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Fwd: Sharing
by Michel Bauwens 06 Dec '14

06 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thorsten Wiesmann <koizuwie(a)arcor.de> Date: Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:51 PM Subject: Sharing To: koizuwie(a)arcor.de Hi all, I wanted to let you know that STWR have published a latest report and a sign-on statement online, which constitutes a ‘Global call for sharing’ campaign. You can read the report ‘sharing as our common cause’ here: http://www.sharing.org/common-cause You can sign up here:www.sharing.org/global-call Also, it would be really great if you could ask any friends or colleagues to sign on to the statement if you think they might be interested. Best Thorsten *Thorsten Wiesmann* founder think2share Hauptstr. 103 10827Berlin Mobil: *017651663793 <%2B41%20%280%29%2033%20952%2020%2009>* E-Mail: *info(a)think2share.de <info(a)think2share.de>* *www.think2share.de <http://www.think2share.de/>* -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Citizens Foundation Iceland Newsletter #5
by Michel Bauwens 06 Dec '14

06 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Citizens Foundation Iceland <citizens(a)citizens.is> Date: Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 12:56 AM Subject: Citizens Foundation Iceland Newsletter #5 To: Michel <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Citizens Foundation Iceland Newsletter #5. Your Priorities 6.0 preview. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser <http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fceb99589a312a30f5b492920&id=525c670bb0…>. Citizens Foundation Iceland Newsletter #5 * 6. December 2014* * Your Priorities 6.0 preview* The next version of Your Priorities is on its way :) We have released a read-only preview and would like your feedback. This preview only works in the Chrome browser but will work on all major browsers when released in 2015. Check it out here: http://your-priorities-preview.org/ <http://citizens.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fceb99589a312a30f5b49292…> *From ideas to law in Estonia* Estonian grassroots organizations answered the call of their president to mobilize the citizens to improve their law environment following political and financial scandals. 7 of the ideas submitted through their Your Priorities website have now been adopted as Estonian laws, 3 unchanged and 4 modified or combined with other laws. More information at http://www.citizens.is/portfolio/estonian-laws-changed/ <http://citizens.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fceb99589a312a30f5b49292…> *Four Icelandic municipalities now use Your Priorities* Reykjavík, Akureyri, Hafnarfjörður and Fljótsdalshérað with more on their way. *Citizens Foundation of Iceland* We believe that improved democracy is the path to a more equal world. The Internet offers an unique opportunity to reinvent democracy. It gives people more influence on policy that affects them which leads to better decisions. Our mission is to connect citizens with their representatives and increase trust and participation in democracy, especially by young people. If you have any questions or comments feel free to email us anytime :) Warm regards, Róbert and Gunnar Founders, Citizens Foundation P.S: If you don't want to receive mails from us you can click the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of this email. YOUR PRIORITES <http://citizens.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fceb99589a312a30f5b492920…> Try Your Priorities now <http://citizens.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fceb99589a312a30f5b492920…> ABOUT THE NON-PROFIT CITIZENS FOUNDATION ICELAND <http://citizens.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fceb99589a312a30f5b492920…> We believe democracy is in trouble. Lack of trust and participation by young people is a big problem. Your Priorities Open Source eDemocracy helps. Follow on Twitter <http://citizens.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fceb99589a312a30f5b492920…> | Like on Facebook <http://citizens.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fceb99589a312a30f5b49292…> | Forward to Friend <http://us7.forward-to-friend2.com/forward?u=fceb99589a312a30f5b492920&id=52…> *Copyright © 2014 Citizens Foundation, All rights reserved.* The reason you have been subscribed to this newsletter is that you have in the past 5 years had some sort of contact with the eDemocracy Citizens Foundation in Iceland, either you met us in person or had email contact. *Our mailing address is:* Citizens Foundation Bríetartún 13 Reykjavík 105 Iceland Add us to your address book <http://citizens.us7.list-manage.com/vcard?u=fceb99589a312a30f5b492920&id=52…> unsubscribe from this list <http://citizens.us7.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=fceb99589a312a30f5b492920…> | update subscription preferences <http://citizens.us7.list-manage.com/profile?u=fceb99589a312a30f5b492920&id=…> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Infos importantes co-organisateurs OpenChateau
