Workspaces

Community Outreach A not project specific workspace for Edgeryders community mobilisation activities! If you’re excited about getting people engaged in ongoing and future Edgeryders activities and have (or would like to learn) community engagement & management skills, you landed in the right spot! Roles people can take in this space Tasks differ from activity to activity as the needs will be different. But we are always looking for community members who like to do creative communication work. Sometimes roles are paid if we have secured funding, sometimes not. We do our best to pay it forward so that paid roles that do come up are first offered to community members who have demonstrated community spirit and genuine engagement in activities/topics in collaborating here. *Coordination Copywriting Graphic Design/ Illustration Video production Subtitling videos Translation … or add a new task if you want to contribute with something else! Post in any topic here to instantly become part of the team. And please create a topic to introduce yourself ! What we have learned about communication social media communication only really works when we are attached to people and organisations that have a large following within the field/networks which are relevant to that specific call for participation or contributions. the approach of engaging people in organising, and managing the budget for, activities such as events as part of the festival was right in intuition. But it needs more structure both in terms of process, and the roles people can take on Timing and sequencing: it is better that teams build and run activities on their own timeline, each with its own heartbeat, rather than trying to make a bunch of things happen at the same time. Because this cannibalises attention and is difficult to manage. At the same time it is important to have professionals for copywriting, visual design, video production, press engagement etc that can produce high quality results on a short timeline - rather than rely on community members to do this. So we recruit a roster of freelancers who are our go to people and have a set budget of time/requests for content available to any communication team. Languages and geographic locations. We often need to have teams of multilingual copywriters in order for the work to flow smoothly. As well as communicate via different partners. Edgeryders at CCC Edgeryders like the annual CCC event in Hamburg, Germany. Here, we organize how we go there together. For example, we had an assembly space at 32C3, and one year even ran an alternative congress (with video feed from the real one) because we could not get enough tickets During 32C3 in 2015, Edgeryders has run an assembly space. We hosted conversations about mapping what people are doing, which parts of the puzzle of well being they are contributing to, and how to support one another’s work. What’s happening in this category: everyone who wants to participate in building our activities during CCC events meets here we publish documentation during the event we reconnect and continue to collaborate after the Congress Life in Africa Community Life in Africa is a community based organization in Kampala, Uganda, made up of mostly war-affected women who were displaced by the 25+ year long conflict waged by Joseph Kony in the Northern part of the country. This group has been created to invite and house international collaboration with the Life in Africa community leaders (Grace Ayaa and Peter Ndelo) on establishing a family transition center in Northern Uganda, that will enable the women to support each other and a broader rural community in rebuilding their homes and their culture. Crowdfunding will take place on Startsomegood.com in April-May 2014 to help the LiA ladies to manifest Phase 1 of their plan. Update: the crowdfunding goal was reached in July 2014. OpenVillage We build a meaningful, productive and enjoyable work-and-life environment. It combines business incubation, P2P learning and communal spaces. It is a new and affordable path to “the good life”, and we develop this collaboratively. Welcome to join! . Please note that this is an open community platform where free exchange of views, ideas and information occurs between individuals. Each participant is responsible for his or her own statements and is not representative of any other activity, individual or organisation. Show more Make the good life happen for yourself in the post-job economy Take the challenge to shape your future work and life with peers around the world! Share networks, skills, and technologies to build the practical means for good lives. Learn how to create what we need from what we have. Work with an international network to develop your own project and make it more sustainable through open knowledge and technologies. Experiment with different ways of living together and generating income through meaningful projects and ventures. Learn More Take Part Learn new skills by building new things with others in the OpenVillage! The Open Village is a connected network of houses that shares a community platform, activities and economic opportunities. We collaborate in a free and open way on groundbreaking projects for prosperous lives full of meaning, love and mutual respect. If you come to us you will learn how to make a pirate radio in the form of a mesh network. Learn how to make spirulina and