Grizedlae Arts (GA) is based in the English Lake District National Park and has
over the last decade gained a reputation for pioneering new approaches to art
production and exhibition. Unlike traditional institutions and, indeed, its own
history in the British land art movement, GA does not have studios or exhibition
space, but rather offers artists the opportunity to carry out projects using
social media, cultural and economic of the territory and beyond.
Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/
Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/
Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/
Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/
Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/
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Following numerous mobilizations since 2003 for the preservation of building 7,
located in Pointe-Saint-Charles, in Montreal, Collectif 7 à Nous was born.
Collectif 7 à Nous is a non-profit organization born in 2009 which brings
together citizens, cultural, community, libertarian and social economy
organizations. Its aim is to develop the Building 7 project on former CN land,
south of La Pointe. It practices a democratic, horizontal and inclusive mode of
management and practices principles of shared governance and non-violent
communication. The organization is done in circles of evolving and not fixed
responsibilities.
Building 7 is now converted into a place of sharing and exchange. Today, the
activities of building 7 are multiple; There you will find: Le Detour solidarity
grocery store, managed by volunteers and offering inexpensive fresh products, a
craft brewery, a Press Start cooperative which is a self-managed place of
gathering, entertainment and debate, an arcade and a training school. art.
Collaborative workshops, called ‘the B7 workshops’ are also organized around
ceramics, DIY, bicycle repair, etc.
The Building 7 project carries values of social justice, autonomy, respect,
democracy and aims to be an engine of social, political, cultural, economic and
environmental transformation, in the environment which gave birth to them and
well beyond.
Source : 100°
Source : Bâtiment 7, 2019
Source : memento
Text Source : https://www.batiment7.org/autogestion/
The activities of the Multimedia Institute [mi2] are vast: informal education,
training in technology and digital media, development of free software,
archiving and publishing of digital and printed media, management cultural and
political work... The Multimedia Institute began in 1999 as a non-governmental
spin-off of the Croatian Open Institute. In the public eye, the work of mi2 is
primarily visible through the activities of its public members. space and
cultural center - MaMa. Since its opening, MaMa has been a meeting place, a
reference point for different communities ranging from political activists to
media artists, electronic music creators, theorists, hackers and free software
developers, gay and lesbian support groups. Guided by the ideal of sharing, it
immediately offered young creators, independent cultural actors and citizen
initiatives free access to facilities and its Web infrastructure. MaMa's
facilities were important to the emergence of the local independent and
alternative scene, but its activities were also very important. In recent years,
the Multimedia Institute and MaMa have become significantly involved in the
fight against gentrification in Zagreb and Croatia.
Source : https://mi2.hr/
Source du texte : Trans-Local-Act
Transition Town Totnes is a community-led organization that aims to strengthen
the local economy, reduce our environmental impact and build resilience as we
adapt to climate change.
It is an organization run by a group of local volunteers, made up of a small
team, who come together to work on projects. Anyone can get involved. It is a
community organization with nearly 40 local projects and 9 thematic groups
working to strengthen the social economy and prepare for a future outside of
oil.
TTT helps create thriving, healthy and caring local communities, where
lifestyles take into account the needs of future generations as well as the
present. Taking into account rising fuel prices, economic uncertainty and
climate change which bring many challenges. However, TTT focuses on these
elements by attempting to increase personal and community well-being, promote
the local economy and find lifestyles in line with the values of our Earth. The
Transition Network is here to support the ever-growing networks of transition
initiatives across the UK and the world and help them to self-organize around
the transition model, to create initiatives that work for resilience.
Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org
Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org
Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org
Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org
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Siebenlinden is an intentional community/village of people committed to
self-sufficiency and a low-emission lifestyle. Different organizational and
legal relationships are organized in various cooperatives.
The Sieben Linden ecovillage is a social and ecological establishment in Altmark
in the region of Saxony-Anhalt (formerly East Germany). The concept of this
Ecovillage was created around 1989. After 4 years, in 1993, a group of people
came together to purchase a "project center" in order to more effectively search
for land to settle on - and promote the concept with politicians and others. In
1997, they found the land on which they built (and continue to build) the Sieben
Linden ecovillage.
Here, adults and children live together on 100 hectares of land and build the
large eco-village with a small ecological footprint. Ecology, social issues,
culture and economics go hand in hand. Sustainable gardens, energy concepts and
straw bale houses are important for the eco-village, but the real heart of
Sieben Linden is friendliness.
"At Sieben Linden, our goal is to provide a model for a future way of life in
which work, leisure, economy, ecology, urban and rural culture can find a
balance. We seek the answers to the problems pressing issues of our time;
seeking human-centered solutions in a place of creativity and learning. This
model aims to show how humans can live more responsibly with nature; than human
communities have no need to exploit or destroy nature but can make a positive
contribution to the quality and diversity of the environment. The many decisions
that accompany the creation of a new community are organized at different
levels, i.e. the scale of the village, or on the scale of a house."
Source : Siebenlinden.org
Source : Siebenlinden.org
Source : Siebenlinden.org
Source : Siebenlinden.org
Source : Siebenlinden.org
Text Source : Trans-Local-Act et Sieben Linden.org
Traficantes de sueños is an activist publishing project. It aims to be a meeting
and debate point for different social movements. As well as an alternative to
distribution to facilitate access to books, leaflets and magazines.
Traficantes de Sueños is a project that aims to provide content and lead debates
useful for collective action. It is also a social economy project, that is to
say an entity without money, involved in the local market.
