Entre les 19-26 août s’est déroulé l’atelier sur les écoprototypes organisé par
TERRRA dans le cadre du projet ABC. L’atelier visait le développement du hub
TERRRA. L’atelier a permis l’installation de toilettes sèches écologiques et
d’un système de phytoépuration des eaux grises. Les principes de réutilisation
des matériaux et des espaces ont été privilégiés dans l’approche …
https://www.urbantactics.org/2022/10/05/deroulement-dun-atelier-terrra-sur-les-eco-prototypes-a-brezoi/
Tag - workshop
On June 21, 2022, we had the pleasure of hosting well-known Australian economist
and geographer Katherine Gibson at our seminar on citizen economies in Bagneux.
This was an opportunity to learn more about « diverse economies » and to
practice in workshop form an alternative accounting of different forms of work
for the benefit of the commons.
Saturday 16 October 2021, 14:00–17:00 (with party afterwards)
Travelling Farm Museum depot (Winkelcentrum Leidsche Rijn Centrum, Hof van Bern
33, 3541 DD Utrecht)
RSVP info below, free of charge
Wheelchair accessible. No toilet present
Agriculture is one of the most fundamental as well as contested fields of
practice today. While the expanded industrialization has made it a principal
cause of the climate crisis, there are many “forgotten” knowledges, skills, and
stories in agriculture that have sustained the balance in the human-nature
relationship. Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills began its tour in 2020
by visiting local agricultural initiatives in and around Utrecht’s Leidsche
Rijn, a once vast, green, farm land. Despite the pandemic conditions, every week
over late spring and summer, we took grounded tours, meeting and learning with
an amazing list of incredibly knowledgeable and generous farmers.
Now with the season of autumn returning, we organize a day of gathering to share
the harvest of the Travelling Farm Museum and its special guests, to look back
together at the labor and movement of the last seasons, and to get to know each
other more with food, music, and perhaps dance! By doing so, we would also like
to feel and envision together the near future of varying agricultural sites and
the Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills.
Reservations are highly recommended for a safe and joyful gathering: please
reserve via tfmdepot@gmail.com. We advise that you stay home if you have any
Covid-19 symptoms. Please be kindly aware that you may need to show a valid QR
code to enter. Children are welcome to join and play, also testing the
“un-learning kit” for children at school and at home.
Program
14:00 farmers’ market & exhibition (the door opens 15 min before) 15:00
collaborative food citizens game* 17:00 finger food & music (closing at 20:00)
Please bring your own “harvest” from food to artworks and knowledge of the year
to share! We also recommend you come by bike. If sunny, we may go and cycle
together.
* During the Oogstfeest farmers, neighbors, and food experts, including you,
are invited to join the first session of the Food Game developed by Play the
City. The game outlines a common and sustainable vision of how regional and
healthy food could be organized in Utrecht West in the coming years. Your
knowledge and experience during this game session is of great importance
toward accelerating the transition to a more sustainable food system.
–
Documentation of the event by Chun Yao Lin:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8j811byznxk8f77/AACRgN02_mFKcdvSAhuH5lwla?dl=0
Saturday 16 October 2021, 14:00–17:00 (with party afterwards)
Travelling Farm Museum depot (Winkelcentrum Leidsche Rijn Centrum, Hof van Bern
33, 3541 DD Utrecht)
RSVP info below, free of charge
Wheelchair accessible. No toilet present
Agriculture is one of the most fundamental as well as contested fields of
practice today. While the expanded industrialization has made it a principal
cause of the climate crisis, there are many “forgotten” knowledges, skills, and
stories in agriculture that have sustained the balance in the human-nature
relationship. Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills began its tour in 2020
by visiting local agricultural initiatives in and around Utrecht’s Leidsche
Rijn, a once vast, green, farm land. Despite the pandemic conditions, every week
over late spring and summer, we took grounded tours, meeting and learning with
an amazing list of incredibly knowledgeable and generous farmers.
Now with the season of autumn returning, we organize a day of gathering to share
the harvest of the Travelling Farm Museum and its special guests, to look back
together at the labor and movement of the last seasons, and to get to know each
other more with food, music, and perhaps dance! By doing so, we would also like
to feel and envision together the near future of varying agricultural sites and
the Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills.
Reservations are highly recommended for a safe and joyful gathering: please
reserve via tfmdepot@gmail.com. We advise that you stay home if you have any
Covid-19 symptoms. Please be kindly aware that you may need to show a valid QR
code to enter. Children are welcome to join and play, also testing the
“un-learning kit” for children at school and at home.
