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What_You_Should_Read_To_Understand_the_Commons
by Michel Bauwens 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

dear friends, this was done upon request of Evi Swinnen, our P2P Foundation chairperson and co-initiator of the School of Commons in the Flanders, which took off recently generating high interest. As we are moving to chaotic times, a longer term historical frame can help us maintain, the longer term optimism of the will, while we have to make do with the more short-term pessimism of the intellect. These books should help you make sense of the coming chaotic transition, and to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The commons-bases society that has learned to live within ecological and thermo-dynamic constraints <is> coming, but its birth won't be easy. The good news is that we have done this more than once in our common history. The annotated bibliography will have 3 parts, this is just the first one, generating a contextual understanding for a better understanding of the place of the commons in human history. I really think you should make time in your life, to read these specific books. https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/What_You_Should_Read_To_Understand_the_Commo… -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Conference: GOING DIGITAL What is the Future of Business and Labour?
by Michel Bauwens 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: World Economics Association <info(a)worldeconomicsassociation.org> Date: Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 10:52 PM Subject: Conference: GOING DIGITAL What is the Future of Business and Labour? To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> GOING DIGITAL What is the Future of Business and Labour? *a WEA online conference * 11th November to 9th December, 2019 The objective of this conference, led by Prof. Maria Alejandra Madi and Dr. Małgorzata Dereniowska, is to discuss recent contributions to the understanding of digital economy and its consequences for business trends and labour challenges. The conference also focuses on bridging the gap between different economic theoretical approaches and the practical applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Related topics include law, ethics, safety, and governance. For more details and how to submit a paper and register for the conference click here <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> . *Please support the WEA by paying a membership fee <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> or making a small donation <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…>. * <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> [image: Twitter] <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> [image: Facebook] <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> [image: Website] <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *Copyright © 2019 World Economics Association, All rights reserved.* You joined the WEA via our website and/or made a voluntary donation to WEA *Our mailing address is:* World Economics Association 12 Maurice Road Bristol, BS6 5BZ United Kingdom Add us to your address book <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/vcard?u=fc8acbfd9af76…> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/profile?u=fc8acbfd9af…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=fc8acbf…>. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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: Google Archipelago Has Been Released!
by Michel Bauwens 10 Oct '19

10 Oct '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Rectenwald <Michael.rectenwald(a)nyu.edu> Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 9:00 PM Subject: Google Archipelago Has Been Released! To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Now Available! Google Archipelago The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom Get your copy from Amazon.com, or a signed copy from the Apogee Bookstore on MichaelRectenwald.com. Apogee Bookstore, Now Available! *Google Archipelago**The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom* *Get your copy from **Amazon.com* <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAAMp-uGJI87aEcGW1tN4UjnzD837…>*, or a signed copy from the **Apogee Bookstore* <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAADWpQ-mtqoBkgzTSfY4CW6dGQdl…>* on **MichaelRectenwald.com* <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAANjxfQc_pUQ8f7be2hCR1U_0PRq…> *.* <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAAMp-uGJI87aEcGW1tN4UjnzD837…> <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAADWpQ-mtqoBkgzTSfY4CW6dGQdl…> Apogee Bookstore, Tunnel Blvd., Pittsburgh and New York, U.S. Unsubscribe <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAAFYvzd2V_KDL5_8jdKL0JeaiECk…> <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAABGLfLEOJqVq7LfaEmeLAJ_3QAU…> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: UNRISD Report Released; r3.0 in Keith Ambachtsheer's Monthly Letter; and other exciting developments
