Events

We’ve grown the CC Global Summit every year as hundreds of leading activists, advocates, librarians, educators, lawyers, technologists, and more have joined us for discussion and debate, workshops and planning, talks, and community building.

Join us 20-24 September 2021, from wherever you are.

The Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies

2021 Theme

The conference is arranged along the lines of three broad themes:

• Drawing from experience. This theme concerns the collective and individual experience in memory, cultural reproductions, recovery and therapeutic processes after crises and catastrophes. It also deals with organizational aspects of the aftermath of crises, as well as learning and evaluation.
• Playing with Realities is about how we prepare for the future events by means of exercises, training and simulation. This theme is about methods, concepts and technologies in which we envision, simulate and enact different realities. A wide range of topics are relevant for this theme, from technical aspects, such as VR, AR, and AI to research on experimental design, simulation, scenarios and gaming.
• Imagining Futures. What do future catastrophes look like? What do(es) the future(s) look like? In this theme, we welcome ideas, visions, dreams, fantasies and visualizations of possible alternatives, utopias and dystopias. This theme may include ideas about and perspectives of the future, expressed in film, literature and other art forms as well as in politics and bureaucracy.

Local economies are the antidote to global consumerism and endless material growth. Going local is also key to solving our ecological crises. Walk back home with us. Let us create place-based communities and regenerative economies together. Join our conference.

• Relief, Survival, and Resilience
• Climate Change, Ecology, and the Local Economy
• Wealth and Resource Distribution
• Ecovillages and Community Action
• Bioregional Economies

Stir to Action's New Economy Programme is back for it's biggest series to date. Offering capacity-building training for local communities, democratic businesses, third sector organisations, and activists, booking is now open for the 2021-2022 series of New Economy Programme webinars, providing a place for democratic creativity for those playing a vital role in their local economy. New for this series, Stir to Action have created a simple step-by-step guide to using the programme and a learning enquiry form to assess training needs and recommend courses to support individual or organisational development. The full programme of webinars is available to explore and book at stirtoaction.com/workshops. Bookings made before 26 August can get 15% off using discount code NEP15 at checkout.

The inaugural Nordic Gig & Sharing Innovation Summit will be hosted October 13-14, 2021, by Gee in partnership with Plattformsföretagen, and will welcome all stakeholders from the platform economy ecosystem, including industry groups, startups, investors and government agencies and officials. Attendees from throughout the Nordic region have a unique opportunity to learn strategies and tactics tested and vetted through real-world startup applications and experiences.

System stewardship is emerging as a new way of thinking about the role of government. Described as, “a new way of working that allows governments and their agents to effectively influence and steward systems from which outcomes emerge”, system stewardship is seen as being critical to contemporary public service practice. But what does it mean and look like in practice? Join this conversation to explore the concept of system stewardship, and how to encourage more of it within and across government agencies, so that our systems work to serve the people who they are supposed to benefit.

At a time of far-reaching economic uncertainty, transformations that previously seemed unthinkable are becoming common sense. Now is the time to explore how cooperative principles help to build democratic digital startups. At #TheNewCommonSense, we will take stock of new platform cooperatives, discuss conducive policy, and focus on commons-oriented platform co-ops. Co-op pioneers, designers, researchers, and technologists will explore the potential of data trusts, cryptocurrencies, token economies, and distributed ledgers. The conference is split into a three-day, in-person event in Berlin, and a set of virtual events, curated by global catalysts. The goal of this year’s PCC conference is to advance an internationalist alliance in support of the cooperative digital economy.

Conveners:

• Platform Cooperativism Consortium at The New School, New York City
• Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), Berlin
• Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Berlin

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