27 MARCH 2021
SEMINAR RECORDING: RESILIENCE GOVERNANCE THROUGH COMMONS
[00:15:00] Introduction
[00:22:10] Presentation of BigBlueButton
[00:34:35] Presentation of the seminar
[00:41:43] Presentation of the C4R project
[00:51:56] Pecha Kucha
Intentional communities [00:53:55] CLTBruxelles (Sophie Ghyselen, BE) /
https://cltb.be/fr/
[01:02:38] MOBA Housing SCE (Ana Džokić & Marc Neelen, RS & NL) /
https://www.moba.coop
[01:07:35] Asilo Filangeri (IT) / http://www.exasilofilangieri.it/
[01:17:47] NetHood (Ileana Apostol, CH); http://nethood.org/
Open civic communities [01:26:26] ZAD de Notre Dame Des Landes (Isabelle
Fremeaux, FR) ; https://zad.nadir.org/
[01:33:43] Agrocité Hubs (Pascale Meker & Constantin Petcou, FR) /
https://www.facebook.com/AgrociteBagneux
https://www.facebook.com/AgrociteColombesGenevilliers
[01:49:00] Fédération Murs à Pêche de Montreuil (Clément Girard, FR) /
https://federationmursapeches.jimdofree.com/
Multi-scale networks [02:07:14] R-Urban (Doina Petrescu, FR & Andreas Lang, UK)
R-Urban is a citizen-driven ecological transition strategy that was initiated in
2008 by AAA and subsequently developed on the basis of multiple partnerships:
local actors, municipalities, NGOs, traders, researchers, residents. This
strategy has made it possible to build several specific units in the Paris and
London region. http://r-urban.net/
[02:17:53] Transition Vallée de la Bièvre (Simon Burkovic, FR) /
https://agendavalleedelabievre.jimdofree.com/
Shared expertise, P2P, cooperativism [02:27:43] femProcomuns (Monica Garriga,
ES) / https://femprocomuns.coop/
[02:33:54] Chartes des communs urbains / Remix the commons /
https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/
[02:41:54] DisCO (Stacco Troncoso, ES) / https://disco.coop/
Experiences of resilience governance through commons
[02:53:50] Keynote
Maria Francesca De Tullio (IT) http://www.exasilofilangieri.it/
[04:22:58] Keynote
David Bollier (USA) http://www.bollier.org/
[05:02:22] Discussion
[05:45:56] Transversal discussion between the working groups and formulation of
hypothesys of possible tools to be shared with other project leaders, activists
and researchers.
Tag - action!
The Never-ending story of commoning a farmhouse in the lost farmlands. Looking
back at Erfgoed (Agricultural Heritage and Land Use).
Looking back at the stories of the project Erfgoed (Agricultural Heritage and
Land Use). Erfgoed, a project by The Outsiders and Casco Art Institute: Working
for the Commons, was initiated to build a sustainable platform for ecological
practices that conjure art, agriculture, and the commons in the area Leidsche
Rijn, a sprawling new residential neighborhood in the Dutch city of Utrecht.
You are welcome to visit the Collection of the stories of Erfgoed to find out
more!
Ekoloji kolektifi, which sees the struggle against the commodification of nature
as a dimension of the class struggle, is charged with mobilizing opportunities
to strengthen the position of the people in the face of capital and the state,
building mechanisms for responding to disasters, and understanding and
explaining ecological issues. crisis from a historical materialist perspective.
Working according to the principles of Umut-Sen, members of the collective are
required to assume concrete responsibility in at least one working group and to
attend meetings held every two weeks.
Working group on propaganda: all practices that serve the commodification of
nature, such as municipalities, districts, political parties, etc. share with
the public regardless of the fact, follow the ideas of resistance, produce
materials necessary for organizing activities (visual design, technical
materials, translation, article, etc.), organize seminars/events on the topic it
deems necessary, share with the public the developments during and after the
disaster, follow the Umut-Sen line, it is responsible for creating debates and
polemics that will deepen it
Working group on disaster response: earthquake, flood, fire, landslide, etc. It
is in charge of setting up mobile teams ready to intervene in case of a
disaster, and to prepare these teams to intervene in case of a possible disaster
by following the necessary training.