by Michel Bauwens 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: r3.0 <hello(a)r3-0.org> Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:29 PM Subject: UNRISD Report Released; r3.0 in Keith Ambachtsheer's Monthly Letter; and other exciting developments To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Other exciting developments include Blueprint Working Groups launching, events such as #NewMetrics19, What Now?!, and a new Transformation Academy! View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/r3-0/02october2019?e=e9fc303c86> <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> *Dear Michel,* What does it mean to be a Global Common Good? At a recent meeting in Amsterdam, Bill and Ralph were asked who has downloaded our Blueprints, and Ralph answered, "I have no idea. We don't track that information, because, as a Global Common Good, we don't want to put any barrier between our audience and our content." It also means that we partner broadly, in the spirit of our pre-competitive, market-making commitments. This month, we're glad to announce a number of new Advocation Partners, including our longtime friend John Fullerton of the Capital Institute, who keynoted <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> our 3rd International Conference in 2015 with the provocation of whether the bioregion is a more apt locus of attention than the corporation -- a notion that resonated with us deeply over the years. To get a sense of the depth of our connection, the Capital Institute figures into many of the newsletter items this month, which you can find bulleted below: - *UNRISD Report Released* - *Last Chance to Join Blueprint Working Groups* - *r3.0 in Keith Ambachtsheer's Monthly Letter* - *Next Transformation Academy in Rotterdam* - *Now What?! Weaving for Bioregional Regeneration* - *r3.0 at #NewMetrics19* - *Medium Article on r3.0's Phase Two * - *New Advocation Partners* Enjoy this month's newsletter! The r3.0 Operations Team *Alexandra, Bill, Cleophea, Peter & Ralph* UNRISD Report Released <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) has released a report (available here <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…>) authored by r3.0 Senior Director Bill Baue that proposes a three-tiered typology of Sustainable Development Performance Indicators. The report is the first of several collaborations in this 4-year Indicators Project <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> -- Bill is already working on the second report in the series, which will propose Tier Two Contextualized Indicators corresponding to 33 Tier One Incrementalist Indicators from a July 2019 UNCTAD report <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…>. Bill will present on both his reports at an upcoming UNRISD Workshop in Montreal October 21/22, and we at r3.0 will integrate this material into our ongoing work around transformation. If you want to chime in on the online chatter around the report, please see the r3.0 twitter thread here <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> . <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> Last Chance! Join Blueprint Working Groups <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> Work has commenced on the first two Blueprints in Phase Two of our development, but there's still time to join the Working Groups for the *Sustainable Finance Blueprint <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…>* (which is about 80% full now) and the *Value Cycles Blueprint <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> *(which is about 60% full). The Working Groups are currently giving input on preliminary Content Indexes and proposing resources to consult and reference in the report. A First Exposure Draft will be released to Working Group Members by 8 November, in advance of In-Person Working Group Meetings in Philadelphia on 21/22 November. Please contact Bill <b.baue(a)r3-0.org?subject=Blueprint%20Working%20Groups> and/or Ralph <r.thurm(a)r3-0.org?subject=Blueprint%20Working%20Groups> if you would like to join either / both Working Groups, or to refer a member of your network. r3.0 in Keith Ambachtsheer's Monthly Letter <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> For more than a third of a century, Keith Ambachtsheer has been publishing a Monthly Letter <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> on institutional investment that by now carries legendary status. In his October 2019 Letter (pdf downloadable here <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…>), he takes on the question of "Sustainable Finance," inspired in part by his participation in the r3.0 Sustainable Finance Blueprint Working Group. "[S]ustainability means ‘ability to exist constantly’ at the macro (biosphere/humanity) level. It has a parallel meaning at the micro (individual organization) level. These definitions set us on our way to common understandings of macro and micro ‘sustainable finance’," Keith writes, echoing the r3.0 focus on the micro/macro link. He goes on to specifically spotlight r3.0's work on Sustainable Finance, referencing our "crowdsourcing" through our Blueprint Working Group process; "boundary setting" through our Global Thresholds & Allocations Council <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…>; and "threshold investing" as proposed <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> by Bill and r3.0 Advocation Partner Mark McElroy back in 2013. You can read Keith's letter here <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…>, or get a sneak peak through an r3.0 twitter thread here <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…>. Next Transformation Academy in Rotterdam <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> The second running of the r3.0 Transformation Academy in Rotterdam, hosted by r3.0 Advocation Partner THRIVE Institute, is set to commence next month, and run through March 2020. Register here <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> . *Dates:* - *Basecamp:* 13/14 November 2019 - *Planning the Route:* 12/13 December 2019 - *The Climb:* 22/23 January 2020 - *The Mountain Top:* 04/05 March 2020 We're also in multiple conversations about other Transformation Journey Programs, including some hosted by Advocation Partners with specific geographic / sectoral / thematic orientations. For a sense of the value of the Transformation Journey Program, here a testimonial: “The Transformation Journey Program has helped me grasp the context of what is needed for systems change and ultimate thriveability. Moving towards thriveability requires sound tools so that organisations can map where they are, and the journey they need to take to get there. The TJP equips the team with the tools and helps lay out the route.” *Lauren Muusse Senior Sustainability Advisor, ING* Now What?! Weaving for Bioregional Regeneration <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> Following up on the success of the *Now What?! 