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The DLT4EU program is an accelerator that will identify and link Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) initiatives with leading public and private sector organisations. The initiative aims to promote the development of projects that use blockchain and other distributed technologies (DLT) to solve social and environmental challenges for public good.
The accelerator program will pilot DLT applications by connecting the expertise of leading innovators, entrepreneurs and developers with real-world, unmet challenges in the public and social sectors to create market-ready social ventures.
The programme will focus on two high impact sectors:
- Circular Economy
- Digital Citizenship
The DLT4EU project is led by a consortium of three organisations specialised in distributed technologies, digital social innovation and environmental sustainability: Ideas for Change, (Barcelona); Metabolic, (Amsterdam); and Digital Catapult, (London).
Find out more at DLT4EU’s website.
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]]>Description
A new way of thinking is emerging for developing strategic pathways for local to planetary economic and ecological viability. This way of thinking centres around the ideas of “peer to peer production”, “the commons”, and “cosmo-localism”. This course will give participants emerging strategies to address critical development challenges using new cosmo-local and commons-based production strategies and thinking. Cosmo-local development describes the process of bringing together our globally distributed knowledge and design commons with the high-to-low tech capacity for localized production and self-organization. It augurs in an era in which the legacy of human creativity is at the disposal and service of those with the most needs, and in which our systems of production can be sustained within planetary ecological boundaries.
Over 15 cases will be presented on a variety of topics and themes, including:
- Examples in agriculture, for examples Farm Hack, Le A’terlier Paysans and FarmBot
- Examples in manufacturing, including Open Motors, AbilityMade and OpenROV
- Examples in medicine and health, including Fold-it and the Open Insulin Project
- Examples in housing construction, including Hexayurt and Wikihouse
- Examples in the circular economy, including Precious Plastic
- Examples in urban development, including Fabcity and Ghent city as commons
- Examples in water management, including Hack the Water Crisis (Stop Reset Go)
- Examples in crypto-programming, including Holochain
- Examples in disaster response, including Field Ready
The course is run in the format of ‘action learning’. This means that participants will form into groups (5-8 people) based on topics that are meaningful to them, and will engage in a problem solving (anticipatory innovation) process through-out the course. Participant will be introduced to the key ideas and guided through the problem solving in a step by step format, so that the ideas are applied in the context of real development challenges. The course is a unique offering combining anticipatory innovation and systemic futures design thinking that will give participants renewed leverage in generating ideas for positive social change.
Objectives of Course:
- Learn from 15+ examples and cases
- Learn concepts in
- Peer Production
- The Commons
- Cosmo-local production
- Understand cosmo-localism as both
- A seed form that can be applied and scaled from social enterprise
- A political economic vision which provides new policy pathways
- Develop networks and connections with others that carry forward momentum
- Develop process skills in applying these models in the context of specific development and organisational challenges
Expected Outcomes of Course:
- A new set of concepts and understanding for development
- An understanding of how these strategies are applied
- A set of examples and cases that clarify how they function
- Ideas developed in the workshop that can be carried forward into the world
- Inclusion in an extended network of people interested in these new development strategies
- A cosmo-local production design canvas that will provide a template for applying the ideas elsewhere (this will be a simple to use canvas that can be printed in an A2 or bigger paper that will be linked to the course content)
The course is being run by Dr. Jose Ramos (Action Foresight), in conjunction with Prof. Shishir Kumar Jha and Raji Ajwani (Indian Institute of Technology – Mumbai) and Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation).
About the presenter
José Maria Ramos is interim research coordinator for the P2P Foundation, director of the boutique foresight consultancy Action Foresight, is Senior Consulting Editor for the Journal of Futures Studies, and is Senior Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast. He has taught and lectured on futures studies, public policy and social innovation at the National University of Singapore (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy), Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), Leuphana University (Germany), the University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia) and Victoria University (Australia). He has over 50 publications in journals, magazines and books spanning economic, cultural and political change, futures studies, public policy and social innovation. He has also co-founded numerous civil society organizations, a social forum, a maker lab, an advocacy group for commons governance, and a peer to peer leadership development group for mutant futurists. He holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature, a Masters degree in Strategic Foresight, and a Ph.D. in critical globalisation studies. He has a passion for the coupling of foresight and action, which has included both theoretical work through published articles, consulting work for federal, state and municipal governments, as well as citizen experiments in methodological innovation. He is originally from California of Mexican ancestry. Born in Oakland, he grew up in a very multi-cultural suburb of Los Angeles. After living in Japan and Taiwan, where he studied Japanese and Mandarin, he moved to Melbourne Australia to be with his wife, De Chantal. They have two children, son Ethan and daughter Rafaela. His other great passion is in considering who we are as planetary beings, which includes his ethnographic study of alternative globalizations, writings on planetary stigmergy, and research on cosmo-localization. This line of work connects him to the truth that we are all brothers and sisters inter-dependent with our planet and each other for our survival and wellbeing – our shared commons.
