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<\/figure>(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nTransformation within organisations<\/h2>\n\n\n\nHow the way we organize our work influences the results of what we do<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nToday, a growing number of companies understand that transforming their business is crucial to their future existence. But they only have vague ideas of where to begin, and the task is becoming more pressing and bigger every day. This input is about theDive\u2019s efforts to foster change from within those companies, and about what \u201etransformed work\u201c means for an organisation like theDive itself. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h5>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- The Loop Approach by Ben Hughes and Sebastian Klein<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Reinventing organisations by Laloux<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Ella Lag\u00e9<\/h2>\n\n\n\n \u2192 The Dive<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\nBorn in Munich, raised in Germany, Italy, Israel and the US, an award winning designer and long term climate activist by heart, my stops along the way so far were with Fjord (service design), betterplace.org, Demos Helsinki and now theDive.com. Content wise, those stops were a strictly user centered approach, thoroughly designed co-creation processes, divestment, narratives about desirable future realities to help clarify what kind of experiments make sense, and organisational development, because people often struggle to bring in their full potential as human beings with creative energy, and the desire to do better as a collective. I live in Berlin with my family, always trying to embrace the unknown.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n <\/h3>\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nWho does the work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\nRethinking labour and livelihood in the interdependence<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nIn this presentation I will consider how diverse economies theories leads us to think differently about livelihoods and the work needed to sustain them. In particular, I focus on the way that in the diverse economy our livelihoods must always be seen as entangled with relationships and obligations of care: the care we must accept from others when we are infants, we are vulnerable, when we share a household with others who contribute to the cooking or the cleaning, when we breathe the oxygen that the trees help to create; the care we provide to others whether with love or cash or kindness; and the ways that we care for ourselves, guarding our self interest or simply getting enough sleep from time to time! This talk will explore the question of who does the necessary work of care that enables us to sustain our livelihoods, and the relations of interdependency between these workers. I argue that a fair account must begin with recognition that life and livelihood are collective endeavours. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h5>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- My book and recorded talk about \u2018Birthing Work: The collective labour of childbirth\u2019 that elaborates a vision of the interdependencies and distributed agencies through the context of childbirth and maternity care: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/456783739<\/a>, (pdf copy is attached and I\u2019m happy for this to go out to participants free of charge)<\/li>
- More examples, resources, and literature are available at the Community Economies web page: http:\/\/communityeconomies.org\/<\/a><\/li>
- Another important book: Ethan Miller (2019) Reimagining LivelihoodsLife beyond Economy, Society, and Environment <\/em>Minnesota University Press.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Katharine McKinnon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\u2192 Community Economies<\/a>, Centre for Sustainable Communities<\/a>, University of Canberra, Australia<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor Katharine McKinnon is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Communities at the University of Canberra. For the past 20 years, she has worked with a broad range of communities in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, engaging in qualitative and participatory social research for community learning and development. Her current research considers questions of; how to achieve gender equity in ways that suit the lives and livelihoods of people in their different places and communities; how to reshape enterprises and organizations around priorities of care and inclusivity; and how to put ethics of care for people and environment at the heart of economies and livelihoods. She currently volunteers as Chair of the inaugural Board of the Directors for the Community Economies Institute, a not-for-profit member-based organization dedicated to furthering research, education, and advocacy for economic practices shaped around an ethical concern for that \u2018surviving well together\u2019.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nQuestions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n- How to enact interdependent relations of care in and through livelihoods?<\/li>
- What are the practices, tactics, and experiments that enable care to be the starting point for economic relations?<\/li>
- Care for the more-than-human is an obligation that accompanies the recognition of care as entangled in all our livelihoods and economies.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nFeral Business Coaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\nReclaiming the arts of coaching as a grassroots resource<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nArtist, trader, and feral business coach Kate Rich has been working in the margins of art and business for the past 20 years. Today she will introduce the practice of feral business coaching, which merges materials and methods from life coaching, business strategy, feminist economics, dramaturgy, divination, DIY, art, and design. Feral business coaching offers a focused space to think creatively and experimentally on the powerful and delicate subjects of business and livelihood. It is also something we can do together here and now. In the end, nothing will be solved, but new understandings might be opened.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- What can business coaching for a radically rethought economy look like?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Kate Rich<\/h2>\n\n\n\ntrade artist and feral economist \u2192 Feral Business Coaching<\/a> \/ feral trade<\/a> \/ Cube-Cola<\/a>, Australia\/UK<\/h5>\n\n\n\nKate Rich is an artist, trader, and feral economist, normally living in Bristol UK. Since 2003 she has run Feral Trade, an artist-operated grocery business trading goods across mixed terrain of art, social networks, and the commodity sphere. Kate is a volunteer finance manager at Bristol\u2019s Cube Cinema, a land-based member of the Sail Cargo Alliance, and part of the Cube-Cola manufacturing partnership, a kitchen-based operation making an open-source fizzy drink with worldwide distribution. In 2019 she co-founded the Feral Livelihood Coaching Collective, a trans-local team of artists, designers, and ecologists who are working to reclaim the contaminated art of business coaching as a grassroots
community resource. She is currently testing out the curriculum for the Feral MBA, a radically different training course in business for artists and others.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n <\/h3>\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nCAPS LOCK<\/h2>\n\n\n\nOn the history of design work and how the commons can help change its toxic nature<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nCapitalism could not exist without the coins, notes, documents, graphics, interfaces, branding, and advertisements; artifacts that have been (partly) created by graphic designers. Even anti-consumerist strategies such as social design and speculative design are being appropriated within capitalist societies to serve economic growth. It seems that design is locked in a system of exploitation and profit, a cycle that fosters inequality and the depletion of natural resources.
This lecture will emphasize the role of design work in this predicament, which is characterized by overwork, competition, and only values individual achievement. In fact, design work is highly collective and needs to be based on care rather than competition. Involving ideas of the commons, acknowledging the role of unpaid domestic and reproductive labour, and the role of professionalism and \u2018official\u2019 design standards can lead us to a more healthy form of design work.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nCAPS LOCK (Valiz, 2021) is the second book by Ruben Pater after The Politics of Design (BIS, 2016).<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nRuben Pater<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\u2192 The Politics of Design,<\/a> CAPS LOCK<\/a>, Netherlands<\/h5>\n\n\n\nRuben Pater (1977, NL) works between journalism and graphic design. Under the name Untold Stories, Pater creates visual narratives that support solidarity, justice, and equality. Pater finds himself being a designer at a time when design is the last thing the world needs. Until more ethical approaches present themselves, he designs, writes, and teaches. He is a tutor at the BA Graphic Design and the MA Non Linear Narrative at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. The Politics of Design (BIS, 2016), is his first book about cultural bias in graphic design. His second book CAPS LOCK (Valiz, 2021) looks at the role of graphic design in capitalism. Pater is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER + WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nOrganizing transformative work<\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe perspective of participatory design research<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nEngaging in transformative work through participatory approaches requires an extensive set of
complementary skills and competencies. Those range from understanding the problems at hand from the
point of view of the multiplicity of social actors involved to the transformation of this understanding in
multiple artifacts, passing through the evaluation of the overall process and its products. In this talk, I will
rely upon the experience of organizing two EU-funded participatory design projects, Common fare and
Grassroots Radio, to present potential approaches to the problem of organizing transformative work.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- Ann Light in conversation with Phil Jones \u2013 Design, Technology, and Social Justice
https:\/\/youtu.be\/wOg5CMR9HI4
<\/a><\/li>- Costanza-Chock, Sasha. 2020. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need.
Information Policy. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.
