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Fwd: DESIS Newsletter #4
by Michel Bauwens 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: DESIS <newsletter(a)desis-network.org> Date: Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:44 AM Subject: DESIS Newsletter #4 To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com [image: DESIS][image: Newsletter #4] DESIS Newsletter #4 - Displaying Life Feburary / March 2011, DESIS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK www.desis-network.org *Designing a successful display system is a task that challenges not only budgets and manpower but also, and specially, creativity. In our case this is even greater since we are not only talking about designer’s creativity, but about how to give visibility to those who, by using their creativity, are improving their livelihoods, our: creative communities. Furthermore we are talking about a creativity that shows solutions that are already in action, new business models and also ideas which in some cases are not yet replicated on a given territory but potentially spreadable. Having said that, in this edition we would like to highlight the relevance of some events (such as the DESIS Forum in Paris) in which teachers, students, members of the network, partners and friends, by having shared the same pre-production display format are able to show their work and particular perspectives on design. - The Editor* ------------------------------ INDEX ------------------------------ * FOCUS <#12e7c41fd52ddb14_focus>* | DESIS Forum @ Cumulus conference, May 21, 2011 * EVENTS <#12e7c41fd52ddb14_comingevents>* | Experimentcity network meeting - - PERL conference - - DESIS Turkey Kick-off meeting * NEWS <#12e7c41fd52ddb14_news>* | UNEP workshop in New York - - Destination 2022 Design for Sustainability conference in Japan - - DESIS ME conference@HIT, Israel * RESEARCHES <#12e7c41fd52ddb14_research>*| DESIS Brasil - DESIS Africa, a collaborative platform for mutual learning in social innovation * CASES <#12e7c41fd52ddb14_inspirations>* | Café Tome, dedicated to all those in love with rice and music * RESOURCES <#12e7c41fd52ddb14_voice>* | Secret Garden Party, by John Thackara ------------------------------ FOCUS ------------------------------ DESIS International DESIS forum @ Cumulus Paris conference, May 21th, 2011 [image: DESIS Forum invitation] Show your project. Exchange your experience with that of others. To participate and submit your project, please download *submission kit*<http://www.desis-network.org/sites/default/files/DESIS+Forum+Submission+Kit…>. (submission deadline: 25th April) More information on how to participate can be found at http://www.desis-network.org * Design schools as social resources and the Open Design Program* *By Ezio Manzini* To train someone to be a designer means to increase his/her skills in conceiving and developing design proposals for a better possible world. And therefore classes, workshops and seminars are organised, and proposals are conceived and developed, to make experiences on it. The majority of these proposals, being seen as didactic exercises ends-up in the teacher’s drawers and computer files. This huge amount of lost design works represents a waste of students’ and teachers’ creativity, enthusiasm and expertise. In the past, this waste was, or has been seen as, inevitable. Today, it should not be like that: design schools, with their potential in terms of students’ enthusiasm and teachers’ experience, are a social resource: a potentially powerful and useful actor in the transition towards sustainability. To valorise these resources a large design and research program should be conceived and developed: an open design program based on a peer-to-peer approach, including design schools from all over the world. This Open Design Program will be started in Paris, the 21st of May, at the DESIS Forum that has been organized back-to-back with the Cumulus Conference (http://www.cumulusparis2011.org) The DESIS Forum is in fact a format conceived to give design teachers and students the opportunity to showcase their projects, to present them and to exchange their experiences in the field of design for social innovation and sustainability. And therefore, hopefully, it will be the first step in the realization of the valorization program that seems to us so urgent and necessary. ------------------------------ EVENTS ------------------------------ Europe Experimentcity network second meeting, Milan, March, 24-26, 2011 [image: Collaborative housing] The Experimentcity network consists on partners from eight European countries that meet to discuss and compare *collaborative housing *solutions and strategies. ‘Collaborative housing’, refers to original ways to approach the shelter issue, for a planet in which both population grows and spaces are shrinking. To read further, please visit: http://www.desis-network.org/?q=node/388 For a detailed program, please visit: http://experimentcity.net/en/excity-europe For further information please write to: liat.rogel(a)mail.polimi.it Turkey PERL conference, Istanbul, Turkey, March 14 - 15, 2011 [image: PERL conference, Turkey] PERL, The Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living has set sails for its coming conference: Enabling Responsible Living, March 14 – 15, 2011 to be held in Istanbul, Turkey. The venue: Maltepe University. * To be highlighted at the conference, there is the role of video in the sustainability’s discourse, this by means of a “Student Film Competition”. * To know more please visit: http://www.perlprojects.org DESIS Turkey Kick-off meeting, March 16, 2011 [image: DESIS Turkey Kick-off meeting] Photo: Najla Osseiran, Flower Pin Design Workshop at Sulukule for the Spring Sale, Istanbul, Turkey Based in Istanbul, Istanbul Technical University ITU, has prepared an inauguration meeting to share knowledge on social