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Long live long termism!
INTERVIEW Ouishare Fest with Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz. According to the Long Now Foundation, we need to think long-term, because some issues are bigger than us and concern our whole civilization. Not the next election cycle, not even our lifetime, but the next 10.000 years ahead of us.
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Resilience lacks radicality. Let’s cultivate our imagination seriously.
INTERVIEW with Rob Hopkins. In his latest book, the founder of the Transition movement passionately puts imagination back at the heart of his approach to ecological transition and resilience. What if imagination is the missing element we need to move beyond the status quo and embody an authentic transition?
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Sous la technique, les matières
Entretien avec Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. Aujourd’hui, l’écologie fournit une cure de jouvence à une idée ancienne : le progrès technologique. Il sature la question écologique avec des débats souvent pointus sur les choix énergétiques et techniques : éolien, solaire, atome, voiture électrique, 5G et consorts. Mais pose-t-on bien le débat ? Que cache cette obsession pour les techniques ou la production énergétique ? Autant de questions que nous nous sommes posées avec l’historien des techniques Jean-Baptiste Fressoz.
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Co-living: Could it be the future of home ownership?
ANALYSIS. Co-living is a form of shared accommodation halfway between hotel services and traditional housing. It offers an alternative to traditional housing while questioning our relationship to property. But to what extent can this experiential strategy of ownership really transform the logic of ownership? And what is the situation today, at a time of pandemic and injunctions to social distancing? Behind the fine promises and marketing operations, does coliving meet real needs? Or is it exploiting the flaws of a system that is out of breath? A historical and documented insight, by Nassim Moussi.
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Work for life, work for death!
ANALYSIS. While pension reform continues to stir up public debate, what does it hide about the evolution of work, its value, its recognition, its inequalities? What does it say about our collective representations of ageing? An assessment by Laëtitia Vitaud and Mélissa Petit.
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But what happened to the dignity of work?
INTERVIEW with Laëtitia Vitaud. While the national and interprofessional mobilisation against the pension reform continues, Laëtitia Vitaud delivers a historical analysis of the changes in work and trade unionism in her latest book 'Du labeur à l'ouvrage'. Or how work has progressively lost its meaning, its protection and its dignity.
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Every time a civilization is in crisis, there is a return of the commons
INTERVIEW with Michel Bauwens. The commons are nothing new. Historically citizens always came together to pool resources and manage them collectively and autonomously. It is the responsibility of cities and states to identify, connect and support them. Today the commons appear as a choice of society in a world at the end of its lifespan. A society where economic and productive systems will finally be compatible with the major planetary balances.
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Rethinking mobility to design cities for humans
INTERVIEW with Max Schwitalla. How can we transform our cities through small-scale solutions, mobility hubs and citizen participation, putting sustainability and quality of life at the center ?
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How to use art to unlock urban imaginaries and public spaces
The modern city has long been thought of as a machine, a device that must respond mechanically and efficiently to the needs created by car traffic or housing. On the contrary, we believe that cities need to be evolving, living systems and that public spaces can be welcoming places and sources of creation. We discussed the topic with Dan Acher, artivist at Happy City Lab, Camille Bonazzi, journalist and vice-president of Noise La Ville and Pascal Le Brun Cordier, artistic programmer and head of the Master 2 Professional Cultural Projects in Public Space.
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How neighbourhood social networks can help communities and local businesses thrive
In the small state of Vermont, residents log on to Front Porch Forum, an online service, to ask for recommendations for a plumber, or to borrow a ladder, or to discuss the school budget. Unlike other social media, however, postings are aggregated and sent as a digest typically once a day. So members read postings from their neighbors only after they have been reviewed first by Front Porch Forum’s team of moderators. Michael Wood-Lewis, a founder of Front Porch Forum, spoke to Ouishare about the platform’s role in building community, increasing social capital, and, most recently, its take on Big Tech.
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How emerging forms of civic engagement are shaping the future of our cities
We met Joke Quintens to talk about new forms of citizen collaboration and how we can accelerate change-making for the common good.
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Why we need to address the digital divide if we want to foster more democratic societies
Digital divides mirror social inequalities. Fostering inclusion and participation can not only lead to better digital services but ultimately more democratic and just societies.
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