<\/li> - Kim Stanley Robinson, The Mars Trilogy – https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars_trilogy<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Maurizio Teli<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\u2192 Design Research with a focus in Participatory Design & Commoning<\/h5>\n\n\n\nMaurizio Teli is Associate Professor of Techno-Anthropology and Participation at the Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark. He works at the intersection of participatory design, the analysis of socio-economic inequalities, and critical theories. He investigates how to co-design technologies contributing to commoning practices, with a particular focus on collaborations with grassroots initiatives. He serves on the editorial board and program committee of international journals and conferences in interaction design, co-design, and participatory design. He is now chairing the Center for Sustainable and Digital Transformation at the Technical Faculty of IT and Design at Aalborg University.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- How can we organize collaboration among different professionals when we want to bring
transformations?<\/li> - How are the artifacts of design, the means of production, and the products of work, playing a role in such
an organization?<\/li> - How can transformative collaborations be transnational and local at the same time?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP + 7×7 Talk)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nOn Ecosystems of Work: Inner and Outer<\/h2>\n\n\n\nComposting infrastructures of separation and honouring human and multispecies ecological communities<\/h4>\n\n\n\nHow can work be a process of collective unfurling, where there is space for more attentive and caring engagement with an indefinitely broad spectrum of agencies, human and more-than-human? Life is a connected phenomenon, yet we often don\u2019t notice the patterns of interdependencies. In this 7 min quickie, we’ll introduce some ideas for work ethics that are offering to look into forming ethical coalitions in ecosystems of abundance, fostering diversity, and commoning as a way towards strategies for co-flourishing.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- ‘Symbiotic Planet’ by Lynn Margulis<\/li>
- Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era<\/li>
- ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/li>
- Bonus: Marx for Cats: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/marxforcats<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Sabina En\u00e9a T\u00e9ari – Foresta Collective<\/h2>\n\n\n\nForesta Collective is a fluid collective of humans and not only, exploring potentials for living in more conscious, regenerative, and poetic ways. Our work unfolds through collective practice and research, spaces of (re)connection, sensuous storytelling, and experiential learning for becoming and growing in human and multispecies ways. Dedicated to ecological futures. Rooted in embodied culture, art thinking and making, transdisciplinary tissues, and reciprocity with the living world.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- What is decommodification and de-professionalization of work?<\/li>
- How do you land visions for working relationships rooted in attention and care for multispecies worlds? <\/li>
- In a transition from extractive to regenerative economies and cultures of work, what does it mean to take commons to heart? What would a society of citizens as commoners look like? <\/li>
- What does it mean for our individual and collective work, i.e. a society and economy that function as common pools of shared knowledge and intentions, in every domain of social activity?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nNameGame<\/h2>\n\n\n\nRevisited<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nLike in Grimm\u2019s fairytale \u201eRumpelstilzchen\u201c, it\u2019s not easy to stick a name to what makes us spin, what sucks us dry, what creates an unmeasurable wealth for some, unmeasurable choices for consumption for many and deep exhaustion for those who toil in the marketing departments, and\/or the Amazon warehouses: is it called post-fordism? is it called semio-capitalism? is it called the end of the world? In 2002 and 2003, in the aftermath of the dot.com<\/a> economy crash, artists Ingo Vetter and Annette Weisser hosted two workshops under the title \u201eNameGame” at Halle f\u00fcr Kunst, L\u00fcneburg, and Forum Stadtpark, Graz. They invited artists, writers, curators, web designers, journalists, and other members of the so-called \u201ecreative class\u201c. Collectively, they tried to figure out how we work, to what extend social relationships are always already a part of our work environment, and if any form of political mobilizing beyond these life\/work relationships is even conceivable. “NameGame \u2013 Revisited” will take up these questions from the perspective of 20 years later. Where are we now?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- https:\/\/www.eflux.com\/journal\/20\/67633\/cognitarian-subjectivation\/<\/a><\/li>
- melanie gilligan: popular unrest http:\/\/popularunrest.org\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- heike geissler: saisonarbeit, spector books, 2014 <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- seasonal associate, 2019, semiotext(e)
<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nAnnette Weisser<\/h2>\n\n\n\nAnnette Weisser is a visual artist and writer based in Berlin. She is currently teaching at Kunsthochschule Kassel. From 2006 to 2019 she lived in Los Angeles and taught at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena. Recurrent themes in her work of recent years are historical trauma and collective vs. individual identity construction. In her collaborative work with artist Ingo Vetter from 1996 to 2006, she explored the heterotopic potential of public gardens, urban gardening as symbolic practice, artistic strategies for public spaces, and issues of creative labor. She is a founding member of Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop. Her first novel “Mycelium” has been published by semiotext(e), Los Angeles, in 2019. She is currently working on her second novel.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- Is your work environment what you expect it to be while you were in art school or university?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- (For students: What do you expect your work environment to look like in 10 years?)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- What would you like to change about your work environment?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Do you consider yourself privileged?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nRevolutionary Affinity Goups – Towards life-long political work !<\/h2>\n\n\n\nHow to trick capitalism and use your own privilege for radical change<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nThe Question around livelihoods in the sphere of radical activism is closely linked to the observation, that many people stop being politically active after some years. We argue that time has come to organize radically differently. Political work has too often been a leisure time – issue! Within the workshop we want to develop a critique of capitalism and discuss alternative forms of working together, that are based on the sharing of resources, taking responsibility for one another, and sharing the passion for radical change.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- Video: Unboxing capitalism https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JSGuy3LA-d0<\/a>;<\/li>
- Book: Beziehungsweise Revolution – Bini Adamzcak;<\/li>
- Book: Crack Capitalism – John Holloway<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Fritz<\/h2>\n\n\n\nFritz is a german-argentine geographer and activist within the anti-capitalist climate justice movement. In his Bachelor Thesis, he explored different perspectives on intersectional perspectives on the climate as well as on capitalism. But as theory needs to come into practice he became part of Solidaritree and organized actions, workshops, and else around the topics of commons, redistribution, coal mining, and climate justice.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- Why are live decisions so often linked to perspectives of career and wages instead of a feeling or analysis of sense?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- What role does the concept of a nuclear family play within our western capitalist societies?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- How can a revolution practically look like in our industrialized countries?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nThe idea machine<\/h2>\n\n\n\nGet active as we redesign the meaning of labour<\/h4>\n\n\n\nHow to earn a living by doing what we love and what we believe in?
Using the inspiration we get through the frame of this conference, I want to create space for an exchange between the participants who are a source of inspiration themselves. In this workshop, we will exchange visions, hopes, and ideas with an aim to answer various aspects of the larger question, “what could work look like?”. Together with Chiara Sterzl and Eric Whyte, I developed a tool that leverages a co-creation process, leading participants from topic identification to actual implementation.
Under the motto \u201dredefine, redesign, redo\u201d, individual parts of the tool will be used to develop concrete solutions for the following questions:
How can existing jobs be turned into transformative work? What may be an alternative to conventional work in the future?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- https:\/\/en.resonanz-zeitalter.com<\/a> by Linda Sophie Ni\u00dflbeck and Louisa Wolf (online exhibition)<\/li>
- Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World by Hartmut Rosa (book)<\/li>
- unruly edges: mushrooms as companion species by Anna Tsing (paper)<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Julia Sauter<\/h2>\n\n\n\nJulia is a social and transformative designer, focusing on the impact of her work. She specializes in design thinking processes and solution-orientated projects. She began speculating about future changes during her BA in Communications Design, which she studied in W\u00fcrzburg, Italy, and New York. In Bolzano, Julia found a perfect combination of her passion for mountains and nature and her vision for creating a fairer and more sustainable future. At the Free University of Bolzano, she studies the master of eco-social design and works as a freelance Designer. As a climate activist, she supports ProtectOurWinters Italy with Design work and spends her free time seeking the next adventures. Excited about: sociology, ethical debates, and the mystery of human behaviors.