innovation, sustainability and social responsibility projects initiated by designers in Turkey and the establishment of DESIS Türkiye local network as part of the international DESIS network. * Besides the launching of this node, DESIS International looks forward at learning from all the ancient traditions and wisdom of this edging land, the land of Constantinople, Byzantium, Stambul, the land where East and West meet. * For more information please contact: Prof.Dr. Özlem ER (ozlem.er(a)itu.edu.tr) Arş.Gör.Dr. Çiğdem KAYA ( cigdem.kaya(a)itu.edu.tr  <cigdem.kaya(a)itu.edu.tr>) ------------------------------ NEWS ------------------------------ U.S.A. DESIS members to participate in the UNEP workshop "Sustainable Consumption and Production: Transforming Lifestyles" in New York City on March 2nd 2011 *By Lara Penin* [image: UNEP workshop in New York] Photo: Lara Penin What can policy makers coming from instances such as the UN (and their 19th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development CSD-19), share and learn from Networks- such as DESIS- for what regards social innovation, awareness raising, communications, and education for sustainable lifestyles. At the UNEP workshop "Sustainable Consumption and Production: Transforming Lifestyles” we will get to know. To know more please visit: http://www.desis-network.org/?q=node/387 Japan Destination 2022 Design for Sustainability Conference in Japan *By Prof. Fumi Masuda and Mie Suzuki* [image: DESIS Japan] In the framework of the 5th conference for Sustainability DESTINATION 2022 that took place in Yamagata, Japan, the first steps towards a solid consolidation of Desis Japan had place thanks to the efforts and interest of the Academia, NGO's and specially thanks to the energy of young people working on the social innovation field. For more information can be found at: http://www.desis-network.org/?q=node/379 Israel DESIS ME CONFERENCE *'The future Role of Design'* HIT (Holon Institute of Technology), Israel, December 1, 2010 *By Adital Ela* [image: Conference@HIT] On December 1st 2010, the faculty of Design at HIT-Holon Institute of Technology, Israel, hosted the first DESIS ME event - DESIS ME, this is the: Mediterranean branch of DESIS. The event aimed to raise questions such as: * _What is the future role of Design? _Can Design Influence Social Change? _How can design-based approaches reinforce Social Innovation towards sustainability? Study cases were found to be rather original given the particular context of Tel Aviv, a truly cosmopolitan city in the middle of the Middle East.* For more information please visit: http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/hit2010 ------------------------------ RESEARCHES ------------------------------ DESIS Brasil – DESIS Africa “Video - Dialogues Brazil-Africa, a collaborative platform of support for mutual learning in social innovation” *By Carla Cipolla* [image: DESIS Brazil-Africa] In the framework of DESIS International two of its members started this collaborative project entitled: “Dialogues Brazil-Africa, a collaborative platform of support for mutual learning in social innovation”. The idea here, beyond having African partners indicating one social innovation that could match a peer in Brazil and thus enable their dialogue and sharing of tools and visions, is to find in Brazil for each African initiative at least one analogous Brazilian case. To read further, please visit: http://www.desis-network.org/?q=node/383 ------------------------------ CASES ------------------------------ Café Tome Dedicated to all those in love with rice and music Nowadays hundreds of restaurants and cafés dealing with better ways of eating are cropping up all over the word, so many that what once was really different is today becoming part of the normal city landscape and thus not bringing much new to the urban scene, specially in terms of value and quality. However, we have found that there are also “new” approaches cropping up, ideas with a strong “something else” behind made them not only unique but full of value, restaurants and cafés that go beyond the mere and at times just trendy organic, green and or vegetarian slant, like this one: [image: cafe tome] Café Tome, founded by a Doctor dealing with Japanese alternative medicine, this restaurant and café not only serves a “well thought” rice (in slow food words) but also invites people to sew and harvest it. A new business model and valuable place where the motto: “no music, no life – no rice, no life” in a land where the bread is getting trendy, talks about the relevance of keep traditions - an music - alive. http://blog.tome-rice.com http://www.tome-rice.com ------------------------------ RESOURCES ------------------------------ Secret Garden Party, on Power and Love “Power in this sense is the drive to achieve one’s purpose, to get one’s job done, to grow. Love is the drive towards the unity of the separated... the drive to reconnect and make whole that which has become or appears fragmented”. [image: Secret Garden Party] An article by John Tackara talking about power and love. In his words, remarkable in terms of design is: “Their positive energy beautifully complements the serious but sometimes dry work of design researchers and social innovators: we need each other.” To read further, please visit http://www.desis-network.org/?q=node/381 ------------------------------ Newsletter Editor: Andrea Mendoza (andrea.mendoza(a)polimi.it) Designer: Eunji Cho You are receiving this mail because you took part in other initiatives related to DESIS. If you don't want to receive this newsletter, please send an email to newsletter(a)desis-network.org Back issues are available at http://www.desis-network.org/?q=newsletters -- 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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request for low-budget pirate FM radio solutions for Yemen
