---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Davie Philip <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 6:26 PM Subject: Convergence - Reimagining Cooperatives and the Commons To: [email protected] Folks, I am sending you this information as you have expressed interest, have attended one of our Cultivate events in the past or that I think this information will be of interest to you. Sorry if it isn’t and for cross posting, I know some of you are already booked in. *Cultivate*, *WeCreate* Workspace and the *P2P Foundation* are delighted to host *Open Everything*, a series of events that will bring together cooperative advocates, community activists, and commons animators to share perspectives and ideas on the question,*“How can a commons-based collaborative economy strengthen the resilience of our communities?”* See *www.openeverything.ie <http://www.openeverything.ie>* for full details. Please share this information and the PDF below with anyone who has an interest in the area of cooperative enterprise, the commons and community resilience. Thank you. Davie Wednesday 10th September 14.00 - 16.00 €5 Suggested Donation *COMMONS TRANSITION STRATEGIES *Building on the FLOK Experience Centre For Creative Practices, Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin 2 ! Thursday 11th September 14.00 - 17.00 €5 Suggested Donation *OPEN DESIGN & PRODUCTION* Fab Lab Limerick, Rutland Street, Limerick Friday 12th September 09.30 - 17.00 €30 + €8 Lunch Option *THE COOPERATIVE MODEL REVISITED* WeCreate, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Cloughjordan, Tipperary FRIDAY 12th September 19.30 - 22.00 €5 Suggested Donation *COMMUNITY AND THE COMMONS* WeCreate, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Cloughjordan, Tipperary SATURDAY 13th September 09.30 - 17.00 €30 + €8 Lunch Option *THE COMMONS SYMPOSIUM* WeCreate, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Cloughjordan, Tipperary SATURDAY 13th September 20.00 - 22.00 €Free to participants *OPEN CULTURE - OUR CREATIVE COMMONS* WeCreate, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Cloughjordan, Tipperary SUNDAY 14th September 11.00 - 13.00 €5 Suggested Donation *SOCIAL PERMACULTURE - DESIGNING VIABLE ORGANISATIONS* WeCreate, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Cloughjordan, Tipperary SUNDAY 14th September 14.00 - 17.00 Open to P2PF members *P2P FOUNDATION GATHERING* WeCreate, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Cloughjordan, Tipperary SUNDAY 14th September 14.00 - 17.00 €free *WECREATE OPEN DAY* WeCreate, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Cloughjordan, Tipperary *Full details at www.openeverything.ie <http://www.openeverything.ie> * *The following conference will bring international experts, national thinkers and local entrepreneurs together to inspire a cooperative approach to nurturing sustainable livelihoods and facilitating new enterprises in our communities. * FRIDAY 12th September 09.30 -17.00, €30 + €8 Lunch Option *THE COOPERATIVE MODEL REVISITED* WeCreate, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Cloughjordan, Tipperary Supported by Local Enterprise Office Tipperary, Tipperary County Council, NTLP and the Plunkett Foundation UK Horace Plunkett pioneered the cooperative movement in Ireland in the late 1880s along with George William Russell (AE), R.A. Anderson and Father T.A. Finlay. They persuaded communities and farmers across the country that by pooling resources and creating strength in numbers they could both survive and thrive. Globally the co-operative movement has more than 1 billion members, employs more people than global corporations and provides services for 3 billion people every week. With the withdrawal of government from the funding of social services, and the rise of austerity policies that have attended the current economic crisis, there is an urgent need for new forms of social care. Over the last twenty years, so- cial and solidarity co-ops have emerged as a new form of care that not only provides care to citizens but also reforms the purpose and direction of social care itself. Pioneered in Italy, social co-ops are a new form of open co-opera- tivism in which multiple stakeholders work together to provide a wide range of social services not only to co-op members but to the community as a whole. Tipperary has a rich tradition of cooperative enterprise and in recent years this has taken off with the community tearoom in Loughmore, the cooperative energy projects in Templederry and Drumbane, as well as the many cooperative initiatives at the Cloughjordan Ecovillage. This event aims to inspire a cooperative approach to nurturing sustainable livelihoods and facilitating new enterprises in our communities. *SPEAKERS INCLUDE * *Peter Couchman *Chief Executive of the Plunkett Foundation who which supports predominantly rural communities to set up and run a range of co-operatives.* John Restakis* the former Executive Director of the BC Co-operative Association in Vancouver, has a professional background in community organising and co-op development and is the author of “Humanizing the Economy – Co-operatives in the Age of Capital’. *Angela Espinosa* a Colombian academic focused on issues of complexity management and self-organisation with applications in cooperative management. *Michel Bauwens* a Belgian Peer-to-Peer theorist and an active writer, researcher and speaker on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation.. *Jon Walker* a UK-based proponent of the Viable Systems Model, an organisation tool used by cooperatives and communities. *Mary Fogarty & Maeve O’Hair* the women who set up Loughmore Co-operative Shop and Tearooms. *And many other cooperative and community activists involved in community farming and energy projects, food distribution and processing and cooperative housing. * ------------------------------------------------ Davie Philip *Community Resilience Programme * *Cultivate Living & Learning* Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary. E-mail: [email protected] Skype: sustdavie Twitter: @comresie Office: 0505 56061 Mobile: +353 (0) 87 6340697 Web: www.cultivate.ie *Open Everything Convergence * www.openeverything.ie 10th - 14th September. A series of events on cooperatives, the commons and the collaborative economy. “How can a commons-based collaborative economy strengthen the resilience of our communities?” -- 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/