Looking forward to: speculate about the future of work, together with you.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- How do we want to spend our time?<\/li>
- Why do we measure wealth with money?<\/li>
- What can be alternatives?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nThe good, the ugly and the economist<\/h2>\n\n\n\nA short intro on the beauty and evil of economics<\/h4>\n\n\n\nWe will go through a very brief history of economics as a “science”. I will try to show with examples and little experiments that economics is very different from what people think about it. I will finally list and explain the big open questions that economics must answer to help humanity. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- https:\/\/freakonomics.com\/archive\/<\/a><\/li>
- https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/<\/a><\/li>
- Book: Thinking, fast and slow: Daniel Kahneman<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Paolo Roberti<\/h2>\n\n\n\nI am an assistant professor at the faculty of economics and management (unibz). My research focuses on the incentives that drive the implementation of different policies by politicians, legislators, and autocrats. That has to do with economics somehow. <\/em><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
How the way we organize our work influences the results of what we do<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nToday, a growing number of companies understand that transforming their business is crucial to their future existence. But they only have vague ideas of where to begin, and the task is becoming more pressing and bigger every day. This input is about theDive\u2019s efforts to foster change from within those companies, and about what \u201etransformed work\u201c means for an organisation like theDive itself. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h5>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- The Loop Approach by Ben Hughes and Sebastian Klein<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Reinventing organisations by Laloux<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Ella Lag\u00e9<\/h2>\n\n\n\n \u2192 The Dive<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\nBorn in Munich, raised in Germany, Italy, Israel and the US, an award winning designer and long term climate activist by heart, my stops along the way so far were with Fjord (service design), betterplace.org, Demos Helsinki and now theDive.com. Content wise, those stops were a strictly user centered approach, thoroughly designed co-creation processes, divestment, narratives about desirable future realities to help clarify what kind of experiments make sense, and organisational development, because people often struggle to bring in their full potential as human beings with creative energy, and the desire to do better as a collective. I live in Berlin with my family, always trying to embrace the unknown.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n <\/h3>\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nWho does the work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\nRethinking labour and livelihood in the interdependence<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nIn this presentation I will consider how diverse economies theories leads us to think differently about livelihoods and the work needed to sustain them. In particular, I focus on the way that in the diverse economy our livelihoods must always be seen as entangled with relationships and obligations of care: the care we must accept from others when we are infants, we are vulnerable, when we share a household with others who contribute to the cooking or the cleaning, when we breathe the oxygen that the trees help to create; the care we provide to others whether with love or cash or kindness; and the ways that we care for ourselves, guarding our self interest or simply getting enough sleep from time to time! This talk will explore the question of who does the necessary work of care that enables us to sustain our livelihoods, and the relations of interdependency between these workers. I argue that a fair account must begin with recognition that life and livelihood are collective endeavours. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h5>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- My book and recorded talk about \u2018Birthing Work: The collective labour of childbirth\u2019 that elaborates a vision of the interdependencies and distributed agencies through the context of childbirth and maternity care: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/456783739<\/a>, (pdf copy is attached and I\u2019m happy for this to go out to participants free of charge)<\/li>
- More examples, resources, and literature are available at the Community Economies web page: http:\/\/communityeconomies.org\/<\/a><\/li>
- Another important book: Ethan Miller (2019) Reimagining LivelihoodsLife beyond Economy, Society, and Environment <\/em>Minnesota University Press.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Katharine McKinnon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\u2192 Community Economies<\/a>, Centre for Sustainable Communities<\/a>, University of Canberra, Australia<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor Katharine McKinnon is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Communities at the University of Canberra. For the past 20 years, she has worked with a broad range of communities in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, engaging in qualitative and participatory social research for community learning and development. Her current research considers questions of; how to achieve gender equity in ways that suit the lives and livelihoods of people in their different places and communities; how to reshape enterprises and organizations around priorities of care and inclusivity; and how to put ethics of care for people and environment at the heart of economies and livelihoods. She currently volunteers as Chair of the inaugural Board of the Directors for the Community Economies Institute, a not-for-profit member-based organization dedicated to furthering research, education, and advocacy for economic practices shaped around an ethical concern for that \u2018surviving well together\u2019.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nQuestions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n- How to enact interdependent relations of care in and through livelihoods?<\/li>
- What are the practices, tactics, and experiments that enable care to be the starting point for economic relations?<\/li>
- Care for the more-than-human is an obligation that accompanies the recognition of care as entangled in all our livelihoods and economies.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nFeral Business Coaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\nReclaiming the arts of coaching as a grassroots resource<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nArtist, trader, and feral business coach Kate Rich has been working in the margins of art and business for the past 20 years. Today she will introduce the practice of feral business coaching, which merges materials and methods from life coaching, business strategy, feminist economics, dramaturgy, divination, DIY, art, and design. Feral business coaching offers a focused space to think creatively and experimentally on the powerful and delicate subjects of business and livelihood. It is also something we can do together here and now. In the end, nothing will be solved, but new understandings might be opened.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- What can business coaching for a radically rethought economy look like?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Kate Rich<\/h2>\n\n\n\ntrade artist and feral economist \u2192 Feral Business Coaching<\/a> \/ feral trade<\/a> \/ Cube-Cola<\/a>, Australia\/UK<\/h5>\n\n\n\nKate Rich is an artist, trader, and feral economist, normally living in Bristol UK. Since 2003 she has run Feral Trade, an artist-operated grocery business trading goods across mixed terrain of art, social networks, and the commodity sphere. Kate is a volunteer finance manager at Bristol\u2019s Cube Cinema, a land-based member of the Sail Cargo Alliance, and part of the Cube-Cola manufacturing partnership, a kitchen-based operation making an open-source fizzy drink with worldwide distribution. In 2019 she co-founded the Feral Livelihood Coaching Collective, a trans-local team of artists, designers, and ecologists who are working to reclaim the contaminated art of business coaching as a grassroots
community resource. She is currently testing out the curriculum for the Feral MBA, a radically different training course in business for artists and others.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n <\/h3>\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nCAPS LOCK<\/h2>\n\n\n\nOn the history of design work and how the commons can help change its toxic nature<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nCapitalism could not exist without the coins, notes, documents, graphics, interfaces, branding, and advertisements; artifacts that have been (partly) created by graphic designers. Even anti-consumerist strategies such as social design and speculative design are being appropriated within capitalist societies to serve economic growth. It seems that design is locked in a system of exploitation and profit, a cycle that fosters inequality and the depletion of natural resources.
This lecture will emphasize the role of design work in this predicament, which is characterized by overwork, competition, and only values individual achievement. In fact, design work is highly collective and needs to be based on care rather than competition. Involving ideas of the commons, acknowledging the role of unpaid domestic and reproductive labour, and the role of professionalism and \u2018official\u2019 design standards can lead us to a more healthy form of design work.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nCAPS LOCK (Valiz, 2021) is the second book by Ruben Pater after The Politics of Design (BIS, 2016).<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nRuben Pater<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\u2192 The Politics of Design,<\/a> CAPS LOCK<\/a>, Netherlands<\/h5>\n\n\n\nRuben Pater (1977, NL) works between journalism and graphic design. Under the name Untold Stories, Pater creates visual narratives that support solidarity, justice, and equality. Pater finds himself being a designer at a time when design is the last thing the world needs. Until more ethical approaches present themselves, he designs, writes, and teaches. He is a tutor at the BA Graphic Design and the MA Non Linear Narrative at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. The Politics of Design (BIS, 2016), is his first book about cultural bias in graphic design. His second book CAPS LOCK (Valiz, 2021) looks at the role of graphic design in capitalism. Pater is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER + WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nOrganizing transformative work<\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe perspective of participatory design research<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nEngaging in transformative work through participatory approaches requires an extensive set of
complementary skills and competencies. Those range from understanding the problems at hand from the
point of view of the multiplicity of social actors involved to the transformation of this understanding in
multiple artifacts, passing through the evaluation of the overall process and its products. In this talk, I will
rely upon the experience of organizing two EU-funded participatory design projects, Common fare and
Grassroots Radio, to present potential approaches to the problem of organizing transformative work.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- Ann Light in conversation with Phil Jones \u2013 Design, Technology, and Social Justice
https:\/\/youtu.be\/wOg5CMR9HI4
<\/a><\/li>- Costanza-Chock, Sasha. 2020. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need.
Information Policy. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.
