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Une liste de toutes les pages qui ont la propriété « Description » avec la valeur « Enregistrement de Laurent Marseault où il est question de "compostabilité" à l'occasion d'une intervention en Touraine. 'enregistrement est donc de qualité moyenne, il sert de matière complémentaire à un article en court d'écriture. Laurent y partage l'importance pour que des Communs en soit vraiment de penser dés leur démarrage les conditions de leur compostabilités, c'est à dire ce qui fera que l'expérience accumulée, le projet ou la structure pourra à sa mort réellement servir à d'autres. Quelques affirmations qui ressortent de cet extrait : - Les humains sont vivants, ils doivent donc créer du vivant pour survivre - Pour créer du vivant il faut penser la mort du projet en amont - Les Communs et les licences ne garantissent pas la capacité à réutiliser ». Puisqu’il n’y a que quelques résultats, les valeurs proches sont également affichées.

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Les biens communs, un enjeu politique + (Table ronde sur les communs et les biens c … Table ronde sur les communs et les biens communs présentée par Jean-Marie Harribey avec Benjamin Coriat (Université Paris 13) et Hervé Le Crosnier (Université de Caen) tenue dans le cadre de la filière "Transitions, Biens communs, Climat" le jeudi 27 août 2015. Vidéo réalisée par Serge Tostain d'Attac. Octobre 2015ée par Serge Tostain d'Attac. Octobre 2015)
The promise of the commons + (The promise of the communs Produit et réal … The promise of the communs Produit et réalisé par John D. Liu et Patrick Augenstein la version de 16 mn de ce film traite de l'accaparement des terres et des droits à la terre en Inde, au Népal et au Mexique.Le film est dédié à la mémoire d'Elinor Ostrom.lm est dédié à la mémoire d'Elinor Ostrom.)
Co-ops, Commons, and the Partner State + (This presentation focuses on the central r … This presentation focuses on the central role that co-operatives and commons play in the formulation and implementation of a new political economy oriented around the common good. The presentation will review the historical links between the two movements and how their respective histories and values reveal the underlying social dynamic that is at the heart of a continuous struggle for economic democracy and social justice. A key part of the presentation is exploring a new vision for the role and operation of the State as enabler and resource for the empowerment and mobilization of civil society for the production of social benefit. I call this the Partner State. How such a state might operate is explored through the examination of how co-operative systems have operated in regions such as Emilia Romagna, in the use of social co-operatives, and the experience of digital commons in scaling democratic systems.tal commons in scaling democratic systems.)
Peter Linebaugh: Who Owns the Commons? An 800 Year Fight for Public Goods + (This year marks the 800th anniversary of t … This year marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, and this weeks show marks that occasion with a discussion on the rights of the commons with author Peter Linebaugh. We also visit a community center in Caracas, and hear from youth voices about life and revolution in Venezuela.es about life and revolution in Venezuela.)
P. Dardot et A. Ambrosi 4; L'Etat peut-il être au service des communs ? + (Thème : A quelles conditions l'Etat peut-il être mis au service des communs aujourd'hui ? Avec la participation de Cristina Fiordimelo)
P. Dardot et A. Ambrosi 1; Communs et politique + (Thème : Communs et politique : qu'est-ce que le succès des listes qui se réclament des communs aux élections municipales espagnoles du mois de mai 2015 apporte à la réflexion sur les communs aujourd'hui ? Avec la participation de Cristina Fiordimelo)
P. Dardot et A. Ambrosi 2; Activité instituante et coordination des communs + (Thème : Conversation entre DARDOT Pierre et AMBROSI Alain ; Activité instituante et coordination des communs Avec la participation de Cristina Fiordimelo)
MACAO 03 - La pratique des communs + (Thème : La pratique des communs)
Camp Pixelache 2014: remix of the Commons + (Un "remix" documentaire du Camp Pixlache qui s'est déroulé à Vartiosaari, en Finlande, réalisé par Maria Candia et Kalle Kuisma avec les commoners interviewés par AMBROSI Alain et SULTAN Frédéric du projet remixthecommons.org.)
Communs, travail et salariat + (Un commun, comme forme d’action collective … Un commun, comme forme d’action collective, repose en règle générale sur le travail des membres d’un collectif. Les conditions effectives dans lesquelles s’organise cette mise au travail, constitue, au même titre que la gouvernance, une dimension centrale de la constitution d’un commun, et de son développement. Notre objet sera de considérer les divers modes d’organisation possibles du travail des "commoners", et les questions qu’ils soulèvent. Cela inclut en particulier les questions de statut juridique et contractuel, les modes de rémunération (ou non) du travail fourni, les possibilités de différentes formes de division du travail. D’un point de vue plus fondamental, il s’agit de considérer dans quelle mesure le commun peut se présenter comme une alternative à ce qui est la forme principale d’organisation de la production et du travail dans nos sociétés, l’entreprise. Et par là, également, comme une forme d’association de travailleurs libres, alternative à un rapport salarial fondé sur une relation d’autorité, sur lequel repose l’entreprise capitaliste, mais aussi d’autres types d’entreprises. Cela devra également nous amener à considérer les liens possibles entre l’analyse des communs et la recherche de nouvelles formes sociales d’entreprises.e nouvelles formes sociales d’entreprises.)
Le domaine public, un bien commun + (Un entretien avec Lionel Maurel et Sylvère … Un entretien avec Lionel Maurel et Sylvère Mercier, du collectif SavoirsCom1 (http://savoirscom1.info), filmé à l'occasion d'un atelier "Appropriation du domaine public" à la BPI (Paris) le 16 octobre 2013, dans la préparation du Calendrier de l'avent du domaine public 2014 - en ligne ici : http://www.aventdudomainepublic.org/Film réalisé dans le cadre du chantier Pages Publiques, du master Édition et mémoire des textes, option édition, à l'Université de Caen, Basse-Normandie (http://bit.ly/IiO4Fc). Livre à paraître prochainement chez C&F éditions (http://cfeditions.com).chez C&F éditions (http://cfeditions.com).)
Le Manifeste ABC + (Un manifeste qui liste les principes de biens communs sur le sujet d'eau.)
Documentaires sur les communs + (Une collection de documentaires qui ont comme objet les communs.)
Définir les communs - Bernardo Gutiérrez + (Une définition des communs proposée par Be … Une définition des communs proposée par Bernardo Gutiérrez, Brésil / Espagne, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Tomislav Tomasevic + (Une définition des communs proposée par To … Une définition des communs proposée par Tomislav Tomasevic Croatie, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".Langues : Anglais et Croateles communs". Langues : Anglais et Croate)
Définition des communs selon Yves Otis + (Une définition des communs proposée par Yves Otis, de percolab, réalisée dans le cadre de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.)
Définir les Communs - Michel Bauwens + (Une définition des communs proposée par Mi … Une définition des communs proposée par Michel Bauwens, Thailand / Belgium, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"."Basically for me the commons is leading your life and always thinking about how all other living beings can benefit from it; so not just 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.")
Définir les communs - Charlotte Hess + (Une définition des communs proposée par Ch … Une définition des communs proposée par Charlotte Hess (IASC), USA, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"."Over the years the definition of commons has changed radically so this is a difficult question to ask me because I am fully aware that if you are asking an economist to define the commons it is a totally different question than if you ask a legal scholar to define the commons. So... hm... I have been tuning on this idea that there is no commons without commoning. Lin Ostrom and I have defined commons as a shared resource subject to vulnerability or social dilemmas. Now if you say that there is no resource without commoning – that kind of implies that – then I am caught up with the problem that I do believe that in the global commons arena there are in fact commons without... where there is no commoning happening: there needs to be commoning; there needs to be people involved but as yet they are out there waiting for their community to come to them."ting for their community to come to them.")
Définir les communs - Miguel Said Vieira + (Une définition des communs proposée par PR … Une définition des communs proposée par PRENOM NOM, PAYS, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"ntribution au projet "Definir les communs")
Définition des communs selon Georges Pór + (Une définition des communs proposée par Ge … Une définition des communs proposée par Georges Pór, United Kingdom, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Benjamin Coriat + (Une définition des communs proposée par Be … Une définition des communs proposée par Benjamin Coriat, France tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"."Un commun c'est trois choses: c'est une ressource, qui peut être matérielle ou immatérielle c'est pas le problème; et c'est – surtout c'est ça qui est important – c'est autour de cette ressource un système de relations sociales et de droits de propriété sur cette ressource (qui sont des droits d'usage, des droits d'aliénation, des droits d'exploitation, des droits de management); et troisièmement un mode de gouvernance de cette ressource qui détermine les droits d'accès, les droits d'usage etc. Donc voilà un commun c'est au carrefour de ces trois choses: c'est une relation sociale entre individus ou groupes autour d'une ressource et un système de gouvernance qui permet la reproduction et le développement de cette ressource."n et le développement de cette ressource.")
Définir les communs - Justin Kenrick + (Une définition des communs proposée par Ju … Une définition des communs proposée par Justin Kenrick, United Kingdom, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Gregor Kaiser + (Une définition des communs proposée par Gr … Une définition des communs proposée par Gregor Kaiser, Germany, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir the communs - Smari Mc Carthy + (Une définition des communs proposée par Sm … Une définition des communs proposée par Smari Mc Carthy, IMMI Islande, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les Communs - Ludwig Schuster + (Une définition des communs proposée par Lu … Une définition des communs proposée par Ludwig Schuster, Germany, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir le Bien Commun: Silke Helfrich + (Une définition des communs proposée par HE … Une définition des communs proposée par HELFRICH Silke Commons Strategies Group, Germany, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"."The commons for me is a source of inspiration and it energizes me because it makes me see the potential of doing things together."e the potential of doing things together.")
Définir les communs - Mike Linskvayer + (Une définition des communs proposée par Mi … Une définition des communs proposée par Mike Linskvayer, USA, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"ntribution au projet "Definir les communs")
Définition des communs selon Heike Löschmann + (Une définition des communs proposée par He … Une définition des communs proposée par Heike Löschmann, Germany, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013. Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"."For me the commons is doing it ourselves; democratizing."ons is doing it ourselves; democratizing.")
Définir les communs - Alain Ambrosi + (Une définition des communs proposée par AM … Une définition des communs proposée par AMBROSI Alain, Québec (Canada), tirée d'un entretien réalisé par un collectif montréalais, à la suite de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui s'est déroulée à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Mahdi Hajri + (Une définition des communs proposée par Ma … Une définition des communs proposée par Mahdi Hajri, Tunisie, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"(français et arabe) "Definir les communs" (français et arabe))
Définir les communs - Hendro Sangkoyo + (Une définition des communs proposée par He … Une définition des communs proposée par Hendro Sangkoyo, Indonesia, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Chris Watkins + (Une définition des communs proposée par Ch … Une définition des communs proposée par Chris Watkins, Australie, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"ntribution au projet "Definir les communs")
Définir les communs - Monique Chartrand + (Une définition des communs proposée par Mo … Une définition des communs proposée par Monique Chartrand, Québec (Canada), tirée d'un entretien réalisé par un collectif montréalais à la suite de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui s'est déroulée à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définition des communs selon Philippe Aigrain + (Une définition des communs proposée par Philippe Aigrain, de La Quadrature du Net, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par Alain Ambrosi, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin en 2010.)
Définition des communs selon Guillaume Coulombe + (Une définition des communs proposée par Gu … Une définition des communs proposée par Guillaume Coulombe, Québec (Canada), tirée d'un entretien réalisé par un collectif montréalais, à la suite de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui s'est déroulée à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013. Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Valérie Peugeot, France + (Une définition des communs proposée par Pe … Une définition des communs proposée par Peugeot, France, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs""Les biens communs ce sont tout d'abord une ressource qui doit et peut être partagée et qui va donc entretenir un autre rapport à la propriété – qui n'est ni la propriété publique, ni la propriété privée, ni la propriété collective, qui est autre chose. Qui est une manière de penser des droits d'usages, des droits de gestion, des droits d'organisation. Ça c'est la première chose – et cette ressource peut être matérielle, immatérielle: peu importe. Deuxième chose ce sont des règles de gouvernance qui vont permettre justement d'organiser cette gestion, cette distribution de droits, qui vont permettre de protéger la ressource: ça c'est un point très important. Ça veut dire que c'est pas une espèce de non-droit; c'est pas comme j'ai entendu quelqu'un le dire hier quelque chose qui appartient à tout le monde: non, c'est pas du tout ça. Et puis la troisième chose c'est ce qu'on appelle en anglais le commoning, le faire ensemble, c'est-à-dire l'idée qu'on est dans une construction sociale – et une construction politique aussi – donc c'est une manière de faire de la citoyenneté autour de cette ressource en créant de la règle, en créant de l'organisation, et en promouvant à travers ça une autre manière de faire société – il y a aussi l'idée quand même de transformation sociale derrière les communs, en tous cas aujourd'hui!"ère les communs, en tous cas aujourd'hui!")
Définir les communs - Adama Dembélé + (Une définition des communs proposée par DE … Une définition des communs proposée par DEMBELÉ Adama, du Mali PAYS, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".Langages : français et bambara.communs". Langages : français et bambara.)
Définir les communs - Marion Louisgrand Sylla + (Une définition des communs proposée par Ma … Une définition des communs proposée par Marion Louisgrand Sylla, Sénégal, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Abdourahmane Seck + (Une définition des communs proposée par Ab … Une définition des communs proposée par Abdourahmane Seck, Sénégal, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir le Bien Commun: Prabir Purkayastha + (Une définition des communs proposée par Pr … Une définition des communs proposée par Prabir Purkhayashta AIPSN India, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Jaromil Rojo + (Une définition des communs proposée par Ja … Une définition des communs proposée par Jaromil Rojo, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les Communs- Mohamed Leightas, Maroc + (Une définition des communs proposée par Mo … Une définition des communs proposée par Mohamed Leghtas, Maroc, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs" LAngues : Amazigh et françaiss communs" LAngues : Amazigh et français)
Définir les communs - Noël Vale Valera + (Une définition des communs proposée par No … Une définition des communs proposée par Noël Vale Valera (CECOSESOLA) Venezuela,, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définition des communs selon Gwendolyn Hallsmith + (Une définition des communs proposée par Gw … Une définition des communs proposée par Gwendolyn Hallsmith, USA, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013. Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Maristella Svampa + (Une définition des communs proposée par Ma … Une définition des communs proposée par Maristella Svampa, Argentina, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définition des communs selon David Bollier (2013) + (Une définition des communs proposée par Da … Une définition des communs proposée par David Bollier, USA, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013. Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"."I think the commons ultimately comes down to acknowledging the complexities and paradoxes of the human condition and embracing that while still moving forward in hopeful constructive ways. And this is really a source of “enlivenment” as Andrea Weber said – which is I think the main spring for... why people want to become commoners."r... why people want to become commoners.")
Définir les communs - Joe Justice + (Une définition des communs proposée par Jo … Une définition des communs proposée par Joe Justice, USA, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les Communs - Anne Snick + (Une définition des communs proposée par An … Une définition des communs proposée par Anne Snick, Belgique, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Camila Moreno + (Une définition des communs proposée par Ca … Une définition des communs proposée par Camila Moreno (Friends of the Earth) Brésil, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Pat Conaty + (Une définition des communs proposée par Pa … Une définition des communs proposée par Pat Conaty, United Kingdom, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"ntribution au projet "Definir les communs")
Définir les communs - Soma Kishore Parthasarathy + (Une définition des communs proposée par So … Une définition des communs proposée par Soma Kishore Parthasarathy, Indes, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"ntribution au projet "Definir les communs")
Définir les biens communs - Anna Seravalli + (Une définition des communs proposée par An … Une définition des communs proposée par Anna Seravalli (Fabriken) Suède, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Mayo Fuster + (Une définition des communs proposée par Ma … Une définition des communs proposée par Mayo Fuster, Espagne / USA, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Définition des communs selon Friederike Habermann + (Une définition des communs proposée par Fr … Une définition des communs proposée par Friederike Habermann, Germany, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs"."Maybe just let me mention the principles I see in what I would call “ecomony”: it is first that it is not ownership that matters but it is possession – so this is not only exactly what is using but possession it means that it is needed or used by somebody – you have this with commons as land (this is how we live in my project) but you have this with things that you can give away when they are not in your possession anymore, or you can share infrastructures for example. So this is one principle. The next principle is "share what you can": so again what you don't need you can give but you can also share your knowledge, your skills. And this goesin to the next principle which is contributing in a set of shared logic. That is that you act by intrinsic motivation and not by extrinsic rewards. And this is how commons-based and commons-producing economies come together."ommons-producing economies come together.")
Définir les communs - Carolina Botero + (Une définition des communs proposée par Ca … Une définition des communs proposée par Carolina Botero, Colombia, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Définir les communs".tribution au projet "Définir les communs".)
Définir les communs - Jorge Rath + (Une définition des communs proposée par Jo … Une définition des communs proposée par Jorge Rath CECOSESOLA Venezuela, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
CECOSESOLA : vivir lo comùn dia a dia + (Une entrevue de Jorge Rath et Noel Vale Valera réalisée par AMBROSI Alain à la Conférence sur l'économie des Communs de Berlin en mai 2013.)
Londres ville ouverte ? + (Une importante question de démocratie, de justice sociale, de prospérité économique et aussi d'innovation. Quels devraient être les biens communs à Londres?)
09 Notice sur "Le droit à l'épreuve de la résurgence des commons" de Serge Gurwirth et Isabelle Stengers + (Une notice sur l'article « Le droit à l'épreuve de la résurgence des commons » de Serge Gurwirth et Isabelle Stengers, paru dans ''La Revue juridique de l’Environnement'', 2016/2, volume 41, Lavoisier, p. 306-343.)
13 Notice sur "En communs" d'Hervé Le Crosnier + (Une notice sur l'ouvrage ''En communs. Une introduction aux communs de la connaissance'' d'Hervé Le Crosnier. C & F Éditions, Caen, 2015, 254 pages.)
05 Notice sur "Le retour des communs" de Benjamin Coriat + (Une notice sur l'ouvrage ''Le retour des communs. La crise de l'idéologie propriétaire'' de Benjamin Coriat (dir.). Éditions Les Liens qui Libèrent, Paris, 2015, 278 pages.)
08 Notice sur "Vers les biens communs. Souveraineté et propriété au XXIe siècle" de Stefano Rodota + (Une notice sur le texte ''Vers les biens communs. Souveraineté et propriété au XXIe siècle'' de Stéfano Rodotà, paru dans ''Tracés'', hors-série n°16 «Traduire et introduire», Lyon, 2016, p. 211-232. Disponible en ligne sur: http://traces.revues.org/6632.)
Entrevues International Commons Conference Berlin 2010 + (Une récolte de fichiers audio contenant les interventions des participants à l'International Commons Conference, organisée à Berlin en 2010. Les fichiers ont comme objet des définitions sur les biens communs et des réflexions sur les commons.)
Entrevues International Commons Conference Berlin 2013 + (Une récolte de fichiers audio produits pendant l'International Commons Conference organisé à Berlin en 2013, qui a eu comme objet la dimension économique des commons, la culture des communs et la politique des communs.)
Conversations With Great Minds + (Une émission sur les communs avec David Bo … Une émission sur les communs avec David Bollier,activiste et co-fondeur de "Commons Strategies Group", animée par Thom Hartmann. L'émission présente les communs comme une alternative au monde hypercapitaliste et néolibéral qui croit à la supériorité de la propriété privée. Elle raconte d'un nouveau mode d'organisation, une organisation faite en commun.isation, une organisation faite en commun.)
Les déjeuners des Communs (Communautique) + (Version française : http://www.remixthecommons.org/projet/les-dejeuners-des-communs-de-montreal/ English version: http://www.remixthecommons.org/projet/les-dejeuners-des-communs-de-montreal/)
À l'école des communs + (Version française : http://www.remixthecommons.org/projet/a-lecole-des-communs-2 English version : http://www.remixthecommons.org/en/projet/a-lecole-des-communs-2)
19-th Common Core General Meeting, Turin Nov 15-16 2013 + (Video de la séance plénière de la 19 ième … Video de la séance plénière de la 19 ième Rencontre Générale du "Common Core of European Private Law", sur le thème "Transformation globale des droits de propriété induite par la crise mondiale" ( Crisis-Induced Global Transformation in Property Rights), les 15 et 16 Novembre 2013. Université Internationale Collège de Turin en cooperation avec : - I.S.A.I.D.A.T. - Istituto Subalpino per L'Analisi e l'insegnamento del Diritto degli Scambi Internazionali- Centro Studi di Diritto Comparato (Trieste)- Associazione R.B. Schlesinger - Per lo studio del diritto europeoLe Common Core of European Private Law conduit une étude sur les institutions juridiques des communs dans 17 pays européens (Belgique, Croatie, Danemark, Angleterre, Finlande, France, Allemagne, Irlande, Italie, Pays-Bas, Norvège, Serbie, Ecosse, Slovénie, Espagne, Suèdes, et Suisse) et aux États Unis led par Saki Bailey, Ugo Mattei et Filippo Valguarnera.Bailey, Ugo Mattei et Filippo Valguarnera.)