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Accordingly, we're excited for Bill to share about GTAC in a Plenary Keynote at the New Metrics Conference in Philadelphia on November 18-20. r3.0 Managing Director Ralph Thurm will also be speaking in a Breakout Workshop on the *Principles of Regenerative Economics and the Future of Regeneration-Based Business Model Innovation <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> *(moderated by Bill). Capital Institute Founding President John Fullerton will present the 8 Principles of a Regenerative Economy <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> as the focus of discussion with Cabot Creamery Cooperative Sustainable Farms Committee Vice Chair Jenni Tilton-Flood and *The Age of Thrivability* <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…>Author Michelle Holliday, as well as Timberland Sustainability Director Colleen Vien and VF Corporation Director of Sustainable Materials and Products Beth Jensen. Medium Article on r3.0's Phase Two <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…> r3.0's Phase One spanned from 2012 - 2019; Phase Two kicked off at the 2019 Conference, as Bill and Ralph described in the most recent Medium article <https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&i…>. 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Fwd: Work Organisation, Labour & Organisation Call for Papers: The Algorithm and The City
by Michel Bauwens 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Pluto Journals Ltd. <kush(a)plutojournals.com> Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:56 PM Subject: Work Organisation, Labour & Organisation Call for Papers: The Algorithm and The City To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation welcomes contributions that address the impacts of digitalisation and algorithmic management on cities. View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/00b3aca24a69/work-organisation-labour-organisation-call-…> *Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation's Call for Papers: 'The Algorithm and the City'* *You are receiving this email because of your past association with Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation. Please accept our apologies if you think this email has been sent to you in error. If you wish to update your preferences please click here <https://plutojournals.us14.list-manage.com/profile?u=946484bd874ae7f80bb5b6…>, or to unsubscribe from our email list please click here <https://plutojournals.us14.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=946484bd874ae7f80b…>.* The use of online platforms to organise the supply of services has major implications for the way that the labour involved in creating and delivering these services is managed. Recent research has shown an exponential growth in platform labour, which doubled in the UK between 2016 and 2019 with an equally rapid spread of platform management practices to other sectors of the economy (Huws, Spencer & Coates, 2019). This development has been paralleled by a growth in online shopping and in the use of platforms such as Airbnb for renting accommodation as well as the spread of schemes such as bike sharing or car sharing, also run by online platforms. 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Fwd: [commoning] How can we cooperate across borders to tackle climate change? BG conference | Oct. 10-12, 2019 | ZK/U Berlin
by Michel Bauwens 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Krystian Woznicki via Commoning <commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org> Date: Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 4:29 PM Subject: [commoning] How can we cooperate across borders to tackle climate change? BG conference | Oct. 10-12, 2019 | ZK/U Berlin To: <commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org> Hi commoners! How can we cooperate across borders to tackle climate change? To explore this question, the Berliner Gazette organizes the 20th edition of its annual conference: a three-day program with workshops, performances and public talks at the ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin, October 10-12, 2019. All info about MORE WORLD program please find here: https://more-world.berlinergazette.de *Public Talks* The public talks program includes keynotes by the scientist *Sujatha Byravan* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujatha_Byravan> (India), whose pioneering research explores the politics of climate refugees, activist *Virginie Gailing* <https://rebellion.earth/> (France), who is hacking the climate discourse online and offline with the do-it-together movement Extinction Rebellion, the political geographer and radio maker *Anja Kanngieser* <https://anjakanngieser.com/> (Australia), whose work on imperiled Pacific islands urges us to cooperate on the frontlines of climate change, the Fridays For Future activist *Clara Mayer* <https://fridaysforfuture.de/> (Germany), who dares to confront the corporate and political elites with the uncomfortable truths of climate change, the poet and philosopher *Sudesh Mishra* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudesh_Mishra> (Fiji), sustainability expert *Nikki Maksimovic* <https://www.ecosia.org/> (UK), whose work with the Berlin-based Internet search engine Ecosia helps to plants trees by donating 80% of its surplus income for reforestation initiatives, who mobilizes indigenous cosmologies as sources of inspiration vis-à-vis environmental havoc, the journalist and technology expert *Marta Peirano* <https://www.ted.com/talks/marta_peirano_the_surveillance_device_you_carry_a…> (Spain), whose new book explores how to tackle climate change with communal technologies, and the activist and writer *Harsha Walia* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsha_Walia> (Canada), whose