Dear Ana,

thanks for sending this "digest" of the workshop (I participated only partially). I think we have much food for thought and can continue working on it.

Let's see if we can have some online discussion before we lose the sprint...

cheers,
Jason

It's an excellent idea to continue this discussion online. Should we create one Loomio entry for each question?

Best,

Ana Margarida

De: jn42 (Loomio) ( [email protected] )
Enviado: ‎26/‎06/‎2017 16:17
Para: [email protected]
Assunto: [European Commons Assembly - Action] Commons and Social Solidarity -Steps after UniverSSE2017

Dear all,

Could you please give some ideas on how to further involve ECA participants in this discussion and bring it forward? Should I create a Loomio pad for each question or should we continue the discussion here and treat all the questions as interrelated?

Best,

Ana Margarida

I see the questions as tiered. I think they need to be better organized and prioritized so as not to overwhelm people. We also should consider if the questions are being asked/answered elsewhere to avoid duplicating work.

I also think writing a blog post on SSE and Commons and the results of this is an excellent idea (as a first step and intermediate answer to the e-book question). How can we move ahead on this?

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These to me are "CONTENT" questions, which would be interesting to log on the policy proposal of the Commons Transition Wiki. Perhaps we can open one pad for all of them and then when input is satisfactory, log them in the wiki:

• What do we exactly mean when we talk about "public policies" and "regulations"?

-Which public bodies are our natural partners? The European institutions? National governments? Municipalities? Given the prominent role progressive municipal governments, such as that of Barcelona an Naples, are gaining in the Commons/SSE field, shouldn't we give more attention to the development of alliances with municipalities, as well as the diffusion at the European level of "best practices" regarding collaboration between Commons/SSE actors and municipal governments?

• How to promote the sustainability of Commons/SSE initiatives by developing "ecosystems" based on synergetic funding and the establishment of supply chains and economies of scale among participants?

These to me are "STRATEGY" questions, also interesting to discuss and include maybe in the blog post and conversation here.

-How to further involve academics in the ECA and Commons/SSE movement and give them the tools to influence the public opinion and give credibility to our movement?

-How should we develop connections with Commons/SSE movements and organizations outside of Europe?

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@anamargaridaesteve , Can you tell us more about the the topic you're organizing for the second semester of next year at Cooperativa Terra Cha in Portugal? We can launch a poll to see if people agree that we orient this work around that.

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These are "PROCESS" questions. While important in my experience they require a lot of energy for little output. I think we should return to them later once we've dug a bit deeper on the other questions above. This sort of work really requires in-person or vocal contact to be successful - we could plan to discuss at ECA Madrid:

-Should we draft together a kind of charter/guiding document in which we define basic concepts, goals and methodologies?

-What is the position and role of ECA members who represent themselves, as well as those who represent organizations? Should we develop different rules and methodology for participation?

-And also thinking out loud with her when/how could we address these and other questions which are arising and to which (future) participants of the process would like to see more answers? To be gathered for a next ECA? An ongoing process in Loomio? (Question raised by Ruby)

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What do you think? I think we can:

-write a note in an email re-inviting people and open two pads: one on "Content" and one on "Strategy. Let's also invite people outside the ECA but in the broader SSE circles

-Get commitments for some of us to work on a blog post for P2P

-Eventually hold a poll on the next step, maybe at the panel next year?

Dear Nicole,

Thank you for your excellent ideas. I will open the two pads: The one on "Content" and the one on "Strategy" and write an email inviting people to participate in them.

I will be working on two academic articles on Commons and SSE in the coming months. As soon as I have written some of the theoretical part, I could open a Loomio pad and invite people to work on a collective blog post.

Meanwhile, here is the English translation of the call for the conference. Let´s launch a poll to see if people agree to orient our work around presenting something at this event?

Conference "Solidary Social Economy, Common Goods and Transition: Perspectives of convergence for a sustainable and post-capitalist future in Europe

Place: Cooperativa Terra Chã, date to be defined (three days during the second half of 2018)

Organization: Center for International Studies, University Institute of Lisbon, CEI-IUL (with the support of the Department of Political Economy of ISCTE-IUL and the Center for Ecology, Evolution and Climate Change, CE3C, FCUL).

Communications call:

In response to the current social and environmental crisis on a planetary scale, various social movements are developing alternatives to socio-economic status quo by mobilizing endogenous resources and networking among grassroots initiatives. Within these movements stands out the Solidary Social Economy and the 'Common Goods'. This international and interdisciplinary conference, guided by an action-research strategy, aims to promote a dialogue between researchers and activists from both movements in Europe, with a view to developing theoretical and empirical materials facilitating convergence and establishing common action plans with Promoting socially and environmentally resilient communities. The conference also aims at the critical and reflexive interaction of solidarity economy experiences and the management and dynamization of common goods, such as community waste, process animators and conference participants.
The conference will be organized around four axes, for which we invite the presentation of communications:

• Infrastructures: Food, water, energy, transport, housing, land / land patrimony and property law (s);
• Community-based tourism;
• Culture and leisure;
• Media and education

Of all the communications sent, the Scientific Commission will select 24, which will be distributed by the total of eight panels of communications that will take place during the event. The limited number of accepted communications has to do with the objective of reconciling various types of actors and epistemologies in this event, in order to promote dialogue and joint actions between the academic world and civil society. However, high-quality communications but for thematic coherence could not be included in the panels, they could be included in the Ebooks in which the communications presented at the conference will be published, as well as chapters resulting from the learning processes that will take place during the event. Special preference will be given to communications that include in their analysis the following cross-cutting themes: Environmental ethics and empowerment and self-determination of vulnerable social groups.

We suggest that in the first two days there be a morning panel in which authors and actors gather to promote dialogue between academic research and field practices. During the afternoon, there would be four parallel panels with the communications approved by the call.

Event Outputs:
The outputs of the publication will be an Ebook in which the communications presented at the conference will be published as well as chapters resulting from the learning processes that will take place at the conference. In addition, multimedia material will also be made in the form of interactive art videos and installations on a website to be created for this purpose. Conference organizers will also write a paper, based on the event process, about the social, cultural, economic and environmentally sustainable organization of knowledge production processes. One of the methods will be the application of a questionnaire to the participants.