Les Biens Communs - Grève Étudiante - Accessibilité à l'éducation + (Vidéo réalisé dans le contexte des mobilisations étudiantes au Québec en 2012, qui explique ce que sont les biens communs et le lien entre l'éducation et les biens communs.)
Définition des communs selon Hala Essalmawi + (partagé par tous)
Remix des communs de Guérande + (un atelier de Remix des communs de la renc … un atelier de Remix des communs de la rencontre comme processus d'appropriation et d'approfondissement de la notion de Biens Communs "in situ", c'est à dire, placé dans le contexte du processus de Guérande et de ses suites. L'atelier vise à : *produire collectivement une lecture cartographique des communs de Guérande.*identifier et définir le vocabulaire des communs de Guérande.*produire une documentation de l'expérience afin que celle-ci puisse être reproduite, améliorée et/ou adaptée à de nouveaux contextes.rée et/ou adaptée à de nouveaux contextes.)
Another Life Is Possible - Homage to Catalonia II + (« Another life is possible. Homage to Cata … « Another life is possible. Homage to Catalunya II » est un documentaire issue d’un projet de recherche universitaire, une histoire des histoires sur la construction d’une économie durable, solidaire et décentralisée, et des milliers de personnes chaque jour partout dans le monde. Ici et maintenant tissant des liens au-delà de l’individualisation et de la division hiérarchique du travail.et de la division hiérarchique du travail.)
Les communs dans l’espace politique + (« Les communs dans l'espace politique » est un montage réalisé à partir des vidéos d'ateliers et d'entrevues menés dans le cadre de l'Espace des communs à Montréal en août et septembre 2016.)
Cultures en transition + (À Cuba, en Angleterre comme en France, des … À Cuba, en Angleterre comme en France, des alternatives en marche témoignent avec force d’une transition culturelle en cours. Une transition qui serait la préfiguration d’un futur au-delà de l’insécurité alimentaire, des désastres écologiques et des aliénations dont nous souffrons présentement.Les solutions montrées dans Cultures en transition excellent par leur simplicité, leur faible coût, voire leur gratuité, ainsi que par leur intégrité écologique. À l’échelle d’un balcon-potager ou à l’échelle de l’agriculture d’un pays tout entier, elles ont vocation à favoriser les économies locales, à fortifier les liens de voisinage, ainsi qu’à encourager la diffusion libre des savoirs.Intégrées au niveau des communautés locales, ces solutions permettent d’accroître la résistance des sociétés au choc extérieur et en particulier à la triple menace de la raréfaction du pétrole, du réchauffement climatique et de la déchéance imminente de notre système économique.Si les camions s’arrêtaient de circuler, les supermarchés seraient vides en 3 jours !s supermarchés seraient vides en 3 jours !)
Bassin Versant Solidaire de Forest - RAPTZ + (Émission de radio sur le projet Bassin versant solidaire de Forest)
Série de podcasts sur la ressource en eau « Entre Rhône et Saône » + (5ème (et dernier) épisode : « Ressource en … 5ème (et dernier) épisode : « Ressource en eau : les effets du changement climatique » (2)avec Clémence Aubert (responsable du pilotage stratégique CNR), Nicolas Chantepy ( directeur adjoint de l’Agence Rhône Méditerranée Corse ) et Charlène Descollonges (ingénieure hydrologue).4ème épisode : « Ressource en eau : les effets du changement climatique » (1)avec Laurent Roy (directeur de l’Agence de l’Eau Rhône Méditerranée Corse), Matthieu Hervé (directeur du SAGYRC) et Coralie Scribe (La Jardinière Partageuse).3ème épisode : « Tout savoir sur le cycle de l’eau »avec Laurie Caillouet (association Eau’Dyssée), Maude Garcia (association l’Araire), Christophe Drozd et Anne Perrissin (Eau publique du Grand Lyon)2ème épisode : « Les gardiens de l’eau »avec le Collectif des péniches de Lyon, Odysseus 3.1, Randossage et HISA (Human Initiatives to Save Animals)1er épisode : « Milieux aquatiques et biodiversité : le retour des castors et des poissons »avec Des Espèces Parmi’Lyon (DEPL)sons » avec Des Espèces Parmi’Lyon (DEPL))
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 2 + (<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> 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>A CommonsCamp w … <blockquote>A CommonsCamp will take place at Grenoble (France) August 22 to 26, during the <a href="https://ue2018.org/">Summer University of the French social movements</a>.</blockquote><figure style="width: 275px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full" src="https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/images/thumb/Flyer_CommonsCamp_VF.1-1.jpg/723px-Flyer_CommonsCamp_VF.1-1.jpg" alt="CommonsCamp programme" width="275" height="390" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">CommonsCamp programme</figcaption></figure>An open and self-organized gathering, this event is structured into 3 modules: COMMONS, MUNICIPALISM and RIGHTS TO THE CITY and MAPS and SYNERGY meetings, both dedicated to making digital tools for the commoners. The CommonsCamp will end with a workshop dedicated to identify possible follow-ups or next steps.Two exhibitions will be held during the event : « Les communs » (Commons) and « Les voies de la démocratie » (Ways of democracy).This CommonsCamp will be focussing on actionable knowledge and skills in the field of urban commons. It intends to stimulate the emergence and the realisation of concrete projects and collaboration between the commoners.For more information, have a look at the program: <a href="https://hackmd.lescommuns.org/s/ryZjgnXZm#">FR</a> or <a href="https://hackmd.lescommuns.org/s/SyLhb9ff7"> EN</a>, to the <a href="https://hackmd.lescommuns.org/s/By5srebX7#">list of contributors/participants</a>.All the information (program, preparation, contributors, actions, budget already online) is accessible <a href="https://frama.link/commonscamp2018-sommaire">here</a>.There will be interpreting in FR and EN during the plenary meetings. For the other activities, the organisers and facilitator will make sure that everybody will be able to participate (ex. : through whispering interpreting).Documentation (note taking, photos, audio/video) will be a collective endeavour, everybody being invited to contribute to our collective pool of knowledge. A group of volunteers will assist the harvest and publishing of the content on the web, on a daily basis.You can already start to contribute by sending messages to this list, by editing a pad or by sending requests or materials to Mélanie Pinet <pinet.melanie75@gmail.com> or Frédéric Sultan : fredericsultan@gmail.com.y basis. You can already start to contribute by sending messages to this list, by editing a pad or by sending requests or materials to Mélanie Pinet <pinet.melanie75@gmail.com> or Frédéric Sultan : fredericsultan@gmail.com.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (<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>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 2 + (<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>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 2 + (<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>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>Italiano sotto& … <blockquote>Italiano sotto</blockquote>International Festival of the Commons, Chieri, Italia, Sunday July 12, from 12:00 to 18:00. Room : Sala conferenze della bibliotecaReclaim, protect and create commons in our neighborhoods and in our cities, urban commons, effective and contributes to the daily production of human and social rights.In practice, these struggles take many forms. All are facing the need for the creation and use of original legal instruments to manage shared resources in common, to meet a specific need within a community. Each of these legal creations is unique. It corresponds to a specific context, vision, and culture. It provides information on the inventiveness and creative imagination of commoners and on their relationship with the State at the local, national or even international scale.Knowledge of these legal experiences enriches those of other commoners. Analysis of the practices that have produced or inspired them, is a potential factor of development and multiplication of the commons. As part of the Festival of commons of Chieri, we offer a workshop to develop collaboratively a tool for the analysis of the legal instruments, statutes, charters and regulations for the commons. This tool, the Atlas of charters of the urban commons, will be used to know the nature, understand the operation, effects and the conditions of development, of legal instruments in favor of the commons. This will be an operational and critical resource for exchanges and collaborations between commoners engaged in collective claim of urban commons within various initiatives, from different cultural contexts and rights local and national.The workshop will be organized in two separate times at which you can participate independently:From 12:00 to 15:00: • The first workshop will take the stock and share all the approaches and experiences working with legal instruments for urban commons in order to facilitate cooperation between activists, initiatives and organizations already involved;From 15:00 to 18:00: • The second time will be based on practice by analysing legal instruments, statutes, deliberation, regulations and charters of urban commons with a first matrix that will be used for the Atlas of charters of urban commons. The objective will be to achieve a first iteration with this matrix in order to improve it. It will also develop one or more possible use of this tool for identified needs.Both workshops will be led by: Alain Ambrosi, Irene Favero, Daniela Festa, Frédéric SultanRegistration recommended to help the organization of the workshop : <a href=" http://doodle.com/9myczsrttbb7mvu8">http://doodle.com/9myczsrttbb7mvu8</a>Contact : <a href="mailto:ambrosia@web.net">Alain Ambrosi</a> <a href="mailto:irenefavero@reseauculture21.fr">Irene Favero</a> <a href="mailto:festadaniela@gmail.com">Daniela Festa</a> <a href="mailto:fredericsultan@gmail.com">Frédéric Sultan </a><blockquote>ITALIANO</blockquote><h2>WORKSHOP: Creazione di un Atlante degli statuti dei Commons Urbani</h2>Festival Internazionale dei Beni Comuni, Domenica 12 luglio dalle 12:00 alle 18:00. Sala conferenze della bibliotecaRivendicare, proteggere e creare commons nei nostri quartieri e nelle le nostre città contribuisce all’attuazione effettiva e quotidiana di diritti fondamentali e di diritti sociali.Nella pratica, le lotte per i beni comuni urbani possono assumere forme eterogenee. Tutte si trovano confrontate, tuttavia, alla necessità di usare o creare regole e strumenti giuridici che permettano di governare risorse condivise per rispondere a esigenze specifiche di un comunità. Tali strumenti hanno caratteri propri. Corrispondono a determinati contesti e visioni e sono espressioni di determinate culture. Forniscono informazioni sull’inventività e l’immaginazione creativa dei commoners e la relazione che questi hanno con lo Stato a livello locale, nazionale, internazionale.La conoscenza di queste esperienze giuridiche può arricchire gli altri commoners. L’analisi delle pratiche che le hanno prodotte o ispirate è un potenziale fattore di sviluppo e moltiplicazione dei commons. Nel contesto del Festival dei beni comune di Chieri, proponiamo un workshop per elaborare collettivamente uno strumento di analisi di statuti, dichiarazioni e regolamenti che si sono prodotti a partire dai beni comuni. Questo strumento, “Atlante degli statuti dei commons urbani”, servirà a comprenderne la natura, analizzarne il funzionamento e gli effetti e individuare le condizioni e le premesse per lo sviluppo di strumenti giuridici che possano favorire i commons. Sarà una risorsa critica e operativa per gli scambi e la cooperazione tra i collettivi di commoners impegnati nella rivendicazione dei diversi beni comuni urbani situati in diversi contesti culturali e giuridici.Il workshop sarà organizzato in due momenti diversi ai quali è possibile partecipare in modo indipendente:Delle 12:00 alle 15:00: – Il primo workshop si propone di individuare e condividere le pratiche e le esperienze ascrivibili alle rivendicazioni di urban commons per facilitare la cooperazione tra attivisti, esperienze e realtà presenti;Delle 15:00 alle 18:00: – Il seconda workshop consentirà di sperimentare l’analisi dei diversi strumenti giuridici elaborati: statuti, regolamenti, delibere, linee guida a partire da una prima griglia di lettura che servirà da matrice per L’Atlante degli statuti dei commons urbani.L’obiettivo è quello di realizzare una prima sperimentazione della griglia d’analisi per correggerla e migliorarla e di proporre uno o più scenari di utilizzo dello strumento corrispondente alle necessità emerse durante l’insieme dei lavori.Entrambi i laboratori saranno condotti da: Alain Ambrosi, Irene Favero, Daniela Festa, Frédéric SultanRegistrazione raccomanda di facilitare lo svolgimento del workshop : <a href=" http://doodle.com/9myczsrttbb7mvu8">http://doodle.com/9myczsrttbb7mvu8</a>Contact : <a href="mailto:ambrosia@web.net">Alain Ambrosi</a> <a href="mailto:irenefavero@reseauculture21.fr">Irene Favero</a> <a href="mailto:festadaniela@gmail.com">Daniela Festa</a> <a href="mailto:fredericsultan@gmail.com">Frédéric Sultan </a> Daniela Festa, Frédéric Sultan Registrazione raccomanda di facilitare lo svolgimento del workshop : <a href=" http://doodle.com/9myczsrttbb7mvu8">http://doodle.com/9myczsrttbb7mvu8</a> Contact : <a href="mailto:ambrosia@web.net">Alain Ambrosi</a> <a href="mailto:irenefavero@reseauculture21.fr">Irene Favero</a> <a href="mailto:festadaniela@gmail.com">Daniela Festa</a> <a href="mailto:fredericsultan@gmail.com">Frédéric Sultan </a>)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>Le 12 octobre, … <blockquote>Le 12 octobre, profitant de la <a href="http://villes.bienscommuns.org/evenement/qdxuznugt0p/view">rencontre ouverte parisienne</a>, une quinzaine de personnes, designers en formation et chercheurs se retrouvent autour de l’expérimentation simultanée de diverses formes de sélection de termes en rapport avec les communs qui méritent d’être explicités, de leur définition à travers la mobilisation de ressources multimédia, elles aussi variées, et de mises en forme et éditorialisation de ces éléments.</blockquote><figure id="attachment_2901" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2901" style="width: 450px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wordl-mots-enjeux-RBC.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wordl-mots-enjeux-RBC.jpg" alt="graph réalisé à partir des mots clefs enjeux de Remix Biens communs et initialement publié sur le site de Savoircom1" width="450" height="281" class="size-full wp-image-2901" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2901" class="wp-caption-text">graph réalisé à partir des mots clefs enjeux de Remix Biens communs et initialement publié sur le site de Savoircom1</figcaption></figure>A l’occasion de la<a href="http://villes.bienscommuns.org/evenement/qdxuznugt0p/view"> rencontre ouverte sur les biens communs</a> organisée par les collectifs porteurs de Paname en Biens Communs, sera conduite une expérience qui participe de l’élaboration d’un glossaire multimédia des biens communs. L’idée, l’envie de glossaire des biens communs est dans l’air du temps. Elle répond à un besoin qui s’est exprimée à travers diverses démarches. En avril dernier, le collectif Savoirscom1 à élaboré une première liste de termes à mieux définir tirés de son appel. Avec Remix The Commons, nous travaillons depuis le printemps sur l’organisation des documents à travers des « mots clefs enjeux des communs », qui doivent être définis en complément de la <a href="http://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=sul">cartographie des nouveaux communs de C. Hess</a>. De plus, chacun s’accorde sur la nécessité d’enrichir les définitions en français des termes en rapport avec les biens communs dans wikipédia et un <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Biens_communs">projet</a> vient d’être lancé dans ce sens qui sera nourrit par un atelier qui se déroulera le 15 octobre à Paris. Enfin, d’autres initiatives émergent s’inspirant du <a href="http://www.enmi12.org/glossaire/">glossaire des ENMI 2012</a> et de l’exploration du design des formes de communication et collaboration numériques par et autour de Knowtex et l’IRI. Ces initiatives se rejoignent et profitent du tempo de Panam en biens communs. A ce stade, le glossaire des biens communs est perçu comme une sélection de termes en rapport avec les communs qui méritent d’être explicités. La liste des termes d’un glossaire des biens communs n’est pas figée. La définition fait appel à l’usage de documents multimédia choisis, organisés selon différents formats avec au premier rang celui désormais classique de wikipédia. Ces démarches de publication sont participatives et explorent des scénarii d’expérience utilisateur. A ce stade, il s’agit d’explorer diverses voies et de tirer les leçons de l’expérience plus que produire en direct un produit fini. L’élaboration des premières listes de termes met en évidence la tension entre la problématique de la définition et celle de l’éditorialisation qui sou-tendent des projets plus ou moins explicites. Un premier croisement des termes utilisés dans le manifeste savoircom1 avec ceux de Remix the commons donne par exemple la mind map suivante réalisée avec Pierre-Carl Langlais. <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Biens-communs-wikipédia-20130930-e1381355634741.jpeg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Biens-communs-wikipédia-20130930-e1381355634741.jpeg" alt="Biens communs wikipédia 20130930" width="600" height="388" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2903" /></a> Le 12 octobre, l’expérience est décomposée en 3 processus. Un groupe se consacre à identifier des éléments (termes pertinents et contenus, supports, objets contribuant à les définir) en vue de les recomposer à travers un dispositif développé par le collectif Encyclopetrie (à l’initiative du <a href="http://www.enmi12.org/glossaire/">glossaire des ENMI 2012</a>. Un autre groupe, piloté par les porteurs du<a href="http://livemapping.fr/"> projet mind-mapping</a> fera un travail de cartographie dans le but de mettre en évidence les liens entre les termes du vocabulaire utilisé dans les conversations. Enfin un denier groupe de travail conduira des interviews audio autour de termes en lien avec les communs et de leurs définitions (inspiré de <a href="http://notesondesign.org/biens-communs-10-definitions-partie-2/">la démarche de Sylvia Fredricksson</a>. Cette démarche n’a pas vocation à interférer avec le déroulement ou rendre compte de manière exhaustive de la rencontre. Elle propose des formes complémentaires de lecture de l’événement. Le 15 octobre, l’atelier wikipédia apportera une approche complémentaire avant que les premières leçons ne soient tirées de l’expérience.F. Sultanes leçons ne soient tirées de l’expérience. F. Sultan)
Chargement/Site 2 + (<blockquote>Le 12 octobre, … <blockquote>Le 12 octobre, profitant de la <a href="http://villes.bienscommuns.org/evenement/qdxuznugt0p/view">rencontre ouverte parisienne</a>, une quinzaine de personnes, designers en formation et chercheurs se retrouvent autour de l’expérimentation simultanée de diverses formes de sélection de termes en rapport avec les communs qui méritent d’être explicités, de leur définition à travers la mobilisation de ressources multimédia, elles aussi variées, et de mises en forme et éditorialisation de ces éléments.</blockquote><figure id="attachment_2901" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2901" style="width: 450px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wordl-mots-enjeux-RBC.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wordl-mots-enjeux-RBC.jpg" alt="graph réalisé à partir des mots clefs enjeux de Remix Biens communs et initialement publié sur le site de Savoircom1" width="450" height="281" class="size-full wp-image-2901" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2901" class="wp-caption-text">graph réalisé à partir des mots clefs enjeux de Remix Biens communs et initialement publié sur le site de Savoircom1</figcaption></figure>A l’occasion de la<a href="http://villes.bienscommuns.org/evenement/qdxuznugt0p/view"> rencontre ouverte sur les biens communs</a> organisée par les collectifs porteurs de Paname en Biens Communs, sera conduite une expérience qui participe de l’élaboration d’un glossaire multimédia des biens communs. L’idée, l’envie de glossaire des biens communs est dans l’air du temps. Elle répond à un besoin qui s’est exprimée à travers diverses démarches. En avril dernier, le collectif Savoirscom1 à élaboré une première liste de termes à mieux définir tirés de son appel. Avec Remix The Commons, nous travaillons depuis le printemps sur l’organisation des documents à travers des « mots clefs enjeux des communs », qui doivent être définis en complément de la <a href="http://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=sul">cartographie des nouveaux communs de C. Hess</a>. De plus, chacun s’accorde sur la nécessité d’enrichir les définitions en français des termes en rapport avec les biens communs dans wikipédia et un <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Biens_communs">projet</a> vient d’être lancé dans ce sens qui sera nourrit par un atelier qui se déroulera le 15 octobre à Paris. Enfin, d’autres initiatives émergent s’inspirant du <a href="http://www.enmi12.org/glossaire/">glossaire des ENMI 2012</a> et de l’exploration du design des formes de communication et collaboration numériques par et autour de Knowtex et l’IRI. Ces initiatives se rejoignent et profitent du tempo de Panam en biens communs. A ce stade, le glossaire des biens communs est perçu comme une sélection de termes en rapport avec les communs qui méritent d’être explicités. La liste des termes d’un glossaire des biens communs n’est pas figée. La définition fait appel à l’usage de documents multimédia choisis, organisés selon différents formats avec au premier rang celui désormais classique de wikipédia. Ces démarches de publication sont participatives et explorent des scénarii d’expérience utilisateur. A ce stade, il s’agit d’explorer diverses voies et de tirer les leçons de l’expérience plus que produire en direct un produit fini. L’élaboration des premières listes de termes met en évidence la tension entre la problématique de la définition et celle de l’éditorialisation qui sou-tendent des projets plus ou moins explicites. Un premier croisement des termes utilisés dans le manifeste savoircom1 avec ceux de Remix the commons donne par exemple la mind map suivante réalisée avec Pierre-Carl Langlais. <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Biens-communs-wikipédia-20130930-e1381355634741.jpeg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Biens-communs-wikipédia-20130930-e1381355634741.jpeg" alt="Biens communs wikipédia 20130930" width="600" height="388" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2903" /></a> Le 12 octobre, l’expérience est décomposée en 3 processus. Un groupe se consacre à identifier des éléments (termes pertinents et contenus, supports, objets contribuant à les définir) en vue de les recomposer à travers un dispositif développé par le collectif Encyclopetrie (à l’initiative du <a href="http://www.enmi12.org/glossaire/">glossaire des ENMI 2012</a>. Un autre groupe, piloté par les porteurs du<a href="http://livemapping.fr/"> projet mind-mapping</a> fera un travail de cartographie dans le but de mettre en évidence les liens entre les termes du vocabulaire utilisé dans les conversations. Enfin un denier groupe de travail conduira des interviews audio autour de termes en lien avec les communs et de leurs définitions (inspiré de <a href="http://notesondesign.org/biens-communs-10-definitions-partie-2/">la démarche de Sylvia Fredricksson</a>. Cette démarche n’a pas vocation à interférer avec le déroulement ou rendre compte de manière exhaustive de la rencontre. Elle propose des formes complémentaires de lecture de l’événement. Le 15 octobre, l’atelier wikipédia apportera une approche complémentaire avant que les premières leçons ne soient tirées de l’expérience.F. Sultanes leçons ne soient tirées de l’expérience. F. Sultan)