work on migration intersects with climate justice struggles. The talks will be moderated by *Abiol Lual Deng* <https://twitter.com/abioldeng?lang=en> (South-Sudan/US), an international relations expert and humanitarian policy consultant, *Jennifer Kamau* <https://iwspace.de/> (Kenya/Germany) who is an activist and researcher and facilitates a migrant network called International Women Space, and *Jaron Rowan* <https://www.traficantes.net/autorxs/rowan-jaron> (Spain), a researcher, author and activist. *Performances* The conference program includes performances by artist and researcher *Kat Austen <https://katausten.wordpress.com/>* (UK), who will perform a multimedia symphony based on her research trip to the North Pole; the art collective *The University of the Phoenix* <http://universityofthephoenix.com/> (Canada), who will be offering participants an opportunity to join “The Order of the Immortal Stranger”: a global secret society for interspecies cooperation; the artist *Xin Xin* <http://xin-xin.info/> (USA/Taiwan), who will be presenting “Plant Ensemble”, a performance that uses biofeedback in plants to synthesize sound; the choreographer *Pepe Dayaw* <https://pepe.dance/> (Philippines), who will be cooperatively creating a Bibimbap-Badubap (a Korean rice dish), amplifying the chopping sounds and remixing them into a jazz concert while cooking; and the poet *Falko Hennig* <http://www.falko-hennig.de/> (Germany), who will be leading two city walks, exploring cooperative initiatives that tackle climate change. MORE WORLD program: https://more-world.berlinergazette.de MORE WORLD interviews (with workshop guests, moderators, keynote speakers and performers): https://blogs.mediapart.fr/krystian-woznicki/blog Spread the word! Re-tweet this: https://twitter.com/berlinergazette/status/1173861415301648386 Hope to see you at the event! Krystian (for the BG team) -- -------------------------------------------------------------- BG – Berliner Gazette | since 1999 | http://berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- MORE WORLD – How can we cooperate across borders to tackle climate change? BG’s 20th anniversary conference – October 10-12, 2019 – ZK/U https://more-world.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commons-Institut e.V. 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Fwd: A new economics
by Michel Bauwens 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Nick Hanauer <info(a)civicaction.com> Date: Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 3:29 PM Subject: A new economics To: Jeffrey Sterling <jeffreygsterling(a)gmail.com> Rich capitalists like me have never been richer. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ [image: Civic Action] Rich capitalists like me have never been richer. It’s not because we’re smarter or working harder. So why do .01%-ers like me consume an ever-increasing share of the economic pie? It comes down to one thing: the system is rigged for big corporations and plutocrats and against the average person. And at the heart of this rigged system is neoliberal economic policies. But our economy doesn’t have to work this way: We can and must form a new economics and design a new system. I recently gave a TED talk tearing down neoliberal economics and trickle-down policies – and offered up my new vision for a more cooperative, moralistic economics: *Watch my new TED talk to learn about why neoliberalism is sociopathic – and why we need to create a new economics of cooperation:* <http://go.civicaction.com/page/m/46025914/3748c8c3/3f534dd6/11ea042d/437957…> <http://go.civicaction.com/page/m/46025914/3748c8c3/3f534dd6/11ea042d/437957…> *Nick Hanauer speaks at TEDSummit: A Community Beyond Borders. July 21-25, 2019, Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo: Ryan Lash / TED* Over the last decade, the 1% have gotten $21 trillion richer while the bottom 50% have gotten $900 billion poorer. It’s not by accident – decades of backward economic theory have just gotten it wrong. We’ve been taught greed is good, inequality is essential, and that shareholders are the only thing that matter. But neoliberal ideas are just a protection racket for the rich – and it’s time we create a new economics – one that researchers and scientists are just starting to formulate. Neoliberal economic dogma has been shattered by policies this progressive community helped make a reality. We fought for a $15/hr minimum wage, fought to restore worker protections, and helped institute family leave – all of which trickle-downers said would tank the economy. Instead, the economy is thriving, unemployment has gone down – and we’re just getting started. *The thinking is simple: When restaurant owners are suddenly required to pay restaurant workers enough so that now even they can afford to eat in restaurants it doesn’t shrink the restaurant industry – it grows it. OBVIOUSLY.* Unlike the laws of physics, the laws of economics are a choice. Conservatives have sold their economic theories to us as if they were unchangeable natural law, but, in fact, those theories are social constructs based on pseudoscience. If we want new economics, all we have to do is choose to have it. Being rapacious does not make you a capitalist; it makes you a sociopath. Instead of a greed first, ask questions later approach – we need to invest in cooperation as a growth mechanism for our economy. When everyone does better, the economy does better. The laws of economics are a choice –and I hope you take a moment to watch my TED talk to find out what other ideas I have to formulate a new economy where everyone does better. But hey, don’t take it from me, I’m just a zillionaire spending my fortune the best way I know how: fighting for policies that will rebalance the economy in favor of the middle class. *Here’s that link to my TED talk again, I hope you’ll watch it.