by Michel Bauwens 06 Dec '14

06 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: 2014-12-05 20:51 GMT+07:00 Subject: Fwd: Infos importantes co-organisateurs OpenChateau To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> en France ... dans les Yvelines. 78940 Millemont (30 mn de la porte de Saint Cloud) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Guillaume Rouyer <guitouuu(a)gmail.com> Date: 2014-12-05 11:56 GMT+01:00 Subject: Fwd: Infos importantes co-organisateurs OpenChateau To: Bonjour tout le monde ! On a enfin mis en place les inscriptions et la billeterie [?] *Billetterie ouverte jusqu'au 11 décembre **https://www.weezevent.com/festival-openchateau-1 <https://www.weezevent.com/festival-openchateau-1>* En espérant vous y voir ! N'hésitez à faire tourner dans vos réseaux !! A pluche ! Guillaume *§ Hello les festivaliers assez fous pour vouloir changer le monde § * *L'équipe du *Festival Open Château * est un collectif d'entrepreneurs motivés par la création de liens au-delà des frontières de nos organisations* Nous vous invitons à un weekend de 3 jours de mutualisation de nos compétences humaines afin de réaliser des projets hors du commun dans un Château ressemblant à Moulinsart ! *Oui Oui oui* *!* Le Château de Tintin vous connaissez ? Vous ne rêvez pas !!! Chaque collectif invite son écosystème à se mobiliser pour travailler ensemble sur des projets concrets et originaux en cours de prototypage ou de conception. Les "projets communs" s'initient et se dessinent au Château grâce à une trentaine d’ateliers coordonnés par notre équipe de choc & vivra au-delà du festival : ** dimension humaine : **au cœur de la démarche, la nécessité de décloisonner les murs, de relier les porteurs de projets les uns aux autres et partager les mêmes valeurs* ** dimension numérique :* *plusieurs ateliers de développement informatique seront installés pour travailler sur des applications web et mobiles* ** dimension ludique : **brasser notre propre bière, ateliers natures grâce aux 600 hectares de verts,* *balade en calèche, expositions & atelier photo, projections de réalisateurs de documentaires sur l’évolution de notre société & une scène musicale* *Informations pratiques * *Quand/durée :* premier d’une longue série, cet événement sera périodique et se déroule sur un WE de 3 jours #1 : vendredi 12 au dimanche 14 Décembre 2014 *Où* *:* dans un lieu atypique et fédérateur, au Château de Millemont, dans les Yvelines *Accès** :* * Voiture : le Château, 78940 Millemont (30 mn de la porte de Saint Cloud) (système de covoiturage mis en place pour vous...) * Train avec vélo, c’est possible : Transilien ligne N direction Dreux - station Garancières - La Queue (42mn depuis Montparnasse), 1 train par heure le WE *<< * *C'est parti !!! >> * *Ici le rêve devient réalité... Billetterie ouverte jusqu'au 11 décembre * *https://www.weezevent.com/festival-openchateau-1 <https://www.weezevent.com/festival-openchateau-1> *Contact : Edouard Beriot - eberiot(a)callforteam.com *Teaser *www.youtube.com/embed/Y9F_b28b5bg *Evénement facebook *www.facebook.com/events/745508735516877 Contact : Basma Tliba - basma(a)pariose.com ‪ <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/openchateau2014?source=feed_text> #‎OpenChateau2014 <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/openchateau2014?source=feed_text> twitter <https://twitter.com/OpenChateau> facebook <https://www.facebook.com/events/745508735516877/> instagram <http://instagram.com/openchateau> Venez vivre l'énergie du collaboratif et participez à un moment fort de reliance !.. * << Equipe Festival Open Château >>* -- <http://goog_544163825>Pour naviguer sans pub ... http://adblockplus.org/fr Guillaume Rouyer Tél : 06 28 34 54 99 http://assemblee-virtuelle.org <http://politique-alternative.org/> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: A Commons In Danger
by Michel Bauwens 06 Dec '14