Chargement/Site + (<blockquote>To encourage re … <blockquote>To encourage reflection on the integration of commons knowledge in the visions and perspectives of the actors involved in the transition, we propose a seminar around the FLOK Society project with Michel Bauwens on 22 and 23 September 2014 near Paris.</blockquote>The project FLOK Society (Free, Libre, Open Knowledge) is the first attempt to make practical proposals on the scale of a country for a transition to a society based on free and open knowledge. It aims to create the conditions for a simultaneous transformation of civil society, market and government based on the paradigm of commons knowledge.The FLOK Society project has been developed in Ecuador at the request of governmental institutions. It was directed by Michel Bauwens, leading P2P Foundation, which mobilized around him a large team of researchers and activists in Ecuador, Latin America and worldwide. The work put into perspective the four major mobilizing and producing common knowledge sectors: education and culture, science, industry, agriculture and services, citizenship and participation (ref: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/obd9jdh">http://tinyurl.com/obd9jdh</a>), for brushing an analysis of the effects of changes in the market, the state and civil society, and propose cross-sectoral guidelines and public policies to social knowledge economy which contributes to the emergence of a social, economical and environmental transition. These proposals are the specific recommendations to the Ecuadorian local context of a more general matrix.Regardless of how they are (or not) included in the public policies by the government or civil society initiatives in Ecuador, the work done within the FLOK Society project provides a corpus of proposals and methodology that deserve be tested in other contexts than Ecuador. This seminar invites to identify and deepen FLOK Society project proposals and put them into perspective with the existing research, experiments and initiatives in the French and European context.In this context, the actors of the transition are involved in an history and an agenda of struggles, demonstrations and experiments. This seminar aims to help integrate the paradigm of commons knowledge, in a useful and effective perspective, in their political visions by the actors of the transition, such as social movements, trade unionism, and the Social Economy Solidarity.How reflection on the place of commons knowledge will it inspire? What agendas build or join? In which territories and scale should we mobilize commons knowledge for social, cultural, economic and political change towards a conscious, fairer and more inclusive society in respect of the limits of the planet?The seminar is structured around three phases corresponding to the three axes objects transformation: the market, the public authorities and civil society. For each of these times, it is to analyze the contributions of commons knowledge in the debates and social and political struggles in progress, to the extent possibilities, develop proposals, clear lines of force and improve the convergence of the sectoral and territorial strategies. These three areas of work will be preceded by a presentation of the project and FLOK Society and followed by a time of assessment of the seminar.This seminary will take place at Villarceaux, OEcocentre de la Bergerie with the support of Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer – FPHMore information : <a href="mailto:fredericsultan@gmail.com">Frédéric Sultan</a> with the support of Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer – FPH More information : <a href="mailto:fredericsultan@gmail.com">Frédéric Sultan</a>)
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 2 + (<h2>Background</h2> I … <h2>Background</h2>In fall 2012 , I was invited to accompany a group of thirteen teenagers in an intercultural and humanitarian experience as a documentary filmmaker. Organized by the Department of animation to the spiritual life and community involvement of Collège Sainte-Anne de Lachine, stay took place in Benin (from 4 to 22 January 2013) with the Society of African Missions. My mandate : make a film about the Benin experience. Being at that time in Communautique, humanitarian trip was an opportunity to build relationships with my workplace. So I proposed the creation of video clips on the commons in Benin.To prepare for the experience abroad , there were two training camps. I prepared video workshops for imparting technical knowledge to experiment with youth and to script the vision of the video project. In the second camp, the notion of the common good has been addressed in parallel with the presentation Remix the Commons. I invited the young people to choose three themes that challenged them . They identified water , education and culture. These later became the subjects of discussions and observations to document our trip .Stephanie L. Berubedocumentary filmmaker <h2>Final Draft : Benin Commons</h2>The project resulted in a series of five video clips , made from material collected , which opens opportunities remix .<h3>Chapter intangible culture</h3>History of spiritual practices , the common good is also reflected in the way people come together to support the intangible culture of their nation and of our humanity.<h3>The home</h3>What is the role of history in our understanding of democracy , human rights and ultimately the common good? How the past can explain the realities of today and make us think about the future ? In this video, the history of slavery in parallel (and in opposition ) with the notion of « home » in order to improve our understanding of the freedom of African countries and Africans. Where the home he starts ?« The home is a birthright that nobody has the right to rape because it is the source of love , happiness , freedom of action , freedom of expression. I think the home begins in the home. [ … ] It refers to the court, the environment, locally, nationally organized . « ( Intervention introduction : » How far are you from home breakfast joint in Kédougou « directed by Anne- Julie Rollet and Kër Thiossane in collaboration with The Companyia ? )<h3>The invisible world</h3>Shot during the International Day of Voodoo in Benin, this video presents a discussion with young people about their perception and understanding of the religious holiday. The ethnographic nature of this video shows the diversity and complexity of the opportunity to reflect on the intercultural approach in terms of public goods and metaphysics through questions such as: Where do your ideas come from the world ? How are they reflected in your actions , your integrity and , therefore, your approach to the common good ? <h2>Future development</h2>Currently , this personal project is completed. Nevertheless, it has the potential for development and reuse to address common property in Africa or intercultural perspective of the commons .The material can be used for remixes .The caps on the water could be used in video projects on water according to different countries . For example, do a remix of » Sô- AVA et ses heaurizons » of Benin Commons and « Ô Saint-Laurent : une histoire de culture et d’appartenance » Communautique .The chapter on education offers interesting material to cross in a global consideration of the diversity of projects and realities of education.The two videos in the » culture » deserve to be improved with new equipment to better frame the discussion ( what is a common good intangible cultural ? ) And thus clarified. Also, a remix can put parralèle new audiovisual materials that illustrate other examples.The videos will be subtitled in French for web accessibility for deaf people , but could also be translated into English. <h2>Collaborators</h2>And editing: Stephanie L. Bérubé .Camera: collective shots ( thirteen youth group *) , under the direction of Stephanie L. Bérubé .* Anne -Julie, Amélie , Ariane , Cassandra , Cedric , Charlotte, Daphne , Elaine , Matthew, Marika , Nathaniel , Roxanne and Zoe.Accompanying Martin Chevalier François Gnonhoussou <h2>Funding</h2>Production Communautique , with the support of the Department of animation to the spiritual life and community involvement ( SAVEC ) of the Collège Sainte-Anne de Lachine. <h2>Contribution to the project ( Remix Benin Commons )</h2>The existence of such a project Remix common good has been the driving force in creating the vision of Benin common good as what his presence is a lever to the documentation of the common good . Remix the Commons also facilitates the re- use of the material produced as part of Benin Common Good.( SAVEC ) of the Collège Sainte-Anne de Lachine. <h2>Contribution to the project ( Remix Benin Commons )</h2> The existence of such a project Remix common good has been the driving force in creating the vision of Benin common good as what his presence is a lever to the documentation of the common good . Remix the Commons also facilitates the re- use of the material produced as part of Benin Common Good.)
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 + (<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 2 + (<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 2 + (<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>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 + (<ol> <li style="list-style-type: … <ol><li style="list-style-type: none;"><ol>Original publication 21 of May 2016 by Hervé Le Crosnier in</ol></li></ol><a href="http://vecam.org/Ce-que-nous-nous-apprend-l-histoire-du-Bolero-de-Ravel">Vecam.org</a><ol>. Translation by Nicole Leonard</ol><blockquote>In 1928 Ravel composed Boléro, a piece that would become a worldwide success with hundreds of versions and arrangements. A harmonic crescendo that was also worth millions.An excellent series of nine 8-minute videos, directed by Fabian Caus-Lahalle and distributed by France’s National Audiovisual Institute, tells the story of the post-mortem reach of this gem from Maurice Ravel, who barely profited from it, rapidly falling ill and dying less than 10 years later.</blockquote>The series looks like a detective story, with treachery, secret markets, fiscal paradises, and a masseuse on one side, and political men inundated by lobbies and incapable of defending the public domain on the other. Here we have a saga that shows the harmfulness of the notion of “rights-holders” – the hijacking of laws and cultural practices by businessmen who then use this acquired power to influence politics and further reduce the public domain.<iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.ina.fr/player/embed/2885055/1/1b0bd203fbcd702f9bc9b10ac3d0fc21/560/315/0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.ina.fr/player/embed/MAN5464180431/1/1b0bd203fbcd702f9bc9b10ac3d0fc21/560/315/0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Everything is set against a background of Bolero and many interpretations of his work from around the world, in all musical styles and from all time periods.<iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.ina.fr/player/embed/MAN7910555309/1/1b0bd203fbcd702f9bc9b10ac3d0fc21/560/315/0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.ina.fr/player/embed/MAN6248963306/1/1b0bd203fbcd702f9bc9b10ac3d0fc21/560/315/0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Tax havens hide the money coming from the ashes of Maurice Ravel, who died without children and left everything to his brother, who was also childless.<iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.ina.fr/player/embed/MAN2464909165/1/1b0bd203fbcd702f9bc9b10ac3d0fc21/560/315/0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>But it’s a real political affair in which the cultural industry lobbies pre-empted public powers and our dear political men, ready to be seduced.<iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.ina.fr/player/embed/MAN8716173688/1/1b0bd203fbcd702f9bc9b10ac3d0fc21/560/315/0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Switzerland, Monaco, Gibraltar, Panama.. culture does not know borders, and neither does money.<iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.ina.fr/player/embed/MAN9205650456/1/1b0bd203fbcd702f9bc9b10ac3d0fc21/560/315/0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.ina.fr/player/embed/MAN4764653149/1/1b0bd203fbcd702f9bc9b10ac3d0fc21/560/315/0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.ina.fr/player/embed/MAN7455517816/1/1b0bd203fbcd702f9bc9b10ac3d0fc21/560/315/0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>It is interesting that it would be the National Audiovisual Institute who produced this rant, just one day after the government’s retraction of Article 8 of the Lemaire Act, following pressure from the supposed “culture” lobbies. This law aimed to protect the information commons, particularly by allowing specialized associations to submit complaints to defend the public domain against enclosure.This needs to be shown to members of the mixed Senate-National Assembly commission that will definitively define this law. It also needs to be shown to all of our elected officials so that they see how their lack of interest for the protection of the public domain is nothing in reality but a submission to scammers, to lobbies, to monied powers, and to the disregard of society and its desire for cultural sharing and creative reinterpretations of cultural works. They can no longer close their eyes: they are responsible for what they steal from the public domaine for the profit of Panamanian or Monacan society.What would Maurice Ravel say? He wrote, “Take a model, imitate it. If you have something to say, your personality will never be more evident than your unconscious infidelity” (this sentence is the conclusion to this superb documentary).Publication 21 of May 2016 by Hervé Le Crosnier in <a href="http://vecam.org/Ce-que-nous-nous-apprend-l-histoire-du-Bolero-de-Ravel">Vecam.org</a>. Translation by Nicole Leonardgt; What would Maurice Ravel say? He wrote, “Take a model, imitate it. If you have something to say, your personality will never be more evident than your unconscious infidelity” (this sentence is the conclusion to this superb documentary). Publication 21 of May 2016 by Hervé Le Crosnier in <a href="http://vecam.org/Ce-que-nous-nous-apprend-l-histoire-du-Bolero-de-Ravel">Vecam.org</a>. Translation by Nicole Leonard)
Chargement/Site + (<a href="http://wearelegionthe … <a href="http://wearelegionthedocumentary.com/">We Are Legion | The Story of the Hacktivists Official Website.</a>.2012In recent years, the radical online community known as Anonymous has been associated with attacks or “raids” on hundreds of targets. Angered by issues as diverse as copyright abuse and police brutality, they’ve taken on child pornographers, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system and even forced a standoff with Mexican drug cartels. They’ve hit corporate targets like Sony, cyber-security firms like HBGary Federal and would-be web controllers like the Church of Scientology.They shut down Mastercard, Visa and Paypal after those groups froze financial transactions to Wikileaks. Along with other hacktivist groups like Telecomix, they’ve launched cyber attacks against foreign governments in support of the Arab Spring. They served as tech support for the Occupy movement and have put their mark on countless uprisings around the world. One participant described their protests as “ultra coordinated motherfuckery.”So who is Anonymous?They’ve been called criminals, “hackers on steroids” and even terrorists. But the vast majority of those who identify as Anonymous don’t break the law. They see themselves as activists and protectors of free speech, and tend to rise up most powerfully when they perceive a threat to internet freedom or personal privacy. Whether you are a soccer mom or a member of Congress, you live in an electronic landscape that has exploded with largely unchecked intrusion and surveillance. You are tracked by government databases while corporate advertisers are looking to buy your personal data for pennies. In this landscape, the existence of the collective internet culture called Anonymous makes the case for anonymity.Using tools of disruption and spectacle, they have also become the face of dissent for a variety of human rights and information freedom groups around the globe. They are a legion of loud but largely masked geeks, hackers, pranksters and outraged citizens who have unwittingly redefined civil disobedience for the digital age, and found themselves in the middle of one of the most important battles of our time.WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists, takes us inside the complex culture and history of Anonymous. The film explores early hacktivist groups like Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater, and then moves to Anonymous’ own raucous and unruly beginnings on the website 4Chan.Through interviews with current members – some recently returned from prison, others still awaiting trial – as well as writers, academics and major players in various “raids,” WE ARE LEGION traces the collective’s breathtaking evolution from merry pranksters to a full-blown, global movement, one armed with new weapons of civil disobedience for an online world.BRIAN KNAPPENBERGER (Director/Writer/Producer)Director, Writer, Producer Brian Knappenberger has created numerous documentaries, commercials and feature films for the Sundance Channel, PBS FRONTLINE/World, The Travel Channel, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. He is also Executive Producer of the 23 part Bloomberg Television documentary series “Bloomberg Game Changers” which chronicles luminary figures like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and the Twitter and Google co-founders. His films have explored the changing politics and tensions in post 9/11 southern Afghanistan in “Life After War” along with abuses of power and freedom of speech issues with the killing of a journalist in Ukraine for “A Murder in Kyiv.” Other documentary work has ranged from tracking the changing climate conditions in the Arctic, to how advanced technology is changing our physical bodies in his film “Into The Body.” His work often centers on technology, its possibilities and the transformative effect it has on our lives, communication and culture.ANDY ROBERTSON (Editor)Andy developed a keen interest in filmmaking after his 4th grade art teacher assigned a Super-8mm film as a class project. His career highlights include editing the feature documentaries RHYME & REASON and the documentary television series AMERICAN HIGH and 30 DAYS. He received two Emmy Nominations for PROJECT RUNWAY, the first reality show to win a Peabody Award.JOHN DRAGONETTI (Composer)ToneTiger is the moniker of John Dragonetti, a music composer and producer living in Los Angeles, California. In the past few years John has the scored the music for several award-winning TV shows which have aired on HBO, Showtime, Sundance Channel, NBC and E!. He also composed the music for Doug Pray’s documentary film, Surfwise as well as the Broken Lizard produced comedy feature, Freeloaders.John is also a founding member, along with Blake Hazard, of the band The Submarines. The group has released three critically acclaimed albums and continues to record and tour internationally.As a record producer he started with the Boston based pop group, Jack Drag, recording five albums, the last of which was co-produced by Chris Shaw (Bob Dylan, Public Enemy, Weezer). Dragonetti collaborated with mixer, John O’Mahony (Metric, Cold Play) on the latest Submarines album. He has also just completed producing and mixing Simmerkane-II the solo project of Dispatch and State Radio singer, Chadwick Stokes. John had done authorized remixes for Josh, Ritter, Avril Lavigne, Leigh Nash and others.on the latest Submarines album. He has also just completed producing and mixing Simmerkane-II the solo project of Dispatch and State Radio singer, Chadwick Stokes. John had done authorized remixes for Josh, Ritter, Avril Lavigne, Leigh Nash and others.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (<a href="http://wearelegionthe … <a href="http://wearelegionthedocumentary.com/">We Are Legion | The Story of the Hacktivists Official Website.</a>.2012In recent years, the radical online community known as Anonymous has been associated with attacks or “raids” on hundreds of targets. Angered by issues as diverse as copyright abuse and police brutality, they’ve taken on child pornographers, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system and even forced a standoff with Mexican drug cartels. They’ve hit corporate targets like Sony, cyber-security firms like HBGary Federal and would-be web controllers like the Church of Scientology.They shut down Mastercard, Visa and Paypal after those groups froze financial transactions to Wikileaks. Along with other hacktivist groups like Telecomix, they’ve launched cyber attacks against foreign governments in support of the Arab Spring. They served as tech support for the Occupy movement and have put their mark on countless uprisings around the world. One participant described their protests as “ultra coordinated motherfuckery.”So who is Anonymous?They’ve been called criminals, “hackers on steroids” and even terrorists. But the vast majority of those who identify as Anonymous don’t break the law. They see themselves as activists and protectors of free speech, and tend to rise up most powerfully when they perceive a threat to internet freedom or personal privacy. Whether you are a soccer mom or a member of Congress, you live in an electronic landscape that has exploded with largely unchecked intrusion and surveillance. You are tracked by government databases while corporate advertisers are looking to buy your personal data for pennies. In this landscape, the existence of the collective internet culture called Anonymous makes the case for anonymity.Using tools of disruption and spectacle, they have also become the face of dissent for a variety of human rights and information freedom groups around the globe. They are a legion of loud but largely masked geeks, hackers, pranksters and outraged citizens who have unwittingly redefined civil disobedience for the digital age, and found themselves in the middle of one of the most important battles of our time.WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists, takes us inside the complex culture and history of Anonymous. The film explores early hacktivist groups like Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater, and then moves to Anonymous’ own raucous and unruly beginnings on the website 4Chan.Through interviews with current members – some recently returned from prison, others still awaiting trial – as well as writers, academics and major players in various “raids,” WE ARE LEGION traces the collective’s breathtaking evolution from merry pranksters to a full-blown, global movement, one armed with new weapons of civil disobedience for an online world.BRIAN KNAPPENBERGER (Director/Writer/Producer)Director, Writer, Producer Brian Knappenberger has created numerous documentaries, commercials and feature films for the Sundance Channel, PBS FRONTLINE/World, The Travel Channel, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. He is also Executive Producer of the 23 part Bloomberg Television documentary series “Bloomberg Game Changers” which chronicles luminary figures like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and the Twitter and Google co-founders. His films have explored the changing politics and tensions in post 9/11 southern Afghanistan in “Life After War” along with abuses of power and freedom of speech issues with the killing of a journalist in Ukraine for “A Murder in Kyiv.” Other documentary work has ranged from tracking the changing climate conditions in the Arctic, to how advanced technology is changing our physical bodies in his film “Into The Body.” His work often centers on technology, its possibilities and the transformative effect it has on our lives, communication and culture.ANDY ROBERTSON (Editor)Andy developed a keen interest in filmmaking after his 4th grade art teacher assigned a Super-8mm film as a class project. His career highlights include editing the feature documentaries RHYME & REASON and the documentary television series AMERICAN HIGH and 30 DAYS. He received two Emmy Nominations for PROJECT RUNWAY, the first reality show to win a Peabody Award.JOHN DRAGONETTI (Composer)ToneTiger is the moniker of John Dragonetti, a music composer and producer living in Los Angeles, California. In the past few years John has the scored the music for several award-winning TV shows which have aired on HBO, Showtime, Sundance Channel, NBC and E!. He also composed the music for Doug Pray’s documentary film, Surfwise as well as the Broken Lizard produced comedy feature, Freeloaders.John is also a founding member, along with Blake Hazard, of the band The Submarines. The group has released three critically acclaimed albums and continues to record and tour internationally.As a record producer he started with the Boston based pop group, Jack Drag, recording five albums, the last of which was co-produced by Chris Shaw (Bob Dylan, Public Enemy, Weezer). Dragonetti collaborated with mixer, John O’Mahony (Metric, Cold Play) on the latest Submarines album. He has also just completed producing and mixing Simmerkane-II the solo project of Dispatch and State Radio singer, Chadwick Stokes. John had done authorized remixes for Josh, Ritter, Avril Lavigne, Leigh Nash and others.on the latest Submarines album. He has also just completed producing and mixing Simmerkane-II the solo project of Dispatch and State Radio singer, Chadwick Stokes. John had done authorized remixes for Josh, Ritter, Avril Lavigne, Leigh Nash and others.)
