Seminaari vaihtoehtoisista talouksista Kiasmassa 3. ja 5.4. - Ilmainen !!!
Lähetetty: 02 Huhti 2009, 12:10
The ‘Alternative Economy Cultures’ (alt.econ.cult) programme on April 3rd & 5th brings together leading international and Finnish thinkers, cultural practitioners and activists, to present alternative economic visions.
The seminar aims to tackle not just the financial, but the social, cultural, institutional, human, material, emotional and intellectual forms of capital. Not just about individual gain, boosting, balancing or bail-outs, but common good, peer-to-peer, shared wealth and appropriate reward for effort involved.
Bridging the gap between presentations, reflections and things-to-be-done, the discussion-based workshop about peer-fundraising. Can the crowd-sourcing phenomena be applied to support alternative cultural events in Finland?
.
Friday 3rd April, 10.00 - 18.00
FULL 1-DAY SEMINAR
Cultural practitioners, activists, and economic theorists from Finland and abroad, working from different contexts, strategies and institutional backgrounds, have been invited to contribute to this theme.
Michael Albert (US), Michel Bauwens (BE/TH), Geraldine Juárez (MX), Tapani Köppä (FI),
Kristoffer Lawson of Scred (FI), Wojtek Mejor (PL), Saija-Riitta Sadeoja of Porkkanamafia (FI), Oliver Ressler (AT), Sara Sajjad of Piratbyrån (SE), Felix Stalder (AT), Tere Vadén (FI), and
Eero Yli-Vakkuri of Uuva Project (FI).
Morning session
10.00 - 12.00 in Kiasma Theatre
Chaired by Marita Muukkonen & Ivor Stodolsky of Perpetuum Mobile.
Afternoon sessions
13.00 - 16.00 in Kiasma Theatre
16.30 - 18.00 in Kiasma Seminar room
Chaired by Roope Mokka of Demos Helsinki.
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Seminar registration
Please register/sign up for seminar by 31st March to guarantee a seat!
(Theatre holds 200, Seminar room 60-70 persons only)
Send email to alt.econ.cult [-at-] pixelache.ac
(choose subject-line: friday morning -or- friday morning + afternoon)
Free entry! (festival pass not needed)
Volunteer contributions (of 5, 10, 30, 50€) welcome.
DONATE ONLINE! (suorita maksu suomeksi)
There will also be a Piñata, specially-made by Geraldine Juárez, placed at the Kiasma Theatre entrance to gather offline donations.
.
Sunday 5th April, 15.00 - 17.00
WORKSHOP ABOUT PEER-FUNDRAISING
Afternoon session 15.00 - 17.00 at Demos Helsinki Office (Laivurinkatu 41)
Hosted by Andrew Gryf Paterson and Roope Mokka.
Discussion-based workshop led by Geraldine Juárez of Tanda Foundation (MX), featuring also Michel Bauwens (BE/TH), Kristoffer Lawson of Scred (FI), Lennu Keinänen of Suomen Verkkomaksut (FI), and others.
.
Associated Events Before & After
Thursday 2nd April, 16.00 - 18.00
Seminar on Private Property Rights / Copy-right / Copy-left
(Event organised by Department of Political Science featuring Michael Albert)
Location: Unioninkatu 37, main lecture hall, University of Helsinki.
Thursday 23rd April, 11.00 - 16.00
Captitalism’09
(A series of international events that focus on the analysis of the state of contemporary capitalism, organised by The Left Forum and Attac of Helsinki University)
Location: Vanhan Ylioppilastalo, Mannerheimintie 3.
.
‘Alternative Economy Cultures’ statement
written by organiser Andrew Gryf Paterson, 12.03.09
Cultural production and social-networking, especially the digital online versions of the recent decade, have promoted new ideas of wealth, opportunity, scarcity, and exchange. Importantly, it also reminds us of old ones. Surrounding those ideas are developing practices, cultures and entrpreneurship.
