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Apuntes sobre "¿Qué son (y pueden ser) los comunes urbanos?"

Aquí para la posteridad mis apuntes del evento " ¿Qué son (y pueden ser) los comunes urbanos? - sobretodo sobre la relación con los ayuntamientos y leyes de los espacios considerados comunes en la urbe: " un recorrido a través las prácticas y reflexiones sobre las nuevas formas de gestión de los bienes comunes, especialmente en el contexto urbano" . Llegué tarde como siempre y me perdí la mayor parte de la introducción de Marco Apatricio con un punto de vista jurídico. Y como mucho era en italiano lo he escrito en esa idioma.. Traducción al fondo... Disclaimer: Mi spiace e spero che altri potranno riassumere ma io intanto metto quello che mi ha colpito o venuto in mente mentre ascoltavo. / Lo siento pero solo he tomado nota de lo que me impacto o ocurrió mientras escuchaba. Este no es un resumen del taller! Ana Mendez : Regole di un comune: Amministrato da un gruppo riconosciuto identificabile Aperto Si perpetua e si riproduce nel tempo Contiene risorse che...

Journey of the mouse

De Jorge Cárdenas - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jorgefranciscocardenasvera/6020716668/sizes/l/in/pool-1163283@N21/ , CC BY 2.0 Once upon a time there was a mouse who wanted to take care of a valley he had found. One day a fox turned up and said it was his valley. "So be gone with you" said the fox, because he wanted to build houses for the humans who lived in the mountains. The mouse walked up past the humans and their animals, past the highest peaks and on towards a temple so grand and majestic that a stairway to enter it disappeared into a cloud on which the shining temple sat. In a huge waiting room the mouse sat for hours, then days, then weeks. Soon he could feel himself grow tired and ill from the light and lack of food. He asked a passing condor to send news to the valley of his illness. The king of the sun looked up from his work, planning the most ambitious constructions with all the cleverest humans. He said: "I really appreciate your issue but w...

Aarhus, Dinamarca – Hacia una Europa autónoma – conferencia 24-26 Noviembre 2016

(subo este articulo que escribí ya hace mas de un mes! ) Estoy en el país donde todos toman café negro sin leche ni azúcar, y las bicicletas se aparcan libremente y sin ligar. Esta mañana dichas bicicletas amanecieron revueltas por el viento otoñal en montones y tiradas por las vías ciclables que son parte de cada calle de la ciudad. Es el último día y mañana vuelvo a Barcelona donde veo que hay 10 grados centigrados m á s que aquí. Tocó buena suerte y no bajó de los 4 grados en toda mi estancia.  “Les va a costar entender” me había contado por teléfono el organizador del evento , que hac e una estancia de visita a un proyecto sobre propriedad privada en la universidad de Aarhus : En el norte de Europa, aún hay un fuerte estado del bienestar en el que la gente suele confiar y depender en sus vidas. Aún no se ha convertido del todo en un sistema de austeridad neo liberal, aunque hubo recortes y cierres de bancos o empresas cuando la crisis golpeó Europa en el 2008, y se ...

Procomuns refugee fund talk

This is a slightly extended write up of a lightning talk entitled " Creating a fair market and a fund for refugees" which I gave at procomuns.net in Barcelona, March 2016 When a person arrives in a new place, seen from a P2P perspective of a node, a network  of relationships an d connections to people and concepts so beautifully depicted in the myth of I ndra's net. When people move around then, they are a mix of slowly fading and recombining connections to experience, knowledge, and culture, plus their long distance relationships . If not cultivated the se connections to the past fade, as new connections or knowledge are gained in the new setting. I am A le and I work at F air C oop , wh ere we are working to create an alternative economic system that is more democratic, ecological and . .. fair!  https://fair.coop/ I arrived in Europe as a child, a refugee of the Pinochet dictatorship, in 1974; we were some of the first to leave Chile and there was...

Using social currencies to fund the energy transition

This post is a translation of a proposal by Susana Martín Belmonte of which the original will soon be posted! On July 13 2016, the city of Barcelona published a government measure to create an energy operator in the city . This operator aims to accelerating the energy transition to renewable energy sources, facilitating the citizen's energy self-consumption, and providing the citizens with access to electricity generation business income, as well as addressing economic justice goals, such as ending energy poverty. One of this project's key points is financing new renewable energy generators, and this is where the social currency that the city of Barcelona is planning can play a very interesting role. I drafted the proposal that comes next and I shared with the economy and ecology groups, as well as the social currency group at Barcelona en Comú. In addition, this can also be framed in the working group on energy and climate change mentioned in the doc...