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 + (<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="//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="//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 2 + (<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 2 + (<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 2 + (<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 + (<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 + (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 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 + (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 + (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 + (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 + (Defining « the commons » … Defining « the commons »<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aXzbcgj9F54?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The importance of « the commons »<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rbTuUMCNZvg?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>IASC Projects, goals and dreams<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3v8ApjhECwc?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The achievements of IASC<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QVv5_GM1RPs?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Main challenges of IASC<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bAv0FaAPEP8?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The agenda of IASC<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YJcJGf6I7Sc?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The future of IASC<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qQZ_lyZq--U?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Work to be done<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TC3Rcm7ctcE?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> ight="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Work to be done <iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TC3Rcm7ctcE?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> )
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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 + (For the social appropriation of C … For the social appropriation of Commons to be a source of emancipation, it should be rooted in a geographic, social and historical context, it should take on the past and present practices, traditions and thinking while account for outside inputs and welcome hybridation.<a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Itin%C3%A9raires_en_Biens_Communs">Routes in Commons</a> is an interactive tool aimed at empowering the participants of Remix the Commons to creatively contribute to the definition and learning of the concepts and practices of the Commons.<h3>Définition</h3>One speaks of « Commons » when a community of people is united by the same will to take charge of a resource it inherits or creates and when it organizes itself in a democratic, friendly and responsible way to ensure it’s access, usage and continued existence in the general interest with care for the well being of the community and the generations to come.This definition is the result of a remix of readings, conferences and thoughts about the subject, from both a personal experience, a social and cultural context and lastly a will to communicate and contribute to the ongoing culture of the Commons.From this definition, any may find his or her way along the text : « Les communs sont sur toutes les lèvres » litteraly « <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Itin%C3%A9raires_en_Biens_Communs#Le_bien_commun_est_sur_toutes_les_l.C3.A8vres">The commons are on every lips</a> » in which each step, by way of a hyperlink leads to resources directly usable by participants. « Routes in Commons » is an exchange place where paricipants can enrich the definition of Commons.<h3>Tracks</h3>Routes in Commons is an invitation to explore this definition from various angles by themes, context or inter-cultural co-creation meetings. We suggest making a inventory and a typology of Commons whether material or immaterial. Resources identified to an icon span over several levels according to usage from the simplest (or most accessible) to the more complicated. The text is a resource a well as a playground.One then notices that the Commons refer to a value system that matches an identical critical interpretation of reality and also refers to social, economic and cultural habits.<h3>Futur development</h3>Translated in three languages, the text « Les communs sont sur toutes les lèvres » (the Commons are on every lips) will be suggested as a frame for a collaborative process of creation of multimedia works in community radios stations.<h3>Collaborators</h3>Alain Ambrosi, writer of the text and the definition, the Communautique team.<h3>Financing</h3>Routes in Commons is a project based on volontary contribution.<h3>Contribution of Remix the Commons</h3>Routes in Commons get inspiration from Remix the Commons and uses the communications tools of the platform.Routes in Commons is a project based on volontary contribution. <h3>Contribution of Remix the Commons</h3> Routes in Commons get inspiration from Remix the Commons and uses the communications tools of the platform.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (For the social appropriation of C … For the social appropriation of Commons to be a source of emancipation, it should be rooted in a geographic, social and historical context, it should take on the past and present practices, traditions and thinking while account for outside inputs and welcome hybridation.<a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Itin%C3%A9raires_en_Biens_Communs">Routes in Commons</a> is an interactive tool aimed at empowering the participants of Remix the Commons to creatively contribute to the definition and learning of the concepts and practices of the Commons.<h3>Définition</h3>One speaks of « Commons » when a community of people is united by the same will to take charge of a resource it inherits or creates and when it organizes itself in a democratic, friendly and responsible way to ensure it’s access, usage and continued existence in the general interest with care for the well being of the community and the generations to come.This definition is the result of a remix of readings, conferences and thoughts about the subject, from both a personal experience, a social and cultural context and lastly a will to communicate and contribute to the ongoing culture of the Commons.From this definition, any may find his or her way along the text : « Les communs sont sur toutes les lèvres » litteraly « <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Itin%C3%A9raires_en_Biens_Communs#Le_bien_commun_est_sur_toutes_les_l.C3.A8vres">The commons are on every lips</a> » in which each step, by way of a hyperlink leads to resources directly usable by participants. « Routes in Commons » is an exchange place where paricipants can enrich the definition of Commons.<h3>Tracks</h3>Routes in Commons is an invitation to explore this definition from various angles by themes, context or inter-cultural co-creation meetings. We suggest making a inventory and a typology of Commons whether material or immaterial. Resources identified to an icon span over several levels according to usage from the simplest (or most accessible) to the more complicated. The text is a resource a well as a playground.One then notices that the Commons refer to a value system that matches an identical critical interpretation of reality and also refers to social, economic and cultural habits.<h3>Futur development</h3>Translated in three languages, the text « Les communs sont sur toutes les lèvres » (the Commons are on every lips) will be suggested as a frame for a collaborative process of creation of multimedia works in community radios stations.<h3>Collaborators</h3>Alain Ambrosi, writer of the text and the definition, the Communautique team.<h3>Financing</h3>Routes in Commons is a project based on volontary contribution.<h3>Contribution of Remix the Commons</h3>Routes in Commons get inspiration from Remix the Commons and uses the communications tools of the platform.Routes in Commons is a project based on volontary contribution. <h3>Contribution of Remix the Commons</h3> Routes in Commons get inspiration from Remix the Commons and uses the communications tools of the platform.)
Chargement/Site 2 + (Le 2 mars dernier, Marion Louisgr … Le 2 mars dernier, Marion Louisgrand et Marta Vallejo de Ker Thiossane, partenaire de Remix The Commons, ont organisé à Kédougou au Sénégal, un DEJEUNER EN COMMUN sur le thème de l’En-commun et du “vivre ensemble” autour de la question « Jusqu’où tu es chez toi ? ».<a title="Par gbaku (Flickr [1]) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AKolaNutsKedougou.jpg"><img decoding="async" alt="KolaNutsKedougou" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/KolaNutsKedougou.jpg/400px-KolaNutsKedougou.jpg" width="400" /></a>Retrouvez une série de photos sur la<a href="http://www.ker-thiossane.org/spip.php?article147"> page web de Ker Thiossane</a>. Des émissions de radio ont été réalisées avec la radio communautaire. Enregistrement et des vidéos sont en cours de montage.<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A9dougou">Kédougou</a> se situe aux frontières du Sénégal, du Mali et de la Guinée. près du Parc national du Niokolo où vivent les derniers éléphants du Sénégal.Le DEJEUNER EN COMMUN se passait dans le cadre du festival “La Nuit des Etoiles”, organisé par le Centre Multimédia Communautaire de Kédougou (CMC), dans le Jardin public de la commune, avec l’appui du collectif grenoblois Culture Ailleurs (<a href="http://www.cultureailleurs.com/">http://www.cultureailleurs.com/</a>).’appui du collectif grenoblois Culture Ailleurs (<a href="http://www.cultureailleurs.com/">http://www.cultureailleurs.com/</a>).)
Chargement/Site + (Le 2 mars dernier, Marion Louisgr … Le 2 mars dernier, Marion Louisgrand et Marta Vallejo de Ker Thiossane, partenaire de Remix The Commons, ont organisé à Kédougou au Sénégal, un DEJEUNER EN COMMUN sur le thème de l’En-commun et du “vivre ensemble” autour de la question « Jusqu’où tu es chez toi ? ».<a title="Par gbaku (Flickr [1]) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AKolaNutsKedougou.jpg"><img decoding="async" alt="KolaNutsKedougou" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/KolaNutsKedougou.jpg/400px-KolaNutsKedougou.jpg" width="400" /></a>Retrouvez une série de photos sur la<a href="http://www.ker-thiossane.org/spip.php?article147"> page web de Ker Thiossane</a>. Des émissions de radio ont été réalisées avec la radio communautaire. Enregistrement et des vidéos sont en cours de montage.<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A9dougou">Kédougou</a> se situe aux frontières du Sénégal, du Mali et de la Guinée. près du Parc national du Niokolo où vivent les derniers éléphants du Sénégal.Le DEJEUNER EN COMMUN se passait dans le cadre du festival “La Nuit des Etoiles”, organisé par le Centre Multimédia Communautaire de Kédougou (CMC), dans le Jardin public de la commune, avec l’appui du collectif grenoblois Culture Ailleurs (<a href="http://www.cultureailleurs.com/">http://www.cultureailleurs.com/</a>).’appui du collectif grenoblois Culture Ailleurs (<a href="http://www.cultureailleurs.com/">http://www.cultureailleurs.com/</a>).)
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 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 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 + (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 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 + (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 + (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 + (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 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 + (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 + (<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.)
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.)
Faut-il "en finir" avec la démocratie participative ? + (Budgets participatifs, conseils de quartie … Budgets participatifs, conseils de quartier, réunions publiques... Les dispositifs de participation citoyenne censés répondre à la crise démocratique sont nombreux. Pourtant la relation de pouvoir avec les institutions publiques demeure verticale, la parole recueillie et son utilisation étant toujours contrôlée par les autorités. La démocratie participative semble dans ce sens instituer l'illusion d'un dialogue plutôt qu'ouvrir nouveaux espaces où exercer des formes de démocratie réelle. Dans cet entretien Manon Loisel nous explique les limites de ces dispositifs qui aboutissent souvent à renforcer les vices de la démocratie représentative.les vices de la démocratie représentative.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
Les Champs Captants du Sud de Lille + (Dans cette vidéo l'association « Entrelian … Dans cette vidéo l'association « Entrelianes » nous parle des enjeux environnementaux auxquels Les Champs Captants sont confrontés : défi climatique, crise de la biodiversité et crise de l'eau. Il s'agit d'un territoire qui alimente 30% de l'eau potable de la Métropole Européenne de Lille. L'expression « champs captants » définit des terres qui infiltrent directement l'eau de la pluie vers les nappes phréatiques sous-jacentes.vers les nappes phréatiques sous-jacentes.)
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.)
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.)
Commons Ecosystems - Écosystèmes des communs + (Faire alliance autour du renforcement des écosystèmes de communs)
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.)
Hommage Silke Helfrich - 03 Intervention Benjamin Coriat + (Intervention de Benjamin Coriat lors de l'hommage à Silke Helfrich le 26/05/2023)
Hommage Silke Helfrich - 02 Intervention David Bollier + (Intervention de David Bollier lors de l'hommage à Silke Helfrich le 26/05/2023)
Hommage Silke Helfrich - 06 Intervention Frédéric Sultan + (Intervention de Frédéric Sultan lors de l'hommage à Silke Helfrich le 26/05/2023)
Hommage Silke Helfrich - 04 Intervention Sebastien Shulz + (Intervention de Sebastien Shulz lors de l'hommage à Silke Helfrich le 26/05/2023)
Hommage Silke Helfrich - 05 Intervention Sylvia Fredriksson + (Intervention de Sylvia Fredriksson lors de l'hommage à Silke Helfrich le 26/05/2023)
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.)
GIRE - Gestion Intégrée des Ressources en Eau + (Le GRET (organisation non gouvernementale … Le GRET (organisation non gouvernementale de solidarité internationale) a intégré dans ses démarches le concept de Gestion Intégrée des Ressources en Eau. Dans cette fiche il nous est expliqué dans quelle mesure les processus de GIRE sont mis en place. On retrouve également des témoignages des acteurs concernés et un focus sur deux projets menés au Sénégal et en Haïti.deux projets menés au Sénégal et en Haïti.)
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.)
Redessiner la protection sociale avec les communs + (Le système de protection sociale est une i … Le système de protection sociale est une institution essentielle de la vie économique et politique du 21è siècle. Il fait face à un ensemble de difficultés liées à la fois à ses forces et faiblesses héritées du passé, aux attaques systématiques qu’il subit aujourd’hui de la part de l’idéologie néo-libérale et à l’incapacité des élites oligarchiques à actualiser un contrat social dans le sens d’une plus grande justice et démocratie. Motivée par la pensée de sa réforme, une approche en termes de «communs» permettrait d’ouvrir un nouvel horizon : coproduire la solidarité sur la base d’un droit des communs. Il s’agit de renouveler et régénérer les logiques de redistribution et de protection qui sont d’ores et déjà bien implantées et non bien sûr de tout inventer.plantées et non bien sûr de tout inventer.)
Chapitre 2 : La santé sous pression néo-libérale + (Parmi les secteurs les plus touchés par le … Parmi les secteurs les plus touchés par les politiques néolibérales des dernières décennies, le domaine de la santé a été objet de transformations profondes. Les mots d'ordre étant financiarisation, privatisation, performance et évaluation, il en a découlé que les conditions de travail du personnel soignant se sont de plus en plus dégradées sous l'impératif de l'efficience économique et de la rentabilité.fficience économique et de la rentabilité.)
Remix the commons/Collectif initial en 2011 + (Remix Biens Communs est un espace intercul … Remix Biens Communs est un espace interculturel de partage et de co-création de documents multimédias sur les biens communs. Le projet est porté par un collectif interculturel, composé de personnes et d’organisations qui pensent que le recueil, l’échange et le remix des récits, des définitions et des images des biens communs sont une manière active et conviviale de s’approprier cette notion et de la diffuser dans la société. notion et de la diffuser dans la société.)
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.)
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.)
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.)

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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".)
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)
Définition des communs selon Hervé Le Crosnier + ("Les communs c'est avant tout une ressource partagée qui pourrait être victime d'enclosure.")
Cagette - Système de garantie participatif des AMAP + (''Extrait de «ACTES D’UNE RECHERCHE - ACTION EXPERIMENTALE - Le monde associatif aujourd’hui : évaluation ou managérialisation ? » Printemps 2016'')
Le bien commun : l'assaut final + (... une charge très argumentée, très démon … ... une charge très argumentée, très démonstrative contre la mondialisation libérale, nourrie de reportages et de témoignages recueillis au Canada, au Mexique, aux États-Unis, en Inde, en France. Avec les exemples très parlants de la marchandisation en cours de tous ces « biens publics mondiaux » que sont l’eau, les semences, la santé, les gênes, les connaissances et pratiques ancestrales ou nouvelles… ( Bernard Langlois, Politis)ou nouvelles… ( Bernard Langlois, Politis))
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/)
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))
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> 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>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>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>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>Le 12 octobre, … <blockquote>Le 12 octobre, profitant de la <a href="http://villes.bienscommuns.org/evenement/qdxuznugt0p/view">rencontre ouverte parisienne</a>, une quinzaine de personnes, designers en formation et chercheurs se retrouvent autour de l’expérimentation simultanée de diverses formes de sélection de termes en rapport avec les communs qui méritent d’être explicités, de leur définition à travers la mobilisation de ressources multimédia, elles aussi variées, et de mises en forme et éditorialisation de ces éléments.</blockquote><figure id="attachment_2901" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2901" style="width: 450px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wordl-mots-enjeux-RBC.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wordl-mots-enjeux-RBC.jpg" alt="graph réalisé à partir des mots clefs enjeux de Remix Biens communs et initialement publié sur le site de Savoircom1" width="450" height="281" class="size-full wp-image-2901" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2901" class="wp-caption-text">graph réalisé à partir des mots clefs enjeux de Remix Biens communs et initialement publié sur le site de Savoircom1</figcaption></figure>A l’occasion de la<a href="http://villes.bienscommuns.org/evenement/qdxuznugt0p/view"> rencontre ouverte sur les biens communs</a> organisée par les collectifs porteurs de Paname en Biens Communs, sera conduite une expérience qui participe de l’élaboration d’un glossaire multimédia des biens communs. L’idée, l’envie de glossaire des biens communs est dans l’air du temps. Elle répond à un besoin qui s’est exprimée à travers diverses démarches. En avril dernier, le collectif Savoirscom1 à élaboré une première liste de termes à mieux définir tirés de son appel. Avec Remix The Commons, nous travaillons depuis le printemps sur l’organisation des documents à travers des « mots clefs enjeux des communs », qui doivent être définis en complément de la <a href="http://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=sul">cartographie des nouveaux communs de C. Hess</a>. De plus, chacun s’accorde sur la nécessité d’enrichir les définitions en français des termes en rapport avec les biens communs dans wikipédia et un <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Biens_communs">projet</a> vient d’être lancé dans ce sens qui sera nourrit par un atelier qui se déroulera le 15 octobre à Paris. Enfin, d’autres initiatives émergent s’inspirant du <a href="http://www.enmi12.org/glossaire/">glossaire des ENMI 2012</a> et de l’exploration du design des formes de communication et collaboration numériques par et autour de Knowtex et l’IRI. Ces initiatives se rejoignent et profitent du tempo de Panam en biens communs. A ce stade, le glossaire des biens communs est perçu comme une sélection de termes en rapport avec les communs qui méritent d’être explicités. La liste des termes d’un glossaire des biens communs n’est pas figée. La définition fait appel à l’usage de documents multimédia choisis, organisés selon différents formats avec au premier rang celui désormais classique de wikipédia. Ces démarches de publication sont participatives et explorent des scénarii d’expérience utilisateur. A ce stade, il s’agit d’explorer diverses voies et de tirer les leçons de l’expérience plus que produire en direct un produit fini. L’élaboration des premières listes de termes met en évidence la tension entre la problématique de la définition et celle de l’éditorialisation qui sou-tendent des projets plus ou moins explicites. Un premier croisement des termes utilisés dans le manifeste savoircom1 avec ceux de Remix the commons donne par exemple la mind map suivante réalisée avec Pierre-Carl Langlais. <a href="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Biens-communs-wikipédia-20130930-e1381355634741.jpeg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.remixthecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Biens-communs-wikipédia-20130930-e1381355634741.jpeg" alt="Biens communs wikipédia 20130930" width="600" height="388" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2903" /></a> Le 12 octobre, l’expérience est décomposée en 3 processus. Un groupe se consacre à identifier des éléments (termes pertinents et contenus, supports, objets contribuant à les définir) en vue de les recomposer à travers un dispositif développé par le collectif Encyclopetrie (à l’initiative du <a href="http://www.enmi12.org/glossaire/">glossaire des ENMI 2012</a>. Un autre groupe, piloté par les porteurs du<a href="http://livemapping.fr/"> projet mind-mapping</a> fera un travail de cartographie dans le but de mettre en évidence les liens entre les termes du vocabulaire utilisé dans les conversations. Enfin un denier groupe de travail conduira des interviews audio autour de termes en lien avec les communs et de leurs définitions (inspiré de <a href="http://notesondesign.org/biens-communs-10-definitions-partie-2/">la démarche de Sylvia Fredricksson</a>. Cette démarche n’a pas vocation à interférer avec le déroulement ou rendre compte de manière exhaustive de la rencontre. Elle propose des formes complémentaires de lecture de l’événement. Le 15 octobre, l’atelier wikipédia apportera une approche complémentaire avant que les premières leçons ne soient tirées de l’expérience.F. Sultanes leçons ne soient tirées de l’expérience. F. Sultan)
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).)
