Self organising: a series of encounters
This series is a mixture of workshops and discussions on self-organisation and non-hierarchical work practices. It aims to bring together practitioners and theorists of forms of organisation that eschew hierarchical modes of division of labour as part of a critique of the imposition of work and productivity for profit to share working practices and collectively address their problems, obstacles, successes, and aspirations.
The encounters aim to provide an initial platform to reflect on current practices, establish networks and create shared concept-tools that can be used in different situations. We will begin from our questions, discomforts and curiosities: What dispositives feed the potential of collective practices? What makes self organisation different from self management? How do we inhabit, modulate and speak about groups? How do we share tasks, pass on knowledges, reach out or support each other through this crisis?
The guests we have invited will offer some points of departure for us to take elsewhere. The purpose is to increase our awareness of the modalities
through which we become, act, and affect one another in common. As an experimental beginning, we wanted to focus each of the first set of
encounters around four broad themes. We hope that this project may continue and transform itself based on the inputs and desires of all those involved.
As part of the project, recordings, materials and other resources will be made available online here: http://self-org.blogspot.com/
For enquiries and suggestions, send an email to: selforganising@gmail.com
All sessions are free and open to the public to participate.
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Programme
/Friday March 4th
Self-organization and group dynamics
Internal ecologies, openness and closure, affects and ghosts, habits and artifices, scale and scope.
David Vercauteren (Micropolitiques.net, Brussels)
http://micropolitiques.collectifs.net/
Valeria Graziano (QMUL, London)
Venue: Lock Keepers Cottage, QMUL, London E14NS no. 17 on the map
Time: 5pm-7pm
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/Friday April 1st
Self-organization and the economy
From cooperatives to social enterprises, between state funding, self funding, alternative economies and charity dependence. Authorship,
redistribution of resource, production of value and co-production.
Sion Wellens (Calverts Coop, London)
http://www.calverts.coop/
Toni Prug (QMUL, London)
Marcel Mars (Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht)
http://kiberkomunist.posterous.com/41479850
Matt Zimmerman (Ubuntu, London)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Zimmerman_%28technologist%29
Venue: Lock Keepers Cottage, QMUL, London E14NS no. 17 on the map
Time: 5pm-7pm
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/Friday May 6th
Self-organization and community
External dynamics, political discourse and outreach. The role of the organizer when working with constituencies. Issues of politicization,
outreach, involvment, negotiation.
Doina Petrescu (Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée, Paris)
http://www.urbantactics.org/
Jane Wills (QMUL, London)
http://www.citizensuk.org/campaigns/living-wage-campaign/
Venue: Lock Keepers Cottage, QMUL, London E14NS no. 17 on the map
Time: 5pm-7pm
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/ Friday May 27th
Self-organization, pedagogy and reproduction
Janna Graham (Ultrared, London)
http://www.ultrared.org/directory.html
Vedrana Bibic (The Occupation Cookbook, Plenum delegate; Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb)
http://slobodnifilozofski.org/?p=1901
Arianna Bove (QMUL, London)
Venue: Lock Keepers Cottage, QMUL, London E14NS no. 17 on the map
Time: 5pm-7pm
Many thanks to Ade Alele for his logistical support