ECA Madrid: EMBODIED COMMONS workgroup - Health, Food, Land, Recreation
Nicole Leonard
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This group is setup to start coordination towards the
MADRID ECA coinciding with the TransEuropa Festival from 25th-29th October 2017
with a focus on the Embodied Commons workshop:
(2017/09/20 version but might change as we advance plans)
"This workshop takes a holistic view of health creation to include also food production and distribution as well as sport and leisure activities. It will address the different determinants of our physical and mental condition, based on social justice, solidarity economy, and respect to biophysical limits of ecosystems. The commons approach underlines the importance of self-organised, locally rooted, inclusive and resilient community networks and civic spaces in order to re-think the practices and the development of public policy-making in this domain.
Participants have experience and are interested in the interrelationship at all points of the journey from “Land to Fork”, including access to land, nutrition, food sovereignty, cultivation, etc.; new forms of distribution, including for recycling; access to medical knowledge and patient-guided health policies and services; democratization of healthcare and self-organization of citizen efforts to reduce bureaucratic hurdles; and reclaiming the field for grassroots sports while challenging norms to inspire new models of recreation."
From: http://EuropeanCommonsAssembly.eu/overview-of-thematic-working-groups/
Anna Harris Mon 25 Sep 2017 9:10AM
Hello Tim,
I was struck by that statistic you quoted, 70% of land is (presumably) owned by 0.6% of population. Can you give a source for that?
Thanks, Anna
Timothy Flitcroft Tue 26 Sep 2017 3:21PM
Hi Anna
I am glad the statistic caught your eye. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/britains-land-is-still-owned-by-an-aristocratic-elite-but-it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way-5385094.html
Kevin Cahill has done a lot of original research and campaigning work in this area and gives an acute analysis of the landownership and therefore land access problems in the UK
https://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2011/03/million-acres-land-ownership.
Best Wishes
Simon Grant Wed 27 Sep 2017 3:01PM
A friend of mine recently started work as a manager with the National Trust, in England, which is a major landowner. Apparently they are a very good employer generally! It is one way in which land passes out of the hands of just an elite, much of it into public use, if not exactly public ownership.
Myriam Bouré Wed 27 Sep 2017 6:03PM
Sorry for my newbee question, but how can I register ? I see a list of participants but it's an excel spreadsheet, who should I contact to register to that Workshop ? Are the registrations managed through the Transeuropa festival website or are they different ? Thanks for your guidance ;-)
Myriam Bouré Wed 27 Sep 2017 7:52PM
Thanks a lot @timothyflitcroft that helps a lot :-) Hope to meeting you there then ! Cheers
Kitty de Bruin Thu 28 Sep 2017 11:11AM
thanks @MyriamBouré, making connections that's the name of the game!
kind regards
Kitty
Nicole Leonard Mon 2 Oct 2017 9:49PM
Hi all! I wanted to simply give the full form responses of the people so far inscribed in this group, I've compiled all the data we have and highlighted some columns I think are particularly interesting, worth having a look: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18R_lia1yxzOqIgCizKuK--zKtR0fdVeWz9Zwrk7u3Zg/edit?usp=sharing
I suggest that formulation of this group be based off the answers people provide here, particularly - what they have experience and interest in and what they want to discuss.
Oliver Kalleinen Wed 4 Oct 2017 8:26PM
Hi Nicole, do you have the same info for the other work groups; especially I am interested in the responses to the Participatory Tools work group. You could post it int the top of the thread "Participatory Tools for Democracy: Meet the working group" Thanks.
Timothy Flitcroft Mon 9 Oct 2017 12:25PM
A Misunderstanding! As Zeljko pointed out when asking if everyone was happy to work on this Loomio space it seems from the response people were thinking they wanted to work on the Embodied Commons more generally rather than to use this Loomio thread for working on the Embodied Commons Workshop in the Madrid ECA. I notice that none of the participants in the Embodied Commons workshop in the Madrid ECA actually contributed to Zeljko's call to use Loomio. So I will shortly send an email to all the particpants to alert them to the fact we are using this thread to discuss what we want to do in Madrid. If anyone else wants to participate in the embodied Workshop at the Madrid ECA Workshop you can contact me here or Nicole Leonard at [email protected]
Many Thanks Tim
('point person' for Embodied Commons workshop)
Myriam Bouré · Wed 27 Sep 2017 5:46PM
Awesome @kittydebruin feel free to add both Open Food France and Data Food Consortium links, both are meaningful Commons for local/transparent/efficient/decentralized food systems ;-)