other kinds of bacterial growth. Learn how to make wine/beer, learn how to protect your web identity, encryption, build your own microscop, search for tardigrade, grow bacterias and bio ink, Mushrrom mycelium structures, create jewelry, beat making, film making, theatre, bread, cook, design clothes, create toothpaste/soap, sun screen, and also if the product really protects you, learn how to create philosophical analysis, critics, create your own micro business etc. Learn More Meet the community Become a Fellow New networks, skills, and technologies for good living Development of meaningful projects and ventures Collaborative Income Generation and learning We are building our own openvillage; this openvillage is a network of distributed open houses throughout the globe. Some of us are already living and working in such a space in Brussels, called The Reef. Now we are setting up a new space in the MENA region. You have the chance to design and build a community spot for MENA youth, the Reef MENA, to collaborate freely on groundbreaking projects in the quest for lives full of meaning, love and mutual respect. Community connectors receive a fellowship consisting of: A ticket to Edgeryders Festival in Brussels (19-21 October 2017) where we design the OpenVillage. At the festival you will be part of a team training on community building and digital security tailored for regional dynamics. A ticket to the MENA community camp in December (26-30). A project residency in the Reef- MENA, in November, the exact location to be announced soon. The residency consists of an online and co-working/ co-living space for your project, where you will prototype and test results, as well as model it for future sustainability. Fellows are expected to actively engage with people from their countries online and offline, write about their own projects or other projects that they see valuable, conduct interviews, and on-board people on the platform. To be part of the adventure, sign up on edgeryders.eu. Introduce yourself and your work to the community here: https://edgeryders.eu/c/openvillage/people-projects To start please write an in-depth post about a project you are working on, or a project that you see valuable ( you can interview the people working on it ) and leave thoughtful comments on the other stories. We look forward to get to know you as a potential fellow or a participant. Learn More Apply now Come to an OpenVillage workshop in your city See full screen How can a “smart swarm” come together to provide open, inclusive and sustainable solutions to supply the material and social components of a good life to every community across the globe? One of the most urgent problems facing us now is how to provide sustainable health and social care across the globe. We believe that the solution is an integrated network of local care services equipped with open source knowledge and technology. Because we know that diversity is critical, we volunteer to coordinate a “smart swarm” decentralised application of hundreds of small communities and organisations: and we invite you to join it. The process is simple: In August we will hold virtual gatherings where people can present their projects, which will be posted on our platform for the community to discuss. In September we will meet in person to shape our project proposals, circulate them for feedback from the community and create a final version. In October, will build support teams around each selected project proposal through a series of online video meetings In November, we will collaboratively develop project proposals so that they they have reached a point where we can prototype some key ideas during a month of hands on building in the Mena OpenVillage Camp. In December the international community gathers in a beautiful location by the sea to evaluate one another’s prototypes and work on each others projects so that they meet a clear goal to help move them forward and co-design the next phase of our journey together. We end with a party to kick in the new year in style. Getting started is easy! Just create an account on edgeryders.eu , introduce yourself and pick your challenge How we work [interactive visualisation of our process] On the online platform - Get honest critique and valuable information to boost the quality and relevance of your ideas. At the collaboration workshop - Discover inspiring local projects and potential partners. Follow a guided process to develop strategic collaborations. In the project development house by the sea - Prototype new ideas with skilled peers and shape a plan to generate income from them. At the international camp - Showcase your work to potential supporters, access expertise from mentors, build media coverage. Join us! How you can get involved This initiative is a #nospectators space - the more each one of us puts into it, the more we all benefit out of it. All members are expected to contribute money, time or equipment/materials. This keeps the initiative independent and fully dedicated to serving the community. Make yourself known to the community: Create account on edgeryders.eu and write a little about yourself. Respond to other people’s comments. Get to know the others: Share thoughtful comments to help move the thinking forward Contribute: Let’s have a chat about what you like and have time to do. To get in touch come to the next video chat, drop into our