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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 + (<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 + (<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 + (<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="//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/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" 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 + (<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 + (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 + (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 + (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 + (Defining « the commons » … Defining « the commons »<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aXzbcgj9F54?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The importance of « the commons »<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rbTuUMCNZvg?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>IASC Projects, goals and dreams<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3v8ApjhECwc?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The achievements of IASC<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QVv5_GM1RPs?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Main challenges of IASC<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bAv0FaAPEP8?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The agenda of IASC<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YJcJGf6I7Sc?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The future of IASC<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qQZ_lyZq--U?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Work to be done<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TC3Rcm7ctcE?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> ight="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Work to be done <iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TC3Rcm7ctcE?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> )
Chargement/Site + (Defining « the commons » … Defining « the commons »<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aXzbcgj9F54?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The importance of « the commons »<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rbTuUMCNZvg?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>IASC Projects, goals and dreams<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3v8ApjhECwc?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The achievements of IASC<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QVv5_GM1RPs?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Main challenges of IASC<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bAv0FaAPEP8?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The agenda of IASC<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YJcJGf6I7Sc?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The future of IASC<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qQZ_lyZq--U?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Work to be done<iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TC3Rcm7ctcE?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> ight="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Work to be done <iframe loading="lazy" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TC3Rcm7ctcE?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> )
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 + (For the social appropriation of C … For the social appropriation of Commons to be a source of emancipation, it should be rooted in a geographic, social and historical context, it should take on the past and present practices, traditions and thinking while account for outside inputs and welcome hybridation.<a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Itin%C3%A9raires_en_Biens_Communs">Routes in Commons</a> is an interactive tool aimed at empowering the participants of Remix the Commons to creatively contribute to the definition and learning of the concepts and practices of the Commons.<h3>Définition</h3>One speaks of « Commons » when a community of people is united by the same will to take charge of a resource it inherits or creates and when it organizes itself in a democratic, friendly and responsible way to ensure it’s access, usage and continued existence in the general interest with care for the well being of the community and the generations to come.This definition is the result of a remix of readings, conferences and thoughts about the subject, from both a personal experience, a social and cultural context and lastly a will to communicate and contribute to the ongoing culture of the Commons.From this definition, any may find his or her way along the text : « Les communs sont sur toutes les lèvres » litteraly « <a href="http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Itin%C3%A9raires_en_Biens_Communs#Le_bien_commun_est_sur_toutes_les_l.C3.A8vres">The commons are on every lips</a> » in which each step, by way of a hyperlink leads to resources directly usable by participants. « Routes in Commons » is an exchange place where paricipants can enrich the definition of Commons.<h3>Tracks</h3>Routes in Commons is an invitation to explore this definition from various angles by themes, context or inter-cultural co-creation meetings. We suggest making a inventory and a typology of Commons whether material or immaterial. Resources identified to an icon span over several levels according to usage from the simplest (or most accessible) to the more complicated. The text is a resource a well as a playground.One then notices that the Commons refer to a value system that matches an identical critical interpretation of reality and also refers to social, economic and cultural habits.<h3>Futur development</h3>Translated in three languages, the text « Les communs sont sur toutes les lèvres » (the Commons are on every lips) will be suggested as a frame for a collaborative process of creation of multimedia works in community radios stations.<h3>Collaborators</h3>Alain Ambrosi, writer of the text and the definition, the Communautique team.<h3>Financing</h3>Routes in Commons is a project based on volontary contribution.<h3>Contribution of Remix the Commons</h3>Routes in Commons get inspiration from Remix the Commons and uses the communications tools of the platform.Routes in Commons is a project based on volontary contribution. <h3>Contribution of Remix the Commons</h3> Routes in Commons get inspiration from Remix the Commons and uses the communications tools of the platform.)
Chargement/Site + (Le 2 mars dernier, Marion Louisgr … Le 2 mars dernier, Marion Louisgrand et Marta Vallejo de Ker Thiossane, partenaire de Remix The Commons, ont organisé à Kédougou au Sénégal, un DEJEUNER EN COMMUN sur le thème de l’En-commun et du “vivre ensemble” autour de la question « Jusqu’où tu es chez toi ? ».<a title="Par gbaku (Flickr [1]) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AKolaNutsKedougou.jpg"><img decoding="async" alt="KolaNutsKedougou" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/KolaNutsKedougou.jpg/400px-KolaNutsKedougou.jpg" width="400" /></a>Retrouvez une série de photos sur la<a href="http://www.ker-thiossane.org/spip.php?article147"> page web de Ker Thiossane</a>. Des émissions de radio ont été réalisées avec la radio communautaire. Enregistrement et des vidéos sont en cours de montage.<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A9dougou">Kédougou</a> se situe aux frontières du Sénégal, du Mali et de la Guinée. près du Parc national du Niokolo où vivent les derniers éléphants du Sénégal.Le DEJEUNER EN COMMUN se passait dans le cadre du festival “La Nuit des Etoiles”, organisé par le Centre Multimédia Communautaire de Kédougou (CMC), dans le Jardin public de la commune, avec l’appui du collectif grenoblois Culture Ailleurs (<a href="http://www.cultureailleurs.com/">http://www.cultureailleurs.com/</a>).’appui du collectif grenoblois Culture Ailleurs (<a href="http://www.cultureailleurs.com/">http://www.cultureailleurs.com/</a>).)
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 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 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 + (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 + (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)
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 + (<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.)
Colloque "Vers une République des biens communs ?" + (A la suite du colloque organisé par l'asso … A la suite du colloque organisé par l'association La Coop des Communs, Remix the commons publie les conférences (pas les débats) sous forme de fichiers audio avec leurs présentations ou résumés des auteurs. Les liens vers les auteurs permettent aussi d'accéder à leur biographie si elle est fournie. Les mots clefs (concepts clefs) utilisés ont été en partie indiqués par les auteurs eux-même. partie indiqués par les auteurs eux-même.)
Ville en biens communs + (A l’initiative du « réseau francophone aut … A l’initiative du « réseau francophone autour des biens communs » 200 événements auto organisés se sont tenus en octobre 2013 dans 5 pays. Destinés à permettre aux habitants de découvrir les communs existants sur leurs territoires, leur donner envie d’y contribuer. Cette initiative a permis de donner de la visibilité au mouvement des communs.de la visibilité au mouvement des communs.)
École des Communs de Kër Thiossane + (Alors qu'une crise de l’espace urbain à Da … Alors qu'une crise de l’espace urbain à Dakar lié à des conflits de voisinage, des espaces de vie collective désinvestis et un espace public déconsidéré avec des infrastructures insuffisantes. , l’École des Communs de Kër Thiossane, au cœur de la capitale dakaroise, cherche à travers l’art et les technologies dites “ouvertes” à développer ou à consolider des actions de solidarité, des actions de voisinage et de citoyenneté. Elle cherche la possibilité d’élaborer des “solutions” aux problèmes urbains et sociaux, sur la base de rencontres et de projets. divers, de défendre la conscience d’un intérêt commun.éfendre la conscience d’un intérêt commun.)
20.01 COMMUNS ÇA VA, MARSEILLE, Commons camp + (Appel en commun dédié à un retour sur le Commons Camp COMMUNS ÇA VA MARSEILLE ? qui s'est déroulé du 17 au 19 janvier.)
20.09 État de l'art des initiatives d'activation, accélération et de transition vers les communs + (Appel en commun dédié à un état de l'art des initiatives d'activation, accélération et de transition vers les communs.)
Art of Commoning 2014 - Lighthearted moments + (Art of Commoning 2014 - Lighthearted momen … Art of Commoning 2014 - Lighthearted moments est un remix réalisé à partir de capsules vidéo auto-enregistrées par les contributeurs dans le "com-fessionnal" lors de la rencontre Art de l'en-commun (Art of Commoning) qui s'est déroulée à Montréal en novembre 2014. Ce remix évoque les communs, leurs définitions et la perspective de l'école des communs comme mode d'émergence du mouvement des communs.mode d'émergence du mouvement des communs.)
La Coop des Communs + (Association dédiée au rapprochement entre le ESS et les communs.)
Exploration des communs urbains - Atelier 1 + (Atelier d'exploration des communs urbains, échanges sur la ''définition des communs urbains'' et en particulier sur la place qu'y tient la dimension politique.)
Atelier de codesign de cartographie numérique Partie 2: Les enjeux liés à la cartographie + (Atelier de codesign de cartographie numéri … Atelier de codesign de cartographie numérique Partie 2: Les enjeux liés à la cartographieExploration des usages et applications de cartographie numérique le 3 mai 2013.Perspective ludique, partage de connaissances sur le "crowdmapping" et outillage du projet de cartographie des Communs de Montréal de l'École des Communs de Communautique.Organisé dans le cadre de l'initiative MOBmontréal, une invitation de Communautique, Métacollab Montréal et l'École des communsMétacollab Montréal et l'École des communs)
Atelier de codesign de cartographie numérique Partie 4: Qualités et modèles de la cartographie + (Atelier de codesign de cartographie numéri … Atelier de codesign de cartographie numérique Partie 4: Qualités et modèles de la cartographieExploration des usages et applications de cartographie numérique le 3 mai 2013.Perspective ludique, partage de connaissances sur le "crowdmapping" et outillage du projet de cartographie des Communs de Montréal de l'École des Communs de Communautique.Organisé dans le cadre de l'initiative MOBmontréal, une invitation de Communautique, Métacollab Montréal et l'École des communsMétacollab Montréal et l'École des communs)
Atelier de codesign de cartographie numérique Partie 1: Les avantages de la cartographie + (Atelier de codesign de cartographie numéri … Atelier de codesign de cartographie numérique Partie 1: Les avantages de la cartographieExploration des usages et applications de cartographie numérique le 3 mai 2013.Perspective ludique, partage de connaissances sur le "crowdmapping" et outillage du projet de cartographie des Communs de Montréal de l'École des Communs de Communautique.Organisé dans le cadre de l'initiative MOBmontréal, une invitation de Communautique, Métacollab Montréal et l'École des communsMétacollab Montréal et l'École des communs)
Atelier de codesign de cartographie numérique Partie 3: La cartographie des communs + (Atelier de codesign de cartographie numéri … Atelier de codesign de cartographie numérique Partie 3: La cartographie des communsExploration des usages et applications de cartographie numérique le 3 mai 2013.Perspective ludique, partage de connaissances sur le "crowdmapping" et outillage du projet de cartographie des Communs de Montréal de l'École des Communs de Communautique.Organisé dans le cadre de l'initiative MOBmontréal, une invitation de Communautique, Métacollab Montréal et l'École des communsMétacollab Montréal et l'École des communs)
Cecosesola ou l'autogestion totale + (Autogestion et coopérativisme intégral : u … Autogestion et coopérativisme intégral : 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 plus tous les postes de travail … et bien plus)
Konbit numérique + (Avec d'autres personnes et organisations, … Avec d'autres personnes et organisations, et en collaboration avec Koumbit, Remix the commons développe une réponse collective aux besoins d'outils et d'infrastructures numériques. L'idée est d'assurer la pleine souveraineté numérique sur nos travaux, nos échanges et nos données en s'inscrivant dans la vision énoncée dans la Charter for Building a Data Commons for a Free, Fair and Sustainable Future*. for a Free, Fair and Sustainable Future*.)
Les Communs + (Brève vidéo d'introduction sur l'idée des … Brève vidéo d'introduction sur l'idée des biens communs en même temps qu'une remise en cause de la fameuse "tragédie des communs". Existe aussi en allemand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMfVtaIxAjA, en Italien http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT6vbAu_UjI et Espagnol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dg6f1F98LI. Vous êtes invités à utiliser librement cette vidéo. invités à utiliser librement cette vidéo.)
Mille jardins en Afrique + (Capsule vidéo sur la campagne 1000 jardins en Afrique conduite par Slow Food. Les coordinateurs locaux, les enseignants et les étudiants des Mille jardins en Afrique présentent le projet.)
Demain, l'art sera libre et généreux ! 2/2 + (Captation live de la Conférence-manifeste … Captation live de la Conférence-manifeste sur le thème "Demain, l'art sera libre et généreux !" qui a eu lieu samedi 15 juin 2013 au Forum des images, dans le cadre du MashUp Film Festival 2013 (3ème édition).Une suite de rencontres, débats, projections, performances... animée par Xavier de La Porte, producteur à France Culture, divisée en deux parties :1ère partieEntre galère financière et formatage par le Marché, l’avenir de la création n’est pas forcément rose. Des raisons d’être optimiste ? Écoutons les artistes eux-mêmes !Avec Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Olivier Cadiot, Caroline Delieutraz, Stéphane Elmadjian, André Gunthert, Luc Lagier, Julien Lahmi, Grégoire Pauly, Vincent Pompignoli, Antoine Moreau, Systaime (Michaël Borras)…2ème partie : demain on partage toutPartage, coopération, intelligence collective : ce qui s’invente aujourd’hui peut changer le monde !Avec Calimaq (Lionel Maurel), Olivier Cadiot, Caroline Delieutraz, Pierre Giner, André Gunthert, Kino, Xavier de La Porte, Systaime (Michaël Borras)...vier de La Porte, Systaime (Michaël Borras)...)
Demain, l'art sera libre et généreux ! 1/2 + (Captation live de la Conférence-manifeste … Captation live de la Conférence-manifeste sur le thème "Demain, l'art sera libre et généreux !" qui a eu lieu samedi 15 juin 2013 au Forum des images, dans le cadre du MashUp Film Festival 2013 (3ème édition).Une suite de rencontres, débats, projections, performances... animée par Xavier de La Porte, producteur à France Culture, divisée en deux parties.1ère partieEntre galère financière et formatage par le Marché, l’avenir de la création n’est pas forcément rose. Des raisons d’être optimiste ? Écoutons les artistes eux-mêmes !Avec Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Olivier Cadiot, Caroline Delieutraz, Stéphane Elmadjian, André Gunthert, Luc Lagier, Julien Lahmi, Grégoire Pauly, Vincent Pompignoli, Antoine Moreau, Systaime (Michaël Borras)…2ème partie : demain on partage toutPartage, coopération, intelligence collective : ce qui s’invente aujourd’hui peut changer le monde !Avec Calimaq (Lionel Maurel), Olivier Cadiot, Caroline Delieutraz, Pierre Giner, André Gunthert, Kino, Xavier de La Porte, Systaime (Michaël Borras)...vier de La Porte, Systaime (Michaël Borras)...)
In case of emergency make your own city + (Ce document donne les objectifs des commun … Ce document donne les objectifs des communs et espaces publiques dans le Communs Josephat sur les sujets de economie plurielle,structures d'ecologie urbaine, habitat innovant, l'espace publique comme bien commun, mobilité durable, modele financier alternatif, et energie positive financier alternatif, et energie positive)
Déclaration Universelle Du Bien Commun de L'Humanité + (Ce document est un appel a la communauté g … Ce document est un appel a la communauté globale de respecter la nature comme source de vie, et ca demontre des arguments de::1. Etablir la symbiose entre la terre et le genre humain:2. Assurer l'harmonie entre tout les elements de la nature:3. Proteger la terre physique, culturelle, spirituelle:4. Garantir la regeneration de la terre:5. Utiliser les formes social de production et de circulation:6. Donner la priorité a la valeur d'usage sur la valeur d'echange:7. Promouvoir un travail non exploité et digne:8. Reconstruire le territoires:9. Garantir l'accès aux biens communs et a une protection social universelle:10. Généraliser la démocratie et assurer la construction du sujet:11. Etablir une relations d'égalite entre hommes et femmes:12. Interdire la guerre:13. Construire l'Etat en fonction du Bien Commun:14. Garantir les droits des peuples originaires:15. Respecter le droit a la resistance:16. Etablir l'interculturalité:17. Assurer le droit a l'information et la circulation des savoirs:18. Respecter l'application du paradigme du Bien commun de l'humanité du paradigme du Bien commun de l'humanité)
Génération spontanéee + (Ce documentaire montre comment 4 jeunes ar … Ce documentaire montre comment 4 jeunes artistes marocains se saisissent et renouvellent leur patrimoine culturel dans leurs créations. En suivant ces 4 jeunes musiciens et leur entourage sur une période de 15 jours, l'équipe de tournage nous fait partager leurs réflexions sur leur patrimoine culturel et sa place dans leur construction identitaire personnelle. Ce documentaire a été réalisé dans le cadre d'un projet REGARDS CROISES sur le patrimoine marocain.EGARDS CROISES sur le patrimoine marocain.)
Le développement dans la région d’Alhoussima - Bniboufarhan + (Ce documentaire parle de l’histoire de la … Ce documentaire parle de l’histoire de la région du Rif marocain qui a connu des grandes événements historique contre la colonisation, et l’histoire de développement de la région qui commencé avec la nouvelle dynamique après le séisme d'al Hoceima en 2004 et l’apparition des nouvelles associations locales et internationales à Boufrah.Avec le soutien du Conseil National des droits humains et du CGD.eil National des droits humains et du CGD.)
Le livre De tout.s Le Monde + (Ce livre décrit une riche voyage qui va s'écrire page après page, s'enrichir ressource après ressource. C'est un livre sans fin, on peut dire, que chacun pourra consulter dans les bibliothèques publiques du quartier et à la Librairie le Rideau Rouge.)
RiP! A Remix Manifesto + (Ce long métrage documentaire fouille les c … Ce long métrage documentaire fouille les complexités de la notion de propriété intellectuelle à l’ère du partage de fichiers pair-à-pair. Le cinéaste militant du Web Brett Gaylor interroge des acteurs importants du débat, dont le roi des collages musicaux de Pittsburgh, Girl Talk. Création de « remixage » en soi, RiP fracasse les barrières entre utilisateurs et producteurs et conteste les limites de « l’utilisation équitable ». Rip A Remix Manifesto (http://www.nfb.ca/film/rip_a_remix_manifesto) par Brett Gaylor (http:////www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/brett-gaylor), Film Board of Canada (http://www.nfb.ca>National).rd of Canada (http://www.nfb.ca>National).)
Microtrottoir Biens Communs à Dakar (partie1) + (Ce micro-trottoir réalisé en janvier 2012 … Ce micro-trottoir réalisé en janvier 2012 recueille les témoignes des dakaroises sur ce que signifient les biens communs, dans los sociétés africaines. Ce vidéo est fait dans le cadre des actions en amont du festival AFROPIXEL # 3 "NTICS, Création, Cultures et Savoirs Partagés en Afrique".Découvrir plus sur le site de Kër Thiossane http://ker-thiossane.org/spip.php?article99ttp://ker-thiossane.org/spip.php?article99)
CECOSESOLA + (Cecosesola est une coopérative du Nord du … Cecosesola est une coopérative du Nord du Venezuela, expérience d'auto-géstion sans hiérarchie participative, qui accueille différentes activités, un supermarché social, un hopital… L'organisation met au centre l'etre humain et expérimente une économie en commun.ain et expérimente une économie en commun.)
Commoner (Dictionnaire des biens communs) + (Cet article a été publié dans le Dictionnaire des biens communs, ouvrage dirigé par Fabienne Orsi, Judith Rochfeld et Marie Cornu, publié aux PUF en 2017.)
Permis de végétaliser (Paris) + (Cette initiative a été lancée le 30 juin 2 … Cette initiative a été lancée le 30 juin 2015 par la Mairie de Paris, et elle est en vigueur à ce jour. Elle vise à accroître la biodiversité à Paris tout en permettant aux résidents individuels de devenir acteurs de ce processus. Elle concerne les 20 arrondissements de la capitale. Cette charte a un statut juridique. Le document précise que les résidents doivent obtenir l'autorisation de cultiver des plantes dans les espaces publics prédéfinis. De plus, la liste des espèces de plantes acceptées par l'autorité publique est précisée dans ce document. Le contenu de ce document s'inscrit dans une initiative de la municipalité de Paris, accessible derrière ce lien (https://www.paris.fr/duvertpresdechezmoi).https://www.paris.fr/duvertpresdechezmoi).)
Communs et Protection Sociale/Note + (Cette note est un des documents produits dans le cadre du groupe de recherche collaborative Protection sociale, ESS et communs, animé par l’association La Coop des Communs. Elle peut être lue indépendamment.)
Quartier du Crêt de Roc + (Cette page rassemble la documentation prod … Cette page rassemble la documentation produite à l'occasion de l'atelier d'exploration urbaine dans le quartier du Crêt de Roc à Saint Étienne réalisée dans le cadre de la semaine de l'innovation publique organisée par la Cité du Design de Saint Étienne les 19 et 20 Novembre 2017. Saint Étienne les 19 et 20 Novembre 2017.)
