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The Long Now of the Commons - People, Infrastructures, and Dilemmas - 17 October 2019 - Copenhagen, Denmark
/[apologies for cross-posting]/ <br> <br>Dear colleagues, <br> <br>we are happy to share with you further updates on the "Long now of the <br>Commons" event, with sign-up link, info on talks and speakers! <br> <br>Feel free to circulate it among your networks. <br> <br>Best regards, <br>Giacomo Poderi and Joanna Saad-Sulonen <br> <br>------------------------------- <br>/*The Long Now of the Commons - People, Infrastructures, and Dilemmas <br>*/https://en.itu.dk/about-itu/calendar/events/2019/the-long-now-of-the-commons--people-infrastructures-and-dilemmas <br>17th October, 9.00-16.30 <br>IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, Copenhaghen <br> <br>Over the past few decades, concerns around the future of the commons – <br>meaning collectively managed resources endangered by different forms of <br>enclosures – have opened up inquiries into promoting fairer and more <br>sustainable ways of being and acting together in the world. <br> <br>Commoning – the social practice of managing resources for everyone’s <br>benefit – promotes ways of resisting and creating alternatives to the <br>inequalities, contradictions, and threats of contemporary neoliberal <br>western societies. Concrete examples of commoning abound in any human <br>sphere: from the re-appropriation of urban spaces (e.g. through social <br>housing, hackerspaces, urban gardening) to the nurturing of open digital <br>spaces and infrastructures (e.g. commons-based peer production, creative <br>commons); from environmental care (e.g. environmentalist collectives, <br>energy saving communities) to political actions for (re)democratizing <br>the economy and the society (e.g. platform cooperativism, anarchist <br>commons). <br> <br>In a historical moment of renewed political, social, cultural, and <br>economic turmoil, it is increasingly important to sustain and <br>consolidate practices of commoning, despite the challenges at hand. By <br>acknowledging that "there is no commons without commoning" (Linebaugh, <br>2009), this event aims to disseminate knowledge about contemporary forms <br>of commoning as historically, culturally, and politically situated <br>practices. As such, the people, infrastructures, and dilemmas involved <br>in commoning will be at the center of this full-day public seminar. The <br>event will gather contributions by internationally renowned researchers <br>and practitioners who have developed considerable experience on the <br>topic over the past years. <br> <br>The day will be structured around presentations with ample space for <br>comments and questions from the audience. Students, researchers, <br>practitioners, and policy makers interested in the topic are invited and <br>welcome to attend the event. <br> <br> <br> SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS <br> <br> * Ferreri, Mara - University of Northumbria./Commoning for housing <br> justice. / <br> * ////Garcia, Marcos - Medialab Prado, Madrid./Citizen labs as commons <br> laboratories. Local and international approaches. / <br> * Helfrich, Silke - Founding member of Commons Strategies Group./Free, <br> Fair and Alive: The Power of the Commons. / <br> * O’Neil, Mathieu - University of Canberra./Mapping the firm-project <br> network. / <br> * Pazaitis, Alex - Tallinn University of Technology. /Peer Production <br> and State Theory: Envisioning a Cooperative Partner State. / <br> * Poderi, Giacomo - IT University of Copenhagen./Caring about the <br> commoners who care. / <br> * Seravalli, Anna - Malmö University./Urban commons: towards more <br> democratic cities? / <br> * Teli, Maurizio - Aalborg University. /Commoning and Participatory <br> Design – a Love Story? / <br> <br> <br> ATTENDANCE AND ORGANIZATION <br> <br>Attendance is free and open to everyone. To help with the <br>logistic, *please* *sign up here*: https://commoning.eventbrite.com/ <br> <br>Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2487897747974542/ <br> <br>The event is organized by Giacomo Poderi (Department of Computer <br>Science, IT University of Copenhagen) and Joanna Saad-Sulonen <br>(Department of Digital Design, IT University of Copenhagen), and it is <br>funded through the project grant 749353, of the H2020/MSCA-IF-2016 call. <br>The event is hosted by the IT University of Copenhagen. <br> <br> <br> ABOUT THE SPEAKERS <br> <br>*/ALEX PAZAITIS/*is a core member of the interdisciplinary research <br>collective P2P Lab, spin-off of the Ragnar Nurkse Department of <br>Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology and of the <br>P2P Foundation. He holds an MA in Technology Governance and is Junior <br>Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Ragnar Nurkse Department. Alex <br>is a core team member of the COSMOLOCALISM project and has been involved <br>in numerous research activities, including scholarly papers and research <br>and innovation projects. He has professional experience in project <br>management