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To develop channels/devices to help<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">involve users of the products or services of the Fagor Cooperative Group at an international level in order to convert them into active agents</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and be a part of the Cooperative.
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<br>The aim is to investigate how to bring out the essence of cooperative values (generating a return in local environments through the creation of employment) from an industrial area (local) to a commercial area (global). In other words,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">how to transfer cooperative values to a network of international sales points</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>within a globalised world, implementing the participation of communities in the creation and development of cooperatives. It is about extending the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">philosophy of people as strategic focus</span>, now present in the field of production, towards the area of consumption.<br>
<br>It is not about viewing users as utilitarian objects, due to the fact that they are consumers, but creating a natural space of interaction in which in turn the company listens intently, learns and acts honestly. The aim is also that the interactions between individual/Cooperative workers (within the local area) and individual users of the Cooperative’s products/services (at a global level) are no longer one-way (local -> global) and become bidirectional (<span style="font-weight: bold;">local <-> global</span>).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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To limit the field of research, the prototype(s) will be developed within the area of people in the home (both household appliances and services and solutions to new emerging needs in terms of people in the home), starting from the distribution network in Spain, France and/or Poland.<br>
<br><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Location</span>: Arrasate – Mondragón (Gipuzkoa).<br><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Language</span>: candidates with knowledge of Spanish and/or English will be accepted.<br>
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ownership of results</span>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.conexionesimprobables.com/docs/Improbables_%20Options%20exploitation%20of%20the%20results_january2011.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(198, 194, 254); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Option D</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(the exploitation rights fall to Fagor, without added remuneration for the artist/social scientist in the event that the result is marketed; however, the medium- to long-term plan is that the device generated is disseminated under a Creative Commons license, but currently the option is to maintain it as the property of the Cooperative without any added compensation for the artist/thinker until the final design is consistent with the origin</div>
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