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Exploration by sector
Arts
Economics
Education
Energy
Food production
Governance
Health
Nutrition
Peace
Production
R&D and innovation
Science
Software
Technology
Territory
Transportation
Social Networks
Held and Controled by Private Sector
Google
Pure P2P
Social technologies from the past
Exploration by sector
Arts
We want to find examples of collaborative, distributed art creation, remote music.
- Furtherfield.org, with Ruth Catlow and Marc Garret and their Do It With Ourselves project - P2P like projects for the past 15 years.
- Art is Open Source, from Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico
- Burning man
Economics
We begin with the rise of complementary currencies as a first step (social, business, affected…)
- Timebanking in the US - http://timebanks.org/
Possible interview of Edgar Khan (friend of JF) - Helsinki Time Bank with Ruby van der Wekken is at the center of a whole set of initiatives
- WIR in Switzerland
Then we evolve towards the idea of post-monetary society.
- Streamscapes + ceptr: Eric Harris-Braun & Arthur Brock - USA - http://ceptr.org
- Commons movement
Education
Explore the question of peer-to-peer learning, MOOCs (xMOOC & cMOOC) and unschooling movement that began in the US. Check this article.
- Interview a leading university doing xMOOC
Energy
We explore how humanity can produce clean energy in a decentralized way via smart grids (check this French article). It means a combination of different complementary source, locally based, with mutualism and reciprocity.
We want to find examples where citizens have initiated their own local production and contributed to the smart grid.
- Ask Vinay Gupta (London) about interesting projects, he follows this very closely
- Worth checking the Solaroof project of Richard Nelson
- Post carbon institute
Food production
We emphasize local food production in urban environments, with concepts such as urban farming and vertical farming.
- Urban Farming - http://www.urbanfarming.org/
- Vertical farming - http://www.verticalfarm.com/
interview of Dickson Despommier - Permaculture - there are multiple gathering and projects all around the world. We need to locate one
- Cloughjordan Ecovillage in Ireland has a whole set of new food supply chain practices ; Bruce X does collaborative research on agri-forms and they have a green fablab
Governance
Share the fact that “code is law”, i.e. how software embeds societal projects.
- Loomio
- Open value networks
- Ethos Foundation with Robert Pye / Sensorica open scientific hardware using open value accounting
- Ecovillages work with holacracy, sociocracy, consensus and more. An interesting community to visit Is Dancing Rabbit (Jeff) as it joins goverance with economic systems like a successful complementary currency and sharing income.
- Holacracy
- Valve Software Company - http://valvesoftware.com/
Health
Less and less health remains something in the hands of specialists working only on disease and illness. Health also exists as a social fonction, specially in regards to prevention. We see more and more p2p approaches to health, including research and collecting data (mostly for specific illnesses).
Nutrition
We want to show how civil society explores new ways to eat that include individual health and environment.
- 30bananasaday: an example of how a fast growing worldwide community explores healthy and sustainable ways to eat.
Peace
- Casa de Paz - Pancho Ramos Stierle (fer) → see below for P2P networks with Service Space
- Compassion games - Jon Ramer (fer) http://compassiongames.org/
- Festivals like beloved, peace village, prana fest and others.
Production
By production we mean production of material artefacts like machines, computers, bottles, pipes, glass, airplanes, etc. Today the absolute majority of production happens through the industrial model via pyramidal collective intelligence. Because of its inherent scarcity, its extraction and market-based economy, conventional production doesn’t have regulation mechanisms that make it compliant with ecological symbiosys and generation friendly vision.
Should we expect a world with distributed, symbiotic, peer-to-peer, local production? Can production become holomidal? What examples do we have today? Where does 3D printing go?
Production still undergoes the R&D and innovation phase. However we want to make it clear that it may soon lead to *real* production in our everyday life.
- Open Source Ecology: http://opensourceecology.org/
P2PF suggests a visit to Sigchos, Ecuador, an amazing district, indigenous and farming and their hunger for change in that direction. - Would allow us to talk about the FLOK Commons transition project there as well, through a portrait of the amazing mayor, indigenous farmers, and activist allies in the city.
- The open car revolution
R&D and innovation
We want to explore how civil society, by means of holomidal collective intelligence, has taken the lead of R&D in many domains.
Science
We want to find examples how P2P can open to collaborative science and leverage research.
Software
Just like the writing in the time of pyramidal collective intelligence, software provides the keystone for the next social edifices. A race exists between OS software and proprietary software. OS software offers control and different evolutionary perspectives.
Software represent super complex artefacts. How can distributed collectives self-organize themselves in order to pilot such complex productions? What does the OS software communities and practice teach that other sectors can learn from in order to spread the OS economy in all parts of society?
- Wordpress
- Wikipedia
- Git
- Ubuntu
Technology
Territory
Here we explore how the physical territory evolves, how people manage their local resources, their governance, their local economy, their local ecosystem.
- Transition Towns & Transition Network - http://www.transitionnetwork.org/about
with possible interview of Rob Hopkins (fer can connect them). - Cooperativa Integral Catalana - http://cooperativa.cat/en/ - partner with P2P Foundation
- Sharing cities project - Shareable - Neal Gorenflo (fer)
Check also this article (French) - Link this with Barcelona Pledge -- how a progressive mayor linked with a bottom up movement can make a powerful cooperation.
- Park Slope Food Coop - Brooklyn - http://www.foodcoop.com/
+15,000 members
Transportation
We explore transportation not through the next clean vehicles (see production for this), but through optimization and pluri-modality.
- Transports du futur - http://transportsdufutur.typepad.fr/ - This French site offers many resources and reflexion about the evolution of transportation.
- Google car - Why does Google want to conquer the sky? To map and connect with territory, including transportation
- Uber - https://www.uber.com
- Car-less cities:
Social Networks
Held and Controled by Private Sector
Means that private companies keep holopticism scarce and under their control for commercial reasons. It also means that if the private company wants to pull off the plug or change the rules, they can.
Google
Pure P2P
P2P projects that operate independently from private sector barely exist. However they have control on the data and can provide holopticism for themselves.
- P2P in Rio .. there is a whole constellation of p2p oriented projects in Rio and Brazil, which I know quite well for having been there a few times; key player: Curto Cafe but it is an interlocking network, curto works entirely with a p2p oriented wealth circle, open book accounting, open logistics, shared research, crowdfunding retailing and more … links to a open school, Beer to Beer, favella initiatives ..
Proposed by P2PFoundation → please provide more info
- Open agricultural design communities … atelierpaysan.fr, farm hack, slow tools , Open Source Ecology with possible visit to Sigchos, Ecuador , an amazing district, indigenous and farming and their hunger for change in that direction .. would allow us to talk about the FLOK Commons transition project there as well, through a portrait of the amazing mayor, indigenous farmers, and activist allies in the city..
- The Occupy Movement : understand what guiding principles allowed its emergence and colloaboration, and where it went today. Where could it go if technology and social fabric evolves?
Social technologies from the past
Primary people and societies have developed amazing ways to address complexity and evolve in the world. Not through technology as the Western world understands it, but through body practices, social rituals, substances altering consciousness.
The Western world has begun to re-discover some of these practices and understand their utility.
- Vision quest
- Wisdom Circles
- Medicine Wheel
- Quaker social technologies