* <http://go.civicaction.com/page/m/46025914/3748c8c3/3f534dd6/11ea042d/437957…> Thank you so much for being such an important part of this team as we work to end neoliberal stooges rigging the system against the vast majority of people. [image: Hey, while you're here: At Civic Action we're trying to buck the status quo and expand the middle class through activism and education. We're not afraid of making a little trouble, but we can't do it without your help. Will you pitch in to support our efforts? We promise to put every penny toward ending the neoliberal stranglehold on our economic and political system. Pitch in now:] <http://go.civicaction.com/page/m/46025914/3748c8c3/3f534dd6/11ea042c/437957…> Paid for by Civic Action This email was sent to jeffreygsterling(a)gmail.com. ------------------------------ Want to get more involved? Follow us: <http://go.civicaction.com/page/m/46025914/3748c8c3/3f534dd6/11ea042f/437957…> <http://go.civicaction.com/page/m/46025914/3748c8c3/3f534dd6/11ea042e/437957…> If you'd no longer like to be a part of Civic Action, you can *click here <http://go.civicaction.com/page/m/46025914/3748c8c3/3f534dd6/11ea0429/437957…>* to unsubscribe from our emails. 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Fwd: Closing the space between us | Full Circle 🌎 with the PGI
by Michel Bauwens 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Post Growth Institute <info(a)postgrowth.org> Date: Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 12:00 AM Subject: Closing the space between us | Full Circle 🌎 with the PGI To: Michel <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Discover the strength of our global interconnections and how to support like-minded organizations. [image: Post Growth Institute 'support' newsletter banner] <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> Dear Michel, Across the planet, grassroots initiatives are building systems that *offer hopeful alternatives* to our extractive, growth-dependent economy. The power of these projects lies not only in their local influence but in global connections of *support, guidance, and encouragement*. Despite our varied focuses and approaches, #postgrowth provides an overarching concept to *challenge the dominant paradigm. *Setting aside our differences and united by a shared sense of *where our evolution needs to go,* we're starting to relax into supporting each other. For the Support edition of Full Circle, we introduce the *Post Growth Alliance, our cooperative social media service *that saves member organizations time and money while increasing their exposure. Find out how to *join the PGA family, learn about one of its members, *and meet one of our long-time volunteers – part of a community of activists dedicated to *helping us shift the worldview*. As we weave a rich tapestry, *closing the space between us enhances our strength*. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Thanks for your support, [image: graphic of networked globe] <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> Post Growth Alliance Many nonprofits are at the cutting edge of sustainability activism and debate, but their work remains underexposed. The *Post Growth Alliance* <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> (PGA) is a service that creates and amplifies engaging content for member organizations by drawing on the power of the network to share each others' posts across social media. *Find out more about the PGA* <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> . PGA member profile: Promoting Economic Pluralism [image: screenshot of PGA post for PEP's Not the Nobel Prize] <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> *Promoting Economic Pluralism* <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> (PEP) seeks to co-create truly sustainable, resilient, and inclusive new economies thought strategic activities and projects that influence economic analysis, teaching, and thinking. PEP is also responsible for the 'Not the Nobel Prize', an initiative to celebrate thinkers and doers finding economic answers to the challenges of the 21st century. Find out more about *Promoting Economic Pluralism* <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…>, and vote for the seven finalists of 2019's *Not the Nobel Prize in Economics* <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…>. [image: Each and every subscriber helps to amplify PGA posts, which currently reach an average of 20,470 people.] <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> Support the PGA There's an easy and effective way to support groups changing the world – and it doesn't cost a cent. *Subscribe to our mailing list* <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> and receive exciting content, ready crafted and formatted to share on social media. <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> [image: graphic showing rise in use of postgrowth hashtag on Twitter] <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> The #postgrowth story is taking off on Twitter. In 2019 so far, #postgrowth has been tweeted 21,963 times. That's a *258% increase from 2018* and a 66,167% increase since 2009 when the hashtag was first used! *Meet PGI volunteer, Sarah Riebstein* A PhD candidate at Princeton University, Sarah researches universal basic income and the Alaska Permanent Fund’s resource dividend model. As an activist, she works with us on refining and spreading our vision of a not-for-profit economy <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> – including a stint managing the PGA. Here she shares a little about what it's like to work with the PGI. [image: photo of PGI volunteer Sarah Reibstein] <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> "We can bring our whole selves to the work we do at the PGI. There is a focus on highlighting the passions and strengths that each of us bring to the table, ensuring we're each contributing in ways that are most beneficial to the organization and ourselves. We also make space for sharing if circumstances in our lives might be negatively impacting us – something that I find is particularly missing in many other environments, where personal difficulties are often swept under the rug." *Meet the whole PGI team* <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…>. [image: PGI donate button] <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> [image: Facebook] <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> [image: Twitter] <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> [image: Medium] <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> [image: Website] <https://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> Want to change how you receive these emails? 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Fwd: The Optics of the Commons: an invitation for reflection and transformation