Workshop Schedule
Module Activities DAY 1
Day one (morning)
Deep dive into p2p / cosmo-local ideas and examples.
15+ case studies and examples from around the world
Content: Farm Hack, Le A’terlier Paysans and FarmBot, Open Motors, AbilityMade and OpenROV, Fold-it and the Open Insulin Project, Hexayurt and Wikihouse, Precious Plastic, Fabcity and Ghent city as commons, Hack the Water Crisis (Stop Reset Go), Holochain, Field Ready
LUNCH
Day one (afternoon)
Presentation of principles of cosmo-local production and commons based development.
Content
- The theory of the p2p economy.
- Foundational concepts.
- The theory of commons governance.
- Foundational concepts.
Lectures followed by discussion and Q&A.
Open discussion on participant reflections.
Dive into some of issues and challenges people are grappling with. Break into groups and begin to explore the nature of the problems and issues that they are facing.
DAY 2
Day two (morning) Re-articulation of the key ideas and then groups jump into practical and applied group work.
Content: The anticipatory experimentation method (AEM) steps 1-2
Identify the “used future” and develop a preferred future
LUNCH
Day two (afternoon)
Developing the proposal, articulating ideas to solve the local issues and problems, and developing ideas for real world experimentation.
Content:
- The anticipatory experimentation method (AEM)
steps 3-4
- Ideating solutions and real-world experiments
Presentations and discussing next steps as a network
What is cosmo-localism?
Cosmo-localization describes the process of bringing together our globally distributed knowledge and design commons with the high-to-low tech capacity for localized production. It augurs an era in which the legacy of human creativity is at the disposal and service of those in need within ecological planetary boundaries. It is based on the ethical premise, drawing from cosmopolitanism, that people and communities should be universally empowered with the heritage of human ingenuity that allow them to more effectively create livelihoods and solve problems in their local environments, and that, reciprocally, local production and innovation should support the wellbeing of our planetary commons.
“Cosmo-localization is a new paradigm for the production and distribution of value that combines the universal sharing of knowledge (cosmo), but the ‘subsidiarity’ of production as close as possible to the place of need (‘local’), essentially through distributed local manufacturing and voluntary mutualization. The general idea is not to impede technological progress though intellectual property, in an era of climate change where we cannot afford the 20-year lag in innovation due to patents; and to radically diminish the physical cost of transport through local production. Cosmo-localization is based on the belief that the mutualization of provisioning systems can radically diminish the human footprint on natural resources, which need to be preserved for future generations and all beings of the planet.” Michel Bauwens
“what is light (knowledge, design) becomes global, while what is heavy (machinery) is local, and ideally shared. Design global, manufacture local (DGML) demonstrates how a technology project can leverage the digital commons to engage the global community in its development, celebrating new forms of cooperation. Unlike large-scale industrial manufacturing, the DGML model emphasizes application that is small-scale, decentralized, resilient, and locally controlled.” –Vasilis Kostakis and Andreas Roos, Harvard Business Review
More information
Links to cosmo-localization:
- Peer Production and the Commons
- From redistributive urban commons to cosmo-local production commons
- Cosmo-Localization And Leadership For The Future
- Cosmo-localism and the Anthropocene
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]]>For 24 hours we will jam on all the concepts and definitions for cosmo-localism. We intend to identify and flesh out all the killer ideas and concepts that make CL a profound vision and possibility for the 21st Century.
Why:
Many hands make light work, and the knowledge of CL is emergent and distributed. We can get to a first cut of the concepts better through the contribution of many experts and readers. Your ideas and perspective are needed
What will happen:
The editors for the cosmo-local reader (Sharon, Gien, Jose, Michel) will facilitate during the 24 hour period, will keep zoom conference window open to answer questions and discuss any issues, and contributors (you?) will make any contributions into the dictionary that they want.
Where will it happen:
The dictionary page is here.
People can begin to add ideas beforehand, or wait till the jam to add things.
This zoom link will stay open to allow for anyone to pop in, say hello, ask any questions and have a conversation if necessary.
https://zoom.us/j/316495572
Attribution:
Any contributors will be acknowledged in the dictionary.
* The dictionary will form part of the Cosmo-local reader, to be published early 2020.
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Venue: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal
Date: 6 – 8th November 2019
Organiser: Centre for International Studies (CEI-IUL)
The second international conference “Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons” will be a meeting point for researchers, activists, public officials and social entrepreneurs involved in social and solidarity economy, governance of the commons and new social movements in different parts of the world.