Organization, Resistance and Solidarity Working Group: It is in charge of
establishing organic links with ongoing struggles, identifying and responding to
the concrete needs of the resistances, meeting with the populations of the
region that will be affected by the project before possible projects that cause
the plundering of nature, and providing the necessary advice.
Legal working group: It is in charge of providing the necessary legal support to
the ecological struggles, sometimes directly as an executive, and sometimes by
conducting information activities through village/café/neighborhood meetings.
Increasing the legal qualifications of the Umut-Sen Assembly's organizing
experts is also part of the scope of this working group. Ecological activism by
local groups ,Yeryüzü Ekoloji Kolektifi Ecological Rights Centre Started Its
Work, Ekoloji kolektifi Protest against polution, Ekoloji kolektifi
This is a project, a site and the expression of a utopia. It is a bet and a
promise, an experiment and an investment into a future we can still shape.
The Station is the result of the shared desires and beliefs of a small community
built over years, around values such as love of art, respect for nature,
friendship, belief in emancipatory practices, sharing of resources, trust.
The Station is a joint venture of a group of artists, curators, theorists,
economists and others, who, together with tranzit.ro, co-own and co-manage a
plot of land in the village Silistea Snagovului, 30 km north of Bucharest, in
the proximity of a protected natural area (forest and lake). Situated in a
long-duration perspective and throughout a participatory, open process of
building and contextualizing, the Station aims to become: a centre for
contemporary art and research; a centre for the study of nature; a resource and
residency centre; a prototype for a cultural institution grounded in a locality
shared with its community, situated in a post-development narrative and based on
ecological and ethical principles.
The Station is: building on the legacy of tranzit.ro/Bucuresti as an
interdisciplinary space for an integrated understanding of culture and nature;
responding to global challenges: the cultural challenge, where institutions
expand their walls but not their thinking and build thousands of square meters
while firing employees; and the climatic challenge, which increases social gaps
and makes access to culture restrictive, besides destroying life in general;
proposing the first contemporary art institution in the proximity of Bucharest
that is built from the ground on sustainable, ecological and ethical principles;
going back, and yet forward, to models of collective ownership and
(self)management.
The Station develops organically, integrating different communities in the
process. It grows over time, which allows for people to sediment it into their
consciousness. It is built around art, because, like nature, art doesn’t exist
in itself but in a network of relations and contaminations; because it preserves
memory and it opens up the imagination; because society is already producing
emotionally crippled citizens and art is a way to fight that; because art can
build communities. The Station has nature as the other half of its core, so it
demands care and attention, while giving back shelter, food, ideas and pleasure.
The Experimental Station for Research is collective work that addresses also our
limits, not only our wishes. It is a learning site, where we try to act what we
preach and a test site, where we don’t have to constantly produce and deliver.
The Station’s members include the following people and institutions: Anca
Benera, Andrei Gavril, Arnold Estefan, Dana Andrei, Eduard Constantin, Florian
Niculae, Iuliana Dumitru, Livia Pancu, Maria Eichhorn, Marius Babias, Olivia
Mihălțianu, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Raluca Popa, Raluca Voinea, Stoyan Dechev,
Thomas Poeser, Vlad Basalici and tranzit.ro Association
Planning and building process: Mentors and companions: Doina Petrescu &
Constantin Petcou (atelier d’architecture autogérée) Advice and facilitation:
Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan *Long-term programme partners: "Artă + societate"
Association, The African-Balkan-Caribbean Society With input from: Anna Smolak,
Charles Esche, Anetta Mona Chișa
The concept of “life” is used here in the sense advanced by anthropologist
Arturo Escobar, following the understanding of indigenous Latin-American groups
for whom the destruction of "nature" or the "environment” signifies the
annihilation of life itself. Arturo Escobar: Territories of Difference. Place,
movements, life, redes*, Duke University Press, 2008
The Trans-European Resilience Research, Residency & Academy (TERRA) is a
trans-local hub experimenting with new ways of living, producing, using, and
being resilient connected to local traditions.
Located in the Carpathian mountains, in Brezoi Romania, Terrra is partner of the
Economadic School, an informal network and a nomadic structure involving
projects, practices and participants (researchers, artists, architects, farmers,
students and ordinary people) from six countries across Europe in processes of
mutual learning and support of local ecological practices.
You are welcome to visit the Economadic School website to find out more!