06 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Thomas Lowenhaupt* <toml(a)communisphere.com> Date: Friday, December 5, 2014 Subject: A Commons In Danger To: making-worlds(a)googlegroups.com Making Worlds, 60,000 .nyc domain names have already been sold to New Yorkers* through a willy-nilly process. Many of these might be considered pieces of the commons. I for example, purchased the domain name MentalHealth.nyc. I'm free to do with it as I please: create a magic elixir and sell it on a MentalHealth.nyc website. Or I could open the MentalHealth.nyc comedy club. While both of these might support a viable economic product, the public interest could best be served by the name being used as a reference or directory of the city's mental health resources. While it's too late to do a thoughtful distribution of those 60K names, the city administration has set aside 3,069 "Premium Names," that are currently destined for auction to the highest bidder. Auctions are to begin early in the new year. Many of these Premium Names are part of the city's *commons *and could better serve New Yorkers by having some strings attached to their use. So rather than having pizza.nyc owned by Pizza Hut, we could have it owned by a local entity dedicated to the advancement of New York's pizza industry. Or we could require that hotels.nyc present a directory of all the city's hotels, not just ones owned by an entity such as Hilton. I think there's a better way to approach this and am co-sponsoring a panel to explore the options. (The list of Premium Names, while not officially released, is available here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qeEPuuPQ3MxzDtUjNpWZy5milRVISvt-4Qq…>.) The panel is being convened by the New York Internet Society and Connecting.nyc Inc. on Wednesday, December 17th. It will explore options for assigning rights to these commons names, perhaps requiring Public Interest Commitments or some sort. The invitation to the December 17 panel is reprinted below. I hope my fellow members of the commons community can join us in this endeavor. Best, Tom Lowenhaupt ----------------------------------------------- Thomas Lowenhaupt, Founder & Chair Connecting.nyc Inc. tom(a)connectingnyc.org Connectingnyc.org Jackson Hts., NYC 718 639 4222 * While the rules call for .nyc names to be sold to "New Yorkers only" the reality might be different. But this is a topic for another time. The New York Internet Society & Connecting.nyc Inc. ------------------------------ Holiday Panel and Party December 17, 6 PM - 10 PM 55 Washington Street, Room 321, Brooklyn (DUMBO) Map <https://www.google.com/maps/place/55+Washington+St,+Brooklyn,+NY+11201/@40.…> (late arrivers needing entry assistance should call 917 579 2950) Livestream too: https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/dotnyc 6:30pm Premium .nyc Domain Names & Public Interest Commitments Should those receiving development rights to domain names such as hotels.nyc, news.nyc, pizza.nyc, schools.nyc & sports.nyc have strings attached to their operation? Should these names be guides to our city’s resources? Or should Hotels.nyc’s owner be allowed to list only Hilton’s New York hotels? - Avri Doria, Internet policy expert - Gabriel Levitt, V.P. Pharmacychecker.com - Thomas Lowenhaupt, Connecting.nyc Inc. - Jeff Merritt, Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (Invited) - City’s contractor for .nyc TLD, (Invited) 7:30pm Party with fellow members. Meet prospective members. Holiday cheer & a light snack RSVP: info(a)connectingnyc.org ------------------------------ ISOC-NY <http://isoc-ny.org/> - advocating for New York’s Internet needs since 1997 Connecting .NYC <http://www.connectingnyc.org/> - shaping .nyc and our dotNeighborhoods -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Making Worlds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to making-worlds+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Kevin Hansen, LEED AP, PG Director / Principal Scientist PeterEarth.org kevinh(a)peterearth.org -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [commoning] Support INDEPENDENT Journalism for the Commons
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '14

05 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Silke Helfrich <silke.helfrich(a)gmx.de> Date: Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:53 PM Subject: [commoning] Support INDEPENDENT Journalism for the Commons To: COMMONING LIste engl <commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org>, Kommening Liste <kommening(a)lists.commons-institut.org>, Daniel Erlacher < daniel.erlacher(a)elevate.at> Dear commoners, I think ,this is important, and I think, it can be huge. Nafeez Ahmed (http://www.nafeezahmed.com/) is creating Insurge Intelligence: Watchdog journalism for the global commons http://www.patreon.com/nafeez Search a bit for the work he has done so far, Spread the word, Support his campaign. Enable independent journalism for the Commons. All the best Silke Pd. here is the video of a panel discussion we had with Amy Goodman, Nafeez Ahmed, Felix Stalder and Friederike Haberman, worth watching http://www.geo.coop/story/video-everything-connected _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commons-Institut e.V. Germany Commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org https://lists.schokokeks.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/commoning -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [commoning] Fwd: "Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era": Congratulations!!!