The conference will take place from the 6th to 8th of November 2019 at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon, Portugal. The aim is to co-create an open, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary space for exchange of knowledge and socio-political experiences on new approaches to economic organisation and governance based in solidarity, cooperation and common ownership from across the world.
The conference is organized by the Centre for International Studies (CEI-IUL), with the support of the Department of Political Economy at ISCTE-IUL, the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (CE3C) in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Lisbon and the Solidarity Economy Incubator at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) in Brazil.
This document launches the conference’s call for contributions. It also includes information about organization of the conference, the topics addressed, registration details and participation costs. We will post regular updates about its organization on the event’s webpage (https://ssecommons.cei.iscte-iul.pt ), as well as send them by e-mail and through the social media accounts of CEI-IUL (Facebook and Twitter). Any questions regarding organization of the conference or participation can be sent to ssecommons.cei@iscte- iul.pt.
Thematic Fields
The current political, economic and social crises have provoked constructive action on the part of many social movements and progressive governments. Increasing numbers and diversity of initiatives are proactively creating and enacting new socio-economic models and genuinely democratic forms of governance, by mobilizing endogenous practices and resources and promoting collaborations and synergies between civil society and the state. Prominent among these movements, and intersecting with many of them, are Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons.
This international conference “Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons” aims to promote understanding of and dialogue about new, emerging and rediscovered forms of governance and economic organization that offer potential to overcome the challenges that communities, governments and organizations working towards sustainable prosperity currently face. This year’s edition of the conference focuses on conceptual and normative frameworks that support the development of cooperative and sustainable alternatives to neoliberal capitalism and strengthen civil society and the state through participatory democracy.
We invite researchers, activists, public officials and social entrepreneurs to submit proposals for contributions to the conference. Submissions might be based on formal research or on concrete activist, economic or public policy initiatives. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, social movements, processes of knowledge production and diffusion, public policies and alternative strategies of economic governance based on Social Solidarity Economy, and the democratic and collective management of the Commons. In addition to conventional formats such as papers, posters and panel sessions, contributions might take participatory, co-creative and/or artistic formats. We are open to suggestions that can help capture the diversity of actions, experiences and ways of knowing and expression involved in this field.
We aim to promote interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives at both theoretical, conceptual and methodological levels. We accordingly invite academics, para-academics, supporters and practitioners to explore these topics from multiple perspectives, including civil society organizations, enterprises and governments. The goal is to work towards a convergence of concepts and strategies among scholars, entrepreneurs, activists and public officials.
In order to promote transdisciplinarity, methodological and empirical diversity and epistemological pluralism, the conference is structured around five thematic fields:
- Social movements, Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons: Initiatives of social solidarity economy and commons-based governance promoted by “new” social movements promoting epistemological, cultural, functional, sexual and gender justice, diversity and inclusion;
- Contributions of Social Solidarity Economy and Commons-based governance to the deepening and widening of Democracy;
- Applications of Social Solidarity Economy and Commons-based governance to urban regeneration and rural development, with a focus on initiatives and programs aimed at revitalizing rural and urban spaces through the promotion of local/regional/bioregional economies and supply chains, along with the commoning of public spaces and productive assets;
- Social Solidarity Economy, the Commons and inclusive social technologies: This thematic field focuses on actions involving social solidarity economy initiatives that combine local/vernacular knowledge with technical/scientific expertise, with the goal of developing replicable and socially transformative products, technologies and forms of governance;
- Applications of Social Solidarity Economy and Commons-based governance to climate change and other sustainability, by promoting transitions to renewable energy, agroecology, sustainable water management and other sustainable socio-technical configurations.
Proposal Submission Guidelines
Proposals should have a maximum length of 800 words (including any reference) and indicate which thematic field/s of the conference they address, along with five keywords. They can be submitted in English, French, Portuguese or Spanish. However, the language of presentation shall be English.
Paper, poster and panel proposals should include:
- Title;
- Thematic field;
- Theoretical or empirical question and literature review;
- Summary of methodology;
- Main argument;
- Summary of conclusions and implications for research, activism, practice or policy-making;
- Main references.
Please submit proposals by email to [email protected] .
Note: the updated submission deadline is June 20, 2019.
After the conference, the organizing committee will launch a call for chapters of an edited, open-access volume of the collection of ebooks of the Centre for International Studies (CEI-IUL). All the authors who presented papers, posters and panels at the conference will be invited to develop their presentations into publishable manuscripts for peer-review.
Other conference outputs may take many possible formats, formal and informal, depending on the nature and scope of submissions and range of dissemination channels available. Participants will be invited to contribute to these, and are welcome to suggest documentation and reporting initiatives within, or as a supplement to, proposal submissions.