Le monde invisible + (Cette vidéo a été tournée au Bénin lors de … Cette vidéo a été tournée au Bénin lors de la Journée internationale du Vodou 2013, plus précisément lors de la cérémonie de Ouidah. Elle présente une discussion dont l'exercice est de comprendre ce qui est étranger à soi. Toutefois, la vidéo défend le thème de la culture comme bien commun, et surtout de la culture immatérielle et de la vision propre du monde qu'elle véhicule.Extrait remixé de Achille Mbembe, de Kër ThiossaneTout 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.Avec Martin Chevalier, François Gnonhoussou et les jeunes du Collège Sainte-Anne de Lachine.Jean-François Bourbeau (corrections audio)Jean-François Bourbeau (corrections audio))
Le chez soi + (Cette vidéo a été tournée à Ouidah (Bénin) … Cette vidéo a été tournée à Ouidah (Bénin), sur la plage de la Porte du non-retour. En prenant appui sur l'histoire, et tout particulièrement sur celle l'esclavage qui a marqué ce pays côtier, les jeunes sont amenés à réfléchir sur l'importance du chez soi, de la liberté et, donc, de la démocratie comme bien commun.* Extraits remixés de "Jusqu'où es-tu chez toi" (Anne-Julie Rollet, Kër Thiossane et La Compagnyà) et Achille Mbembe (Kër Thiossane).Cette capsule vidéo fait partie du projet: Bénin Bien CommunTout 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.Deuxième caméra : Cédric Servay et Ariane PrimeauAvec Martin Chevalier, François Gnonhoussou et les jeunes du Collège Sainte-Anne de Lachine.Extraits remixés de "Jusqu'où es-tu chez toi" (Anne-Julie Rollet, Kër Thiossane et La Compagnyà) et Achille Mbembe (Kër Thiossane)Musique: "Transformation" de SoLaRisane) Musique: "Transformation" de SoLaRis)
Chieri + (Chieri est une des villes en pointe sur les communs urbains en Italie. Ugo Mattei y fut l'organisateur du premier Festival International des Biens Communs en 2015.)
Aspects méconnus de l’agriculture urbaine 2 expériences entre humanisme et éveil pédagogique + (Comment l’agriculture urbaine peut-elle pa … Comment l’agriculture urbaine peut-elle participer d’une forme de justice sociale et environnementale ? Aux travers la présentation de deux expériences, la mise en place d’un jardin partagé dans un Centre d’Hébergement d’Urgence de migrants et l’installation d’une ferme urbaine dans un collège d’un réseau d’éducation prioritaire, ce document montrent les possibilités offertes par les initiatives de l’agriculture urbaine. les initiatives de l’agriculture urbaine.)
Commons Watch Report + (Compte rendu de la rencontre Commons Watch qui a lancé le processus d'assemblée des communs en Europe)
Journée Assemblées des communs - Rapport exhaustif + (Compte rendu de la rencontre Journée Assemblées des communs organisée à Paris le 23 septembre 2016.)
À quelles conditions chacun peut-il contribuer aux communs ? + (Conférence de 20 minutes suivie de questio … Conférence de 20 minutes suivie de questions réponses, donnée par Philippe Aigrain dans le cadre de Nuit debout. Philippe Aigrain présente 4 conditions qui favorise les communs : le temps libre, les compétences, les ressources monétaires ou modalités de transaction et la valorisation des contributions dans la société en général. contributions dans la société en général.)
La finance et le concept de commun + (Conférence de Wojtek KALINOWSKI sur la finance et le concept de commun à l'occasion du colloque Vers une république des biens javascript:void(0);communs ?)
Qu'est ce que les communs ? + (Contributions à la définition des communs, proposées par les participants de la rencontre organisée en Ile de France lors du festival Temps des communs en octobre 2015.)
Abuela Grillo + (Court métrage d'animation adapté du mythe … Court métrage d'animation adapté du mythe Ayoreo réalisé dans le cadre de l'atelier d'animation de Viborg, Danemark, par Nicobis et la Communauté des animateurs Boliviens, dirigé par Denis Chapon (français), avec l'appui du gouvernement du Danemark.Musique de l'ambassadeur de Bolivie en France. Un projet danois, production soutenue par le Mexique et l'Allemagne.on soutenue par le Mexique et l'Allemagne.)
Diwo interview + (DIWO Co-op est une coopérative de travaill … DIWO Co-op est une coopérative de travailleurs situé à Madrid, Espagne qui a fait l'objet d'une présentation dans le programme espagnol de télévision, "La Aventura del Saber". Dans cette interview, deux membres de la coopérative parlent de coopérativisme, la collaboration contre l'individualisme, et des différences entre les entreprises traditionnelles et les coopératives. Ne manquez pas le récit de Mamen sur le conseiller financier qui leur a demandé de ne pas devenir une coopérative, car «ils perdraient le contrôle de leur entreprise", et leur réaction. Lire l'article complet de Guerrilla Translation! (http://bit.ly/1hWmYyW)rilla Translation! (http://bit.ly/1hWmYyW))
Creative Commons s'engage pour le temps des communs + (Danièle Bourcier présente les enjeux sur lesquels se mobilise Creative Commons France lors de la conférence de presse du festival organisée à l'occasion du 800 ième anniversaire de la signature de la Magna Carta.)
Yochai Benkler : « Le chemin parcouru par les Communs en vingt ans » + (Dans cette interview Yochai Benkler, prése … Dans cette interview Yochai Benkler, présente sa vision des communs et aborde ses relations avec l'école de Bloomington initiée par Elinor Ostrom. Il décrypte les défis et le poids politique des communs digitaux et partage sa perception de l'évolution des Communs dans le débat public depuis 20 ans.L'entrevue a été réalisée à l'occasion de la conférence UNCOMMONS, 15ième conférence annuelle de la Berliner Gazette, qui se déroulait du 22 au 24 octobre 2015 à Berlin. Une initiative réalisée en coopération par Berliner Gazette et le théâtre Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.héâtre Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.)
La gouvernance en expérimentation, modèles de partage du pouvoir et de la valeur dans l'économie collaborative + (De la plateforme classique, à la coopérati … De la plateforme classique, à la coopérative, jusqu’au commun, les startups de l’économie collaborative font loupe sur les évolutions à l’oeuvre dans nos sociétés, vers des modes de production distribués et des modes de consommation circulaires. Parmi les derniers développements de services collaboratifs, des liens et des proximités se sont tissés avec l’ESS. D’autres, de culture plus classiquement "capitaliste numérique", font le choix rationnel d'associer les consommateurs et producteurs de services distribués aux décisions à prendre, voire à la valeur créée. Ainsi, à la croisée de courants d’appartenance différents, sont en train d’être inventés et expérimentés des schémas et pratiques de gouvernance fondées sur l’autonomie, l’implication des parties prenantes, la prise en compte des opinions.renantes, la prise en compte des opinions.)
Définir les communs - Balász Bodó + (Define the Commons - Balász Bodó, Hungary … Define the Commons - Balász Bodó, Hungary / Netherlands,Une définition des communs proposée par Balász Bodó, Hongrie/Pays Bas, tirée d'un entretien réalisé par AMBROSI Alain, lors de la Conférence Internationale sur l'économie et les communs qui se déroulait à Berlin du 22 au 24 mai 2013.Cette capsule est une contribution au projet "Definir les communs".tribution au projet "Definir les communs".)
Great Minds P2: David Bollier - Think Like A Commoner… + (Deuxième partie d'émission sur les communs … Deuxième partie d'émission sur les communs avec David Bollier.Présentation du sujet :* In our hyper-capitalist, neo-liberal world, belief in the superiority of private property and the free market verges on the religious. In the case of the Republican Party - it borders on the fundamentalist. But as powerful as the idea of the free market might be - especially here in the United States - the truth is that it's not the only way or organizing our society There is a real alternative to the endless commodification of resources and accumulation of wealth. It’s called The Commons - and my guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is one of the world's foremost experts on it. Joining me now is David Bollier - Activist -Co-Founder of the Commons Strategies Group - and author numerous books - including "Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons." Introduction to the Life of the Commons.")
Revolution OS + (Documentaire de 2001 retraçant l'histoire … Documentaire de 2001 retraçant l'histoire des mouvements GNU, Linux, Open Source et des logiciels libres à partir du témoignage des différents protagonistes - Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker et Brian Behlendorf.Le film démarre avec les interviews d’Eric Raymond, Linus Torvals, Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens, puis se poursuit en présentant les différentes étape de cette histoire lorsque le code a été librement partagé et que des luttes avec les fournisseurs de logiciels propriétaires conduisaient, par exemple, au départ de Richard Stallman du MIT. Celui-ci a pu alors se concentrer sur le développement du logiciel libre et sur le projet GNU. Le film documente également l'impact de la première conférence LinuxWorld, montrant Linus Torvalds et Larry Augustin lors des sessions d'ouverture.ry Augustin lors des sessions d'ouverture.)
Zones d’Autonomie Conventionnée partie 1/2 + (Documentaire sur les occupations éphémères … Documentaire sur les occupations éphémères du quartier de la Chapelle (Paris).Arrière-Cour 93, Jardin d'Alice, Ecobox, Théâtre de Verre, Shakirail, Bois Dormoy, lieux éphémères du quartier de la Chapelle dans le XVIIIe arrondissement, racontent leur histoire d'occupation de bâtiments vides et de parcelles nues transformés en ateliers d'artistes et jardins partagés. A l'occasion des événements organisés par les six lieux dans le cadre des Portes Ouvertes de la Chapelle en 2013, ce documentaire se veut un voyage entre leur existence quotidienne et leur relation avec le Paris en transformation. relation avec le Paris en transformation.)
Zones d’Autonomie Conventionnée partie 2/2 + (Documentaire sur les occupations éphémères … Documentaire sur les occupations éphémères du quartier de la Chapelle (Paris).Arrière-Cour 93, Jardin d'Alice, Ecobox, Théâtre de Verre, Shakirail, Bois Dormoy, lieux éphémères du quartier de la Chapelle dans le XVIIIe arrondissement, racontent leur histoire d'occupation de bâtiments vides et de parcelles nues transformés en ateliers d'artistes et jardins partagés. A l'occasion des événements organisés par les six lieux dans le cadre des Portes Ouvertes de la Chapelle en 2013, ce documentaire se veut un voyage entre leur existence quotidienne et leur relation avec le Paris en transformation. relation avec le Paris en transformation.)
Bénin en biens communs + (Documentation d'une expérience interculturelle au Bénin Version française : http://www.remixthecommons.org/projet/benin-bien-commun/ English version : http://www.remixthecommons.org/en/projet/benin-bien-commun/)
Définition des communs selon Moussa Mbaye + (Définir les communs, Héritage commun, Préservation, Identité)
Définir le Bien Commun: Mazibuko Jara à Berlin + (Définition des biens communs par Mazibuko Jara à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010. Langue: Khosa)
Définir le Bien Commun: Isabella Lövin à Dakar + (Définition des biens communs par Isabella Lövin à l'occasion du Forum Social Mondial à Dakar en février 2011. Langue : Suédois traduit en Anglais)
Définir le Bien Commun: Claire Brossaud à Dakar + (Définition des biens communs par Claire Brossaud à l'occasion du Forum Social Mondial à Dakar en février 2011.)
Définir le Bien Commun:Massimo Banzi à Berlin + (Définition des biens communs par Massimo Banzi à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010. Langue : Italien)
Définir le Bien Commun: Imma Harms à Berlin + (Définition des biens communs par Imma Harms à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010.)
Définir le Bien Commun: Beatriz Busaniche à Berlín + (Définition des biens communs par Beatriz Busaniche à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010.)
Définir le Bien Commun: Hala Essalmawi à Berlin + (Définition des biens communs par Hala Essalmawi à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010. Document bilingue : Arabe et Anglais)
Définition des communs selon Roberto Verzola + (Définition des biens communs par Roberto Verzola à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010. Langue :tagalog)
Définir le Bien Commun: Alberto Acosta à Berlín + (Définition des biens communs par Alberto Acosta à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010.)
Définir le Bien Commun: Gaelle Krikorian à Berlin + (Définition des biens communs par Gaelle Krikorian à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010.)
Définir le Bien Commun: Miguel Vieira à Berlin + (Définition des biens communs par Miguel Vieira à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010. Langue : portugais)
Définir le Bien Commun: Salimata Wade à Dakar + (Définition des biens communs par Salimata Wade à l'occasion du Forum Social Mondial à Dakar en février 2011. Langue : Wolof, Français)
Définir le Bien Commun: Barbara Unmüssig à Berlin + (Définition des biens communs par Barbara U … Définition des biens communs par Barbara Unmüssig à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010."Für mich heißt Commons, dafür zu sorgen, dass Menschen ihr eigenes Schicksal in die Hand nehmen und selbst schauen, wie sie vor Ort für das Allgemeinwohl arbeiten können."rt für das Allgemeinwohl arbeiten können.")
Définir le Bien Commun: Kirsten Grover à Berlin + (Définition des biens communs par Kirsten Grover à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010.)
Définir le Bien Commun: Moussa Mbaye à Dakar + (Définition des biens communs par Moussa Mbaye à l'occasion du Forum Social Mondial à Dakar en février 2011. Langue : Wolof Traduction En français: http://www.remixthecommons.org/2011/08/define-the-commons-moussa-mbaye-in-dakar)
Définir le Bien Commun: Phlippe Aigrain à Berlin + (Définition des biens communs par Philippe … Définition des biens communs par Philippe Aigrain à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010."C'est ce qui appartient à tous les usagers et producteurs potentiels et donc dont il n'est pas acceptable que ça devienne la propriété d'un ou d'une organisation." la propriété d'un ou d'une organisation.")
Définir le Bien Commun: Abdou Salam Fall à Dakar + (Définition des biens communs par Abdou Salam Fall à l'occasion du Forum Social Mondial à Dakar en février 2011. Langue : Wolof traduit en français)
Définir le Bien Commun: David Bollier à Berlin + (Définition des biens communs par David Bol … Définition des biens communs par David Bollier à l'occasion de la International Commons Conference à Berlin les 1er et 2 novembre 2010."The commons in its most salient form is an alternative to market relationships – through property, cash-exchange and so forth. But that's putting that in a reactive way because in another way it's about reclaiming sovereignty of control for managing resources and developing an ethical - even spiritual - way of life that's sustainable and compatible with one's ecosystem and one's community."with one's ecosystem and one's community.")
Définition des communs selon ANGA NINAWAMAN Chaska + (Définition des communs en français et quechua.)
Produire les médicaments comme des communs + (Développer une proposition concrète de production de plusieurs médicaments gérés comme des communs.)
Right to the City + (EN: This video was made by interviewing a … EN: This video was made by interviewing a group of commoners who attended to the first public meeting of the European Commons Assembly in Brussels, 15-17 November, 2016. They reflected about how neoliberalism shape cities as places for tourism, gentrifying and dismantling the cooperative environment of the neighborhoods; as well as how commoners build alternatives by sharing responsibilities in designing a different framework. FR: Cette vidéo a été réalisée en interviewant un groupe de commoners qui ont assisté à la première réunion publique de l'Assemblée Européenne des Communs (ECA) à Bruxelles, les 15 et 17 novembre 2016. Ils ont réfléchi à la façon dont le néolibéralisme a façonné les villes comme des lieux de tourisme, gentrifiant et démantelant l'environnement coopératif des quartiers; Ainsi que la façon dont les commoners construisent des alternatives en partageant leurs responsabilités dans la conception d'un cadre différent.s dans la conception d'un cadre différent.)
Rencontre avec Elinor OSTROM - part 7 + (Elinor Ostrom répond aux questions posées lors de la première Table ronde de la rencontre de l'ESS avec Elinor Ostrom : Économie sociale et biens communs, bien immatériels - systèmes d'information et internet.)
Rencontre avec Elinor OSTROM - part 4 + (Elinor Ostrom répond aux questions posées lors de la première Table ronde de la rencontre de l'ESS avec Elinor Ostrom : Économie sociale et biens communs, bien immatériels - systèmes d'information et internet.)
Festival des murs à pêches de Montreuil + (Emission de radio Communs urbains, l'atlas dédiée au Festival des murs à pêches à Montreuil)
Soutien aux communs, l'approche de femProcomuns + (En Catalogne, la coopérative femprocomuns … En Catalogne, la coopérative femprocomuns propose des ateliers, des sessions de travail et des outils élaborés à partir du Modèle de Soutenabilité des Communs, qui a fait l'objet d'une recherche de plusieurs années avec des collectifs et des individus engagés dans les communs.et des individus engagés dans les communs.)
Entre la République coopérative et les biens communs - plus que des affinités + (En nous penchant comparativement sur l’exp … En nous penchant comparativement sur l’expérience coopérative et sur le devenir des communs, nous aboutissons à cette proposition: il n’est pas de communs sans communautés comme il n’est pas de coopérative sans coopérateurs. Au-delà de l’analogie, nous nous demandons si le lien entre coopérative et communs ne peut être pas pensé en termes d’homologie, voire d’identité. Quelle que soit la période considérée et conséquemment le type de République (de travailleurs, de consommateurs, d’habitants), quel que soit l’espace territorial qu’elle exprime (la communauté/le monde/le milieu), nous montrerons que les Républiques coopératives sont les expressions contemporaines parmi les plus abouties des modes de gouvernement des communs.ies des modes de gouvernement des communs.)
The Years of Lead in Maroc: Women Speak Out, Excerpts from public hearings 2004-2005 + (En tant d'importantes archives, ce documen … En tant d'importantes archives, ce documentaire comprend beaucoup de témoignages de victimes féminines au cours des années de plomb au Maroc, laquelle ont été extraites des audiences publiques de 2004-2005. Les victimes et les proches partout Maroc et parlent de leurs souvenirs et expériences au sujet de l'arrestation et de détention arbitraires, de tortures, de mauvais traitements. Ces histoires sont tristes et choquantes, dans le même temps à construire un pont vers un Maroc nouveau, parce que de leur part, les gens pu découvrir la vérité du les années de plomb au Maroc.Avec le soutien de : * The Advisory Council on Human rights(ACHR)* UNIFEM Sub Regional Office for North AfricaNIFEM Sub Regional Office for North Africa)
MACAO 08 - Sur le festival de Chieri + (Entretien avec FIORDIMELA Cristina Thème … Entretien avec FIORDIMELA Cristina Thème : Sur le Festival International des communs de Chieri, Cristina Fiordimela explique les raisons de la modestie de l'investissement des activistes dans le festival par la forme adoptée et le mode d'organisation top-down.doptée et le mode d'organisation top-down.)
Vue d’ensemble de l’économie collaborative avec Michel Bauwens + (Entrevue de Michel Bauwens, fondateur de l … Entrevue de Michel Bauwens, fondateur de la Fondation P2P. L’entrevue a été réalisée à Montréal le 3 novembre 2012 après la tenue d’une conversation publique « À l’école des Communs » organisée par Communautique et Remix biens communs, en collaboration avec la Chaire Nycole Turmel sur les espaces publics et les innovations politiques de l’UQÀM.s et les innovations politiques de l’UQÀM.)
Rio 2012: biens comuns, nos droits à un futur. Yasy Morales Chacon + (Entrevue réalisée dans le cadre du projet Remix the Commons à Rio de Janeiro en juin 2012)
Rio 2012: Biens communs, nos droits à un futur. Vandana Shiva + (Entrevue réalisée dans le cadre du projet Remix the Commons à Rio de Janeiro en juin 2012)
Rio 2012: Biens communs, nos droits à un futur. Shannon Biggs + (Entrevue réalisée dans le cadre du projet Remix the Commons à Rio de Janeiro en juin 2012)
Rio 2012: Biens communs, nos droits à un futur. Natalia Greene + (Entrevue réalisée dans le cadre du projet Remix the Commons à Rio de Janeiro en juin 2012)
Réseau francophone des communs + (Espace ouvert d'échange sur les biens communs, le réseau a été lancé en 2012 lors d'une rencontre des acteurs des communs le 26 septembre 2012, à l'initiative de membres de l'association VECAM.)
Quelles pratiques des communs ? + (Et en pratique, les communs ça veut dire quoi ? Les participants de la rencontre organisée en Ile de France lors du festival Temps des communs en octobre 2015, expliquent comment ils mettent en pratique les communs dans leurs domaines d'activités.)
Des droits basés sur les biens communs + (Exploration à deux voix de la construction de droit(s) basé(s) sur les communs)
MACAO 02 - Charte des communs de Milan + (FIORDIMELA Cristina répond à la question : Est-ce qu'il existe une charte des communs de la ville de Milan et explique le processus de production de la charte des communs de Milan encore en discussion.)
Culture & Démocratie + (Fondée en 1993, constituée en asbl en 1994 … Fondée en 1993, constituée en asbl en 1994, association d’éducation permanente depuis 2010, Culture & Démocratie est une plateforme de réflexion, d’observation, d’échange et de sensibilisation à ce qui lie la culture et la démocratie. Cette articulation nourrit l’association depuis son origine.Culture & Démocratie inscrit son travail de recherche et de réflexion dans plusieurs axes thématiques – prison, enseignement, santé, travail social, droit de participer à la vie culturelle, numérique, territoires, communs, migration(s) – dont elle explore à chaque fois l’articulation au champ culturel. Ces travaux donnent lieu à des échanges et des publications.x donnent lieu à des échanges et des publications.)
Définition des communs selon Gaelle Krikorian + (GAELLE KRIKORIAN (FRANCE). Entrevue filmée … GAELLE KRIKORIAN (FRANCE). Entrevue filmée au cours de la conférence de Berlin 2010."Moi ça m'intéresse qu'on donne une définition des communs qui ne soit pas forcément la définition la plus intelligente ou intellectuelle qui soit mais qui soit une définition qui va permettre aux gens de se sentir concernés par ce truc-là et qui va avoir une efficacité politique. Au jour d'aujourd'hui, voilà: j'ai pas la réponse toute faite.", voilà: j'ai pas la réponse toute faite.")