shared workspace or email us at community@edgeryders.eu. Get Started! About The OpenVillage,Edgeryders and The Reef OpenVillage is the Edgeryders vision of how we will affect change at a systems level. [Interactive visualisation of the map of needs] To achieve the changes we want to see in the world, we have to be creative not only in creating new artefacts, but also in how we relate to them. We need to be mission driven, and stay for long (Mazzucato). This initiative aims to develop sustainable, and hopefully profitable paths towards reaching our goal. The Edgeryders community and organisation are uniquely positioned to build it because of the track record of the people driving it. And the fact that we are already generating revenue, have zero debt and a thriving community of >4000 talented, committed people in 80+ countries. With your participation we can get there faster and better. Why three different names? Are they different projects? The OpenVillage is a comprehensive set of open tech solutions and collective action strung together by a common narrative. Edgeryders is a collective intelligence platform for building the OpenVillage. The Reef is our terrain for deep prototyping of the technologies, culture and new forms of human organising that will go into the OpenVillage The OpenVillage House run by Edgeryders (The Reef) consists of: A live-work space where we experiment with different solutions and develop the non-technical competences needed to use them effectively. Instead of doing a 2 week prototype, we run as we live with it, and keep tweaking it over time until it works. The stuff that stays with us will be included in the openvillage. ICOs for real estate, Robots, smart clothing, furniture, new forms of organising, art. It will be sustainable because people need a place to live and organisations need a place to work - revenue will come from rent of residential spaces in a unique setting amenable to personal and professional development. A Business network consists of people and organisations who wish to be close to where the action is. Edgeryders is already a place to access and nurture a unique stream of open innovation. Hand-held echostethoscopes that cost a fraction of what is on the market. Cheap coffee bean sorting machines. Mechanical arms to rotate and increase yield from solar panels. New assistive and medical devices and open source insulin. As part of the business network you can interact with us, get news from the edge and be part of it even if you cannot live with us. These innovations are open source, and they are accessible, but their use is restricted by different licenses issued by the innovators. When an idea or product under development is of interest to commercial companies The Reef can broker a deal in which the innovator can give different additional rights of use with a contract. This protects both parties against abuses. The business model is the one employed by opencorporates.com and thenounproject.com - pay to wave right to be named as author and in the latter case, gain access to the original design file. An Annual Festival and series of events gathering the community building the openvillage and the business network around it. The festival happens not in an anonymous conference room, but in the live-work space located where the openvillage is being built. It presents the new knowledge, artefacts and ideas coming out of The Reef, draws more participants and grows the ecosystem. It acts as a heartbeat that gives a steady rhythm to the work of building the openvillage over 10 years, grows the community and celebrates the achievements that come out of it. How Edgeryders finances this and generates income for the community involved in it We build it as a viable business with multiple sources of revenue. It makes sense to build the Reef as a new company because this enables us to capture, align and channel all the externalities generated by the live-work space, business network and festival towards growing and strengthening the venture. The model is infinitely scalable: our online platform, digitial technologies and scientifically rigorous methodology enable us to cost-effectively scale and the remote membership. We have a couple of ideas for non-extractive and ethically sound business models with opportunities for personal and professional development that draw a steady stream of talented individuals. And we will design an appropriate governance model that balances the needs of the community with that of the people who take personal responsibility and invest huge amounts of time that is needed to get the company up, and keep it running well. Our world-class community building and management expertise make The Reef a safe and welcoming space that draws and maintains the diversity required for deep innovation. If the model catches on people will show up at our doorstep and say this is great, how can I do it in location x? Then we can move in and franchise the venture complete with a populated online platform and activities (which is the hardest thing to do- almost no one manages to get this right). Clients can pay us to help them set up their own Reef around a specific field e.g. healthcare. A person with a great network approaches us saying “I really want to build one of these in my city”; “we say great! You’re hired!” And they manage the setting up of a new company owned by the Reef. This is already