<\/li> - Kim Stanley Robinson, The Mars Trilogy – https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars_trilogy<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Maurizio Teli<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\u2192 Design Research with a focus in Participatory Design & Commoning<\/h5>\n\n\n\nMaurizio Teli is Associate Professor of Techno-Anthropology and Participation at the Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark. He works at the intersection of participatory design, the analysis of socio-economic inequalities, and critical theories. He investigates how to co-design technologies contributing to commoning practices, with a particular focus on collaborations with grassroots initiatives. He serves on the editorial board and program committee of international journals and conferences in interaction design, co-design, and participatory design. He is now chairing the Center for Sustainable and Digital Transformation at the Technical Faculty of IT and Design at Aalborg University.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- How can we organize collaboration among different professionals when we want to bring
transformations?<\/li> - How are the artifacts of design, the means of production, and the products of work, playing a role in such
an organization?<\/li> - How can transformative collaborations be transnational and local at the same time?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP + 7×7 Talk)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nOn Ecosystems of Work: Inner and Outer<\/h2>\n\n\n\nComposting infrastructures of separation and honouring human and multispecies ecological communities<\/h4>\n\n\n\nHow can work be a process of collective unfurling, where there is space for more attentive and caring engagement with an indefinitely broad spectrum of agencies, human and more-than-human? Life is a connected phenomenon, yet we often don\u2019t notice the patterns of interdependencies. In this 7 min quickie, we’ll introduce some ideas for work ethics that are offering to look into forming ethical coalitions in ecosystems of abundance, fostering diversity, and commoning as a way towards strategies for co-flourishing.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- ‘Symbiotic Planet’ by Lynn Margulis<\/li>
- Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era<\/li>
- ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/li>
- Bonus: Marx for Cats: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/marxforcats<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Sabina En\u00e9a T\u00e9ari – Foresta Collective<\/h2>\n\n\n\nForesta Collective is a fluid collective of humans and not only, exploring potentials for living in more conscious, regenerative, and poetic ways. Our work unfolds through collective practice and research, spaces of (re)connection, sensuous storytelling, and experiential learning for becoming and growing in human and multispecies ways. Dedicated to ecological futures. Rooted in embodied culture, art thinking and making, transdisciplinary tissues, and reciprocity with the living world.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- What is decommodification and de-professionalization of work?<\/li>
- How do you land visions for working relationships rooted in attention and care for multispecies worlds? <\/li>
- In a transition from extractive to regenerative economies and cultures of work, what does it mean to take commons to heart? What would a society of citizens as commoners look like? <\/li>
- What does it mean for our individual and collective work, i.e. a society and economy that function as common pools of shared knowledge and intentions, in every domain of social activity?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nNameGame<\/h2>\n\n\n\nRevisited<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nLike in Grimm\u2019s fairytale \u201eRumpelstilzchen\u201c, it\u2019s not easy to stick a name to what makes us spin, what sucks us dry, what creates an unmeasurable wealth for some, unmeasurable choices for consumption for many and deep exhaustion for those who toil in the marketing departments, and\/or the Amazon warehouses: is it called post-fordism? is it called semio-capitalism? is it called the end of the world? In 2002 and 2003, in the aftermath of the dot.com<\/a> economy crash, artists Ingo Vetter and Annette Weisser hosted two workshops under the title \u201eNameGame” at Halle f\u00fcr Kunst, L\u00fcneburg, and Forum Stadtpark, Graz. They invited artists, writers, curators, web designers, journalists, and other members of the so-called \u201ecreative class\u201c. Collectively, they tried to figure out how we work, to what extend social relationships are always already a part of our work environment, and if any form of political mobilizing beyond these life\/work relationships is even conceivable. “NameGame \u2013 Revisited” will take up these questions from the perspective of 20 years later. Where are we now?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- https:\/\/www.eflux.com\/journal\/20\/67633\/cognitarian-subjectivation\/<\/a><\/li>
- melanie gilligan: popular unrest http:\/\/popularunrest.org\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- heike geissler: saisonarbeit, spector books, 2014 <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- seasonal associate, 2019, semiotext(e)
<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nAnnette Weisser<\/h2>\n\n\n\nAnnette Weisser is a visual artist and writer based in Berlin. She is currently teaching at Kunsthochschule Kassel. From 2006 to 2019 she lived in Los Angeles and taught at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena. Recurrent themes in her work of recent years are historical trauma and collective vs. individual identity construction. In her collaborative work with artist Ingo Vetter from 1996 to 2006, she explored the heterotopic potential of public gardens, urban gardening as symbolic practice, artistic strategies for public spaces, and issues of creative labor. She is a founding member of Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop. Her first novel “Mycelium” has been published by semiotext(e), Los Angeles, in 2019. She is currently working on her second novel.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- Is your work environment what you expect it to be while you were in art school or university?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- (For students: What do you expect your work environment to look like in 10 years?)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- What would you like to change about your work environment?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Do you consider yourself privileged?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nRevolutionary Affinity Goups – Towards life-long political work !<\/h2>\n\n\n\nHow to trick capitalism and use your own privilege for radical change<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nThe Question around livelihoods in the sphere of radical activism is closely linked to the observation, that many people stop being politically active after some years. We argue that time has come to organize radically differently. Political work has too often been a leisure time – issue! Within the workshop we want to develop a critique of capitalism and discuss alternative forms of working together, that are based on the sharing of resources, taking responsibility for one another, and sharing the passion for radical change.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- Video: Unboxing capitalism https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JSGuy3LA-d0<\/a>;<\/li>
- Book: Beziehungsweise Revolution – Bini Adamzcak;<\/li>
- Book: Crack Capitalism – John Holloway<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Fritz<\/h2>\n\n\n\nFritz is a german-argentine geographer and activist within the anti-capitalist climate justice movement. In his Bachelor Thesis, he explored different perspectives on intersectional perspectives on the climate as well as on capitalism. But as theory needs to come into practice he became part of Solidaritree and organized actions, workshops, and else around the topics of commons, redistribution, coal mining, and climate justice.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- Why are live decisions so often linked to perspectives of career and wages instead of a feeling or analysis of sense?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- What role does the concept of a nuclear family play within our western capitalist societies?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- How can a revolution practically look like in our industrialized countries?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nThe idea machine<\/h2>\n\n\n\nGet active as we redesign the meaning of labour<\/h4>\n\n\n\nHow to earn a living by doing what we love and what we believe in?
Using the inspiration we get through the frame of this conference, I want to create space for an exchange between the participants who are a source of inspiration themselves. In this workshop, we will exchange visions, hopes, and ideas with an aim to answer various aspects of the larger question, “what could work look like?”. Together with Chiara Sterzl and Eric Whyte, I developed a tool that leverages a co-creation process, leading participants from topic identification to actual implementation.
Under the motto \u201dredefine, redesign, redo\u201d, individual parts of the tool will be used to develop concrete solutions for the following questions:
How can existing jobs be turned into transformative work? What may be an alternative to conventional work in the future?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- https:\/\/en.resonanz-zeitalter.com<\/a> by Linda Sophie Ni\u00dflbeck and Louisa Wolf (online exhibition)<\/li>
- Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World by Hartmut Rosa (book)<\/li>
- unruly edges: mushrooms as companion species by Anna Tsing (paper)<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Julia Sauter<\/h2>\n\n\n\nJulia is a social and transformative designer, focusing on the impact of her work. She specializes in design thinking processes and solution-orientated projects. She began speculating about future changes during her BA in Communications Design, which she studied in W\u00fcrzburg, Italy, and New York. In Bolzano, Julia found a perfect combination of her passion for mountains and nature and her vision for creating a fairer and more sustainable future. At the Free University of Bolzano, she studies the master of eco-social design and works as a freelance Designer. As a climate activist, she supports ProtectOurWinters Italy with Design work and spends her free time seeking the next adventures. Excited about: sociology, ethical debates, and the mystery of human behaviors.