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '14

05 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Silke Helfrich <silke.helfrich(a)gmx.de> Date: Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:57 PM Subject: [commoning] Fwd: "Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era": Congratulations!!! To: COMMONING LIste engl <commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org> Dear all, our (David's and mine) modest contribution on the commons made it into Part II of "Degrowth A Vocabulary for a new era", under the subtitle "CORE". Please have a look at the mail from the editor's below and watch the promo video - it's fun. It is a truly wonderful compilation (praise to the editors!). The only "but": copyright issues and the prize of the book (make use of the discount rate shared below.) We, as well as Mayo Fuster asked for a COPYLEFT licence. Actually, I can only hardly understand why other authors didn't. After all it's our knowledge and effort that we want to be shared as widely as possible. Anyway: Copyleft was conceeded to us. By Routledge! At least a small victory. Spread the word (see attachments) Enjoy the book. Put it in whatever library you have access to. All the best Silke -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Launching "Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era": Congratulations!!! Datum: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:33:34 +0100 Von: Federico Demaria <federicodemaria(a)gmail.com> An: Federico Demaria <federicodemaria(a)gmail.com> Kopie (CC): Georgios Kallis <giorgoskallis(a)gmail.com>, giacomo dalisa <giacomo_dalisa(a)yahoo.it> Dear friends, At long last, our book is out! A video < http://goo.gl/w4LdiJ> teaser to disseminate the news can be found here: http://goo.gl/w4LdiJ Information about the book and how to order it available at our new website <http://vocabulary.degrowth.org> vocabulary.degrowth.org <http://vocabulary.degrowth.org> We will be grateful if you could spread the news about the book to your friends, colleagues and contacts, discussion lists that you might be part of, and associations or groups you are member of. For this purpose, I attach a standard message with all basic information that you can personalize (See below). If you are on Twitter <https://twitter.com/R_Degrowth>please tweet the news (#degrowthvocabulary), and if on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/researchanddegrowth?fref=photo>please share the video. If you have Press contacts, we invite you to send them a Press Release <http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/uadb-dav111914.php>, for example http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/uadb-dav111914.php I also attach the book cover that you can add to your signature, as well as the high resolution book cover. You can also invite your contacts to write a review in a blog, magazine, Amazon or peer-reviewed journal (and let us know, so that we coordinate and there are no more than one reviews prepared for the same journal). We can also write blog posts, letter to the editor or newspaper articles on topics related to the book, and advertise its release. Writing the book was only half of the work, we need your collaboration to promote it. We (the editors) are doing our best, but if each one of us does a bit, we will make a big splash! A copy of the book has been sent to you, and will reach within 4 and 6 weeks. If you want to get it sooner, you can buy it on Routledge.com. We can offer a 20% discount rate to purchase extra copies of the book; the code is FLR40 and it can be redeemed through routledge.com <http://routledge.com>. Please, share the discount code with whoever you want. We hope you are as satisfied with the final result as we are. We have just received the first copies, and it looks terrific! Thanks again for your contribution and all your hard work and patience! Best, Federico, Giacomo and Giorgos vocabulary.degrowth.org <http://vocabulary.degrowth.org> -- _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commons-Institut e.V. Germany Commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org https://lists.schokokeks.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/commoning -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: End of GDP - China decides on alternative economic indicators for determining policy
by Michel Bauwens 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: 2014-12-04 8:27 GMT+07:00 Subject: End of GDP - China decides on alternative economic indicators for determining policy To: "econowmix(a)googlegroups.com" <econowmix(a)googlegroups.com> http://www.lecontrarien.com/un-nouveau-regime-comptable-met-fin-a-la-suprem… Un nouveau régime comptable met fin à la « suprématie du PIB » Voilà une réflexion fort intéressante de nos amis chinois. Le PIB est une mesure effectivement en train de devenir totalement obsolète de même que le cadre conceptuel économique. Charles SANNAT BEIJING, 8 octobre (Xinhua) – La Chine projette d’introduire un nouveau régime comptable afin de mettre un terme à la « suprématie du PIB » et d’instaurer un modèle de croissance axé sur un développement économique, social et environnemental plus équilibré. Ce nouveau régime comptable, dont l’introduction a été récemment annoncée par le Bureau d’État des statistiques (BES), est un système d’évaluation économique qui ne s’appuiera plus uniquement sur le taux de croissance mais prendra en compte l’optimisation structurelle, la modernisation industrielle, l’innovation, la protection de l’environnement, et l’amélioration du niveau de vie de la population. Ainsi, plus de quarante indicateurs, comprenant