Organisers will offer translation (English/Portuguese) during opening, closing and keynote sessions. Translation at other times and in other languages may be available if offered and self-organised by participants.
Important dates
Deadline for proposal submission – May 31st 2019 Notification of contributors – June 30th
Deadline for registration (conference presenters) – October 6th Publication of final program – October 15th
Deadline for registration (non-presenters) – October 20th Beginning of the conference – November 6th
Conference registration
Site: https://ssecommons.cei.iscte-iul.pt/
Professors/lecturers, researchers and other professionals – € 100, 00
Students (Proof of enrolment in a higher education program required)* – € 50, 00
Members of Solidarity Economy initiatives and community development organizations (documentary proof or letter of reference from the organization required) – FREE
*Registration is FREE for students of ISCTE-IUL, FCUL and UFAL
Organizing committee
Ana Margarida Esteves (CEI-IUL) Rogério Roque Amaro (CEI-IUL)
Maria de Fátima Ferreiro (Departamento de Economia Política, ISCTE-IUL) Raquel Silva (CEI-IUL)
Leonardo Leal (CEI-IUL; Universidade Federal de Alagoas– UFAL)
Gil Pessanha Penha-Lopes (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FCUL)
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]]>“Manuel Castells The Information Age Trilogy has been one of the most influential works to understand the societal change in the
Yet, more than two decades after the launch of his theory, the network society and the information age have been developing at a faster pace
At the same time, during the last
In this regard, as 2021 will mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of Manuel Castells’, it is time to revisit the trilogy and explore the relevance of Castells’ pioneering work in the light of the current state of the network society and of the ways to research about it. Thus, our aim is to gather together scholars from a wide range of disciplines – Including Castells himself – to engage with the Trilogy and debate on its contributions, legacies but as well shortcomings and new developments not envisioned at the time of its launch to try to develop a critical perspective on future trajectories of the network society and the information age.
We welcome contributions that sympathetically and/or critically engage with the Trilogy in any theoretical, methodological or empirical topic
- Information, data,
datafication and the (new) sources of economic value; - Networks, space-times, economy
and society; - Contesting the network society power configurations: politics, social movements
and new identities; - The network society in the world: uneven geographies and geopolitics of the information age;
- The Trilogy of the Network Society in front of the new turns in social sciences;
- The influence on the epistemic communities either geographically (e.g. Latin America, Europe, Asia…) or disciplinary (Sociology, media, geography, STS…).
Important dates
Workshop: Barcelona, 10-11 June 2020
- 23/06/2019 → Abstract submission. 500 words + up to 5 keywords
Submit your proposals to [email protected] - 23/07/2019 → Communication of abstract acceptance
- 20/3/2020 → Full paper submission: 5.000 – 8.000 words (mandatory). Papers will be the basis for the comments and discussion during the workshop. They will be submitted to a special issue / edited book
Practical Information
Confirmed keynote speakers:
- Prof. Manuel Castells (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, University of Southern California)
- Prof. Fernando Calderón (FLACSO, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional San Martín Argentina)
- Prof. Ida Susser (The City University of New York)
- Prof. John Thompson (University of Cambridge)
The workshop is free of charge. Food will be provided at the conference for
The workshop presentations should be the basis for a special issue in an
Organization Committee (IN3)
- Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol
- Ramon Ribera-Fumaz
- David Megías
Organization
This workshop is organized by the IN3 – Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Open University of Catalonia. The workshop constitutes a central part of the IN3’s 20th anniversary.”
Further info and queries: [email protected]
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]]>Meet people who are doing it. Learn how to do it. Build it together.
Internet of Humans is a track within our annual Edgeryders festival. It is dedicated to bringing together existing projects into a demo of a Next Generation Internet that supports values of openness, cooperation across borders, decentralisation, inclusiveness and protection of privacy.
Edgeryders is a company living in symbiosis with an online community of thousands of hackers, activists, radical thinkers and doers, and others who want to make a difference. We believe that a smart community outperforms any of its members; this is the result of people working together, improving on each other’s work.
We are on a journey to help one another navigate the changes that are happening in different parts of the world.
- How are we building good lives against a backdrop of massive social, economic, ecological and political challenges?
- How are we creating opportunities for ourselves and where can we support one another better? In work, health, family, community life?
- How are we building the evolution of the Internet and our digital technologies so that they support these efforts?
We are interested in what participants already are doing in different parts of the world, and what we can do together.
Are you our next Fellow? Tell us what you would like to build, explore or learn about building a Human-Centric Internet!