Program
14:00 farmers’ market & exhibition (the door opens 15 min before) 15:00
collaborative food citizens game* 17:00 finger food & music (closing at 20:00)
Please bring your own “harvest” from food to artworks and knowledge of the year
to share! We also recommend you come by bike. If sunny, we may go and cycle
together.
* During the Oogstfeest farmers, neighbors, and food experts, including you,
are invited to join the first session of the Food Game developed by Play the
City. The game outlines a common and sustainable vision of how regional and
healthy food could be organized in Utrecht West in the coming years. Your
knowledge and experience during this game session is of great importance
toward accelerating the transition to a more sustainable food system.
–
Documentation of the event by Chun Yao Lin:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8j811byznxk8f77/AACRgN02_mFKcdvSAhuH5lwla?dl=0
Collective Pot? Art of practicing the commons-based economy of resilience
Online course
Saturday 18 September 2021, 14:00-17:00 (CET)
To get involved, please register here!
Over the last decades, economic inequality and insecurity have only increased.
There’s the financial capitalist economy as the key operator for this
phenomenon. It abstracts value away from material worlds, use and
sustainability, while simultaneously watering down the collective spirit. The
field of art is not free from this systemic condition. One might say it has been
functioning rather as an exemplary model of the capitalist economy through its
emphasis on individual autonomy and its unregulated, fluctuating market values,
disregarding materiality and labor in the process. However, there are also those
who wish to change these cogs of the art world, taking back the economy with art
at heart. These economic transformations are based on values relating to the
commons, such as diversity, equity, pluralism, and sustainability, thus creating
the conditions for a culture of resilience – one that resists, repairs and
regenerates.
Collective Pot? Art of practicing the commons-based economy of resilience is an
online pilot course organized by Casco Art Institute within the framework of
C4R. This course features artists, artistic collectives and other practitioners
who will offer guidance to use and adapt relevant tools for a resilient economy.
Currently we have assembled four tools for close workshops. We recommend this
course to those who seek to liberate themselves from individual survivalism and
sole dependency on money and its accumulation. Not only does this course focus
on the use of the tools – it is also a forum to discuss and co-develop them
together. Via Collective Pot?, we aim to support the participants, equip them
with necessary skills as well as embody the culture of the commons in “concrete
engagement” (Friction. A. Tsing, p. 267) with their lived cases.
Please find more information on the course with the introduction to the tools
and workshops, and how to get involved below.
The working language of the course will be English and features captioning
throughout.
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List of four tools and workshops
The course consists of four workshops each of which focuses on a specific tool
for the commons based economy of resilience with art at heart. The following are
the teasers for each tool.
More information on the tools, being updated over time, are available on the
OpenTools section on the C4R digital platform. The platform is built on the
resilient technological methods and takes on such mode of operation as set up
and managed by one of the C4R partners, NetHood (Zurich).
Rojava Film Commune by Rojava Film Commune, channeled by Sevinaz Evdike
Rojava is more than a region located in the Northern and Eastern Syria. It is an
autonomous government established in 2014 while surviving what’s often referred
as the Syrian war ridden with geopolitical complication. It’s based on the
radical democratic principle whereby key values such as cooperativism,
diversity, women, ecology rule. The film commune is one of many communes that
form the basis of Rojava governance.
“Rojava aspires to a nonhierarchical and directly democratic system; its
political structure is rooted in small, local assemblies in which decisions are
discussed and agreed on collectively. Although private property has not been
abolished, segments of agriculture and industry are cooperatively held. In this
same spirit, the Rojava Film Commune was founded in 2015 as a collective
dedicated to the production, distribution, and reception of films depicting and
documenting the stateless society of Rojava, Kurdish and Arab culture, and the
region’s continuing military and ideological struggles.” (from:
https://www.artforum.com/print/202007/alan-gilbert-on-the-rojava-film-commune-83689
Especially Sevinaz Evdike, one of the Commune’s members will focus on what
enables them to operate with minimal reliance on money, the importance of
cultural, ideological and spiritual practices enabling their cooperative,
autonomous models of governance.
