by Chiara De Angelis | Sep 9, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
The GPM – Global Parliament of Mayors – is a new global governance organization founded on cities and will bring Mayors from all over the world together to share best practices. During the inaugural meeting that will be held tomorrow 10th of September in The Hague, two issues will be addressed that affect all cities: Migration and the Environment & Climate Change.
Mayors from cities like Amman, Cape Town, Dakar, Mannheim, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, Quito, Warsaw, Wroclaw and The Hague will attend the convening, which will include several plenary sessions as well as breakout and strategy sessions.
This inaugural convening is the output of a process started in 2014 with a Planning Session in Amsterdam, where 30 mayors issued a vote of confidence in the creation of a Global Parliament of Mayors. The proposal of the GPM’s team is to establish a Global Parliament of Mayors, an unprecedented idea first put forward in the final chapter of Dr. Benjamin Barber’s 2013 book If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities (Yale University Press). Barber’s hypothesis is that cities might be “to the future what nations were to the past — efficient and pragmatic problem-solving governance bodies that can address sustainability and security without surrendering liberty or equality” (from an interview published on http://www.citiscope.org/*). During those two days of inaugural convening, mayors and experts from all over the world will discuss on the question: “can mayors really help “rule the world””?
The Inaugural Convening in The Hague will ask Mayors to deliberate and enact common actions on:
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Refugees: “Cities of Arrival”
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Climate Change: “The City and Nature”
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Governance: “The City and Democracy”
LabGov, represented by its co-director Professor Sheila R. Foster, faculty co-director of the Fordham Urban Law Center, and by Elena De Nictolis and Chiara De Angelis, will attend the inaugural convening.
* Read the full interview to Dr. Barber here: http://www.citiscope.org/habitatIII/commentary/2016/09/global-parliament-mayors-can-lead-devolution-revolution?mc_cid=1ed561f6ec&mc_eid=[UNIQID]
by Chiara De Angelis | Sep 6, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
From September 6th to 9th, Montréal will host the GSEF 2016 – Forum mondial de l’économie sociale, the third edition of the Global Social Economy Forum.
Local governments and social economy actors will meet to discuss over the intelligent and sustainable development of cities. More than 2,000 participants from every continent will be converging in Québec’s metropolis for to discuss and work on this central theme.
LabGov with prof. Christian Iaione will attend the Forum; prof. Iaione will actively participate with a speech to the Plenary 2 – “The SSE As A Strategic Tool For The Sustainable Development Of Cities”, which will be held in the Palais des Congrès on the 8th at 8.30 AM.
Have a look at the Program of the GSEF 2016 by visiting their official website: http://www.gsef2016.org/programme/programme-officiel/
by Chiara De Angelis | Aug 31, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
Tomorrow, 1st of September, LabGov with Christian Iaione will be in Amsterdam to answer the following question: “how can we govern urban commons in co-creation?”
During the event, David Bollier will present his ideas on “an ageless paradigm of cooperation and fairness that is re-making our world.” Together with Christian Iaione (LabGov), David Hammerstein (Commons Network), Marleen Stikker (Waag Society) and Stan Majoor (HvA) he is going to explore what it means to see the city as a commons.
The event is part of the “New Democracy” series, organized by European Cultural Foundation (ECF), Netwerk Democratie and Pakhuis de Zwijger in order to analyze democratic and cultural renewal in Europe from a citizen’s perspective, can be followed through live streaming at this link: https://dezwijger.nl/programma/the-city-as-a-commons#_=_
by Chiara De Angelis | Jul 28, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
Synergia is an international network of individuals and organizations united together with the aim of implementing new models of economic and social practices which can be able to transition societies to a more sustainable, democratic and social just model of political economy based on the principles of cooperation and the common good.
In order to explore those models and to share the experiences of some of the leading experts and practitioners in those fields, the Synergia Institute will organize a two-weeks Summer School in September, titled “Transition to Co-operative Commonwealth: Pathways to a New Political Economy”. The Summer School will take place in Monte Ginezzo, Tuscany, from September 11th to September 23rd. The overarching focus of the Synergia program is to answer the question: What is the ethical economy and how does it work?
