ckohtala @ckohtala@social.coop

#introduction #SocialCoop I'm a researcher based in Helsinki. my topics: #fablab, sustainable production, #sustainabledesign. interested in local economies and #PlatformCoops.

'p2p' now appears to me only as lines joining nodes. there is no human there in those lines, nor blood, nor conflict, nor soil, nor joy, nor collective action.
I join the network and have agency to do so. I fight for my right to join. then I stop thinking about how my actions affect the rest of the network. I'm still an atomized individual. the most important thing is ME in the network and doing what I want, not how I make the nodes and connections shudder and weaken or strengthen and flourish.

this results in complete commons-wash. the commons! the commons! they bleat, without defining what exact commons they are building or protecting - nor noticing who is not speaking or in the room. a commons of 'opinions' expressed by libertarian-right Euro-US white men in the marketplace of ideas?

I think I need to look with more focus at other counter-culture and activist activities, e.g. South American, and replace the vapid 'p2p' with 'horizontalidad' (horizontalism) and autonomia (Escobar)

I'm so tired of the commons-wash in the p2p movement.
at least in the largest groups/communities/ networks I'm most active in, most people don't have a clue about actual p2p 'theory'; relevant knowledge from social movement studies or organizational studies (academic or non-academic robust analysis) published by activists and researcher-activists; or even a passing interest in learning from other groups or the past.
when they do know some 'theory', they fail to apply it to their own groups.

journal article: "Women’s roles in the ‘leaderless’ Occupy movement" - as ‘Admin’, ‘Documentarian’ and ‘Connector’.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1354856514541353

very sorry, paywall.

#horizontalism #p2p #Occupy #women #activism #SocialMovements #ParticipatoryCulture

fostering digital literacies and critical thinking in Finland
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/

Francesca Pick from #OuiShareFest on participatory governance and self management tools
#Enspiral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwBMuqZEIoM&feature=youtu.be

journal article: van Holstein, E. (2019). Strategies of #selforganising communities in a gentrifying city. Urban Studies.
DOI 10.1177/0042098019832468
(sorry, behind a paywall.)
"While commonly pitched as potential spaces for the empowerment of marginalised minority groups, self-organised projects such as community gardens are also susceptible to neoliberal discourses and governance mechanisms. ...[L]ess is known about the grassroots strategies of garden groups..."
#communitygardens #urban

yay! #Enspiral #decentralized #commons #community #activism

academic research:
Infrastructuring for Cultural Commons, Doctoral dissertation by Sanna Marttila
https://bit.ly/2TkYh7W
#infrastructuring #commons #openGLAM #media #design #opendesign #ParticipatoryDesign #p2p #commonsdesign

a package of materials, tips and exercises on climate change: for subject teachers but useful for all of us
https://teachers-climate-guide.fi
#ClimateStrike #ClimateAction #ilmastolakko #education #FridaysForFuture

Helsinki city is conducting a large #ParticipatoryBudgeting exercise called OmaStadi.
a game is used to facilitate discussion and decision making (see 'Material Bank'):
https://omastadi.hel.fi/?locale=en

omg, it's Earth Overshoot Day USA today, already (!!!?!)
http://www.earth-overshoot-day.org