[P2P-F] Fwd: [commoning] Stirring Papers for Degrowth Conference

[Michel Bauwens]

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Dear colleagues

We would like to call on your attention to the group-assembly process (GAP)
taking place at the 4th International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological
Sustainability and Social Equity and invite you to be an important part of
this mind-opening process. The GAP process in Leipzig will be a major
democratic experiment: a process where many conference participants -
practitioners, artists, policy-makers, activists and scientists - equally
discuss different issues of degrowth debate in a three-day
in-depth-process. We are aiming at having high quality, outcome-oriented
discussions, able to push forward the degrowth debate in academia and
society.

The GAP process offers therefore a good opportunity to deepen the
discussions of your panel.

Below you can find more information about what is GAP and what a stirring
paper should look like. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to
contact us via gap at degrowth.de. We are happy to hear from your proposals to
engage in the collective construction of the degrowth debate and movement!

The GAP organising committee,

Andrea Vetter
Filka Sekulova
François Schneider
Gualter Baptista
Matthias Schmelzer
Susanne Brehm


What is the Group Assembly Process (GAP)?
The Group Assembly Process (GAP) is an outcome-oriented three-day working
process among participants at the degrowth conference. It aims at
establishing an exchange between scientists, practitioners, artists,
 policy-makers and activists. The goal is on the one hand to develop
concrete proposals for a degrowth society in a common process of collective
and democratic consensus building. On the other hand we want  to map
existing areas of dissent and open questions for debate and research.

What is a stirring paper?
A stirring paper is a short and comprehensible text that will serve as
inspiration for a working group in the GAP-process. Scientists,
practitioners, artists and activists alike are invited to submit stirring
papers.They should be aimed at introducing new proposals or debates for a
certain aspect of degrowth and at stirring discussions that are also
relevant to non-scientists. A stirring paper should summarise the
discussions and key arguments of the issues raised, it can be polemic and
should be easily understandable. It should have 1000 to 1500 words.
Stirring papers can be submitted until February 31, 2014. Authors should be
able and willing to participate in the working group during all three days,
and ideally join preliminary discussions of the online working group.

The  submitted abstracts for stirring papers will be selected and grouped
into working groups by  the conference organizers in collaboration with
Research & Degrowth and then be subjected to an open peer review process.

For further information check http://leipzig.degrowth.org/en/gap

-- 
Nina Treu
Programme Coordinator
Degrowth 2014
W www.degrowth.de
M coordination at degrowth.de
T +49 341 392 816 862

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