practices and P2P in Latin America and southern Europe. See in English <a href=" http://codigoabiertocc.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/globalp2p-the-wind-that-shook-the-net/"> # GlobalP2P , the wind that shook the net </a>.Rio next step Mapping the commons is one of the cities that comes from living like the rest of Brazil, an intense social and political mobilization against international festivities that tend to <a href= "http:// scinfolex.wordpress.com/?s=Olympic"> privatize public space </a>. Many consider these mobilizations, their claims and modes of organization fall within the paradigm of Commons. See analysis on the subject of Bernardo Gutierrez in <a href="http://blogs.20minutos.es/codigo-abierto/2013/05/23/globalp2p-el-viento-que-desordeno-las-redes/">el viento that desordeno las redes</a> and Alexandre Mendes in <a href ="http://uninomade.net/tenda/a-atualidade-de-uma-democracia-das-mobilizacoes-e-do-comum/"> A atualidade uma das democracia mobilizacoes do comum e</a>.To go further , we recommand to read the article <a href="http://www.academia.edu/2637017/Mapping_the_Commons_Workshop"> Mapping the Commons Workshop: Athens and Istanbul </a> , Pablo De Soto, Daphne Dragona , Aslihan Şenel , Demitri Delinikolas José Pérez de Lamalt;p>To go further , we recommand to read the article <a href="http://www.academia.edu/2637017/Mapping_the_Commons_Workshop"> Mapping the Commons Workshop: Athens and Istanbul </a> , Pablo De Soto, Daphne Dragona , Aslihan Şenel , Demitri Delinikolas José Pérez de Lama)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>An experience o … <blockquote>An experience of self-management of computational infrastructure, that allows organizations to embed digital sovereignty into their thinking on transition and take action!</blockquote>Together with other individuals and organizations, and in collaboration with <a href="https://www.koumbit.org/">Koumbit</a>, Remix the commons is developing a collective response to the need for digital tools and infrastructures. The idea is to ensure full digital sovereignty over our work, exchanges and data in coherence with the vision set out in the Charter for Building a Data Commons for a Free, Fair and Sustainable Future.After having tested with Koumbit, an independent and solidary hosting company in Montreal, our ability to set up and manage some tools based on open source and the commons on a shared server, we designed a cooperation system based on a model similar to that of AMAPs, which we call the « Konbit numerique », in reference to the konbit of Haitian farmers. <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Konbit">Konbit</a> numerique is a prototype of « computational commons » for commoners’ projects. It proposes a working infrastructure that makes it possible to gradually achieve the objectives of independence and sovereignty on information and communication technology.Our Konbit numerique consists of a group of identified users and a server administrator, Koumbit cooperator. It is based on a 6 TB server hosted by Koumbit in Montreal (<a href="https://nuage.en-commun.net">https://nuage.en-commun.net)</a>, in which are installed the applications we need, tools based on open source and commons: file sharing, calendars, task management, online editing of text documents, table, email,… and most importantly for us a wiki farm. This is coverering a large part of the current digital uses of our organizations.Users are involved in the governance, and as much as possible in maintenance. The work of the server administrator is handled by the collective through a monthly intervention time credit system. This includes, in addition to the time dedicated to server maintenance, time reserved for future technical developments that will be allocated according to the Konbit’s needs. The idea is therefore to jointly pre-finance a digital infrastructure dedicated to the collective. This infrastructure is not based on capitalist logic. It does not seek to make more profit in the perspective of extraction, but to satisfy the needs of the collective. It allows us to start a process to degoogling our digital practices.Each person involved in the projects of the partners, stakeholders of this initiative, has access to this space and uses it within the framework of their activities in relation to the commons. Each partner can contribute to the life and development of the konbit by subscribing one or more shares of solidarity support (suggested amount: 15 € – 20 $CAD per month, or according to the budgets and needs of the projects), and according to the principle which aims to decouple use and trade (principle 3 of the Charter mentioned above). We have set ourselves the objective of gradually expanding the first collective to a balance between technical need/capacity and finance/governance. It is estimated that about 20 members would be an interesting size of the collective. Then other Konbits could be created and allow a federated type of operation.The konbit numerique is not an open structure like a Chaton (online service open to all), or an alternative hoster, but an experience of self-management of computational infrastructure by its users. It is still a little early to draw lessons from this approach, but it is likely that this initiative allows organizations to embed digital sovereignty into their thinking on transition and take action. We hope that accompanying such processes could be a challenge of interest to free software activists.hinking on transition and take action. We hope that accompanying such processes could be a challenge of interest to free software activists.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>As Alain Ambros … <blockquote>As Alain Ambrosi wrote in 2012, « <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Le_bien_commun_est_sur_toutes_les_l%C3%A8vres" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Commons is on everyone’s lips</a>« 1. In order to make this notion known and to avoid its dilution in sometimes too vague speeches, the collective Remix the Commons endeavors to decipher the practices and to sketch out the semantic and conceptual field of the movement of the commons from the collection and analysis of the documents it produces. The development of this vocabulary, which uses the tools of the semantic web, makes it possible to link the initiatives of documentation and promotion of the commons without erasing what makes their identities unique. By doing that, the movement of the commons has a space for strategic collaboration.</blockquote><figure id="attachment_4643" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4643" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-4643" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/alaina-buzas-Samburu-vocabulary--1024x681.jpg" alt="By Alaina Buzas " width="1024" height="681" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4643" class="wp-caption-text">By Alaina Buzas</figcaption></figure>It is in 2010 that Remix the Commons initiates a process of documentation of the commons. Initially, the collective has a simple web site to identify and report content, mostly video, accessible online. At the same time, an initial series of video interviews was conducted at an international meeting in Berlin (2010). Others will follow the rhythm of World Social Forums or local initiatives in France, Senegal, Quebec first, and then in many countries on different continents. It quickly becomes necessary to allow each person to search by using key words in this documentation.<h1>From key words to the commons vocabulary</h1>When cataloging media objects on the Remix the Commons wiki (more than 500 media objects now), we describe the content of each production according to four axes which helps to position it in the field of the commons: object or resource to be commonified, stakes, associated actions and expected results. To date, more than 400 « key concepts » have been identified from the corpus gathered on the site. After that, ech concept is a card that uses the information on the Remix the Commons wiki, but also data from other sources accessible by using linking techniques by wikis and the semantic web. From each record, the user accesses information from the main documentary collections associated with the commons (P2P Foundation, Transformap, Digital Library of the Commons) and the large reference databases DBpedia, Wikidata, VIAF And WorldCat. Each concept is accompanied by definitions in several languages, resources published around the world that illustrate the point or refer to practices.This set of key concepts provides a vivid and moving description of the world from the point of view of the commons. This collection is freely accessible, usable by all and open to contribution. Although this work is still at an experimental stage, it opens up interesting perspectives in terms of research, the production and the dissemination of knowledge about the commons. Holes, gaps and nuances between sources of information, between languages and cultures can be identified, documented and discussed among the actors involved in the field of the commons.The vocabulary of the commons highlighted can support the emerging practices and contribute to the enrichment of the contents in Wikipedia and Wikidata, for example. The associations and collectives that contribute to the documentation of the commons, have there a resource that allows them to collaborate on the production of informational commons on the commons.te to the documentation of the commons, have there a resource that allows them to collaborate on the production of informational commons on the commons.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>By posting the … <blockquote>By posting the 76 clips of the video interviews totalling 8 hours run time, produced at the Berlin Economics and the Commons conference, Remix the Commons initiates two new series on the Commons while adding to the already existing series on the definitions of the Commons.</blockquote>The first series named <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiO9RvnsUfkYR3nlESkj73h8CLnDhh2kY">Economics and the Commons </a>includes 13 video individual interviews and round table discussions facilitated by us or the event organisers. The themes chosen reflect the conference streams on topics like: Natural commons management; Working and Caring; Knowledge,Culture and Science; Money, Market and Value; Infrastructures. Their duration varies between 5 and 35 minutes and the series totals 5 hours run time.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiO9RvnsUfkYA3AHFtDOUCQCcCvEzkn-S">An Agenda for the Commons</a> includes 11 videos covering themes such as education and the culture of the Commons, research, the political dimension and the relationship to the State.They total 3 hours and 10 minutes.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiO9RvnsUfkatF08AS-5t1PJSU35khJ3S">Define/définir/definir the Commons</a> is composed of 53 short interviews responding to the question : « If you had to define the Commons in one sentence, what would it be?” Most of the interviews are in English, but 28 of them are in the original language of the participant. This series was begun at the 2010 Berlin conference and has been enriched during several international meetings of different social movements around the world since then. The series counts more than a hundred clips now.The 76 clips of the video interviews done at the ECC in Berlin totals around 8 hours run time. Their aim is to contribute to documenting the conference, and they should thus be seen as a complement to the <a href="http://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/ecc_report_final.pdf">excellent report</a> by David Bollier and the <a href="http://commonsandeconomics.org">websites</a> prepared by the Heinrich Boell FoundationAll the clips have been catalogued on the Remix The Commons platform allowing for consultation, research by topics, contributors, language. Each entry allows also an access to the rushes for potential new uses and remix.Alain Ambrosi and Frédéric Sultanwing for consultation, research by topics, contributors, language. Each entry allows also an access to the rushes for potential new uses and remix. Alain Ambrosi and Frédéric Sultan)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Comment traduir … <blockquote>Comment traduire les communs en processus de transformation systématique de la société ? L’équateur lance une initiative qui vise à faire se rencontrer les hackers et les communautés indigènes autour du partage de la connaissance.</blockquote>Traduction de l’<a href="http://floksociety.org/2013/09/18/michel-bauwens-arriba-al-ecuador/">article original : Michel Bauwens arriba al Ecuador</a>.FLOK Society souhaite la bienvenue à Michel Bauwens en Equateur. Michel Bauwens, l’un des fondateurs de la Fondation P2P, est arrivé à Quito le 17 septembre pour participer au projet de réinvention fondamentale de l’Equateur. Bauwens dirigera une équipe de recherche qui se propose de déclencher un processus participatif mondial avec une mise en œuvre immédiate en Equateur. Le processus vise à retourner aux racines de l’économie équatorienne, pour déclencher une transition vers une société de la connaissance libre et ouverte.Au cours du premier semestre de 2014, Michel Bauwens participera à la mise en place d’un réseau mondial de chercheurs sur la transition. La Fondation P2P est un réseau mondial de chercheurs qui documente le passage à des pratiques ouvertes, participatives et basées sur les communs dans tous les domaines de l’activité humaine, et plus particulièrement dans celui de la connaissance et du code ouvert, et le passage à la coopération en matière de conception ouverte, de production ouverte, de science ouverte, de gouvernement ouvert, d’agriculture ouverte et production ouverte qui ont un fort potentiel d’amélioration des processus agricoles et industriels durables.L’Equateur est le premier pays à s’engager dans la création d’une société basée sur la connaissance ouverte comme biens communs. Afin de réaliser la transition vers un « bien savoir », ou une société de «bonne connaissance» <a href="http://plan2009.senplades.gob.ec/web/en" rel="nofollow">http://plan2009.senplades.gob.ec/web/en</a>, qui est une extension de la stratégie officielle pour une société basée sur le « buen vivir ». L’Institut d’études avancées (IAEN sigle espagnol ) à Quito, Équateur, dirigé par le recteur Carlos Prieto, a lancé un processus stratégique, appelé Project Society FLOK, qui vise à organiser une conférence internationale en Mars 2014 et produire 10 documents stratégiques proposant des politiques de transition vers une société de la bonne connaissance, qui sera présenté aux citoyens équatoriens à travers des processus participatifs intensifs, semblables à ceux qui ont eu lieu lors de la rédaction de la nouvelle Constitution et les plans nationaux ambitieux, qui fixent les orientations de la politique du gouvernement.Alors que le Buen Vivir vise à remplacer l’accumulation aveugle de la croissance économique par une forme de croissance qui profite directement au bien-être du peuple équatorien. Buen Saber vise à créer des communs de la connaissance ouvert qui faciliteront une telle transition. FLOK signifie « Free Libre and Open Knowledge ». Pour établir ces nouvelles orientations et documents, IAEN s’est mis en lien avec le mouvement international hacker et logiciels libres, mais aussi avec ses extensions à travers les nombreuses initiatives pairs à pairs qui ont pour objectif de constituer un corps de connaissance pour la production physique dans l’agriculture et l’industrie.La base de connaissances de la Fondation P2P met également l’accent sur la documentation des nouvelles politiques et des cadres juridiques mis en place par les villes ouvertes au partage, telles que Séoul, San Francisco, et Naples, et les régions telles que Bordeaux, Open Commons Region de Linz, en Autriche, au Soudan du Sud, le Cabineto Digital de Rio del Sur, et plus encore. La base de données de 22.000 initiatives sur les communs à travers le monde a été vu près de 25 millions de fois et attire 25.000 chercheurs, activistes, utilisateurs et des lecteurs chaque jour. Michel Bauwens est également l’auteur d’une synthése de l’économie collaborative, l’expert externe pour l’Académie pontificale des sciences sociales, un membre du Forum Hangwang à Chengdu qui étudie la viabilité industrielle, et s’est engagé dans un projet de recherche de l’Université Leuphana sur la démocratie liquide numérique. En tant que membre fondateur et partenaire du Commons Strategies Group, il a co-organisé deux réunions mondiales sur les biens communs, la dernière en mai 2013 à Berlin a été dédiée au domaine émergent de l’Économie basée sur les communs.En Mars 2013, la Fondation P2P a organisé un « wikisprint hispanique mondiale» , avec l’aide de l’activiste ispano-brésilien Bernardo Gutierrez, au cours de laquelle plus de 500 participants individuels et collectifs, dans plus de 60 villes et 23 pays, ont cartographié les initiatives P2P, de partage et de biens communs dans leur région et les zones d’activités , permettant l’interconnexion d’un réseau de militants et d’universitaires latino-américains.IAEN estime que la collaboration entre les communautés hacktivistes, la Société FLOK et les réseaux mondiaux et hispaniques actifs dans la construction des biens communs ouverts sera essentielle pour créer une synergie avec les acteurs locaux de la société équatorienne, et aidera à atteindre le but que le pays s’est donné.Traduction de l’article <a href="http://floksociety.org/en/2013/09/18/michel-bauwens-arriba-al-ecuador/">Michel Bauwens arrives in Ecuador</a> par F. 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Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>From the 15th-1 … <blockquote>From the 15th-17th of November 2016 a European Commons Assembly will take place in Brussels. The commoners will convene, discuss, showcase, and reclaim Europe. On the afternoon of the 16th, around 150 will partcipate in a meeting in the European Parliament, organized in cooperation with the EP intergroup on Common Goods and Public Services (Led by Marisa Matias, Dario Tamburrano, Ernesto Urtasun, Sergio Cofferati). A variety of other events (and local assemblies) will take place outside Parliament, both in Brussels and across Europe.</blockquote><H1>Networking, unity and policy around the commons paradigm </H1>On September 26, a group of nonprofits, foundations, and other civil society organizations jointly publish a “Call for a European Commons Assembly” (https://europeancommonsassembly.eu/#section1). The collectively drafted document, which continues to garner signatures from groups and individuals around Europe, serves as a declaration of purpose for a distributed network of “commoners.” <img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ECA-300x212.jpg" alt="eca" width="900" height="636" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4561" /> Author: TILL GENTZSCHThe Assembly seeks to unite citizens in trans-local and trans-european solidarity to overcome Europe’s current challenges and reinvigorate the political process for the 21st century. The commons can be understood as a bridging paradigm that stresses cooperation in management of resources, knowledge, tools, and spaces as diverse as water, Wikipedia, a crowdfund, or a community garden. Their Call describes commoning as:<ul>…the network-based cooperation and localized bottom-up initiatives already sustained by millions of people around Europe and the world. These initiatives create self-managed systems that satisfy important needs, and often work outside of dominant markets and traditional state programmes while pioneering new hybrid structures.</ul> The Assembly emerged in May from a diverse, gender balanced pilot community of 28 activists from 15 European countries, working in different domains of the commons. New people are joining the Assembly every week, and ECA is inclusive and open for others to join, so that a broad and resilient European movement can coalesce. It seeks to visibilize acts of commoning by citizens for citizens, while promoting interaction with policy and institutions at both the national and European levels. <H1>Part of a broader movement</H1> The rapid embrace of commons as an alternative holistic, sustainable and social worldview is in part an expression of unease with the unjust current economic system and democratic deficiencies. The commons movement has exploded in recent years, following the award of the Nobel Prize in Economics to Elinor Ostrom in 2009 for her work on managing common resources. It has also seen overlap with other movements, such as the Social and Solidarity and Sharing Economy movements, peer to peer production, and Degrowth.Michel Bauwens, part of the ECA who is also a prominent figure in the peer-to-peer movement, explains: All over the world, a new social movement is emerging, which is challenging the ‘extractive’ premises of the mainstream political economy and which is co-constructing the seed forms of a sustainable and solidary society. Commoners are also getting a voice, for example through the Assemblies of the Commons that are emerging in French cities and elsewhere. The time is ripe for a shoutout to the political world, through a European Assembly of the Commons.The Call includes an open invitation to Brussels from November 15 to 17, 2016 for three days of activities and shared reflection on how to protect and promote the commons. It will include an official session in the European Parliament, hosted by the Intergroup on Common Goods and Public Services, on November 16 (limited capacity). You can read and sign the full text of the Call, also available in French, Spanish, and soon other European languages, on the <a href="http://europeancommonsassembly.eu">ECA website</a>. There is an <a href="http://europeancommonsassembly.eu/sign-call/">option to sign</a> as an individual or an organization.For more information, visit <a href="http://europeancommonsassembly.eu/">http://europeancommonsassembly.eu/ </a> or follow @CommonsAssembly on Twitter for regular updates.Media Contact: Nicole Leonard contact@europeancommonsassembly.eu Keywords: Commons, European, Citizens, Parliament, Participatory Democracy, Civil Society/ </a> or follow @CommonsAssembly on Twitter for regular updates. Media Contact: Nicole Leonard contact@europeancommonsassembly.eu Keywords: Commons, European, Citizens, Parliament, Participatory Democracy, Civil Society)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>How commons cou … <blockquote>How commons could be the base of a transition of the society? The equator is launching an initiative to bring together hackers and indigenous communities around the sharing of knowledge.</blockquote>Original article published <a href="http://floksociety.org/en/2013/09/18/michel-bauwens-arriba-al-ecuador/">here</a>The FLOK Society welcomes Michel Bauwens to Ecuador. Bauwens, a founder of the P2P Foundation, flew into Quito on Sept. 17 to begin collaborating towards a fundamental reimagination of Ecuador.Bauwens will lead a research team that is proposing to unleash a participatory, global process with an immediate implementation in Ecuador. The process will remake the roots of Ecuador’s economy, setting off a transition into a society of free and open knowledge.In the first semester of 2014, Bauwens will assist in setting up a global network of transition researchers. The P2P Foundation is a global network of researchers that is documenting the shift towards open, participatory and commons-oriented practices in every domain of human activity, but especially also the shift from collaboration on open knowledge and code, towards cooperation in open design, open hardware, open science, open government, and the shift towards open agricultural and open machining practices that have great potential for increasing the productivity and sustainability of farming and industrial processes.Ecuador is the first country in the world which is committing itself to the creation of a open commons knowlege based society. In order to achieve the transition to a ‘buen saber’, or ‘good knowledge’ society, which is an extension of the official strategy towards a ‘buen vivir’-based society, the Advanced Studies Institute (IAEN by its ]Spanish initials) in Quito, Ecuador, led by the rector Carlos Prieto, has initiated a strategic process, called the FLOK Society Project, which aims to organize a major international conference in March 2014, and will produce 10 strategic documents proposing transition policies towards the good knowledge society, which will be presented to the Ecuadorian citizens through intensive participatory processes, similar to those that took place for the establishment of the new Constitution and the ambitious National Plans, which set the guidelines for government policy.While Buen Vivir aims to replace mindless accumulative economic growth to a form of growth that directly benefits the wellbeing of the Ecuadorian people, Buen Saber aims to create the open knowledge commons which will facilitate such a transition. FLOK stands for ‘Free Libre and Open Knowledge. In order to establish these transition policies and documents, IAEN has connected itself with the global hacker and free software movement, but also with its extension in the many peer to peer initiatives that directly aim to create a body of knowledge for physical production in agriculture and industry.The P2P Foundation knowledge base has also focused on documenting new policy and legal frameworks being set up by sharing cities such as Seoul, San Francisco, and Naples ; and regions such as Bordeaux, Open Commons Region Linz in Austria, South Sudan, the Cabineto Digital of Rio del Sur, and more. It’s database of 22,000 global commons initiatives has been viewed nearly 25 million times and attracts 25,000 researchers, activists, users and readers on a daily basis. Michel Bauwens is also the author of a Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy, an external expert for the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a member of the Hangwang Forum in Chengdu that works on industrial sustainability, and engaged in a research project for Leuphana University on digital liquid democracy. As a founding member and partner of the Commons Strategies Group, he co-organized two global meetings on the commons, the last one in May 2013 in Berlin was dedicated to the emerging field of Commons-oriented Economics.In March, the P2P Foundation organized a ‘global hispanic wikisprint’, with the help of Spanish-Brazilian activist Bernardo Gutierrez, in which more than registered 500 individuals and collectives, in more than 60 cities and 23 countries, mapped the open, p2p, sharing and commons initiatives in their region and areas of activities, resulting in a Latin American network of connected activists and scholars.IAEN believes that the connection between the hacktivism communities, the FLOK Society, and the global and hispanic networks active in constructing open commons will be vital to create a synergy with the local actors of Ecuadorian society, and will help us accomplish the mayor goal we have set for ourselves as a country.g open commons will be vital to create a synergy with the local actors of Ecuadorian society, and will help us accomplish the mayor goal we have set for ourselves as a country.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Interview Joan … <blockquote>Interview Joan Subirats(1) by Alain Ambrosi May 2018</blockquote><figure style="width: 700px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full" src="https://s1.qwant.com/thumbr/0x380/b/4/cf4cf4f48af794bc54dc5384e88975c9e7cd020dbccf80dc35882a989230be/joan%20subirats.jpg?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fepsu.es%2Fimage%2Fjoan%2520subirats.jpg&q=0&b=1&p=0&a=1" alt="Joan Subirats (UAB) Conferencia FEPSU 2016" width="700" height="400" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Joan Subirats (UAB) Conferencia FEPSU 2016</figcaption></figure>AA<ul>: In your recent article in La Vanguardia(2), you set out a framework for a cultural policy, you refer to putting into practice the key community values that should underpin that policy… Maybe we could start there?</ul>JS: For me, whereas in the 20th century the defining conflict was between freedom and equality – and this marked the tension between right and left throughout the 20th century because in a way this is the frame in which capitalism and the need for social protection evolved together with the commodification of life while at the same time the market called for freedom – ie: no rules, no submission. But the need for protection demanded equality. But in the 21st century there is rejection of the notion of protection linked to statism: Nancy Fraser published an article(3) in the New Left Review, it is a re-reading of Polanyi and she claims that this double movement between commodification and protection is still valid, but that the State-based protection typical of the 20th century, where equality is guaranteed by the State, clashes since the end of the 20th century with the growing importance of heterogeneity, diversity and personal autonomy. Therefore, if in order to obtain equality, we have to be dependent on what the State does, this is going to be a contradiction…. So we could translate those values that informed the definition of policies in the 20th century, in 21st century terms they would be the idea of freedom (or personal autonomy, the idea of empowerment, not subjection, non-dependence) and at the same time equality, but no longer simply equality of opportunities but also equality of condition because we have to compensate for what is not the same (equal) in society. If you say « equal opportunities », that everyone has access to cultural facilities, to libraries, you are disregarding the fact that the starting conditions of people are not the same, this is the great contribution of Amartya Sen, no? You have to compensate for unequal starting situations because otherwise you depoliticize inequality and consider that inequality is the result of people’s lack of effort to get out of poverty. So equality yes, but the approach is different. And we must incorporate the idea of diversity as a key element in the recognition of people and groups on the basis of their specific dignity. That seems easy to say, but in reality it is complicated, especially if you relate it to culture, because culture has to do with all these things: it has to do with the construction of your personality, it has to do with equal access to culture just as cultural rights and culture have to do with the recognition of different forms of knowledge and culture – canonical culture, high culture, popular culture, everyday culture, neighbourhood culture … So for me, a cultural policy should be framed within the triple focus of personal autonomy, equality and diversity. And this is contradictory, in part, with the cultural policies developed in the past, where there is usually confusion between equality and homogeneity. In other words, the left has tended to consider that equality meant the same thing for everyone and that is wrong, isn’t it?, because you are confusing equality with homogeneity. The opposite of equality is inequality, the opposite of homogeneity is diversity. So you have to work with equality and diversity as values that are not antagonistic, but can be complementary. And this is a challenge for public institutions because they do not like heterogeneity, they find it complicated because it is simpler to treat everyone the same, as the administrative law manual used to prescribe `indifferent efficiency’: it is a way of understanding inequality as indifference, right?AA<ul>: In your article you also talk about the opposition between investing in infrastructures versus creating spaces and environments that are attractive to creators and you put an emphasis on the generation of spaces. What is being done, what has been done, what could be done about this?</ul>JS : In Barcelona we want to ensure that the city’s cultural policies do not imply producing culture itself, but rather to try to influence the values in the production processes that already exist, in the facilities, in the cultural and artistic infrastructures: the role of the city council, of the municipality, is not so much to produce culture as to contribute to the production of culture. Which is different, helping to produce culture…. Obviously, the city council will give priority to those initiatives that coincide with the values, with the normative approach that we promote. There are some exceptions, for example, the Grec festival in Barcelona(4) in July, or the Mercé(5), which is the Festa Mayor, where the city council does in fact subsidize the production of culture, so some productions are subsidised but generally what we have is a policy of aid to creators. What is being done is that 11 creative factories (fablabs) have been built, these are factories with collectives that manage them chosen through public tenders. There are now 3 factories of circus and visual arts, 2 factories of dance creation, one factory of more global creation housed at Fabra & Coats, 3 theatre factories and 2 visual arts and technology sites. So there are 11 factories of different sorts and there are plans to create others, for example in the field of feminist culture where we are in discussion with a very well consolidated group : normally all these creative factories have their management entrusted to collectives that already become highly consolidated in the process of creation and that need a space to ensure their continuity. Often the city council will cede municipal spaces to these collectives, sometimes through public competitions where the creators are asked to present their project for directing a factory. This is one aspect. Another aspect is what is called living culture, which is a programme for the promotion of cultural activities that arise from the community or from collectives in the form of cooperatives and this is a process of aid to collectives that are already functioning, or occasionally to highlight cultural activities and cultural dynamics that have existed for a long time but have not been dignified, that have not been valued, for example the Catalan rumba of the Gypsies, which is a very important movement in Barcelona that emerged from the gypsy community of El Raval, where there were some very famous artists like Peret. There we invested in creating a group to work on the historical memory of the rumba, looking for the roots of this movement, where it came from and why. Then some signposts were set up in streets where this took place, such as La Cera in El Raval, where there are two murals that symbolise the history of the Catalan rumba and the gypsy community in this area so that this type of thing is publicly visible. That is the key issue for culture: a recognition that there are many different cultures.Then there is the area of civic centres: approximately 15% of the civic centres in the city are managed by civic entities as citizen heritage, and those civic centres also have cultural activities that they decide on, and the city council, the municipality helps them develop the ideas put forward by the entities that manage those centres.So, if we put all those things together, we could talk about a culture of the urban commons. It is still early stages, this is still more of a concept than a reality, but the underlying idea is that in the end the density and the autonomous cultural-social fabric will be strong enough to be resilient to political changes. In other words, that you have helped to build cultural practices and communities that are strong and autonomous enough that they are not dependent on the political conjuncture. This would be ideal. A bit like the example I often cite about the housing cooperatives in Copenhagen, that there was 50% public housing in Copenhagen, and a right-wing government privatised 17% of that public housing, but it couldn’t touch the 33% of housing that was in the hands of co-operatives. Collective social capital has been more resilient than state assets: the latter is more vulnerable to changes in political majorities.AA<ul>: You also speak of situated culture which I think is very important: setting it in time and space. Now Facebook has announced it is coming to Barcelona so the Barcelona brand is going to be a brand that includes Facebook and its allies. But your conception of a situated culture is more about a culture where social innovation, participation, popular creativity in the community are very important…</ul>JS : Yes, it seems contradictory. In fact what you’re asking is the extent to which it makes sense to talk about situated culture in an increasingly globalized environment which is more and more dependent on global platforms. I believe that tension exists and conflict exists, this is undeniable, the city is a zone of conflict, therefore, the first thing we have to accept is that the city is a battleground between political alternatives with different cultural models. It is very difficult for a city council to set out univocal views of a cultural reality that is intrinsically plural. Talking about situated culture is an attempt to highlight the significance of the distinguishing factors that Barcelona possesses in its cultural production. This does not mean that this situated culture should be a strictly localist culture – a situated culture does not mean a culture that cuts off global links – it is a culture that relates to the global on the basis of its own specificity. What is most reprehensible from my point of view are cultural dynamics that have a global logic but that can just as well be here or anywhere else. And it’s true that the platforms generate this. An example: the other day the former minister of culture of Brazil, Lluca Ferreira, was here and talked about a program of living culture they developed, and they posted a photograph of some indigenous people where the man wore something that covered his pubic parts but the woman’s breasts were naked. So Facebook took the photograph off the site, and when the Minister called Facebook Brazil to say ‘what is going on?’, they told him that they didn’t have any duty towards the Brazilian government, that the only control over them was from a judge in San Francisco and that, therefore, if the judge in San Francisco forced them to put the photograph back, they would put it back, otherwise they wouldn’t have to listen to any minister from Brazil or anywhere else. In the end, there was a public movement of protest, and they put the photo back. The same thing happened here a few days ago, a group from a municipal theatre creation factory put up a poster with a man’s ass advertising a play by Virginia Wolff and Facebook took their entire account off the net – not just the photograph, they totally removed them from Facebook. And here too Facebook said that they are independent and that only the judge from San Francisco and so on. I believe that this is the opposite of situated culture because it is a global cultural logic, but at the same time it allows itself to be censored in Saudi Arabia, in China, that is to say it has different codes in each place. So to speak of situated culture means to speak of social transformation, of the relationship between culture and social transformation situated in the context in which you are working. But at the same time to have the will to dialogue with similar processes that exist in any other part of the world and that is the strength of a situated culture. And those processes of mutuality, of hybridization, that can happen when you have a Pakistani community here, you have a Filipino community, you have a Chinese community, you have a Gypsy community, you have an Italian community, you have an Argentinean community: they can be treated as typical folkloric elements in a theme park, or you can try to generate hybridization processes. Now at the Festival Grec this year there will be poetry in Urdu from the Pakistanis, there will be a Filipino theatre coming and a Filipino film fest at the Filmoteca – and this means mixing, situating, the cultural debate in the space where it is happening and trying to steep it in issues of cultural diversity. What I understand is that we need to strive for a local that is increasingly global, that this dialogue between the local and the global is very important.AA<ul>: Returning to social innovation and popular creativity, social innovation is also a concept taken up pretty much everywhere: how is it understood here? Taking into account that in the world of the commons, Catalonia, and especially Barcelona, is very well known for its fablabs, which are also situated in this new era. How then do you understand social innovation and how do you see the relationship between education and social innovation?</ul>JS : What I am trying to convey is that the traditional education system is doing little to prepare people and to enhance inclusive logics in our changing and transforming society, so in very broad lines I would say that if health and education were the basic redistributive policies of the 20th century, in the 21st century we must incorporate culture as a basic redistributive policy. Because before, the job market had very specific demands for the education sector: it knew very well what types of job profiles it needed because there was a very Taylorist logic to the world of work – what is the profile of a baker, of a plumber, of a miller? How many years you have to study for this kind of work. There is now a great deal of uncertainty about the future of the labour market, about how people will be able to work in the future and the key words that appear are innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, flexibility, ability to understand a diverse world, teamwork , being open to new ideas: this has little to do with traditional educational profiles, but it has much to do with culture, with things that allow you to acquire that backpack of basic tools that will help you navigate in a much more uncertain environment. And for me, to find the right connection between culture and education is very important because it allows the educational system to constantly transform itself by taking advantage of the creative potential of an environment that is much more accessible now than before because of new technologies, and therefore to make the transition from a deductive system where there is a teacher who knows and tells people what they need to know – to an inductive system: how do we explore what we need to know in order to be able to act. And that more inductive, more experimental logic has to do with creativity whereas the traditional education system didn’t postulate creativity, it postulated your ability to learn what someone else had decided you needed to study. It’s art, it is culture that allows you to play in that field much more easily … Translated from Spanish by Nancy Thede.1 Joan Subirats is Commissioner for culture in the city government of Barcelona led by the group Barcelona en comu. He is also professor of political science at the Universitat autonoma de Barcelona and founder of the Institute on Governance and Public Policy.2 « Salvara la cultura a las ciudades? », La Vanguardia (Barcelona), Culturals supplement, 12 May 2018, pp. 20-21. https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20180511/443518454074/cultura-ciudadesbarcelona-crisis.html3 Nancy Fraser, « A Triple Movement », New Left Review 81, May-June 2013. Published in Spanish in Jean-Louis Laville and José Luis Coraggio (Eds.), La izquierda del siglo XXI. Ideas y diálogo Norte-Sur para un proyecto necesario Icaria, Madrid 2018.4 Festival Grec, an annual multidisciplinary festival in Barcelona, now in its 42nd year. It is named for the Greek Theatre built for the 1929 Universal Exhibition in Barcelona: http://lameva.barcelona.cat/grec/en/.5 Barcelona’s annual ‘Festival of Festivals’ begins on Sept 24, day of Our Lady of Mercy, a city holiday in Barcelona. It especially highlights catalan and barcelonian cultural traditions and in recent years has especially featured neighbourhood cultural activities like street theatre. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mercè.vals’ begins on Sept 24, day of Our Lady of Mercy, a city holiday in Barcelona. It especially highlights catalan and barcelonian cultural traditions and in recent years has especially featured neighbourhood cultural activities like street theatre. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mercè.)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Last 6, 7 and 8 … <blockquote>Last 6, 7 and 8 of November, the Art of commoning, an event the community Art of Hosting Montreal, saw 70 people come together to explore the commons and commoning, and develop a culture from the posture of commoner. The first two days were held in the beautiful local gardens Space for Life (Espace pour la vie) partner of the event. The third day, the participants were divided in different places (Tiers lieux) with commons projects throughout the city of Montreal.David Bollier who participated with Silke Hefrich, Alain Ambrosi and myself, made a <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/art-commoning"> review of the meeting on his blog </a>. For more information you can look at the <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/fr/2014/11/lart-de-len-commun/">full article</a> (in French only)</blockquote><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/20141107_162027.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-4035" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/20141107_162027-1024x576.jpg" alt="20141107_162027" width="1024" height="576" /></a>g/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/20141107_162027-1024x576.jpg" alt="20141107_162027" width="1024" height="576" /></a>)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Remix Biens Com … <blockquote>Remix Biens Communs est invité à présenter une sélection de vidéos sur le thème Biens communs de la connaissance à la BNF le 18 novembre prochain !</blockquote>Peuple et Culture et la BnF, proposent de consacrer leur troisième rendez-vous aux biens communs de la connaissance le 18 novembre 2013 avec la lecture collective du livre collectif Libres savoirs, les biens communs de la connaissance et la projection d’entretiens vidéos sélectionnés dans le catalogue interculturel, libre et collaboratif Remix The Commons. Cette journée permettra d’explorer les enjeux de la production collective, du partage et de la diffusion des connaissances en Biens Communs.Elle se déroule à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Entrée Ouest, Quai François Mauriac, Paris XIII.Métro Quai de la Gare ou Bibliothèque François Mitterrand.Pour toute précision, n’hésitez pas à contacter Adrien Thoreau ou Alexane à l’Union Peuple et Culture, 01 49 29 42 80 – 09 50 06 42 80 La liste des documents projetés : <ul><li>1’30 <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=define-the-commons-i">Définir le Bien Commun I</a></li><li>3’45 » <a href="http://cfeditions.com/sciences-et-democratie/?a=sk">Sansy Kaba Diakité, L’Harmattan Guinée</a></li><li>08’00 <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=le-mouvement-des-biens-communs">La science au secours de la démocratie – Le mouvement des biens communs</a></li><li>2’26 La science vassalisée 1 – Privatisation et concentration du savoir humain</li><li>10’00 Jean-Claude Guédon (Université de Montréal – Québec) : <a href="http://cfeditions.com/sciences-et-democratie/?a=jcg1">Petite histoire du mouvement vers l’accès libre – La science est une grande conversation</a> Partie 1</li><li>6’39 La science au secours de la démocratie – l’expérience Indienne</li><li>1’00 <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-abdourahmane-seck">Définir les communs – Abdourahmane Seck</a></li><li>19’00<a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=sciences-et-democratie-la-lecon-du-tapajos"> « la leçon du Tapajos »</a></li><li>7’00 <a href=" https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=science-et-democratie-la-science-autrement">Science et démocratie : La science autrement Forum Mondial Sciences et Démocratie à Bélem janvier 2009</a></li><li>10’56 : <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=the-commons-meet-social-movements-olivier-sagna-in-dakar">Les communs et les mouvements sociaux: Olivier Sagna à Dakar</a></li><li>8’00 <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=jean-luc-nancy-pour-une-commune-pensee">Jean-Luc Nancy – « Pour une commune pensée »</a></li></ul>communs et les mouvements sociaux: Olivier Sagna à Dakar</a></li> <li>8’00 <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=jean-luc-nancy-pour-une-commune-pensee">Jean-Luc Nancy – « Pour une commune pensée »</a></li> </ul>)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Remix partage s … <blockquote>Remix partage sa documentation sur les communs en utilisant Zotero dans un groupe nommé <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/1201109/urban_commons_and_charters" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Urban Commons and Charters</a> et contribue à la bibliographie <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/964423/communauthque_nddl_pour_cedidelp" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Communauthèque (NDDL, pour CEDIDELP) </a> à l’origine réalisée pour la ZAD Notre Dame des Landes par SavoirsCom1 et le CEDIDELP. </blockquote><img decoding="async" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Zotero1_Capture_2022-08-24_10-16-53-1.png" alt="" width="800" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6841" srcset="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Zotero1_Capture_2022-08-24_10-16-53-1.png 509w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Zotero1_Capture_2022-08-24_10-16-53-1-342x198.png 342w" sizes="(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px" /><a href="https://www.zotero.org/">Zotero</a> est un outil gratuit et facile à utiliser pour collecter, organiser, citer et partager vos recherches documentaires.Vous pouvez vous inscrire en cliquant sur « Login – Register for a free account ».<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-6795" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Image1-303x341.jpg" alt="" width="307" height="346" />Une fois votre compte créé, vous pouvez rejoindre les groupes qui vous intéressent. Le groupe « <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/1201109/urban_commons_and_charters">Urban Commons and Charters</a>« , référence des documents sur les communs en général et les communs urbains avec une attention particulière aux chartes et mécanismes juridiques qui activent les communs. Il inclue une entrée « pour débuter », une « Pour approfondir » et des études de cas ou expériences, ainsi que des entrées correspondantes aux thématiques des projets plus récents de Remix. Le groupe « <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/964423/communauthque_nddl_pour_cedidelp">Communauthèque</a> » collecte une bibliographie plus large sur les communs. Pour rejoindre un groupe, vous devez cliquer sur « join the group » en bas de la page correspondante : <img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6796" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Image2.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="480" /> Vous pouvez aussi adresser un message à info@remixthecommons.org pour plus de renseignements. ww.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Image2.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="480" /> Vous pouvez aussi adresser un message à info@remixthecommons.org pour plus de renseignements. )
