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Emily Parker: "Xinchejian, founded in 2010, means "new workshop." It occupies a rented room in a Shanghai warehouse. Members pay around $16 a month to use the space and tools, and on Wednesday nights it is open to the public. The Taiwan-born David Li, a 40-year-old programmer and a co-founder of Xinchejian, wants to lower the barriers for ...
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Silke Helfrich: "there is an endless number of legal forms from housing cooperatives to community land trusts. But the crucial point here is to make sure that once something is in the commons, it shall remain in the commons and not fall back into the market. In Germany, there is a robust and growing institution called „Mietshäusersyndikat“ (sth. li...
By Nikolas Kichler: The founders of “Mietshäuser Syndikat” (tenements syndicate), a network of cohousingprojects in Germany, observed many self-organized cohousing projects struggle and fail.Some couldn’t overcome the challenges in the critical early phases, in terms of dealingwith legal issues, finances, and group dynamics, while others created commercially exploited housing projects against their original intentions. At the same time, manycohousing projects did not have the capacity to supp...
A Model for Decentralized Steward-Ownership
Thomas Rippel: The German non-profit entity Mietshäuser Syndikat implemented a decentralizedsteward-ownership model for real-estate, protecting real-estatefrom financial speculation. The syndicate does not own real-estateitself, but rather enables the development of housing projects. Each housingproject affiliated with the Mietshäuser Syndikat is a separate legal entity,self-funded primarily through peer-to-peer loans. The Syndikat holds a golden share in each affiliate, giving it a veto righ...
1. By Nikolas Kichler: • "Since 1983, the network has grown to consist of 111 cohousing projects with a totalof about 3,000 residents.• Twenty-one initiatives throughout the country are in the process of joining thenetwork.• Spin-offs like “habiTat” in Linz, Austria, have been established in other countries." (http://www.shareable.net/sites/default...
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1. Book: Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons. by Shareable. Shareable, 2017 (info in our wiki via Activating the Urban Commons Through Sharing Cities
2019年8月22日 · Description. "The “economics of abundance” is based on a critique of our present economic system, which finds value only in scarce commodities – i.e., things which can be sold at a high price because demand exceeds supply. Because this economy depends on demand always outstripping supplies, it also depends on “scarcity-generating ...
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Abstract "In this chapter, we consider the process of technological progress presenting one of the options for measuring its speed throughout the entire historical process. We find that the general dynamics of accelerating technological growth over the past 40 ...
Bio. "Charlotte Hess is Associate Dean for Research, Collections and Scholarly Communication at Syracuse University Library. Before coming to Syracuse, New York in August 2008, Hess was at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University where she was a researcher and the director of the Digital Library of the Commons ...
The P2P/Commons-based alternative to Identitarianism The P2P/Commons approach is incompatible with Totalitarian Humanism.The Commons are 'Dignitarian', not Identitarian, please read: Robert Hanna on the Distinction Between Identitariarism and Dignitarianism. ...