Some of these have long roots and heritage. There was an old Scots phrase, common weil, meaning ‘common good’ or ‘public welfare’ way back in the 16th century. The concept of ‘mutual aid’, for example, was reflected upon by Russian intellectuals, late 19th century, as an important quality in human evolution. Certainly, cooperation, especially in rural villages, has been a feature of everyday and seasonal life for centuries in different parts of the world; in Finland, for example, through the common understanding of talkoot. Following, the social-clubs (seurantalot) built in the early 20th century were based on peer-to-peer activity. In the contemporary context, similar motivations form within internet collaboration and Wikipedia entries. Commonly, moving house is often done with peer-to-peer mutual aid, and chipping in together with friends to buy a boat is an appreciated local example of peer-funding.
Thanks to digital tools and internet network connections, the ability to creatively adjust and innovate has expanded to the mass population. Established holders of wealth are challenged as others (often portrayed as the younger generation), who gain new materials, resources, and the ability to create value anew. The Pirate Bay has been on trial in Sweden, and free culture is maybe not running only on volunteer energies. Furthermore, technologies are enabling us to participate in and co-ordinate production - raising and distributing ‘added-value’ - in a more transparent fashion.
Market-led capitalism and state-led socialism have both crashed in spectacular forms over the last 30 years. We are currently amid financial crisis where virtual credit affects physical and emotional health. These systems have proven to be unsustainable in their use of resources and people, and lead towards environmental and economic collapse.
Can we move forward in a sustainable and ethical way, leaving behind inequalities, appropriation and exploitation?
.
Organisation and cooperation
The full 1-day seminar and related ‘peer-funding’ workshop has been initiated and organised by artist-researcher Andrew Gryf Paterson (independent / Medialab TaiK), in cooperation with
Marita Muukkonen & Ivor Stodolsky of Perpetuum Mobilε and Roope Mokka of Demos Helsinki.
We aim to offer a new strand to the Pixelache Network discourse.
Press contacts, photos and interview requests:
Andrew Paterson: +358 (0)50402 3828, agryfp [-at-] gmail .com
Perpetuum Mobilε: +358 40 725 40 50, perpetualmobile [-at-] gmail.com
Roope Mokka: +358 (0)44040 0413, roope.mokka [-at-] demos .fi
The seminar aims to tackle not just the financial, but the social, cultural, institutional, human, material, emotional and intellectual forms of capital. Not just about individual gain, boosting, balancing or bail-outs, but common good, peer-to-peer, shared wealth and appropriate reward for effort involved.
Bridging the gap between presentations, reflections and things-to-be-done, the discussion-based workshop about peer-fundraising. Can the crowd-sourcing phenomena be applied to support alternative cultural events in Finland?
.
Friday 3rd April, 10.00 - 18.00
FULL 1-DAY SEMINAR
Cultural practitioners, activists, and economic theorists from Finland and abroad, working from different contexts, strategies and institutional backgrounds, have been invited to contribute to this theme.
Michael Albert (US), Michel Bauwens (BE/TH), Geraldine Juárez (MX), Tapani Köppä (FI),
Kristoffer Lawson of Scred (FI), Wojtek Mejor (PL), Saija-Riitta Sadeoja of Porkkanamafia (FI), Oliver Ressler (AT), Sara Sajjad of Piratbyrån (SE), Felix Stalder (AT), Tere Vadén (FI), and
Eero Yli-Vakkuri of Uuva Project (FI).
Morning session
10.00 - 12.00 in Kiasma Theatre
Chaired by Marita Muukkonen & Ivor Stodolsky of Perpetuum Mobile.
Afternoon sessions
13.00 - 16.00 in Kiasma Theatre
16.30 - 18.00 in Kiasma Seminar room
Chaired by Roope Mokka of Demos Helsinki.
.
Seminar registration
Please register/sign up for seminar by 31st March to guarantee a seat!
(Theatre holds 200, Seminar room 60-70 persons only)
Send email to alt.econ.cult [-at-] pixelache.ac
(choose subject-line: friday morning -or- friday morning + afternoon)
Free entry! (festival pass not needed)
Volunteer contributions (of 5, 10, 30, 50€) welcome.
