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Commonfare at “Stories of the Possible, comparison between practices and research”, Rome 21st-22nd April 2018
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Commonfare at the Manifattura Milano Camp, 17th March 2018
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The Commonfare’s Social Wallet is nominated for the Prix-Ars digital communities 2018
The Dyne.org collective is developing Commonfare's Social Wallet, a participatory budgeting system deployed in cooperation with the Macao squatted social center in Milano and the Fair.coop network. Dyne.org's work is nominated for the Prix-Ars digital communities...
Commonfare Book Series nr.1: “Generazioni Precarie. Una conricerca tra percezione del rischio, bisogni emergenti, welfare dal basso”
We announce the publication of the first number of the "Commonfare Book Series", titled "Generazioni Precarie. Una conricerca tra percezione del rischio, bisogni emergenti, welfare dal basso" and authored by BIN Italia: Giuseppe Allegri, Sabrina Del Pico, Andrea...
The Launch of The Manifesto for Commonfare
The 2nd volume of MoneyLabReader, edited by the Institute of Net Cultures in Amsterdam, under the supervision of Inge Gloerich, Geert Lovinck and Patricia De Vries, was presented at the Somerset House in London, on the 20th of January, 2018. The program can be found...
The “Commonfare Book Series” (CBS)
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Prismatica – Video Episode 1: Ecomuseum “Mare Memoria Viva” in Palermo
We are happy to announce the first video-story realized by the Prismatica project, kickstarted by Commonfare, is available (in Italian with English subtitles) on commonfare.net. The trip of Prismatica starts from Palermo (Italy), where our Prismatica friends met the...
Report on the Commonfare Networking Event held in Rome, 9th November 2017
A meeting entitled 'Commonfare. Precariousness, emerging needs, and social innovation' took place on the 9th of November in Rome in one of the most interesting co-working spaces of the city. The meeting was organised by the Italian partner of the PIE News / Commonfare...
Report on the October 28th-29th 2017 debate in Milan: “Social Co-operation, Self-Determination, Commonfare. Social experimentation and autonomy of the possible”
On October 28th-29th 2017, a seminar on Commonfare took place in Milan, hosted by Macao, as one of the project’s dissemination events. The seminar was organized jointly by the Effimera network and Bin-Italia under the title: “Social Co-operation, Self-Determination,...
November 9th 2017: meeting on “Precarity, Emerging Needs, Innovation and social co-operation” in Rome
On the 9th of November, a meeting entitled “Precarity, Emerging Needs, Innovation and social co-operation” will be held in Rome at the Co-Work space in Via. N. Odero n. 13 (Metro Garbatella). The meeting is promoted and organised by BIN Italia and it will begin at 6pm...
October 28th-29th 2017: debate on “Social co-operation, self-determination, commonfare” in Milan
From 28 to 29 October 2017 two days of meetings and debates will take place in Milan (Italy) under the banner: "Social co-operation, self-determination, commonfare". These activities will take place at the social space Macao, located at V.le Molise 68 in Milano. This...
Commonfare joins forces with RoSA! working for a New and Fair Poverty Policy plan in Rotterdam
Over the past couple of months, pilot partner Museu da Crise has collaborated intensely with the Rotterdam Social Alliance (RoSA!) on writing their ‘Manifest Towards a New and Fair Poverty Policy in Rotterdam 2018’. After distributing the Manifest to thousands and...
September 11th 2017: Commonfare at EmpoderaLive2017 in Malaga
The dissemination of Commonfare as a new approach to welfare provision from the bottom up has been presented on 11th September at the public conference EmpoderaLive2017 (http://empodera.org/en/empoderalive-2017/), organised by Fundación Cibervoluntarios in Malaga,...
October 4th 2017: Commonfare in Milan
The interest on Commonfare both as research project and as proposal for a new welfare idea is growing up in Italy. This positive trend is witnessed by the qualified presence and the good results of the meeting held in Milano, October 4th, as the second dissemination...
Newspaper article on Commonfare published by Nòva – Il Sole 24 Ore
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From European Programs to Metropolitan Interventions: Commonfare in Milan – October 4, 2017
Looking at the number of European research projects that are developing in its territory, Milan is by all means a European city. In this spirit, the city of Milan is glad to host the official presentation of the European research project Commonfare/PIE News, which...
Commonfare and Basic Income at BIEN Congress 2017 in Lisbon
We are glad to organize a round table about Basic Income and Commonfare, which will be held Tuesday, September 26, 2017 in the scope of the 17th Basic Income Earth Network(BIEN) Congress in Lisbon (Portugal). Andrea Fumagalli (Commonfare and Bin Italia) and Maurizio...
Commoncoin chapter on “Making by hacking. Citizens of Change creating the future now”
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The Journal of Community Informatics, 13(2) 2017 – article
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Commonfare is improving its social media communication: here are our facebook cards
As people, researchers, workers, and activists engaged in Commonfare, we are committed to building a narrative that represents our goals as well as our ethical and political aspirations. In the spirit of a participatory design project, as Commonfare is, we are drawing...
Commonfare is co-organizing the C&T 2017 workshop “Participatory Design, beyond the local”
Four EU Horizon2020 CAPS projects, commonfare, empatia, MAZI, and netCommons, collaborate in the organization of a workshop titled "Participatory Design, beyond the local", hosted at the 8th conference on Community & Technologies, June 26-30, Troyes, France. The...
Commonfare.net is online
We are happy to announce that the first release of commonfare.net is now online. This digital space is the outcome of our desk research and the work we started with people in Croatia, Italy, and The Netherlands thanks to the collaboration with local partners Center...
Commonfare and PIE News: two names for one research and co-design story
In mid January we, the Commonfare consortium, met in Zagreb to discuss what we did so far and to organize the next phases of participatory design activities. There, we worked with Croatian participants on the design of the platform and we engaged in collective...
Press Release – December 2016 – PIE NEWS PROJECT AIMS TO IMPROVE LIVING CONDITIONS AND PROSPECTS OF PEOPLE IN EUROPE
PIE NEWS PROJECT AIMS TO IMPROVE LIVING CONDITIONS AND PROSPECTS OF PEOPLE IN EUROPE In the European Union, more than 122 million people (about 24% of the population) are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Even after social transfers, 17% of the population...
PIE News project partners are planning the next Design Workshop in Croatia
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