Définition des communs selon Michel Bauwens + (Gouvernance, Communs vs Public, Communs vs Privé Reconnaître le commun et ré-agencer le rôle du marché et de l'état par rapport au commun. Reconnaîssance du commun)
LABSUS et les reglements des communs urbains + (Gregorio Arena et Daniela Ciaffi présentent le LABSUS et les chartes et règlements des communs en Italie. L'entrevue se termine par la définition des communs. Gregorio Arena s'exprime en anglais et Daniela Ciaffi en français.)
Histoire de l'Assemblée des communs de Lille par Julien Lecaille + (Histoire de l'Assemblée des communs de Lille racontée par Julien Lecaille pendant la journée de travail sur les assemblées des communs à Paris le 23 septembre 2016.)
Expérience italienne des communs urbains + (Ici, nous documentons l'expérience des communs urbains sous l'angle de l''''Atlas des chartes des communs urbains''' en Italie.)
Digital labor, conflits et communs à l'heure des plateformes numériques - Audio + (Intervention d'Antonio Casilli dans le cadre du séminaire "Vers une République des biens communs ?" - le 9 septembre 2016)
L'entreprise à la croisée des doctrines du bien commun + (Intervention de Aurore Chaigeau dans le ca … Intervention de Aurore Chaigeau dans le cadre du Colloque "Vers une République des communs ? "Croiser la thématique de l'entreprise avec les doctrines des communs revient à poser la question de la forme et de la dynamique du projet entrepreneurial. La question est d'actualité. Les deux termes ont connu un regain d'intérêt au sein de la doctrine juridique mais aussi économiste. La notion d'entreprise tout d'abord est utilisée en contre point de celle de société. Elle permet de souligner, par exemple, les lacunes et les limites d'un droit des sociétés octroyant des pouvoirs aux actionnaires sur les décisions prises par la société, l’ambiguïté du mandat donné aux dirigeants, l'invisibilité de certaines parties prenantes dans l'architecture de la structure capitalistique. La référence à l'entreprise nourrit un discours permettant de décentrer l'objet d'analyse de la société à l'entreprise par l'identification d'une entité élargie circonscrivant de façon plus pertinente une dynamique économique dont elle est la cause. Les discours sur l'entreprise entendent réévaluer les pouvoirs des parties prenantes et promouvoir des formes institutionnelles plus respectueuses d'un nouvel équilibre des énergies à l'origine de la création de valeur.gies à l'origine de la création de valeur.)
L’open access dessine-t-il un domaine des communs éditoriaux ? - Audio + (Intervention de Françoise Benhamou dans le cadre du colloque "Vers une République des biens communs ?" - le 9 septembre 2016)
Les communs ESS dans la transition vers la société des communs + (Intervention de Hervé Defalvard dans le ca … Intervention de Hervé Defalvard dans le cadre du Colloque "Vers une République des communs ? "La loi relative à l’économie sociale et solidaire (ESS) du 31 juillet 2014 ne définit pas seulement celle-ci comme un autre mode d’entreprendre puisqu’un amendement en seconde lecture a ajouté qu’elle est aussi un autre mode de développement économique. Dans La révolution de l’économie en 10 leçons, nous avons caractérisé ce dernier comme celui d’une économie où produire et consommer se décident en commun. De nombreuses réalités de l’ESS peuvent s’appréhender d’ores et déjà comme des communs ESS: les monnaies locales complémentaires, les pôles territoriaux de coopération économique, les communautés énergétiques, les ressourceries, les expérimentations territoire zéro chômeur de longue durée. En mobilisant les travaux de Ostrom et de Sen, nous proposons une définition des communs ESS, dont nous envisageons ensuite la place et le rôle dans une transition vers la société des communs dont le mode de développement s’appuie de manière dominante sur un mode de production et de consommation en commun. Une telle transition suppose le passage vers un capitalisme communal dont le droit d’usage devient la base de la citoyenneté et de la démocratie économiques.toyenneté et de la démocratie économiques.)
Une Internationale des villes-en-commun. Réflexions à partir du cas de Barcelone - Audio + (Intervention de Pierre Sauvêtre dans le cadre du colloque "Vers une République des biens communs ?" - Le 11 septembre 2016)
Interview: Silke Helfrich - Elevate Festival 2014 + (Interview de HELFRICH Silke autour des notions de communs et de commoning.)
Rencontre avec Kristin Ross autour de "L'imaginaire de la Commune" + (Interview de Kristin Ross, auteur de Commu … Interview de Kristin Ross, auteur de Communal Luxery, The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune, traduction : L’imaginaire politique de la Commune de Paris. Article et interview dans La voie du Jaguar : https://www.lavoiedujaguar.net/Luxe-communal-L-imaginaireoiedujaguar.net/Luxe-communal-L-imaginaire)
Interview with Silke Helfrich, Commons Strategies Group + (Interview réalisée à l’occasion de la première rencontre de l’assemblée européenne des communs à Bruxelles)
Interview with Sophie Ghyselen, Community Land Trust + (Interview réalisée à l’occasion de la première rencontre de l’assemblée européenne des communs à Bruxelles)
Interview with Marco Clausen, Prinzessinnengarten + (Interview réalisée à l’occasion de la première rencontre de l’assemblée européenne des communs à Bruxelles)
Interview with Sophie Bloemen et David Hammerstein, Commons Network + (Interview réalisée à l’occasion de la première rencontre de l’assemblée européenne des communs à Bruxelles)
Interview with Iva Čukić, Ministry of Space + (Interview réalisée à l’occasion de la première rencontre de l’assemblée européenne des communs à Bruxelles)
Interview with Nicolas Krausz, Fondation Charles Leopold Mayer + (Interview réalisée à l’occasion de la première rencontre de l’assemblée européenne des communs à Bruxelles)
Interview with David Juárez, Arquitecturas colectivas + (Interview réalisée à l’occasion de la première rencontre de l’assemblée européenne des communs à Bruxelles)
Interview with Ismäel Sene, Horizons des comuns + (Interview réalisée à l’occasion de la première rencontre de l’assemblée européenne des communs à Bruxelles)
Interview with Bob Kartous, EDUin + (Interview réalisée à l’occasion de la première rencontre de l’assemblée européenne des communs à Bruxelles)
Interview with Kimmo Hokkanen, Ehta Raha + (Interview réalisée à l’occasion de la première rencontre de l’assemblée européenne des communs à Bruxelles)
Interview with Cecile Blanchet, Commons Network + (Interview réalisée à l’occasion de la première rencontre de l’assemblée européenne des communs à Bruxelles)
Interview with Ernest Urtasun, Member of the European Parliament + (Interview réalisée à l’occasion de la première rencontre de l’assemblée européenne des communs à Bruxelles)
Débat en commun Introduction + (Introduction de débat autour des communs à Dakar dans le cadre des petits déjeuner des communs)
What is the European Commons Assembly? + (Invitation à participer au processus d'assemblée des communs en Europe)
Petits déjeuners en-commun (Kër Thiossane) + (Invitation à réfléchir sur la notion et la … Invitation à réfléchir sur la notion et la pratique de l’espace de vie comme un bien commun : la maison, l'habitat, le quartier, l'environnement, les terres, la mer... Un espace de vie qui est aussi bien à préserver et à inventer.En français : http://www.remixthecommons.org/projet/petits-dejeuners-en-commun/In English : http://www.remixthecommons.org/en/projet/petits-dejeuners-en-commun/.org/en/projet/petits-dejeuners-en-commun/)
Droits culturels, définition par Irene Favero + (Irene Favero propose une définition des droits culturels dans le contexte de la préparation d'une émission de radio Communs urbains, l'Atlas !)
20.11 Calculer la valeur des communs + (L'appel d'aujourd'hui se déroule avec Doin … L'appel d'aujourd'hui se déroule avec Doina Petrescu, architecte, professeure à l'école d'architecture de Shieffield en Grande Bretagne. Doina présente les outils et méthodologies de recherche qui ont permis de mesurer les effets des communs urbains en termes économique dans le cadre de R-Urban de Colombes.ique dans le cadre de R-Urban de Colombes.)
La Chapelle Marx Dormoy/Agriculture urbaine et Alimentation solidaire + (L'objectif de ce volet du projet à La Chap … L'objectif de ce volet du projet à La Chapelle Marx Dormoy est de se donner une idée générale des initiatives d'agriculture urbaine et d'alimentation solidaire dans le quartier de la Chapelle (Paris 18) et de mieux comprendre les liens qu'elles entretiennent entre elles et avec les autres initiatives citoyennes du quartier.autres initiatives citoyennes du quartier.)
École des communs La Chapelle + (L'École des communs de La Chapelle est une … L'École des communs de La Chapelle est une expérience d'auto-apprentissage des modes de gouvernance des communs avec les habitant·e·s de La Chapelle et leurs collectifs et organisations. Le projet se développe dans le quartier de la Chapelle (Paris 18) avec ses habitants et sa communauté, composée de nombreux collectifs formels et informels. Il porté par Radio Raptz et Remix the Commons.orté par Radio Raptz et Remix the Commons.)
Charte de Lampedusa + (La Charte de Lampedusa est un pacte unissa … La Charte de Lampedusa est un pacte unissant les entités et les personnes qui, en la signant, s’engageant à porter, pratiquer et défendre les principes qu’elle expose, par tout moyen, parole et actes que tout/toute signataire trouvera approprié. Elle est issue d’un processus constituant et de construction d’un droit par le bas quis’est développé durant la rencontre de Lampedusa du 31 janvier au 2 février 2014, après la mort de plus de 600 femmes, hommes et enfants. Les naufrages des 3 et 11octobre 2013 témoignent que les politiques de gestion et de contrôle des migrations font de la Méditerranée un cimetière marin. La Charte de Lampedusa n’est ni une proposition de loi ni une demande adressée aux Etats et aux gouvernements. (extrait du document)t aux gouvernements. (extrait du document))
FRMJC d'Ile de France et les biens communs + (La FRMJC d'Ile de France a lancé une démarche de reconstitution du projet des maisons de jeunes et de la culture comme biens communs.)
Reclaim Our Privacy + (La Quadrature du Net a réalisé ”Reclaim Ou … La Quadrature du Net a réalisé ”Reclaim Our Privacy”, un film de 3 minutes qui explique la menace sur notre vie privée en ligne et l'importance et les outils de sa protection. Si vous souhaitez contribuer au financement de ce film, cela est encore possible http://www.ulule.com/reclaim-privacy/.ble http://www.ulule.com/reclaim-privacy/.)
Fiction et histoire du temps présent- La Chambre Noire + (La chambre noire (Black Room ), Kamal et N … La chambre noire (Black Room ), Kamal et Najat travaillent tous les deux à l'aéroport. Follement amoureux, ils fondent ensemble de grands projets d'avenir. Malheureusement, le passé d'ancien étudiant marxiste-léniniste rattrape Kamal. Commence alors une longue descente aux enfers : enlèvement, interrogatoires, tortures. Kamal refuse de charger ses camarades en contrepartie de la clémence des juges. Le verdict sera lourd.Hassan Benjelloun, Ne en 1950, pharmacien, il est aussi un cinéaste soucieux des problèmes que vit la société marocaine qu’il transcrit dans ses films. ll réalise en 1983, son premier court métrage sens unique. Ensuite, il réalisa plusieurs longs métrages : la fete des autres(1990) ; Yarit(1994) ; LES amis d’Hier(1998) ; les levres du silence(2000) ; Jugement d’une femme(2001) ; le Pote(2002) ; ou vas-tu Moshe(2007) et les oublies de i ‘histoire(2009). La Chambre noire(2004) reçut une mention spéciale aux journées cinématographiques de Carthage en 2004 et l’étalon d’argent du long métrage au FESPACO 2005n d’argent du long métrage au FESPACO 2005)
Building Communities of Commons in Greece + (La région de Sarantaporo, située au nord d … La région de Sarantaporo, située au nord de la Grèce, est une région agricole et d'élevage touchée par la crise. Mais avant même la crise, l'attention de l'État sur la région était inexistante. Les jeunes migraient vers les grandes villes ou à l'étranger. Il n'y avait pas de connexion Internet, et la population locale était isolée et privée de services de base comme l'aide médical.En 2010, un groupe de personnes décide de mettre en place un réseau sans fil communautaire visant à relier les villages entre eux et avec le reste du monde. Avec le temps, et à mesure que le projet grandi, la communauté Sarantaporo.gr devient de plus en plus ambitieuse. Ses membres veulent être les catalyseurs locaux qui (ré)organisent des coopératives basées sur le réseau sans fil, et (re)dynamisent l'économie, la rendent durable, tournée vers l'extérieur et indépendante du contrôle étatique et du secteur privé.Ce faisant, ils produisent des connaissances et établissent des ponts entre la technologie hi-tech d'une communauté en réseau numérique et les défis de la vie réelle d'une communauté rurale.Quels sont ces défis ? Comment une communauté peut-elle naître et se transformer ou toucher les personnes réelles ? Quelles sont les histoires des personnes impliquées d'une manière ou d'une autre dans ce processus ? Comment les efforts d'une modeste population rurale, située dans une partie éloignée de la Grèce, menacée par la crise, permettent-ils de se relier à un projet de TIC de l'université de Catalogne, et de construire un nouvel espace d'entente entre les peuples en Europe ? Autant de question explorées dans le documentaire.En octobre 2015, en collaboration avec l'équipe Sarantaporo.gr, le collectif Personal Cinema a lancé une campagne de crowdfunding sur la plate-forme espagnole goteo.org afin de collecter des fonds qui permettront la réalisation de ce documentaire.ettront la réalisation de ce documentaire.)
Communs et républicanisme - l'expérience de la Révolution française + (La république est communément définie en c … La république est communément définie en creux comme une forme de gouvernement opposée à la monarchie. Cette définition négative à laquelle nous sommes accoutumés masque une définition positive et plus exigeante dans laquelle la république est à la fois pensée comme un bien commun et comme le mode de gouvernement de ce bien commun — ce mode de gouvernement étant donc constitutif du bien commun qu'est la république. Dans cette acception de la république, ce mode de gouvernement consiste dans la démocratie. Le retour de la problématique des "communs" donne une nouvelle visibilité à cette république pensée comme un "commun" qui a en particulier été mise en œuvre pendant la Révolution française, sous la Convention montagnarde. Inscrite dans une longue tradition politique, elle constitue un républicanisme de droit naturel selon lequel la raison d'être d'une république consiste à garantir le droit à l'existence de ses membres.(http://www.ccic-cerisy.asso.fr/bienscommuns16.html#Yannick_BOSC).asso.fr/bienscommuns16.html#Yannick_BOSC))
Définition des communs selon Moussa Mbaye (Wolof) + (Langue : WOLOF Définir les communs, Héritage commun, Préservation, Identité,)
Définition des communs selon Salimata Wade + (Langue complémentaire : Wolof)
« Jusqu’où tu es chez toi ? » Déjeuner en Commun à Kédougou Sénégal + (Le 2 mars 2013, Marion Louisgrand et Marta … Le 2 mars 2013, Marion Louisgrand et Marta Vallejo de Kër Thiossane, partenaire de Remix the commons, ont organisé à Kédougou au Sénégal, un DEJEUNER EN COMMUN sur le thème de l’En-commun et du “vivre ensemble” autour de la question « Jusqu’où tu es chez toi ? ». Kédougou Kédougou se situe aux frontières du Sénégal, du Mali et de la Guinée. près du Parc national du Niokolo où vivent les derniers éléphants du Sénégal. vivent les derniers éléphants du Sénégal.)
Délibération 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.)
Définition des communs à Pixelache 2014 + (Le Festival Pixelache, organisé à Helsinki en 2014, est un évènement international trans-disciplinaire qui met au centre les commons. A cette occasion, Remix et m-cult ont collecté les définitions des communs des participants et participantes.)
Le Temps des Communs + (Le Temps des Communs est une présentation du festival Temps des communs organisé par les militants francophones des communs en octobre 2015. Site internet du festival Temps des communs : http://tempsdescommuns.org)
Finance et commun + (Le groupe de travail « Finance en biens co … Le groupe de travail « Finance en biens communs » (Finance-BC) a été conçu, au cours de l’année 2014 comme un atelier de réflexion sur la problématique de la finance vue à travers la perspective des « biens communs » (au sens des Common-pool resources étudiées par Elinor Ostrom).ool resources étudiées par Elinor Ostrom).)
Entreprendre EnCommuns + (Le mouvement en cours de transformation de … Le mouvement en cours de transformation de l'économie entend renouveler profondément la nature même de l’initiative entrepreneuriale et ses finalités. Ce projet de recherche propose d’analyser les formes de l'économie collaborative et de mettre en évidence les modèles économiques qui la rendent soutenable et socialement acceptable.dent soutenable et socialement acceptable.)
CommonsCamp2018 + (Le premier Commons camp a rassemblé les militants des communs, du municipalisme et du droit à la ville pendant 4 jours au cours de l'Université d'été des mouvements sociaux 2018 à Grenoble.)
Science et démocratie : La science autrement + (Le premier Forum Mondial Sciences et Démoc … Le premier Forum Mondial Sciences et Démocratie s'est tenu à Bélem en janvier 2009 à l'invitation du 9ème Forum Social Mondial. Plus de 300 chercheurs et activistes de mouvements sociaux et d'ONG venant de quatre continents ont participé à cette grande première au moment même où la planète était secouée par la conjugaison des crises alimentaire, économique et environnementale. Tenir cette rencontre au coeur de l'Amazonie brésilienne prenait toute sa signification.Ce video est un extrait d'un livre-film publié par cfeditions.com/belem2009Réalisation AMBROSI Alain, Image et montage Abeille Tard, en partenariat avec Cinbiose et Alternatives partenariat avec Cinbiose et Alternatives)
La science au secours de la démocratie - Le mouvement des biens communs + (Le premier Forum Mondial Sciences et Démoc … Le premier Forum Mondial Sciences et Démocratie s'est tenu à Bélem en janvier 2009 à l'invitation du 9ème Forum Social Mondial. Plus de 300 chercheurs et activistes de mouvements sociaux et d'ONG venant de quatre continents ont participé à cette grande première au moment même où la planète était secouée par la conjugaison des crises alimentaire, économique et environnementale. Tenir cette rencontre au coeur de l'amazonie brésilienne prenait toute sa signification.Ce video est un extrait d'un livre-film publié par http://cfeditions.com/belem2009publié par http://cfeditions.com/belem2009)
La carte des initiatives de la transition écologique dans le 18ème + (Le projet Ecoplan 18 est le fruit d’un gro … Le projet Ecoplan 18 est le fruit d’un groupe de travail d’habitant(e)s désireux de mettre en lumière les initiatives écologiques du territoire autour de plusieurs catégories tels que l'alimentation, le compostage, la culture, les médias et lien social, l'économie circulaire, l'économie sociale et solidaire, l'éducation et la sensibilisation, l'énergie.ducation et la sensibilisation, l'énergie.)
Traduction française de Free, Fair and Alive + (Le projet consiste dans la traduction en f … Le projet consiste dans la traduction en français du livre de Silke Helfrich et David Bollier Free, Fair and Alive et dans la traduction et adaptation de leurs travaux sur les patterns de commoning, notamment les matériaux numériques développés par Silke (http://muster.des.commoning.wiki/view/felder-des-commoning) sur les patterns de l'en-commun.ommoning) sur les patterns de l'en-commun.)
Définition des communs selon Abdou Salam Fall + (Les communs comme héritage et filiation Langue complémentaire : wolof)
Trois mots pour résumer les communs + (Les participants à la rencontre organisée en Ile de France lors du festival Temps des communs se prettent au jeu de définir les communs en trois mots.)
A Conversation between DiEM25 and Commoners - How to Build an Alternative Together? + (Lors d'une réunion de trois jours de l'Assemblée des Communs Européenne, une conversation a eu lieu entre les commoners et DiEM25.)
21.12 Plaidoyer 2022 + (Louise Guillot, Rémy Seillier et Sébastien … Louise Guillot, Rémy Seillier et Sébastien Shulz, tous les 3 acteurs de la puissance publique, rédacteurs et rédactrices d'un appel à la transformation des institutions et de livrets de propositions programmatiques thématiques sur l’entrepreneuriat, les services publics, la souveraineté numérique élaborés dans la perspective de l'agenda électoral national de 2022, nous présentent leur initiative. de 2022, nous présentent leur initiative.)