entre autres le ratio de la dette publique par rapport aux recettes budgétaires, la consommation des habitants, le taux d’urbanisation, le ratio des dépenses en recherche et développement par rapport au PIB et la réduction de la pollution, seront publiés régulièrement par le BES. Selon le bureau, les statistiques du gouvernement mettaient trop l’accent sur le PIB et sa croissance, tandis que ce nouveau régime permettra de mieux tenir compte de la qualité du développement économique. La croissance à deux chiffres maintenue durant la dernière décennie a propulsé la Chine au rang de deuxième plus grande économie du monde. Le rythme de croissance était dans une large mesure le but ultime poursuivi par les responsables du gouvernement parce que le taux de croissance déterminait leur promotion. Ce culte de la croissance a eu des conséquences néfastes ... L’ère de la « suprématie du PIB » est achevée. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [P2P-URBANISM] FW: [JoCI] New Issue Published Special Issue: Community Informatics and Urban Development
by Michel Bauwens 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: michael gurstein <gurstein(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:47 PM Subject: [P2P-URBANISM] FW: [JoCI] New Issue Published Special Issue: Community Informatics and Urban Development To: p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com Readers: The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue at http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics, Vancouver CANADA Phone 604-602-0624 gurstein(a)gmail.com The Journal of Community Informatics Vol 10, No 3 (2014): Special Issue: Community Informatics and Urban Development Table of Contents http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/49 Editorial -------- Community Informatics in Cities: New Catalysts for URban Change Liisa Marjatta Horelli, David Sadoway Smart Cities vs. Smart Communities: Empowering Citizens not Market Economics Michael Gurstein Articles -------- Expanded Urban Planning as a Vehicle for Understanding and Shaping Smart, Liveable Cities Aija Staffans, Liisa Horelli Rethinking Third Places: Contemporary Design With Technology Nemanja Memarovic, Sidney Fels, Junia Anacleto, Roberto Calderon, Federico Gobbo, John M. Carroll Augmented Reality or Paper-Based Plans? A comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of their use in participatory processes based on different field tests Florian Reinwald, Martin Berger, Christop Stoik, Mario Platzer, Doris Damyanovic Urban cartography for pedestrians Konstantinos Chorianopoulos Exploring the use of PPGIS in self-organizing urban development: Case softGIS in Pacific Beach Kaisa Schmidt-Thome, Sirkku Wallin, Tiina Laatikainen, Jonna Kangasoja, Marketta Kyttä Neighborhood Planning of Technology: Physical Meets Digital City from the Bottom-Up with Aging Payphones Benjamin Stokes, François Bar, Karl Baumann, Ben Caldwell Empowering Newcomers with Low-Tech Workshops and High-Tech Analyses Katia Balassiano, Christopher J. Seeger The ‘Urban Spacebook’ experimental process: Co-designing a Platform for Participation Corelia Elena Baibarac Notes from the field -------- (Re)Prioritizing Citizens in Smart Cities Governance: Examples of Smart Citizenship from Urban India David Sadoway, Satyarupa Shekhar Urban Acupuncture in the era on Ubiquitous Media Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico ICTS ENCOURAGING CHANGES IN THE CITIZEN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOVERNMENT AND URBAN SPACE: BRAZILIAN EXAMPLES Geisa Bugs Local knowledge and the right to the hybrid city Panayotis Antoniadis, Ileana Apostol Strengthening the Environmental Third Sector in the Hyper-Digital Era Subas P. Dhakal ________________________________________________________________________ The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "P2P-Urbanism" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to p2p-urbanism-world-atlas+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [members] Fwd: Transvaluation_Symposium_Reminder of Call for abstracts
by Michel Bauwens 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adam Arvidsson <adam.arvidsson(a)unimi.it> Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:28 PM Subject: [members] Fwd: Transvaluation_Symposium_Reminder of Call for abstracts To: P2PValue Project Members List <members(a)lists.p2pvalue.eu> FYI Adam Arvidsson Associate Professor Department of Social and Political Sciences University of Milano via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milano +39-0250321209 adam.arvidsson(a)unimi.it Begin forwarded message: *From: *Noortje Marres <n.marres(a)gold.ac.uk> *To: *csisp-l <csisp-l(a)gold.ac.uk> *Subject: **Fwd: Transvaluation_Symposium_Reminder of Call for abstracts* *Date: *3 Dec 2014 22:16:01 CET Dear colleagues, We invite you to contribute with abstracts for the symposium *Transvaluation: Making the world matter.