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Democratic Public Ownership combines solidarity economy principles around democratic governance, equity, subsidiarity, and sustainability with the benefits of collective ownership in its widest, most holistic sense.
Last week, Parma city authorities and representatives of the civil sector signed a collaboration agreement for the creation of what will be possibly the first urban food forest in Italy. The collaboration agreement is for a term of three years and aims to define the scope of interaction between the partners in the care and regeneration of common urban goods.
How can urban commons be financed? The Civic eState team explores social impact finance and financial investment with Eutropian, the European Investment Bank and the Trias Foundation
Despite the challenge posed by the pandemic for relational projects like Civic eState, the seven cities involved have not stopped working together – albeit digitally – and collaborating on shared horizons. Since the beginning of the lockdowns in various European countries, the Civic eState Network embarked on an exploration of possible financing instruments – like social outcome contracting and other social tools under the European Structural and Investment Funds(link is external) – to support the creation and management of urban commons in Covid and post-Covid times.
Le projet scientifique « BIenS COmmuns et TErritoire » (BISCOTE) porte sur le thème émergent des biens communs en tant que nouvelle approche de création et de gestion des ressources urbaines et territoriales.
Que sont ces « nouveaux » communs, en quoi consistent-ils concrètement, comment mobilisent-ils le territoire, ses ressources, ses acteurs et ses proximités ? Quelles implications ont-ils en termes d’évolution des systèmes d’acteurs, de coordination, de gouvernance et de cadre juridique ? Dessinent-ils les contours d’une nouvelle manière de faire territoire ? Enfin en termes d’action publique, comment s’invitent-ils dans la définition des orientations prises et des programmes d’action mis en œuvre ? Dans quelle mesure cela modifie-t-il les contours de ces politiques, la manière de les définir et de les mettre en œuvre ?
Autant de questions auxquelles cet ouvrage apporte des éléments de réponse en recensant plus de 140 initiatives locales et en en analysant une dizaine de manière approfondie. Ainsi, il permet un examen à la loupe d’un phénomène foisonnant et encore peu instruit.
Les Suisses vivant dans des coopératives d’habitation expérimentent d’autres manières de vivre ensemble. Pour l’un de leurs précurseurs, il ne s’agi
Les Suisses vivant dans des coopératives d’habitation expérimentent d’autres manières de vivre ensemble. Pour l’un de leurs précurseurs, il ne s’agi
Depuis une vingtaine d’années, nous assistons à un renouveau des communs. Mais qu’est-ce qu’un bien commun ? Comment et pourquoi cette notion qui reconnaît l’existence d’un patrimoine commun à l’humain est-elle réapparue ? POUR LA SOLIDARITÉ-PLS explore le champ des possibles que les communs offrent aux citoyens d’aujourd’hui et de demain et explique pourquoi ils sont un enjeu majeur pour l’avenir de nos démocraties.
It did not stop it, or make it any less real or stressful but permaculture design has clearly helped smooth decision making in times of crisis
How can the urban commons strengthen communities in the post-COVID phase to face the upcoming social and economic challenges? A discussion with Ugo Mattei, Professor University of Turin, Italy Duygu Toprak, Ankara Turkey Martin Locret, Plateau Urbain Paris, France Joaquín De Santos Barbosa, Community Land Trust Bxl, Belgium Andrea Simone, Nonna Roma, Italy Natasha Dourida, Communitism Athens, Greece moderated by Daniela Patti (Eutropian) and Alessandra Quarta (University of Turin)
Pour Céline Spector, il faut saisir l'occasion de la crise pour faire de l’Europe sociale et environnementale le bien « commun » susceptible de constituer, après la paix et la prospérité, le nouveau telos de l’Union européenne.
Entretien avec Michel Bauwens, considéré comme l’une des 100 personnalités les plus influentes du 21e siècle.
