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.

during the Communist times, a highly striking concrete industrial complex was built, Moxinor (1975), which now houses the enterprises one would associate with the New Industrial Revolution + the creative economy. including the Ecodesign FabLab.
(see eg https://flic.kr/p/2k7EfeA, https://flic.kr/p/2k7Efi3)
in the 90s it was a key venue for raves.

Les murs à pêches: a 'low-tech' innovation from the 1600s where the white-walled gardens served to reflect light + store heat to ripen fruit far from the orchards of southern France. still existing + viewable in Montreuil, near Paris. my photo Nov 2014.
see more, Low-Tech Magazine https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html
the municipality has been Red-Green for a very long time, which has had interesting impacts on the material urbanity. ...

Counterculture, Techno-utopianism and the Social Good: A Conversation with Fred Turner
https://www.thedeepdivepod.com/42

White paper: 'Women, welcome to discrimination 3.0', by Genoveva López
"Aurora Gómez, a psychotherapist specializing in digital behavior and gender, points out that for a platform to be considered feminist it must seek equality on three levels: 'With users, with workers and taking into account behavior with other companies and providers.'
'Technology reproduces the biases we have in reality, it reproduces what society already is...', says Sofia Scasserra, economist..."
https://p2pmodels.eu/women-welcome-to-discrimination-3-0/

instead of Koppelting, the Great Gathering of the #Commons, this year De WAR will organize Expo Keerpunt, a #DIY world fair, where audiences can be spread over a larger area and period of time. some of the programme will be live streamed or can be joined online. transition lab + #grassroots organizing workshops, exhibitions, talks. Amersfoort, the Netherlands
https://www.expokeerpunt.nl/en/home/lineup

"blaming people on the internet—as most of us are, helplessly—for not engaging in “good-faith debate” doesn’t just misdiagnose the problem; it’s stunningly naïve. Have you met the internet? Chilled speech isn’t new. Members of marginalized groups online have from the start dealt with threats, insults, and harassment campaigns for the crime of articulating their ideas in public. But free speech defenders didn’t sound the alarm about the marketplace of ideas then."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/illiberalism-cancel-culture-free-speech-internet-ugh.html

I love this https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7qjw3/canada-post-printed-stamps-with-john-a-macdonalds-decapitated-head

loving these healthy rhizome building cell generation activity everyone is doing during these weird times - and also just enjoying being a smasher of the patriarchy
BURN IT SWEETIE

hi all #socialcoop, feel free to add ideas to our brainstorming board - the target is fab labs / material peer production but all ideas around the idea of "Rebooting Economies" are welcome
https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_koBpCjs=/

FABx (the annual international Fab Lab meeting) has had to go online this year because of you-know, but precisely because of the opportunities for a better world, the line-up/programme is intriguing and worth investing time in, e.g. Juliet Schor is speaking on Wednesday on cooperatives and Rebooting Economies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4khW0LOSZfM&feature=youtu.be

registration for the whole conference here https://fabxlive.fabevent.org

this is really the time to promote coops where they are needed (!!!)

The (Cooperative) Non-Violent Public License
https://thufie.lain.haus/NPL.html
spotted on SSB

"WHAT IS MEANS TV?

Means TV is the world’s first worker-owned, post-capitalist streaming service."

https://means.tv

PDC2020
"A reminder of the #PDC2020 Keynote speakers: Gladys Tzul Tzul Maya/K’iche’ and Arturo Escobar. They will talk about:

Producción comunal de imágenes: trabajo comunal y memoria indígena // Communal production of images: communal work + indigenous memory

and

Comunalizando la participación: La co-investigación y el co-diseño pluriversales // Communitizing Participation: Pluriversal Collaborative Research and Co-design practices"

http://www.pdc2020.org/keynotes/
#ParticipatoryDesign #pluriverse

people should start overloading the P2P Facebook group with the current analyses of whiteness and how white supremacy operates. it's completely against the group's rules because it's considered 'racist' (against white people) and you may be blocked from the group and your post deleted. this has been common practice in the group for a couple of years now.