by Michel Bauwens 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Georgia Nicolau <georgia.nicolau(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 4:05 AM Subject: The Optics of the Commons: an invitation for reflection and transformation To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> View this email in your browser <https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?e=&u=994c9bd0160ff1ce9f87c8361&id=adc511…> *"The commons is what gives meaning to our existence" Kum'tum Akroá-Gamella, from the Akroá-Gamella people, state of Maranhão, northeast of Brazil.* We believe that the commons, in its multiple perspectives, is an essential kaleidoscope concept for facing this historic moment of hopelessness, in Brazil and in the world. The Optics of the Commons series brings together sixteen short episodes featuring voices and ideas from young experts and activists. In the videos, they address different perspectives on living and making communities based on a diversity of studies, practices and experiences. Seen together, the approaches produce inspiring resonances. Taking inspiration from these words, the Procomum Institute <https://www.procomum.org/the-institute-procomum/?lang=en> invites everyone to reflect and question our ways of existing, living and building relationships. Watch and share! Let's talk about how together we can dream - and build- other possible futures. *All videos have english subtitles*. "I look at the commons from the perspective of the black people, who have always been separated from the State and capital” Bianca Santana, writer, journalist and researcher defines the Commons as the goods shared by certain communities, their experiences and resistances. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7emZKVF4w&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> The occupation of public spaces, conflicts and the construction of public policies that prioritize cities for people are themes and strategies raised by Marcio Black, cultural producer, political scientist and member of the Black System Collective, to interpret the Commons. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fay4LtN9ksk&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> “The commons is what gives meaning to our existence,” shares Kum'tum Akroá-Gamella, a member of the Akroá-Gamella people, indigenous from Northeast of Brazil. For him, we are living a crisis that endangers the very existence of the planet because of practices that are part of a certain ideology of progress. Ancestral knowledge and a new way of seeing and understanding nature defines the commons for Kum'tum. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgUDk-cELTM&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> It is through the exchange, encounter and strengthening of autonomous experiences of traditional communities and spaces of resistance throughout Brazil and Latin America that the Collective Etinerâncias believes that the commons moves and is present. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEl1XEafyao> “The commons means a production focused on sharing and a permanent cycle of learning and distribution,” says João Brant, associate at the Procomum Institute and consultant in the areas of communication and cultural policies. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqH6DvAKgF4&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> Abundance of water, soil and fresh air are common natural goods, but there are limitations placed by private property, for example. These reflections accompany and define the commons for Cinthia Mendonça, artist, researcher and director of Silo - Arte e Latitude Rural. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX5cpQYzAEU&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> What struggles, conflicts and constructions fit the definition of commons? Does natural goods define it in its complexity? The value of the commons to Jean Tible, professor of political science at USP- University of São Paulo. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPxrIKgkMog&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> "The commons has to do with practices, relationships, territories and has to do with people, collective subjects," says Tica Moreno, a member of SOF (Sempreviva Feminist Organization), Master in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Federal University of ABC and PhD in Sociology by USP. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PsLmCCFn58&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> The commons, for those who come from the peripheries, is in the daily encounter and the plurality of actions. It surpasses the limits, the margins and defies the walls that prevent the construction of a more democratic and fair city. This is one of the commons perspectives for Mariana Belmont, journalist and member of the Imargem collective. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDe7LvrVCxs&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> “You can't have the commons where there is inequality. You can't have the commons where there is oppression,” says Juliana Gonçalves, journalist and human rights activist. For her, it is from the micro to the macro, from the margins to the center that practices and knowledges that make up the commons are constructed and replicated. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa1WeSs5ETc&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> What values do we exchange daily? How do they affect us? What connects us and what makes us divide spaces? How do we create cultures for the commons? Thiago Carrapatoso is a journalist and master of the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard College, and presents commons from other perspectives on the bodies, values and cultural impositions. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7JyuLjdGv8&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> How is the commons presented in contemporary struggles? In resistances, existences - in the countryside and in the city. In cooperative relations and the confrontation with capitalism. Alana Moraes, an anthropologist and doctoral student at the Museu Nacional-UFRJ, presents perspectives that define and confront the commons. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjyK3IyXCEc&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> “The commons is what endures, that is perpetuated for centuries. It is in the transversality between art, science, technology and ancestry”. Ricardo Brazileiro, computer scientist, master in Media, Interaction and Creative Systems for the Internet of Things, defends living in networks, occupying territories, spaces, free technologies and the sacred as opportunities for the commons. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDE-0OWM8k&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> Knowledge, culture and science belong to everyone and belong to no one at the same time. Henrique Parra, sociologist and activist, professor of social sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo, explains the set of distinct political principles, practices and meanings that define the commons. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC-T-OvQ5CM&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> Constantly learning and unlearning, being with people and building with them, finding commonality in differences is what motivates Georgia Nicolau, director of the Procomum Institute. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u6FNlCO2Xs&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> The commons is the place of the in between, it is the crossroads, the dialogue and the convergence. A political device of social transformation. Rodrigo Savazoni, from the Procomum Institute, sees the commons as construction, possibility and practice. Click here to watch the full video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5_dTVh11c&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/institutoprocomum> [image: Instagram] <http://instagram.com/procomum> [image: Website] <http://procomum.org> *Copyright © 2019 Instituto Procomum, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. *Our mailing address is:* Instituto Procomum R. Sete de Setembro n 52 Santos, Sp 11013-350 Brazil Add us to your address book <https://procomum.us16.list-manage.com/vcard?u=994c9bd0160ff1ce9f87c8361&id=…> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://procomum.us16.list-manage.com/profile?u=994c9bd0160ff1ce9f87c8361&i…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://procomum.us16.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=994c9bd0160ff1ce9f87c83…>. 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Fwd: Introducing OpenStructures.family
by Michel Bauwens 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: OpenStructures <hello(a)openstructures.net> Date: Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 12:00 PM Subject: Introducing OpenStructures.family To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> After a long silence - we’re back and proudly present the new website !! ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-8h958ll2-gau> New: Website! <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-dbujaqp2-xdk> © OpenStructures Yes! We're clickable again. 🖤 After a long silence - we’re back and proudly present the new <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-ey20s0de-uo>website !! It comprises a database of Parts <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-ko0jr8qv-hsa> and Applications <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-m0ct50tz-ynr>, a News <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-r6sclrwz-zqt> page and soon also a Shop <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-tkm6kelu-1aql>. You can find previous as well as upcoming Projects <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-yrcbmp7a-5z7> on the history page – as well as a repository of Designers <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-63fbyu5e-egg> and of our Network <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-a4glyyme-epm>. Don’t forget to check back soon again, since more is going to be added over time. *New Address:We Are Fa-mi-ly!* <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-bgqyqmxy-9mr> © OpenStructures OpenStructures.net <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-gt5250ma-8ln> becomes OpenStructures.family <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-j0to90qv-u28> Based on a shared grid, everything is connected to everything within the OpenStructures system. We took these tangible links – between original and derivative parts, first and second editions, initial designs and reconfigurations – as the central feature of the new platform. Each object <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-o3cjearb-341>, event <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-r6rteoer-wwp> or designer <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-tok8m6wi-hsh> reveals various relations with other people, ‘family members’, ‘siblings’ or ‘ancestors’ at the bottom of each