Fellows will receive bursaries of up to 10,000 EUR, a travel budget of up to 1,000 EUR, and the opportunity to learn from and connect the next generation of working solutions in building a human-centric internet.
Internet of Humans is a gathering of contributors to the Next Generation Internet, a 3 year research project that engages hundreds of original initiatives. The fellowship program offers participants an opportunity to explore, learn from and connect with people building working solutions for an Internet that supports our ability to thrive as individuals, communities and societies.
As an Internet of Humans Fellow, you commit to :
- Read what other participants are working on and share your own experiences/work.
- Arranging and documenting a series of online calls to which you invite people from whom you wish to learn or collaborate.
- Engage the people you invite to join us at activities for project matchmaking, partnership building and fundraising.
- Articulate a burning question to move everyone’s work forward, and turn it into a proposal for a research theme and track of a distributed festival.
We are looking for Fellows who are passionate, curious and driven, as well as willing to collaborate using online platforms and community building methodologies. If this is you, we want to hear from you!
Questions or nominations? Create an account on edgeryders and post them in a comment below.
About the program, process and selection criteria
Internet of Humans is a track in a highly participatory, distributed festival showcasing working solutions and demos produced by community members, as well as pathways for working together towards their sustainability and scaling. It will take place in November, 2019 in a number of cities and brings together the broader Edgeryders scene that involves hundreds of original initiatives.
Aiming to deepen community collaboration, during May – November 2019, Edgeryders will appoint 3 “students” to support research, community building and content curation for the Internet of Humans community. We use “students” in the Latin sense, of people that will apply themselves to the subject, as fellows of a Internet of Humans Alliance, and not in any sense as an indication of career status.
What you will get if selected:
- A bursary appointment: Up to 10,000 Euro to reimburse your working time, distributed on the basis of winners’ financial needs
- A travel budget: Up to 1,000 Euro, to be authorized in advance by due justification.
Process and timeline:
- April 12 Mar – May 30. We collect submissions in the form of published proposals for Human Internet Festival.
- Review of submissions
- Announcement of winners
- May 30 – June 30. Fellows host online calls and invite
- June 30 – November 30. T.b.d with each fellow so as to not disrupt their other activities.
Who can participate?
Anyone with a story relevant to building working solutions for an Internet that supports our ability to thrive as individuals, communities and societies. You need to be interested in learning and collaborating with others online and offline.
Selection Criteria
We will consider individuals who have demonstrated an interest in and alignment with building a Human Centric Internet in the folllowing ways (each item will receive a score from 0 the minimum, to 5 the maximum, which will be summed to define the final score used to choose the winners):
- are registered on edgeryders.eu 8 and have introduced themselves in the Internet of Humans online community workspace: Tell Your Story! 6
- are operating at the grassroots level or are heavily interacting with such groups
- Are open in their work, use of methodology, technology, results (public and transparent communication, open processes for participation, commons licensing, open source code etc.)
- their contribution is validated in positive responses by their peers in the Internet of Humans community (as seen from the Comments section)
- have storytelling and content production skills for presenting the initiatives they come across to various community groups and audiences
- demonstrate willingness to collaborate with others and use online environments for communication, engagement, documentation of work and social media
What happens if I am selected?
You will be working closely with the Edgeryders team to build the Internet of Humans community conversation and together with it’s members, put together the program for it’s track of sessions and events within the Edgeryders Festival which convenes our global community.
What happens if I am not selected?
You eligible to get a symbolic 200€ reward for your contribution if it meets the selection criteria. More information about this here: http://bit.ly/2LbQvyD 1
How to get started?
Join the process of building the Internet of Humans sections of our festival program
- Interview a person relevant to your burning question.
- Transcribe interview and have the interviewee post it here 7. You will need to create an edgeryders.eu 8 account to do this.
- Comment in depth on at least one other transcribed interview.
Once you are done use #internetofhumans and #edgeryders to draw our attention to your comments, story and proposal for the program. This will encourage others to get in touch and build support for your work!
The deadline for applications is May 30th 2019 , but the sooner you start and complete your application, the higher your chances!
For more information come to our weekly online community gatherings every Wednesday in May at 16:00 GMT+2 (CST Brussels time) or sign up on the Edgeryders platform and leave a comment below.
Partner organisations
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825652
Reposted from Edgeryders
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]]>Background
The terms “Sharing Economy” or “Collaborative Economy” have been commonly used in recent years to refer to a proliferation of initiatives, business models and forms of work, from the development of far-reaching corporate digital platforms that have become means of organising cooperative practices, to local, regional and community-led collaborative initiatives in sectors such as housing, tourism, transport, social enterprise, culture and the arts, etc. Researchers from many disciplines are currently conducting ethnographic studies of practices, cultures, socio-technical systems and lived experiences of collaborative economies, producing case studies and data sets documenting these realities and their impacts and implications, as well as developing methodological and epistemological insights and sensibilities about approaching these contexts
ethnographically.
