[P2P-F] urban commoning designed to scale

[Michel Bauwens]

see: https://issuu.com/participatorycity/docs/designed_to_scale_v.1

as george monbiot comments:
http://www.monbiot.com/2017/02/09/all-together-now/

A study commissioned by the London borough of Lambeth sought to identify
<https://issuu.com/participatorycity/docs/designed_to_scale_v.1> how these
thick networks are most likely to develop. The process typically begins
with projects that are “lean and live”: they start with very little money,
and evolve rapidly through trial and error. They are developed not by
community heroes working alone, but by collaborations between local people.
These projects create opportunities for “micro-participation”: people can
dip in and out of them without much commitment.

When enough of such projects have been launched, they catalyse a deeper
involvement, generating community businesses, co-operatives and hybrid
ventures, which start employing people and generating income. A tipping
point is reached when 10 to 15% of local residents are engaging regularly.
Community then begins to gel, triggering an explosion of social enterprise
and new activities, that starts to draw in the rest of the population. The
mutual aid these communities develop functions as a second social safety
net.

The process, the study reckons, takes about three years. The result is
communities that are vibrant and attractive to live in, that generate
employment, that are environmentally sustainable and socially cohesive, in
which large numbers of people are involved in decision-making. Which sounds
to me like where we need to be.


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