Nous sommes ravis de découvrir que GAK Bremen a encore exposé notre travail 'Eselsohr' que nous avons fait là-bas en 2005. Nous avons réalisé un magazine participatif avec des personnes qui cherchaient un emploi dans la ville sur lequel le magazine avait pour but de proposer un compte critique. Nous avons utilisé nos frais d'artiste pour payer les gens pour créer leurs propres emplois en tant que rédacteurs de magazines.

In the first three days of the Arts Collaboratory Assembly, 24 arts organizations from Africa, Asia, Latin America, The Middle East and Europe, reunited after a hiatus during the last few years. Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons and Stichting DOEN had the honor to host the Assembly together in the Netherlands. Generously hosted […]

Nous sommes ravis de découvrir que le Nouveau Bauhaus Européen et la Commission européenne ont choisi de présenter R-Urban comme une stratégie exemplaire dont s’inspirer pour la reconstruction durable et inclusive des villes ukrainiennes: « Lauréat des Prix New European Bauhaus en 2022, R-Urban vise à favoriser la collaboration des citoyens, leur sens de solidarité, …

Dans le cadre du projet Cultures for Resilience soutenu par Creative Europe et à la suite de plus de 2 ans d’étude sur les cultures porteuses de résilience, nous venons de publier le livre « LiveAct / 10 questions pour le futur ici et maintenant ». Sont présentés des projets qui expérimentent des nouvelles manières de produire, …

Ecosystemic shift at Casco Art Institute: Working for the CommonsEverything falls into place28 August 2023 Prompted by a transition in directorship, and a desire to care for the institutions that nurture life, since the beginning of this year, collaborators from Casco Art Institute, in connection with Arts Collaboratory network and beyond, have taken responsibility for […]

The new book by Hans Widmer (aka P.M., author of bolo'bolo) is now published. "Auf den Boden kommen" (flyer in german), meaning "down to earth", a title inspired by Bruno Latour's work. The book builds on previous collective work curated and edited by Hans Widmer (Die Andere Stadt and Nach Hause Kommen) focusing this time at the neighbourhood scale (20000 inhabitants), the 2nd out of 5 "glomos". One of the book's proposals for living within ecological boundaries without sacrifice is the "terrestrial" Internet, an adaptation of the concept of the organic Internet by Panayotis Antoniadis (through C4R partner NetHood). The initial text has been written in English and is published also as a separate booklet, available to download here. The terrestrial Internet will be then the topic of the next event of the 7at7 series, on Monday February 7 at 7pm CET, with the CIRCE group as a special guest. You can join at https://7at7.digital.

Building on the analogy between information and food, between agriculture and digital platforms, the question arises: what means for the Internet to be more organic? That is, more healthy, more grounded, and more sovereign? Clearly, global digital platforms like Facebook, and Google represent the extreme of highly industrialized solutions that manage information at scale optimized... The post Imagining a more organic Internet [https://www.isoc.ch/imagining-a-more-organic-internet/] appeared first on ISOC Switzerland Chapter [https://www.isoc.ch].

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 chargeWheelchair 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 […]

HERE IS A METHOD FOR VALUING THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ASPECTS OF URBAN COMMONS. This method draws from and contributes to a broader conception of social or community returns on investment, using the case and data of a vibrant project, strategy, and model of ecological resilience, R-Urban, on the outskirts of Paris. R-Urban is based on networks of urban commons and collective hubs supporting civic resilience practices. We use data from 2015, the year before one of the hubs was evicted from its site by a municipal administration that could not see the value of an “urban farm” compared to a parking lot. We combine estimates of the direct revenues generated for a host of activities that took place in R-Urban, including an urban farm, community recycling centre, a greenhouse, community kitchen, compost school, café, a teaching space, and a mini-market. We then estimate the market value of volunteer labour put into running the sites, in addition to the value of training and education conducted through formal and informal channels, and the new jobs and earnings that were generated due to R-Urban activity. Finally, we estimate the monetary value of the savings made by an environmentally conscious design that focused on water recycling, soil and biodiversity improvement, and social and health benefits, breaking them down by savings to the organization, participants and households involved in R-Urban itself, as well as savings to the state and the planet. Although our article is built on specific quantities from a concrete project, the method has wide applicability to urban commons of many types seeking to demonstrate the worth and value of all their many facets and activities. Click here to access the details on this project

La résilience à travers des pratiques culturelles immersives et des outils collaboratifs