Looking forward to: speculate about the future of work, together with you.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- How do we want to spend our time?<\/li>
- Why do we measure wealth with money?<\/li>
- What can be alternatives?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/h2>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nThe good, the ugly and the economist<\/h2>\n\n\n\nA short intro on the beauty and evil of economics<\/h4>\n\n\n\nWe will go through a very brief history of economics as a “science”. I will try to show with examples and little experiments that economics is very different from what people think about it. I will finally list and explain the big open questions that economics must answer to help humanity. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- https:\/\/freakonomics.com\/archive\/<\/a><\/li>
- https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/<\/a><\/li>
- Book: Thinking, fast and slow: Daniel Kahneman<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Paolo Roberti<\/h2>\n\n\n\nI am an assistant professor at the faculty of economics and management (unibz). My research focuses on the incentives that drive the implementation of different policies by politicians, legislators, and autocrats. That has to do with economics somehow. <\/em><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/h5>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- The Loop Approach by Ben Hughes and Sebastian Klein<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Reinventing organisations by Laloux<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Ella Lag\u00e9<\/h2>\n\n\n\n \u2192 The Dive<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\nBorn in Munich, raised in Germany, Italy, Israel and the US, an award winning designer and long term climate activist by heart, my stops along the way so far were with Fjord (service design), betterplace.org, Demos Helsinki and now theDive.com. Content wise, those stops were a strictly user centered approach, thoroughly designed co-creation processes, divestment, narratives about desirable future realities to help clarify what kind of experiments make sense, and organisational development, because people often struggle to bring in their full potential as human beings with creative energy, and the desire to do better as a collective. I live in Berlin with my family, always trying to embrace the unknown.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n <\/h3>\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nWho does the work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\nRethinking labour and livelihood in the interdependence<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nIn this presentation I will consider how diverse economies theories leads us to think differently about livelihoods and the work needed to sustain them. In particular, I focus on the way that in the diverse economy our livelihoods must always be seen as entangled with relationships and obligations of care: the care we must accept from others when we are infants, we are vulnerable, when we share a household with others who contribute to the cooking or the cleaning, when we breathe the oxygen that the trees help to create; the care we provide to others whether with love or cash or kindness; and the ways that we care for ourselves, guarding our self interest or simply getting enough sleep from time to time! This talk will explore the question of who does the necessary work of care that enables us to sustain our livelihoods, and the relations of interdependency between these workers. I argue that a fair account must begin with recognition that life and livelihood are collective endeavours. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h5>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- My book and recorded talk about \u2018Birthing Work: The collective labour of childbirth\u2019 that elaborates a vision of the interdependencies and distributed agencies through the context of childbirth and maternity care: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/456783739<\/a>, (pdf copy is attached and I\u2019m happy for this to go out to participants free of charge)<\/li>
- More examples, resources, and literature are available at the Community Economies web page: http:\/\/communityeconomies.org\/<\/a><\/li>
- Another important book: Ethan Miller (2019) Reimagining LivelihoodsLife beyond Economy, Society, and Environment <\/em>Minnesota University Press.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Katharine McKinnon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\u2192 Community Economies<\/a>, Centre for Sustainable Communities<\/a>, University of Canberra, Australia<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor Katharine McKinnon is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Communities at the University of Canberra. For the past 20 years, she has worked with a broad range of communities in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, engaging in qualitative and participatory social research for community learning and development. Her current research considers questions of; how to achieve gender equity in ways that suit the lives and livelihoods of people in their different places and communities; how to reshape enterprises and organizations around priorities of care and inclusivity; and how to put ethics of care for people and environment at the heart of economies and livelihoods. She currently volunteers as Chair of the inaugural Board of the Directors for the Community Economies Institute, a not-for-profit member-based organization dedicated to furthering research, education, and advocacy for economic practices shaped around an ethical concern for that \u2018surviving well together\u2019.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nQuestions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n- How to enact interdependent relations of care in and through livelihoods?<\/li>
- What are the practices, tactics, and experiments that enable care to be the starting point for economic relations?<\/li>
- Care for the more-than-human is an obligation that accompanies the recognition of care as entangled in all our livelihoods and economies.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nFeral Business Coaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\nReclaiming the arts of coaching as a grassroots resource<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nArtist, trader, and feral business coach Kate Rich has been working in the margins of art and business for the past 20 years. Today she will introduce the practice of feral business coaching, which merges materials and methods from life coaching, business strategy, feminist economics, dramaturgy, divination, DIY, art, and design. Feral business coaching offers a focused space to think creatively and experimentally on the powerful and delicate subjects of business and livelihood. It is also something we can do together here and now. In the end, nothing will be solved, but new understandings might be opened.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- What can business coaching for a radically rethought economy look like?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Kate Rich<\/h2>\n\n\n\ntrade artist and feral economist \u2192 Feral Business Coaching<\/a> \/ feral trade<\/a> \/ Cube-Cola<\/a>, Australia\/UK<\/h5>\n\n\n\nKate Rich is an artist, trader, and feral economist, normally living in Bristol UK. Since 2003 she has run Feral Trade, an artist-operated grocery business trading goods across mixed terrain of art, social networks, and the commodity sphere. Kate is a volunteer finance manager at Bristol\u2019s Cube Cinema, a land-based member of the Sail Cargo Alliance, and part of the Cube-Cola manufacturing partnership, a kitchen-based operation making an open-source fizzy drink with worldwide distribution. In 2019 she co-founded the Feral Livelihood Coaching Collective, a trans-local team of artists, designers, and ecologists who are working to reclaim the contaminated art of business coaching as a grassroots
community resource. She is currently testing out the curriculum for the Feral MBA, a radically different training course in business for artists and others.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n <\/h3>\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nCAPS LOCK<\/h2>\n\n\n\nOn the history of design work and how the commons can help change its toxic nature<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nCapitalism could not exist without the coins, notes, documents, graphics, interfaces, branding, and advertisements; artifacts that have been (partly) created by graphic designers. Even anti-consumerist strategies such as social design and speculative design are being appropriated within capitalist societies to serve economic growth. It seems that design is locked in a system of exploitation and profit, a cycle that fosters inequality and the depletion of natural resources.
This lecture will emphasize the role of design work in this predicament, which is characterized by overwork, competition, and only values individual achievement. In fact, design work is highly collective and needs to be based on care rather than competition. Involving ideas of the commons, acknowledging the role of unpaid domestic and reproductive labour, and the role of professionalism and \u2018official\u2019 design standards can lead us to a more healthy form of design work.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nCAPS LOCK (Valiz, 2021) is the second book by Ruben Pater after The Politics of Design (BIS, 2016).<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nRuben Pater<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\u2192 The Politics of Design,<\/a> CAPS LOCK<\/a>, Netherlands<\/h5>\n\n\n\nRuben Pater (1977, NL) works between journalism and graphic design. Under the name Untold Stories, Pater creates visual narratives that support solidarity, justice, and equality. Pater finds himself being a designer at a time when design is the last thing the world needs. Until more ethical approaches present themselves, he designs, writes, and teaches. He is a tutor at the BA Graphic Design and the MA Non Linear Narrative at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. The Politics of Design (BIS, 2016), is his first book about cultural bias in graphic design. His second book CAPS LOCK (Valiz, 2021) looks at the role of graphic design in capitalism. Pater is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
untold stories<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n <\/h3>\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER + WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nOrganizing transformative work<\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe perspective of participatory design research<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nEngaging in transformative work through participatory approaches requires an extensive set of
complementary skills and competencies. Those range from understanding the problems at hand from the
point of view of the multiplicity of social actors involved to the transformation of this understanding in
multiple artifacts, passing through the evaluation of the overall process and its products. In this talk, I will
rely upon the experience of organizing two EU-funded participatory design projects, Common fare and
Grassroots Radio, to present potential approaches to the problem of organizing transformative work.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- Ann Light in conversation with Phil Jones \u2013 Design, Technology, and Social Justice
https:\/\/youtu.be\/wOg5CMR9HI4
<\/a><\/li>- Costanza-Chock, Sasha. 2020. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need.
Information Policy. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.