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Remix partage s … <blockquote>Remix partage sa documentation sur les communs en utilisant Zotero dans un groupe nommé <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/1201109/urban_commons_and_charters" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Urban Commons and Charters</a> et contribue à la bibliographie <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/964423/communauthque_nddl_pour_cedidelp" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Communauthèque (NDDL, pour CEDIDELP) </a> à l’origine réalisée pour la ZAD Notre Dame des Landes par SavoirsCom1 et le CEDIDELP. </blockquote><img decoding="async" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Zotero1_Capture_2022-08-24_10-16-53-1.png" alt="" width="800" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6841" srcset="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Zotero1_Capture_2022-08-24_10-16-53-1.png 509w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Zotero1_Capture_2022-08-24_10-16-53-1-342x198.png 342w" sizes="(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px" /><a href="https://www.zotero.org/">Zotero</a> est un outil gratuit et facile à utiliser pour collecter, organiser, citer et partager vos recherches documentaires.Vous pouvez vous inscrire en cliquant sur « Login – Register for a free account ».<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-6795" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Image1-303x341.jpg" alt="" width="307" height="346" />Une fois votre compte créé, vous pouvez rejoindre les groupes qui vous intéressent. Le groupe « <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/1201109/urban_commons_and_charters">Urban Commons and Charters</a>« , référence des documents sur les communs en général et les communs urbains avec une attention particulière aux chartes et mécanismes juridiques qui activent les communs. Il inclue une entrée « pour débuter », une « Pour approfondir » et des études de cas ou expériences, ainsi que des entrées correspondantes aux thématiques des projets plus récents de Remix. Le groupe « <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/964423/communauthque_nddl_pour_cedidelp">Communauthèque</a> » collecte une bibliographie plus large sur les communs. Pour rejoindre un groupe, vous devez cliquer sur « join the group » en bas de la page correspondante : <img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6796" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Image2.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="480" /> Vous pouvez aussi adresser un message à info@remixthecommons.org pour plus de renseignements. ww.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Image2.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="480" /> Vous pouvez aussi adresser un message à info@remixthecommons.org pour plus de renseignements. )
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Remix partage s … <blockquote>Remix partage sa documentation sur les communs en utilisant Zotero dans un groupe nommé <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/1201109/urban_commons_and_charters" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Urban Commons and Charters</a> et contribue à la bibliographie <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/964423/communauthque_nddl_pour_cedidelp" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Communauthèque (NDDL, pour CEDIDELP) </a> à l’origine réalisée pour la ZAD Notre Dame des Landes par SavoirsCom1 et le CEDIDELP. </blockquote><img decoding="async" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Zotero1_Capture_2022-08-24_10-16-53-1.png" alt="" width="800" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6841" srcset="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Zotero1_Capture_2022-08-24_10-16-53-1.png 509w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Zotero1_Capture_2022-08-24_10-16-53-1-342x198.png 342w" sizes="(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px" /><a href="https://www.zotero.org/">Zotero</a> est un outil gratuit et facile à utiliser pour collecter, organiser, citer et partager vos recherches documentaires.Vous pouvez vous inscrire en cliquant sur « Login – Register for a free account ».<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-6795" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Image1-303x341.jpg" alt="" width="307" height="346" />Une fois votre compte créé, vous pouvez rejoindre les groupes qui vous intéressent. Le groupe « <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/1201109/urban_commons_and_charters">Urban Commons and Charters</a>« , référence des documents sur les communs en général et les communs urbains avec une attention particulière aux chartes et mécanismes juridiques qui activent les communs. Il inclue une entrée « pour débuter », une « Pour approfondir » et des études de cas ou expériences, ainsi que des entrées correspondantes aux thématiques des projets plus récents de Remix. Le groupe « <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/964423/communauthque_nddl_pour_cedidelp">Communauthèque</a> » collecte une bibliographie plus large sur les communs. Pour rejoindre un groupe, vous devez cliquer sur « join the group » en bas de la page correspondante : <img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6796" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Image2.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="480" /> Vous pouvez aussi adresser un message à info@remixthecommons.org pour plus de renseignements. ww.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Image2.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="480" /> Vous pouvez aussi adresser un message à info@remixthecommons.org pour plus de renseignements. )
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Remix partage s … <blockquote>Remix partage sa documentation sur les communs en utilisant Zotero dans un groupe nommé <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/1201109/urban_commons_and_charters" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Urban Commons and Charters</a> et contribue à la bibliographie <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/964423/communauthque_nddl_pour_cedidelp" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Communauthèque (NDDL, pour CEDIDELP) </a> à l’origine réalisée pour la ZAD Notre Dame des Landes par SavoirsCom1 et le CEDIDELP. </blockquote><img decoding="async" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Zotero1_Capture_2022-08-24_10-16-53-1.png" alt="" width="800" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6841" srcset="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Zotero1_Capture_2022-08-24_10-16-53-1.png 509w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Zotero1_Capture_2022-08-24_10-16-53-1-342x198.png 342w" sizes="(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px" /><a href="https://www.zotero.org/">Zotero</a> est un outil gratuit et facile à utiliser pour collecter, organiser, citer et partager vos recherches documentaires.Vous pouvez vous inscrire en cliquant sur « Login – Register for a free account ».<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-6795" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Image1-303x341.jpg" alt="" width="307" height="346" />Une fois votre compte créé, vous pouvez rejoindre les groupes qui vous intéressent. Le groupe « <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/1201109/urban_commons_and_charters">Urban Commons and Charters</a>« , référence des documents sur les communs en général et les communs urbains avec une attention particulière aux chartes et mécanismes juridiques qui activent les communs. Il inclue une entrée « pour débuter », une « Pour approfondir » et des études de cas ou expériences, ainsi que des entrées correspondantes aux thématiques des projets plus récents de Remix. Le groupe « <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/964423/communauthque_nddl_pour_cedidelp">Communauthèque</a> » collecte une bibliographie plus large sur les communs. Pour rejoindre un groupe, vous devez cliquer sur « join the group » en bas de la page correspondante : <img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6796" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Image2.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="480" /> Vous pouvez aussi adresser un message à info@remixthecommons.org pour plus de renseignements. ww.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Image2.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="480" /> Vous pouvez aussi adresser un message à info@remixthecommons.org pour plus de renseignements. )
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Remix the Commo … <blockquote>Remix the Commons is invited to present a selection of videos on the subject of common property knowledge to the BNF on November 18.</blockquote>Peuple et Culture and the National Library of France (BNF), will devoting their third workshop to the knowledge commons the 18 of November 2013, with a collective reading of the book Libres savoirs, les biens communs de la connaissance and the show of video interviews selected in our catalog Remix the Commons. It aims at explore the issues of collective production, sharing and dissemination of knowledge as commons .It takes place at the National Library of France , West Entrance , Quai François Mauriac , Paris XIII.Metro : Quai de la Gare or Bibliothèque François Mitterrand.For further information, please contact Adrien Thoreau or Alexane the Peuple et Culture Union , 01 49 29 42 80 – 09 50 06 42 80 List document presented: <ul><li>1’30 <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=define-the-commons-i">Définir le Bien Commun I</a></li><li>3’45 » <a href="http://cfeditions.com/sciences-et-democratie/?a=sk">Sansy Kaba Diakité, L’Harmattan Guinée</a></li><li>08’00 <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=le-mouvement-des-biens-communs">La science au secours de la démocratie – Le mouvement des biens communs</a></li><li>2’26 La science vassalisée 1 – Privatisation et concentration du savoir humain</li><li>10’00 Jean-Claude Guédon (Université de Montréal – Québec) : <a href="http://cfeditions.com/sciences-et-democratie/?a=jcg1">Petite histoire du mouvement vers l’accès libre – La science est une grande conversation</a> Partie 1</li><li>6’39 La science au secours de la démocratie – l’expérience Indienne</li><li>1’00 <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-abdourahmane-seck">Définir les communs – Abdourahmane Seck</a></li><li>19’00<a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=sciences-et-democratie-la-lecon-du-tapajos"> « la leçon du Tapajos »</a></li><li>7’00 <a href=" https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=science-et-democratie-la-science-autrement">Science et démocratie : La science autrement Forum Mondial Sciences et Démocratie à Bélem janvier 2009</a></li><li>10’56 : <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=the-commons-meet-social-movements-olivier-sagna-in-dakar">Les communs et les mouvements sociaux: Olivier Sagna à Dakar</a></li><li>8’00 <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=jean-luc-nancy-pour-une-commune-pensee">Jean-Luc Nancy – « Pour une commune pensée »</a></li></ul>ents-olivier-sagna-in-dakar">Les communs et les mouvements sociaux: Olivier Sagna à Dakar</a></li> <li>8’00 <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=jean-luc-nancy-pour-une-commune-pensee">Jean-Luc Nancy – « Pour une commune pensée »</a></li> </ul>)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Revoir et comme … <blockquote>Revoir et commenter la conversation sur polemictweet.com. </blockquote><div id="metadataplayer_embed"></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://polemictweet.com/pour-la-transition-une-conomie-du-partage-de-la-connaissance-et-des-biens-communs/embedscript.php"></script>nomie-du-partage-de-la-connaissance-et-des-biens-communs/embedscript.php"></script>)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>See and comment … <blockquote>See and comment the conversation with polemictweet.com</blockquote>This conference is only in French. <div id="metadataplayer_embed"></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://polemictweet.com/pour-la-transition-une-conomie-du-partage-de-la-connaissance-et-des-biens-communs/embedscript.php"></script>ition-une-conomie-du-partage-de-la-connaissance-et-des-biens-communs/embedscript.php"></script>)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>To help reclaim … <blockquote>To help reclaiming, protecting and creating commons in our neighborhoods and cities, we offer to co-create an interactive Atlas of the charters of urban commons. The collaborative creation process will develop on an intercultural and interdisciplinary fashion, production and sharing of knowledge on legal tools that make alive the urban commons. Through workshops, camps, and cultural residencies, with the commoners, we will co-produce the Atlas (a mapping tool), that will be a place to meet and to interact for creating or recovering our urban commons.</blockquote><figure id="attachment_4247" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4247" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Magna-Carta-1215-Document-num--ris---600x100.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-4247" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Magna-Carta-1215-Document-num--ris---600x100.jpg" alt="Fragment de la Magna Carta de la Cathédrale de Salisbury (UK)" width="644" height="46" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4247" class="wp-caption-text">Fragment de la Magna Carta de la Cathédrale de Salisbury (UK)</figcaption></figure><h1>The charters of the urban commons as inspiration</h1>Urban commons charters are rules of self-governance established by a community for their commons in their neighbourhood, city, region… They can be transformed into legal instruments that formally recognize the rights and sovereignty of individuals and of the community over their common goods. They are also an instrument for organizing commoning with a view to preserving, sharing and transmitting those common goods. They are accompanied by a multitude of activities, narratives, creations, illustrations, celebrations, and studies that are the heart of the commons culture and that we want to conserve and hand on from generation to generation.We aim to evolve within this commons culture to generate mutual inspiration and to nourish the imagination as well as the practices of the urban commons around the world.Documenting commons charters experiences in an iterative, collective, decentralized and self-managed manner is in itself a way of making a common culture. Our proposal is to develop and make available to commoners various modes of documentation adapted to sharing the experiences of commons charters.We plan to organise camps and cultural residencies and to collectively create an Atlas of urban commons charters through interactive mapping in semantic web.This process is intended to be exploratory, pragmatic, pedagogical and political; it is as well both interdisciplinary and inter-cultural. It allows commoners to formalise their experience, to link it with that of other members of their community and to share it with other communities. It also allows to share both the legal tools developed over time and the experience accumulated around the world (with input from legal experts and urban designers). It aims to make this process known and recognized as one of the mainsprings of democracy and of the good life in an urban environment.<h1>Learning from the historical and contemporary experience of the charters of the commons</h1>The documentation and facilitation activities on the commons in the context of remixthecommons led us to discover the wealth and variety of citizen initiatives and proposals on urban and broader territorial scaleson various continents. In the process of constituting a commons, neighbours and citizens consistently take the key step of creating and formalizing rules of self-governance. Innovative practices in this domain exist at the neighbourhood level (as in Dakar) and on the scale of entire cities (Bologna, Djakarta and others). The experiences that appear to us exemplary are those where citizen initiatives have been able to mobilise a broad range of expertise from various sectors (cooperatives, activists, architects, lawyers, urban designers, informatics, etc) in order to advance proposals that are at one and the same time innovative and pragmatic, that welcome, encourage, ensure and guide active participation by citizens in regenerating, constituting and managing urban commons.In Europe, the Italian examples of the self-managed cultural spaces, the AquaBeneComune in Milan and various municipal commons charters adopted in several cities are inspiring and hold the potential of being shared, remixed and adapted to other socio-cultural and political contexts.This blooming of urban charters is a stimulus for commoners apprentices to share and co-produce knowledge and proposals with their pairs.The consolidation of networks of commons activists on the European level has engendered a dynamic of exchange and intercultural cross-fertilisation. Recent seminars on the subject between France and Italy are an example.In addition, this collective mobilisation in favour of urban commons charters is a superb way of celebrating le 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, which profoundly marked the history of the commons.<h1>An invitation to collaborate</h1>We wish to implement a digital prototype of the atlas of the charters of urban commons. It will be co-created during a first workshop and improved by an iterative process. Workshops with people and online will stimulate documentation of existing charters and the creation of new adapted to their contexts and to their local rights. These actions will crossed scientific disciplines and popular know-how. And we will take care to have diversified processes of work and to ensure the sharing of data, of the design of uses and of the services inspired by the Atlas.We are pleased to invite to participate all the activists and researchers motivated by the commons, especially those part of the Francophone network of commoners, and the organizations such as Commons Josephat (Brussels), Marx Dormoy Labs (Paris) Days of Urban Alternatives (Lausanne), or the House of the commons (Montpellier), LARTES in Dakar, …etc, and the European collectives such as Comuns urban activists in Barcelona, P2p plazas in Madrid, …etc.This initiative will also lead us to collaborate with activists of the Rights to The City, such as in France, the Coordination “Pas sans nous! (Not Without Us!) and the Collective for Citizenship Transition, and the International Alliance of Inhabitants.Some municipalities and local governments are already committed to support the commons and have their own charter. They offer spaces which allow to experiment our approach. The Festival of the Commons at Chieri in Italy (July 2015) could be the first opportunity.<h1>The contribution of Remix the commons</h1>Remix the commons incubates the project. We will share our experience of intercultural and multilingual projects such as <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/en/2013/12/definir-les-communs-sur-une-carte/">Mapping the Definition of the Commons</a>, of co-creation processes (see « <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/art-com">The Art of Commoning</a>» ) and our knowledge of European networks, including France, Spain, Italy and Germany. One of the first dates that we can give us, will be the Francophone Festival « <a href="http://tempsdescommuns.org">Temps des Communs</a> » (from 5 to 18 October 2015).e « <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/art-com">The Art of Commoning</a>» ) and our knowledge of European networks, including France, Spain, Italy and Germany. One of the first dates that we can give us, will be the Francophone Festival « <a href="http://tempsdescommuns.org">Temps des Communs</a> » (from 5 to 18 October 2015).)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Une session de … <blockquote>Une session de <a href="http://mappingthecommons.net/">mapping the commons</a> se déroulera à Rio du 18 to 26 october 2013 coordonnée par <a href="http://hackitectura.net/">Pablo de Soto</a> en collaboration avec <a href="http://www.bernardogutierrez.es/">Bernardo Gutiérrez</a> et le soutien de MediaLab (Madrid).</blockquote><iframe loading="lazy" width="400" height="225" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Nrtbi9gbuWw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Mapping the commons est un projet développé par Pablo de Soto. Cette initiative vise à produire avec les habitants, les activistes dans le territoire, des cartographies vivantes, composées de courtes vidéos documentaires et de vidéoposts. La démarche proposée prend la forme d’un intense atelier de plusieurs jours avec des étudiants en communication et des activistes pour rechercher les communs, les définir et rendre visible sur le territoire en produisant les médias qui constitueront la carte.Pablo de Soto a initié cette approche autour des biens communs urbains d’<a href="http://mappingthecommons.net/map-of-istanbul-commons/">istambul</a> et <a href="http://mappingthecommons.net/map-of-athens-commons/">Athènes</a>, On peut voir en particulier qu’un travail avait été conduit sur <a href="http://mappingthecommons.net/taksim-square/">Taksim Square</a>, dont la privatisation a été l’un des points de départ de la contestation en Turquie cette année. La cartographie est un outil stratégique. Mais la recherche des biens communs est un processus de cartographie de l’espace urbains qui doit se comprendre, bien sur « ainsi que le proposent Deleuze et Guattari, et l’ont utilisé de nombreux artistes et activistes durant la dernière décade, comme une <a href="http://cartografiaciudadana.net/athenscommons/auto.php">performance</a> qui peut devenir réflexion, travail artistique, ou action de transformation sociale » (Pablo Soto).Le 20 mars 2013 un wikisprint a été réalisé à Barcelone utilisant les mêmes principes et méthodologie. Sous le titre de « Global P2P », il s’agissait de cartographier les pratiques de Communs et de P2P en Amérique latine et en Europe du sud. Voir en anglais <a href=" http://codigoabiertocc.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/globalp2p-the-wind-that-shook-the-net/">#GlobalP2P, the wind that shook the net</a>. Rio, prochaine étape de Mapping the commons, est l’une des villes qui vient de vivre, comme le reste du Brésil, des mobilisations sociales et politiques intenses contre des festivités internationales à venir qui tendent à <a href="http://scinfolex.wordpress.com/?s=olympique">privatiser l’espace public</a>. Beaucoup considèrent que ces mobilisations, leurs revendications et leurs modes d’organisation relèvent du paradigme des Communs. Voir les analyses sur le sujet de Bernardo Guttierez dans <a href="http://codigoabiertocc.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/globalp2p-el-viento-que-desordeno-las-redes/">globalp2p el viento que desordeno las redes</a> et d’Alexandre Mendes dans <a href="http://uninomade.net/tenda/a-atualidade-de-uma-democracia-das-mobilizacoes-e-do-comum/"> A atualidade de uma democracia das mobilizacoes e do comum/</a>Pour aller plus loin, lire l’article <a href="http://www.academia.edu/2637017/Mapping_the_Commons_Workshop">Mapping the Commons Workshop: Athens and Istanbul</a>, Pablo De Soto, Daphne Dragona, Aslıhan Şenel, Demitri Delinikolas, José Pérez de Lama"http://www.academia.edu/2637017/Mapping_the_Commons_Workshop">Mapping the Commons Workshop: Athens and Istanbul</a>, Pablo De Soto, Daphne Dragona, Aslıhan Şenel, Demitri Delinikolas, José Pérez de Lama)
Chargement/Site + (<figure id="attachment_6619" aria-descr … <figure id="attachment_6619" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6619" style="width: 512px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-6619" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Conseil_dEtat_Paris.jpg" alt="<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conseil_d%27%C3%89tat_(Paris).jpg">Gzen92</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons" width="512" height="384" srcset="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Conseil_dEtat_Paris.jpg 512w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Conseil_dEtat_Paris-342x257.jpg 342w" sizes="(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-6619" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conseil_d%27%C3%89tat_(Paris).jpg">Gzen92</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons</figcaption></figure>Adopté par l’Assemblée nationale, le projet de loi confortant le respect des principes de la République a fait l’objet de deux saisines du Conseil Constitutionnel. L’une sur l’article 49 de la loi, relatif à l’enseignement en famille par les députés des groupes LR, UDI et Libertés et Territoires (<a href="https://www.deputes-les-republicains.fr/images/documents/Saisine-CC-PJL-respect-principes-de-la-Republique-et-lutte-contre-le-separatisme.pdf">lien</a>) et l’autre sur les articles 4, 6, 7, 8, 14 bis AA et 18 par 71 députés des groupes Gauche démocrate et républicaine, La France insoumise et Socialistes et apparentés (<a href="https://lafranceinsoumise.fr/2021/07/23/loi-separatisme-la-france-insoumise-participe-au-recours-collectif-devant-le-conseil-constitutionnel/">lien</a>). Le Conseil Constitutionnel prévoit de rendre sa décision le 13 août (<a href="https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/actualites/calendrier-de-travail-sur-les-decisions-a-venir">https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/actualites/calendrier-de-travail-sur-les-decisions-a-venir</a>).Remix est co-signataire de la contribution extérieure associative demandant la censure de plusieurs articles du projet de loi envoyée le lundi 26 juillet au Conseil Constitutionnel. Vous retrouverez l’intégralité de la contribution extérieure sur le site de L.A. Coalition pour les libertés associatives en cliquant ici : <a href="https://www.lacoalition.fr/CP-LA-Coalition-pour-les-libertes-associatives-demande-au-Conseil">https://www.lacoalition.fr/CP-LA-Coalition-pour-les-libertes-associatives-demande-au-Conseil</a>.fr/CP-LA-Coalition-pour-les-libertes-associatives-demande-au-Conseil">https://www.lacoalition.fr/CP-LA-Coalition-pour-les-libertes-associatives-demande-au-Conseil</a>)
Chargement/Site + (<h2>Interview with Joan Subirats – B … <h2>Interview with Joan Subirats – Barcelona, April 20, 2017</h2>Alain Ambrosi and Nancy Thede <blockquote>The pro-independence government of Catalonia recently sparked a political crisis in Spain by proposing to call a referendum on independence by the end of 2017 with or without the approval of the central government. In contrast, « Catalonia in common » defines itself as an innovative political space of the Catalan left. Initiated by Barcelona in Comú a little less than a year after its election to city hall, the initiave was launched in October 2016. A short manifesto explained its raison-d’être and presented an « ideario politico » (a political project) of some 100 pages for broad discussion over 5 months which culminated in a constituent assembly last April 8.This new political subject defines itself as « a left-wing Catalan organisation that aims to govern and to transform the economic, political and social structures of the present neo-liberal system. » Its originality in the political panorama of Catalonia and of Spain is its engagement with « a new way of doing politics, a politics of the commons where grassroots people and communities are the protagonists. » In response to those who see its emergence only in the context of the impending referendum, it affirms: « We propose a profound systemic, revolutionary change in our economic, social, environmental and political model. » We interviewed Joan Subirats a few days after the Constituent Assembly of Catalunya en Comú took place. Joan is an academic renowned for his publications and his political engagement. A specialist in public policy and urban issues, he has published widely on the Commons and on the new municipalism. He is one of the artisans of Barcelona in Comú and has just been elected to the coordinating body of the new space named recently « Catalunya en comú ».</blockquote><h3>The Genesis of a New Political Subject</h3>NT — Tell us about the trajectory of the development of this new initiative: a lot of people link it to the 15-M, but I imagine that it was more complex than that and started long before.<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4740" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Joan_Subirats_2013_cropped.jpg" alt="Joan_Subirats_2013_(cropped)" width="423" height="526" /> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJoan_Subirats_2013_(cropped).jpg">By Directa (youtube) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons</a>JS — At the outset there was Guanyem, which was in fact the beginning of Barcelona en Comú: the first meetings were in February-March 2014. Who was involved? this is quite simultaneous with the decision by Podemos to compete in the European Parliament elections in May 2014. Podemos organises in February 2014; Guanyem begins organising in February- March 2014 to compete in the municipal elections of May 2015.Going farther back, there is a phase of intense social mobilisation against austerity policies between 2011 and 2013. If we look at the statistics of the Ministry of the Interior on the number of demonstrations, it is impressive, there were never as many demonstrations as during that period, but after mid-2013 they start to taper off. There is a feeling that there are limits and that demonstrations can’t obtain the desired changes in a situation where the right-wing Popular Party (PP) holds an absolute majority. So the debate emerges within the social movements as to whether it’s a good idea to attempt to move into the institutions.Podemos chooses the most accessible scenario, that of the European elections, because these elections have a single circonscription, so all of Spain is a single riding, with a very high level of proportionality, so with few votes you get high representation because there are 60-some seats, so with one million votes they obtained 5 seats. And people vote more freely in these elections because apparently the stakes are not very high, so they are elections that are good for testing strategies. In contrast, here in Barcelona, we chose the municipal elections as the central target because here there is a long history of municipalism.So this sets the stage for the period that began in 2014 with Guanyem and Podemos and the European elections and in May 2015 with the municipal elections where in 4 of the 5 major cities – Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and Zaragoza – alternative coalitions win that are not linked to either of the two major political parties (PP and the Socialist Party – PSOE) that have dominated the national political scene since the return to democracy in 1977. And in the autonomous elections<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>, a new political cycle also begins, in which we still are. If we go farther back, to 2011 – there are a couple of maps that show the correlation between the occupation of plazas in the 15-M with the number of alternative citizen canadidacies at the municipal level.So Podemos and all the alternative citizen coalitions all refer to the 15M as their founding moment. But the 15M is not a movement, it was a moment, an event. You must have heard the joke about the stranger who arrives and wants to talk to the 15M – but there is no 15M, it has no spokespersons and no address. But everyone considers it very important because it transformed the political scene in its wake . But what was there before the 15M?There were basically 4 major trends that converged in the 15-M : First the anti-globalisation movement, the oldest one, very interesting because a large number of the new political leaders have come out of it, with forms of political mobilisation different from the traditional ones.Then there was the « Free Culture Forum » linked to issues regarding internet which was very important here in Barcelona – with Simona Levy and Gala Pin, who is now a municipal councillor – that is important because here digital culture, network culture, was present from the very beginning, something that didn’t occur in other places.The third movement was the PAH (Platform for People Affected by Mortgages) which emerges in 2009 and had precedents with Ada Colau and others who organised « V for vivienda » (like the film « V for vendetta », but in this case vivienda – housing), an attempt to demonstrate that young people were excluded from social emancipation because they didn’t have access to housing. Their slogan was « you’ll never have a house in your whole f’king life ». And the forms of mobilisation were also very new, for example, they occupied IKEA because at that time IKEA’s advertising slogan was « the independent republic of your home », so they occupied it and slept in the beds there. So this was more youthful, alternative, more of a rupture, but then in 2009 with the creation of the PAH they started to try to connect with the immigrant sector and people who were losing their houses because of the mortgage hype, it was very important because it’s the movement that tries to connect with sectors outside of youth: the poor, immigrants, working class… with the slogan ‘this is not a crisis, it’s a sting’. So the PAH is very important because it’s the movement that connects with sectors of the population outside of youth: workers, immigrants, the elderly… For example, here in Plaza Catalunya in 2011 the only major poster rallying people who weren’t youth was that of the PAH.And the fourth movement – the most ‘authentic’ 15M one – was that of the « Youth without future ». People who organised mainly in Madrid, typical middle-class university sector with post-grad studies, who suddenly realised that they wouldn’t find jobs, that it wasn’t true that their diplomas would open doors for them, they were in a precarious situation.So those were the four major currents that converged in the basis of the 15M. But what made it ‘click’ was not just those 4 trends, but the fact that huge numbers of other people recognised the moment and converged on the plazas and overwhelmed the movements that started it. The most surprising thing about the moment was that those 4 movements – that were not all that important – were rapidly overwhelmed by success of the movement they started and new people who spontaneously joined. That was what really created the phenomenon, because if it had been just those 4 movements, if it had been like ‘Nuit debout’ in Paris where people occupied the plaza but without the sensation that people had steamrollered the leaders. So, when the plazas are evacuated, the idea becomes ‘Let’s go to the neighbourhoods’. So all of a sudden, in the neighbourhoods of Barcelona and Madrid, assemblies were organised where there was a mixture of the old neighbourhood associations that were no longer very active and whose members were older (my generation) and new people who brought new issues like ecology, energy, bicycle transport, cooperatives, water and a thousand different things and who created new spaces of articulation where people who had never thought that they would meet in the neighbourhoods began to converge.I think this explains the re-emergence of municipalism that followed: people begin to see the city as a place where diverse social changes can be articulated on a territorial basis: many mobilisations are taking place in isolation, in a parallel manner and don’t have a common meeting-point. Water as a common good, energy transition, sustainable transport, public health, public space, infant education… All of a sudden there was something that brought people together which was to discuss the city, the city we want – David Harvey mentions in an article that the modern-day factory is the city. That is, we no longer have factories, the city is now the space where conflicts appear and where daily life becomes politicised: issues like care, food, schooling, transport, energy costs – and this creates a new space for articulating these issues that hadn’t been previously envisaged.So I think this is the connection : 15-M as a moment of overwhelming, the end of a cycle of mobilisation – remember that there had been a petition of a million and a half signatures to change the mortgage legislation, that Ada Colau presented in the national Congress, where she accused the PP deputies of being assassins because of what they were doing – but that mobilisation had no effect in the law. A PP deputy declared ‘If these people want to change things, then they should get elected’. So people started thinking ‘OK, if that’s the way it is, then let’s get ourselves elected’. This is the initial change of cycle in 2014. So the 4 movements were present in the meetings of Guanyem and BComun, as well as some progressive intellectuals and people from other issue areas like water, transport, energy etc. That was the initial nucleus here in Barcelona – in Madrid it was different. There the Podemos generation had a different logic. Here, from the beginning, we wanted to create a movement from the bottom up and to avoid a logic of coalition of political parties, this was very clear from the outset. We didn’t want to reconstruct the left on the basis of an agreement amongst parties. We wanted to build a citizen movement that could impose its own conditions on the parties. In the case of Podemos it was different: it was a logic of a strike from above – they wanted to create a strong close-knit group with a lot of ideas in a very short period and as a result an electoral war machine that can assault the heavens and take power. Here, on the other hand, we foresaw a longer process of construction of a movement where we would start with the municipalities and after that, we’ll see.So Guanyem was created in June 2014, 11 months prior to the municipal elections, with a minimal program in 4 points:<ol><li>we said, we want to take back the city, it’s is being taken away from the citizens, people come here to talk about a ‘business-friendly global city’ and they are taking it away from the citizens, we have lost the capacity to control it, as the first point;</li><li>there is a social emergency where many problems don’t get a response;</li><li>we want people to be able to have decision-making capacity in what happens in the city, so co-production of policy, more intense citizen participation in municipal decisions;</li><li>moralisation of politics. Here the main points are non-repetition of mandates, limits on salaries of elected officials, anti-corruption and transparency measures, etc.