WEBINAR SCHEDULE

• • December 1: Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer (Charles University) “Re-Sensing Sol(id)arity: On the Prospects of Commoning Solar Energy”

Participant Questions for the Speaker:

• • • How have you seen commoning of solar energy in the form of community energy be successful in rural populations that are more dispersed?
    • Can you talk more about the boundaries of commoning solar? Especially within heterogeneous areas, how can diverse communities work towards commoning?
    • Space cannot become a new dimension of subtractibility in solar energy production?
    • In Portugal it operates in agricultural land and in water space
      in inland waters it may reduce light penetration and primary production. in agricultural and they lose space
    • I think that the question of Giorgos is very central in terms of damage, maintenance and reparation of land and water. Based on that, I was wondering if through the discussion on the solar commoning there is a necessity of re-conceptualize the needs of consumption towards the solidarity especially in countries with heavier pressures. Thank you!
    • Could you please elaborate on: What are the specific insights that can be gained from focusing on the body and emotions for fostering energy commoning ?
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  • November 3: Stavros Stavrides (National Technical University of Athens) “Emancipatory commoning: Learning from urban struggles”

• • • Virtually all urban spaces already join either a private or a public status, so urban land and equipment has to be “taken” as common. Are you aware of any country or local legislation that would allow common property to have legal status (besides Brazilian and Italian legislations)?
    • In the face of the economic and political forces that privatize and fragment space and social life, what kind of territory and boundaries are built to defend common spaces?
    • What is your notion of emancipation; how do I recognize emancipatory potentials when I see them?
    • Great humanistic approach. In Brazil we have been implementing “ energy communities”, with a commons perspective.
    • You did mention some examples of spaces of the commons that are connected more to autonomous spaces such as the ones of Athens and others that are linked more to the institutional recognition and protection of the commons, such as the case of Napoli. What is your view on the emancipatory possibilities of the commons related to the institutionalisation of the commons or communal spaces through participatory institutions in the commoning processes?
    • What do you see some of the major obstacles for realizing the potentialities you talked about?
    • Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us, one of the more clear explanation I’ve heard of commoning.
    • How you think about to grow and develop these experiments in larger scales?
    • How could these ideas, (ex. to make the common resource more open, to make diversity the power of commoning etc) be pursued by the researchers? Can participatory action research be an answer to this?
    • You say common spaces are contradictory: Which contradictions do you see in common spaces?
    • Which is or could be the role, the position of public institutions and researchers within the processes of commoning?
    • These are very inspirational examples of people taking control of their lives and building something bigger. But is there a danger of leaving the governments “off the hook”. The government has a lot of resources and power, which is used by capitalists for their own benefit. How can these commoning experiences contribute to “taking back the government” or is this something that is not necessary, or even advisable? Is commoning a transition toward anarchy?
  • October 20: Zoi Christina Siamanta (Independent researcher) “Commoning and low-carbon energy development: the value and challenges of commoning for radical socioecological change” 

• • What’s your view on the ongoing debate regarding the role of larger scale public energy systems, their necessity in the near term, their political engagement with/through labor, and whether and how such systems might contribute to or enable commoning? Please also how to get in touch–thank you!
  • Thank you for the outstanding points. I was wondering about the flows of materials and how that can be connected to the commoning processes at a smaller scale and alliances to be build beyond the neoliberal agenda of extraction especially in particular places? Is this connected to a need of a shift towards different modes of living? Also, I appreciate a lot than the more than human perspective. From your experience, how can you trace these kind of interrelations within the commoning processes? Thank you for the inspiring presentation!
  • How do you address the possibility of violence within (internally) or towards (externally) a commoning process?
• October 3: Laura Albareda (LUT University) (In person lecture) “Commons organizing and polycentric governance on the Anthropocene”
• September 22: Webinar Series Kickoff Panel

• For Irina: Could you say a little bit more about how you understand labour and work, do you refer to Arendts distinction?
• What your view is on eco-ontologies and synergies of commoning processes beyond human relations and networks in Western contexts. I am also interested in how to consider the study of human and non-human collaborations in the commons. If you have any suggestions on how to view these relationships, I would love to hear them.
• My question is for everyone, but perhaps particularly for Dr. Velicu. What are some lessons can we learn from “failed” commoning?
• Would be interesting to hear comments andthoughts from speakers about the role that institutions play in enabling spaces for commoning. Is this a potential space for both schools of thought, epistemologies, to interface productively?
• I like the research on empathy and intergenerational: is there any paper/resource we could read?