The conference will feature parallel paper presentations, keynote talks and open discussion sessions.
Participation in the conference will be free of charge (but places will be limited).
The conference is supported by the COST Action “From Sharing to Caring: Examining the Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy” ( http://sharingandcaring.eu/), developing a network of actors focusing on the development of collaborative economy models and platforms and on social and technological implications of the collaborative economy through a practice focused approach.
Submission Themes
We are soliciting papers contributing ethnographic accounts and understandings of collaborative economy practices and communities, and therefore contributing to the development of a multi-faceted view on sharing and caring practices. We are also keen on receiving papers focusing on the methodological aspects of studying collaborative economi(es) e.g. collaborative ethnography, participatory action research, co-design etc.
Suggested themes include (but are not limited to):
- Ethnographic accounts of practices and/or of forms of community aggregation in collaborative economy settings
- Ethnographic case studies of collaborative economy initiatives, frameworks and platforms
- Instances of ethnographically-informed design of collaborative systems in support of collaborative economy practices
- Reflections on theoretical, epistemological and methodological challenges of studying the collaborative economy ethnographically
Submission Instructions
- Abstracts should be between 500 and 700 words
- Papers should be between a minimum of 3,000 and a maximum of 4,000 words plus references.
- Papers should be anonymised for submission
- Papers should be formatted according to the requested template.
- Submissions should be made through EasyChair.
- All papers will be peer reviewed by the Scientific Committee, and accepted papers will be included in the conference book of proceedings and invited for presentation at the conference.
- Following the conference, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions for consideration for inclusion into an edited book.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 April 2019
Notifications to Authors: 29 April 2019
Papers Submission Deadline: 19 July 2019
Notifications to Authors: 19 August 2019
Final Versions of Papers Due: 20 September 2019
Conference in Edinburgh: 25th October 2019
Organising Committee
Penny Travlou (University of Edinburgh)
Proferssor Luigina Ciolfi (Sheffield Hallam University)
Scientific Committee
https://ulris.ul.ie/live/[email protected]Gabriela Avram (University of Limerick, IE)
Chiara Bassetti (University of Trento, IT)
Vida Česnuitytė (Mykolas Romeris University, LT)
Professor Luigina Ciolfi (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Professor Richard Coyne (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Morgan Currie (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Professor Dimitris Dalakoglou (Vrije University Amsterdam, NL)
Anna Farmaki (Cyprus University of Technology, CY)
Alessandro Gandini (University of Milan, IT)
Karen Gregory (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Athina Karatzogianni (University of Leicester, UK)
Cindy Kohtala (Aaalto University, FI)
Airi Lampinen (Stockholm University, SE)
Cristina Miguel (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
Maria Partalidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR)
Chiara Rossitto (Stockholm University, SE)
Mariacristina Sciannamblo (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, PT)
Professor Chris Speed (University of Edinburgh, UK)
James Stewart (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Özge Subaşi (Koç University, TR)
Penny Travlou (University of Edinburgh, UK)
For further information about the conference and/or CFP, please email us here: [email protected] [email protected]
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]]>9th May 2019
Community Wealth Building,
Albert Road, North Woolwich E16 2J
This is a call for people interested in contributing to an economic, social and cultural development workshop happening in the Silvertown/North Woolwich area of the Docks on the evening of 9th May 2019.
The workshop is part of a series of funded events called The Silvertown Sessions organised in partnership by the Cultural Engine Research Group (CERG) and the Royal Docks Learning and Activity Centre (RDLAC).
The workshop will include people living and working in the community, local employers, traders and the local authority.
The main conceptual focus of this Silvertown Session is the notion of Community Wealth Building. We have a guest speaker, Dr Julian Manley from UCLAN. Julian will introduce what is commonly referred to as the Preston Model of Community Wealth Building.
The main aim is consult widely on the potential of this concept as applied to this particular area of the Docks.
The Silvertown Sessions are lively, engaging, relaxed and entirely free events with plenty of food and drink produced and supplied by the local community.
If you’re interested in attending please contact Tony Sampson (t.d.sampson[at]uel.ac.uk) and/or keep an eye on our blog for latest event updates.
Further reading:
Julian Manley explains the concept behind the Preston model, and how worker-owned co-operatives supported by major local players could help empower communities.
Could a grassroots development approach help address inequality?