happening. It happened with the unMonastery -as soon as the Edgeryders community started exploring the idea, the city of Matera asked us to run, and paid for, the first prototype. The project gained unsolicited coverage from international and local media (The Nation, New York Times, Il Sole 24 ore, Wired Germany etc etc), speaking engagements at large public events etc. The World Bank has commissioned us to implement a version in the MENA region as a place based social innovation incubator. We envision a network of Reef localities in every city bound together by an online platform which acts as a collective intelligence engine and extends the reach and scale of the model. And we are on the way. The first one was set up in Brussels in March of 2017. A second locality is now under development and with your help, will be up and running in Morocco by 2018. The online platform is already up and running (you are on it right now) and populated by a thriving community that spans the globe. By joining us early in the game you get a unique opportunity to shape your own involvement and the company as a whole. We are designing a multiplicity of ways to participate at different levels of commitment- from accessing newsletters all the way to partnering with us around new ventures e.g. large R&D projects which generate new commercial opportunities e.g OpenCare. Learn more about membership Become a member Frequently Asked Questions Where are we are going with this? A future to look forward to, collaborating freely in the quest for prosperous, lives full of meaning, love and respect in tight knit yet open groups. It’s not about becoming reclusive tribes, nor is it about rejecting technology. We want to connect with one another, and with the world at large. To be well with ourselves and with one another. To thrive when failing institutions or existing large-scale centralised means of securing a good life no longer can be relied on. How will we get there? We have a long-term map of different components needed in a good life. For most of us, accessing several of them through existing means is difficult or impossible. At least if you look to what is available in the mainstream where power and resources are concentrated. You need to venture out to the edges where people are experimenting with all kinds of solutions for building thriving individuals, communities and societies. So we look for open source solutions and replicable efforts to satisfy our needs and work to make them accessible to a more people. On the new online platform we reach out to and connect people working on current issues and encourage them to share their stories, leave thoughtful reflections on the stories of others’ and respond to others’ comments on their own. We use community management and software to transform thousands of conversations into shared knowledge and concepts for how participants’ existing work can be connected to achieve impact at scale. Knowledge gained from hands-on practical experiences is transformed into wisdom powered by Collective Intelligence. Which themes and topics will you cover? We have a map of all the components of a well-functioning life and community based on consultation with people in over 200 cities. We convene conversations around one priority to focus enough energy and resources to move beyond talking. Right now it’s how we sustainably care for one another’s health: physical, social, mental and emotional. How can I bring this to my own community or geographic location? We support members to host events in different locations where participants meet in person, get to know one another and build big exciting ideas around which collaborate. People who participate in this process gain access to valuable information, new perspectives, and a huge network of contacts who can help unlock new opportunities for them. They understand where there are efficiencies to be gained, mistakes to avoid and skills to be developed. Individual changemakers use this collective intelligence to help them move their own efforts forward. Why should different people and organisations partner with this initiative? Allies have access to new initiatives as they are being born and can get involved at an early stage. Existing projects and their business/sustainability plan are documented in a standard format then posted on the community for further development. Participants are free to use and modify them under condition that attribution is given to everyone else who has contributed to its development so far, and that they have contributed something time or money to the project. How can I meet and get involved in the global community? You can participate in our annual community gathering that is build by community members, for community members. The objective of these events is to 1) build a holistic, shared understanding of the topic at hand 2) demo a credible systems level solution made of interoperable, smaller scale projects 3) use the evidence-backed vision and impact strategy to generate backing (attention, skills and time) for participants’ projects. How can people deploy and maintain their own OpenVillage house? Participants will collaboratively deploy one instance of each selected project within the Reef to serve as collective learning opportunity and demo of what is possible. We then support those who participated in setting up the first instance, to do the same in