</li></ol>So we presented this in June 2014 and we decided that we would give ourselves until September to collect 30,000 signatures in support of the manifesto and if we succeeded, we would present candidates in the municipal elections. In one month we managed to get the 30,000 signatures! Besides getting the signatures on internet and in person, we held a lot of meetings in the neighbourhoods to present the manifesto – we held about 30 or 40 meetings like that, some of them small, some more massive, where we went to the neighbourhoods and we said « We thought of this, what do you think? We thought of these priorities, etc’. » So, in September of 2014 we decided to go ahead; once we decided that we would present a slate, we began to discuss with the parties – but with the strength of all that support of 30,000 people backing us at the grassroots, so our negotiating strength with respect to the parties was very different. In Dec 2014 we agreed with the parties to create Barcelona en Comun – we wanted to call it Guanyem but someone else had already registered the name, so there was a lot of discussion about a new name, there were various proposals: Revolucion democratica, primaria democratica, the term Comu – it seemed interesting because it connected with the Commons movement, the idea of the public which is not restricted to the institutional and that was key. It was also important that in the previous municipal elections in 2011 only 52% of people had voted, in the poorer neighbourhoods a higher number of people abstained and that it was in the wealthier neighbourhoods where a larger proportion of people had voted. So we wanted to raise participation by 10% in the poor neighbourhoods more affected by the crisis and we thought that would allow us to win. And that was what happened. In 2015, 63% voted, but in the poor areas 40% more people voted. In the rich areas, the same people voted as before.So it was not impossible to think we could win. And from the beginning the idea was to win. We did not build this machine in order to participate, we built it in order to win. We didn’t want to be the opposition, we wanted to govern. And as a result, it was close, because we won 11 of 41 seats, but got the most votes so we head the municipal council, the space existed. From the moment Guanyem was created in June 2014, other similar movements began to be created all over Spain – in Galicia, in Andalucia, in Valencia, Zaragoza, Madrid… One of the advantages we have in Barcelona is that we have Ada Colau, which is a huge advantage, because a key thing is to have an uncontested leader who can articulate all the segments of the movement – ecologists, health workers, education professionals…. If you don’t have that it’s very difficult, and also the sole presence of Ada Colau explains many things. In Madrid they found Manuela Carmena, who is great as an anti-franquista symbol, with her judicial expertise, very popular but who didn’t have that tradition of articulating movements, and as a result now they are having a lot more problems of political coordination than here.<h3>A New Political Subject for a New Political Era</h3>AA — So now Catalunya en comu defines itself as a new political space on the left for the whole of Catalonia. But in recent Catalan history that’s nothing really new: there have been numerous political coalitions on the left, such as the PSUC<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> in 1936 followed by many others. So what is different about this initiative?JS — If we open up our perspective and look at things more globally, I think that what justifies the idea that this is a new political space is the fact that the moment is new, we’re in a new phase so it’s very important to understand that if this new political moment reproduces the models and the conceptual paradigms of the old left and of the Fordism of the end of the 20th century, we won’t have moved ahead at all. The crisis of social democracy is also a crisis of a way of understanding social transformation with codes that no longer exist. As a result the measure of success of this new political space is not so much in to what extent it can bring together diverse political forces, but rather its capacity to understand this new scenario we find ourselves in – a scenario where digital transformation is changing everything, where we no longer know what ‘labour’ is, where heterogeneity and social diversity appear as factors not of complexity but of values, where the structure of age no longer functions as it used to – where everything is in transformation, so we can no longer continue to apply ideas – to use a phrase coined by Ulrich Beck – ‘zombie concepts’, living dead, no?, we forge ahead with our backpacks full of 20th-century concepts, applying them to realities that no longer have anything to do with them. It’s easy to see the defects of the old, traditional concepts, but it’s very difficult to construct new ones because we don’t really know what is happening nor where we are headed. The example of the debate in France between Valls and Hamon – at least, I read the summary in Le Monde, where Valls maintained that it would be possible to come back to a situation of full employment and Hamon said that is impossible, that it’s necessary to work towards the universal basic income; in the end, Hamon is closer to the truth than Valls, but Hamon isn’t capable of explaining it in a credible way – and it is very difficult to explain it in a credible way.Here, we are working at one and the same time on the Commons and the non-institutional public sphere, we are demanding greater presence of the public administration when probably it wouldn’t really be necessary, but since we don’t have a clear idea of how to construct this new thing, we are still acting sort of like slaves of the old. So that’s where I think the concept of the Commons, of the cooperative, the collaborative, new ideas regarding the digital economy, are more difficult to structure, because we’re also conscious that capitalism is no longer only industrial or financial but now it’s digital capitalism, and it controls all the networks of data transmission and at the same time the data themselves, probably the wealth of the future. So, sure we can do really interesting things in Barcelona, out of Barcelona en Comun, but we have GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft), and GAFAM has its own logics and that complicates things. So we have to create a new political subject – and it’s obvious that we need something new – but what isn’t so obvious is what are the concepts we need to create this new subject. So if you look at the documents published by Un Pais en Comu<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> that’s what you’ll see: a bit of different language, a different way of using concepts, but at the same time a trace of the heritage of the traditional left. The journal ‘Nous Horitzons’ has just published a new issue on ‘Politics in Common’<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> which brings together a lot of these elements. The impression that some of us had in the assembly the other day in Vall d’Hebron (the inaugural assembly of the movement) was that the old ways were still weighing us down, that there was a difficulty to generate an innovative dynamic.NT — That was clear in the composition of the audience.JS — Yes, well, the Podemos people weren’t there, of course… they didn’t come for various reasons, because probably not everybody was in agreement with Albano-Dante<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> but they saw there was a lot of disagreement and so they preferred not to come, and that’s a type of public that, as well as filling the hall, also changes the type of dynamic – so it was more the traditional-style organisations that were there (Iniciativa or EUIA<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a>), there was more of the old than the new probably. Perhaps that’s inevitable, but what we have to do now is to see if we can change that dynamic.AA — When one reads the ‘Ideario politico’ (the political project of Un Pais en Comu) it’s a sort of lesson in political economy, political philosophy as well, but also a vast programme, and the left has never put forward this type of Commons-inspired programme before, be it in Catalunya or in Spain or probably internationally. How do you see its contribution in the context of the Commons ecosystem? There have been experiences of the Commons without the Commons label, as in Latin America …JS — Yes, in Catalunya the anarcho-sindicalist movement…AA — Of course, but more recently, the idea of ‘Buen Vivir’ …JS — Yes, but when you go to Latin America and you talk about that, it all revolves around the State. But here, we try not to be state-centric. We are trying to avoid the idea that the only possible transformation needs to depend on the State.AA — But in the ‘Ideario’ a lot of discussion is devoted to public services as well, this implies that the State has to exist. And in the Commons vocabulary there is the concept of the ‘partner-state’, but it doesn’t appear in the Ideario…JS — Yes, there’s a margin there: the resilience of the new politics depends more on the capacity to create ‘muscled’ collective spaces – public, collective, common – than on the occupation of the institutions. But without the occupation of the institutions, it’s very difficult to construct those spaces. The example that comes to mind for me is from Copenhagen: there it was the cooperatives of the workers’ unions that built the big housing coops that exist now; also, the municipal government when the left was in power built a lot of public housing; then when a right-wing government came to power, it privatised all the public housing but it couldn’t privatise the cooperatives. So in the end, things that are strictly state-based are more vulnerable than when you build collective strength. So if we are able to benefit from these spaces in order to build ‘collective muscle’, using our presence in the institutions, this will end up being more resilient, more stable over time than if we put all our eggs in the State basket. So the Barcelona city government has civic social centres that are municipal property, but what is important is to succeed in ensuring that these centres are controlled by the community, that each community make them its own despite the fact that the property is officially that of the municipality, but they must be managed through a process of community management. So you need to build in the community a process of appropriation of institutions that ends up being stronger than if it were all in the hands of the State.Now we are discussing citizen heritage, how the city government can use its property – houses, buildings – and it can cede them for a certain period in order to construct collective spaces. For example, 8 building sites that belong to the municipality have been put up for auction on 100-year leases for community organisations to build housing cooperatives. This doesn’t take property away from the public sphere and at the same time it generates collective strength. But a certain sector of the political left here, the CUP, criticises this as privatisation of public space. They think Barcelona en Comun should build public housing instead, state-owned housing. That’s a big difference. And people are aware of that, but at the same time there are doubts about whether this makes sense, whether there is sufficient strength within the community so that this can work. Or, for example, the most common criticism is that “you have an idea of the public, the collective, the Commons, that implies capacities in the community that are only present in the middle classes that have the knowledge, the organisational capacity… so it’s a very elitist vision of the collective because the popular sectors, without the backing of the State, won’t be able to do this. » Well, we’re going to try to combine things so it can work, but we don’t want to keep converting the public into the ‘state’.Nancy Fraser wrote an article on the triple movement – looking at Polanyi’s work on the ‘double movement’ in the Great Transformation, that is the movement towards mercantilisation, and the opposite movement it stimulated towards protection. Polanyi talks about the confrontation of these 2 movements in the early 20th century, and the State – in its soviet form or in its fascist form – as a protectionist response of society which demands protection when faced with the uncertainty, the fragility the double movement engenders. Nancy Fraser says that all that is true, but we’re no longer in the 20th century, we’re in the 21st century where factors like individual emancipation, diversity, feminism are all very important – so we shouldn’t be in favour of a protectionist movement that continues to be patriarchal and hierarchical. We need a movement for protection that generates autonomy – and there resides what I think is one of the keys of the Commons movement. The idea of being able to get protection – so, a capacity of reaction against the dynamics of the market attacks – without losing the strength of diversity, of personal emancipation, of feminism, the non-hierarchical, the non-patriarchal, the idea that somebody decide for me what I need to do and how I will be protected. Let me self-protect myself too, let me be a protagonist too of this protection. And this is contradictory with the state-centric tradition.<h3>A Commons Economy, Participation and Co-production of Policy</h3>AA — The first theme of the ‘Ideario’ is the economy – you are an economist, amongst other things – how do you see this proposal in terms of the Commons? For example, there is a lot of discussion now about ‘open cooperativism’, etc. What you were saying about the cooperative movement here, that it is very strong but not sufficient…JS — In some aspects no. For example, the city wanted to open a new contract for communications (telephone, internet) – now there are the big companies Telefonica, Movistar, Vodafone, Orange, etc: there’s a cooperative called ‘Som Connexion’ (We are connection)- or ‘Som Energia’ (We are energy) that’s a lot bigger – it has 40,000 members – but these cooperatives, it would be fantastic if the city were to give them the contract for energy or for communication, but they aren’t capable of managing that at the moment. So if they take it, we’d all have big problems: faulty connections, lack of electrical power – because they’re growing for sure but they don’t yet have the ‘muscle’, the capacity they need to take this on.So we have to continue investing in this, it’s not going to take care of itself. On the other hand, in other areas, like home services for the elderly, we do have very strong cooperatives, Abacus for example is a cooperative for book distribution that has 800 000 members, so that is a coop that’s very powerful, and there are others. But in general, the more powerful the coop, the less politicised it is – they tend to transform themselves into big service companies. But now they are understanding that perhaps it would be in their interest to have a different vision; there has been a very politicised movement in the grassroots level coops that is contradictory with the entrepreneurial trend in the big coops. So we’re in this process right now: yes, there are very big, very strong coops and there are also smaller, more political ones but they don’t have sufficient muscle yet.AA — When we look at issues of participation, co-production of policy and such, it is also a question of culture, a culture of co-production that doesn’t exist. In the neighbourhoods, yes there is a trend to revamping participation, but when we talk to people in the local-level committees they say ‘Sure, people come to the meetings, but because they want a tree planted here…’ and they don’t have that vision of co-creation. So first there has to be a sort of cultural revolution ?JS — There are places where there has been a stronger community tradition that could well converge with this. Some neighbourhoods like Roquetes for example, Barceloneta or Sants, have very strong associational traditions. If you go to Roquetes to the meeting of the community plan, everybody is there: the people from the primary medical services centre, the doctors, the schools are there, the local police, the social workers – and they hold meetings every 2 weeks and they know everything that goes on in the area, and they transfer cases amongst themselves: “we detected this case, how do we deal with it?” etc. The community fabric in those neighbourhoods functions really well. So what can you add to that fabric so that it can go a bit further? On the other hand, in other neighbourhoods like Ciutat Meridiana, in 5 years 50% of the population has changed, so it’s very difficult to create community where the level of expulsion or change is so high. In Sants, in Ca Batlló, there was a very interesting experience where people want to create a cooperative neighbourhood – it’s a bit polemical – they want to create a public school without using public funds, instead using money from the participants themselves, because the coop tradition in Sants is very anarchist, libertarian – so they promote the idea of a public school, open to all, but not using public funds. And it would have its own educational philosophy, that wouldn’t have to submit to standard educational discipline. And groups have appeared in different neighbourhoods dedicated to shared child-raising where there are no pre-schools for children between 0 and 3 years, or people prefer not to take the kids to public pre-schools because they find them too rigid, so they prefer generating relationships amongst parents. So what should the role of the city government be with respect to such initiatives? Should it facilitate or not? There’s a debate about how to position the municipality with respect to these initiatives that are interesting but then when, inside Barcelona en Comú or Catalunya en Comú, the person who is in charge of these issues comes with a more traditional union perspective and says “This is crazy, what we need to do is to create public schools with teachers who are professional civil servants. These experiments are fine for gentrified zones, but in reality…’” And they are partly right. So we’re in that sort of situation, which is a bit ambivalent. We’re conscious that we need to go beyond a state-centric approach, but at the same time we need to be very conscious that if we don’t reinforce the institutional role, the social fragilities are very acute.<h3>The Commons and Issues of Sovereignty, Interdependence and the « Right to Decide »</h3>AA — Another high-profile issue is that of sovereignty. The way it’s presented in the Ideario is criticised both by those who want a unified Spain and by those who want Catalan independence. Sovereignty is simply another word for independence in the view of many people. But the way it’s presented in the Ideario is more complex and comprehensive, linked to autonomy at every level …JS — Exactly: it’s plural, in lower case and plural: sovereignties. The idea is a bit like what I said earlier about the city, that we want to take back the city. We want to recover the collective capacity to decide over what affects us. So it’s fine to talk about the sovereignty of Catalonia, but we also need to talk about digital sovereignty, water sovereignty, energy sovereignty, housing sovereignty – sovereignty in the sense of the capacity to decide over that which affects us. So we don’t have to wait until we have sovereignty over Catalonia in order to grapple with all this. And this has obvious effects: for example, something we are trying to develop here: a transit card that would be valid on all forms of public transit – like the “Oyster” in London, and many other cities have them – an electronic card that you can use for the train, the metro, the bus: the first thing the Barcelona city government did on this was to ask the question “Who will own the data? “. That’s sovereignty. The entity that controls the data on who moves and how in metropolitan Barcelona has an incredible stock of information with a clear commercial value. So will it belong to the company that incorporates the technology? or will the data belong to the municipality and the municipality will do with it what it needs? At the moment, they are installing digital electricity metres and digital water metres: but to whom do the data belong? because these are public concessions, concessions to enterprises in order that they provide a public service – so who owns the data?This is a central issue. And it is raised in many other aspects, like food sovereignty. So, we want to ensure that in the future Barcelona be less dependent on the exterior for its food needs, as far as possible. So you need to work to obtain local foodstuffs, control over the products that enter – and that implies food sovereignty, it implies discussing all this. So, without saying that the sovereignty of Catalonia isn’t important, we need to discuss the other sovereignties. Because, suppose we attain the sovereignty of Catalonia as an independent state, but we are still highly dependent in all the other areas. We need to confront this. I don’t think it’s a way of avoiding the issue, it’s a way of making it more complex, of understanding that today the Westphalian concept of State sovereignty no longer makes much sense. I think we all agree on that. We are very interdependent, so how do we choose our interdependencies? That would be real sovereignty, not to be independent because that’s impossible, but rather how to better choose your interdependencies so that they have a more public content.AA — Talking of interdependence, there is the issue as well of internationalism. Barcelona en Comú puts a lot of emphasis on that, saying ‘There is no municipalism without internationalism’ etc. From the very outset of her mandate, Ada Colau in 2015 in her inaugural speech as mayor said that ‘we will work to build a movement of cities of the Mediterranean’, and as time goes on the approach is becoming clearer, for example with the participation of Colau and the vice-mayor Gerardo Pisarello in the major international city conferences. What do you see as the importance of this internationalism within the Commons ecosystem?JS — There are 2 key aspects for me. First, cities are clearly the most global political space and zone of social convergence that exists. Apparently when we talk about cities we’re talking about something local, but cities are actually very globalised. Benjamin Barber wrote a book about ‘Why Mayors should govern the world’. And he set out an example I think is very good: if the mayor of Montreal meets with Ada and the mayor of Nairobi and the mayor of Santiago de Chile and the mayor of say Hong-Kong, after 5 minutes together they’ll all be talking about the same things. Because the problems of cities are very similar from one place to another despite their different sizes. Questions of energy, transport, water, services, food… If we try to imagine that same meeting between Heads of State, the complexity of the political systems, cultural traditions, constitutional models and all will mean that the challenge of coming to a common understanding will be much more complex. That doesn’t mean that cities are the actors that will resolve climate change, but certainly the fact that Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Paris agree that in 2025 there will no longer be cars circulating that use diesel will have more impact than a meeting of Heads of State. With AirBnB Barcelona is in constant confrontation, the city has fined them 600 000 euros, but Barcelona on its own can’t combat AirBnB. But New York, Paris, London, Amsterdam and Barcelona have come to an agreement to negotiate jointly with AirBnb: those 5 cities together can negotiate with them. But it isn’t the problem for States, it’s much more a problem for cities than for States. And AirBnB uses digital change to enter spaces where there is a lack of precision – it’s what happens too with Uber, Deliveroo and other platforms of so-called ‘collaborative economy’, which is really extractive economy, but which use the reglamentary voids. The people who work for Uber or Deliveroo aren’t employees, they are independent entrepreneurs but they work in 19th century conditions. Tackling this problem from the level of the city can produce new solutions.I think when we decided in 2014-2015 to attempt to work at the municipal level in Barcelona, we were aware that Barcelona isn’t just any city: Barcelona has an international presence and we wanted to use Barcelona’s international character to exert an influence on urban issues worldwide. Ada Colau participated in the Habitat conference in Quito in October 2016, before that in the meeting of local authorities in Bogota, she is now co-president of the World Union of Municipalities. So there’s an investment that didn’t start just with us but that started in the period when Maragall<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> was mayor, a very high investment by Barcelona in participating in this international sphere of cities. This reinforces Barcelona in its confrontations with the State and with private enterprise as well. It plays an important role. There is an international commission within Barcelona en Comú, they are constantly working with other world cities – they have been in France, they have a strong link with Grenoble and will be going to a meeting of French cities in September to talk about potential collaboration, they often go to Italy, they’ve gone to Belgrade, to Poland. In June they’re organising a meeting of Fearless Cities, with the participation of many mayors from major cities in Europe and around the world. So there is a very clear vision of the global aspect. So the global dimension is very present, and at the level of Spain as well. The problem there is that there is political interference, for example in Madrid, which is very important as a city, but within the municipal group “Ahora Madrid” they’re very internally divided, so sometimes you speak to one and the others don’t like it. We have really good relations with Galicia: A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela, also with Valencia, but Valencia also has its own dynamic. Zaragoza. Each city has its own dynamic, so sometimes it’s complicated to establish on-going relations.AA — What about Cadiz?JS — Of course, Cadiz is also part of this trend, but the group there is part of the Podemos anti-capitalist faction, so there are nuances.NT — You mentioned 2 points regarding internationalism…JS — Yes, first there was the general global perspective on cities and the second is Barcelona’s own concrete interest. So the first is more global, that is, any city in the world today has many more possibilities if it looks at its strategic global role and if it wants to strengthen its position, it has to work on the global level. In the case of Barcelona specifically, there is also a will that’s partly traditional, because it was begun by Maragall, you have to remember that here in Barcelona there are 10 districts, and during the war of the Balkans, Maragall created District 11, which was Sarajevo: city technicians went to Sarajevo to work with them, and still today there are municipal technicians who travel regularly to Gaza to work there, or with La Havana – in other words there’s a clearly established internationalist stance in the municipality. Also, the headquarters of the World Union of Local Governments is in Barcelona. The international headquarters of Educating Cities is in Barcelona, so there has constantly been a will to be present on the international scene since Maragall, and now this is continuing but with a new orientation as well. Perhaps there used to be the idea of exporting the Barcelona model, branding Barcelona, but that is no longer the case. There’s very intense organisation globally, probably if Ada accepted all the invitations she receives, she’d be travelling all the time.AA — Coming back to the issue of sovereignty vs independence and “the right to decide”, how does this play out?JS — The issue of independence is internally very complex with different positions. I think there is a general agreement on 3 things, ie:<ol><li>Catalonia has its own demos and therefore is a political subject which must be recognised,</li><li>it has to be able to decide how to articulate itself with the other political subjects in Spain and in Europe, it has to have the right, the capacity to decide;</li><li>this requires the construction of a State of its own.</li></ol>It is on the fourth point that we are not in agreement: whether that State should be independent or whether it should be in some way linked, allied, confederated with the rest of the Iberian Peninsula or with Europe. These 3 initial points are sufficiently important and they are the basis for the fact that Catalunya en Comú or Barcelona en Comú is part of the broad sovereigntist space in Catalonia. What it isn’t part of is the independentist space in Catalonia. Despite the fact that I would say some 30-40% of the members are pro-independence, but the rest not. And that is an issue which divides us. But what we are trying to do is to work out this debate on the basis of our own criteria, not on those of other movements. The criteria of the others are ‘you are independentist or you are not independentist’. Our own criteria are: yes, we are sovereigntists, we discuss sovereignties and we’ll see. Since we agree on what is the most important (that is – an autonomous political subject, the right to decide, an autonomous State), let’s discuss how we can articulate. We have fraternal relations with 4 million people in the rest of Spain who agree with us on the first 3 criteria. So the key question probably would be: Does Catalonia want to separate from the rest of Spain or from this Spain? The standard response would be “We have never known any other. We’ve always seen the same Spain, so there is no other Spain”. So the debate we can have is over “Yes, another Spain is possible”. Sort of like the debate right now over whether to leave Europe: do we want to leave Europe of leave this Europe? But is another Europe possible or not?<h3>The Challenges of Scale</h3>NT — I am struck by the fact that every time we refer to the initiative of Catalunya en Comú, you respond by giving the example of what’s happening in Barcelona: do you see Barcelona as the model for Un Pais en Comú?JS — No, it’s not that it’s the model, there is even some reticence within Barcelona en Comú that this new political initiative may have negative consequences for Barcelona en Comú. The Barcelona in Comú experiment has worked really well: within BeC political parties continue to exist (Podemos, Iniciativa, EUIA, Guanyem) and all agree that it’s necessary to create this subject, because it’s clear – there’s a phrase by a former mayor of Vitoria in the Basque country who said “Where my capacities end, my responsibilities begin” – that is, clearly, cities are developing roles that are more and more important, but their capacities continue to be very limited and especially their resources are very limited – so there’s an imbalance between capacities and responsibilities. Between what cities could potentially do and what they really can do. Refuge-cities – a thousand things. So within Barcelona en Comú there is an understanding of the interest of creating Catalunya en Comú in order to have influence in other levels of government. And to present candidates in elections in Spain with En Comú Podem because to be represented in Madrid is also important. But of course, sometimes this expansion can make us lose the most original aspect, that is the emphasis on municipalism, in the capacity to create these spaces – so there’s a certain tension. And obviously, when you go outside Barcelona in Catalonia, the local and territorial realities are very different, you find… you no longer control what kind of people are joining and so you can end up with surprises – good and bad ones – so there are some doubts, some growing pains. You have to grow, but how will that affect what we have so far? our ways of working and all that… I always refer to Barcelona en Comú because we have existed for longer, we have a sort of ‘tradition’ in the way we work, and on the contrary, the other day we held the founding assembly of Catalunya en Comú and – where are we headed? how long will we be able to maintain the freshness, avoid falling into the traditional vices of political parties? Xavi (Domenech) is a very good candidate, he has what I call a Guanyem DNA, but it’s not evident that we can pull this through. That’s the doubt.NT — How do you assess the results of the founding assembly of Catalunya en Comú? Are you happy with what came out of it?JS — Yes, I’m satisfied, although I don’t think the results were optimal, but we are squeezed by a political calendar that we don’t control. It’s very probable that there will be elections this year in Catalonia, so if that happens… what would have been preferable? To reproduce the Barcelona en Comú model, take more time and work more from the bottom up, hold meetings throughout the territory – we did hold about 70 or 80, but a lot more would have been better – do things more slowly and look around, build links with local movements, the same ones as in Barcelona but on the level of Catalonia – energy, water, etc: reconstruct the same process. But sure, they’re going to call elections or a referendum in 2 days. What is clear is that we can’t do the same thing as with ‘Catalunya si que es pot’<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a>, which was a coalition but it didn’t work. So all this has meant that the process – despite the fact that I think it has been carried out well, is not optimal: within the realm of the possible, I think it was done with great dignity.NT — And with respect to the deliberative process that was used to arrive at the final document?JS — Basically the same thing: it could have been done better, with deeper debates in each area, it was done very quickly, a lot of issues in a short period of time. The task was very complex, and I think the result is worthy. We tried to avoid standardised jargon and parameters, to make it a bit different. So now we’ll see – yesterday the Executive met for the first time, and on May 13 will be the first meeting of the coordinating group of 120 people<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a>. So we’ll have to see how this all is gotten underway. I am not convinced that it will all be functional in time for the Catalan elections, for me the key date is May 2019 which are the next municipal elections. Then we’ll see if this has really jelled and if we can have a significant presence throughout the territory. This territorial vision is very important in order to avoid a top-down construction. The key thing in Catalonia is to do it with dignity and not to become entrapped in this dual logic of independence or not, to be capable of bringing together a social force that is in that position.<div class="" style="font-size: .8em;">NOTES<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a> Autonomous elections are those held in the 17 Autonomous Communities of Spain created by the 1978 Constitution. Catalunya is one of them.</li><li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a> The Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia or PSUC: Founded in 1936, it allied the main parties of the Catalan left around the Communist Party. It was dissolved in 1987.</li><li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a> « A country in common ». The process, carried out in a transparent and well-documented manner, began with a negotiation with certain left-wing parties and movements, and encouraged discussion and new proposals at popular assemblies throughout the region and in online discussion open to the public. More than 3,000 people participated in 70 assemblies and more than 1,700 proposals and amendments were made online with the webpage registering nearly 130,000 hits. The Assembly discussed and voted on the various amendments and agreed on a transitional structure composed of a coordinating body of 120 members and an executive committee of 33 members, each with a one-year mandate to propose an ethical code, statutes, an organizational structure and political options in the unfolding conjuncture. </li><li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a> « La Politica de Comù » in Nous horitzons (New Horizons) No. 215, 2017. Originally titled Horitzons, the magazine was founded in 1960 in clandestinity and published in Catalan abroad by intellectuals linked to the PSUC. It has been published in Catalonia since 1972. It recently opened its pages to other progressive political tendencies. </li><li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a> Albano Dante Fachin, member of the Catalan parliament, is the head of Podem (the Catalan wing of the Podemos party). He opposed the participation of his party in the constituent assembly of Un Pais en Comù thus creating a crisis in the ranks of Podemos at both the Catalan and national levels. Party leader Pablo Iglesias did not disown him, but delegated his national second-in-command Pablo Echenique to represent him in the assembly. </li><li id="cite_note-6"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a> Coalitions of the Catalan left since the transition period of the 1970s have been numerous and complex for the uninitiated. « Iniciativa for Catalonia Verts » dates from 1995 and was composed of the Green party with Iniciativa for Catalonia, itself a 1987 coalition of the left parties around the PSUC and the former Catalan Communist Party. EUIA (United and Alternative Left) is another coalition in 1998 which includes the first two and all the small parties of the radical left. EUIA is the Catalan branch of Izquierda Unida (United Left) the new name of the Spanish Communist Party. </li><li id="cite_note-7"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a> Pasqual Maragall, member and later president of the Catalan Socialist Party, became mayor of Barcelona in 1982 with the support of the elected members of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC). He remained in this position for almost 15 years without ever having a majority in the municipal council. He then became President of the Catalan government in 2003.</li><li id="cite_note-8"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a> Catalunya Sí que es Pot (CSQP, « Yes Catalonia Is Possible ») is a left-wing coalition created in view of the Catalan elections in the autumn of 2015. Barcelona en Comù, itself a municipal coalition, was elected in May 2015 but decided not to run in the autonomous elections. </li><li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a> The election result was no surprise: ‘A country in common’ founder Xavier Domenech will preside the Executive Committee and Ada Colau, the current mayor of Barcelona, is president of the coordinating body. The membership, via an internet vote, chose on May 20 a new name preferring « Catalunya en Comù » to « En Comú podem », thus distinguishing itself from the 2015 Catalan coalition with Podemos, also called « En comu podem » and signalling a reinforcement of the « Barcelona en Comù » wing with respect to the supporters of Podemos in the new entity. The rejection of the earlier name ‘Un Pais en Comu’ may also denote a desire to distance itself from a pro-independence stance.</li></ol></div>i> </ol> </div>)
Chargement/Site + (<h2>Rendez-vous avec nos imaginaires … <h2>Rendez-vous avec nos imaginaires !</h2><blockquote class="wp-block-quote">L’Assemblée des communs est une rencontre nationale pour mettre les communs à l’agenda, partager les expériences et les relier, débattre, se doter d’outils et de stratégies pour la reconnaissance des communs. Elle se déroule à Marseille du 12 au 14 Novembre 2021</blockquote><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="607" height="752" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flyer-adc2021_image-1-607x752.png" alt="" class="wp-image-6605" srcset="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flyer-adc2021_image-1-607x752.png 607w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flyer-adc2021_image-1-342x424.png 342w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flyer-adc2021_image-1-768x951.png 768w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flyer-adc2021_image-1-1240x1536.png 1240w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flyer-adc2021_image-1-1654x2048.png 1654w" sizes="(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px" /></figure>Depuis les élections municipales de 2020 en France, les concepts de commun, communs, bien communs, ont été fortement mobilisés dans le discours public et électoral, quoique de manière floue. L’en-commun y apparaît comme une voie alternative entre l’Etat et le Marché, un moyen de renouveler l’action publique par l’initiative citoyenne. Cet intérêt nouveau des collectivités et de l’administration publique actualise pour les acteurs que nous sommes la nécessité de faire en- tendre notre propre voix.A l’échelle locale, les assemblées des communs s’inscrivent dans la perspective dessinée par le réseau francophone des communs initié par VECAM en 2012 pour relier les réalités urbaines émergentes aux communs alliant connaissance et numérique.L’assemblée des communs de Lille se constitue lors des Roumics, un événement autour des communs organisé dans le cadre du festival « Temps des communs » en octobre 2015.La même année l’association La Plateforme organise à Marseille une quinzaine « Marseille en Communs » qui regroupe plusieurs acteurs et actrices venu.e.s de Marseille et d’ailleurs.L’assemblée des communs de Grenoble (ACG) est créée en mars 2017 lors de la Biennale des Villes en Transition, par la convergence entre plusieurs initiatives dont la commission des communs de Nuit Debout Grenoble, la ville de Grenoble, Alpes Solidaires, Alternatiba, le Cairn, Terre de Liens, Planning, l’Atelier Populaire d’Urbanisme…<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-6590 size-large" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20200117_143658614-1-scaled-e1633428620129-607x332.jpg" alt="" width="607" height="332" srcset="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20200117_143658614-1-scaled-e1633428620129-607x332.jpg 607w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20200117_143658614-1-scaled-e1633428620129-342x187.jpg 342w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20200117_143658614-1-scaled-e1633428620129-768x420.jpg 768w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20200117_143658614-1-scaled-e1633428620129-1536x841.jpg 1536w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20200117_143658614-1-scaled-e1633428620129-2048x1121.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px" />A l’échelle translocale, le collectif Remix the commons organise depuis 2012 (Ker Thiossane, festival Afropixel) des rencontres autour des communs dans la francophonie et en Europe, bientôt baptisées « Commons camp » (Grenoble 2018 et Marseille 2020).Dans le même temps, conscient que, des Nuits debout aux gilets jaunes, du squat à la ZAD comme au tiers-lieu, il se passe des choses du côté des pratiques spatiales, le centre de ressources Artfactories/autresparts, co-fondateur et cheville ouvrière de la CNLII (coordination nationale des lieux intermédiaires et indépendants), impulse une réflexion sur les liens entre communs et pratiques d’occupation d’espaces. Elle aboutit à la tenue en 2018, du 3è forum des lieux intermédiaires et indépendants, aux Ateliers du vent, à Rennes sous l’intitulé « faire commun(S), comment faire ? ». Les lieux intermédiaires s’y déterminent comme communs culturels, spatiaux et transformationnels.Mais c’est à la faveur du commons camp de Marseille que naît l’idée d’une assemblée des communs, à l’échelle nationale. Les 17, 18 et 19 janvier 2020, à l’initiative de Remix the commons et Artfactories/autres-parts se rassemblent plus de 350 personnes venues tant de Marseille que du reste du monde (Italie, Espagne, Québec, Angleterre, Croatie…).Les italiens y témoignent de la création toute récente d’une assemblée des communs italienne. En effet, en Italie, le mouvement des beni comuni, après avoir ouvert la voie juridique pour les communs, a vu naître en 2018, une assemblée nationale des communs qui a permis aux différentes expériences menées dans tous le pays de se fédérer et de devenir le creuset d’innovations politiques pour défendre les droits humains et une nouvelle rationalité démocratique.A l’issue du commons camp se constitue à Marseille un laboratoire d’entraide juridique rassemblant des acteurs, chercheurs et juristes italiens, espagnols et français, dans la perspective de développer les outils et les stratégies juridico-politiques des communs à travers une approche translocale. Entre le Laboratoire d’entraide juridique, Remix the commons, et Art-factories/Autresparts, l’idée d’une assemblée des communs à l’échelle nationale a fait son chemin.Nous en prenons aujourd’hui l’initiative.Laboratoire d’entraide juridique, Remix the commons, et Art-factories/Autresparts, l’idée d’une assemblée des communs à l’échelle nationale a fait son chemin. Nous en prenons aujourd’hui l’initiative.)
Chargement/Site + (<h2>Rendez-vous avec nos imaginaires … <h2>Rendez-vous avec nos imaginaires !</h2><blockquote class="wp-block-quote">L’Assemblée des communs est une rencontre nationale pour mettre les communs à l’agenda, partager les expériences et les relier, débattre, se doter d’outils et de stratégies pour la reconnaissance des communs. Elle se déroule à Marseille du 12 au 14 Novembre 2021</blockquote><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="607" height="752" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flyer-adc2021_image-1-607x752.png" alt="" class="wp-image-6605" srcset="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flyer-adc2021_image-1-607x752.png 607w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flyer-adc2021_image-1-342x424.png 342w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flyer-adc2021_image-1-768x951.png 768w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flyer-adc2021_image-1-1240x1536.png 1240w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flyer-adc2021_image-1-1654x2048.png 1654w" sizes="(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px" /></figure>Depuis les élections municipales de 2020 en France, les concepts de commun, communs, bien communs, ont été fortement mobilisés dans le discours public et électoral, quoique de manière floue. L’en-commun y apparaît comme une voie alternative entre l’Etat et le Marché, un moyen de renouveler l’action publique par l’initiative citoyenne. Cet intérêt nouveau des collectivités et de l’administration publique actualise pour les acteurs que nous sommes la nécessité de faire en- tendre notre propre voix.A l’échelle locale, les assemblées des communs s’inscrivent dans la perspective dessinée par le réseau francophone des communs initié par VECAM en 2012 pour relier les réalités urbaines émergentes aux communs alliant connaissance et numérique.L’assemblée des communs de Lille se constitue lors des Roumics, un événement autour des communs organisé dans le cadre du festival « Temps des communs » en octobre 2015.La même année l’association La Plateforme organise à Marseille une quinzaine « Marseille en Communs » qui regroupe plusieurs acteurs et actrices venu.e.s de Marseille et d’ailleurs.L’assemblée des communs de Grenoble (ACG) est créée en mars 2017 lors de la Biennale des Villes en Transition, par la convergence entre plusieurs initiatives dont la commission des communs de Nuit Debout Grenoble, la ville de Grenoble, Alpes Solidaires, Alternatiba, le Cairn, Terre de Liens, Planning, l’Atelier Populaire d’Urbanisme…<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-6590 size-large" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20200117_143658614-1-scaled-e1633428620129-607x332.jpg" alt="" width="607" height="332" srcset="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20200117_143658614-1-scaled-e1633428620129-607x332.jpg 607w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20200117_143658614-1-scaled-e1633428620129-342x187.jpg 342w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20200117_143658614-1-scaled-e1633428620129-768x420.jpg 768w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20200117_143658614-1-scaled-e1633428620129-1536x841.jpg 1536w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20200117_143658614-1-scaled-e1633428620129-2048x1121.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px" />A l’échelle translocale, le collectif Remix the commons organise depuis 2012 (Ker Thiossane, festival Afropixel) des rencontres autour des communs dans la francophonie et en Europe, bientôt baptisées « Commons camp » (Grenoble 2018 et Marseille 2020).Dans le même temps, conscient que, des Nuits debout aux gilets jaunes, du squat à la ZAD comme au tiers-lieu, il se passe des choses du côté des pratiques spatiales, le centre de ressources Artfactories/autresparts, co-fondateur et cheville ouvrière de la CNLII (coordination nationale des lieux intermédiaires et indépendants), impulse une réflexion sur les liens entre communs et pratiques d’occupation d’espaces. Elle aboutit à la tenue en 2018, du 3è forum des lieux intermédiaires et indépendants, aux Ateliers du vent, à Rennes sous l’intitulé « faire commun(S), comment faire ? ». Les lieux intermédiaires s’y déterminent comme communs culturels, spatiaux et transformationnels.Mais c’est à la faveur du commons camp de Marseille que naît l’idée d’une assemblée des communs, à l’échelle nationale. Les 17, 18 et 19 janvier 2020, à l’initiative de Remix the commons et Artfactories/autres-parts se rassemblent plus de 350 personnes venues tant de Marseille que du reste du monde (Italie, Espagne, Québec, Angleterre, Croatie…).Les italiens y témoignent de la création toute récente d’une assemblée des communs italienne. En effet, en Italie, le mouvement des beni comuni, après avoir ouvert la voie juridique pour les communs, a vu naître en 2018, une assemblée nationale des communs qui a permis aux différentes expériences menées dans tous le pays de se fédérer et de devenir le creuset d’innovations politiques pour défendre les droits humains et une nouvelle rationalité démocratique.A l’issue du commons camp se constitue à Marseille un laboratoire d’entraide juridique rassemblant des acteurs, chercheurs et juristes italiens, espagnols et français, dans la perspective de développer les outils et les stratégies juridico-politiques des communs à travers une approche translocale. Entre le Laboratoire d’entraide juridique, Remix the commons, et Art-factories/Autresparts, l’idée d’une assemblée des communs à l’échelle nationale a fait son chemin.Nous en prenons aujourd’hui l’initiative.Laboratoire d’entraide juridique, Remix the commons, et Art-factories/Autresparts, l’idée d’une assemblée des communs à l’échelle nationale a fait son chemin. Nous en prenons aujourd’hui l’initiative.)
Chargement/Site + (<h3>Presentation</h3> … <h3>Presentation</h3><a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Penser_les_communs">Framing the commons</a> is a series of interviews made during the first <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference">International Commons Conference</a>, co-organized by the Heinrich Boll Foundation and the<a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Strategies_Group"> Commons Strategies Group</a>, took place in Berlin November 1 and 2, 2010. The conference organizers and participants were invited to talk about their vision of the Commons and of the future of the movement.Framing the commons is the second chapter produced by Remix The Commons in 2010/2011.<h3>Collaborators</h3>Alain Ambrosi and Abeille Tards is the second chapter produced by Remix The Commons in 2010/2011. <h3>Collaborators</h3> Alain Ambrosi and Abeille Tard)
Chargement/Site + (<h3>Présentation</h3> … <h3>Présentation</h3><a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Penser_les_communs">Penser les communs</a> est une série d’entrevues réalisées lors de la première <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference">International Commons Conference</a>, co-organisée par la Fondation Heinrich Boell et le <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Strategies_Group"> Commons Strategies Group</a>, à Berlin en 2010. Les organisateurs de la conférence et des participants ont été invités à s’exprimer sur leur vision sur les biens communs et de l’avenir du mouvement des communs.Framing the commons est le deuxième chapitre produit par Remix The Commons en 2010/2011.<h3>Collaborateurs</h3>Alain Ambrosi et Abeille TardThe Commons en 2010/2011. <h3>Collaborateurs</h3> Alain Ambrosi et Abeille Tard)
Chargement/Site + (<h3>Quelle gouvernance du projet Rem … <h3>Quelle gouvernance du projet Remix Biens Communs et quel modèle de gouvernance en biens communs ?</h3>Sous la direction du LARTES-IFAN, la coordination de la dimension Gouvernance a travaillé à la mise en place d’un prototype de charte de gouvernance du projet et de la plateforme REMIX. Elle a, en outre, réalisé deux films documentaires de 12 minutes sur des expériences de conception et mise en oeuvre de chartes, l’une dans un quartier de Dakar et l’autre sur la charte nationale sénégalaise : Charte de Bonne Gouvernance Démocratique et Charte de bon voisinage, éloignez votre poubelle ! omme processus exemplaire de production de Bien Commun. Elle a, enfin, assemblé un certain nombre de ressources et liens ciblés pour aussi bien faciliter une mise à niveau documentaire, qu’élargir le champ de possibilité des collaborations scientifiques dans le cadre du mouvement de l’économie sociale et des Biens Communs.<h3>Futur développement</h3>Les recherches sur la pratique de charte de gouvernance se poursuivent et seront amenées à venir nourrir la réflexion de praticiens des biens communs.<h3>Collaborateurs/trices</h3>Abdou Salam Fall et Abdou Rahmane Seck, chercheurs au LARTES au Sénégal<h3>Financement</h3>Le projet de « Chartes de gouvernance » fait partie des travaux de recherche conduits par le LARTES IFAN. Il a été partiellement financé par la Francophonie au travers de Remix Biens Communs.<h3>Rôle de Remix Biens Communs</h3>Remix Biens Communs est un espace de rencontre entre chercheurs et praticiens pour le développement de pratiques de gouvernance basées sur les communs.gt; Remix Biens Communs est un espace de rencontre entre chercheurs et praticiens pour le développement de pratiques de gouvernance basées sur les communs.)
Chargement/Site + (<a href="http://www.bollier.or … <a href="http://www.bollier.org/blog/new-videos-explore-political-potential-commons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Original publication by David Bollier</a>Just released: a terrific 25-minute video overview of the commons as seen by frontline activists from around the world, “<a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Les_communs_dans_l%E2%80%99espace_politique" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Commons in Political Spaces: For a Post-capitalist Transition</a>,” along with more than a dozen separate interviews with activists on the frontlines of commons work around the globe. The videos were shot at the World Social Forum in Montreal last August, capturing the flavor of discussion and organizing there.A big thanks to Remix the Commons and Commons Spaces – two groups in Montreal, and to Alain Ambrosi, Frédéric Sultan and Stépanie Lessard-Bérubé — for pulling together this wonderful snapshot of the commons world. The overview video is no introduction to the commons, but a wonderfully insightful set of advanced commentaries about the political and strategic promise of the commons paradigm today.Frédéric Sultan of Remix the CommonsThe overview video (“Les communs dans l’espace politique,” with English subtitles as needed) is striking in its focus on frontier developments: the emerging political alliances of commoners with conventional movements, ideas about how commons should interact with state power, and ways in which commons thinking is entering policy debate and the general culture.The video features commentary by people like Frédéric Sultan, Gaelle Krikorian, Alain Ambrosi, Ianik Marcil, Matthew Rhéaume, Silke Helfrich, Chantal Delmas, Pablo Solon, Christian Iaione, and Jason Nardi, among others.The individual interviews with each of these people are quite absorbing. (See the full listing of videos <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Commons_Space" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.) Six of these interviews are in English, nine are in French, and three are in Spanish. They range in length from ten minutes to twenty-seven minutes.nterviews are in English, nine are in French, and three are in Spanish. They range in length from ten minutes to twenty-seven minutes.)
Chargement/Site + (<a href="http://www.bollier.or … <a href="http://www.bollier.org/blog/new-videos-explore-political-potential-commons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Original publication by David Bollier</a>Just released: a terrific 25-minute video overview of the commons as seen by frontline activists from around the world, “<a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Les_communs_dans_l%E2%80%99espace_politique" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Commons in Political Spaces: For a Post-capitalist Transition</a>,” along with more than a dozen separate interviews with activists on the frontlines of commons work around the globe. The videos were shot at the World Social Forum in Montreal last August, capturing the flavor of discussion and organizing there.A big thanks to Remix the Commons and Commons Spaces – two groups in Montreal, and to Alain Ambrosi, Frédéric Sultan and Stépanie Lessard-Bérubé — for pulling together this wonderful snapshot of the commons world. The overview video is no introduction to the commons, but a wonderfully insightful set of advanced commentaries about the political and strategic promise of the commons paradigm today.Frédéric Sultan of Remix the CommonsThe overview video (“Les communs dans l’espace politique,” with English subtitles as needed) is striking in its focus on frontier developments: the emerging political alliances of commoners with conventional movements, ideas about how commons should interact with state power, and ways in which commons thinking is entering policy debate and the general culture.The video features commentary by people like Frédéric Sultan, Gaelle Krikorian, Alain Ambrosi, Ianik Marcil, Matthew Rhéaume, Silke Helfrich, Chantal Delmas, Pablo Solon, Christian Iaione, and Jason Nardi, among others.The individual interviews with each of these people are quite absorbing. (See the full listing of videos <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Commons_Space" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.) Six of these interviews are in English, nine are in French, and three are in Spanish. They range in length from ten minutes to twenty-seven minutes.nterviews are in English, nine are in French, and three are in Spanish. They range in length from ten minutes to twenty-seven minutes.)
Chargement/Site + (<a href="https://www.remixthec … <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Move-North-South-Water.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4194" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Move-North-South-Water-198x300.jpg" alt="Move North South Water" width="198" height="300" /></a>Le « Nan Shui Bei Diao » – littéralement Sud Eau Nord Déplacer – est le plus gros projet de transfert d’eau au monde, entre le sud et le nord de la Chine. Sur les traces de ce chantier colossal, le film d’Antoine Boutet dresse la cartographie mouvementée d’un territoire d’ingénieur où le ciment bat les plaines, les fleuves quittent leur lit, les déserts deviennent forêts, où peu à peu des voix s’élèvent, réclamant justice et droit à la parole. Tandis que la matière se décompose et que les individus s’alarment, un paysage de science-fiction, contre nature, se recompose.Sud Eau Nord Déplacer sortira mercredi 28 janvier 2915 dans les salles de cinéma. Si vous souhaitez vous associer à une de ces projections, contactez la salle de cinéma concernée ou la distribution du film : mdecout@zeugmafilms.fr. Si vous souhaitez accompagner une projection dans une ville où le film n’est pas encore programmé, contactez-nous : hague.philippe@gmail.comfilm n’est pas encore programmé, contactez-nous : hague.philippe@gmail.com)
Chargement/Site + (Rendre visibles les méca … Rendre visibles les mécanismes de gouvernance des communs urbains et apprendre de l’expérience de la co-production du droit. Partager les tactiques de l’agir en commun (commoning) en milieu urbain. Atlas des chartes des communs urbains propose de :<ol><li>Réaliser et entretenir un inventaire ouvert et interactif de mécanismes juridiques consacrés à la mise en œuvre des communs urbains.</li><li>fournir un espace collectif pour l’analyse et l’interprétation de ces mécanismes de gouvernance des communs urbains et produire et partager des connaissances avec les commoners dans une perspective interculturelle.</li><li>offrir un espace d’échange et d’entraide autour de l’élaboration de chartes et autres instruments juridiques pour la régénération ou la création des communs urbains.</li></ol> <iframe style="width: 900px; height: 500px; border: 1px solid black;" src="https://framindmap.org/c/maps/198701/embed?zoom=1"> </iframe>Pour contribuer à la grille d’analyse des communs urbains, utilisez <a href="https://framindmap.org/c/maps/198701/edit">framindmap.org</a> (Vous devez être titulaire d’un compte)<a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Atlas_des_chartes_des_communs_urbains">Information sur le projet </a> <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Atlas_des_chartes_des_communs_urbains">Information sur le projet </a>)
Chargement/Site + (Rendre visibles les méca … Rendre visibles les mécanismes de gouvernance des communs urbains et apprendre de l’expérience de la co-production du droit. Partager les tactiques de l’agir en commun (commoning) en milieu urbain. Atlas des chartes des communs urbains propose de :<ol><li>Réaliser et entretenir un inventaire ouvert et interactif de mécanismes juridiques consacrés à la mise en œuvre des communs urbains.</li><li>fournir un espace collectif pour l’analyse et l’interprétation de ces mécanismes de gouvernance des communs urbains et produire et partager des connaissances avec les commoners dans une perspective interculturelle.</li><li>offrir un espace d’échange et d’entraide autour de l’élaboration de chartes et autres instruments juridiques pour la régénération ou la création des communs urbains.</li></ol> <iframe style="width: 900px; height: 500px; border: 1px solid black;" src="https://framindmap.org/c/maps/198701/embed?zoom=1"> </iframe>Pour contribuer à la grille d’analyse des communs urbains, utilisez <a href="https://framindmap.org/c/maps/198701/edit">framindmap.org</a> (Vous devez être titulaire d’un compte)<a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Atlas_des_chartes_des_communs_urbains">Information sur le projet </a> <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Atlas_des_chartes_des_communs_urbains">Information sur le projet </a>)
Chargement/Site + (Les voies maritimes< … Les voies maritimes, a beautiful idea of video about a project of protected sea area. <iframe loading="lazy" frameborder="0" width="400" height="225" src="//www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xu8azp" allowfullscreen></iframe> By <a href="http://www.aires-marines.fr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aires-marines-protegees</a>Three photographers have traveled for months Normand Breton Gulf stretching from the island of Brehat to Cape of La Hague and which is the subject of a proposed marine park. Rodolphe Marics, Denis Bourges and Xavier Desmier propose an X-ray of the marine space in three different and complementary points of view: aerial photos, hiking and underwater.Les voies maritimes was born of a partnership between the Agency for Marine Protected Areas and the association Les champs photographiques.maritimes was born of a partnership between the Agency for Marine Protected Areas and the association Les champs photographiques.)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" src="// … <iframe loading="lazy" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ihDoZ5dYapw" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Self-management and integral cooperativism: an experiment of the community on the length scale.A group of coop at Barquisimeto (northeastern Venezuela), totally self-managed. More than 1,200 workers, no leader, no manager, no hierarchical structure, a lot of participation, confidence and learning, constant rotation in all workplaces … and moreFor more information, see the article in <a href="http://www.utopiasproject.lautre.net/reportages/article/venezuela" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.utopiasproject.lautre.net/</a>…See CECOSESOLA web site<a href="http://www.cecosesolaorg.bugs3.com/index.php/publicaciones/experiencias-en-video?videoid=yejPDL6mKSA">http://www.cecosesolaorg.bugs3.com/index.php/publicaciones/experiencias-en-video?videoid=yejPDL6mKSA</a>See also the remixthecommons productions:<a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=cecosesola-vivir-lo-comun-dia-a-dia">https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=cecosesola-vivir-lo-comun-dia-a-dia</a><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-noel-vale-valera">https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-noel-vale-valera</a><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-jorge-rath">https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-jorge-rath</a>-noel-vale-valera</a> <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-jorge-rath">https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-jorge-rath</a>)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" src="// … <iframe loading="lazy" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/95117190" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/95117190">Pêche durable en Méditarranée</a>, a short documentary published by<a href="http://www.l-encre-de-mer.fr/2014-05-26-mediterranee-une-peche-durable-video-de-france-nature-environnement"> FNE PACA </a>with the support of Fondation Itancia.Language : FrenchAn interesting video on the very practical forgotten and marginalized coastal fisheries in the Mediterranean with the institution of prudhommies. Fishermen elect the office prudhommies who will control fishing practices based on established rules, which eventually will judge fishermen who would depart from the rules. One wonders how these institutions will have to resist and maintain given the pressure from all sides they suffered to go.Long practiced in the Mediterranean fisheries « small business » is a practice of sustainable fisheries in several respects. Find out in this story what are the specifics of these practices, and more importantly, what are the advantages for the nearshore and shallow so rich and diversified our Mediterranean coasts.France Nature Environnement Paca Fond de dotation ITANCIA 2014d diversified our Mediterranean coasts. France Nature Environnement Paca Fond de dotation ITANCIA 2014)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" src="// … <iframe loading="lazy" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ihDoZ5dYapw" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Autogestion et coopérativisme integral : une expérience sur la durée à l’échelle de la communauté.Coopérative de Barquisimeto (nord-est du Venezuela), au fonctionnement totalement autogestionnaire. Plus de 1200 travailleurs, aucun chef, aucun gérant, aucune structure hiérarchique, énormément de participation, de confiance et d’apprentissage, une rotation constante dans tous les postes de travail … et bien plusPour en savoir plus,voir l’article écrit disponible sur. <a href="http://www.utopiasproject.lautre.net/reportages/article/venezuela" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.utopiasproject.lautre.net/</a>…voir le site de CECOSESOLA<a href="http://www.cecosesolaorg.bugs3.com/index.php/publicaciones/experiencias-en-video?videoid=yejPDL6mKSA">http://www.cecosesolaorg.bugs3.com/index.php/publicaciones/experiencias-en-video?videoid=yejPDL6mKSA</a>voir aussi les vidéos produits par remixthecommons :<a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=cecosesola-vivir-lo-comun-dia-a-dia">https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=cecosesola-vivir-lo-comun-dia-a-dia</a><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-noel-vale-valera">https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-noel-vale-valera</a><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-jorge-rath">https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-jorge-rath</a>lt;/a> <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-jorge-rath">https://www.remixthecommons.org/?fiche=definir-les-communs-jorge-rath</a>)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" src="// … <iframe loading="lazy" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/a0J2gj80EVI?rel=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>« Sans Lendemain », est un film d’animation sur l’exploitation des énergies fossiles et des ressources naturelles et leurs conséquences sur la vie humaine sur la planète. Il est réalisé par Dermot O’ Connor et produit par Incubate Pictures. en 35 minutes, il aborde de façon très intelligible toute une série de problématiques liées à la croissance de notre système économique et à notre façon de consommer.Réalisation : Dermot O’ Connor (35 minutes, 2012).<a href="http://www.idleworm.com">http://www.idleworm.com</a> <a href="http://www.incubatepictures.com">http://www.incubatepictures.com</a> – <a href="http://www.angryanimator.com">http://www.angryanimator.com</a>Information et documentation sur le site <a href="http://sansLendemain.mpOC.be">http://sansLendemain.mpOC.be</a>.Titre original étasunien : There’s no tomorrow. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVOMWzjrRiBg&redir_token=PRF4kw9bwKfWe7SJ5S33XwpWSiZ8MTQwMTM2NzY0MEAxNDAxMjgxMjQw">https://www.youtube.com</a>Version française 2013 due à l’initiative du groupe de Liège du mpOC, Mouvement politique des objecteurs de croissance (le mpOC n’est pas un parti politique).Avec le soutien de : Amis de la Terre Belgique, ASPO.be (section belge de l’Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas), GRAPPE (Groupe de Réflexion et d’Action Pour une Politique Ecologique), IEW (Inter-Environnement Wallonie), Imagine demain le monde, mpOC.Traduction : Francis Leboutte. Voix : Caroline Lamarche. Mixage voix : Margarida Guia. Sous-titres en néerlandais, allemand, anglais, français, espagnol et italien.aduction : Francis Leboutte. Voix : Caroline Lamarche. Mixage voix : Margarida Guia. Sous-titres en néerlandais, allemand, anglais, français, espagnol et italien.)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" src="// … <iframe loading="lazy" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/iFGHar3m_rw" width="800" height="450" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>This interview of Etienne Le Roy, made in Paris March 4, 2014, while presenting his work on land ownership synthesized in his book ‘The land of the other. An anthropology of land ownership schemes’ introduces us in the heart of anthropological paths of one of the founders of French anthropology of Law and awakens our curiosity to question otherwise, and by sharing with others, our world.« The other is not a gap to fill. It is a fullness to discover. » Christoph Eberhard<iframe loading="lazy" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/U4rDt0-pQG8" width="800" height="450" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>idth="800" height="450" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" src="// … <iframe loading="lazy" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6t0csmTRkck?rel=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Questions about who « owns » or has the right to benefit from Indigenous heritage are at the core of ongoing political, economic, and ethical debates taking place at local, national, and international levels.When it comes to research in this area, Indigenous peoples have typically had little say in how studies related to their heritage are managed. Increasingly though, efforts are being made to decolonize research practices by fostering more equitable relationships between researchers and Indigenous peoples, based on mutual trust and collaboration.In this presentation George Nicholas reviews debates over the « ownership » of Indigenous heritage and provides examples of new research practices that are both more ethical and more effective. These collaborative research models, in which the community leads the research, highlight important new directions in protecting Indigenous heritage.Speaker: George Nicholas Event: SFU Public Square Date: April 2, 2014ge. Speaker: George Nicholas Event: SFU Public Square Date: April 2, 2014)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" src="// … <iframe loading="lazy" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/94640433" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><a href="http://vimeo.com/94640433">Glasgow contre Glasgow</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/julienbrygo">Julien Brygo</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.Very interesting video made with pictures by Julien Brygo and edited by Le Monde diplomatique, about the relations between poor and rich people in Glasgow, Scotland.MSDS:22 minutes – 2014 A photographic film by Julien Brygo Editing: Matthieu Parmentier and Sandrine Romet-Lemonne Mixing: Clément Chauvelle Jury Prize at the 2014 Festival Photographic Nights.Photographic film directed <a href="http://monde-diplomatique.fr/carnet/2014-05-22-Glasgow-contre-Glasgow"> for the website of Le Monde diplomatique </ a> This film is taken from the article « Living in a city rich poor », published in Le Monde diplomatique, August 2010: monde-diplomatique.fr/2010/08/BRYGO/19565</a>Screenings and debates: <a href="http://julienbrygo.com/actualite"> julienbrygo.com / actuality </ a></a>To purchase the DVD, write to julien-brygowanadoo.frBRYGO/19565</a> Screenings and debates: <a href="http://julienbrygo.com/actualite"> julienbrygo.com / actuality </ a></a> To purchase the DVD, write to julien-brygowanadoo.fr)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" src="// … <iframe loading="lazy" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/94640433" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><a href="http://vimeo.com/94640433">Glasgow contre Glasgow</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/julienbrygo">Julien Brygo</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.Voici un film photographique (un nouveau genre ?) très intéressant, réalisé par Brygo et publié par Le Monde diplomatique, sur les rapports entre les riches et les pauvres à Glasgow en Ecosse.Fiche technique :22 minutes – 2014 Un film photographique de Julien Brygo Montage : Matthieu Parmentier et Sandrine Romet-Lemonne Mixage : Clément Chauvelle Prix du Jury au Festival Les Nuits Photographiques 2014.Film photographique réalisé <a href="http://monde-diplomatique.fr/carnet/2014-05-22-Glasgow-contre-Glasgow">pour le site du Monde diplomatique</a> Ce film est tiré de l’article « Vivre riche dans une ville de pauvres », paru dans Le Monde diplomatique d’août 2010 : monde-diplomatique.fr/2010/08/BRYGO/19565Projections et débats : <a href="http://julienbrygo.com/actualite">julienbrygo.com/actualite</a>Pour se procurer le DVD, écrire à julien-brygowanadoo.frGO/19565 Projections et débats : <a href="http://julienbrygo.com/actualite">julienbrygo.com/actualite</a> Pour se procurer le DVD, écrire à julien-brygowanadoo.fr)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" title=" … <iframe loading="lazy" title="Claiming the Commons - Food for All on Haultain Boulevard" width="880" height="660" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/25F_KbTz39o?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Peak Moment 185: Rainey Hopewell’s crazy idea has ended up feeding a neighborhood and creating community. She and Margot Johnston planted vegetables in the parking strip in front of their house. They offer them free for the taking ? to anyone, anytime ? with messages chalked on the sidewalk noting when particular vegies are ready to pick. Neighboring children and adults are joining in to work on the garden, harvesting fun along with food, and even handing fresh-picked vegies to passers-by.Mise en ligne le 20 nov. 2010Licence YouTube standardgt; Mise en ligne le 20 nov. 2010 Licence YouTube standard)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" title=" … <iframe loading="lazy" title="Claiming the Commons - Food for All on Haultain Boulevard" width="880" height="660" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/25F_KbTz39o?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Espace urbain – Théories & Pratiques (Co-production) de SchoolofCommoningPeak Moment 185: Rainey Hopewell’s crazy idea has ended up feeding a neighborhood and creating community. She and Margot Johnston planted vegetables in the parking strip in front of their house. They offer them free for the taking ? to anyone, anytime ? with messages chalked on the sidewalk noting when particular vegies are ready to pick. Neighboring children and adults are joining in to work on the garden, harvesting fun along with food, and even handing fresh-picked vegies to passers-by.Mise en ligne le 20 nov. 2010Licence YouTube standardX CanadaX FoodX GardenX JardinX nourritureX Permaculturelt;p>Licence YouTube standard X CanadaX FoodX GardenX JardinX nourritureX Permaculture)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" title=" … <iframe loading="lazy" title="Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film" width="880" height="495" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EEZkQv25uEs?start=7&feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Publié le 1er mars 2012Directed by Ian MacKenzie <a href="http://ianmack.com">http://ianmack.com</a> Produced by Velcrow Ripper, Gregg Hill, Ian MacKenzieLire le livre <a href="http://sacred-economics.com">http://sacred-economics.com</a>Sous-titrage <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6qm37p9">http://tinyurl.com/6qm37p9</a>Sacred économics retrace l’histoire de l’argent de l’économie du don au capitalisme moderne, révélant comment le système monétaire a contribué à l’aliénation, par la concurrence et la rareté, et par la destruction de la communauté, et la nécessité d’une croissance sans fin.Aujourd’hui, ces tendances ont atteint leur paroxysme – mais dans le sillage de la crise, on peut trouver de belles occasions de faire la transition vers une façon plus interactive, écologique et durable d’être.Ce court métrage contient quelques visuels de Occupy Love <a href="http://occupylove.org">http://occupylove.org</a>CREDITS COMPLETSDirected & Edited by Ian MacKenzie Producers: Ian MacKenzie, Velcrow Ripper, Gregg Hill Cinematography: Velcrow Ripper, Ian MacKenzie Animation: Adam Giangregorio, Brian Duffy Music: Chris Zabriskie Additional footage: Steven Simonetti, Pond 5, Youtube Stills: Kris Krug, NASA Special thanks: Charles Eisenstein, Stella Osorojos, Hart Traveller, Clara Roberts-Oss, Line 21 Media Chris Zabriskie Additional footage: Steven Simonetti, Pond 5, Youtube Stills: Kris Krug, NASA Special thanks: Charles Eisenstein, Stella Osorojos, Hart Traveller, Clara Roberts-Oss, Line 21 Media)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" width=" … <iframe loading="lazy" width="400" height="225" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/O_pKnP-2mOQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>75% of Mali’s population are farmers, but rich, land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali’s land in order to turn large areas into agribusiness farms. Many Malian peasants do not welcome these efforts, seeing them as yet another manifestation of imperialism. As Mali experiences a military coup, the developers are scared off – but can Mali’s farmers combat food shortages and escape poverty on their own terms?How do you feed the world? To find out more and get teaching resources, go to <a href="http://www.whypoverty.net">www.whypoverty.net</a>Director Hugo Berkeley & Osvalde Lewat Producer Eli Cane Produced by Normal Life Pictures <a href="http://www.whypoverty.net/en/video/31/">Why Poverty?</a> Musique : « The River Tune » de Bassekou Kouyate + Ngoni ba (Google Play • iTunes • eMusic) ITVSa> Musique : « The River Tune » de Bassekou Kouyate + Ngoni ba (Google Play • iTunes • eMusic) ITVS)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" width=" … <iframe loading="lazy" width="400" height="225" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/O_pKnP-2mOQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>L’Afrique produit 10 pour cent de moins de nourriture qu’en 1960. Avec la montée de la monoculture et de la production alimentaire mondialisée, le paysage du continent est en train de changer et menace sa capacité de se nourrir. Au Mali, un plan américain pour une vaste opération de production de canne à sucre sur les rives du fleuve Niger menace les producteurs de riz à petite échelle qui ont nourri leurs communautés pendant des générations.Comment nourrir le monde ? Pour en savoir plus et obtenir des ressources pédagogiques, aller à <a href="http://www.whypoverty.net">www.whypoverty.net</a>Director Hugo Berkeley & Osvalde Lewat Producer Eli Cane Produced by Normal Life Pictures <a href="http://www.whypoverty.net/en/video/31/">Why Poverty?</a> Musique : « The River Tune » de Bassekou Kouyate + Ngoni ba (Google Play • iTunes • eMusic) ITVSoverty?</a> Musique : « The River Tune » de Bassekou Kouyate + Ngoni ba (Google Play • iTunes • eMusic) ITVS)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" width=" … <iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6t0csmTRkck" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Questions about the « ownership » or the right to benefit from the indigenous heritage are at the heart of political, economic and ethical debates taking place at the local, national and international levels.When it comes to research in this field, the vision of indigenous peoples on how studies on their assets are managed, is generally not taken into account. Increasingly, however, efforts are made to decolonize research practices by promoting more equitable relationships between researchers and indigenous peoples, based on mutual trust and collaboration.In this presentation, George Nicholas critical debates about the « ownership » of Aboriginal heritage and provides examples of new research practices that are both more ethical and more effective. These models of collaborative research in which community conducts research, highlight important new directions in the protection of indigenous peoples’ heritage.<a href="http://bit.ly/1gYJW7Y">Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage</a>gt; <a href="http://bit.ly/1gYJW7Y">Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage</a>)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" width=" … <iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="338" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rDi6i1Q1IJ4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The RFUK and MEFP, in collaboration with the director Luis Leitao, have launched a new film on the way BaAka rainforest of Central African Republic make their voices heard through participatory mapping.The Rainforest Foundation UK’s mission is to support indigenous peoples and traditional populations of the world’s rainforest in their efforts to protect their environment and secure their rights to land, life and livelihood. Locally it helps forest communities to gain land rights, challenge logging companies and manage forests for their own wellbeing and protection of their environment. Globally it campaigns to influence national and international laws to protect rainforests and their inhabitants. It works in close collaboration with local partners and communities across Central Africa and the Peruvian Amazon.Visit the website and watch the clips to learn more about the places we work and the people who live there.http://ift.tt/1i26pnE http://ift.tt/1h4RB4W http://twitter.com/RFUKRainforestFoundationUK.org http://ift.tt/yH3fTM MappingForRights.org http://ift.tt/UB6kej http://ift.tt/1i26pnGlt;br /> http://ift.tt/yH3fTM MappingForRights.org http://ift.tt/UB6kej http://ift.tt/1i26pnG)
Chargement/Site + (<iframe loading="lazy" width=" … <iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="338" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rDi6i1Q1IJ4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> La RFUK et la MEFP, en collaboration avec le réalisateur Luis Leitao, ont lancé un nouveau film sur la manière dont les BaAka de la forêt tropicale de République Centrafrique font entendre leurs voix à travers la cartographie participative.Afin de sensibiliser le public aux problèmes rencontrés par les communautés autochtones des forêts du bassin du Congo, et au rôle que la cartographie participative peut jouer dans la résolution de ces difficultés, la RFUK et l’ONG centrafricaine « Maison de l’Enfant et de la Femme Pygmées » (MEFP) ont produit un film de 30 minutes intitulé « Ndima — Les cartes de notre futur ». « Ndima », qui signifie « forêt » en BaAka, raconte la manière dont les communautés autochtones BaAka de la République centrafricaine ont utilisé la cartographie pour appuyer leurs revendications relatives à l’accès et à l’utilisation de leurs terres traditionnelles. Le film met en évidence ces enjeux dans le cas d’une aire protégée.Le film s’adresse au tout public tant au « Nord » que dans le bassin du Congo – mais soulève également des questions importantes pour les décideurs, concernant les besoins et le rôle potentiel des premiers gardiens de la forêt dans les efforts de conservation au sens large.Durée : 28mins Publiée le 2 juil. 2013 Licence : Licence YouTube standardThe Rainforest Foundation UK’s mission is to support indigenous peoples and traditional populations of the world’s rainforest in their efforts to protect their environment and secure their rights to land, life and livelihood. Locally it helps forest communities to gain land rights, challenge logging companies and manage forests for their own wellbeing and protection of their environment. Globally it campaigns to influence national and international laws to protect rainforests and their inhabitants. We work in close collaboration with local partners and communities across Central Africa and the Peruvian Amazon.Visit our website and watch our clips to learn more about the places we work and the people who live there.http://ift.tt/1i26pnE http://ift.tt/1h4RB4W http://twitter.com/RFUKRainforestFoundationUK.org http://ift.tt/yH3fTM MappingForRights.org http://ift.tt/UB6kej http://ift.tt/1i26pnGlt;br /> http://ift.tt/yH3fTM MappingForRights.org http://ift.tt/UB6kej http://ift.tt/1i26pnG)
Chargement/Site + (<img decoding="async" loading= … <img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-6609" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/aquarelle-AtelierDessin-607x455.jpeg" alt="" width="607" height="455" srcset="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/aquarelle-AtelierDessin-607x455.jpeg 607w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/aquarelle-AtelierDessin-342x257.jpeg 342w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/aquarelle-AtelierDessin-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/aquarelle-AtelierDessin.jpeg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px" /> Une <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Prendre_soin_ensemble" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collection de témoignages</a> autour des pratiques de soin en santé et des communs à partir desquels ont été produits trois montages, un triptyque Soin empêché / La santé sous pression néo-libérale / Auto-organiser le soin en commun. Cette série est une contribution de Remix the commons à l’Atelier pour la refondation du service public hospitalier, réalisée en collaboration avec <a class="external text" href="http://www.primitivi.org/Soigner-comme-neige-au-soleil-ou-l-Obsolescence-programmee-des-secteurs-de?" rel="nofollow">Primitivi</a> du 3 et 4 juillet 2021 à Marseille. rel="nofollow">Primitivi</a> du 3 et 4 juillet 2021 à Marseille.)
Chargement/Site + (<img decoding="async" loading= … <img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4963" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/pla_barcelona_digital_city_in-2.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="300" /> In the last elections in May, Barcelona en Comù has formed an alliance with the Catalan Socialist Party to form a new municipal government with a common agenda and Ada Colau was re-elected for another 4-year term. The first term of office 2015-2019 was held with a minority government and in a regional and national context that was politically and ideologically unfavourable to the development of a « new municipalism of the commons » and an « alternative way of doing politics » that Barcelona claimed to be « en Comù ».The time has come to take stock and, of course, many will have something to say about the achievements made by comparing them to the initial programme. But when we see on the one hand the concrete achievements that often go beyond or question the competences of a municipality (housing, mobility, civic income, health, immigration, tourism, feminisation of politics, energy and technological sovereignty, etc) and on the other hand, what has been done to put transparency in the relationship between the institution, the social movements and the neighbourhood assemblies and the research, for a co-production of policies, we can affirm that the results are generally positive.The commons movement members and the supporters of a new municipalism, can be pleased that, thanks to a coalition of social movements, that has had the courage (and it is necessary) to invest an institution impregnated with neo-liberal practices and a logic of political parties fights, that is often far from the needs and realities of residents, Barcelona remains one of the most dynamic laboratories of urban commons and a model to which to refer.The <a href="https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/sites/default/files/pla_barcelona_digital_city_in.pdf_barcelona_digital_city_in.pdf">review of the digital plan</a> implemented during the first mandate proposed here is characteristic of the achievements, critical path and creativity of this laboratory.Here is how the city summarizes the principles of its action:<blockquote>Establish itself as a global reference point as a city of commons and collaborative production End privatisation and transfer of public assets in private hands, while promoting remunicipalisation of critical urban infrastructures Massively reduce the cost of basic services like housing, transport, education and health, in order to assist those in the most precarious strata of the population Institute a citizens basic income focused on targeting proverty and social exclusion Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) Build data-driven models of the economy, with real inputs (using real time data analytics) so that participatory democracy could model complex decisions Prefer and promote collaborative organisations over both the centralised state and the market solutions (start investing higher percentages of public budget in innovative SMEs and the cooperative sector) Build city data commons: decree that the networked data of the population generated in the context of using public services cannot be owned by services operators</blockquote>These principles are embodied in an action programme, the effects of which are detailed in this document. In addition to the emblematic 13,000 policy proposals from the inhabitants, of which 9.245 (72%) have been accepted, there have been 126 cases of corruption reported through the Transparency mailbox since 2017 or the inclusion of gender differences in the STEAM education and technological training programme.Finally, Barcelona, here as in other areas, is building on and strengthening city networks. It initiated – with New York and Amsterdam – the Coalition of Cities for Digital Rights and launched the campaign « 100 Cities in 100 Days » to defend 5 principles of digital policy:<blockquote><ul><li>Equal and universal access to Internet and computer literacy Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019)</li><li>Privacy, data protection and security</li><li>Transparency, accountability and non-discrimination in data, content and algorithms</li><li>Participatory democracy, diversity, and inclusion</li><li>Open and ethical digital service standards</li></ul></blockquote>The cities of the Coalition are developing common roadmaps, laws, tools, actions and resources to protect the digital rights of residents and visitors.Alain Ambrosi and Frédéric SultanFor a more exhaustive assessment see the sector-by-sector assessment on the <a href="https://barcelonaencomu.cat/es">Barcelona Joint Site (in Spanish)</a> protect the digital rights of residents and visitors. Alain Ambrosi and Frédéric Sultan For a more exhaustive assessment see the sector-by-sector assessment on the <a href="https://barcelonaencomu.cat/es">Barcelona Joint Site (in Spanish)</a> )
Chargement/Site + (<img decoding="async" loading= … <img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4963" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/pla_barcelona_digital_city_in-2.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="300"> Aux dernières élections de mai, Barcelone en Commun a fait alliance avec le Parti socialiste Catalan pour former un nouveau gouvernement municipal avec un programme commun et Ada Colau a été réélue pour un autre mandat de 4 ans. Le premier mandat 2015-2019 s’est effectué avec un gouvernement minoritaire et dans un contexte régional et national politiquement et idéologiquement peu propice au développement d’un « nouveau municipalisme des communs » et d’« une autre manière de faire de la politique» dont se réclamait Barcelona en Comù. L’heure est au bilan et, bien sûr, beaucoup auront à dire sur les réalisations effectuées en les comparant au programme initial. Mais quand on voit d’une part les réalisations concrètes qui dépassent souvent ou questionnent les compétences d’une municipalité (logement, mobilité, revenu civique, santé, immigration, tourisme, féminisation de la politique, souveraineté énergétique et technologique, etc.) et d’autre part ce qui a été mis en place pour transformer la relation entre l’institution, les mouvements sociaux et les assemblées de quartiers dans la transparence et la recherche de co-production de politiques, on peut affirmer que le bilan est globalement positif.Le mouvement des communs et les tenants d’un nouveau municipalisme ne peuvent que se féliciter que, grâce à une coalition de mouvements sociaux qui a eu le courage (et il en faut) d’investir une institution aux pratiques imprégnées de néo- libéralisme et dans une logique de partis souvent éloignée des besoins et réalités des résidents, Barcelone demeure un des laboratoires des communs urbains les plus dynamiques et un modèle auquel se référer.Le <a href="https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/sites/default/files/pla_barcelona_digital_city_in.pdf">bilan du plan numérique</a> mis en place au cours du premier mandat que l’on propose ici est caractéristique des réalisations, du cheminement critique et de la créativité de ce laboratoire.Voici comment la ville y résume les principes de son action :<blockquote><ul><li>S’imposer comme une référence mondiale en tant que ville des communs et de la production collaborative.</li><li>Mettre fin à la privatisation et au transfert des actifs publics au secteur privé, tout en encourageant la re-municipalisation des infrastructures urbaines critiques.</li><li>Réduire massivement le coût des services de base tels que le logement, les transports, l’éducation et la santé, afin d’aider les couches les plus précaires de la population.</li><li>Instituer un revenu de base des citoyens axé sur la lutte contre la pauvreté et l’exclusion sociale</li><li>Construire des modèles de l’économie guidés par les données, avec des intrants réels (en utilisant des analyses de données en temps réel) afin que la démocratie participative puisse modéliser des décisions complexes.</li><li>Préférer et promouvoir les organisations collaboratives plutôt que les solutions centralisées de l’État et du marché (augmenter la proportion des investissements du budget public dans les PME innovantes et le secteur coopératif).</li><li>Construire le patrimoine commun de données de la ville : décréter que les données de la population générées dans le cadre de l’utilisation des services publics ne peuvent être la propriété des opérateurs de services.</li></ul></blockquote>Ces principes s’incarnent dans un programme d’actions dont ce document détaille les effets. À coté des emblématiques 13 000 propositions politiques qui émanent des habitants, dont 9,245 (72%) ont été acceptées, on relève par exemple les 126 cas de corruption dénoncés à travers la boite courriel de la transparence (Transparency mailbox) depuis 2017 ou la prise en compte de la différence des genres dans le programme STEAM d’éducation et de formation technologique .Enfin, Barcelone, ici comme dans d’autres domaines, s’appuie et renforce les réseaux de villes. Elle a initié – avec New-York et Amsterdam – la Coalition des villes pour les droits numériques et lancé la campagne « 100 villes en 100 jours »pour défendre 5 principes de politique numérique :<blockquote><ul><li>l’accès égal et universel à l’Internet et à la culture numérique</li><li>la protection de la vie privée et la sécurité des données</li><li>la transparence, la responsabilité et la non-discrimination dans l’usage les données, les contenus et les algorithmes</li><li>la démocratie participative, la diversité et l’inclusion</li><li>l’ouverture des services numériques et des normes éthiques</li></ul></blockquote>Les villes de la Coalition développent des feuilles de route, lois, outils, actions et ressources communes pour protéger les droits numériques des résidents et des visiteurs.Alain Ambrosi et Frédéric SultanPour un bilan plus exhaustif voir le bilan secteur par secteur sur le <a href="https://barcelonaencomu.cat/es">site de Barcelone en Commun (en espagnol)</a> ou bien l’actualité sur le <a href="https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/en/">site de la mairie de Barcelone (en anglais) </a>.<a href="https://barcelonaencomu.cat/es">site de Barcelone en Commun (en espagnol)</a> ou bien l’actualité sur le <a href="https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/en/">site de la mairie de Barcelone (en anglais) </a>.)
Chargement/Site + (The world needs ideas for a better and sustainable future, but the ideas are not enough. The Futureperfect platform is a virtual encyclopedia of people taking initiatives, organizations and businesses who move from thinking to action. Sharing these stories aims to inform about alternative lifestyles and to encourage civic engagement.The French partners of Futureperfect, the German team of FUTURZWEI, activists and all interested public will meet to discuss the role of media in the developpement of social economy practices and sustainable lifestyles.<div class="row"><div class="span12 nurText"><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/futureperfect_visuel_web-debzt-8-octobre-2015.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-4335 size-full" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/futureperfect_visuel_web-debzt-8-octobre-2015.jpg" alt="futureperfect_visuel_web debzt 8 octobre 2015" width="337" height="803" /></a>Debate part of la Semaine des cultures étrangères held by the FICEP and in cooperation with the<a href="http://tempsdescommuns.org"> Festival Temps des communs</a>.<ul><li>Barnabé Binctin, Journaliste Reporterre</li><li>Peter Unfried, Journaliste TAZ</li><li>Benoit Cassegrain and Hélène Legay, SideWays</li><li>Mathias Lahiani, On passe à l’acte</li></ul>Moderated by Luise Tremel, FUTURZWEI and Frédéric Sultan, Remix the commons </div><div class="span12 nurText"> Goethe-Institut Paris</div><aside class="span6 artikelspalte nurText"><div class="teaserBox">17 avenue d’Iéna 75116 Paris</div>Langage : En français et en allemand Free entry, registration : 33 1 44439230 </aside></div>ong>, Journaliste Reporterre</li> <li>Peter Unfried, Journaliste TAZ</li> <li>Benoit Cassegrain and Hélène Legay, SideWays</li> <li>Mathias Lahiani, On passe à l’acte</li> </ul> Moderated by Luise Tremel, FUTURZWEI and Frédéric Sultan, Remix the commons </div> <div class="span12 nurText"> Goethe-Institut Paris</div> <aside class="span6 artikelspalte nurText"> <div class="teaserBox"> 17 avenue d’Iéna 75116 Paris </div> Langage : En français et en allemand Free entry, registration : 33 1 44439230 </aside> </div>)
Chargement/Site + (Glossary of the com … Glossary of the commonsThe aim is to have a definition exercice, in French, of the vocabulary used in our community. The Glossary will be multi-dimensional using multimedia tools and different level of meanings. We intend also to work as well with non french speaking people to set up the list of terms. It will use Charlotte Hess mapping approach to classify terms into different fields.See more information in the<a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/2013/08/un-chantier-po…-biens-communs/"> french version</a> of this post.mmons.org/2013/08/un-chantier-po…-biens-communs/"> french version</a> of this post.)
Chargement/Site + (How to equip the in … How to equip the inhabitants with tools and methods that allow them to claim the consideration of a joint management of the social, cultural and economic resources of urban life? We believe that knowledge and mastery of legal mechanisms that allow urban commons to prosper, is an essential part of the answer to this question.Atlas of the Charters of the Urban Commons is to provide socio-technical device to appropriate these tools, by articulating three actions:<ol><li>achieve and maintain an open and interactive inventory of legal mechanisms dedicated to the implementation of urban commons.</li><li>provide a collective space for analysis and interpretation of the governance mechanisms of the urban commons that will produce a new shared knowledge among commoners in a cross-cultural perspective.</li><li>provide a space for exchange and mutual aid around the development of charters and legal instruments for the regeneration or creation of urban commons.</li></ol>Analysis of the Bologna regulation :<iframe style="width: 900px; height: 500px; border: 1px solid black;" src="https://framindmap.org/c/maps/198701/embed?zoom=1"> </iframe>To contribute to this work, please use <a href="https://framindmap.org/c/maps/198701/edit">framindmap.org</a> (You need to be identified)<a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Atlas_des_chartes_des_communs_urbains">More information</a> p.org</a> (You need to be identified) <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Atlas_des_chartes_des_communs_urbains">More information</a> )
Chargement/Site + (Le 21 mars de 17:00 … Le 21 mars de 17:00 à 20:00, Venez, REMIXER LES BIENS COMMUNS, à la Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer, (38 rue Saint-Sabin – Paris). Le 21 mars, profitant d’une session de travail du réseau en France, nous vous proposons un moment de dialogue convivial et de partage des initiatives culturelles et médiatiques sur les biens communs avec <a href="http://www.communautique.qc.ca/">Communautique</a>, Le <a href="http://www.forumalternatives.org/">Forum Marocain des Alternatives Solidaires</a>, <a href="http://www.ker-thiossane.org/">Ker Thiossane,</a> le <a href="http://www.lartes-ifan.gouv.sn/">LARTES</a> et <a href="http://vecam.org">VECAM</a>,.Nous vous invitons à partager vos initiatives au même titre que celles du réseau Remix the Commons : la mosaïque et les chapitres de la collection multimédia, et de ses membres : les Petits déjeuners en-communs, À l’école des communs à Montréal, la Réparation Communautaire pour la transition dans la justice au Maroc, Afropixel, festival d’arts numériques sur les biens communs, les Chartes de gouvernance démocratique au Sénégal…Nous vous proposerons également de participer à la préparation d’une démarche de curation des médias sur les thèmes de la conférence : <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conference">ECONOMICS AND THE COMMON(S): FROM SEED FORM TO CORE PARADIGM</a>, qui se déroule à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai.Enfin, de 19:00 à 20:00, nous vous proposerons de profiter de la présence de membres du réseau francophone des biens communs venus de Montréal, Dakar et Rabat pour faire un tour d’horizon des initiatives en cours et un point sur le fonctionnement collectif.Merci de confirmer votre participation en vous inscrivant sur le <a href="http://framadate.org/4jhn4ulkq7okavf9 ">sondage Framadate</a>. Merci de confirmer votre participation en vous inscrivant sur le <a href="http://framadate.org/4jhn4ulkq7okavf9 ">sondage Framadate</a>.)
Chargement/Site + (A great new documentary that is c … A great new documentary that is currently in production, documenting the water struggles around Greece. The working title of the new documentary is « Wa(te)rdrops », and it aims to present, through in-depth research and fieldwork, struggles concerning water around Greece, including the struggle against the privatization of Thessaloniki’s water company (EYATH), against the gold mines in Chalkidiki and against local water reserve appropriation efforts in Volos and Crete.First few trailers in the documentary’s <a href="http://www.stagonesdoc.gr/en">web page</a>. Make sure you activate the subtitles (English or Spanish) on the top right corner of the player.It is being filmed by a group of militant filmmakers coordinated by researcher Nelly Psarou. The same people did « Golfland? » a few years ago, a doc about the disastrous effect of golf course development on the environment and local communities. You can watch « Golfland? » online <a href="http://www.golfland.gr/en/golfland_movie.php">here</a> (Soon in the Remix Catalogue). It is a_proudly independent production_ relying on crowdfunding for its completion, and the outcome will be freely accessible under a creative commons license. « Donate » button on the bottom of the documentary’s webpage.reative commons license. « Donate » button on the bottom of the documentary’s webpage.)
Chargement/Site + (After the festival « Temps des co … After the festival « Temps des communes », (October 2015), a small group has decided to produce an exhibition on the commons. The idea was to do a light, self editable and easy to use collection of posters. It is dedicated to places that welcome an audience that is not particularly sensitive to the commons. We were thinking for example of community centers, libraries or schools. After a few exchanges, notably around the game <a href="http://commonspoly.cc/">Commonspoly</a>, which had been prototyped by <a href="http://www.zemos98.org/">ZEMOS98</a> a few months before during a European meeting, we produced an exhibition of 12 posters that explain and illustrate the commons.<figure style="width: 1240px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/images/ExpoLesCommunsV0_panneau01.png" width="1240" height="1753" alt=" Expo Les communs page1 CC-BY-SA." class="size-medium" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"> Expo Les communs page1 CC-BY-SA.</figcaption></figure>The exhibition proposes to discover the common through their definition and concrete illustration. The panels make us walk through different facets of the commons: the fragility of natural commons, the relationship between use and ownership, the role of hackers in the renewal of commons, the place of knowledge, and the reconquest of political space by commoners. Finally, it also proposes resources based on other cultural initiatives: Communauthèque, a best of bibliography of the 50 books on the commons, the game C@rds in common or Remix the commons of course!This exhibition is a collective work leaded by Thierry Pasquier, and edited by Rosie Howe, with the support of Espace Mendès France at Poitiers, a center for scientific, technical and industrial culture in New Aquitaine, Vecam, and Remix the commons. The publication under the license « Attribution – Sharing under the same conditions 3.0 France (CC BY-SA 3.0 FR) » allows free imagination for the diffusion and adaptation of the exhibition to each context … and languages. The next step will be to set up a dedicated website that will allow each to publish according to his/her needs. We will give you news of this project in the coming months!The PDF light version of the exhibition is available on the <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Exposition_Les_communs">wiki Remix the commons</a>. In the next few weeks we will install a wiki with the content, including Pdf in high definition, texts images that can modified, as well as all associated media and InDesign sources. Do not hesitate to ask us for any specific request or offer your help.Thierry Pasquier et Frédéric Sultanedia and InDesign sources. Do not hesitate to ask us for any specific request or offer your help. Thierry Pasquier et Frédéric Sultan)
Chargement/Site + (Après le festival Temps des commu … Après le festival Temps des communs, (octobre 2015), un petit groupe s’était retrouvé sur l’idée de produire une exposition sur les communs, légère, éditable à la demande et utilisable dans des lieux qui accueillent un public qui n’est pas spécialement sensible à ce sujet. Nous pensions alors aux centres sociaux, aux bibliothèques ou aux établissements scolaires par exemple. Après quelques échanges, notamment autour du jeu <a href="http://commonspoly.cc/">Commonspoly</a> qui avait été prototypé par <a href="http://www.zemos98.org/">ZEMOS98</a> quelques mois avant lors d’une rencontre européenne, nous avons produit 12 panneaux d’exposition qui expliquent et illustrent les communs.<figure style="width: 1240px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium" src="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/images/ExpoLesCommunsV0_panneau01.png" alt="Expo Les communs" width="1240" height="1753" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Expo Les communs – CC-BY-SA.</figcaption></figure>L’exposition propose de découvrir les communs à travers des éléments de définition et leur illustration concrète. Les panneaux font cheminer à travers différentes facettes des communs : la fragilité des communs naturels, la relation entre usage et propriété, le rôle des hackers dans le renouvellement des communs, la place de la connaissance, et la reconquête de l’espace politique par les commoners. Enfin, elle propose aussi des ressources en s’appuyant sur d’autres initiatives culturelles autour des communs : Communauthèque et sa bibliographie, le jeu C@rtes en commun ou encore Remix the commons of course !L’exposition est un travail collectif autour de Thierry Pasquier, mis en forme graphique par Rosie Howe, avec le soutien de l’Espace Mendès France — Poitiers, centre de culture scientifique, technique et industrielle en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, de l’association Vecam, et de Remix the commons. La publication sous la licence « Attribution – Partage dans les Mêmes Conditions 3.0 France (CC BY-SA 3.0 FR) » permet de laisser libre court à son imagination pour la diffusion et d’adaptation de l’exposition à chaque contexte. La prochaine étape consistera à mettre en place un site Web dédié qui permettra à chacun de publier selon ses besoins. Nous vous donnerons donc des nouvelles de ce projet dans les mois qui viennent !Une version PDF légère de l’exposition est disponible sur le <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Exposition_Les_communs">wiki Remix the commons</a>. Dans les semaines qui viennent, nous allons mettre en place un site web pour recevoir des PDF en haute définition pour l’impression en différents formats, les textes afin de permettre leur modification, correction, amendement, etc, ainsi que l’ensemble des médias associés et les sources InDesign. Le temps de mettre tout ça en place. N’hésitez pas à nous solliciter pour toute demande spécifique ou bien proposer de l’aide.Thierry Pasquier et Frédéric SultanThierry Pasquier et Frédéric Sultan)
Chargement/Site + (Après le festival Temps des commu … Après le festival Temps des communs, (octobre 2015), un petit groupe s’était retrouvé sur l’idée de produire une exposition sur les communs, légère, éditable à la demande et utilisable dans des lieux qui accueillent un public qui n’est pas spécialement sensible à ce sujet. Nous pensions alors aux centres sociaux, aux bibliothèques ou aux établissements scolaires par exemple. Après quelques échanges, notamment autour du jeu <a href="http://commonspoly.cc/">Commonspoly</a> qui avait été prototypé par <a href="http://www.zemos98.org/">ZEMOS98</a> quelques mois avant lors d’une rencontre européenne, nous avons produit 12 panneaux d’exposition qui expliquent et illustrent les communs.<figure style="width: 1240px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium" src="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/images/ExpoLesCommunsV0_panneau01.png" alt="Expo Les communs" width="1240" height="1753" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Expo Les communs – CC-BY-SA.</figcaption></figure>L’exposition propose de découvrir les communs à travers des éléments de définition et leur illustration concrète. Les panneaux font cheminer à travers différentes facettes des communs : la fragilité des communs naturels, la relation entre usage et propriété, le rôle des hackers dans le renouvellement des communs, la place de la connaissance, et la reconquête de l’espace politique par les commoners. Enfin, elle propose aussi des ressources en s’appuyant sur d’autres initiatives culturelles autour des communs : Communauthèque et sa bibliographie, le jeu C@rtes en commun ou encore Remix the commons of course !L’exposition est un travail collectif autour de Thierry Pasquier, mis en forme graphique par Rosie Howe, avec le soutien de l’Espace Mendès France — Poitiers, centre de culture scientifique, technique et industrielle en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, de l’association Vecam, et de Remix the commons. La publication sous la licence « Attribution – Partage dans les Mêmes Conditions 3.0 France (CC BY-SA 3.0 FR) » permet de laisser libre court à son imagination pour la diffusion et d’adaptation de l’exposition à chaque contexte. La prochaine étape consistera à mettre en place un site Web dédié qui permettra à chacun de publier selon ses besoins. Nous vous donnerons donc des nouvelles de ce projet dans les mois qui viennent !Une version PDF légère de l’exposition est disponible sur le <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Exposition_Les_communs">wiki Remix the commons</a>. Dans les semaines qui viennent, nous allons mettre en place un site web pour recevoir des PDF en haute définition pour l’impression en différents formats, les textes afin de permettre leur modification, correction, amendement, etc, ainsi que l’ensemble des médias associés et les sources InDesign. Le temps de mettre tout ça en place. N’hésitez pas à nous solliciter pour toute demande spécifique ou bien proposer de l’aide.Thierry Pasquier et Frédéric SultanThierry Pasquier et Frédéric Sultan)
Chargement/Site + (As we are preparing a public meet … As we are preparing a public meeting on the 16th. of September in Paris, with Michel Bauwens and Bernard Stiegler, on issues of free knowledge as commons and ecological, social and economic transition, we present here the translation into French of the interview conducted by Richard Poynder, with Michel Bauwens about FLOK Society project. This interview was published when the summit FLOK society was started in Quito in May 2014. It was published under the original title: <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/working-for-phase -transition-to-open.html "> Working for a phase of transition to an open commons-based knowledge society: Interview with Michel Bauwens. Michel Bauwens FLOK Society presents the project and the expected outcomes in Ecuador and more generally for the P2P movement, without concealing the difficulties he and his research team met.</a>Richard Poynder is a well knowed independent journalist and blogger, following the Open Access movement for a long time ago, specialised in scientific communication and open science, information technology and intellectual property. His <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk">Blog </a> is a mine of gold for every body who is interested in these issues.The interview is under Licence : CC BY NC ND. The translation has been made by Frédéric Sultan.Tuesday, May 27, 2014<figure style="width: 400px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="http://i.vimeocdn.com/video/177863970_640.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="225" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Michel Bauwens – Berlin 2012 Remix The Commons</figcaption></figure><div>Today a <a href="http://cumbredelbuenconocer.ec/">summit</a> starts in Quito, Ecuador that will discuss ways in which the country can transform itself into an open commons-based knowledge society. The team that put together the proposals is led by Michel Bauwens from the <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/">Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives</a>. What is the background to this plan, and how likely is it that it will bear fruit? With the hope of finding out I spoke recently to Bauwens.</div><div>One interesting phenomenon to emerge from the Internet has been the growth of free and open movements, including free and open source software, open politics, open government, open data, citizen journalism, creative commons, open science, open educational resources (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources">OER</a>), open access etc.</div><div>While these movements often set themselves fairly limited objectives (e.g. “<a href="http://cogprints.org/1702/">freeing the refereed literature</a>”) some network theorists maintain that the larger phenomenon they represent has the potential not just to replace traditional closed and proprietary practices with more open and transparent approaches, and not just to subordinate narrow commercial interests to the greater needs of communities and larger society but, since the network enables ordinary citizens to collaborate together on large meaningful projects in a distributed way (and absent traditional hierarchical organisations), it could have a significant impact on the way in which societies and economies organise themselves.</div><div>In his influential book <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Networks">The Wealth of Networks</a>, for instance, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochai_Benkler">Yochai Benkler</a> identifies and describes a new form of production that he sees emerging on the Internet — what he calls “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production">commons-based peer production</a>”. This, he says, is creating a new <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/macloo/networked-information-economy-benkler">Networked Information Economy</a>.</div><div>Former librarian and Belgian network theorist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Bauwens">Michel Bauwens</a> goes so far as to say that by enabling peer-to-peer (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_peer-to-peer_processes">P2P</a>) collaboration, the Internet has created a new model for the future development of human society. In addition to peer production, he <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/p2p-blueprint-for-future.html">explained to me in 2006</a>, the network also encourages the creation of peer property (i.e. commonly owned property), and peer governance (governance based on civil society rather than representative democracy).</div><div>Moreover, what is striking about peer production is that it emerges and operates outside traditional power structures and market systems. And when those operating in this domain seek funding they increasingly turn not to the established banking system, but to new P2P practices like crowdfunding and social lending.</div><div>When in 2006 I asked Bauwens what the new world he envisages would look like in practice he replied, “I see a P2P civilisation that would have to be post-capitalist, in the sense that human survival cannot co-exist with a system that destroys the biosphere; but it will nevertheless have a thriving marketplace. At the core of such a society — where immaterial production is the primary form — would be the production of value through non-reciprocal peer production, most likely supported through a basic income.”</div><h2>Unrealistic and utopian?</h2><div> So convinced was he of the potential of P2P that in 2005 Bauwens created the <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/">Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives</a>. The goal: to “research, document and promote peer-to-peer principles”</div><div>Critics dismiss Bauwens’ ideas as unrealistic and utopian, and indeed in the eight years since I first spoke with him much has happened that might seem to support the sceptics. Rather than being discredited by the 2008 financial crisis, for instance, traditional markets and neoliberalism have tightened their grip on societies, in all parts of the world.</div><div>At the same time, the democratic potential and openness Bauwens sees as characteristic of the network is being eroded in a number of ways. While social networking platforms like Facebook enable the kind of sharing and collaboration Bauwens sees lying at the heart of a P2P society, for instance, there is a growing sense that these services are in fact exploitative, not least because the significant value created by the users of these services is being monetised not for the benefit of the users themselves, but for the exclusive benefit of the large corporations that own them.</div><div>We have also seen a huge growth in proprietary mobile devices, along with the flood of apps needed to run on them — a development that caused Wired’s former editor-in-chief <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Anderson_%28writer%29">Chris Anderson</a> to <a href="http://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff_webrip">conclude</a> that we are witnessing a dramatic move “from the wide-open Web to semi closed platforms”. And this new paradigm, he added, simply “reflects the inevitable course of capitalism”.</div><div>In other words, rather than challenging or side-lining the traditional market and neoliberalism, the network seems destined to be appropriated by it — a likelihood that for many was underlined by the recent <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-net-neutrality-20140114-story.html#page=1">striking down</a> of the US net neutrality regulations.</div><div>It would also appear that some of the open movements are gradually being appropriated and/or subverted by commercial interests (e.g. the <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/the-state-of-open-access.html">open access</a> and open educational resources movements).</div><div>While conceding that a capitalist version of P2P has begun to emerge, Bauwens argues that this simply makes it all the more important to support and promote social forms of P2P. And here, he suggests, the signs are positive, with the number of free and open movements continuing to grow and the P2P model bleeding out of the world of “immaterial production” to encompass material production too — e.g. with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_design">open design</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_hardware">open hardware</a> movements, a development encouraged by the growing use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3d_printing">3D printers</a>.</div><div>Bauwens also points to a growth in mutualisation, and the emergence of new practices based around the sharing of physical resources and equipment.</div><div>Interestingly, these latter developments are often less visible than one might expect because much of what is happening in this area appears to be taking place outside the view of mainstream media in the global north.</div><div>Finally, says Bauwens, the P2P movement, or commoning (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bollier">as some prefer to call it</a>), is becoming increasingly politicised. Amongst other things, this has seen the rise of new political parties like the various <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party">Pirate Parties</a>.</div><div>Above all, Bauwens believes that the long-term success of P2P is assured because its philosophy and practices are far more sustainable than the current market-based system. “Today, we consider nature infinite and we believe that infinite resources should be made scarce in order to protect monopolistic players,” he says below. “Tomorrow, we need to consider nature as a finite resource, and we should respect the abundance of nature and the human spirit.”