SELF ORGANISING
Research
seminar series
QMUL - London
March - May 2011 http://self-org.blogspot.com
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.blogpost.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)
Time: 5pm-7pm
Venue: Lock Keepers Cottage, Queen Mary University
Mile End Road, London E14NS. Nearest tube: Mile End
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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
Time: 5pm-7pm
Venue: Lock Keepers Cottage, Queen Mary University
Mile End Road, London E14NS. Nearest tube: Mile End
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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, involvement, negotiation.
Doina Petrescu (Atelier
d'Architecture Autogérée, Paris)
http://www.urbantactics.org/
Living Wage Campaign,
London
http://www.citizensuk.org/campaigns/living-wage-campaign/
Time: 5pm-7pm
Venue: Lock Keepers Cottage, Queen Mary University.
Mile End Road, London E14NS. Nearest tube: Mile End
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Friday May 27th
Self-organization and pedagogy
Knowledge production and
reproduction, sharing information, thinking together.
Janna Graham (Ultrared,
London)
http://www.ultrared.org/directory.html
Mate Kapovic and Vedrana Bibic (The Occupation
Cookbook, Zagreb)
http://slobodnifilozofski.org/?p=1901
Time: 5pm-7pm
Venue: Lock Keepers Cottage, Queen Mary University
Mile End Road, London E14NS. Nearest tube: Mile End
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