<https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#mw-head> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#p-search> *Very important, 'this is it' in terms of (one of the important) forms taken by cosmo-local production; this report counts 120 initiatives in Europe alone,* *summarized at * https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy *Michel* ** Article: The rise of community economy : from coworking spaces to the multifactory model. By Lorenza Victoria Salati, Giulio Focardi. - Sarajevo : Udruženje Akcija, 2018.* URL = https://www.academia.edu/41043179/THE_RISE_OF_COMMUNITY_ECONOMY_From_Coworki... "We want to understand and to show this new idea of workplaces: local, fast, easy, versatile, sustainable under a social and environmental point of view. ... The result of this research is the Multifactory Model, a model of intervention designed to be a guide for all those who want to create, from scratch, a shared workspace based on concepts of collaboration, mutual aid, social innovation, sustainability, and the free flow of knowledge" Contents [hide <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#> ] - 1 The Context <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#The_Context> - 2 Description <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Description> - 3 The Questionnaire <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#The_Questionnaire> - 4 Contents <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Contents> - 5 Excerpts <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Excerpts> - 5.1 The Multifactory Model <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#The_Multifactory_Model> - 5.2 The Invisible Factory <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#The_Invisible_Factory> - 5.3 Community Economy <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Community_Economy> - 6 Case Study <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Case_Study> - 6.1 R84 Multifactory Mantova <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#R84_Multifactory_Mantova> - 7 More information <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#More_information> - 7.1 Bibliography <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Bibliography> - 7.2 Video <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Video> - 7.3 Author Bios <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Author_Bios> The Context[edit <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy&action=edit§ion=1> ] By Lorenza Victoria Salati and Giulio Focardi: "We reject the distracting pessimism of those who see a grey future subjugated to global and sprawling multinationals, but also of those who uncritically superimpose the concept of “enterprise”on the stereotyped image of seventeenth-century steelworks and consider every entrepreneur as a ruthless and predatory subject. The reality is very different and is made up of innovative and environmentally friendly business models, and new sustainable companies led by a new social class that perceives itself as a driving force for social change and takes up the traits of crafts-people, artists, professionals and entrepreneurs, hybridizing and adapting them to the times. These pioneers of a new way of doing business are among us and successfully lead companies and projects based on concepts of community, social inclusion, professional exchange,mutual help, and responsibility towards the community.How did we come to these conclusions? By exploring, touching, and traveling to discover innovative projects. Between 2012 and 2018 we visited over 120 different workspaces, travelling across 20 countries and three continents in search of successful models, inspirations and experiences.We made traveling the core of our research, adopting an ethnographic approach and using many theoretical tools from visual anthropology and participatory anthropology. To some places we went only once, to others we went back regularly. At some we stayed half a day, at others for months at a time. *The result of this research is the Multifactory Model, a model of intervention designed to be a guide for all those who want to create, from scratch, a shared workspace based on concepts of collaboration, mutual aid, social innovation, sustainability, and the free flow of knowledge*. ... Since 2014 we have begun proposing the Multifactory Model to both institutions and to private individuals as a tool for urban regeneration and as a means of generating local job opportunities. Some of the resulting negotiations have come to an end,while others are still ongoing. Between 2014 and 2016 we spent several months working at FreiLand, Potsdam, to continue refining the model. In the meantime we have visited many other spaces across Europe and we have begun to lay the foundations of the Multifactory Network and for the development of the ‘Invisible Factory’, a project designed to scale the Multifactory Model. The Multifactory Network is a project aimed at fostering and enabling direct collaborations between members of workspaces in different countries. The Multifactory Network aims to re-move obstacles in terms of design, sustainability and work-life balance that usually makes it difficult for artists, craftspeople,professionals and small economic players to travel and develo international projects. The idea of the Invisible Factory first came to us at MAGE in 2013. Currently our focus is to consolidate a transnational structure of companies, artists and professionals linked by stable relationships that is able to imagine, design, develop and produce complex products and services, utilising horizontal coordination between small local producers. Our research continues on other bases to the current day, our aim being the implementation of the Multifactory Network and refining the development of the Invisible Factory. Between 2012 and 2018 we visited a total of 120 spaces of all kinds in Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the UK, the Czech Republic,Slovenia, Poland, the Netherlands, Croatia, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, the United States and Ecuador. " Description[edit <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy&action=edit§ion=2> ] This book is an examination of a collaborative production space in Milan, called Mage, and a quest to find similar places abroad: "MAGE in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan), also known in Italy as the “Town of Factories”. MAGE is an industrial building of 1700 square meters, formerly used as warehouses. At MAGE now you can find 17 small companies and/or associations: crafts makers, sewers, dressmakers, two bag factories, a bikefactory, laser cutting, 3D printing, photographers, architects, jewellers, filmmakers, and artists. We produce goods, ideas and culture since 2010. ... What emerged from the interviews was that our interviewees viewed MAGE as more than just a collaborative space. It was areal organisational structure based on exchange, mutuality and sharing. To some extent, it seemed as if these different artists,companies and craftspeople, working horizontally together,were part of a single, large “invisible factory”, in which everyone could represent a company function.Perhaps MAGE was a unique experience, an anomaly, a particular combination of factors that had led to that result. Or perhaps, if that structure had taken place, there were reasons linked to a more general change and it was the expression of asocial change, related to people who began to have other values and other priorities than in the past.In any case, if it had been possible to identify the basic mechanisms underlying the relationships between the different components of the system, to understand which ones were functional with respect to an increase in the overall level of competences, it might have been possible to identify solutions to make these mechanisms reproducible, so as to define a model that could be exported. ... FROM ROME WE TRAVELLED TO POLLINO, FROM POLLINO TO NAPLES,FROM NAPLES TO SALERNO, FROM SALERNO WE JOURNEYED TO EBOLI, AND FINALLY, AFTER MANY HARD MILES, WE REACHED OUR DESTINATION, LAURIA. Here, we would get to know the farmers who were participating in the Micro Supply Chain project. ... To continue with the work, we decided to follow a double path. On one side, we decided to propose the same interviews to a group of farmers from the South of Italy, in Basilicata, who were all part of a project meant to create a local supply chain, to see what the answers would be in a totally different place from Milan. From different people, in a different context, we expected that we would receive different answers.On the other hand, we decided to look for a space outside Italy. That period was economically very difficult in Italy, so we speculated it might only be the lack of money that was pushing people to get together and then, once they had started to earn enough money again, all these experiences would be doomed to disappear. ... After Pollino, we anticipate results in London. We needed to understand if, in a land of social experimentation, we would find something similar to what we had observed to date in Italy. Our departure was scheduled for February 27th 2013. We had the ticket, but not destination. Yet! Our journey into the world of shared workspaces has only just begun: we needed to focus ourresearch and we decided to concentrate on spaces that had the three characteristics that we considered important:First of all, they should be places where something concrete is being produced: objects, prototypes, small scale production. They could also be somewhere to accommodate ‘workers of the intangible’, those who might only need a desk and a computer,but a productive element would be mandatory. Then, they should be places characterised by broad heterogeneity; young and old, artists and craftspeople, start-ups and established companies, traditional craftspeople and 3D printers,architects and cyclists, local companies and companies with aglobal outlook.Finally, they should be community projects. We are not prescriptive about which governance structure would be acceptable. Be it privately owned, perhaps with an established management structure or typically anarchic, our only concern is that the bodies or individuals using the space should be an active part of the space’s governance. The ethos of ‘from below’or ‘grassroots’is non negotiable. On 9 February we contacted Building BloQs, a new-born space in the North-East suburbs of London" -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/