The Preston Model and the Eight Basic Principles of Community Wealth Building (P2P Foundation)
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]]>Venue: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal
Date: 6 – 8th November 2019
Organiser: Centre for International Studies (CEI-IUL)
The second international conference “Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons” will be a meeting point for researchers, activists, public officials and social entrepreneurs involved in social and solidarity economy, governance of the commons and new social movements in different parts of the world.
The conference will take place from the 6th to 8th of November 2019 at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon, Portugal. The aim is to co-create an open, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary space for exchange of knowledge and socio-political experiences on new approaches to economic organisation and governance based in solidarity, cooperation and common ownership from across the world.
The conference is organized by the Centre for International Studies (CEI-IUL), with the support of the Department of Political Economy at ISCTE-IUL, the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (CE3C) in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Lisbon and the Solidarity Economy Incubator at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) in Brazil.
This document launches the conference’s call for contributions. It also includes information about organization of the conference, the topics addressed, registration details and participation costs. We will post regular updates about its organization on the event’s webpage (https://ssecommons.cei.iscte-iul.pt ), as well as send them by e-mail and through the social media accounts of CEI-IUL (Facebook and Twitter). Any questions regarding organization of the conference or participation can be sent to ssecommons.cei@iscte- iul.pt.
Thematic Fields
The current political, economic and social crises have provoked constructive action on the part of many social movements and progressive governments. Increasing numbers and diversity of initiatives are proactively creating and enacting new socio-economic models and genuinely democratic forms of governance, by mobilizing endogenous practices and resources and promoting collaborations and synergies between civil society and the state. Prominent among these movements, and intersecting with many of them, are Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons.
This international conference “Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons” aims to promote understanding of and dialogue about new, emerging and rediscovered forms of governance and economic organization that offer potential to overcome the challenges that communities, governments and organizations working towards sustainable prosperity currently face. This year’s edition of the conference focuses on conceptual and normative frameworks that support the development of cooperative and sustainable alternatives to neoliberal capitalism and strengthen civil society and the state through participatory democracy.
We invite researchers, activists, public officials and social entrepreneurs to submit proposals for contributions to the conference. Submissions might be based on formal research or on concrete activist, economic or public policy initiatives. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, social movements, processes of knowledge production and diffusion, public policies and alternative strategies of economic governance based on Social Solidarity Economy, and the democratic and collective management of the Commons. In addition to conventional formats such as papers, posters and panel sessions, contributions might take participatory, co-creative and/or artistic formats. We are open to suggestions that can help capture the diversity of actions, experiences and ways of knowing and expression involved in this field.
We aim to promote interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives at both theoretical, conceptual and methodological levels. We accordingly invite academics, para-academics, supporters and practitioners to explore these topics from multiple perspectives, including civil society organizations, enterprises and governments. The goal is to work towards a convergence of concepts and strategies among scholars, entrepreneurs, activists and public officials.
In order to promote transdisciplinarity, methodological and empirical diversity and epistemological pluralism, the conference is structured around five thematic fields:
- Social movements, Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons: Initiatives of social solidarity economy and commons-based governance promoted by “new” social movements promoting epistemological, cultural, functional, sexual and gender justice, diversity and inclusion;
- Contributions of Social Solidarity Economy and Commons-based governance to the deepening and widening of Democracy;
- Applications of Social Solidarity Economy and Commons-based governance to urban regeneration and rural development, with a focus on initiatives and programs aimed at revitalizing rural and urban spaces through the promotion of local/regional/bioregional economies and supply chains, along with the commoning of public spaces and productive assets;
- Social Solidarity Economy, the Commons and inclusive social technologies: This thematic field focuses on actions involving social solidarity economy initiatives that combine local/vernacular knowledge with technical/scientific expertise, with the goal of developing replicable and socially transformative products, technologies and forms of governance;
- Applications of Social Solidarity Economy and Commons-based governance to climate change and other sustainability, by promoting transitions to renewable energy, agroecology, sustainable water management and other sustainable socio-technical configurations.
Proposal Submission Guidelines
Proposals should have a maximum length of 800 words (including any reference) and indicate which thematic field/s of the conference they address, along with five keywords. They can be submitted in English, French, Portuguese or Spanish. However, the language of presentation shall be English.
Paper, poster and panel proposals should include:
- Title;
- Thematic field;
- Theoretical or empirical question and literature review;
- Summary of methodology;
- Main argument;
- Summary of conclusions and implications for research, activism, practice or policy-making;
- Main references.
Please submit proposals by email to [email protected] .
Note: the updated submission deadline is June 20, 2019.
After the conference, the organizing committee will launch a call for chapters of an edited, open-access volume of the collection of ebooks of the Centre for International Studies (CEI-IUL). All the authors who presented papers, posters and panels at the conference will be invited to develop their presentations into publishable manuscripts for peer-review.
