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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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jean lievens
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Save R-URBAN, an internationally acclaimed professional and citizen initiative of resilient regeneration in Colombes, near Paris, and persuade the municipality and other authorities of the general interest of preserving this project whose main site in Colombes is currently threaten to become a temporary... 
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Dr Jose Ramos on why the online community is steaming ahead creating a world without waste or monopoly.
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Commons scholar Silke Helfrich invites you to take a walk through an environment that we can co-create: The (Rural) Urban Commons of 2040.
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The growth of a real sharing economy depends on community. And it follows that building community is greatly helped by access to common space. That's why cities have been hailed as the great bastions of innovation--the more opportunity people have to connect with one another, the more likely for cross-pollination of ideas.
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From
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nternational Festival of the Commons, Chieri, Italia, Sunday July 13, Room : Sala conferenze della biblioteca Reclaim, 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.
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Urban Commons Conference - Inspired by the recently implemented Bologna Regulation on Collaboration for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons, as well as by other...
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The Bologna Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons, a unique city policy that has turned “no you can’t” into “yes we can together.”
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Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber argues in his recent book, The Utopia of Rules, that bureaucracy is the standard mechanism in contemporary life for coercing people to comply with the top-down priorities of institutions, especially...
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Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber argues in his recent book, The Utopia of Rules, that bureaucracy is the standard mechanism in contemporary life for coercing people to comply with the top-down priorities of institutions, especially...
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A rise in commonly owned spaces and services hopes to reclaim the city for the public good, providing a participatory alternative to exclusive urban development. But how can it be upscaled from local garden projects?
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What would it be like if city governments, instead of relying chiefly on bureaucratic rules and programs, actually invited citizens to take their own initiatives to improve city life? That’s what the city of Bologna, Italy, is doing, and it amounts to a landmark reconceptualization of how government might work in cooperation with citizens. Ordinary people acting as commoners are invited to enter into a “co-design process” with the city to manage public spaces, urban green zones, abandoned buildings and other urban issues.
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Can cultural commons transform the way public institutions and infrastructures of cities are governed?
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Urban commons projects are cropping up around the world to restore citizens' sense of ownership in their neighborhoods.
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I was delighted to give a key-note talk at the First IASC Thematic Urban Commons Conference last week in Bologna. Here are my speech and the slides. The most beautiful ones were produced by Nikolas...
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A conference inspired by the recently implemented Bologna Regulation on Collaboration for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons, brought together le...
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The international call for papers will open on June 20th, 2015. Abstracts may be submitted to urbancommons@labgov.it. The deadline for submission is August 10th, 2015 at 12:00 AM CET.
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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.
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In the gap between people and increasingly unaccountable institutions beholden to financial interests, citizens are rising up to reclaim the commons.
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The Urban Co-operative Farm concept originated with the idea that participants each get an area of a farm the size of a normal allotment, with a professional grower (whom we call a Personal Farmer) looking after it. The Personal Farmer cultivates your piece of the farm and keeps you up to date with what is being done there.
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Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber argues in his recent book, The Utopia of Rules, that bureaucracy is the standard mechanism in contemporary life for coercing people to comply with the top-down priorities of institutions, especially corporations and government. Anyone concerned with the commons, therefore, must eventually address the realities of bureaucratic power and the feasible alternatives. Is there a more human, participatory alternative that can actually work?
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A rise in commonly owned spaces and services hopes to reclaim the city for the public good, providing a participatory alternative to exclusive urban development. But how can it be upscaled from local garden projects?
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