and has worked as a consultant for private and public <br>organizations. His research interests include technology governance; <br>innovation policy; digital commons; open cooperativism and distributed <br>ledger technologies. <br> <br>*/ANNA SERAVALLI /*is a senior lecturer and design researcher at The <br>School of Arts and Communication Malmö University. She has a background <br>as product and service designer and holds a PhD in Design and Social <br>Innovation. Her research explores questions around alternative <br>economics, participation and democracy in the urban context. She closely <br>collaborates with citizens, NGOs, civil servants and small entrepreneurs <br>in exploring new modes of production, participation and decision making <br>in urban production and city making. She is the coordinator of Malmö <br>University DESIS Lab. <br> <br>*/GIACOMO PODERI/*is a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher at the IT <br>University of Copenhagen. His current project focuses on the <br>sustainability of different commoning practices (e.g. urban, digital, <br>knowledge commons) and takes particular interest at commoners’ long-term <br>commitment. His research interests concern the interplay between society <br>and Information and Communication Technology through the lenses of <br>co-construction and participatory processes. More concretely, he is <br>interested in the role that participation plays in mediating use, <br>design, and development aspects of ICT. His latest publication is <br>"Sustaining platforms as commons” in /CoDesign/ 15(3). <br> <br>*/MARA FERRERI/*is research fellow in Human Geography at the University <br>of Northumbria. Until recently she held a Marie Curie postdoctoral <br>fellowship at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (see: <br>http://commoninghousing.net/). Her work on urban precarity, commons, <br>housing and temporariness has been published in international journals <br>such as /Transactions of the IBG, cultural geographies /and /Geoforum/. <br>She is a founding editor of the open-access international /Radical <br>Housing Journal /. <br> <br>*/MARCOS GARCÍA/*is the artistic director of Medialab-Prado since 2014, <br>an initiative of the Madrid City Hall, devised as a citizen laboratory <br>for the production, research and dissemination of cultural projects that <br>explores forms of experimentation and collaborative learning that have <br>emerged with digital networks.From 2006 to 2013, he was in charge of <br>coordination and programming at Medialab-Prado, alongside Laura <br>Fernández. Previously, from 2004 to 2006, they set up the education <br>programme of MediaLabMadrid, developing the cultural mediation programme <br>and the Interactivos? project, a platform for production and research <br>into the creative and educational applications of technology. Marcos has <br>taken part in numerous international events about digital culture and <br>the commons. <br> <br>*/MATHIEU O’NEIL/*is Associate Professor in Communication at the <br>University of Canberra and Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of <br>Sociology at the ANU. His interests are the sociology of fields and <br>controversies, social network analysis, and labour and organization <br>studies. He is currently investigating waged and volunteer labour in <br>F/OSS projects thanks to a grant from the Sloan Foundation. Mathieu’s <br>research has been published in Social Networks, Information, <br>Communication and Society, Réseaux, and Organization Studies, amongst <br>others. In 2006 he contributed to the founding of the Virtual <br>Observatory for the Study of Online Networks, a world leader in e-social <br>science, and in 2010 he founded the /Journal of Peer Production/. <br> <br>*/MAURIZIO TELI/*is Associate Professor at the Department of Planning, <br>Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on participatory <br>design and commoning in relation to digital platforms. He has more than <br>fifty publications, including the book “/Beyond Capital: Values, <br>Commons, Computing and the Search for a Viable Future”/ (co-authored <br>with David Hakken and Barbara Andrews, Routledge, 2016) and the <br>co-edited special issue of CoDesign - International Journal of <br>CoCreation in Design and the Arts “/Repositioning CoDesign in the age of <br>platform capitalism: from sharing to caring” /(with Gabriela Avram, Jaz <br>Hee-jeong Choi, Stefano De Paoli, Ann Light, and Peter Lyle, 2019). <br> <br>*/SILKE HELFRICH/*is an independent activist, author, scholar, and <br>speaker. She cofounded the Commons Strategies Group and <br>Commons-Institute, was former head of the regional office of Heinrich <br>Böll Foundation for Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, and holds degrees <br>in Romance languages/pedagogy and in social sciences. Helfrich is the <br>editor and co-author of several books on the Commons, and she blogs at <br>www.commons.blog . She lives in Neudenau, <br>Germany. <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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