their own local context. How will we know when the vision is achieved? Over time we build a full set of connected techniques, knowledge, relationships and culture that supplies everything needed for long term healthy, sustainable and enjoyable living. We have become a critical mass of people who have developed the skills, infrastructure and resources needed to build and sustain ourselves. And have made many new friends along the way Why Edgeryders? What sets Edgeryders apart is that we actually have the tools, methodology and organisational capacity to turn the participants’ “talking” into collective intelligence and action. I want to be a part of this, but I already have a demanding project which I don’t want to give up- is there some way I can participate anyway? The process is structured in a way that doesn’t require participants to give up what they are already doing or join someone else’s project. It is designed to work both for people who wish to work on location, as well as those who wish to participate remotely. The not for profit organisation stewarding the process uses revenue from commercial work to finance the long-term coordination work needed to make this all possible. How can I support this initiative? Come talk to us so we can pick a task that works for you. If you prefer to contribute money to help offset costs you can talk to us about how we can do this without compromising the integrity of this community driven initiative. [text-direction=rtl] القرية المفتوحة: إفادة المجتمع تزامنا مع بناء حياة أفضل للفرد مبادرة للنهضة بشباب الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا في اقتصاد ما بعد الوظيفة التقليدية الوجهة: مستقبل نتطلع إليه، نتعاون فيه بحرية، من أجل حياة مزدهرة لنا معنا، ومليئة بالحب والاحترام المتبادل داخل مجموعات مترابطة عن قرب. القرية المفتوحة هي مبادرة لا تهدف إلى بناء قبائل متوحدة، ولا إلى رفض التكنولوجيا. فمبادرتنا تهدف إلى التواصل مع بعضنا البعض، ومع العالم أجمع، في وئام مع أنفسنا ومع الآخرين، على طريق بنائنا لحياة كريمة قادرة على توظيف مواهبنا ومهاراتنا. الطريق: لدينا خارطة طويلة الأمد ذات مكونات ضرورية للحياة الكريمة. الكثير من تلك المكونات يصعب أو يستحيل على معظمنا الوصول إليها من خلال الوسائل التقليدية المتاحة. ومن هنا فأنت تحتاج إلى أن تستكشف طريقك خارج النطاق التقليدي، وبالقرب من تلك الفضاءات التي يجرب الآخرون فيها كل أنواع الأفكار من أجل تنمية الأفراد والمجتمعات بالتزامن. الوسيلة: اختر موضوع من الخارطة >> حدد التحديات المحيطة به >> اجمع معلومات عن المشروع >> نظم فعالية >> ضع هيكلا للوثائق والمعلومات >> جمع ردود الفعل >> أضف المشروع لمنصة القرية المفتوحة الاقتصادية كحل مقترح >> ضع نموذج تعاوني للبناء والإنتاج الفعلي على الأرض فى موقع القرية المفتوحة >> احتفل >> كرر نفس العملية إلى أن تتم تغطية كافة المتطلبات. ما نقوم به على المنصة الإلكترونية الخاصة بمبادرة القرية المفتوحة هو التواصل مع آخرين يعملون حاليا على يعضا من القضايا والأفكار ، نشجعهم على مشاركة خبراتهم، وترك انطباعاتهم المفصلة عن خبرات الآخرين، ثم الرد على تلك الانطباعات. ومن أجل هذا الغرض نستخدم برمجيات إدارة المجتمعات بغرض تحويل آلاف المناقشات إلى “معرفة ومفاهيم” يتم مشاركتها مع الآخرين من أجل إيجاد تأثير فعلي. وهنا يتم تحويل المعرفة المباشرة التي تم تحصيلها إلى خبرات مدعومة بما يسمى بالذكاء الجمعى. وفي كل مرة نقوم بذلك نختار موضوعا واحدا للنقاش حسب أولوياته الملحة. فالآن على سبيل المثال أولويتنا هي مناقشة كيفية الاهتمام بصحة بعضنا بعضا بصورة مستدامة على المستوى الجسدي والعقلي والنفسي. نقوم أيضا في مبادرتنا بمساعدة الأعضاء على تنظيم فعاليات في أماكن مختلفة يتقابل فيها المشاركون وجها لوجه، يتعرفون على بعضهم البعض، ويبنون سويا أفكارا كبيرة ومثيرة يتعاونون معا على تحقيقها. وهنا يتاح لهؤلاء المشاركين في تلك العملية معلومات قيمة، ورؤى جديدة، إضافة إلى تلك الشبكة العملاقة من الأفراد الذين يمكنهم فتح الباب أمام فرص جديدة. وهكذا يصبح باستطاعتهم تحديد نقاط النجاح وكيفية الوصول إليها، وتجنب الأخطاء، وكذلك الوقوف على المهارات التي يمكن تنميتها. إضافة إلى ما سبق، نقوم في المبادرة أيضا بالتعاون على بناء برنامجا للمقابلات والإقامات الصغيرة في أماكن مختلفة من العالم. والهدف من تلك الفعاليات هو أولا: بناء ومشاركة فهم شامل للموضوع الجارية مناقشته، ثانيا: تكوين نموذجا تجريبيا فاعلا للأفكار المرتبطة بذات الموضوع، شريطة أن يكون قابلا للتطبيق على مستوى مصغرا، وثالثا: اتباع استراتيجية ذات رؤية وتأثير، وتكون كذلك مدعومة بالأدلة العملية التي تهدف إلى دعم مشاريع المشاركين الآخرين. وأخيرا وليس آخرا، تأتي مرحلة الإطلاق والمتابعة. وهنا يقوم أعضاء المجموعة بإطلاق أحد المشروعات المختارة داخل إطار القرية المفتوحة بصورة تعاونية فيما بينهم، كنوع من الخبرة التعليمية الجماعية و نموذج تجريبي لما يمكن تحقيقه. وهنا يأتي دورنا مرة أخرى كمبادرة في دعم هؤلاء الذين شاركوا في بناء النموذج الأول، ومعاونتهم على عمل نفس الشيئ على نطاق أوسع في محيطهم المحلي. إن قريتنا المفتوحة من خلال تعاونها مع منظومة إدجرايدرز، يتوفر لديها الأدوات المنهجية والتنظيم القادر على تحويل “دردشتنا” إلى ذكاء جماعي. وقد تم تنظيم تلك العملية بصورة لا تتطلب من المشاركين أن يتخلوا عن أعمالهم مسبقا، ولا أن يكونوا مضطرين للمشاركة في مشروع شخص آخر. فالمبادرة مبنية على أساس يوفر مرونة كافية تناسب هؤلاء الذين يرغبون في العمل بموقع فعلي محدد، جنبا إلى جنب مع أولئك الذين يفضلون العمل عن بعد. وهنا يتلخص دور منظمتنا الغير هادفة للربح في الإشراف على تلك العملية، مستثمرين العائدات التي نجنيها من الأعمال الربحية الأخرى في تمويل خطة قريتنا المفتوحة التعاونية طويلة الأمد من أجل جعل كل ذلك ممكنا. كيفية الوصول للهدف وكيفية المشاركة: هنالك عددا من التحديات “الثابتة” التي ستواجهك من البداية. عندها نبدأ بطرح السؤال عن ماهية الصورة المثالية لما نهدف إليه (كيف تبدو الحياة في القرية المفتوحة؟) وهنا نقوم بعكس اتجاه السