“Communities of Practice Towards Social Change”, a book by the European Cultural Foundation
Between 2014 and 2017 as Platoniq / Goteo we have been part of the Connected Action for the Commons network initiated by the European Cultural Foundation and we are proud of the work we have done as a team and collectively in collaboration with the 6 hubs that make up the network. One of our greatest satisfactions in this work has been co-organising and hosting the 2017 Idea Camp “Moving communities” in Madrid.
In 2018, upon... Read more
Moving Communities, Ideacamp 2017
With its focus on “Moving Communities”, the 2017 Idea Camp followed an open call for daring ideas to build societies with greater equality, sustainability and solidarity, and a stronger sense of social justice. It is about communities on the move, communities in flux and also the power of people to “move” their communities through their progressive and creative ideas.
The 2017 Idea Camp brought together 50 Idea Makers from 24 countries across Europe and its neighbouring regions. During three days, participants nurtured and up-skilled their ideas with the ambition to counteract anti-democratic practices and bring forward voices excluded from public debate and decision-making. They worked... Read more
#CallForIdeas: abierta la convocatoria para Idea Camp 2017: Moving Communities
Contributors: Platoniq
Vivimos y trabajamos en ecosistemas cada vez más complejos. A lo largo de Europa y de sus países vecinos, más y más personas se ven confrontadas a diario con la discriminación y la exclusión –ya sea económica, política o cultural–. Como resultado, el viraje social hacia la fragmentación, el extremismo y la división entre sus gentes, así como la brecha entre individuos e instituciones, crece y se expande.
Las migraciones, la desconfianza hacia las instituciones tradicionales y la creciente fisura entre la idea de... Read more
Idea Camp: from concepts to projects with a deep mean of social impact
Contributors: Platoniq
In Platoniq/Goteo Foundation we feel motivated to participate in networks that promote co-creation, collective production and project matching, particularly in current times where traditional formats of international cultural events seem obsolete or ineffective. That’s Idea Camp, a call of projects promoted by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) where 50 cultural promoters (Idea Makers) share their transforming ideas on fields related to culture, urban planning and... Read more
Menu for participation in a real democracy: networks, data, platforms, citizenship
By Elsa Soro and Mercè Moreno
*Originally published at Build the City ECF dedicated Lab
“Network democracy for a better city”, an event organized at the CCCB of Barcelona for the D-CENT project (Technologies for Decentralized Citizen Participation, which has just published a report we recommend on the management of the commons in the knowledge economy) focused on the creation of free and decentralized tools for network democracy. As such, it has centered the debate on the close relationship between democratic practices and digital technologies.... Read more