</div><h2>Periphery to mainstream</h2><div>And as the need for sustainability becomes ever more apparent, more people will doubtless want to listen to what Bauwens has to say. Indeed, what better sign that P2P could be about to move from the periphery to the mainstream than an invitation Bauwens received last year from three Ecuadorian governmental institutions, who asked him to lead a team tasked with coming up with proposals for transitioning the country to a society based on free and open knowledge.</div><div>The organisation overseeing the project is the FLOK Society (free, libre, open knowledge). As “commoner” <a href="http://bollier.org/about">David Bollier</a> <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/bauwens-joins-ecuador-planning-commons-based-peer-production-economy">explained</a> when the project was announced, Bauwens’ team was asked to look at many interrelated themes, “including open education; open innovation and science; ‘arts and meaning-making activities’; open design commons; distributed manufacturing; and sustainable agriculture; and open machining.”</div><div>Bollier added, “The research will also explore enabling legal and institutional frameworks to support open productive capacities; new sorts of open technical infrastructures and systems for privacy, security, data ownership and digital rights; and ways to mutualise the physical infrastructures of collective life and promote collaborative consumption.”</div><div>In other words, said Bollier, Ecuador “does not simply assume — as the ‘developed world’ does — that more iPhones and microwave ovens will bring about prosperity, modernity and happiness.”</div><div>Rather it is looking for sustainable solutions that foster “social and territorial equality, cohesion, and integration with diversity.”</div><div>The upshot: In April Bauwens’ team published a series of <a href="http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Pl">proposals</a> intended to transition Ecuador to what he calls a sustainable civic P2P economy. And these proposals will be discussed at a summit to be held this week in the capital of Ecuador (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quito">Quito</a>).</div><div>“As you can see from our proposals, we aim for a simultaneous transformation of civil society, the market and public authorities,” says Bauwens. “And we do this without inventing or imposing utopias, but by extending the working prototypes from the commoners and peer producers themselves.”</div><div>But Bauwens knows that Rome wasn’t built in a day, and he realises that he has taken on a huge task, one fraught with difficulties. Even the process of putting the proposals together has presented him and his team with considerable challenges. Shortly after they arrived in Ecuador, for instance, they were told that the project had been defunded (funding that was fortunately later reinstated). And for the moment it remains unclear whether many (or any) of the FLOK proposals will ever see the light of day.</div><div>Bauwens is nevertheless upbeat. Whatever the outcome in Ecuador, he says, an important first stab has been made at creating a template for transitioning a nation state from today’s broken model to a post-capitalist social knowledge society.</div><div>“What we have now that we didn’t have before, regardless of implementation in Ecuador, is the first global commons-oriented transition plan, and several concrete legislative proposals,” he says. “They are far from perfect, but they will be a reference that other locales, cities, (bio)regions and states will be able to make their own adapted versions of it.”</div><div>In the Q&A below Bauwens discusses the project in more detail, including the background to it, and the challenges that he and the FLOK Society have faced.</div><h2>The interview begins</h2><div>RP: We last spoke in 2006 when you discussed your ideas on a P2P (peer-to-peer) society (which I think <a href="http://www.bollier.org/">David Bollier</a> refers to as “commoning”). Briefly, what has been learned since then about the opportunities and challenges of trying to create a P2P society, and how have your thoughts on P2P changed/developed as a result?</div><div>MB: At the time, P2P dynamics were mostly visible in the process of “immaterial production”, i.e. productive communities that created commons of knowledge and code. The trend has since embraced material production itself, through <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_design">open design</a> that is linked to the production of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_hardware">open hardware</a> machinery.</div><div>Another trend is the mutualisation of physical resources. We’ve seen on the one hand an explosion in the mutualisation of open workspaces (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace">hackerspaces</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab">fab labs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coworking">co-working</a>) and the explosion of the so-called sharing economy and collaborative consumption.</div><div>This is of course linked to the emergence of distributed practices and technologies for finance (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdfunding">crowd funding</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_lending">social lending</a>); and for machinery itself (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3d_printing">3D printing</a> and other forms of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_manufacturing">distributed manufacturing</a>). Hence the emergence and growth of P2P dynamics is now clearly linked to the “distribution of everything”.</div><div>There is today no place we go where social P2P initiatives are not developing and not exponentially growing. P2P is now a social fact.</div><div>Since the crisis of 2008, we are also seeing much more clearly the political and economic dimension of P2P. There is now both a clearly capitalist P2P sector (renting and working for free is now called sharing, which is putting downward pressure on income levels) and a clearly social one. First of all, the generalised crisis of our economic system has pushed more people to search for such practical alternatives. Second, most P2P dynamics are clearly controlled by economic forces, i.e. the new “netarchical” (hierarchy of the network) platforms.</div><div>Finally, we see the increasing politicisation of P2P, with the emergence of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party">Pirate Parties</a>, network parties (Partido X in Spain) etc.</div><div>We have now to decide more clearly than before whether we want more autonomous peer production, i.e. making sure that the domination of the free social logic of permissionless aggregation is directly linked to the capacity to generate self-managed livelihoods, or, if we are happy with a system in which this value creation is controlled and exploited by platform owners and other intermediaries.</div><div>The result of all of this is that my own thoughts are now more directly political. We have developed concrete proposals and strategies to create P2P-based counter-economies that are de-linked from the accumulation of capital, but focused on cooperative accumulation and the autonomy of commons production.</div><div>RP: Indeed and last year you were <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/bauwens-joins-ecuador-planning-commons-based-peer-production-economy">asked to lead a team</a> to come up with proposals to “remake the roots of Ecuador’s economy, setting off a transition into a society of free and open knowledge”. As I understand it, this would be based on the principles of open networks, peer production and commoning. Can you say something about the project and what you hope it will lead to? Has the Ecuadoran government itself commissioned you, or a government or non-government agency in Ecuador? </div><div>MB: The project, called <a href="http://floksociety.org/">FLOKSociety.org</a>, was commissioned by three Ecuadorian governmental institutions, i.e. the <a href="http://www.conocimiento.gob.ec/">Coordinating Ministry of Knowledge and Human Talent</a>, the <a href="http://www.senescyt.gob.ec/web/guest">SENESCYT</a> (Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación) and the <a href="http://iaen.edu.ec/">IAEN</a> (Instituto de Altos Estudios del Estado).</div><div>The legitimacy and logic of the project comes from the <a href="http://www.unosd.org/content/documents/96National%20Plan%20for%20Good%20Living%20Ecuador.pdf">National Plan of Ecuador</a>, which is centred around the concept of Good Living (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/buen-vivir-philosophy-south-america-eduardo-gudynas">Buen Vivir</a>), which is a non-reductionist, non-exclusive material way to look at the economy and social life, inspired by the traditional values of the indigenous people of the Andes. The aim of FLOK is to add “Good Knowledge” as an enabler and facilitator of the good life.</div><div>The important point to make is that it is impossible for countries and people that are still in neo-colonial dependencies to evolve to more fair societies without access to shareable knowledge. And this knowledge, expressed in diverse commons that correspond to the different domains of social life (education, science, agriculture, industry), cannot itself thrive without also looking at both the material and immaterial conditions that will enable their creation and expansion.</div><h2>FLOK summit</h2><div>RP: To this end you have put together a transition plan. This includes <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/ecuador%E2%80%99s-pathbreaking-plan-commons-based-peer-production-update">a series of proposals</a> (available <a href="https://floksociety.co-ment.com/text/">here</a>), and a main report (<a href="http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan">here</a>). I assume your plan might or might not be taken up by Ecuador. What is the procedure for taking it forward, and how optimistic are you that Ecuador will embark on the transition you envisage?</div><div>MB: The transition plan provides a framework for moving from an economy founded on what we call “cognitive” and “netarchical” capitalism (based respectively on the exploitation through IP rents or social media platforms) to a “mature P2P-based civic economy”.</div><div>The logic here is that the dominant economic forms today are characterised by a value crisis, one in which value is extracted but it doesn’t flow back to the creators of the value. The idea is to transition to an economy in which this value feedback loop is restored.</div><div>So about fifteen of our policy proposals apply this general idea to specific domains, and suggest how open knowledge commons can be created and expanded in these particular areas.</div><div>We published these proposals on April 1st in <a href="http://www.co-ment.com/">co-ment</a>, an open source software that allows people to comment on specific concepts, phrases or paragraphs.</div><div>This week (May 27th to 30th) the crucial <a href="http://cumbredelbuenconocer.ec/">FLOK summit</a> is taking place to discuss the proposals. This will bring together government institutions, social movement advocates, and experts, from both Ecuador and abroad.</div><div>The idea is to devote three days to reaching a consensus amongst these different groups, and then try and get agreement with the governmental institutions able to carry out the proposals.</div><div>So there will be two filters: the summit itself, and then the subsequent follow-up, which will clearly face opposition from different interests.</div><div>This is not an easy project, since it is not possible to achieve all this by decree.</div><div>RP: Earlier this year you made a series of <a href="http://bollier.org/blog/flok-society-vision-post-capitalist-economy">videos</a> discussing the issues arising from what you are trying to do — which is essentially to create “a post-capitalist social knowledge society”, or “open commons-based knowledge society”. In one video you discuss three different value regimes, and I note you referred to these in your last answer — i.e. cognitive capitalism, netarchical capitalism and a civic P2P economy. Can you say a little more about how these three different regimes differ and why in your view P2P is a better approach than the other two?</div><div>MB: I define cognitive capitalism as a regime in which value is generated through a combination of rent extraction from the control of intellectual property and the control of global production networks, and expressed in terms of monetisation.</div><div>What we have learned is that the democratisation of networks, which also provides a new means of production and value distribution, means that this type of value extraction is harder and harder to achieve, and it can only be maintained either by increased legal suppression (which erodes legitimacy) and outright technological sabotage (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management">DRM</a>). Both of these strategies are not sustainable in the long term.</div><div>What we have also learned is that the network has caused a new model to emerge, one adapted to the P2P age, and which I call netarchical capitalism, i.e. “the hierarchy of the network”. In this model, we see the direct exploitation of human cooperation by means of proprietary platforms that both enable and exploit human cooperation. Crucially, while their value is derived from our communication, sharing and cooperation (an empty platform has no value), and on the use value that we are exponentially creating (Google, Facebook don’t produce the content, we do), the exchange value is exclusively extracted by the platform owners. This is unsustainable because it is easy to see that a regime in which the creators of the value get no income at all from their creation is not workable in the long; and so it poses problems for capitalism. After all, who is going to buy goods if they have no income?</div><div>So the key issue is: how do we recreate the value loop between creation, distribution, and income? The answer for me is the creation of a mature P2P civic economy that combines open contributory communities, ethical entrepreneurial coalitions able to create livelihoods for the commoners, and for-benefit institutions that can “enable and empower the infrastructure of cooperation”.</div><div>Think of the core model of our economy as the Linux economy writ large, but one in which the enterprises are actually in the hands of the value creators themselves. Imagine this micro-economic model on the macro scale of a whole society. Civil society becomes a series of commonses with citizens as contributors; the shareholding market becomes an ethical stakeholder marketplace; and the state becomes a partner state, which “enables and empowers social production” through the commonication of public services and public-commons partnerships.</div><h2>Challenges and distrust</h2><div>RP: As you indicated earlier, it is not an easy project that you have embarked on in Ecuador, particularly as it is an attempt to intervene at the level of a nation state. Gordon Cook has <a href="http://www.cookreport.com/newsletter-sp-542240406/current-issues/287-cook-report-for-may-june-2014">said</a> of the project: “it barely got off the ground before it began to crash into some of the anticipated obstacles.” Can you say something about these obstacles and how you have been overcoming them?</div><div>MB: It is true that the project started with quite negative auspices. It became the victim of internal factional struggles within the government, for instance, and was even defunded for a time after we arrived; the institutions failed to pay our wages for nearly three months, which was a serious issue for the kind of precarious scholar-activists that make up the research team.</div><div>However, in March (when one of the sides in the dispute lost, i.e. the initial sponsor <a href="http://www.elciudadano.gob.ec/new-left-review-se-presento-en-ecuador/">Carlos Prieto</a>, rector of the IAEN), we got renewed commitment from the other two institutions. Since then political support has increased, and the summit is about to get underway.</div><div>As for Gordon, he became a victim of what we will politely call a series of misinterpreted engagements for the funding of his participation, and it is entirely understandable that he has become critical of the process.</div><div>The truth is that the project was hugely contradictory in many different ways, but this is the reality of the political world everywhere, not just in Ecuador.</div><div>Indeed, the Ecuadorian government is itself engaged in sometimes contradictory policies and is perceived by civil society to have abandoned many of the early ideas of the civic movement that brought it to power. So, in our attempts at broader participation we have been stifled by the distrust many civic activists have for the government, and the sincerity of our project has been doubted.</div><div>Additionally, social P2P dynamics, which of course exist as in many other countries, are not particularly developed in their modern, digitally empowered forms in Ecuador. It has also not helped that the management of the project has been such that the research team has not been able to directly connect with the political leaders in order to test their real engagement. This has been hugely frustrating.</div><div>On the positive side, we have been entirely free to conduct our research and formulate our proposals, and it is hard not to believe that the level of funding the project has received reflects a certain degree of commitment.</div><div>So the summit is back on track, and we have received renewed commitments. Clearly, however, the proof of the pudding will be in the summit and its aftermath.</div><div></div><div>Whatever the eventual outcome, it has always been my conviction that the formulation of the first ever integrated Commons Transition Plan (which your readers will find <a href="http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan">here</a>) legitimised by a nation-state, takes the P2P and commons movement to a higher geopolitical plane. As such, it can be seen as part of the global maturation of the P2P/commons approach, even if it turns out not to work entirely in Ecuador itself.</div><div>RP: I believe that one of the issues that has arisen in putting together the FLOK proposals is that Ecuadorians who live in rural areas are concerned that a system based on sharing could see their traditional knowledge appropriated by private interests. Can you say something about this fear and how you believe your plan can address such concerns?</div><div>MB: As you are aware, traditional communities have suffered from systematic <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/biopiracy">biopiracy</a> over the last few decades, with western scientists studying their botanical knowledge, extracting patentable scientific results from it, and then commercialising it in the West.</div><div>So fully shareable licenses like the GPL would keep the knowledge in a commons, but would still allow full commercialisation without material benefits flowing back to Ecuador. So what we are proposing is a discussion about a new type of licensing, which we call <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License">Commons-Based Reciprocity Licensing</a>. This idea was first pioneered with the Peer Production License as conceived by <a href="http://www.dmytri.info/">Dmytri Kleiner</a>.</div><div>Such licences would be designed for a particular usage, say biodiversity research in a series of traditional communities. It allows for free sharing non-commercially, commercial use by not-for-profit entities, and even caters for for-profit entities who contribute back. Importantly, it creates a frontier for for-profits who do not contribute back, and asks them to pay.</div><div>What is key here is not just the potential financial flow, but to introduce the principle of reciprocity in the marketplace, thereby creating an ethical economy. The idea is that traditional communities can create their own ethical vehicles, and create an economy from which they can also benefit, and under their control.</div><div>This concept is beginning to get attention from open machining communities. However, the debate in Ecuador is only starting. Paradoxically, traditional communities are today either looking for traditional IP protection, which doesn’t really work for them, or for no-sharing options.</div><div>So we really need to develop intermediary ethical solutions for them that can benefit them while also putting them in the driving seat.</div><h2>Fundamental reversal of our civilisation</h2><h2></h2><div>RP: In today’s global economy, where practically everyone and everything seems to be interconnected and subject to the rules of neoliberalism and the market, is it really possible for a country like Ecuador to go off in such a different direction on its own? </div><div>MB: A full transition is indeed probably a global affair, but the micro-transitions need to happen at the grassroots, and a progressive government would be able to create exemplary policies and projects that show the way.</div><div>Ecuador is in a precarious neo-colonial predicament and subject to the pressures of the global market and the internal social groups that are aligned with it. There are clear signs that since 2010 the Ecuadorian government has moved away from the original radical ideas expressed in the Constitution and the National Plan, as we hear from nearly every single civic movement that we’ve spoken with.</div><div>The move for a social knowledge economy is of strategic importance to de-colonialise Ecuador but this doesn’t mean it will actually happen. However, the progressive forces have not disappeared entirely from the government institutions.</div><div>As such, it is really difficult to predict how successful this project will be. But as I say, given the investment the government has made in the process we believe there will be some progress. My personal view is that the combination of our political and theoretical achievements, and the existence of the policy papers, means that even with moderate progress in the laws and on the ground, we can be happy that we will have made a difference.</div><div>So most likely the local situation will turn out to be a hybrid mix of acceptance and refusal of our proposals, and most certainly the situation is not mature enough to accept the underlying logic of our Commons Transition Plan in toto.</div><div>In other words, the publication and the dialogue about the plan itself, and some concrete actions, legislative frameworks, and pilot projects, are the best we can hope for. What this will do is give real legitimacy to our approach and move the commons transition to the geo-political stage. Can we hope for more?</div><div>Personally, I believe that even if only 20% of our proposals are retained for action, I think we can consider it a relative success. This is the very first time such an even partial transition will have happened at the scale of the nation and, as I see it, it gives legitimacy to a whole new set of ideas about societal transition. So I believe it is worthy of our engagement.</div><div>We have to accept that the realities of power politics are incompatible with the expectations of a clean process for such a fundamental policy change. But we hope that some essential proposals of the project will make a difference, both for the people of Ecuador and all those that are watching the project.</div><div>For the future though, I have to say I seriously question the idea of trying to “hack a society” which was the initial philosophy of the project and of the people who hired us. You can’t hack a society, since a society is not an executable program. Political change needs a social and political basis, and it was very weak from the start in this case.</div><div>This is why I believe that future projects should first focus on the lower levels of political organisation, such as cities and regions, where politics is closer to the needs of the population. History though, is always full of surprises, and bold gambles can yield results. So FLOK may yet surprise the sceptics.</div><div>RP: If Ecuador did adopt your plan (or a significant part of it), what in your view would be the implications, for Ecuador, for other countries, and for the various free and open movements? What would be the implications if none of it were adopted?</div><div>MB: As I say, at this stage I see only the possibility of a few legal advances and some pilot projects as the best case scenario. These, however, would be important seeds for Ecuador, and would give extra credibility to our effort.</div><div>I realise it may surprise you to hear me say it, but I don’t see this as crucial. I say this because, we already have thousands of projects in the world that are engaged in peer production and commons transitions, and this deep trend is not going to change. The efforts to change the social and economic logic will go on with or without Ecuador.</div><div>As I noted, what we have now that we didn’t have before, regardless of implementation in Ecuador, is the first global commons-oriented transition plan, and several concrete legislative proposals. They are far from perfect, but they will be a reference that other locales, cities, (bio)regions and states will be able to make their own adapted versions of it.</div><div>In the meantime, we have to continue the grassroots transformation and rebuild commons-oriented coalitions at every level, local, regional, national, global. This will take time, but since infinite growth is not possible in a finite economy, some type of transition is inevitable. Let’s just hope it will be for the benefit of the commoners and the majority of the world population.</div><div>Essentially, we need to build the seed forms of the new counter-economy, and the social movement that can defend, facilitate and expand it. Every political and policy expression of this is a bonus.</div><div>As for the endgame, you guessed correctly. What distinguishes the effort of the P2P Foundation, and many of the FLOK researchers, is that we’re not just in the business of adding some commons and P2P dynamics to the existing capitalist framework, but aiming at a profound “phase transition”.</div><div>To work for a sustainable society and economy is absolutely crucial for the future of humanity, and while we respect the freedoms of people to engage in market dynamics for the allocation of rival goods, we cannot afford a system of infinite growth and scarcity engineering, which is what capitalism is.</div><div>In other words, today, we consider nature infinite and we believe that infinite resources should be made scarce in order to protect monopolistic players; tomorrow, we need to consider nature as a finite resource, and we should respect the abundance of nature and the human spirit.</div><div>So our endgame is to achieve that fundamental reversal of our civilisation, nothing less. As you can see from our proposals, we aim for a simultaneous transformation of civil society, the market and public authorities. And we do this without inventing or imposing utopias, but by extending the working prototypes from the commoners and peer producers themselves.</div>RP: Thanks for speaking with me. Good luck with the summit.gt; <div>I realise it may surprise you to hear me say it, but I don’t see this as crucial. I say this because, we already have thousands of projects in the world that are engaged in peer production and commons transitions, and this deep trend is not going to change. The efforts to change the social and economic logic will go on with or without Ecuador.</div> <div>As I noted, what we have now that we didn’t have before, regardless of implementation in Ecuador, is the first global commons-oriented transition plan, and several concrete legislative proposals. They are far from perfect, but they will be a reference that other locales, cities, (bio)regions and states will be able to make their own adapted versions of it.</div> <div>In the meantime, we have to continue the grassroots transformation and rebuild commons-oriented coalitions at every level, local, regional, national, global. This will take time, but since infinite growth is not possible in a finite economy, some type of transition is inevitable. Let’s just hope it will be for the benefit of the commoners and the majority of the world population.</div> <div>Essentially, we need to build the seed forms of the new counter-economy, and the social movement that can defend, facilitate and expand it. Every political and policy expression of this is a bonus.</div> <div>As for the endgame, you guessed correctly. What distinguishes the effort of the P2P Foundation, and many of the FLOK researchers, is that we’re not just in the business of adding some commons and P2P dynamics to the existing capitalist framework, but aiming at a profound “phase transition”.</div> <div>To work for a sustainable society and economy is absolutely crucial for the future of humanity, and while we respect the freedoms of people to engage in market dynamics for the allocation of rival goods, we cannot afford a system of infinite growth and scarcity engineering, which is what capitalism is.</div> <div>In other words, today, we consider nature infinite and we believe that infinite resources should be made scarce in order to protect monopolistic players; tomorrow, we need to consider nature as a finite resource, and we should respect the abundance of nature and the human spirit.</div> <div>So our endgame is to achieve that fundamental reversal of our civilisation, nothing less. As you can see from our proposals, we aim for a simultaneous transformation of civil society, the market and public authorities. And we do this without inventing or imposing utopias, but by extending the working prototypes from the commoners and peer producers themselves.</div> RP: Thanks for speaking with me. Good luck with the summit.)
Chargement/Site + (Because the practices of commonin … Because the practices of commoning fly in the face of market culture, they are frequently misunderstood. What is this process of committed collaboration toward shared goals? people may wonder. How does it work, especially when many industries want to privatize control of the resource or prevent competition via commoning?Matthieu Rhéaume, a commoner and game designer who lives Montreal, decided that a card game could be a great vehicle for introducing people to the commons. The result of his efforts is “C@rds in Common: A Game of Political Collaboration.” “I see playfulness as a sense-making tool,” Matthieu told me. “People can play casually and be surprised by the meta-learning [about the commons] that results.”It all began at the World Social Forum (WSF) conference in Montreal in August 2016. Rhéaume decided to use the opportunity to synthesize viewpoints about the commons from a group of 50 participants and use the results to develop the card game. He persuaded the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation and Gazibo, both based in France, to support development of the game. Fifty commoners more or less co-created the game with the help of several colleagues. (The process is described here.)<iframe loading="lazy" title="Les communs en jeu ... de cartes" width="880" height="495" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ISGk4-pf2Ww?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>As a game designer, Rhéaume realized that successful, fun games must embody a certain “procedural rhetoric” and reward storytelling. He had enjoyed playing “Magic: The Gathering,” a popular multiplayer card game, and wondered what that game would feel like if it were collaborative.At the WSF, Rhéaume asked participants to share their own insights about the commons by submitting suggested cards in six categories. The first four categories consist of “commoners cards” featuring “resources,” “action cards,” “project cards” and “attitude cards.” Two other types of cards — “Oppressive Forces” cards with black backs – give the game its kick by applying “negative effects” to the “Political Arena” of play. The two negative effects are “enclosures” and “crises,” to which commoners must collectively organize and respond in time.Intended for two to five players, the game usually lasts between 60 and 90 minutes. It has enough of a basic storyline to be easily understood, but enough complexity and sophisticated twists to be unpredictable and interesting. The key objective of the game is to “create a Political Arena resilient enough to defend the commons against encroaching enclosures.” The players win when there are no more enclosure cards in the Political Arena. They lose if there are more than five enclosures present at any one time.The backs of the Oppressive Forces cards feature a conquistador with a spear and text reading, “I am here to take the commons.” One of the Oppressive Force card is “Trump Elected!” which demobilizes every commons campaign underway. Another OF card, “Old Inner Culture,” prohibits the discarding of “attitudes” cards (which might otherwise hasten commoning). A “Fear of the Unknown” card prohibits players from drawing new cards for one cycle.By contrast, the commoner cards feature such things as urban gardens, First Nations, degrowth and independent media. A series of “Attitude” cards affect a player’s capacity to cooperate.WSF participants submitted a wild diversity of 240 cards to Rhéaume giving many perspectives on commoning and enclosure. Rheaume used 120 of cards and his own knowledge of game design to produce the game, printing at a local printer. He tested C@rds in Common through 25 games and four design iterations, attempting to achieve a 50% failure rate (the forces of enclosure win). Players discovered that the complexities of cooperation grow as new enclosures introduce new variables. A game booklet describes how players can make winning more difficult (by accelerating the rate of enclosure threats and reducing the time allowed to build civil society).Rhéaume concedes that the first play of C@rds in Common can be challenging, but there are YouTube videos to help new players learn the game. (See this video introduction to the game as a project, and this « how to play » video tutorial.)Rhéaume would like to refine the game further – it still has elements of the WSF event, including some French-only cards – but he is pleased that the game helps introduce players into the commons worldview and start deeper conversations about it. Following most games, players reflect on what happened and tell stories about the successful collaborations that emerged and enclosures that prevailed.The game was released in February, first with a European launch overseen by Fréderic Sultan of Gazibo. There are now more than 70 decks of C@rds in Common (in French, C@rtes en Communs) circulating there [actually more than 100 are .The Canadian launch of the game will take place in Montreal on May 11 at 17:30 to 20:30 at 5248 Boulevard Saint-Laurent in Montreal. To register for the (free) event, here is a link on Brown Paper Tickets.A deck of the game can be bought directly, at cost, via a commercial distributor, Game Crafters, at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/c-rds-in-common, for $22.40. Until May 31, Canadians can acquire the game more cheaply by signing up for a bulk order at this webpage; Rhéaume et al. will then distribute the games to individual buyers.Let me add a charming historical footnote that Rhéaume sahred with me. On the back of each commoner card, there is a drawing of a farmer with the text, “Give me my leather coat and my purse in a groat. That’s some habit for a husbandman.”Those lines are from a song in a medieval mummers play, « The Seven Champions of Christendom. » The lyrics are a heated discussion between a servingman to the king and a free and independent husbandman (commoner) about the merits and liabilities of their respective stations in life. (The song originated from Symondsbury, near Bridport, Dorset, in England — so a shout-out to STIR magazine, which is based there!).A sample exchange between the servingman and the husbandman:[Servingman] But then we do wear the finest of grandeur, My coat is trimmed with fur all around; Our shirts as white as milk and our stockings made of silk: That’s clothing for a servingman.[Husbandman] As to thy grandeur give I the coat I wear Some bushes to ramble among; Give to me a good greatcoat and in my purse a grout [coarse meal], That’s clothing for an husbandman.The full lyrics of the song can be found here.. [Husbandman] As to thy grandeur give I the coat I wear Some bushes to ramble among; Give to me a good greatcoat and in my purse a grout [coarse meal], That’s clothing for an husbandman. The full lyrics of the song can be found here.)