Assises nationales du Sénégal, la charte de gouvernance démocratique + (L’an 2000 ! Les sénégalais mettent fin à q … L’an 2000 ! Les sénégalais mettent fin à quarante années de règne d’une démocratie sans alternances, mais découvrent, sept années plus tard, combien les acquis démocratiques demeurent réversibles. Dans le contexte de boycott des élections législatives de 2007, par une partie significative de la classe politique, on assiste à un blocage des voix institutionnelles de régulation du débat public. Ce film retrace comment, dans ces conditions, une jonction s’est opérée entre partis politiques et société civile dans le but de prévenir le chaos et réinventer le futur. Bien davantage, il donne à penser le caractère exemplaire, de la mise en œuvre d’un processus de dialogue et de planification aussi radical que légal, dans un contexte de crise politique et social important. Cette solution établie sur la base du dialogue et de la planification s’est déroulée dans le cadre d’Assises nationales qui ont abouti à une Charte de gouvernance démocratique, désormais bien commun de la nation sénégalaise.mais bien commun de la nation sénégalaise.)
Des canaux et des hommes + (L’eau est une ressource rare, même en Euro … L’eau est une ressource rare, même en Europe. Depuis le Moyen-âge, à Briançon, dans les Alpes sèches, les hommes ont mis en place des canaux d’irrigation gravitaire qui ont permis une agriculture et donc une civilisation. Mais ce savoir faire ancien et fragile risque de disparaître. Une poignée d’hommes passionnés cherche à sauvegarder ce patrimoine face à l’urbanisation et aux ouvrages hydrographiques artificiels. Ils sont organisés en Association Syndicale Autorisée, héritières des Chartes des escartons, qui entretiennent et gèrent les canaux.s, qui entretiennent et gèrent les canaux.)
Exposition Les communs + (L’exposition Les communs propose de découv … L’exposition Les communs 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.tes en commun ou encore Remix the commons.)
Meet.coop + (Meet.coop est une coopérative internationa … Meet.coop est une coopérative internationale qui fournit un accès à des outils de réunion et de conférence en ligne open source, alimentés par BigBlueButton, fonctionnant sur une infrastructure partagée. La coopérative de vidéo conférence en ligne est une nouvelle alliance internationale de travail entre les coopératives existantes dans le domaine numérique et les acteurs de l'économie des communs. et les acteurs de l'économie des communs.)
Yochai Benkler – Pep Talk for European Commons Assembly + (Message de Yochai Benkler à l'Assemblée Européenne des Communs, diffusé lors de la première rencontre au Parlement Européen à Bruxelles.)
Intervention de Michel Bauwens dans le cadre de la journée Assemblées des communs à Paris le 23 septembre 2016 + (Michel Bauwens présente le projet de transition P2P basé sur l'économie des communs dans le cadre de la journée Assemblées des communs à Paris le 23 septembre 2016)
Remix Art of Commoning/Art de l'en-commun + (Montage réalisé au cours de l'atelier remi … Montage réalisé au cours de l'atelier remix des vidéos de L'Art de l'en-commun (décembre 2014) , réalisé à Montréal, Paris et Barcelone le 19 avril 2015 . Participants: Ezra Bridgman, Anique Vered, Stéphanie Lessard-Bérubé, AMBROSI Alain, Daniel Torrico, SULTAN Frédéric, Pascale Chartier, Carlos Mateu. Réalisé par Daniel Torrico et AMBROSI Alain. Ce remix, réalisé à partir de capsules vidéo auto-enregistrées par les contributeurs dans le "com-fessionnal" lors de la rencontre Art of Commoning / Art de l'en-commun, décline les communs en quatre chapitres : Définir, Vivre , Questionner et Créer.s : Définir, Vivre , Questionner et Créer.)
Occuper les communs - Théatre Valle occupé + (Occupying the Commons est un projet souten … Occupying the Commons est un projet soutenu par le Collège international de l'Université de Turin (IUC http://www.iuctorino.it), réalisé dans le cadre d'un programme dédié à l'étude et la pratique des Communs. Le but de ce projet est d'explorer la connexion entre le mouvement d'occupation des années 2011 et 2012 et le paradigme des "Communs". La première partie de cette série commence avec l'occupation du théâtre Valle de Rome, le plus ancien théâtre en Italie et l'un des plus importants théâtres en Europe: http://www.teatrovalleoccupato.it. Ce projet est diffusé par Commonssense : http://www.commonssense.it/s1/?page_id=938.ttp://www.commonssense.it/s1/?page_id=938.)
À l'école des communs - Deuxième conversation sur l'éCo-nomie des communs + (Organisé par Communautique et Remix biens … Organisé par Communautique et Remix biens communs, en collaboration avec la Chaire Nycole Turmel sur les espaces publics et les innovations politiques de l'UQÀM, l'événement À l'école des communs s'est déroulé les 2 et 3 novembre 2012. L'équipe vidéo de Communautique a capté les discussions qui ont eu lieu le 3 novembre à l'Église Saint-Marc, nouvel espace citoyen en devenir, dans le cadre d'une Conversation sur l'éCo-nomie des communs.Les participants et participantes présents ont eu l'occasion d'échanger sur les prérequis politiques, légaux, économiques et culturels nécessaires à l'émergence et au développement d'une économie des communs, le tout en présence de nos invités internationaux Michel Bauwens fondateur de la fondation P2P et Lionel Maurel de la Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC) et de leurs homologues québécois Ianick Marcil, économiste indépendant, et Stéphane Guidoin, de NordOuvert.ndant, et Stéphane Guidoin, de NordOuvert.)
A l’école des communs – Deuxième conversation sur l’éCo-nomie des communs + (Organisé par Communautique et Remix biens … Organisé par Communautique et Remix biens communs, en collaboration avec la Chaire Nycole Turmel sur les espaces publics et les innovations politiques de l’UQÀM, l’événement À l’école des communs s’est déroulé les 2 et 3 novembre 2012.L’équipe vidéo de Communautique a capté les discussions qui ont eu lieu le 3 novembre à l’Église Saint-Marc, nouvel espace citoyen en devenir, dans le cadre d’une Conversation sur l’éCo-nomie des communs.Les participants et participantes présents ont eu l’occasion d’échanger sur les prérequis politiques, légaux, économiques et culturels nécessaires à l’émergence et au développement d’une économie des communs, le tout en présence de nos invités internationaux Michel Bauwens fondateur de la fondation P2P et Lionel Maurel de la Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC) et de leurs homologues québécois Ianik Marcil, économiste indépendant, et Stéphane Guidoin, de NordOuvert.ndant, et Stéphane Guidoin, de NordOuvert.)
A l’école des communs – Première conversation sur l’éCo-nomie des communs + (Organisé par Communautique et Remix biens … Organisé par Communautique et Remix biens communs, en collaboration avec la Chaire Nycole Turmel sur les espaces publics et les innovations politiques de l’UQÀM, l’événement À l’école des communs s’est déroulé les 2 et 3 novembre 2012.L’équipe vidéo de Communautique a capté les discussions qui ont eu lieu le 3 novembre à l’Église Saint-Marc, nouvel espace citoyen en devenir, dans le cadre d’une Conversation sur l’éCo-nomie des communs.Les participants et participantes présents ont eu l’occasion d’échanger sur les prérequis politiques, légaux, économiques et culturels nécessaires à l’émergence et au développement d’une économie des communs, le tout en présence de nos invités internationaux Michel Bauwens fondateur de la fondation P2P et Lionel Maurel de la Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC) et de leurs homologues québécois Ianik Marcil, économiste indépendant, et Stéphane Guidoin, de NordOuvert.ndant, et Stéphane Guidoin, de NordOuvert.)
À l'école des communs - Première conversation sur l'éCo-nomie des communs + (Organisé par Communautique et Remix biens … Organisé par Communautique et Remix biens communs, en collaboration avec la Chaire Nycole Turmel sur les espaces publics et les innovations politiques de l'UQÀM, l'événement À l'école des communs s'est déroulé les 2 et 3 novembre 2012. L'équipe vidéo de Communautique a capté les discussions qui ont eu lieu le 3 novembre à l'Église Saint-Marc, nouvel espace citoyen en devenir, dans le cadre d'une Conversation sur l'éCo-nomie des communs.Les participants et participantes présents ont eu l'occasion d'échanger sur les prérequis politiques, légaux, économiques et culturels nécessaires à l'émergence et au développement d'une économie des communs, le tout en présence de nos invités internationaux Michel Bauwens fondateur de la fondation P2P et Lionel Maurel de la Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC) et de leurs homologues québécois Ianick Marcil, économiste indépendant, et Stéphane Guidoin, de NordOuvert.ndant, et Stéphane Guidoin, de NordOuvert.)
Interview David Bollier / Benjamin Coriat, Part 1: State of the dispute of the commons + (Part 1 of the discussion between David Bol … Part 1 of the discussion between David Bollier and Benjamin Coriat in June 2015 at Paris. Benjamin Coriat and David Bollier discuss of the visions of the commons, starting from the question asked to Benjamin Coriat : you are an economist. You are working for the recognition of the commons, writer of "Le retour des communs", published last May. We are in 2015, what about the state of the dispute around the commons launched by the article of Harding The Tragedy Of The Commons today ? It appears that there is now a large consensus around the idea that Harding's arguments are wrong for the local commons, but there is always debate for the global commons (climate, ocean, ...) and a need for a strong work in this fields.d a need for a strong work in this fields.)
Interview David Bollier / Benjamin Coriat, Part 2: Contributions of the recent French litterature on the commons + (Part 2 of the discussion between David Bol … Part 2 of the discussion between David Bollier and Benjamin Coriat in June 2015 at Paris. What is the contribution of the French litterature on the commons published during the two last years in France especially ? Starting from this question, B. Coriat presents the complementarity of the works done on three directions : *Ethos of the commons (Dardot and Laval)*Nature and role of legal mecanisms and conceptions of the commons for thinking the commons (Repenser les biens communs,Jacques De Saint-Victor and Béatrice Parence) *problems relative to specific types of commons Follows a discussion by B. Coriat and D. Bollier of the issues of democracy at stake (especially the need of a new theory of the bureaucraty for the left) beyond the persective supported by Dardot and Laval (Commons as a new attitude, lifestyle and behavior).s a new attitude, lifestyle and behavior).)
1- Comme Un Commun + (Première émission "Comme un Commun" c'est … Première émission "Comme un Commun" c'est l'émission animée par Interphaz (Lille, France) chaque vendredi de 10h à 11h sur les ondes de la radio RPL99FM. Cette émission aborde la notion de "Communs" sous différents angles (théorique, sociologique, économique,...) afin de permettre à tou·te·s de saisir les enjeux d'un monde en commun!On vous parle de communs. De quoi s'agit-il exactement? C'est à découvrir ici.Introduction aux Communs - Micro-trottoir autour du terme de "Commun"Micro-trottoir autour du terme de "Commun")
Définir les biens communs + (Productions de capsules vidéo de définitions des biens communs multiculturelle et multingues et leur exploitation multimédia. Cette initiative a été lancée lors de la conférence ECC de Berlin en 2010 par Alain Ambrosi de Communautique.)
La quinzaine du blanc - Chantier des MJC + (Projets de réappropriation des communs culturels développés par le réseau des MJC d'ile de France)
Connecter les communs informationnels + (Présentation de Yves Otis au colloque sur … Présentation de Yves Otis au colloque sur le Web sémantique du congrès de l'ACFAS 2016, à l'UQÀM. À la faveur d’une initiative en cours visant l’élaboration d’un atlas des chartes des communs urbains et en liaison avec des groupes de recherches sur les Communs, nous nous sommes donnés le défi de chercher à tisser des liens entre ces corpus. Nous explorons comment les outils du web sémantique peuvent amplifier la portée et soutenir la communication des connaissances qui émergent des différentes mouvances associées au champ des Communs...* Lire la suite: http://tlmv.ca/WebSemantiQc5* Yves Otis: http://tlmv.ca/yvesotis* Le colloque: http://tlmv.ca/WebSemantiQcCe colloque était une initiative de Michel Héon (http://www.cotechnoe.com/) et Josée Plamondon (http://joseeplamondon.com). La captation vidéo, produite et réalisée par Christian Aubry (http://christian.aubry.org) est publiée sous licence Creative Commons BY et librement réutilisable sous réserve que ses auteurs (conférencier + vidéaste) soient clairement identifiés. + vidéaste) soient clairement identifiés.)
Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée - Collective Urban Architecture + (Présentation de la démarche de l'Atelier d … Présentation de la démarche de l'Atelier d'Architecture Autogéré qui est orientée vers une activité de transformation des espaces comme moyen d'instituer de meilleures conditions de vie par les habitants. Les projets présentés sont développés à Paris dans le 18ème et 20ème arrondissements.is dans le 18ème et 20ème arrondissements.)
La science au secours de la démocratie l'innovation collaborative : les biens communs + (Présentation des enjeux des biens communs … Présentation des enjeux des biens communs de la connaissance dans le cadre de l'atelier Commons knowledge du Forum Mondial Sciences et Démocratie 2009 à Belem au Brésil.Le premier Forum Mondial Sciences et Démocratie s'est tenu à Bélem en janvier 2009 à l'invitation du 9ème Forum Social Mondial. Plus de 300 chercheurs et activistes de mouvements sociaux et d'ONG venant de quatre continents ont participé à cette grande première au moment même où la planète était secouée par la conjugaison des crises alimentaire, économique et environnementale. Tenir cette rencontre au coeur de l'amazonie brésilienne prenait toute sa signification.Ce video est un extrait d'un livre-film publié par cfeditions.comEn partenariat avec Cinbiose, Alternatives, Avec le soutien de l'Organisation Internationale de la FrancophonieLes biens communs/The Commons/El Procomun (I) 3'58" from AMBROSI Alain on Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/user1862250ain on Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/user1862250)
Caractéristiques des communs et de leurs enjeux selon Carlo Vercellone + (Présentation des travaux du projet europée … Présentation des travaux du projet européen D-Cent par Carlo Vercellone lors de la séance de préparation de la journée dédiée au thème Communs et puissance publique qui sera organisée le 30 janvier 2016. Le rapport D-Cenbt est accessible à : http://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/d-cent_managing_the_commons_in_the_knowledge_economy.pdfg_the_commons_in_the_knowledge_economy.pdf)
Présentation de la Halle Pajol + (Présentation du projet architectural de la ZAC Pajol)
Rencontre avec Elinor OSTROM - part 3 + (Présentation par Benjamin CORIAT de la synthèse des travaux de la première table ronde de la rencontre avec Elinoir OSTROM : Economie sociale et biens communs, bien immatériels - systèmes d'information et internet.)
21.04 Revisiter les politiques culturelles avec les communs + (Présentation par Maria Francesca De Tullio, Angela María Osorio Méndez et Violante Torre, des outils et des recommandations en matière de politique culturelle s'appuyant sur les communs, résultats du projet Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities (CCSC).)
21.05 Le paysage comme commun - Chartes du paysage + (Présentation par Raquel Peñalosa de sa vision des articulations entre paysage, communs et le concept ancestral du «buen vivir», sur la base de sa participation à la production des chartes de paysages tout au long des 20 dernières années.)
Rencontre avec Elinor OSTROM - part 5 + (Présentation par Valérie PEUGEOT des travaux de la Table ronde : Economie sociale et biens communs, bien immatériels - systèmes d'information et internet (synthèse des travaux d'ateliers).)
Présentation brève du projet Ferme des Bouillons + (Présentation résumée du projet Ferme des bouillons lors de l'introduction du premier atelier d'exploration des communs urbains, le 29 février à Superpublic à Paris.)
20.12 Que penser de la proposition de loi sur les communs ? + (Que penser du débat sur la proposition de loi "visant, face à la crise actuelle à construire le monde d’après fondé sur la préservation des biens communs", discutée au Sénat (en France) le 10 décembre dernier ?)
Balade de l'oppidum de Verduron - 13 La construction de la cooperation + (Quel processus d'engagement et de coopération sont-ils nécessaires autour des communs ?)
MONTAGE DÉFINITION III + (Remix de la définition des biens communs réalisé à partir d'entrevues filmées au cours de la conférence de Berlin.)
MONTAGE DÉFINITION II + (Remix de la définition des biens communs réalisé à partir d'entrevues filmées au cours de la conférence de Berlin.)
MONTAGE DÉFINITION I + (Remix de la définition des biens communs réalisé à partir d'entrevues filmées au cours de la conférence de Berlin.)
Colloque "L'alternative du commun" + (Remix the commons a participé au colloque … Remix the commons a participé au colloque « L'alternative du commun » qui s'est déroulé du 8 au 15 septembre 2017 à Cerisy, sous la direction de Christian Laval, Pierre Sauvêtre et Ferhat Taylan. Contributions de Alain Ambrosi sur les communs à Barcelone et de Léa Eynaud et Frédéric Sultan sur le mouvement des communs.déric Sultan sur le mouvement des communs.)
22.03 Les nouveaux biens communs ? Réinventer l'Etat et la propriété au XXIe siècle + (Rencontre avec Emmanuel DUPONT et Edouard JOURDAIN, autour de leur ouvrage « Les nouveaux biens communs ? Réinventer l'État et la propriété au XXIe siècle ». (Fondation Jean Jaurès/ L'Aube, 2021).)
CommonsWatch + (Rencontre de 28 commoners venus de toute l'Europe et des divers champs couverts par les communs qui donnera l'impulsion à la première assemblée européenne des communs (ECA).)
Définition des communs selon Isabella Lovin + (Responsabilité des communs, Accès aux Communs, propriété collective)
Définition des communs selon Benjamin Coriat + (Ressources, communauté et faisceau de droi … Ressources, communauté et faisceau de droits"Un commun c'est trois choses: c'est une ressource, qui peut être matérielle ou immatérielle c'est pas le problème; et c'est – surtout c'est ça qui est important – c'est autour de cette ressource un système de relations sociales et de droits de propriété sur cette ressource (qui sont des droits d'usage, des droits d'aliénation, des droits d'exploitation, des droits de management); et troisièmement un mode de gouvernance de cette ressource qui détermine les droits d'accès, les droits d'usage etc. Donc voilà un commun c'est au carrefour de ces trois choses: c'est une relation sociale entre individus ou groupes autour d'une ressource et un système de gouvernance qui permet la reproduction et le développement de cette ressource".n et le développement de cette ressource".)
Du quartier à la métropole + (Retour sur un programme de mobilisation des habitants et de développement de leur pouvoir d'agir dans le cadre de la mise en place de la métropole Paris Ile de France)
Rencontre avec Elinor OSTROM - part 2 + (Roland PEREZ ancien Président du RIODD, Et François SILVA introduisent et présentent les travaux réalisés à l'occasion de la rencontre à Montpellier et Paris.)
Histoire de l'assemblée des communs de Lille par C. Mahieu + (Récit de l'histoire de l'assemblée des communs de Lille vu par Christian Mahieu)
Histoire de la Fabrique des communs de Lyon par Françoise Prouvoyeur + (Récit de l'histoire de la Fabrique des communs de Lyon par Françoise Prouvoyeur)
CommunsNumeriques + (Rédaction de fiches DPH sur les communs de la connaissance)
Sortir de l'entre soi - entretiens filmés + (Sortir de l'entre soi - entretiens filmés … Sortir de l'entre soi - entretiens filmés consiste à réaliser 3 films qui racontent la rencontre entre deux personnes, l'une qui a l'expérience de la grande précarité et l'autre qui est travailleuse ou travailleur intellectuel, autour d'une question qu'ils partagent. Chaque film présentera en 20 à 30 minutes leurs portraits en situation sur le terrain, et leur rencontre préparée par des questions à poser à l’autre.parée par des questions à poser à l’autre.)
Stefano Rodotà lors du Séminaire Communs de la nature et des connaissances ISCC + (Stefano Rodotà présente le processus qui a … Stefano Rodotà présente le processus qui a permis l'émergence des communs dans la société italienne dans les années 2000 et les enjeux à la fois en terme de définition des biens communs et de transformation institutionnelles des villes qui doivent gérer des ressources publiques avec les habitants.s ressources publiques avec les habitants.)
Rencontre avec Elinor OSTROM - part 11 + (Synthèse des rencontres avec Elinor OSTROM à Montpellier et Paris. Synthèse du colloque : Claude MENARD, Université Paris 1, ISNIE, suivie d'une intervention d'Elinor OSTROM et clôture par Gérard ANDRECK, Président du CEGES et de la MACIF.)
Le Grand Bazar Libéral ne se fera pas ! + (TIPP - Quel est le sens de ces traités qu' … TIPP - Quel est le sens de ces traités qu'ils proposent et qui se feront toujours au détriment des peuples et de l'environnement dans lequel ceux-ci évoluent ?Pourquoi ces traités reviennent-ils sans cesse alors que les populations qui vivent en pseudos-démocraties-représentatives ont déjà refusés ce genre d'accords multi-échanges ?Comment faire comprendre, simplement, aux citoyen(e)s ce qui se trame réellement dans leur dos ?Ce projet est une tentative de réalisation vidéo plurielle autour des accords internationaux.urielle autour des accords internationaux.)