A new vocabulary of peer production and the commons emerges from the need to converge the work of a growing network of socially oriented organizations, companies, and individuals. In the new DSI4EU project, these movements are studied and supported through the lens of ‘digital social innovation’.
My third and last blog in this series covers days 4 and 5 of the 16th IASC conference, held from 10 to 14 July in Utrecht. Thursday was a day unlike the others, because it was a day of field trips with destinations all over the Netherlands, instead of a regular conference day. While I wasn’t able to take part in the excursions, I did co-organize a side event on Thursday evening.
My second blog in the series covers both day 2 and day 3 of the 16th IASC conference, because yesterday…
Because of the abundance of ceremonies and niceties on the first day (see introductory post here) the attendees were to…
This week I’m attending the 16th biennial conference ‘Practicing the Commons’ of the International Association for the Study of the…
Between 10 and 14 July, academics and experts from the professional practice will be gathering in Utrecht at the ‘XVI…
Slightly over two months ago, the ‘Brexit’ vote took place, leaving a lot of us in horror, lethargy, or at least confusion. If our confusion has receded as time has gone by, it is because we have become used to this new reality, not because it started making sense. Does it bring clarification when we interpret it in the context of the Anthropocene?
The past decades have seen a gradual strengthening of economic thinking in the policy arena. Despite crises hitting society one…
Environmental sciences are great fun for those who like to connect everything with everything else, and then cast their doubts…