* Please, also help us spread this information. With excuse for cross-mailing, kind regards, conference organisers Call for abstracts – Brief In the current measurement- and indicator-driven knowledge culture, research in architecture, art and several disciplines within humanities and social sciences may succumb to economic or scientific models, or be separated from important contexts of invention, risking to reduce research largely to standardized reproduction. Responding to the current proliferation of evaluation systems and the dominant culture of measurement that comes with it, the Transvaluation international symposium, May 21-22 2015, searches for alternative, cooperative environments of knowledge, of creation and invention, of ‘making and thinking’, and ways to trans- and re-value research cultures from within. The ambition is a high quality event with top level keynote speeches, small format seminars and collective forum discussions, with the intent to start a broad debate addressing fundamental strategic research questions across disciplinary borders, and to instigate possibilities for change. Key note speakers are international experts in social, global anthropology, *Arjun Appadurai*; art researching practice and doctoral education, *Andrea Phillips;* and speculative realism and material objects, *Graham Harman*. The symposium will focus two major themes,* Poetics *and *Politics of Value*, referring to the (re-)making of values, both in artistic and architectural practice and in human scientific research, and their related political and systemic aspects. These themes are examined through two conceptual lenses: *Worlding* (shaping the world, transforming matter) and *U-topos *(space for speculative thinking and making). We search for ways in which architecture, art, philosophy, anthropology and other areas of research may challenge, together, the very concept and formation of knowledge, stretching and enriching it, hence “transvaluing” material and spiritual research cultures from within, disclosing alternative approaches and strengthening their logics of argumentation within the interdisciplinary frame, with potential to change its systemic conventions. We now invite researchers, doctoral students and practitioners to submit abstracts for discussion at the symposium. Abstracts will be peer reviewed and, if selected, developed into short papers. *Keywords*: transvaluation - poetics of value - worlding - architecture - artistic research *Deadline for abstracts: December 19, 2014. *For more information on the call and the selection process, please see end of this document or conference website, www.chalmers.se/transvaluation . Key note speakers Key note speakers (confirmed), actively taking part in the entire event: *Arjun Appadurai* – world famous social-cultural anthropologist, discussing cultural activity as the social imaginary forming modernity and global cultural flows into dimensions of e.g. ethno-scapes and mediascapes. From a critical perspective on the global academic system, Appadurai has created the New School University, New York, and is founder of the academic journal Public Culture. *Andrea Phillips* – renowned designer, curator and Director of the Doctoral Research Programmes in Fine Art and Curating at Goldsmiths College, London University. Phillips also directs several international interdisciplinary research projects and publishes widely on art, curating, politics and public space. *Graham Harman* – contemporary philosopher of metaphysics and professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. With outset in speculative realism and his concept of ‘object oriented philosophy’, Harman investigates alternatives to the linguistic turn in Western philosophy, hereby evoking extensive debate on our hermeneutic relation to the (technological) world of objects. Description of the symposium themes Transvaluation: Making the World Matter in search for alternative, cooperative environments of knowledge, of creation and invention, of ‘making and thinking’ *Challenges and themes* Academic research and education are currently dominated by a measurement-culture and the proliferation of evaluation systems that comes with it. In response to this, the symposium aims to outline the possibilities for *alternative, cooperative environments of knowledge, of creation and invention, of ‘making and thinking’*. Its first and most important concern is to start a broad debate on the following subjects: (1) the consequences of the (monopolization of) efficiency-standards in the spheres of science and creativity – a tendency reinforced by the Bologna educational system – and (2) the search for viable alternatives. Efficiency-driven systems of evaluation are less innocent as one may think. They often hide an 'intellectual conformity', having nothing to do anymore with 'the animating spirit of discovery' and tending towards 'the mono-culture of a discipline grown too large and the accompanying failure of imagination', in one word: to the* 'Big Creativity Deficit'* (Murphy 2013). The rapidly risen and universalized practices of evaluation-controlled knowledge-production are thought to have led, during 'the past forty years [, to] a significant decline [of creativity] in the arts and sciences' (Murphy 2013). ”The exhaustion of creative science and arts” seems to have a hard social and political counterpart in different forms of exclusion, typical of this 'age of globalization': knowledge-systems are increasingly, and anonymously, controlling us from above, whereas we actually need a 'globalization from below', where imagination – no longer being 'a matter of individual genius, an escapism from ordinary life or just a dimension of aesthetics' – rather becomes a manifold 'faculty through which collective patterns of dissent and *new design for collective life *emerges' (Appadurai 2000). Being part of a larger, already functioning project, this symposium seeks to initiate the debate, starting from the primarily architectural and artistic experience of working with concrete 'matter' and being, as a consequence, entirely involved in 'processes of making'. However, we believe that these very processes of making and transforming matter are also crucial to the so-called hard sciences, and to the human and social sciences. That is why we would like to invite representatives of all of them to participate in this debate. *Poetics of Value.