Art for Universal Basic Income by Institute of Radical Imagination, channeled by
Mao Mollona, Marco Baravalle and Emanuele Braga**
“While the art market confirms his status as a safe-haven assets provider for
the financial elite, the current pandemic has highlighted the fragility and
precarity of art workers around the world, a condition common to a growing
portion of humanity. In this situation a UBI (Universal Basic Income) would then
represent a solution and indeed an urgent measure to implement. But UBI is not
“only” a response to poverty, it is a necessary condition in order to rethink
our extractivist ecological model, to correct many race and gender asymmetries
and, last but not least, to change the art world’s present neoliberal structure.
UBI must be seen as a tool to open up new subjective spaces, alternative to the
dominating entrepreneurial individualism and focused instead on commons and
care” (from
https://instituteofradicalimagination.org/the-school-of-mutation-2020/som-iterations/art-for-ubi/)
Method of valuing the commons by atelier d’architecture autogérée
R-Urban is a project run by atelier d'architecture autogérée based on networks
of urban commons and collective hubs supporting civic resilience practices at
the outskirts of Paris. Around 2015-6, one of the hubs was evicted from its site
by the municipal administration that could not see the value of an “urban farm”
compared to a parking lot. Prompted by this event, aaa took an initiative to
account the value of resilient, ecological, citizen led initiatives.
“Our value accounting gives visibility to what usually is invisible and
uncounted—that is, voluntary unpaid labour, environmental care services,
everyday ecological practices, and well-being improvements.This hidden value is
normally appropriated by the state or the market for free (Bollier, 2016a, p.
30)” from the article “Calculating the value of the commons: Generating
resilient urban futures”
AAA, our partner for C4R experimented and will share with you an accounting
method for the commons based activities which often defy known forms of
transaction such as wage. This method is realized in collaboration with Katherin
Gibson who’s a leading scholar in theorising and promoting “community
economies”.
Open Collective.com by Open Collective, channeled by Caroline Woolard & Pia
Mancini
Caroline Woolard, artist and one of our close interlocutors these days, recently
joined the Open Collective Foundation as Director of Research & Partnership, and
will guide you to the Open Collective tool together with one of the founders,
Pia Mancini.
“Open Collective Foundation is creating a legal, financial, and technical
commons for the solidarity economy. OCF has a unique role to play as steward of
a legal, financial, and technical commons—a piece of shared infrastructure—that
is resonating deeply with the solidarity economy movement. We can build bridges
between 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsorship, the open source community (where we have
deep roots), mutual aid groups (100+ are hosted by OCF today), and the movement
at large.
A new clarity has emerged for Open Collective Foundation: Solidarity will be our
guiding principle.”
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How to get involved?
We recommend you to get acquainted with each of the four tools before choosing
one – for which you can attend a close workshop by the artists and art
collectives offering the tool. Please also note the information and supportive
documents for the tool continues to be updated on the C4R website.
What enables a community to operate with minimal reliance on money? The Rojava
Film Commune works for the production, distribution, and reception of films
depicting and documenting the stateless society of Rojava, Kurdish and Arab
culture, and the region’s continuing military and ideological struggles.
How can artists organize against the increasing inequality amplified by the
pandemic conditions globally? Art for Universal Basic Income – a campaign
initiated by artists – is converging energies with movements across the world
challenging the market’s current modes of exploitation.
What shape can the infrastructure for the solidarity economy take? The Open
Collective is working to build legal, financial, and technical tools which are
open source and transparent – enabling connections between financial
institutions, cooperatives, mutual aid groups and non-profit organizations.
How is an evaluation method of a commons site created to counter the
conventional value applied to it by governing bodies and decision makers? AAA
builds on the ongoing tradition of the Community Economies framework and its
iceberg iconography. By doing so, they offer a tool that can be adapted,
re-applied and become an ally to groups, communities and commoners to visibilize
what remains conveniently hidden or unaccounted for ‘in the eyes’ of the market
and the government when decisions on such commons sites take place.
Each workshop will take place simultaneously on the same date. There will be
plenary sessions before and after the workshop to get further impressions on the
other tools and relate to fellow participants. Find the detailed program below.
Saturday, 18 September, 14:00 – 17:00 (CET)
Online course
Welcome and Introduction to the project and the online course
14:00 - 14:30
Four close workshops of the four tools
14:30 - 16:00
Plenary session and Q&A
16:00 - 17:00
Registration to the course is possible by filling this form. The registration
and participation fee is suggested in sliding scales. Our intention is to
accommodate 15 participants for each workshop, in order to allow the necessary
interactions. The registration will be closed as we reach this capacity. Please
contact Marianna Takou (marianna@casco.art) for any further inquiry.