[P2P-F] Very important trend for cosmo-local production

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*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_Coworking_Spaces_to_the_Multifactory_Model

"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
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   - 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
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   - 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
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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. "

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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"

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