Since its election to the municipal government in 2015, the political party Barcelona en Comú (Catalan for “Barcelona in Common”) has advanced plural economic policies and participative modes of governance. Described by the party as a new socio-economic model for the city, the Impetus Plan for Social and Solidarity Economy in Barcelona is a radical and socially innovative action program which aims to strengthen and formalize collaboration between the local government and civil society groups engaged in social economies. By enabling residents to collectively find solutions to common problems, the plan especially aims to strengthen vulnerable groups and neighborhoods.
On September 22 2013, 50.9% of the Hamburg citizens voted in a referendum for the full remunicipalisation of the energy distribution grids in the city. The referendum was initiated by the citizen’s initiative ‘Our Hamburg – Our Grid’ (OHOG) and constituted the climax of an intense political controversy that lasted for more than three years. Through this vote Hamburg has received international attention and became a flagship example for remarkable civil engagement. In the international best-seller “This Changes Everything” (2014), Naomi Klein sees the driving motive in the people’s ‘desire for local power’. Indeed it is true that under the constitution of the City of Hamburg, a successful referendum has a binding effect, which left the City government no other option than to announce the implementation of the referendum decision and to start the remunicipalisation process immediately after the vote
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Please accept the invitation made by The Commoner’s Catalog and apply your talents and imagination to the challenges of commoning.
We must better understand commons governance and the commons more generally. But we must situate this discussion within the larger market/state system that dominates our societies.
This is necessary because commons and the market/state system are so deeply intertwined – even if their co-entanglement is not usually acknowledged. The two systems each represent very different ways of knowing, acting, and being. The struggles between the sovereign and commoners have a long history! They have been intimately conjoined, at least since the 13th Century, when King John signed the Magna Carta and Charter of the Forest.
Calls to have access to energy recognised as a basic human right are gaining momentum, not least through the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal.
In this first podcast of a
Comment une métropole peut-elle être résiliente ? Le colloque organisé par le POPSU (Plate-forme d'observation des projets et stratégies urbaines) qui s'est déroulé à l'Assemblée nationale et à distance en janvier 2021 a apporté de nombreuses pistes. Nous vous en proposons quelques unes, autour des communs, de l'imagination collective, de la sobriété, et des grandes villes italiennes de la Renaissance.
Covid-19 has once again demonstrated the significance of safe, accessible and affordable water for all. It has also highlighted enormous disparities in service provision while at the same time dealing a blow to public water and sanitation operators around the world due to massive drops in revenues, rapidly rising costs and concerns about health and safety in the workplace. This book provides the first global overview of the response of public water operators to this crisis, shining a light on the complex challenges they face and how they have responded in different contexts.
Through overnight upheaval or piecemeal change, Think Big, Act Small confirms that a community-powered revolution is possible.
Nidiaci commoners came to understand that there was really no suitable form of property law to protect the social relations they wish to cultivate.
The database groups all the experiences mapped in the gE.CO project, which are divided into “communities of citizens” (namely those experiences of self-organization carried out by formal and informal groups) and public initiatives (i.e. those policies implemented by municipalities or other public institutions to promote and foster the establishment of urban commons).
The database collects more than 200 generative commons around Europe: in particular, 16 European countries are covered, and 100 cities.
Quelles propositions et politiques pour défendre et promouvoir les communs dans le contexte municipal ? Le Cahier de propositions en contexte municipal présente un échantillon d’outils et de propositions qui peuvent être appliqués dans les champs d’action relevant des communes et intercommunalités.
In her re-election campaign, Mayor Anne Hidalgo says that every Paris resident should be able to meet their essential needs within a short walk or bike ride.
Motorists get the lion’s share of transport space in the English city of Manchester, yet they make only a small fraction of the daily journeys, a researcher has found. Claiming to show the inefficiency and inequality baked into mass motoring the property researcher worked out that the vast majority of people who travel into Manchester every day do not travel in cars yet motorists are gifted with the bulk of the city’s transport space.
Garantir un accès universel à l’énergie est un enjeu crucial aujourd'hui. Pour certains scientifiques, c’est tout le modèle actuel basé sur la surexploitation des ressources fossiles qui est obsolète.
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