REPAIR - Art in the p2p Era

October 8th, 2022 Sensorica and Disco were invited to present p2p economic models at  REPAIR for its annual general assembly meeting and forum. 

 

Tibi's presentation (in French) focused more on the cultural shock between the traditional and the p2p world and sought to build some primitive concepts of p2p and to compare patterns in traditional and p2p art production and distribution / dissemination.

Stacco and Irene presented Disco. 

Open Climate Collabathon, Nov. 2020

The second 2020 edition of the Open Climate Collabathon was organized online between Nov. 16 to 22nd. Tim and Tibi were Sensorica's most active affiliates in helping produce and coordinate the event, in collaboration with Yale Open Lab, Hack for LA, CoMakery and others. 

 

Sensoricans proposed to extend the centrally planned and organized event with an adjacent self-organized event called COMMUNITY EVENTS. 

Community Events are a number of independent coordinated events across the world. You can propose one too! Events can be of various types and can take place either online or offline. Our goal is to build a movement, to discover new initiatives, to build relationships, to collaborate, and to have fun together.

To learn more about the Community Events experience see the wiki (main coordination page facing the public, or participants) and this document used by facilitators and coordinators.

Sensorica also piloted two prompts, the Green Wall building and the Carbon Sequestration.

For more information about Sensorica's involvement with the Open Climate Collabathon visit this page.

Video lists

• Open dialogues
• Lightning talks

Open Climate Dialogues - with the Open Climate Collabathon

In April 2020, Sensorica took the role of co-organizer of the Open Climate Dialogues, an event anchored in Yale OpenLab, part of the larger Open Climate Collabathon initiative. 

Sensorica's focused was on organisational structure, planning and digital environment. 

Sensorica's involvement in the Open Climate Collabathon is coordinate here. 

 

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Some photos are here

Eco2FEST 2018

From November 5th to the 23rd, 2018, Sensorica and Ouishare organised eco2FEST 2018, an open space and unconference where we engaged the Montreal South-West population in discussions and workshops about the social and collaborative economy.

A significant number of local organisations that engage in socio, economic and cultural development contributed to the eco2FEST experience and manifested their interest in future collaboration. We also engaged governmental organisations in general discussions about the collaborative economy.

eco2FEST space, Verdun, Qc., November 5th to 23rd, 201

We plan to publish a comprehensive report about eco2FEST during the month of April 2019, in collaboration with Jeremy Diaz, a researcher at UQAM University. Our preliminary conclusions show that Verdun consists of a vibrant community with an informal network of coops and non-profit organizations that collaborate to improve the well-being of local citizens. Their activities span from awareness-building and education programs through to those that strengthen social cohesion and mutual support, to urban agriculture, fair commerce and cultural events. The civil society in Verdun is in development mode, and is still far from the stage of emancipation and refinement seen in Le Plateau, Montreal - the epicenter of the social economy in Quebec. Although the Verdun borough pays a lot of attention to these local social development initiatives, resources are very scarce. We maintain that local coops, nonprofits and independent individuals can do a lot more with the little they already have by mutualizing resources and collaborating better through formal relationships, prescribed by collaborative economy models. The three-week-long eco2FEST event gave local organisations opportunities to know each other and strengthen their bonds. A few months later, some of them are still meeting on a regular basis and planning for a better future in the Montreal South-West neighbourhood.

 

 

Fourth Sector

For enthusiasts of open collaboration, open networks and communities, open source development, open science and innovation

Wednesday October 9th, 5:30pm to 8pm, in Verdun (Caffe le 5eme).

An open forum, sharing experiences in open networks and communities, defining the Fourth Sector together, identifying achievements and roadblocks. Canada's Justice Minister helped us identify a path towards recognition and legitimization of the Fourth Sector.

Many of us have had some experience with open networks and communities. Some of these experiences have probably been frustrating. Ask yourself if some of the frustration came from the fact that these new types of organisations aren't well understood, recognized and legitimized. Ask yourself what would be the situation if your work in open networks and communities can give you access to social benefits, if there were budgets allocated to open networks and communities.

The event's Facebook page

Open working folder

Movin'On by Michelin - meeting innovation managers

Guided by Shamengo, a group of innovation managers from some of the largest companies in France, who came to Montreal for the Monin'On conference (organized by Michelin), were also interested in exotic innovation and business models. They asked Sensoricans to present their work. Tibi answered the call and gathered everyone at a local restaurant. The discussion started by observing the new trends of shifting towards a network state of organization, as traditional vertical organizations are breaking down into a complex ecosystem of subsidiaries and supply networks on one side, and the crowd, individuals, get organized into global networks like Bitcoin, on the other side. Then, Sensorica and its innovation and production model were presented, followed by a long question and answers period.

As expected, Sensorica's innovation model was found fascinating, those in the room seemed perplexed, as everyone of us did when we first learned about Wikipedia and its open, crowdsourcing-based content production model. Open network organizations, open innovation and peer production still have this magic aura around them. People don't understand how they are even possible, so they're mesmerized but at the same time paralyzed, not knowing how to play with it. 

 

 Presentation used during the event