by Michel Bauwens 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

from liberationtech, if anyone can help, Michel Dear friends, I'm not sure if you are following the news from my home country Yemen. Demonstrations there have been increasing in number and area and have reached a stage where demonstrators occupied areas of over one square kilometer in strategic areas in main cities. I have been approached by demonstrators who wish to broadcast what is being said at the main stages. This includes announcements, speeches, songs, etc. A suggestion was to use a low-budget pirate FM radio solution. I have heard before that this type of technology is widely accessible but ranges are quite limited. Some experiments took place in Belarus as far as I know. But if there are ways to place amplifiers in strategic locations in main cities, I think it could have a tremendous effect, especially for a population that relies on radio and TV in receiving information. Any clues or ideas of where to get information to help in this area? There is a budget of $5000 for such a solution. Is that enough? This is one of the websites I found about recently: http://hubpages.com/hub/pirate-fm-broadcast-transmitter and it mentioned the ability to broadcast to a range of 2km. That would be a good start. Thanks in advance, and do keep a close eye on Yemen as there may be some surprises in the near future! Sincerely, Walid ----------------- Walid Al-Saqaf Founder & Administrator alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship https://alkasir.com -- 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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Chris Cook - "The Future of Property is No Property
by Michel Bauwens 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:18 AM Subject: 2006 archive : Chris Cook - The Future of Money is No Money To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com, sustainable_solidarity(a)yahoogroups.com, hc_ecology(a)yahoogroups.com excerpt from Chris Cook, "One could add *"The Future of Property is No Property"* since Property, too, *is in fact a Relationship, not an Object*." from a 2006 message : http://finance.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/gang8/message/10932 more on "Open Corporate" : google search link<http://www.google.be/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF…> http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook *"it may serve as a framework for the various stakeholders to come together to achieve the common purpose"* ----------------------------- http://finance.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/gang8/message/10932 Chris Cook excerpt : My thesis is that we now see emerging a new alternative for "investing" in productive assets in the shape of what I call the "Open Corporate". This new "legal wrapper" - which essentially renders the Company obsolete -literally gives rise to a new form of indefinite "Property right" - neither "freehold" nor "leasehold" but "Co-ownership" between user and financier of property. *This in turn is based upon neither Statute (enforced by government) nor Common Law (enforced by judges) but something in between - a form of consensual law best understood by the French distinction between "Contrats de Mandat" ("one way" contracts essentially imposed by one party on the other) and "Contrats de Societe" (contracts, such as partnerships, negotiated and agreed consensually).* I believe that such investment in land through "Community Land Partnerships" (ie Community Land Trusts" which are members of a CLP alongside investors and occupiers, instead of leasing land to tenants) gives rise to a flow of land rental value which may be exchanged on local "clearing systems". Why would anyone want to do this? The answers are: (a) the requirement for "Equity Release" - vast amounts of Capital are tied up in land and property values - in the UK over £1 trillion is held free of mortgage by individuals over 65; (b) the requirement for stable long-term revenue flows for pension investment. Non-toxic "Equity Release" investment using CLP's by pension funds in the properties of pensioners constitutes, I believe, the mechanism through which the process of "Assetizing" money will begin. Finally, I like "The Future of Money is No Money" but consider that in fact what we will see is a Money which is no longer a Central Bank issued Object, but rather a Relationship. One could add "The Future of Property is No Property" since Property, too, is in fact a Relationship, not an Object. Best Regards Chris Cook -- 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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frequency video sharing
by Michel Bauwens 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

I actually think this will be a very useful service: http://www.frequency.com/video/blair-harrison-founder-of-frequency/3024796 -- 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: videos : behavioral psychology, awareness and intentional choices