<\/li> - Kim Stanley Robinson, The Mars Trilogy – https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars_trilogy<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Maurizio Teli<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\u2192 Design Research with a focus in Participatory Design & Commoning<\/h5>\n\n\n\nMaurizio Teli is Associate Professor of Techno-Anthropology and Participation at the Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark. He works at the intersection of participatory design, the analysis of socio-economic inequalities, and critical theories. He investigates how to co-design technologies contributing to commoning practices, with a particular focus on collaborations with grassroots initiatives. He serves on the editorial board and program committee of international journals and conferences in interaction design, co-design, and participatory design. He is now chairing the Center for Sustainable and Digital Transformation at the Technical Faculty of IT and Design at Aalborg University.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- How can we organize collaboration among different professionals when we want to bring
transformations?<\/li> - How are the artifacts of design, the means of production, and the products of work, playing a role in such
an organization?<\/li> - How can transformative collaborations be transnational and local at the same time?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP + 7×7 Talk)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nOn Ecosystems of Work: Inner and Outer<\/h2>\n\n\n\nComposting infrastructures of separation and honouring human and multispecies ecological communities<\/h4>\n\n\n\nHow can work be a process of collective unfurling, where there is space for more attentive and caring engagement with an indefinitely broad spectrum of agencies, human and more-than-human? Life is a connected phenomenon, yet we often don\u2019t notice the patterns of interdependencies. In this 7 min quickie, we’ll introduce some ideas for work ethics that are offering to look into forming ethical coalitions in ecosystems of abundance, fostering diversity, and commoning as a way towards strategies for co-flourishing.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- ‘Symbiotic Planet’ by Lynn Margulis<\/li>
- Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era<\/li>
- ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/li>
- Bonus: Marx for Cats: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/marxforcats<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Sabina En\u00e9a T\u00e9ari – Foresta Collective<\/h2>\n\n\n\nForesta Collective is a fluid collective of humans and not only, exploring potentials for living in more conscious, regenerative, and poetic ways. Our work unfolds through collective practice and research, spaces of (re)connection, sensuous storytelling, and experiential learning for becoming and growing in human and multispecies ways. Dedicated to ecological futures. Rooted in embodied culture, art thinking and making, transdisciplinary tissues, and reciprocity with the living world.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- What is decommodification and de-professionalization of work?<\/li>
- How do you land visions for working relationships rooted in attention and care for multispecies worlds? <\/li>
- In a transition from extractive to regenerative economies and cultures of work, what does it mean to take commons to heart? What would a society of citizens as commoners look like? <\/li>
- What does it mean for our individual and collective work, i.e. a society and economy that function as common pools of shared knowledge and intentions, in every domain of social activity?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nNameGame<\/h2>\n\n\n\nRevisited<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nLike in Grimm\u2019s fairytale \u201eRumpelstilzchen\u201c, it\u2019s not easy to stick a name to what makes us spin, what sucks us dry, what creates an unmeasurable wealth for some, unmeasurable choices for consumption for many and deep exhaustion for those who toil in the marketing departments, and\/or the Amazon warehouses: is it called post-fordism? is it called semio-capitalism? is it called the end of the world? In 2002 and 2003, in the aftermath of the dot.com<\/a> economy crash, artists Ingo Vetter and Annette Weisser hosted two workshops under the title \u201eNameGame” at Halle f\u00fcr Kunst, L\u00fcneburg, and Forum Stadtpark, Graz. They invited artists, writers, curators, web designers, journalists, and other members of the so-called \u201ecreative class\u201c. Collectively, they tried to figure out how we work, to what extend social relationships are always already a part of our work environment, and if any form of political mobilizing beyond these life\/work relationships is even conceivable. “NameGame \u2013 Revisited” will take up these questions from the perspective of 20 years later. Where are we now?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- https:\/\/www.eflux.com\/journal\/20\/67633\/cognitarian-subjectivation\/<\/a><\/li>
- melanie gilligan: popular unrest http:\/\/popularunrest.org\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- heike geissler: saisonarbeit, spector books, 2014 <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- seasonal associate, 2019, semiotext(e)
<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nAnnette Weisser<\/h2>\n\n\n\nAnnette Weisser is a visual artist and writer based in Berlin. She is currently teaching at Kunsthochschule Kassel. From 2006 to 2019 she lived in Los Angeles and taught at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena. Recurrent themes in her work of recent years are historical trauma and collective vs. individual identity construction. In her collaborative work with artist Ingo Vetter from 1996 to 2006, she explored the heterotopic potential of public gardens, urban gardening as symbolic practice, artistic strategies for public spaces, and issues of creative labor. She is a founding member of Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop. Her first novel “Mycelium” has been published by semiotext(e), Los Angeles, in 2019. She is currently working on her second novel.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- Is your work environment what you expect it to be while you were in art school or university?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- (For students: What do you expect your work environment to look like in 10 years?)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- What would you like to change about your work environment?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Do you consider yourself privileged?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nRevolutionary Affinity Goups – Towards life-long political work !<\/h2>\n\n\n\nHow to trick capitalism and use your own privilege for radical change<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nThe Question around livelihoods in the sphere of radical activism is closely linked to the observation, that many people stop being politically active after some years. We argue that time has come to organize radically differently. Political work has too often been a leisure time – issue! Within the workshop we want to develop a critique of capitalism and discuss alternative forms of working together, that are based on the sharing of resources, taking responsibility for one another, and sharing the passion for radical change.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- Video: Unboxing capitalism https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JSGuy3LA-d0<\/a>;<\/li>
- Book: Beziehungsweise Revolution – Bini Adamzcak;<\/li>
- Book: Crack Capitalism – John Holloway<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Fritz<\/h2>\n\n\n\nFritz is a german-argentine geographer and activist within the anti-capitalist climate justice movement. In his Bachelor Thesis, he explored different perspectives on intersectional perspectives on the climate as well as on capitalism. But as theory needs to come into practice he became part of Solidaritree and organized actions, workshops, and else around the topics of commons, redistribution, coal mining, and climate justice.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- Why are live decisions so often linked to perspectives of career and wages instead of a feeling or analysis of sense?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- What role does the concept of a nuclear family play within our western capitalist societies?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- How can a revolution practically look like in our industrialized countries?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nThe idea machine<\/h2>\n\n\n\nGet active as we redesign the meaning of labour<\/h4>\n\n\n\nHow to earn a living by doing what we love and what we believe in?
Using the inspiration we get through the frame of this conference, I want to create space for an exchange between the participants who are a source of inspiration themselves. In this workshop, we will exchange visions, hopes, and ideas with an aim to answer various aspects of the larger question, “what could work look like?”. Together with Chiara Sterzl and Eric Whyte, I developed a tool that leverages a co-creation process, leading participants from topic identification to actual implementation.
Under the motto \u201dredefine, redesign, redo\u201d, individual parts of the tool will be used to develop concrete solutions for the following questions:
How can existing jobs be turned into transformative work? What may be an alternative to conventional work in the future?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- https:\/\/en.resonanz-zeitalter.com<\/a> by Linda Sophie Ni\u00dflbeck and Louisa Wolf (online exhibition)<\/li>
- Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World by Hartmut Rosa (book)<\/li>
- unruly edges: mushrooms as companion species by Anna Tsing (paper)<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Julia Sauter<\/h2>\n\n\n\nJulia is a social and transformative designer, focusing on the impact of her work. She specializes in design thinking processes and solution-orientated projects. She began speculating about future changes during her BA in Communications Design, which she studied in W\u00fcrzburg, Italy, and New York. In Bolzano, Julia found a perfect combination of her passion for mountains and nature and her vision for creating a fairer and more sustainable future. At the Free University of Bolzano, she studies the master of eco-social design and works as a freelance Designer. As a climate activist, she supports ProtectOurWinters Italy with Design work and spends her free time seeking the next adventures. Excited about: sociology, ethical debates, and the mystery of human behaviors.