DONATE ONLINE! (suorita maksu suomeksi)
There will also be a Piñata, specially-made by Geraldine Juárez, placed at the Kiasma Theatre entrance to gather offline donations.
.
Sunday 5th April, 15.00 - 17.00
WORKSHOP ABOUT PEER-FUNDRAISING
Afternoon session 15.00 - 17.00 at Demos Helsinki Office (Laivurinkatu 41)
Hosted by Andrew Gryf Paterson and Roope Mokka.
Discussion-based workshop led by Geraldine Juárez of Tanda Foundation (MX), featuring also Michel Bauwens (BE/TH), Kristoffer Lawson of Scred (FI), Lennu Keinänen of Suomen Verkkomaksut (FI), and others.
.
Associated Events Before & After
Thursday 2nd April, 16.00 - 18.00
Seminar on Private Property Rights / Copy-right / Copy-left
(Event organised by Department of Political Science featuring Michael Albert)
Location: Unioninkatu 37, main lecture hall, University of Helsinki.
Thursday 23rd April, 11.00 - 16.00
Captitalism’09
(A series of international events that focus on the analysis of the state of contemporary capitalism, organised by The Left Forum and Attac of Helsinki University)
Location: Vanhan Ylioppilastalo, Mannerheimintie 3.
.
‘Alternative Economy Cultures’ statement
written by organiser Andrew Gryf Paterson, 12.03.09
Cultural production and social-networking, especially the digital online versions of the recent decade, have promoted new ideas of wealth, opportunity, scarcity, and exchange. Importantly, it also reminds us of old ones. Surrounding those ideas are developing practices, cultures and entrpreneurship.
Some of these have long roots and heritage. There was an old Scots phrase, common weil, meaning ‘common good’ or ‘public welfare’ way back in the 16th century. The concept of ‘mutual aid’, for example, was reflected upon by Russian intellectuals, late 19th century, as an important quality in human evolution. Certainly, cooperation, especially in rural villages, has been a feature of everyday and seasonal life for centuries in different parts of the world; in Finland, for example, through the common understanding of talkoot. Following, the social-clubs (seurantalot) built in the early 20th century were based on peer-to-peer activity. In the contemporary context, similar motivations form within internet collaboration and Wikipedia entries. Commonly, moving house is often done with peer-to-peer mutual aid, and chipping in together with friends to buy a boat is an appreciated local example of peer-funding.
Thanks to digital tools and internet network connections, the ability to creatively adjust and innovate has expanded to the mass population. Established holders of wealth are challenged as others (often portrayed as the younger generation), who gain new materials, resources, and the ability to create value anew. The Pirate Bay has been on trial in Sweden, and free culture is maybe not running only on volunteer energies. Furthermore, technologies are enabling us to participate in and co-ordinate production - raising and distributing ‘added-value’ - in a more transparent fashion.
Market-led capitalism and state-led socialism have both crashed in spectacular forms over the last 30 years. We are currently amid financial crisis where virtual credit affects physical and emotional health. These systems have proven to be unsustainable in their use of resources and people, and lead towards environmental and economic collapse.
Can we move forward in a sustainable and ethical way, leaving behind inequalities, appropriation and exploitation?
.
Organisation and cooperation
The full 1-day seminar and related ‘peer-funding’ workshop has been initiated and organised by artist-researcher Andrew Gryf Paterson (independent / Medialab TaiK), in cooperation with
Marita Muukkonen & Ivor Stodolsky of Perpetuum Mobilε and Roope Mokka of Demos Helsinki.
We aim to offer a new strand to the Pixelache Network discourse.
Press contacts, photos and interview requests:
Andrew Paterson: +358 (0)50402 3828, agryfp [-at-] gmail .com
Perpetuum Mobilε: +358 40 725 40 50, perpetualmobile [-at-] gmail.com
Roope Mokka: +358 (0)44040 0413, roope.mokka [-at-] demos .fi