* Using the – historical – familiarity with making and transforming matter of certain disciplines, we introduce the concept of a *Poetics of Value*. 'Poetics' itself refers to the ancient Greek practice of *poièsis* (producing, making, creating, composing), whereas the focus on 'values' stands for the desired reversal of systemic evaluation-practices in Academia. Thereby, Poetics of Value isn’t merely describing the relation between an *individual* (artist, designer, philosopher, scientist) and the matter she or he is transforming; it also takes into account the inventive *collective* effort communities all over the world will have to be engaged in as a 're-' and 'transvaluing' response to the challenging problems of our rapidly globalizing societies and economies. *Politics of Value*. That is why we simultaneously call for a *Politics of Value *(following Appadurai, 1988), which is concerned with surpassing the possibly atomic relation between researchers and their objects, towards more complex meanings and frameworks of human transactions, attributions and motivations (Appadurai 1988, 1996). 'Practicing value' has an obvious ethical dimension we want to explore in these * 'Politics*'. The search for renewal, for originality and for the production of meaning, relates to the quest for the unexpected in making or transforming matter. This is essentially a culture-shaping activity which never aspires to reach stable knowledge or a fixed state, but strives for continuous evolving perfectibility. Hence, the creative processes involved lie beyond sheer knowledge-accumulation, since new or unforeseen artistic forms and designs do not necessarily increase or diminish knowledge, nor do they primarily seek to do so. *Worlding*. Both the Poetics and Politics of Value are perspectives directed towards an intensive rethinking and redesigning of human relations with the world. In order to get a better view on both perspectives we propose two specific 'lenses': *Worlding* and *U-topos*. They represent a particular kind of practicing values that enables the enrichment and stretching of the concept of knowledge and the academic culture it creates. The idea of 'Worlding' refers to the fundamental task of research to 'think and, somehow, start living new worldly shapes' (Spivak, Nancy, White, e.a.). Using the lens of 'Worlding' we seek to conceptualize future alternative knowledge-creating practices and future alternative values, instead of merely evaluating existing knowledge procedures. This illuminates the very meaning of the Poetics and Politics of Value: to look ahead, to discover what remains hidden, to elaborate the speculative dimension of matter and material manipulation, engaging reality through the material (Harman). *U-Topos*. The concept of 'U-topos' on the other hand is introduced as a place for utopian, speculative thinking. In contrast to preset images of 'Utopia', the U-topos encourages scholars and artists to think the not-yet visible and the not-yet valuable, a thinking/making propelled by individual and shared, collective curiosities, towards the formulation of future values and learning needs, allowing different topics, concepts, themes, perspectives to collide and combine. U-topos is meant to be an exercise in transforming both the 'spiritual' and 'material' working places of the future researcher – it represents university itself. The meaning, relevance and applicability of these concepts will be the object of debates during the symposium, from both angles: 'matter' (making, transforming, creating, designing) and 'thought' (critique, quest for alternatives, attempt to think the not-yet-available). The overall project is called *'Transvaluation'*, designed to be an organized and, hopefully, energizing attempt to overcome the possibility of a scientific mono-culture that is actually threatening to sacrifice the whole of academic inventiveness to systems of calculable, quantitative measurement (creativity-deficit) and which is particularly harmful to many traditional creative disciplines, such as architecture, fine arts, philosophy, literature… The proposed debates are designed to be clear-cut: Can alternatives be conceptualized? Can they prove to be fruitful? If so, how should they be structured? Can architecture and fine arts, specifically, contribute to this effort? And how? Can the science – both the hard sciences and the human and social sciences make their contribution? And how? Can all these sciences and disciplines be convinced to join forces on this? Can university be effectively transformed in this sense? *Sources:* Biggs, Michael, and Henrik Karlsson, eds. 2010. *The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts*. London: Routledge. Dunin-Woyseth, Halina. 2006. “The ‘Thinkable’ and ‘Unthinkable’ Doctorates. Three Perspectives on Doctoral Scholarship in Architecture.” In *Building a Doctoral Programme in Architecture and Design*, edited by Jan Michl, and Liv Merete Nielsen, 149-174. Oslo: Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Murphy, Peter (2013). *Inaugural Lecture *at James Cooke University, Australia, School of Creative Arts (Wednesday 25 September 2013). Schiesser, Giaco. 2013. *“A Certain Frustration…”. Paradoxes, Voids, Perspectives in Artistic Research Today. In Practices of Experimentation*, edited by The Department of Art & Media, Zurich University of the Arts, 97-110. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Appadurai, Arjun (1996, 2005). *Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization*. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; (2000), *Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination*. In *Public Culture*, vol. 12, #1, pp. 1-19. Harman, Graham, ed., 2011. *The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism*. Melbourne: re.press. Symposium format The symposium aims to be a ‘call for debate’, therefore the emphasis is on conversation and discussion rather than paper presentations. Participants will be invited to cooperate in exercises of speculative thinking, aiming at creating new places and new spaces for future fundamental research. The ambition is to form this as a 'high quality conversation' centered on *statement-lectures *delivered by top level keynote speakers, *small salons *where participants discuss each other’s papers (the grouping will be done beforehand and members of a group receive each other’s papers for reading and commenting), and *forum debates *on the key themes. The statement-lectures (providing the input for debate and topics for the conversation) and the forum debates are plenary. The Salon is organised in small groups of maximum 5x5 participants, with discussions moderated by members of the planning and review committee. The keynote speakers have already expressed their concerned interest for the themes and confirmed to take active part in the activities of the entire event. *Preliminary schedule, May 21-22, 2015:* *May 21:* 09.30 Coffee + registration 10.00 Intro 10.15 statement lecture 1 11.00 Salon 1 (maximum four groups of 25) 12.30 Lunch + walk 14.00 Salon 2 (groups of 25, A-D) 16.00 Coffee 16.30 Forum debate 1 18.15 Statement lecture 2 19.00 Mingle + dinner *May 22:* 09.00 Statement lecture 3 10.00 Coffee 10.30 Salon 3 (reshuffled groups) 13.00 Lunch + walk 14.00 Critical connections of discussions + wallpapers (to feed into Forum debate 3) 15.30 Forum debate 3 17.00 Summing up 17.30 End of symposium Submission process Please submit abstracts of maximum 500 words (references may be added) before 19th of December to transvaluation.arch(a)chalmers.se. If accepted for the symposium, a short paper (maximum 7 pages including images) shall be delivered to the same email address by the latest on 20 April 2015. December 19 Deadline for abstracts January 26 Notification on abstracts April 20 Deadline for full papers April 24 Groups formed, papers distributed, and participants notified May 21-22 Symposium *Review group: * Nel Janssens, KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels & Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Architecture. Peter De Graeve, Faculty of Fine Arts University of Leuven & Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Architecture Catharina Dyrssen, Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Architecture Mattias Kärrholm, University of Lund, Department of Architecture and Built Environment. Hélène Frichot, KTH, School of Architecture, Division of Critical Studies, Stockholm Rolf Hughes, Stockholm University of the Arts Andrej Slavik, University of Gothenburg, Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion & Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Architecture. *Core planning group*: Nel Janssens, Peter De Graeve, Catharina Dyrssen *Planning assistance*: Julia Fredriksson (symposium contents), Nidal Yousif (facilities) *For more information *on research contents etc., please use the symposium mail address, transvaluation.arch(a)chalmers.se. Questions can also be mailed directly to Julia Fredriksson, julia.fredriksson(a)chalmers.se, or Catharina Dyrssen, dyrssen(a)chalmers.se. For practicalities, travel and accommodation, please contact Nidal Yousif, nidal.yousif(a)chalmers.se. Also see symposium website: www.chalmers.se/transvaluation. *Vänliga hälsnigar | Kind regards* *Lotta Särnbratt *Informatör | Communications Officer Institutionen för arkitektur | Department of Architecture +46 31 772 2445 +46 76 125 7039 (mobile) lotta.sarnbratt(a)chalmers.se *[image: cid:[email protected]]* Chalmers tekniska högskola | Chalmers University of Technology Institutionen för arkitektur | Department of Architecture 412 96 Göteborg | 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden www.chalmers.se -- Professor Andrea Phillips Director of Research Programmes Department of Art Goldsmiths London SE14 6NW andrea.phillips(a)gold.ac.uk http://art.gold.ac.uk/research/ http://art.gold.ac.uk/tagore/ Dr Noortje Marres Department of Sociology Goldsmiths University of London New Cross London SE14 6NW tel. +44 20 79197571 Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP) <http://www.gold.ac.uk/csisp> Director MA/MSc Digital Sociology <http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-msc-digital-sociology/> Convenor *Material Participation: Technology, the Environment and Everyday Publics* <http://tinyurl.com/c7qfvo6> is available from Palgrave 50% discount via www.palgrave.com quoting WMPTEEP2013a -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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wonderful promo-video of the omni-commons, worth watching
by Michel Bauwens 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

via Danny Spitzberg: our website omnicommons.org a recent article in Shareable http://www.shareable.net/blog/omni-commons-opens-collaborative-space-for-co… another one in Oakland Local oaklandlocal.com/2014/11/oaklands-omni-commons/ the video itself https://youtu.be/9Zccga90hcY our crowdfunding campaign igg.me/at/omnicommons and finally, some additional language written about Omni that was another version of the campaign https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zuK3k-knF940JG7FRHoDVLHXJBsAACSzOSnj7Nr… -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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