Other conference outputs may take many possible formats, formal and informal, depending on the nature and scope of submissions and range of dissemination channels available. Participants will be invited to contribute to these, and are welcome to suggest documentation and reporting initiatives within, or as a supplement to, proposal submissions.
Organisers will offer translation (English/Portuguese) during opening, closing and keynote sessions. Translation at other times and in other languages may be available if offered and self-organised by participants.
Important dates
Deadline for proposal submission – May 31st 2019 Notification of contributors – June 30th
Deadline for registration (conference presenters) – October 6th Publication of final program – October 15th
Deadline for registration (non-presenters) – October 20th Beginning of the conference – November 6th
Conference registration
Site: https://ssecommons.cei.iscte-iul.pt/
Professors/lecturers, researchers and other professionals – € 100, 00
Students (Proof of enrolment in a higher education program required)* – € 50, 00
Members of Solidarity Economy initiatives and community development organizations (documentary proof or letter of reference from the organization required) – FREE
*Registration is FREE for students of ISCTE-IUL, FCUL and UFAL
Organizing committee
Ana Margarida Esteves (CEI-IUL) Rogério Roque Amaro (CEI-IUL)
Maria de Fátima Ferreiro (Departamento de Economia Política, ISCTE-IUL) Raquel Silva (CEI-IUL)
Leonardo Leal (CEI-IUL; Universidade Federal de Alagoas– UFAL)
Gil Pessanha Penha-Lopes (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FCUL)
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“Sharing Society. The Impact of Collaborative Collective Actions in the Transformation of Contemporary Societies”
Bizkaia Aretoa, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain)
May 23-24, 2019
Call for Papers and Poster Presentations
1. Context and Rationale
Although the concept of collective action has been widely used in the field of social sciences, giving rise to the area of social movements studies, little research has focused on the collaborative aspect of this action. In recent years, the emerging field of studies on the “sharing economy” has shed some long-overdue light on this aspect. However, some of the cases that have been described as part of this phenomenon, such as Uber or AirBnB, lack key collaborative traits in both their setup and praxis. So much so that scholars have called for the use of the term “true sharing economy” to distinguish the latter from more nuanced and complex experiences.
The concept of “sharing society” is inspired by the definition of collaborative collective action (Tejerina, 2016): “the group of practices and formal and informal interactions that take place among individuals, collectives or associations that share a sense of belonging or common interests, that collaborate and are in conflict with others, and that have the intent of producing or precluding social change through the mobilization of certain social sectors.”
This conference stems from the research project “Sharing Society. The Impact of Collaborative Collective Action. Analysis of the Effects of Practices, Bonds, Structures and Mobilizations in the Transformation of Contemporary Societies,” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO CSO2016-78107-R), and hosted by the Collective Identity Research Center, University of the Basque Country (Spain).
2. Scope and Objectives
This international conference sets out to analyze the characteristics, trajectory and impact of collaborative collective actions in a context of erosion of the welfare state. It also seeks to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of collaborative collective actions. The conference will address the following questions:
- How, when and where does collaborative collective action occur?
- Which are the characteristics of contemporary collaborative collective action?
- What are the practical, symbolic, and legal effects of collaborative collective actions for the forging and recovery of social bonds?
- What forms of interaction emerge from these types of actions?
We invite theoretical and empirical proposals that explore collaborative collective actions in different areas: work, production, consumption, culture, art, science, knowledge and education, solidarity with precarious groups, civic participation and politics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Food and agricultural production: food sovereignty, agroecology, zero kilometer movement, food and sustainable soil experiences, urban agriculture and community gardens;
- Arts: art and the commons, collaborative art and new forms of creative commons, distributed design;
- Science and knowledge: collaborative forms of scientific production, citizen science;
- Care and co-housing: solidarity networks for personal care, health care, age care, childcare, personal quantification movement, co-housing;
- Culture: collaborative culture, open culture movement;
- Economy, work and consumption: collaborative economy, circular economy, new forms of collaborative work and co-working, collaborative consumption, time banks, platforms for sharing resources and experiences;
- Technology: Maker and DIY movement, open source technology initiatives, network manufacturing, medialab experiences, hacktivism;
- Politics: collaborative forms of political and institutional governance, networks of cities, institutions and citizenship, participatory democracy, participatory budgeting, open government, collective intelligence for democracy.
We encourage the submission of papers drawing on theoretical and methodological approaches from diverse fields of study, such as the social sciences, humanities, architecture, urban planning and design. We also invite contributions from actors working with citizen participation in the sciences, arts, media and/or politics (e.g. in cultural institutions, cultural policy, social media platforms, cooperatives, and NGOs).
See Sharing Society Project for complete details
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