Traficantes de Sueños started in 1995 with the aim of generating a space where
materials for reflection meet; the tool used for this is the book, understood as
a means of individual and collective transformation. They also organized the
associative library, distribution; the space for self-training and production of
Nociones Comunes.
The space is not only the headquarters of the library, but it is a collective
space, open to the city, which hosts a multitude of presentations, projects,
meetings, exhibitions and debates.
The TdS associative library specializes in the critical analysis of social
movements and stories from other worlds. The TdS editorial publishes background
and sharing texts with the Creative Commons license which allows free copying
and downloading. The TdS distribution offers books from other parts of the world
and many texts from small alternative publishers.
Source : Wikimedia Common
Source : SrPerro.com
Source : Traficantes.net
Source : Traficantes.net
Text Source : Trans-Local-Act et Traficantes.net
Dartington Trust is home to two faculties, Schumacher College and Dartington
Arts School, which – through undergraduate and postgraduate programs and short
courses – offer a radically transdisciplinary approach to education.
More broadly, this site is a center for learning, arts, ecology and social
justice, with the student campus being a key element in the life of the estate.
Schumacher College aims to help participants experience what founder Leonard
Elmhirst called “the abundant life.” The College's community life takes place in
and around a medieval house near Totnes, England.
During the day, lectures, discussions and small groups take place. In the
afternoons it is possible to take excursions to the coast or to Dartmoor, walks,
study visits, tutorials or specialist conferences. There are meditation times, a
group meeting and a session in which participants help prepare food and maintain
the surrounding environment. This aspect of the courses is an essential element
of College life: integrating intellectual discussions into daily activities
related to building maintenance promotes a level of understanding in which
personal values and course objectives are combined.
Source : L'arbre aux étoiles
Source : Scholarship Positions
Source : Schumacher College
Text Source : Trans-Local-Act et https://campus.dartington.org/about/
Meet.coop is a multi-stakeholder cooperative with two types of members: Our
operational members occupy specific functions within three sociocratic circles,
in order to provide reliable video conferencing services to our user members. It
is a cooperative video conference service platform (alternative to Zoom) whose
governance is based on the commons and which supports an infrastructure of
international dimension and a form of hybrid or integral cooperativism: it
integrates producers and users. Remix is co-founder of the cooperative.
Source : https://www.meet.coop/
Source : https://www.meet.coop/
Source : https://www.meet.coop/
Text Source : https://www.meet.coop/
Mobicoop is a cooperative society of collective interest (SCIC) with more than
10 years of experience in the mobility professions. Our cooperative status
guarantees open and shared governance with our 1,100 members and according to
the principle of 1 member = 1 vote at the General Assembly. Any organization,
private or public, can take part and become a player in the project. Our
Mobicoop Platform carpooling solution was developed in open source software,
making Mobicoop the first company to offer shared mobility solutions in open
source software! Free software is an argument for your territory because it is:
* guarantee of good use of public money.
* guarantor of the digital independence of the territories.
* guarantor of code quality and proper use of user data.
Every year, we invest in Research & Development to improve our services and
offer new solutions adapted to the needs of each region: carpooling, daily
hitchhiking, solidarity transport, fleet management, local activities.
The Covoiturage-Libre association was born in 2011 following the change in the
economic model of the Covoiturage.fr site. Since that day, users have been
obliged to pay a commission on journeys. This change did not embody the values
of carpooling for some users. Several people came together to create a “free”
carpooling association: to continue carpooling with a view to solidarity,
ecology and above all without any commission on journeys. In 2018, it was voted
to transform the association into a cooperative to go further. For Covivo, the
adventure began in 2009. For 10 years, Covivo has developed carpooling sites and
mobile applications for businesses and communities. While offering innovative
services, Covivo was the first carpooling company to develop real-time
carpooling. It was in 2018 that Covoiturage-Libre approached Covivo to offer to
participate in the creation of its major shared mobility cooperative project:
Mobicoop! In 2021, Mobicoop is joining forces with Rezo Pouce, another shared
mobility cooperative company born in 2010 in Moissac and specializing in
particular in daily hitchhiking. It also carries the values of united and
sustainable mobility. Our visions converged, our two structures then decided to
join forces to form a large SCIC while retaining the name Mobicoop.
Source : page Facebook Mobicoop
Source : page Facebook Mobicoop
Text Source : https://www.mobicoop.fr/
The Macao group began to be formed in 2012, with the occupation of the Torre
Galfa building in Milan. This occupation marks the start of a movement to occupy
abandoned buildings in Milan which carries a symbolic and political message.
From the start, Macau activists have struggled to come up with a new vision for
organizing the city. The occupation is in itself symbolic because it underlines
the desire to refuse real estate speculation and the logic of the real estate
market, putting at the forefront the needs of citizens, the arts, culture and
politics. It was later in 2012 that Macau occupied the building where it has
established its headquarters until today. Former slaughterhouse market, the
building in Viale Molise has been restored and allows Macao to improve the
cultural and artistic offer of the city of Milan and also to show that another
management and another destination of abandoned buildings is possible. Over the
past five years of operation, Macau has hosted concerts, laboratories, literary
festivals, theater events, film screenings and political rallies. She founded a
magazine, organized exhibitions, promoted workshops and seminars, and cooperated
with local organizations and universities. Macau also operates with a completely
horizontal governance model, refusing to adopt any hierarchical structure and
favoring participatory organizational principles.
Source : Zero, Luco Chiaudano
Source : Zero
Source : The Submarine
Source : Toolkit for Homes Of Commons
Text Source : https://commoning.city/project/milan-macao/