by Michel Bauwens 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:47 PM Subject: videos : behavioral psychology, awareness and intentional choices To: sustainable_solidarity(a)yahoogroups.com, hc_ecology(a)yahoogroups.com, econowmix(a)googlegroups.com A few videos. To start with, videos about "waking up" - "saying no!" ... and then progressively channeling energy into awareness for choices of shared non violent intentions for constructive action. --------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnV-QK6GYik *" In the film 'Waking Life' Alex Jones was allowed to candidly speak his mind about the state of our hypnotized culture, injecting his political revelations into the mainstream consciousness. The infowars team has created this video to illustrate the complex atmosphere of our current political climate."* excerpt of script : http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/w/waking-life-script-transcript-… We should not submit to dehumanization. I don't know about you, but I'm concerned with what's happening in this world. I'm concerned with the structure. I'm concerned with the systems of control, those that control my life and those that seek to control it even more! I want freedom! That's what I want! And that's what you should want! It's up to each and every one of us to turn loose and just shovel the greed, the hatred, the envy and, yes, the insecurities... because that is the central mode of control-- make us feel pathetic, small... so we'll willingly give up our sovereignty, our liberty, our destiny. We have got to realize that we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state! The st Century is gonna be a new century, not the century of slavery, not the century of lies and issues of no significance... and classism and statism and all the rest of the modes of control! It's gonna be the age of humankind... standing up for something pure and something right! ------------------ A clip from Network made in 1976. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAuUWptFWm8 He (Howard Beale) tries to awaken the people in the country : *<< I don't know what to do|about depression, inflation, the Russians, the crime in the streets. All I know is that first you've got to get mad! You've got to say, "I'm a human being, goddamn it!" "My life has value!" >>* * * * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(film) Network is a 1976 American satirical film<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire> released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer> about a fictional television network<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_network> , Union Broadcasting System<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Broadcasting_System> (UBS), and its struggle with poor ratings<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings> . ---------- * almost identical zeitgeist excerpt : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p4iY3aIxzI one of the zeitgeist movies : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4jhkg_zeitgeist_news does Zeitgeist only underline issues, or does it want to replace one system of centralized control by another ? what are the suggested alternatives ? critique : http://p2pfoundation.net/Zeitgeist#Dante_Monson ------------------------ *Personal Note* : Once we become aware, we can start making choices together. Once we start making choices, we do not need to "feel angry", but can stay aware constantly of all contexts, accept the state of awareness of each of us and orient them towards mutual emancipation, create meaning through our own understanding of what constructive non violent alternatives we can bring into existence together. a 10 minutes series of excerpts of a french movie on behavioural biology called "Mon Oncle d'Amerique"<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_oncle_d%27Am%C3%A9rique> with a narrative by Henri Laborit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Laborit ) on evolutionary psychology and ways our brains act as to enable action ( or else, act to self destruct ) in french : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0msBPXObAA or with english undertitles ( less good image quality ) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7AfY-ux7Ds and a didactic introduction to "Spiral Dynamics" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSvKByYOPdo -- 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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Labor, wisconsin, libertarianism
by Michel Bauwens 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

hi Kevin, I note your contribution here as well as the whole labor debate after Wisconsin, http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2011/02/23/labor-roundtable-kevin-carson/ I wonder if you could not report on this, in a perhaps not too US-centric way ? Michel -- 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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Re: [P2P-F] commons - libraries and sharing books AND com+plementary old currency in spain
by Michel Bauwens 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

thanks Mark! On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Mark Petz <ravenwyn(a)gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12647600 > > AND > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12657225 > -- 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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protocollary warfare article
by Michel Bauwens 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2187&editorial_id=2… Hi Nicholas, I wonder if you could present your article on the p2p blog in some form? Michel -- 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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book review on the knowledge economy
by Michel Bauwens 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

http://spinuzzi.blogspot.com/2011/03/reading-knowledge-capitalism.html Hi Orsan, comments very welcome, eventually for publication! -- 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: Ted Video - "Experts" - Switching our own decision making capabilities on
by Michel Bauwens 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:33 PM Subject: Ted Video - "Experts" - Switching our own decision making capabilities on To: sustainable_solidarity(a)yahoogroups.com, hc_ecology(a)yahoogroups.com interesting TED video to listen to, in my experience. http://www.ted.com/talks/noreena_hertz_how_to_use_experts_and_when_not_to.h… * * "Actively managing dissent" "Bringing in different opinions" "Fundamentally redefine - the notion of - who experts are" -- 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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