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Decrease networks on the ground, meetings and feelings: Naomi Gonzalez Palanco
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XII International Conference in Territorial Intelligence
“Social innovation and new governance ways for the socio-ecologic transition”
Degrowth networks in the field. Meeting and feelings
22nd November - Huelva
- Appears in November 2009
- Analyse critically the multidimensional crisis
- Promotes the invertion of spheres (Susan George)
- Practical projects
DEGROWTH AND TRANSITION INITIATIVES MEETING
- They are theoretical and practical discussion forums. Places to exchange experiences:
- Until today three meetings have been held:
* 2011- Zarzalejos, Madrid
* 2012- Vitoria- Gasteiz, Alava
* 2013- Seville.
DEGROWTH AND TRANSITION INITIATIVES MEETING
Zarzalejos, Madrid (2011)- 80-90 people participated.
- Aims:
* Get to know the existing groups in Spain, how do they understand the degrowth, how they organise themselves, what kind of activities they develop.
* Create a network, that is, get contacts and establish communication and collaboration channels.
* Be a seed for potential shared projects
- Website: http://encuentrodecrecentista.weebly.com/
DEGROWTH AND TRANSITION INITIATIVES MEETING
Vitoria- Gasteiz, Álava (2012)
- Around 120 participants.
- The same aims as in the previous meeting.
- ‘Transition’ cities and experiences were added
- Website:
http://decrecimiento-y-transicion2.weebly.com
DEGROWTH AND TRANSITION INITIATIVES MEETING
Seville (2013)
- How has it been organised?
- What have been the aims?
- What was the programme developed?
- Feelings, the immediate conclusions.
ORGANIZATION
- Seville Degrowth Network and The Puma Social Currency Network
- “Seed” Group- June 2013
- General Assembly- 17th September
Around 40-50 people start to coordinate in workgroups * Coordination
* Infantile
* Logistics
* Cooking
* Leisure and love commission
* Welcome and accommodation.
- Open and participative process.
AIMS
-Get to know and connect experiences that create and reinforce mutual support relationships among people, networks and initiatives.
- Look into strategies to carry out the social and ecological transition, both individually and as a group.
- Coexist and enjoy creative leisure.
CHALLENGE:
- Include children in the meeting.
PROGRAM
- For kids and adults.
- Participative.
- Varied: talks, workshops, axes…
- Theoretical and practical.
PROGRAM
- Thematic axes:
* Social Communication* Community* Cares* Communitarian Economy* Free Education* Sustainable mobility* Energy sovereignty* Degrowth politics* Integral Health* Food sovereignty
- Essays:
* “Goodbye growth. Living in a supportive and sustainable world”- Florent Marcellesi* “Happy degrowth and human development. Against advertising”- Julio Camarero* “Libertarian Municipalism as coordinator and expression of the Social Movements” - Floreal
PROGRAM- Workshops:
* Free culture* Education in needs and satisfactions* Favouring groups and conflict solving* Systemic Pedagogy * Spirituality in Social Movements* Dreaming Dragon* Similarities and Complements between the degrowth and the transition movements * Good living
- And more...:
* Edible plants and food sovereignty * Bike routes* Natural soft-drinks elaboration * Mandalas* Yoga for children and cooperative games * Macrobiotic cooking* Puppets made with recycled material. * Introduction to Permaculture through school orchards.
PROGRAM
- Relaxing cups.
- Laboratory of projects: social orchards, consume groups, prosumers networks, social currencies, free education…
- Collective researches through art:
* Personal transition* Cultural change* Recovery of traditional professions
Different disciplines: Flamenco, bio-dance, popular games, theatre of the oppressed, theatrical improvisation, collective writing, storyteller, graphic art...
FEELINGS, THE IMMEDIATE CONCLUSSIONS- Participation: 300 people approximately. 2/3 from Seville.
FEELINGS, THE IMMEDIATE CONCLUSSIONS- Un encuentro cabezón (a big head meeting) = Cabeza + Corazón (Head + Heart).
- Personal and collective meeting space, to help in the transition process.
- We showed that another world is possible, overcoming the different crisis with alternatives.
ECONOMIC AND FINANTIAL CRISIS
ECOLOGIC AND CLIMATIC CRISIS
ENEGETIC CRISIS
SOCIAL, CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND CARES CRISIS
THE GROWTH OF UNHAPINESS
VS THE GROWTH OF HAPPINESS, IN COMMUNITY
CONTACT
Mail.- [email protected]
Blog.- http://www.sevilladecrece.net/
Mail.- [email protected]
Blog. -http://monedasocialpuma.wordpress.com
INVERTION OF SPHERES
