Proposal Participants List

Deep Dive Europe / December 10 – 13, 2012

Silke/Fréderic/Hervé

Draft list of proposed names for a regional preparatory workshop for a conference on commons-oriented economics.

Context via Proposal for a Conference on Commons-Oriented Economics

thanks for putting from 1 to 3 stars next to each name according to priority.

Silke writes: WE NEED MORE COMMONS-RELATED ECONOMISTS LIKE TIM JACKSON; DON'T WE? …

Information Gathering

first draft, without ANY priorities

The following people where asked for advice at this early stage

Saki Bailey; IUC Turino, http://www.commonssense.it/s1/?page_id=9

Antonio Lafuente and Juan Freire from the CommonsLab of Medialab Prado/ Madrid http://medialab-prado.es/laboratorio_del_procomun

Vedran Horvat (Croatia) (director of hbf-office in Croatia and currently preparing a Sommer School on the Commons ; we should reserve at least 1 place for them, since our networks in Eastern Europe are too weak;

Sbd. From Northern Europe? Any suggestions?

We need about 60 people on the first list for discussion. @ Nicolas: I guess we'll have TOO many candidates in Europe, but we cannot work with more than 30 people all together (including us), 25 would be better. What is the max. of people we can host at La Bergerie? There should be an apropriate balance between “organizers” and “guests”.

List of Names

First draft As you know many of them, you'll find only scarse information on bios etc for the moment. There are MANY people missing, please add, especially those you consider important in terms of COMMONS BASED ECONOMY. Please add also a comment if you consider, that somebody MUST be there, so that I can make a first priority-list and submit it for a skype-discussion. (Silke)

PROPOSAL SKYPE-phone-conference: September 4, 3pm Berlin/Paris ---> who can participate?

Germany

Silke Helfrich, Commons Strategies Group

Stefan Meretz, Keimform, Germany – coautor of our book, co-organizer of the Crottorf meeting, IMHO one of the best analysts in terms of “pure commons” and commons as a mode of production

Heike Löschmann, Heinrich Böll Foundation

Richard David Precht, "popular" philosopher, excellent outreach and networks

Veronika-Bennholdt Thomsen, subsistance economy and the commons, Bielefeld school, feminist, has been participating as a speaker at ICC

Andreas Weber, biologist and philosopher, thinks the commons as methodology of nature, excellent writer, co-author of our book

Great Britain

Larry Lohmann, Corner House, GB – specialized in enclosures and financialization, very familiar with the commons, excellent networker

Tim Jackson, UK; influentail economist n the US, post-growth, knows a bit of our work

Brian Davey, FEASTA, GB

School of Commoning

other countries

Nicola Bullard, ex- Focus on the Global South, France/ Australia (?)

Pat Mooney, ETC (will participate in Europe and not in Mexico, for language issues) somebody from ISLAND, where so many things are happening?

Charlotte Hess, IASC, USA (don't remember, why she is on the list, I guess because she is currently in Europe)

Samir Amin (don't remember why he is on the list...)

Graeber, USA, "Debt", The Future of Occupy .... tried several times to get him involved, we should try again.

Austria

Franz Nahrada, long-time commoner, clear analytiical thinker, active around Global Villages project

Brigitte Kratzwald (commons activist, working on the commons full time just as we try to do - Austria

Vera Buhlman, architect, author of coming book called Genius Planet, she would be an important voice of reasoned technological optimism, to balance views like those of Brian Davey; points to the hyperproductivity of sharing-based distributed energy solutions and the like

Finland

Andrew Paterson, a Scottish researcher, organizer of Pixelache, and very involved in northern and baltic commons work, including links to Russia, works on neotraditional commons such as foraging commons, the reindeer commons etc .. but also very digital and familiar with digital and media art worlds

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Ruby van der Weeken, ?, we met her in Rio, keen to work with us, very different networks than ours

France

Frédéric Sultan, Vecam/Remix

Nicolas Krausz, FPH,

Wojtek Kalinowski,

Philippe Aigrain, Sopinspace,

Benjamin Coriat

Geneviève Azam, Attac

Hervé Le Crosnier ou Valéry Peugeot

Greece

Greece – Syrisa ? who?; I think it is of utmost importance to have people from Greece (review the ICC list)

Irene Sotiropoulou, PhD candidate from Crete University, Greece, active commoner herself, very knowledgable person about commons and commoning from Greece, Heike „I would say it is a must to have her join the Paris meeting. Rethymnon, GREECE, irene.sotiropoulou@gmail.com

Zemos 98 G eorge Papanikolau, active around open science and genetic commons, but also one of the clearest political/commons thinkers I have met, lives in Athens and I rate him very highly; also writes on info/energy commons issues***

Italy

regarding Italy, I would recommend Bertram Niessen and Zoe Romano as young digital commons production activist who are also good thinkers ; depending on gender balance requirements, I would choose one of them

Saki Bailey, IUC, Campaign for a European Charter on the Commons (USA/Italy)

Tommaso Fattori, relationshop commons and public; ESF, author; instrumental in water commons referendum in Italy

Marco Giustini, very active in Rome politics

Stefano Serafino, extremely intelligent, active in the p2p-urbanism movement and has links with the Chiesa movement (not a member, but actively talking to them about commons approaches) ***

Stefano Rodotta, Professor of Law, Italy ; pioneer of commons thinking in Italy, inspirer of Ugo Mattei and many others

Massimo de Angelis, the Commoner, political scientist, autonomous marxist, co-organizer of Crottorf meeting

Latvia

Rasa Smite, organizer of RICX events, which combine renewable energy and media art worlds, with p2p/commons focus, at the center of a vast network on this topic

Norway

Karthik Iyer, a very smart researcher, bridges east-west divide, has 3 PhD's, has worked for the 4 top FLOSS Companies and specifically focuses his research on commons oriented peer production including new currencies and financial systems; he's Indian ; strongly recommended ***

Spain

Medialab; Madrid ----> see above

Goteo Enric Senabre Hidalgo (founding member). <http://goteo.org/about?lang=en> a very interesting crowdfunding platform and former producer of the urbanlabs project at the Citilab Cornella.; otherwise Olivier Schulbaum*** of Goteo

Joan Subirats, Spain: recently published "Otra sociedad. ? otra politica? de "no nos representan" a la democracia de lo comùn" <http://www.icariaeditorial.com/libros.php?id=1253>see also > http://igop.uab.es/index.php?module=gc&tid=11&pid=6 ; http://igop.uab.es/index.php?module=gc&tid=11&pid=6>

Marco Berlinguer, School of the Commons, has been participating in the support team of ICC and is currently

David de Ugarte, of lasindias.net, remarkable innovative network of distributed enterprise working around shared innovation commons and developer of open source car project for the Mondragon network; very innovative thinking based on blend of civic humanism tradition and ethical markets, author of book on p2p mode of production to be published (someone from lasindias should be there, but in case of gender balance, there is also female leader, whose name escapes me for now)

STAFF

Reporting staff

Jean Lievens from Belgium, very good pen to write about what is being discussed
Chris Pinchen, english person in Berlin, recommended for his podcasting documentary skills

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