Chargement/Site + (By Samantha Slade By Samantha Slade« From where I stand today, one of the challenges of advancing an emerging movement such as the commons lies in how we build the community and how we meet in ways that embody the values of commoning. This involves the thorny question: How can we honour the vast experience and expertise on the commons and come together inclusively and equitably in a participatory commoning fashion? The Art of Hosting certainly has something to offer here, but also, and most importantly, those that are consciously living and doing the daily work of commoning, in all its complexity, have deep learnings to share to the benefit of building our collective capacity. »see the <a href="http://www.percolab.com/2014/01/art-of-hosting-the-commons/">whole article </a>ww.percolab.com/2014/01/art-of-hosting-the-commons/">whole article </a>)
Chargement/Site + (Call for Ideas ! <p& … Call for Ideas !Please submit an idea that fosters the Europe we believe in: a Europe of solidarity and openness, shaped and nurtured by people.We are living and working in an increasingly complex environment. Across Europe and its neighbouring countries, more and more people are confronted with discrimination and exclusion on a daily basis – whether economically, politically or culturally. As a result, societies are becoming increasingly fragmented, extremism is on the rise, and the divisions between people – and between individuals and institutions – are growing ever wider.Migration, distrust towards traditional institutions and the widening gap between the idea of a democratic Europe and the reality of a divided continent are among the biggest challenges that we are facing at present. These challenges are not new, but they have reached a degree that directly affects existing systems and policies, both at national and European levels.Living with a constant flow of images and information that sustains a ‘permanent state of emergency’, we often adopt defeat, the feeling that there’s-nothing-to-be-done. However, in this worrying situation, it is heartening to see citizens gathering together and taking action: countless bottom-up local, national, and transnational initiatives are enthusiastically showing that there-is-something-to-be-done, and that a more democratic, inclusive, egalitarian, and caring society is not only desired but possible.In this continent of rapidly changing communities, building bridges to help us live alongside each other is an urgent imperative. We need to reinvent and jointly value our present and develop our future together. We need to recreate shared common values and foster open and inclusive communities and societies – with a focus on social justice and human rights.Co-hosted by Platoniq in Spain, ECF’s third Idea Camp will take place from 1 to 3 March 2017. Following local elections in May 2015, which have seen several major cities and smaller towns now governed by citizen lists of candidates, Spain is on track to reinvent itself amidst a hive of social, cultural, and political activism. The many exciting new challenges this hive of activity has raised include a more inclusive and participatory society, ‘a home for all’. Although not free from contradictions, there are many tangible examples across different sectors (cultural, political, economical and social) that interweave inspiring institutional and grassroots actions. The myriad of different cross-sectoral practices in Spain constitute a resourceful laboratory for sharing and highlighting ways in which communities can promote change in Europe.Organized in collaboration with Platoniq, Idea Camp will be held from 1 to 3 March 2017 in Spain and will bring together 50 participants whose innovative ideas demonstrate a firm commitment to encourage political imagination, encourage building links and contribute to the development a society based on the principle of social justice. Based on shared values, inclusion and openness, Idea Camp offers participants a unique opportunity to meet peers from all over Europe and its neighboring countries, whose practices are different carrier chatted. Following the call for ideas, 50 participants are selected on criteria. ECF cover for the duration of the Idea Camp, the cost of travel and living in Spain a representative for each idea. After the Idea Camp, participants will be invited to submit a concrete proposal for research or implementation of their idea. 25 proposals will be selected and will receive a fellowship and development to a maximum of € 10,000.Initiated in 2014, Idea Camp is organized within the framework of « Connected Action for the Commons », an action and research program developed by ECF in collaboration with six cultural organization established in Europe: Culture 2 Commons (Croatia), Les Têtes de l’Art (France), KrytykaPolityczna (Poland), Oberliht (Moldavia), Platoniq – Goteo (Spain) et Subtopia (Sweden).To submit your idea, please fill in the application form here: http://www.culturalfoundation.eu/idea-camp-call/et Subtopia (Sweden). To submit your idea, please fill in the application form here: http://www.culturalfoundation.eu/idea-camp-call/)
Chargement/Site + (Chaque troisième mardi du mois, d … Chaque troisième mardi du mois, de 20 h à 21 h (CET – heure de Paris), Remix propose un rendez-vous public sur le modèle du « community call » pour traiter une question et partager de l’information sur les projets en cours ou les sujets chauds dans le domaine des communs, tout en laissant une trace pour les absents.Le rendez-vous est structuré selon un protocole toujours identique : durée de 60 minutes, présentation de 5 minutes, discussion de l’objet de l’appel pendant 45 minutes et enfin, conclusion et appel au prochain appel 10 minutes. Les appels en commun font l’objet d’un enregistrement audio et d’une prise de note collective sur un pad (bloc note numérique) pour préparer la rencontre, la documenter et en garder la mémoire.L’archive audio et texte des Appels en commun est accessible via le <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Appel_en_commun">wiki de Remix</a>.Pour être informé des prochains appels en commun, abonnez-vous à la liste de diffusion appel@bienscommuns.org (basse fréquence) en envoyant un courriel à <a href="mailto:info@remixthecommons.org">info@remixthecommons.org</a>.Remix the commons ne fait aucun autre usage, ni ne partage avec personne vos données personnelles sans accord de votre part! ni ne partage avec personne vos données personnelles sans accord de votre part!)
Chargement/Site + (Dans le cadre de l’initiative por … Dans le cadre de l’initiative portée par l’UNESCO sur les futurs de l’éducation, l’Institut de l’UNESCO pour l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie (UIL, Hambourg) a publié récemment un rapport d’experts multidisciplinaires de prospective sur la culture de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie (« <a href="https://uil.unesco.org/lifelong-learning/embracing-culture-lifelong-learning">Lifelong Learning </a>»)*. Dans un contexte où beaucoup d’États peinent à répondre aux besoins éducatifs de base de leur population et où les inégalités d’accès à la culture et aux savoirs se creusent de plus en plus, comment (re)donner toute sa place à une culture de l’apprentissage ouverte, accessible et inclusive qui permet à toute personne de pouvoir définir et réaliser ses projets de développement de sa capacité d’agir dans un monde de plus en plus complexe et exigeant?S’inscrivant directement dans la filiation humaniste de l’éducation des adultes (Commission internationale sur l’éducation au XXIe siècle, UNESCO 1996), les auteurs présentent une série de recommandations parmi lesquelles figure celle de faire de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie un bien commun. Dans leur énoncé de vision de la situation idéale de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie en 2050, ils décrivent :<blockquote> /To ensure that learning opportunities are accessible to all, learning spaces beyond educational institutions have been reinvented to promote and support learning. Besides using public spaces and infrastructure for learning, there are also learner-friendly work environments in all sectors and opportunities for self-employed people. To enhance the free availability of learning resources further, an educational commons has been developed. p. 13/ **</blockquote><iframe loading="lazy" title="Les communs et l'éducation tout au long de la vie" width="880" height="660" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r7c5UA5lluI?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>À titre de président du conseil d’administration de l’UIL, Daniel Baril, directeur général de l’Institut de coopération pour l’éducation des adultes (Montréal, Canada) a participé aux travaux du groupe d’expert.e.s. Dans le cadre de l’appel en commun, il nous partage ses réflexions sur le processus qui a mené à l’élaboration de ces recommandations, mais surtout sur la manière dont la notion de communs peut s’imbriquer dans l’élaboration des instruments normatifs internationaux en éducation.* Document : <a href="https://uil.unesco.org/lifelong-learning/embracing-culture-lifelong-learning">UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning Embracing a culture of lifelong learning: contribution to the Futures of Education initiative. UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2020</a>.** Traduction : /Afin de garantir que les possibilités d’apprentissage soient accessibles à tous, les espaces d’apprentissage au-delà des établissements d’enseignement ont été réinventés pour promouvoir et soutenir l’apprentissage. Outre l’utilisation d’espaces et d’infrastructures publics pour l’apprentissage, il existe également des environnements de travail conviviaux pour les apprenants dans tous les secteurs, et des possibilités pour les travailleurs indépendants. Afin d’améliorer encore la disponibilité gratuite des ressources d’apprentissage, un patrimoine éducatif commun a été développé. p. 13/)
Chargement/Site + (Droits en biens communs vise à do … Droits en biens communs vise à documenter la place du droit basé sur les biens communs dans le contexte des négociations de Rio+20.Au cours de l’année 2011, la préparation de la conférence des Nations Unies sur le développement durable (Rio+20) avec le Collectif (français) Rio+20 et les participants au Forum Social Mondial, nous a amené à proposer de faire des droits basés sur les biens communs un horizon de revendication à l’échelle internationale. Encore faudrait-il être en mesure d’expliciter ce que serait le contenu de ces droits et d’envisager de quelles manières ils pourraient être mis en oeuvre. Pour tenter de répondre à cette question, un<a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Des_droits_bas%C3%A9s_sur_les_biens_communs"> premier texte</a> à été rédigé par Silke Helfrich et Frédéric Sultan à la suite du Forum Social de Porto Alegre.Le projet de Remix « Droits en Biens Communs » est une continuation de ce travail par la voie de la vidéo et du remix réalisé à partir de captation de vidéo au cours de la conférence des Nations Unies et du Sommet des Peuples.<h3>Futur développement</h3>Le projet Droits en biens communs se prolonge à travers l’organisation d’un atelier lors de la conférence Economics, Commons Conférence le 22 mai 2°13 à Berlin. Il s’agit de poursuivre le travail d’élaboration engagé et notamment de tester les hypothèses sous-jacentes sur divers domaines et exemples, pour essayer d’avoir une vision plus globale.<h3>Collaborateurs/trices</h3>Frédéric Sultan coordonne ce projet. Emilano Bazan s’est chargé de la réalisation des vidéos.<h3>Financement</h3>Le projet Droits en biens communs bénéficie du soutien financier du Fonds Francophone des inforoutes à travers le projet Remix Biens Communs.<h3>Rôle de Remix Biens Communs</h3>Remix Biens Communs a été un espace facilitant la coopération entre Communautique et VECAM pour réaliser les vidéos pendant le sommet des peuples de Rio + 20.tant la coopération entre Communautique et VECAM pour réaliser les vidéos pendant le sommet des peuples de Rio + 20.)
Chargement/Site + (Every 3rd Tuesday of the month fr … Every 3rd Tuesday of the month from 8pm to 9pm (CET – Paris time), Remix offers a public meeting on the model of the « community call » to address a question and share information on current projects or hot topics in the field of commons, while leaving a trace for those who are absent.The appointment is structured according to the same protocol: duration 60 minutes, presentation 5 minutes, discussion of the topic of the call 45 minutes and finally, conclusion and appeal for the next call 10 minutes.Audio recording and collective note-taking on a pad (digital notepad) are done and shared after the meeting, for documenting it and keeping the memory of it.The audio and text archives of the Commons Calls are accessible via the <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Appel_en_commun">remix wiki </a>.To be informed about future calls, send a message to the following e-mail address: <a href="mailto:info@remixthecommons.org">info@remixthecommons.org</a>.<div class="input-prepend">Remix the commons does not make any other use, nor share with anyone your personal data without your consent !</div>mix the commons does not make any other use, nor share with anyone your personal data without your consent !</div>)
Chargement/Site + (Facing economic, social and ecolo … Facing economic, social and ecological crises, many of us think that we must create the conditions for a transition from a productivist industrial world to an economy based on sharing knowledge commons and collaborative and contributing productions. The first challenge is to forge new concepts to understand the effects of automation and rethink the general interest and solidarity as possible horizons. For this, the state, as local and national authorities, the University and organized civil society, must invent all together, alternatives to individualism ownership and to the governance based on the duopoly state / market. In Ecuador, the government held a major study to try to clarify howto create the conditions for a transition based on the commons. Several researchers and international experts were mobilized, including Michel Bauwens and Bernard Stiegler.What is the role of national and local governments in the transformation of the economy towards a production of goods and services based on the principles of the commons? What should be the legal and economic instruments invented? what are the alliances between the actors involved in alternative forms of economic and social innovation needed? How to go beyond the niches successfully developed in some sectors – such as the digital economy – and enable scaling to modes of production of goods and services based on the principles of the commons?<a href="http://ouishare.net/">Ouishare</a>, <a href="www.savoirscom1.info/">Savoirscom1</a> and <a href="www.vecam.org/">VECAM</a> invite you to discuss these issues with Michel Bauwens and Bernard Stiegler during a public meeting to be held September 16, 2014 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Salle Triangle, Centre Pompidou, Paris France. <figure style="width: 400px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="" src="http://i.vimeocdn.com/video/177863970_640.jpg" width="400" height="225" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Michel Bauwens – Berlin 2012 Remix The Commons – Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0</figcaption></figure><figure id="attachment_3924" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3924" style="width: 398px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Stiegler-2_dans_les_années_2000.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Stiegler-2_dans_les_années_2000.jpg" alt="By Joseph.paris — Wikimedia commons. Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons " width="398" height="225" class="size-full wp-image-3924" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3924" class="wp-caption-text">Bernard Stiegler par Joseph.paris — Wikimedia commons. Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons</figcaption></figure><H2><a href="https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/inscription-rencontre-publique-avec-bernard-stiegler-et-michel-bauwens-1885113425?ref=elink" target="_blank" style="color:#3BE8DC" rel="noopener noreferrer">Registration</a> is over. </H2>More information in the <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/fr/2014/07/vers-une-econo…-la-transition/ ">French version of the post</a>. This conference is organized with the support of Fondation Pour le Progrès de l’Homme.in the <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/fr/2014/07/vers-une-econo…-la-transition/ ">French version of the post</a>. This conference is organized with the support of Fondation Pour le Progrès de l’Homme.)
Chargement/Site + (Le monde a besoin d’idées pour un … Le monde a besoin d’idées pour un avenir meilleur et durable, mais les idées ne suffisent pas. La plate-forme FuturePerfect est une encyclopédie virtuelle reprenant les initiatives de personnes, d’organisations et d’entreprises qui ont osé passer de la pensée à l’acte. Ces histoires visent à informer sur les modes de vie alternatifs et à inciter à l’engagement citoyen.Les partenaires français de FuturePerfect, l’équipe allemande de FUTURZWEI, des militants et tout public intéressé se retrouveront pour débattre du rôle des médias dans une perspective de pratiques d’économie sociale et de modes de vie durables.<div class="row"><div class="span12 nurText"><div class="span12 nurText"><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/futureperfect_visuel_web-debzt-8-octobre-2015.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-4335 size-full aligncenter" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/futureperfect_visuel_web-debzt-8-octobre-2015.jpg" alt="futureperfect_visuel_web debzt 8 octobre 2015" width="337" height="803" /></a></div>Débat organisé dans le cadre de la Semaine des cultures étrangères organisée par le FICEP et en coopération avec le festival Temps des CommunsAvec la participation de :<ul><li>Barnabé Binctin, Journaliste Reporterre</li><li>Peter Unfried, Journaliste TAZ</li><li>Benoit Cassegrain et Hélène Legay, fondateurs SideWays</li><li>Mathias Lahiani, fondateur On passe à l’acte</li></ul>Modéré par Luise Tremel, FUTURZWEI et Frédéric Sultan, Remix the commons </div><div class="span12 nurText">Goethe-Institut Paris</div><aside class="span6 artikelspalte nurText"><div class="teaserBox">17 avenue d’Iéna 75116 Paris</div>Langue: En français et en allemand Entrée libre, inscription : 33 1 44439230 </aside></div>gt;, Remix the commons </div> <div class="span12 nurText">Goethe-Institut Paris</div> <aside class="span6 artikelspalte nurText"> <div class="teaserBox"> 17 avenue d’Iéna 75116 Paris </div> Langue: En français et en allemand Entrée libre, inscription : 33 1 44439230 </aside> </div>)
Chargement/Site + (Les voies maritimes, une belle id … Les voies maritimes, une belle idée de vidéo autour d’un projet d’aire maritime à protéger<iframe loading="lazy" frameborder="0" width="400" height="225" src="//www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xu8azp" allowfullscreen></iframe> Par <a href="http://www.aires-marines.fr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aires-marines-protegees</a>Trois photographes ont sillonné pendant plusieurs mois le golfe normand breton qui s’étend de l’île de Bréhat au Cap de La Hague et qui fait l’objet d’un projet de parc naturel marin. Rodolphe Marics, Denis Bourges et Xavier Desmier proposent une radiographie de cet espace marin selon trois points de vue différents et complémentaires : photos aériennes, pédestres et sous-marines. Les voies maritimes est né d’un partenariat entre l’Agence des aires marines protégées et l’association Les champs photographiques. des aires marines protégées et l’association Les champs photographiques. )
Chargement/Site + (Maxime Combes a produit un <a … Maxime Combes a produit un <a href="https://www.boell.de/en/2014/01/21/valuing-natural-capital-or-devaluing-nature">rapport sur le premier « Forum mondial sur le capital naturel »</a> qui se déroulait fin novembre 2013 à Edimbourg.Ce document décrypte le processus d’élaboration des nouveaux outils de comptabilité du « capital naturel » qui valorise la nature et les services éco-systémiques en capital à grande échelle. Cette démarche est aune traduction très concrète de Rio+20 et de l’économie verte qui se justifie encore avec l’argument de la tragédie des communs.On est face à un enjeu majeur pour les communs dits naturels. Il confirme l’importance de définir des outils et les principes de gestion qui permettent de préserver les communs et la nature.Rapport réalisé pour la Fondation Heinrich Boll. Rapport réalisé pour la Fondation Heinrich Boll)
Chargement/Site + (Maxime Combes produced a <a hr … Maxime Combes produced a <a href="http://www.boell.de/en/2014/01/21/valuing-natural-capital-or-devaluing-nature"> report on the first « Global Forum on natural capital » </a> which took place in late November 2013 in Edinburgh (Scotland).The document decrypts the process of developing new tools for natural capital accounting based on the valuation of the natural and ecosystemic services in large-scale capital. This approach is a very concrete translation of the consequences of Rio +20 results and the green economy that continues to be justified with the argument of the tragedy of the commons.We are facing a major challenge for so-called natural commons. It confirms the importance of defining the tools of accounting and management principles that preserve commons and nature.Report for the Heinrich Boll Foundation hat preserve commons and nature. Report for the Heinrich Boll Foundation )
Chargement/Site + (On April 19th 2012, Communautique … On April 19th 2012, Communautique organized the first working lunch <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/D%C3%A9jeuner_des_communs">« Commons lunches »</a> at its offices in Montreal. The context of the event was remarkable; for two months already an unprecedented social movement initiated and driven by students had taken over the streets of Montreal and other cities in the province, mobilizing people across all layers of society with unrivaled levels of involvement. And on this 19th of April, during what was called a “printemps érable” (or maple spring), and rightly so by the depth of its demands, on the eve of the march for Earth Day, reaching what would be the climax of the union of all sectors of the civil society, the protest was held under no other theme but the Commons and gathered nearly 300 000 people. This lunch was indeed very relevant at a time when « the Commons was on every lips », a paper issued by Communautique was widely circulated on the web. Prior to this first of a series of four in 2012, Communautique had contributed to the animation of this subject of the Commons on various occasions by organizing workshops or taking part in events in the charged ambiance of the student protests, particularly suited for participation and innovation. Each of the meetings facilitated the exchange of knowledge in a horizontal way through discussions and « learning circles » following a proven animation methodology that is increasingly used in co-creation, co-design projects and bottom-up social innovation. These methods are described by Percolab, partner of Communautique, who facilitated the discussion at the event. Each lunch was video recorded but was also followed by video productions extending the debate by illustrating some activities of the participants’ activities through interviews and shots taken on their field of operation. These productions were eventually used to fuel the debates at the next breakfasts. <H3>Futur development</H3> The continuation of Montreal lunches could be an occasion for a remix, whether in Dakar or other cities. <H3>Collaborators</H3> Alain Ambrosi and the Communautique team are assisted by Samatha Slade of Percolab. <H3>Financing</H3> Video production of Montréal lunches is made possible by support from the Ministry of Education, Recreation and Sports in the training mission and a contribution of trainees from Industry Canada’s Youth Internship program. <H3>Rôle of Remix Bien communs</H3> Remix the Commons was the melting pot for the concept of the montreal lunches, and helped by sharing views on the commons with Kër Thiossane from Dakar./> Remix the Commons was the melting pot for the concept of the montreal lunches, and helped by sharing views on the commons with Kër Thiossane from Dakar.)
Chargement/Site + (Organized by Remix The Commons, V … Organized by Remix The Commons, VECAM and radio Libre @ Toi<blockquote>Projection debate: Commons in political space, Broadcast live by the radio Libre @ Toi, 7 April 2017, from 18:30 to 20:30 At the Foundation for the Progress of Man, 38, rue Saint Sabin, 75011 Paris – France<h2>What are the relations between commons and politic?</h2>After the conquest of city governement by the commons candidates in the large Spanish cities, the introduction in the constitution of « buen vivir » (Bolivia and Ecuador), the development of community’s charters in Great Britain and the regulations for the protection of the common goods by Italian cities, ZADIism and Zapatista experience, assemblies of commoners throughout the Western world, … recent years have seen the commons enrich their experience of politics. How can it inspire us in France?Come to debate after the screening of the short documentary « Les communs dans l’espace politique » (23 ‘), based on the testimonies of the actors involved in all these initiatives, of the place of the commons in the transformation of politics, the lessons that can be drawn from some of these experiences, and the challenges and dynamics of the commons movement.<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4658" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Sylviafredriksson_du-possible.jpg" alt="Sylviafredriksson_du possible" width="640" height="640" /> Par Sylvia Fredriksson Certains droits réservésAt the moment when the presidential campaign is in full swing in France. Which candidate has not yet incorporated this notion in his vocabulary, sometimes playing on the polysemy of terms and sailing between « Common Good », « common » or « common goods »? This echo indicates both a great penetration of this notion in society and a need to give a stronger consistency around the idea that we are able to develop mechanisms of cooperation that start from our needs and usages to build new rights.In this debate, we will focus more on the transformation of possible practices in the French political sequence, elections, loss of credit for the institutional system, than to make an inventory or a comparison of electoral measures or promises of the candidates and parties.« The commons in the political space » (23 ‘) is a document realized from interviews of activists met on the occasion of the World Social Forum and the World Forum of social economy GSEF which took place in Montreal in August and September 2016. The documentary and interviews will be available on http://remixthecommons.org in the coming days.Remix The Commons is an intercultural space for sharing and co-creating multimedia documents on the commons. The project is carried out by an intercultural collective composed of people and organizations who believe that the collection, exchange and remix of stories, definitions and images … of the commons are an active and convivial way to disseminate it in society. <a href="http://remixthecommons.org"> http://remixthecommons.org </a>Radio Libre @ Toi will broadcast this live debate and podcast, prefiguring the activities of the radio Causes Communes on the airwaves. <a href="http://asso.libre-a-toi.org"> http://asso.libre-a-toi.org </a>Vecam is an association that contributes to the political and social decoding of the digital age since 1995. <a href="http://vecam.org"> http://vecam.org </a></blockquote>gt; Vecam is an association that contributes to the political and social decoding of the digital age since 1995. <a href="http://vecam.org"> http://vecam.org </a></blockquote>)
Chargement/Site + (Organized by Remix The Commons, V … Organized by Remix The Commons, VECAM and radio Libre @ Toi<blockquote>Projection debate: Commons in political space, Broadcast live by the radio Libre @ Toi, 7 April 2017, from 18:30 to 20:30 At the Foundation for the Progress of Man, 38, rue Saint Sabin, 75011 Paris – France<h2>What are the relations between commons and politic?</h2>After the conquest of city governement by the commons candidates in the large Spanish cities, the introduction in the constitution of « buen vivir » (Bolivia and Ecuador), the development of community’s charters in Great Britain and the regulations for the protection of the common goods by Italian cities, ZADIism and Zapatista experience, assemblies of commoners throughout the Western world, … recent years have seen the commons enrich their experience of politics. How can it inspire us in France?Come to debate after the screening of the short documentary « Les communs dans l’espace politique » (23 ‘), based on the testimonies of the actors involved in all these initiatives, of the place of the commons in the transformation of politics, the lessons that can be drawn from some of these experiences, and the challenges and dynamics of the commons movement.<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4658" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Sylviafredriksson_du-possible.jpg" alt="Sylviafredriksson_du possible" width="640" height="640" /> Par Sylvia Fredriksson Certains droits réservésAt the moment when the presidential campaign is in full swing in France. Which candidate has not yet incorporated this notion in his vocabulary, sometimes playing on the polysemy of terms and sailing between « Common Good », « common » or « common goods »? This echo indicates both a great penetration of this notion in society and a need to give a stronger consistency around the idea that we are able to develop mechanisms of cooperation that start from our needs and usages to build new rights.In this debate, we will focus more on the transformation of possible practices in the French political sequence, elections, loss of credit for the institutional system, than to make an inventory or a comparison of electoral measures or promises of the candidates and parties.« The commons in the political space » (23 ‘) is a document realized from interviews of activists met on the occasion of the World Social Forum and the World Forum of social economy GSEF which took place in Montreal in August and September 2016. The documentary and interviews will be available on http://remixthecommons.org in the coming days.Remix The Commons is an intercultural space for sharing and co-creating multimedia documents on the commons. The project is carried out by an intercultural collective composed of people and organizations who believe that the collection, exchange and remix of stories, definitions and images … of the commons are an active and convivial way to disseminate it in society. <a href="http://remixthecommons.org"> http://remixthecommons.org </a>Radio Libre @ Toi will broadcast this live debate and podcast, prefiguring the activities of the radio Causes Communes on the airwaves. <a href="http://asso.libre-a-toi.org"> http://asso.libre-a-toi.org </a>Vecam is an association that contributes to the political and social decoding of the digital age since 1995. <a href="http://vecam.org"> http://vecam.org </a></blockquote>gt; Vecam is an association that contributes to the political and social decoding of the digital age since 1995. <a href="http://vecam.org"> http://vecam.org </a></blockquote>)
Chargement/Site + (Original publication from <a h … Original publication from <a href="https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/european-commons-assembly-at-medialab-prado/2017/07/24">P2P Fondation blog</a><blockquote>The European Commons Assembly (ECA) is a network of grassroots initiatives promoting commons management practices at the European level. The next stop for the network will be Medialab Prado, Madrid. These activities are part of the Transeuropa Festival program, a large meeting of political, social and environmental alternatives.</blockquote>The call to participate in the Madrid workshops will be open until August 4th.Form<a title="18.05.16 Taller" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/medialab-prado/28100107155/" data-flickr-embed="true" data-footer="true"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7379/28100107155_1659853c90_c.jpg" alt="18.05.16 Taller" width="800" height="500" /></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>The European Commons Assembly was launched in November 2016 with public events that took place in several spaces in Brussels, Belgium, including the Zinneke social center and European Parliament. This meeting gathered from different parts of Europe more than 150 commoners to promote public policies for the commons at the European level and to develop mutual support networks that enable long-term sustainability..The call to participate in the Madrid workshops will be open until August 4th. Proposed topics related to the urban commons include:<ul><li>Public space Migrations and refugees Citizen participation in urban politics Culture Food Housing Health Currency and financing for the commons Laws and legal mechanisms to protect the commons Technology for citizenship.</li></ul>You may also propose a topic not already on this list; fill out the form to propose the organization of a specific workshop, and/or to participate in any of the workshops that you find interesting.Each workshop will be co-organized by both a local and an international community project around the proposed topic. Workshops will be coordinated to offer valuable knowledge and strategies to apply to other, ongoing experiences. To this end, the ECA Madrid coordination team will hold several video conferences to connect the different initiatives and develop the workshop contents prior to the meeting. Workshops will employ facilitation methodology designed to guide the coordination team members in structuring and eventual documentation of the contents generated.When completing the form, you may indicate if you need the organization to cover travel and / or accommodation if it will not be possible to cover these expenses another way. For more information, contact nicole.leonard [at] sciencespo.fr.You can find more information on the European Commons Assembly website or fill out the form.the organization to cover travel and / or accommodation if it will not be possible to cover these expenses another way. For more information, contact nicole.leonard [at] sciencespo.fr. You can find more information on the European Commons Assembly website or fill out the form.)
Chargement/Site + (Original published on <a href= … Original published on <a href="https://commonsjosaphat.wordpress.com/">Commons Josaphat</a>. Translation by Nicole Leonard. <blockquote>Commons Josaphat is an independent platform of residents, activists and associations. You have heard talk of it as one of the flagship European initiatives for the reconquest of the city by its inhabitants. Commons Josaphat needs support from commoners to assert the work that has been accomplished over the course of the last 2 years with the public authorities in Brussels. Show your support by sending your message directly to the collective. </blockquote><img decoding="async" src="http://vecam.org/local/cache-vignettes/L566xH800/commons_josaphat-2da3d.png?1472031936" alt="" /><H1>The common good neighborhood project </H1>Commons Josaphat wants to build a proposal for the development of the city as a commons on the vacant lot of the former Josaphat training station. A new part of town will be developed there in the coming years. The challenge is to transform this piece of land, which is public property, into territory where a city for the common good can be started and established, a city district imagined and developed through partnership between the public authorities and the citizens. Our proposal, the results of two years of exchange and reflection in common, is summarized <a href="https://commonsjosaphat.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/commons-josaphat_josaphat-en-commun01light.pdf">in this document</a>. <H1>Commons Josaphat today</H1>The collective continues to work in three main ways:Effective occupation of the lot with other partners aiming to “make” this city as a commons, to immediately occupy its squares and spaces by using them. The agreement which places usage limits on individuals in order to preserve others’ use and access is an innovative first experience in the field for a new governance;Development of an “example island” of commons. This island should shape the city in common (through accessibility to the largest number of people over the long run, collective decision-making on land rents, environmental integration, promotion of the solidarity economy and open source, inscribing values of health in the design of the city, anchoring in local neighborhoods…) But it must also be realistic about the needs of public authorities (revenues generated, realization times and amounts realized). This island should serve as a point of evaluation that follows the issuing of the first phase of the master plan for the region; Building broad political conviction<li>1. Strengthening social support to the “Josaphat in common” proposal: support of associations, academics, intellectuals, unions, mutual societies 2. Strengthening cooperation with local residents to involve all those concerned in this part of town today 3. Improving conventional political support: obtain the support of PS, MR, ToT, Ecolo, PTB and CDH and their Dutch counterparts at regional and municipal levels.</li><H1>Here we reproduce their call</H1>You’ve heard of Commons Josaphat over the last two years, as they’ve been organizing action with partners – by participating in the call for ideas for the future development of the area or through the working groups themselves. Maybe you practiced fallow during the current summer festival or are participating in conferences organized around the possibility to construct the city as a commons. Today we want to shed light on these examples of support, convergence, and cooperation around the production of the city as a commons, and give it weight in public debate!<H1>What can you do? </H1> To show your support: Send an email to: <a href="mailto:ideascommonsjosaphat@gmail.com">ideascommonsjosaphat@gmail.com</a>Associations like BRAL, Pass-âge, RBDH (Rally for the right to housing), les Equipes Populaires de Schaerbeek, and SACOPAR (Health community participation non-profit association) have already done so. Academics such as Christian Laval and Tine de Moor have too. This support will be documented on the Commons Josaphat website and will support the proposal in public debate. To participate in the construction of knowledge on the commons to be diffused to the city level of production, send an email to: <a href="mailto:commons_jos_transversal@lists.entransition.be">commons_jos_transversal@lists.entransition.be</a> To get involved and work concretely with the project for transforming the lot into a common good, come to the lot the coming Sundays (7 July or 8 August), to the next general assembly on the 28th of August, or sign up on the list-serve: <a href="mailto:communs-dest@lists.entransition.be">communs-dest@lists.entransition.be</a>We count on your response from now until the 28th of August, the day of our next general assembly. We invite you there to declare your support during the aperitif planned at 19:30 (7:30pm)!We’re hoping we can count on your participation.h of August, or sign up on the list-serve: <a href="mailto:communs-dest@lists.entransition.be">communs-dest@lists.entransition.be</a> We count on your response from now until the 28th of August, the day of our next general assembly. We invite you there to declare your support during the aperitif planned at 19:30 (7:30pm)! We’re hoping we can count on your participation.)
Chargement/Site + (Par Samantha Slade < … Par Samantha Slade« De là où je me trouve aujourd’hui , l’un des défis de l’émergence d’un mouvement tel que celui pour la promotion des communs, réside dans la façon dont nous construisons la communauté et la façon dont nous élaborons différentes manières d’incarner les valeurs de ce qui fait le commun. Il s’agit d’une question épineuse : comment pouvons-nous reconnaître la vaste expérience et expertise sur les biens communs et nous rassembler de façon inclusive et équitable en mode d’ « en-commun » participatif ? L’ art de recevoir (Art of Hosting) a certainement quelque chose à nous offrir ici, mais aussi , et surtout, ceux qui vivent et font consciemment le travail quotidien de l' »en-commun » (commoning) dans toute sa complexité, ont de profonds enseignements à partager pour construire notre capacité collective. »Voir<a href="http://www.percolab.com/2014/01/art-of-hosting-the-commons/"> l’article</a> l’article</a>)
Chargement/Site + (Project « Justice transitionnelle … Project « Justice transitionnelle: l’expérience Marocaine » plans to share those extremely important Moroccan experiences about transitional justice and community reparation. In Morocco, from 1959 to 1999, Former King Hassan II often ruled his country with an iron fist. That period is called as the years of lead in Morocco, during which those who were considered a threat to the regime were subject to a wide range of human rights violations. Thousands were subjected to arbitrary arrest, torture, and enforced disappearance, leaving behind a bitter legacy.However, starting in the early 1990s, a gradual process of dealing with the past began to take root, culminating most recently in the work of the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission (Instance Équité et Réconciliation (IER)), established by the successor to the throne, King Mohammed VI.On January 7, 2004, the IER was created, which is the first truth commission in the Arab world. This also has been hailed internationally as a big step forward, and an example to the Arab world. Since that, the IER has been working on addressing the terrible legacy of this era by investigating some of the worst abuses in Morocco and arranging reparations for victims and their families.Over the duration of its mandate, the IER has amassed an archive of more than 20,000 personal testimonies from victims and their families, which has been organized in a central database in Rabat. It has conducted a range of meetings, conferences, and seminars around a multitude of issues that are keys to understanding Morocco’s past and present.It has also taken the monumental step of holding public hearings to give victims a platform from which to share their sufferings. Throughout its work, the Commission has aimed to document, preserve, and analyze the roots of the crisis in an attempt to help Morocco come to terms with its past. Project Justice transitionnelle: l’expérience Marocaine aims to share videos about this process of transitional justice and community reparation. For Morocco, the Community Reparation Project is a huge project contributed to transitional justice. A total sum of 159 million Dirhams was mobilized and total number of completed projects was 149.These videos talked about how to preserve memory of victim communities during “the years of lead” in Morocco and what kinds of public hearings took place, in fact those hearings gave the highlight of an extensive process of citizen deliberation, compassion and free expression in Morocco. They also talked about lots of stories about how community reparation project aimed to improve the living conditions of the people in victim communities and empower them. In fact, those materials mainly focused on women and children.Project Justice transitionnelle: l’expérience Marocaine believes Moroccan experiences in transitional justice as commons are useful and valuable to other countries, especially to Arabic countries have the similar history of transitional justice, such as Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Algeria and so on.As open resources, these documentaries, videos and reports are free to use for the public goods. <h3>Futur development</h3>In the next step, Project Justice transitionnelle: l’expérience Marocaine will keep on sharing more historical videos and materials about experiences in transitional justice, such as the videos of public hearings, the videos of public seminars and conferences, historical pictures and final reports of the community reparation project.<h3>People involved</h3>Ning and Mohamed Leghtas, from Alternatives Forum in Morocco(FMAS) and Portail E-joussour take in charge of this project, which both based in Rabat, Morroco.<h3>Ressources</h3>The project Transitional Justice: the Moroccan experience is financed by the funds of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER)<h3>Contribution to the projet « Justice transitionnelle</h3>Alternatives Forum in Morocco(FMAS) and Portail E-joussour take in charge of this project, which both based in Rabat, Morroco.IER) <h3>Contribution to the projet « Justice transitionnelle</h3> Alternatives Forum in Morocco(FMAS) and Portail E-joussour take in charge of this project, which both based in Rabat, Morroco.)