Looking forward to: speculate about the future of work, together with you.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nQuestions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n- How do we want to spend our time?<\/li>
- Why do we measure wealth with money?<\/li>
- What can be alternatives?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/h2>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\nThe good, the ugly and the economist<\/h2>\n\n\n\nA short intro on the beauty and evil of economics<\/h4>\n\n\n\nWe will go through a very brief history of economics as a “science”. I will try to show with examples and little experiments that economics is very different from what people think about it. I will finally list and explain the big open questions that economics must answer to help humanity. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/h4>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n- https:\/\/freakonomics.com\/archive\/<\/a><\/li>
- https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/<\/a><\/li>
- Book: Thinking, fast and slow: Daniel Kahneman<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Paolo Roberti<\/h2>\n\n\n\nI am an assistant professor at the faculty of economics and management (unibz). My research focuses on the incentives that drive the implementation of different policies by politicians, legislators, and autocrats. That has to do with economics somehow. <\/em><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
- The Loop Approach by Ben Hughes and Sebastian Klein<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Reinventing organisations by Laloux<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Ella Lag\u00e9<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u2192 The Dive<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Born in Munich, raised in Germany, Italy, Israel and the US, an award winning designer and long term climate activist by heart, my stops along the way so far were with Fjord (service design), betterplace.org, Demos Helsinki and now theDive.com. Content wise, those stops were a strictly user centered approach, thoroughly designed co-creation processes, divestment, narratives about desirable future realities to help clarify what kind of experiments make sense, and organisational development, because people often struggle to bring in their full potential as human beings with creative energy, and the desire to do better as a collective. I live in Berlin with my family, always trying to embrace the unknown.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Who does the work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Rethinking labour and livelihood in the interdependence<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
In this presentation I will consider how diverse economies theories leads us to think differently about livelihoods and the work needed to sustain them. In particular, I focus on the way that in the diverse economy our livelihoods must always be seen as entangled with relationships and obligations of care: the care we must accept from others when we are infants, we are vulnerable, when we share a household with others who contribute to the cooking or the cleaning, when we breathe the oxygen that the trees help to create; the care we provide to others whether with love or cash or kindness; and the ways that we care for ourselves, guarding our self interest or simply getting enough sleep from time to time! This talk will explore the question of who does the necessary work of care that enables us to sustain our livelihoods, and the relations of interdependency between these workers. I argue that a fair account must begin with recognition that life and livelihood are collective endeavours. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Media recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- My book and recorded talk about \u2018Birthing Work: The collective labour of childbirth\u2019 that elaborates a vision of the interdependencies and distributed agencies through the context of childbirth and maternity care: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/456783739<\/a>, (pdf copy is attached and I\u2019m happy for this to go out to participants free of charge)<\/li>
- More examples, resources, and literature are available at the Community Economies web page: http:\/\/communityeconomies.org\/<\/a><\/li>
- Another important book: Ethan Miller (2019) Reimagining LivelihoodsLife beyond Economy, Society, and Environment <\/em>Minnesota University Press.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\nKatharine McKinnon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u2192 Community Economies<\/a>, Centre for Sustainable Communities<\/a>, University of Canberra, Australia<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Associate Professor Katharine McKinnon is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Communities at the University of Canberra. For the past 20 years, she has worked with a broad range of communities in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, engaging in qualitative and participatory social research for community learning and development. Her current research considers questions of; how to achieve gender equity in ways that suit the lives and livelihoods of people in their different places and communities; how to reshape enterprises and organizations around priorities of care and inclusivity; and how to put ethics of care for people and environment at the heart of economies and livelihoods. She currently volunteers as Chair of the inaugural Board of the Directors for the Community Economies Institute, a not-for-profit member-based organization dedicated to furthering research, education, and advocacy for economic practices shaped around an ethical concern for that \u2018surviving well together\u2019.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Questions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- How to enact interdependent relations of care in and through livelihoods?<\/li>
- What are the practices, tactics, and experiments that enable care to be the starting point for economic relations?<\/li>
- Care for the more-than-human is an obligation that accompanies the recognition of care as entangled in all our livelihoods and economies.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Feral Business Coaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Reclaiming the arts of coaching as a grassroots resource<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Artist, trader, and feral business coach Kate Rich has been working in the margins of art and business for the past 20 years. Today she will introduce the practice of feral business coaching, which merges materials and methods from life coaching, business strategy, feminist economics, dramaturgy, divination, DIY, art, and design. Feral business coaching offers a focused space to think creatively and experimentally on the powerful and delicate subjects of business and livelihood. It is also something we can do together here and now. In the end, nothing will be solved, but new understandings might be opened.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Questions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- What can business coaching for a radically rethought economy look like?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Kate Rich<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
trade artist and feral economist \u2192 Feral Business Coaching<\/a> \/ feral trade<\/a> \/ Cube-Cola<\/a>, Australia\/UK<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Kate Rich is an artist, trader, and feral economist, normally living in Bristol UK. Since 2003 she has run Feral Trade, an artist-operated grocery business trading goods across mixed terrain of art, social networks, and the commodity sphere. Kate is a volunteer finance manager at Bristol\u2019s Cube Cinema, a land-based member of the Sail Cargo Alliance, and part of the Cube-Cola manufacturing partnership, a kitchen-based operation making an open-source fizzy drink with worldwide distribution. In 2019 she co-founded the Feral Livelihood Coaching Collective, a trans-local team of artists, designers, and ecologists who are working to reclaim the contaminated art of business coaching as a grassroots
community resource. She is currently testing out the curriculum for the Feral MBA, a radically different training course in business for artists and others.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<\/h3>\n
<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
CAPS LOCK<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
On the history of design work and how the commons can help change its toxic nature<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Capitalism could not exist without the coins, notes, documents, graphics, interfaces, branding, and advertisements; artifacts that have been (partly) created by graphic designers. Even anti-consumerist strategies such as social design and speculative design are being appropriated within capitalist societies to serve economic growth. It seems that design is locked in a system of exploitation and profit, a cycle that fosters inequality and the depletion of natural resources.
This lecture will emphasize the role of design work in this predicament, which is characterized by overwork, competition, and only values individual achievement. In fact, design work is highly collective and needs to be based on care rather than competition. Involving ideas of the commons, acknowledging the role of unpaid domestic and reproductive labour, and the role of professionalism and \u2018official\u2019 design standards can lead us to a more healthy form of design work.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nCAPS LOCK (Valiz, 2021) is the second book by Ruben Pater after The Politics of Design (BIS, 2016).<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\nRuben Pater<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u2192 The Politics of Design,<\/a> CAPS LOCK<\/a>, Netherlands<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Ruben Pater (1977, NL) works between journalism and graphic design. Under the name Untold Stories, Pater creates visual narratives that support solidarity, justice, and equality. Pater finds himself being a designer at a time when design is the last thing the world needs. Until more ethical approaches present themselves, he designs, writes, and teaches. He is a tutor at the BA Graphic Design and the MA Non Linear Narrative at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. The Politics of Design (BIS, 2016), is his first book about cultural bias in graphic design. His second book CAPS LOCK (Valiz, 2021) looks at the role of graphic design in capitalism. Pater is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
untold stories<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n(KEYNOTE SPEAKER + WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Organizing transformative work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The perspective of participatory design research<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Engaging in transformative work through participatory approaches requires an extensive set of
complementary skills and competencies. Those range from understanding the problems at hand from the
point of view of the multiplicity of social actors involved to the transformation of this understanding in
multiple artifacts, passing through the evaluation of the overall process and its products. In this talk, I will
rely upon the experience of organizing two EU-funded participatory design projects, Common fare and
Grassroots Radio, to present potential approaches to the problem of organizing transformative work.<\/h5>\n\n\n\nMedia recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- Ann Light in conversation with Phil Jones \u2013 Design, Technology, and Social Justice
https:\/\/youtu.be\/wOg5CMR9HI4
<\/a><\/li>- Costanza-Chock, Sasha. 2020. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need.
Information Policy. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.