profile page <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-yz8hbvdi-he3>. Commission: JAM Hotel Lisbon © Laurens Thys Atelier Lionel Jadot has invited OpenStructures Studio to collaborate on a sustainable hotel project in Lisbon Atelier Lionel Jadot <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-44eq0mjm-53u> from Brussels has commissioned OS_Studio together with Dutch designer Rikkert Pauw <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-acc6fzra-e6s> to develop a typology of lamps and furniture for an ambitious and circular hotel redevelopment in Lisbon. During a workshop hosted by OpenStructures, we sketched how the design concept by Lionel Jadot could be complemented with local found footage by Rikkert Paul and OpenStructures compatible elements by OS_Studio <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-bsl4shpi-7km>. Publication: Future Kind <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-f2035qhu-9q1> © Thames & Hudson OpenStructures is featured in Futurekind: Design by and for the People OpenStructures is proud to be part of a compendium of sixty design projects enabled by new technologies that reveal how innovative, socially and environmentally conscious designs allow us to change the world for the better. The book was launched this summer in New York, in presence of its editor Dr Robert Phillips, Senior Tutor of Design Products + Futures at Royal College of Art in London and is available <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-kzvb18jr-3ep>here <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-nvfvgg2v-1128>. Workshop: Reclaim the suburbs © Oswald Devisch CAPA.CITY experimental autumn school 14 - 17 Oct. Turnhout (Be) OpenStructures is applied as a hands-on tool in an academic research project on retrofitting suburban areas by the architecture department of Hasselt University. >From 14 - 17 October, we will rethink suburbia by prototyping and building various proposals for retrofitting. All of this this will be supported by lectures on participatory design, collective learning and capacity building. The CAPA.CITY project is a collaboration between both academic and non-academic partners and carried out in 6 different residential subdivisions in Belgium, Denmark and France. More information here <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-r6rs5qc3-s28> Also New: Atelier & Archive <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-tsiauaya-7a5> © Laurens Thys We also have a new Atelier / Archive / Workshop Space As part of 80 projects, all of which have a focus on sustainability and social innovation, our second space in Brussels is hosting the physical archive of our digital parts library <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-x45xfg2e-14h1> on the See-U <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-48cthoo2-ewd> site. The Atelier is a place for people of various ages and skills (from school children to senior architects) and will be used for workshops and temporary residenties. Contact us <info(a)openstructures.net>, if you want to file trough the library of Parts or organise a workshop. Rue Fritz Toussaint straat 8, 1050 Brussels (open on appointment only) Collection: Design museum Ghent © OpenStructures Everything gets re-cycled ! Parallel with the launch of the new platform Design Museum Gent has acquired the previous and first OS website for its collection. Design Museum Gent <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-8dbmzohy-j36> reasons that the website is the digital manifestation of an early and valuable project of social, eco- and DIY-design and that design manifests itself more and more digitally and in the form of processes rather than in shapes only. While the collection represents the history of Belgian design, the website will be its first digital, intangible collection piece and will continue to tell the story of the first phase of the OpenStructures project. It will be presented later this year as part of the museum’s ‘Object Stories’ <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-djqotl46-xxa> exhibition series. Product: Pyloon shelving system © Atelier Ternier OS compatible shelving system by Atelier Ternier Atelier Ternier <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-gx34d4o2-138a>’s shelving system ‘Pyloon’ assembles without tools nor screws. Panels are pushed horizontally over aluminium tubes and held on distance by vertical plates and pegs. Together they obtain optimal stability. The tubes are at the same time feet, hinge and handle and are compatible with loads of other OpenStructures parts. The Pyloon family will be on display at the Contemporary Design Market in Brussels on 28-29 September and from October later this year at our Studio in Brussels. Soon available online here <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-krz7d3wn-5sn>. Acknowledgement: Thank You. © OpenStructures OpenStructures only exists due to the work and enthusiasm of You. Many thanks to all of you who kept encouraging and supporting us, who have been collaborating, reflecting, criticising, and enriching the system and its database with insight, enthusiasm and most of all: designs! It is thanks to you that this database <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-nrid7izr-es3> of open modular designs exists and continuously grows. Also a special thanks to the kind support of BeCircular <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-r6sd8y6b-y2c> by the Brussels Capital Region which allowed us to redevelop the platform. <http://p.smoton.com/f2rqqkw7-8c19xog7-v7t3xcky-n1m> GDPR You receive this mail since you’ve expressed interest in OpenStructures in the past. Since the GDPR rules have changed meanwhile, we would like to know if you are still interested in what we do? In case you no longer wish to receive our news, you can unsubscribe on the link below and we will delete your contact details. 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