The program blends together lectures and workshops with site visits to leading co-operatives and common activities in Tuscany and Emilia Romagna, in order to unite the global with the local through the diffusion of ideas, models and practices. The instructors of the courses will be some of the very finest minds and practitioners in their respective fields of study and practice:
- Michel Bauwens: Founder, P2P Foundation; Co Author, Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy.
- Pat Conaty: Fellow, New Economics Foundation; Research Associate, Cooperatives UK; Co Author, The Resilience Imperative.
- Renate Goergen: President, Le Mat Europe; Board Member, European Social Franchise Network (ESFN).
- Christian Iaione: Associate Professor of Public Law, Guglielmo Marconi University of Rome; Fellow, Urban Law Center at Fordham University; Director, LabGov – Laboratory for the Governance of the Commons.
- Mike Lewis: Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Community Renewal; Co Author, The Resilience Imperative.
- Julie MacArthur: Assistant Professor, Environmental Politics & Public Policy, University of Auckland; Author of Empowering Electricity: Sustainability Co-operatives and Power Sector Reform in Canada.
- Jason Nardi: Co-ordinator, RIPESS Europe.
- John Restakis: Executive Director, Community Evolution Foundation; Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University, Author – Humanizing the Economy – Co-operatives in the Age of Capital.
- Marco Tulli, Emiliano Cecchino, Davide Bonsignore: Off Grid Academy.
The deadline for applications for the Synergia Summer Institute is August 12th. The course is now available at a lower rate. You can have a look at the updated brochure for more details and at Synergia Institute’s Facebook page for updates.
Il Synergia Institute organizza una Summer School di due settimane a Settembre, per esplorare, studiare ed implementare nuovi modelli di pratiche economiche e sociali. La Summer School avrà luogo a Monte Ginezzo (Toscana) dall’11 al 23 Settembre. Le iscrizioni chiudono il 12 Agosto: è un’occasione da non perdere!
by Chiara De Angelis | Jul 12, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
#COLLABORATOSCANA, the co-design process led by the Tuscany Region with the support of LabGov and SocioLab, to build a regional public policy on sharing economy and collaborative economy, goes on with the next two meetings which will take place on July 13th and 14th, 2016 in Florence.
The workshops will begin at 2PM and will end at 5PM on on Wednesday July 13th and Thursday July 14th. These two co-designg sessions will be dedicated to the analysis of two different subjects, which are respectively “Infrastructure” and “Commons”, through the lenses of sharing and collaboration.
The activities of these two sessions are better understood within the broader framework of the #COLLABORATOSCANA process organized by Vittorio Bugli, the deputy President of Tuscany Region. This process aims at building a regional policy on sharing and collaborative economy. During this series of workshops, that will take place between June and September, participants coming from the public and private sector, from the third sector and the knowledge institutions as well as social innovators and active citizens will be supervised scientifically by LabGov and guided in the co-design process by SocioLab. This approach will allow them to elaborate on the concept of collaboration and develop the content, instruments, policies that will be the pillars of a green paper on collaborative and sharing economy.
The activities of the 13th of July, focused on the theme of Infrastructures, will ask the participants to reflect on the importance of a collaborative and sharing approach to the design of infrastructures and mobility in improving people’s life and in reducing damages to the environment.
On the 14th of July a collaborative approach will be applied to the theme of Goods, meaning with this cultural goods, natural resources (such as uncultivated land) and urban common goods.
Christian Iaione, LabGov co-director, will attend the workshops and inspire the sessions with opening and closing remarks.
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Prosegue #CollaboraToscana! il percorso di co-progettazione di un libro verde sulla sharing economy della Regione Toscana. Nei prossimi due workshop, che si terranno il 13 e 14 luglio 2016, a Firenze presso la Sala Pegaso della Regione Toscana in piazza Duomo 10, avranno luogo due sessioni di co-progettazione rispettivamente sui temi “Infrastrutture” e “Beni”.