Chargement/Site + (Publiée le 5 juil. 2013 … Publiée le 5 juil. 2013Bordeaux Forum de l’Economie Collaborative4 juillet 2013, au Rocher de Palmer.Plus d’informations sur le Forum et ses intervenants sur www.bordeaux-economie-collaborative.orgwww.facebook.com/BXecocollabwww.twitter.com/BXecocollabvia <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAZnv4IEo9g'>Michel Bauwens – "En route vers de nouveaux territoires économiques" 3/4 – YouTube</a>.4IEo9g'>Michel Bauwens – "En route vers de nouveaux territoires économiques" 3/4 – YouTube</a>.)
Chargement/Site + (Publiée le 5 juil. 2013 … Publiée le 5 juil. 2013Bordeaux Forum de l’Economie Collaborative4 juillet 2013, au Rocher de Palmer.Plus d’informations sur le Forum et ses intervenants sur www.bordeaux-economie-collaborative.orgwww.facebook.com/BXecocollabwww.twitter.com/BXecocollabvia <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAZnv4IEo9g'>Michel Bauwens – "En route vers de nouveaux territoires économiques" 3/4 – YouTube</a>. Publiée le 5 juil. 2013Bordeaux Forum de l’Economie Collaborative 4 juillet 2013, au Rocher de Palmer. Plus d’informations sur le Forum et ses intervenants sur www.bordeaux-economie-collaborative.org www.facebook.com/BXecocollab www.twitter.com/BXecocollabes intervenants sur www.bordeaux-economie-collaborative.org www.facebook.com/BXecocollab www.twitter.com/BXecocollab)
Chargement/Site + (Rights in Common aims at document … Rights in Common aims at documenting the place of law based on commons in the context of the Rio+20 negociations. During 2011, the preparation of the United Nations conference on sustainable development (Rio+20) with the Rio+20 french collective and the participants of the World Social Forum, lead us to suggest making the rights based on the commons a skyline of social demand at the international scale. But as a prerequisite we’d have to be able to explicit the contents of these rights and forsee how these would be implemented and enforced. To try to answer this question, a <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Des_droits_bas%C3%A9s_sur_les_biens_communs"> first text </ a> was written by Silke Helfrich and Frédéric Sultan after the Social Forum in Porto Alegre.The remix project « Rights in Commons » is the continuation of this work by means of video and the remix made from video recordings of the United Nations conference and of the Peoples Summit.<h3>Futur development</h3>The Rights in Commons project move on by the organization of a workshop during the Economics, Commons Conference on May the 22nd 2013 in Berlin. It’s about continuing the ellaboration work initiated and particularly test the underling hypotheses on various domains and use cases, to reach a more global vision.<h3>Collaborators</h3>Frédéric Sultan is coordinator of this project. Emiliano Bazan has taken charge of the video production.<h3>Financing</h3>The Rights in Commons project gets financial support from the « Fonds Francophone des inforoutes » through the project Remix the Commons.<h3>Role of Remix the Commons</h3>Remix the Commons has been a space facilitating cooperation between Communautique and VECAM to produce videos during the Peoples Summit at Rio+20.;/h3> Remix the Commons has been a space facilitating cooperation between Communautique and VECAM to produce videos during the Peoples Summit at Rio+20.)
Chargement/Site + (Santiago Hoerth Moura de <a hr … Santiago Hoerth Moura de <a href="http://www.pillku.org/">Revista Pillku</a> a rencontré Alain Ambrosi à Mexico en novembre 2012 dans le cadre de la rencontre préparatoire à la <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conference">conférence Economics, Commons Conference</a>. Tous deux ont échangé sur les biens communs et le projet Remix Biens Communs. Santiago Hoerth Moura a publié l’interview suivante en espagnol.<h4></h4><h4></h4><h4>Entrevista con Alain Ambrosi</h4><h2>Remix the Commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia</h2>Alain Ambrosi es de Québec, la ciudad de Montreal en Canadá y trabaja para una organización que se llama COMMUNOTIC como investigador asociado, y específicamente para un proyecto que se llama Remix the Commons o Remezcla los comunes que es un proyecto internacional de plataforma en la web.Por Redacción Pillku¿Cuál es tu experiencia de trabajo con los comunes?Mi experiencia de trabajo en los comunes empieza en la documentación de todo lo que se hace y lo que se dice sobre los comunes desde hace ya tres años. Empezando en el Foro Social de Belém en 2009, donde tuvimos el primer Encuentro Internacional Ciencia y Democracia, donde se habló de los commons. En este tiempo se hablaba de los bienes comunes, y la declaración final de este foro social mundial de Belém integró una declaración de recuperación de los Bienes Comunes. Desde este tiempo yo hice como siguiendo un poco las manifestaciones, conferencias, que se hacían sobre los comunes, hubo después la conferencia de Berlín organizado también por el Commons Strategies Group pero con la Fundación Heinrich Böll, era el primer encuentro donde la gente de los comunes materiales y de los comunes inmateriales se encontraron por primera vez digamos. Y fue en esta ocasión que hemos pensando y lanzado la idea de un proyecto que se llama Remix the Commons.Entonces contamos un poco en qué consiste Remix the Commons.Remix the Commons es una plataforma de intercambio de difusión, de producción, de documentos multimedia sobre el tema de los comunes. Es una plataforma socio-técnica, donde preferimos hablar más de lo socio que de lo técnico, y decir que es una plataforma que es un espacio de co-creación sobre los comunes. Entonces hemos empezado con entrevistas en todas estas reuniones, foros sociales, pero estamos integrando varios documentos sobre los comunes. Pero la plataforma no es solamente una cosa que va hacer sobre internet; es realmente un espacio de trabajo de co-creación, quiere decir que ya tenemos un montón de problemas que resolver, problemas técnicos que para nosotros es algo menor, pero a nivel jurídico legal porque vamos a hacer circular imágenes, videos, lo cual es un problema grande, y a nivel económico también, porque hay que sustentar este tipo de proyectos y ya tenemos varias ideas de trabajar a nivel de los comunes, porque nosotros nos consideramos com un bien común, quiero decir el proyecto Remix the Commons, queremos funcionar como un bien común, una comunidad de “partenarios” que van a decir las reglas propias, para ir adelante con el proyecto.Entonces tenemos otras dimensiones muy importantes, como la gobernanza, como cuáles reglas vamos a poner y, también, otra dimensión que me parece muy importante que es la dimensión intercultural porque es muy difícil, por ejemplo que hemos visto desde el principio en Berlín: hace dos años tenemos una serie de entrevistas, de series que hablan de los comunes en chino o en otros idiomas, y se ve que el concepto mismo de commons corresponde a algo bien profundo en todas las culturas, y a veces hay diferencias, etc., y entonces es un desafío que me parece muy grande eso, el de la interculturalidad, las traducciones, etc.Remix The Commons es un proyecto colaborativo sobre obras multimedia. Su objetivo es documentar e ilustrar las ideas y prácticas en torno a la cuestión del bien común en el proceso creativo. Para conocer más su trabajo visita: <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org">https://www.remixthecommons.org</a>via<a href="http://www.pillku.org/article/remix-the-commons-es-una-plataforma-de-intercambio/">Remix the commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia | Revista Pillku, amantes de la libertad | Cultura Libre.</a>emixthecommons.org</a> via<a href="http://www.pillku.org/article/remix-the-commons-es-una-plataforma-de-intercambio/">Remix the commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia | Revista Pillku, amantes de la libertad | Cultura Libre.</a>)
Chargement/Site + (Santiago Hoerth Moura from <a … Santiago Hoerth Moura from <a href="http://www.pillku.org/">Revista Pillku</a> met Alain Ambrosi in Mexico City last November 2012 during the preparatory meeting for the <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conference">Economics, Commons Conference</a>. They have discussed about commons and about Remix the Commons project. Santiago Hoerth Moura has published the following interview in Spanish.<h4>Entrevista con Alain Ambrosi</h4><h2>Remix the Commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia</h2>Alain Ambrosi es de Québec, la ciudad de Montreal en Canadá y trabaja para una organización que se llama COMMUNOTIC como investigador asociado, y específicamente para un proyecto que se llama Remix the Commons o Remezcla los comunes que es un proyecto internacional de plataforma en la web.Por Redacción Pillku¿Cuál es tu experiencia de trabajo con los comunes?Mi experiencia de trabajo en los comunes empieza en la documentación de todo lo que se hace y lo que se dice sobre los comunes desde hace ya tres años. Empezando en el Foro Social de Belém en 2009, donde tuvimos el primer Encuentro Internacional Ciencia y Democracia, donde se habló de los commons. En este tiempo se hablaba de los bienes comunes, y la declaración final de este foro social mundial de Belém integró una declaración de recuperación de los Bienes Comunes. Desde este tiempo yo hice como siguiendo un poco las manifestaciones, conferencias, que se hacían sobre los comunes, hubo después la conferencia de Berlín organizado también por el Commons Strategies Group pero con la Fundación Heinrich Böll, era el primer encuentro donde la gente de los comunes materiales y de los comunes inmateriales se encontraron por primera vez digamos. Y fue en esta ocasión que hemos pensando y lanzado la idea de un proyecto que se llama Remix the Commons.Entonces contamos un poco en qué consiste Remix the Commons.Remix the Commons es una plataforma de intercambio de difusión, de producción, de documentos multimedia sobre el tema de los comunes. Es una plataforma socio-técnica, donde preferimos hablar más de lo socio que de lo técnico, y decir que es una plataforma que es un espacio de co-creación sobre los comunes. Entonces hemos empezado con entrevistas en todas estas reuniones, foros sociales, pero estamos integrando varios documentos sobre los comunes. Pero la plataforma no es solamente una cosa que va hacer sobre internet; es realmente un espacio de trabajo de co-creación, quiere decir que ya tenemos un montón de problemas que resolver, problemas técnicos que para nosotros es algo menor, pero a nivel jurídico legal porque vamos a hacer circular imágenes, videos, lo cual es un problema grande, y a nivel económico también, porque hay que sustentar este tipo de proyectos y ya tenemos varias ideas de trabajar a nivel de los comunes, porque nosotros nos consideramos com un bien común, quiero decir el proyecto Remix the Commons, queremos funcionar como un bien común, una comunidad de “partenarios” que van a decir las reglas propias, para ir adelante con el proyecto.Entonces tenemos otras dimensiones muy importantes, como la gobernanza, como cuáles reglas vamos a poner y, también, otra dimensión que me parece muy importante que es la dimensión intercultural porque es muy difícil, por ejemplo que hemos visto desde el principio en Berlín: hace dos años tenemos una serie de entrevistas, de series que hablan de los comunes en chino o en otros idiomas, y se ve que el concepto mismo de commons corresponde a algo bien profundo en todas las culturas, y a veces hay diferencias, etc., y entonces es un desafío que me parece muy grande eso, el de la interculturalidad, las traducciones, etc.Remix The Commons es un proyecto colaborativo sobre obras multimedia. Su objetivo es documentar e ilustrar las ideas y prácticas en torno a la cuestión del bien común en el proceso creativo. Para conocer más su trabajo visita: <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org">https://www.remixthecommons.org</a>via<a href="http://www.pillku.org/article/remix-the-commons-es-una-plataforma-de-intercambio/">Remix the commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia | Revista Pillku, amantes de la libertad | Cultura Libre.</a></a> via<a href="http://www.pillku.org/article/remix-the-commons-es-una-plataforma-de-intercambio/">Remix the commons es una plataforma de intercambio multimedia | Revista Pillku, amantes de la libertad | Cultura Libre.</a>)
Chargement/Site + (Spain’s recent municipal and regi … Spain’s recent municipal and regional elections have transformed the entire political scene. New citizen coalitions with roots in community groups allied with small progressive political parties won unexpected victories in several large cities. This, plus the fact that two new national political parties – Podemos and Ciudadanos – burst decisively onto the political stage in the regional elections, has blocked the bipartisan (PP-PSOE) system created with the 1975 democratic transition. Victorious in 7 major cities throughout the country, including the 3 largest ones (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia), these coalitions open the door to a different sort of transition, questioning the dominant political culture and mentality, and in most cases putting in place minority governments, thus obliging various parties to negotiate joint platforms. It is interesting to note that Podemos, the young political party that made a surprise showing in the 2014 European elections and made strong gains on the regional level this year, decided not to present its own candidates in the municipal elections, but rather participated in or – more frequently – supported the new citizen coalitions in various cities.<h2>Reinventing Urban Commons for the XXIst Century</h2>These newcomers to the municipal political scene identifiy with the Commons, and in some cases even include the term in their names : Barcelona en Comù, Zaragoza en Comun… A perusal of their programmes and of the manner in which they were developed demonstrates that this is not simply an empty phrase, but the reference to the Commons introduces instead a new political discourse and horizon and, above all, a new way of ‘doing’ politics. The new candidates-elect come from different social movements and this is their first experience in electoral politics. Their ‘non-parties’ are in general less than a year old but the organisations they come from have held massive mobilisations and won significant local victories. On analysis, the new political culture they aim for is rooted in the tradition of urban struggle now revisited and improved on the basis of the citizen movements that originated in the 2008 financial crisis, the indignados of 2011, and the successive ‘waves’ (mareas) that followed in the housing, health, education, culture and urban ecology sectors. The tradition of self-management and ‘self-government’ often rooted in libertarianism and long known as ‘municipalism’ has been revisited by the culture and practices of the many anti-growth, ecological, alter-globalisation, and cultural movements inspired by the spirit of the Indignados of 2011 with an impressive mastery and intelligent use of new technologies and audiovisual media.The challenges facing this new municipalism are enormous : the problems are illustrated by the findings of two international reports revealed immediately following the May 24 elections. The firsti underlined the explosion of the level of poverty since the beginning of the crisis (increase from 9% to 18%) while the secondii demonstrated an increase of 40% of the number of extremely rich during the same period. Adding to the general morosity by reiterating prevailing logic, the IMF seized the occasion, shortly prior to the investiture of the new municipal governments, to congratulate the Spanish government on its ‘encouraging’ economic results while publicly reminding it that it must continue its austerity measures by increasing indirect taxes, cutting health and education budgets still more and lowering wages. What else could be expected from the fans of austerity?<h2>The Re-dignified Good Life In Common</h2>But such dire pronouncements do not scathe the confidence of the new mayors whose campaigns were run and programmes built on an anti-austerity stance; they are already putting in place (Barcelona is a good example) some of the measures set out in their plan of attack for affordable housing, food, accessible public utilities and transportation, and a basic living allowance. They are dedicating an unprecedented quantity of resources for municipal governments to these measures in an explicit attempt to counter the ‘de-humanising’ effects of austerity policies and to ‘restore the dignity’ of the most vulnerable. But the declared intentions of the new municipal leaders go far beyond the emergency measures of the first few months of their term. They want to turn their cities into living experiments in promoting an urban Good Life that redefines economic and social policy and municipal responsabilities as well as democratic practices on the municipal but also the regional, national and international levels. In her inaugural speech as Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau called for the creation of a ‘network of democratic cities in Southern Europe’.<h2>Transparency and Participation</h2>This incipient revolution in political culture and practice is taking place with total transparency, with the creation of a code of ethics, cutting the salaries of the elected representatives and eliminating statutory perks (official cars, per diems, etc) and, above all, by wagering on the collective intelligence and active participation of local citizens. Indeed, many of them have already taken part in the municipal programme by contributing to its elaboration prior to and during the campaign in the many neighbourhood meetings and various ‘crowd-sourcing’ moments on virtual platforms. The resulting highly structured programme remains an open document and is in itself an invitation to participate. The web page of Barcelona en Comù boldly states : ‘The programme you have before you is a programme In Common and, as you can see, that requires a major change from traditional political programmes […] it’s a document that aims to be useful to dialogue amongst citizens.’ iiiDuring her inauguration ceremony, Ada Colau asserted that ‘it is indispensable to create a new form of governance’, reminding the crowd that she is but ‘one of thousands of neighbours’, that she plans to ‘govern by obeying’ and that if she and her team do not deliver on their programme promises ‘Kick us out!’. The thousands of people watching the ceremony on giant screens in Plaza Sant Jaume greeted her speech with shouts of ‘Yes we can!’ (Si se puede), echoing the slogans of the public meetings held throughout the campaign. In a crowd so dense that she could hardly make her way through, but clearly at ease surrounded by ‘neighbours’, comrades and partisans, Ada slipped into the discourse and manner of the ex-president and activist of the PAHiv. With her charming smile, she declared to the enthusiastic crowd that ‘governing will not be easy but we are not alone’ and called on them to show responsability and to actively participate. She concluded evoking the need for empathy and invited the crowd to organise a demonstration in support of the strking telephone workers of Movistar, present in the crowd, and whose struggle she has supported throughout the campaign. The tone has been set, and indicates that it is not only the Commons but also the spirit of the Indignados movement that has come to City Hall.<h2>The Realism of the Commons</h2>In an article titled ‘It’s time for realism’, Josep Ramoneda, columnist for the catalan daily Ara, compared the proposals of Barcelona en Comù to the latest demands of the IMF, demonstrating that the ‘nihilist utopias’ – a label often used by the media and the governing right wing PP party to denigrate progressive alternatives – are instead found in the proposals of the neoliberal hardliners, incapable as they have shown themselves to be of finding a solution to the economic crisis and deepening inequality. He concludes by affirming ‘Let’s be realistic, let us consider the common good’v – a somewhat astonishing comment in this newpaper reputed to be more interested in supporting independence than the Commons. A comment that also reveals that the Commons have come not only to Town Hall, but are emerging in the collective imagination and in political discourse.<h2>A Living Laboratory, an Invitation to Commoning</h2>The emerging glocal movement of commoners and their apprentices should observe closely what transpires in this living laboratory of the urban commons. There is a lot to learn from this commons in action about the nature of the commons, the process of commoning and the possible transition to a commons society. This is also a unique opportunity to contribute peer-to-peer with our own experiences and know-how, developed all over the globe in the many different socio-cultural contexts where the Commons are being reinvented in recent years.Alain Ambrosi, Barcelona, 17 June 20151 OECD, May 2015 <a href="http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/employment/in-it-together-why-lne.ess-inequality-benefits-all_9789264235120-en">http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/employment/in-it-together-why-lne.ess-inequality-benefits-all_9789264235120-en</a> 2 Capgemini and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Wealth Management. Cited in El Pais 17 June 2015. 3 <a href="https://barcelonaencomu.cat">https://barcelonaencomu.cat</a> 4 PAH : Plataforma des los afectados por la hipoteca – Platform of those affected by mortgage (ie, against expulsions) created in 2009 in Barcelona and which now counts some 200 member associations in Spain. 5 Ara, 10 June 2015.;/a> 4 PAH : Plataforma des los afectados por la hipoteca – Platform of those affected by mortgage (ie, against expulsions) created in 2009 in Barcelona and which now counts some 200 member associations in Spain. 5 Ara, 10 June 2015.)
Chargement/Site + (The 11 and 12 November, the <a … The 11 and 12 November, the <a href=" http://www.deeep.org/"> DEEEP project </a> , co-funded by the European Union program , gathered in Johannesburg (South Africa) 200 activists from around the world to rethink the framework of development NGOs and initiate the construction of a » World Citizens Movement . » This meeting is the starting point of a process that will last two years of citizen mobilization for change and global justice. <a Href="http://movement.deeep.org"> A digital platform </a> is dedicated to it. During the conference, the participants began to learn from the work of civil society, its modes of organization and action in different areas around the world and produced a document, <a href = " http://www.deeep.org/component/content/article/395.html " >« The Johannesburg Compass: Questions and orientations »</a> to define the principles that should guide the work of the two coming years.Invited to participate in this process, I have contributed to discussions and writing text to feed as much as possible of the concept of the commons. Conceived initially as a declaration of principles supported by a shared vision, this document has become a guide for the process itself, based on a few key ideas such as the need to de-colonize our minds and de-institutionalize development organizations. The result reflects the will of renewal in both form and content of the action, but leaves unanswered, at least for the moment, questions about the nature of a worl citizen movement, if it is one motion, and the nature of the process of the two next years of workfollowing the conference.It seems to me that today , a world citizens movement has to revolutionize the way for everyone to exercise their citizenship, and to be aware of. One of the roles of NGOs and CSOs should be to support the politicization of everyday life in the field of health , nutrition , education , work, .. .. etc, within the perspective of the commons. How to do this on a massive scale ? Appart from action campaigns on strategic objectives at the regional or global level, made by organizations, that are the infrastructure of civil society, it is to renew and articulate what is in France called popular education by integration of social neighborhood and mediated by computer networks practices. Such a dynamic would allow each to be more confortable with broader perspective and the international agenda. The challenge is to build bridges with multiple communities of belonging, not to provide them with the leadership of NGOs and movements, but to recognize and legitimize their leaderships at different scales of power (from local to global).To listen to the conference participants at Johannesburg , it looks like it must also go through the (re)discovery of the commons within organizations, regardless of their size or intended to rebuild the project itself. This can be a wide perspective of the organization (NGOs / CSOs ) to continue the work from Johburg. In this sense, it will be better to work on Our commons than to define THE commons and to try to transform organizations working on their values, projects and actions, rather than seeking Commons as a theoretical or ideological framework.Another avenue is to share les lessons learned by activists of the intangible and knowledge commons that, since the emergence of the computer have been able to build a movement that defends their values, distributed forms of collaboration , openness and freedom , sharing and solidarity , personal empowerment and participation in collectives, acting on a small scale while remaining in a universal vision. This movement is generally invisible as a social movement for people who are not activists. Everyone uses free software, access to culture and free knowledge, most of the time without paying attention. Yet organizations of knowledge and free culture are structured and are » NGO » or » OCS » weighty. Just consider the most visible in the public area alike Wikimedia Foundation, or the weight of this movement in the industrial sector (IBM , Android, …) or the work of lobbying done by groups aloke EFF Quadrature net, to realize that. It is a movement to maturity. This experience and the culture it develops worth sharing. Would not it be helpful to think a similar movement in the field of materials, urban, rural and natural commons?Frédéric Sultanould not it be helpful to think a similar movement in the field of materials, urban, rural and natural commons? Frédéric Sultan)
Chargement/Site + (The <a href="https://wiki.remi … The <a href="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Petit_d%C3%A9jeuner_en_commun_(Coll)">Breakfasts in-Common </a>process was initiated by Senegal’s « Centre d’Art Senegalais Kër Thiossane » and Quebec’s « Communautique », as part of the project Remix the Commons.Born from a research dynamic about endogenous definitions of commons, Breakfasts in-Common bring occasions to think collectively about what commons mean, from an artistic approach. The goal of these meetings whether in Dakar or Montréal is not only to understand but also to feel the meaning difference that exists between my « I » and the « we » of a collective process. A sensitive approach that allows to craft stories able to give some meaning to the fact of living together. Stories that help maintain the community in motion and give a purpose to one’s own existence and thriving.<H2>First light in Dakar</H2> From January 2012, in Dakar, in a violent pre-election context, in the midst of doubts about the constitution and the rise of citizenship awareness in all Senegal, Kër Thiossane started an exploratory work around Commons by organizing Breakfasts in-Common in a monthy cycle.Three Breakfasts in-Common were organized between January and April 2012 on the subjects « The commons in African cities » ; « Commons and space » and « Languages and knowledge ».These Breakfasts in-Common were moments of gathering and exchanges constituting by themselves a practice of the « in-Common », where each participates in sharing knowledge in a horizontal dynamic.Each Breakfast started by viewing a film produced by the Kër Thiossane team on an artist and his or her questioning about one aspect of the Commons in the Senegalese society.Some of the films and extracts from the breakfasts recordings are available online on the Kër Thiossane website, along with a toolbox of books, texts, interviews that anyone is welcomed to enrich with their own contributions via a wiki or at a breakfast in-Common.Afropixel Festival This material, accumulated since early 2012 and the thinking initiated among the artistic community and the inhabitants was used to prepare a variety of activities, residences, workshops and performances at the time of the Afropixel festival as part of the theme « Creation, culture and knowledge in Common », that took place in may 2012.Among this diverse and rich programming, Kër Thiossane gathered great African thinkers and artists to elaborate collectively on the question of « Artistic responsibility in the construction of the in-Common ».All around a glass of tea, Achille Mbembe, Simon Njami, Ken Bugul, Kan-Si, Felwine Sarr, Thiat and Ibrahima Wane took part in what was not an expert group but rather a meeting where everyone’s expertise was to profit the collective thinking that was woven along the talks.<h2>Kédougou, until where is your place ?</h2>In 2013, the Breakfasts in-Common keep on with the collaboration of the collective « La companyía (http://www.lacompanyia.org/). They delocalize with a first breakfast outside Dakar in March as part of the « Night of the stars » festival organised by the Multimedia Community center of Kédougou.Taking the same theme as the festival, « Kédougou, until where is your place ? », we investigated on the problematic of the Kédougou region associated with Commons. The opening of the question « where is your place » allowed to approach the questions about managing natural resources in a boundary region rich in gold and ore, as well as belonging and building of communities.<H3>Futur development</h3>The Breakfasts in-Common and the Afropixel festival organized so far have drawn a great interest, as much from artists and members of the civil society as from citizens, in Senegal. Seeds were sown and a real awareness of the stake of Commons invites us to continue these meetings in an even more open way, about other aspects of Commons, with the objective to enable and widen this collective thinking space. In 2013-2014, Kër Thiossane would like to organize other breakfasts at regular intervals and repeat more of the delocalised experiments, outside Dakar, in partnership with Senegal’s community radios network.These experiments with continue to be filmed, documented and shared with Communautique in Montréal and other partners, actors of commons elsewhere in the world (Finland, Colombia…). Videos and other documents from these with be posted online on the Remix the commons platform.<h3>Collaborators</h3>Marion Louisgrand Sylla (Ker Thiossane). Susana Moliner – Marta Vallejo Herrando ( La Companiya),<h3>Financing</h3>The Breakfasts in-Common receives financial support from the « Fonds Francophone des inforoutes » through the project Remix the Commons. The production of the Breakfasts in-Common in Dakar was made possible thanks to the financial support from Arts Collaboratory and the « Organisation Internationale de la Froncophonie in Kër Thiossane.<h3>Contribution of Remix the Commons</h3>Remix the Commons contributed in the onset of the project and spread the word of it’s existance among commoners. Remix the Commons supports formalisation of the process and the deployement of a network of similar practices.Thiossane. <h3>Contribution of Remix the Commons</h3> Remix the Commons contributed in the onset of the project and spread the word of it’s existance among commoners. Remix the Commons supports formalisation of the process and the deployement of a network of similar practices.)
Chargement/Site + (The Charter of the Forest – Carta … The Charter of the Forest – Carta de Foresta – published in 1217, is recognized as the first official act that extends the protections and essential rights of the Magna Carta to the English commoners against the abuses of the aristocracy. Under this charter, the people are guaranteed the right to access forest resources. The impact of this charter has been revolutionary. It is generally considered one of the cornerstones of the British Constitution and<a href="https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_services/law_library_congress/charter_of_the_forest.html"> inspiration of the American Constitution</a> (2). It has made it possible to render vast expanses of land to the peasants, to oppose the plundering of the common goods by the monarchy and the aristocracy. In the 17th century, it has inspired the Diggers and Levellers and later protests against the enclosure of lands by the capitalist bourgeoisie. But it was repealed in 1971 by a conservative government, allowing the privatization of resources such as water for the benefit of multinational companies.Today, forests remain essential resources for housing, food sovereignty, and are essential for fighting environmental crises. A <a href="http://charteroftheforest800.org/">campaign</a> to celebrate the Forest Charter began in Britain in September and continues in November. The Lincoln Record Society has organized an international conference on the Charter of the Forest that began with a houseboat trip on the River Thames from Windsor to Runnymede, the place where was signed the Magna Carta. Experts presented the Charter of the Forest, its history and its contemporary implications. Participants were also able to see one of the original copies of the Forest Charter and participated in a guided tour of the Forest of Sherwood that (in France) we know through Robin Hood story.Today, there is a debate chaired by the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell MP, with Professors Peter Linebaugh and Guy Standing, and Julie Timbrell of <a href="https://thenewputneydebates.com/">New Putney Debates</a>. This debate is part of a week-long program (6) calling for the creation of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book">new Domesday Book</a>, a national census of UK landowners and the identification of the common goods as well as a new Commons Charter and Communities Charters. This is to question the notion of land ownership in a country where it is one of the most concentrated in the western countries, and to elaborate proposals, including a possible tax on land ownership, for a better distribution of rights and responsibilities to land.Thanks to Yves Otis for reporting the article <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/11/youve-never-heard-charter-important-magna-carta.html">Why You’ve Never Heard of a Charter as Important as the Magna Carta</a>Transcript of the Forest Charter: <a href="http://www.constitution.org/eng/charter_forest.html">http://www.constitution.org/eng/charter_forest.html</a> Forest Charter: <a href="http://www.constitution.org/eng/charter_forest.html">http://www.constitution.org/eng/charter_forest.html</a>)
Chargement/Site + (The violent destruction of the co … The violent destruction of the commons of the ZAD (Zone To Defend) of Notre-Dame-des-Landes by the French government is an infamous and revolting act. The current police offensive, led by several thousand gendarmes and CRS equipped with armored vehicles and helicopters is only the exercise of the purest State violence against a set of collective practices that are in progress or in preparation. This includes their fragile material conditions (buildings, meeting places, work tools, herds), and they are now destroyed by bulldozers and police squads.Since the first day of assault on the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, the destruction of the farm of the «Cents Noms» was a true declaration of social and political war. The destruction of this place was by no means imperative given the criteria invoked by the government in its « communication ». Nicole Klein, Prefect of Loire Region(<a href="#note1" name="retour au texte1"> 1</a>), justifies the police operation by claiming that the «Cents Noms» had not submitted an agricultural project. This is obviously false: the inhabitants of this farm were carrying an alternative agricultural project and some of them had submitted a request for regularization.What is the real reason for this destructive rage? It is not the absence of a project, it is the nature of the projects that is at stake. The State and its representatives do not support the life forms that are experimented here and now, and for the past 10 years. These life forms prefigure a society free from the ownership logic in all its dimensions. From this point of view, it is of the highest symbolic value that the inhabitants and defenders of the zone propose the Assembly of Uses to take charge of the collective management of lands and spaces from the beginning. This solution would’ve had the advantage to straightly extend the experience initiated and pursued for so many years: to make the logic of the common use which is a logic of care and nurture, or to prevail over the logic of land ownership which is a destructive and deadly logic.It is not the « Constitutional State » that defends itself, as the Prime Minister affirms, it is a State of force that wants to eliminate as quickly and completely as possible all actions that could perform the principle of the Common: associations, consumers and workers cooperatives, agricultural and craft projects, convivial modes of exchange and of life. The government wants to prevent the invention of what is a real way of producing and living by using its excessive police force. It also wants to eliminate a solidary and ecological model of life that we need today.The State shows its true face here. It is not only protecting private ownership, but it is itself completely under the logic of ownership. It is the Owner State in war against the commons. It must be defeated at all costs to preserve the treasure threatened of the commons. Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval—–Note : <a name="note1"></a>(1) The Prefect is a representative of the public authority in the department, directly appointed by the President of the Republic (and not elected as mayors).—– Original edition : <a href="http://questionmarx.typepad.fr/question-marx/2018/04/nddl-non-a-la-violence-de-letat-contre-les-communs-.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NDDL : NON A LA VIOLENCE DE L’ETAT CONTRE LES COMMUNS ! </a> Thursday, April 12 2018Translated in English by Frédéric Sultan and Alexandre Guttmanngt;NDDL : NON A LA VIOLENCE DE L’ETAT CONTRE LES COMMUNS ! </a> Thursday, April 12 2018 Translated in English by Frédéric Sultan and Alexandre Guttmann)