<\/li>- Kim Stanley Robinson, The Mars Trilogy – https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars_trilogy<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\nMaurizio Teli<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u2192 Design Research with a focus in Participatory Design & Commoning<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Maurizio Teli is Associate Professor of Techno-Anthropology and Participation at the Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark. He works at the intersection of participatory design, the analysis of socio-economic inequalities, and critical theories. He investigates how to co-design technologies contributing to commoning practices, with a particular focus on collaborations with grassroots initiatives. He serves on the editorial board and program committee of international journals and conferences in interaction design, co-design, and participatory design. He is now chairing the Center for Sustainable and Digital Transformation at the Technical Faculty of IT and Design at Aalborg University.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Questions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- How can we organize collaboration among different professionals when we want to bring
transformations?<\/li> - How are the artifacts of design, the means of production, and the products of work, playing a role in such
an organization?<\/li> - How can transformative collaborations be transnational and local at the same time?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n
(WORKSHOP + 7×7 Talk)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
On Ecosystems of Work: Inner and Outer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Composting infrastructures of separation and honouring human and multispecies ecological communities<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
How can work be a process of collective unfurling, where there is space for more attentive and caring engagement with an indefinitely broad spectrum of agencies, human and more-than-human? Life is a connected phenomenon, yet we often don\u2019t notice the patterns of interdependencies. In this 7 min quickie, we’ll introduce some ideas for work ethics that are offering to look into forming ethical coalitions in ecosystems of abundance, fostering diversity, and commoning as a way towards strategies for co-flourishing.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Media recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- ‘Symbiotic Planet’ by Lynn Margulis<\/li>
- Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era<\/li>
- ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/li>
- Bonus: Marx for Cats: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/marxforcats<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Sabina En\u00e9a T\u00e9ari – Foresta Collective<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Foresta Collective is a fluid collective of humans and not only, exploring potentials for living in more conscious, regenerative, and poetic ways. Our work unfolds through collective practice and research, spaces of (re)connection, sensuous storytelling, and experiential learning for becoming and growing in human and multispecies ways. Dedicated to ecological futures. Rooted in embodied culture, art thinking and making, transdisciplinary tissues, and reciprocity with the living world.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Questions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- What is decommodification and de-professionalization of work?<\/li>
- How do you land visions for working relationships rooted in attention and care for multispecies worlds? <\/li>
- In a transition from extractive to regenerative economies and cultures of work, what does it mean to take commons to heart? What would a society of citizens as commoners look like? <\/li>
- What does it mean for our individual and collective work, i.e. a society and economy that function as common pools of shared knowledge and intentions, in every domain of social activity?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
<\/h3>\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n(WORKSHOP)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
NameGame<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Revisited<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Like in Grimm\u2019s fairytale \u201eRumpelstilzchen\u201c, it\u2019s not easy to stick a name to what makes us spin, what sucks us dry, what creates an unmeasurable wealth for some, unmeasurable choices for consumption for many and deep exhaustion for those who toil in the marketing departments, and\/or the Amazon warehouses: is it called post-fordism? is it called semio-capitalism? is it called the end of the world? In 2002 and 2003, in the aftermath of the dot.com<\/a> economy crash, artists Ingo Vetter and Annette Weisser hosted two workshops under the title \u201eNameGame” at Halle f\u00fcr Kunst, L\u00fcneburg, and Forum Stadtpark, Graz. They invited artists, writers, curators, web designers, journalists, and other members of the so-called \u201ecreative class\u201c. Collectively, they tried to figure out how we work, to what extend social relationships are always already a part of our work environment, and if any form of political mobilizing beyond these life\/work relationships is even conceivable. “NameGame \u2013 Revisited” will take up these questions from the perspective of 20 years later. Where are we now?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Media recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- https:\/\/www.eflux.com\/journal\/20\/67633\/cognitarian-subjectivation\/<\/a><\/li>
- melanie gilligan: popular unrest http:\/\/popularunrest.org\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- heike geissler: saisonarbeit, spector books, 2014 <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- seasonal associate, 2019, semiotext(e)
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Annette Weisser is a visual artist and writer based in Berlin. She is currently teaching at Kunsthochschule Kassel. From 2006 to 2019 she lived in Los Angeles and taught at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena. Recurrent themes in her work of recent years are historical trauma and collective vs. individual identity construction. In her collaborative work with artist Ingo Vetter from 1996 to 2006, she explored the heterotopic potential of public gardens, urban gardening as symbolic practice, artistic strategies for public spaces, and issues of creative labor. She is a founding member of Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop. Her first novel “Mycelium” has been published by semiotext(e), Los Angeles, in 2019. She is currently working on her second novel.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Questions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- Is your work environment what you expect it to be while you were in art school or university?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- (For students: What do you expect your work environment to look like in 10 years?)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- What would you like to change about your work environment?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Do you consider yourself privileged?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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Revolutionary Affinity Goups – Towards life-long political work !<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How to trick capitalism and use your own privilege for radical change<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The Question around livelihoods in the sphere of radical activism is closely linked to the observation, that many people stop being politically active after some years. We argue that time has come to organize radically differently. Political work has too often been a leisure time – issue! Within the workshop we want to develop a critique of capitalism and discuss alternative forms of working together, that are based on the sharing of resources, taking responsibility for one another, and sharing the passion for radical change.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Media recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- Video: Unboxing capitalism https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JSGuy3LA-d0<\/a>;<\/li>
- Book: Beziehungsweise Revolution – Bini Adamzcak;<\/li>
- Book: Crack Capitalism – John Holloway<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\nFritz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Fritz is a german-argentine geographer and activist within the anti-capitalist climate justice movement. In his Bachelor Thesis, he explored different perspectives on intersectional perspectives on the climate as well as on capitalism. But as theory needs to come into practice he became part of Solidaritree and organized actions, workshops, and else around the topics of commons, redistribution, coal mining, and climate justice.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Questions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- Why are live decisions so often linked to perspectives of career and wages instead of a feeling or analysis of sense?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- What role does the concept of a nuclear family play within our western capitalist societies?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- How can a revolution practically look like in our industrialized countries?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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The idea machine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Get active as we redesign the meaning of labour<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
How to earn a living by doing what we love and what we believe in?
Using the inspiration we get through the frame of this conference, I want to create space for an exchange between the participants who are a source of inspiration themselves. In this workshop, we will exchange visions, hopes, and ideas with an aim to answer various aspects of the larger question, “what could work look like?”. Together with Chiara Sterzl and Eric Whyte, I developed a tool that leverages a co-creation process, leading participants from topic identification to actual implementation.
Under the motto \u201dredefine, redesign, redo\u201d, individual parts of the tool will be used to develop concrete solutions for the following questions:
How can existing jobs be turned into transformative work? What may be an alternative to conventional work in the future?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Media recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- https:\/\/en.resonanz-zeitalter.com<\/a> by Linda Sophie Ni\u00dflbeck and Louisa Wolf (online exhibition)<\/li>
- Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World by Hartmut Rosa (book)<\/li>
- unruly edges: mushrooms as companion species by Anna Tsing (paper)<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\nJulia Sauter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Julia is a social and transformative designer, focusing on the impact of her work. She specializes in design thinking processes and solution-orientated projects. She began speculating about future changes during her BA in Communications Design, which she studied in W\u00fcrzburg, Italy, and New York. In Bolzano, Julia found a perfect combination of her passion for mountains and nature and her vision for creating a fairer and more sustainable future. At the Free University of Bolzano, she studies the master of eco-social design and works as a freelance Designer. As a climate activist, she supports ProtectOurWinters Italy with Design work and spends her free time seeking the next adventures. Excited about: sociology, ethical debates, and the mystery of human behaviors.
Looking forward to: speculate about the future of work, together with you.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Questions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- How do we want to spend our time?<\/li>
- Why do we measure wealth with money?<\/li>
- What can be alternatives?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The good, the ugly and the economist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A short intro on the beauty and evil of economics<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
We will go through a very brief history of economics as a “science”. I will try to show with examples and little experiments that economics is very different from what people think about it. I will finally list and explain the big open questions that economics must answer to help humanity. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Media recommendations:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
- https:\/\/freakonomics.com\/archive\/<\/a><\/li>
- https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/<\/a><\/li>
- Book: Thinking, fast and slow: Daniel Kahneman<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\nPaolo Roberti<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I am an assistant professor at the faculty of economics and management (unibz). My research focuses on the incentives that drive the implementation of different policies by politicians, legislators, and autocrats. That has to do with economics somehow. <\/em><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
- https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/<\/a><\/li>
- https:\/\/freakonomics.com\/archive\/<\/a><\/li>
- https:\/\/en.resonanz-zeitalter.com<\/a> by Linda Sophie Ni\u00dflbeck and Louisa Wolf (online exhibition)<\/li>
- How can a revolution practically look like in our industrialized countries?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
- What role does the concept of a nuclear family play within our western capitalist societies?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Video: Unboxing capitalism https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JSGuy3LA-d0<\/a>;<\/li>
- Do you consider yourself privileged?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
- What would you like to change about your work environment?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- (For students: What do you expect your work environment to look like in 10 years?)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Is your work environment what you expect it to be while you were in art school or university?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- seasonal associate, 2019, semiotext(e)
- melanie gilligan: popular unrest http:\/\/popularunrest.org\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- https:\/\/www.eflux.com\/journal\/20\/67633\/cognitarian-subjectivation\/<\/a><\/li>
- Costanza-Chock, Sasha. 2020. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need.
- Ann Light in conversation with Phil Jones \u2013 Design, Technology, and Social Justice
- What can business coaching for a radically rethought economy look like?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
- More examples, resources, and literature are available at the Community Economies web page: http:\/\/communityeconomies.org\/<\/a><\/li>
- My book and recorded talk about \u2018Birthing Work: The collective labour of childbirth\u2019 that elaborates a vision of the interdependencies and distributed agencies through the context of childbirth and maternity care: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/456783739<\/a>, (pdf copy is attached and I\u2019m happy for this to go out to participants free of charge)<\/li>
- Reinventing organisations by Laloux<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n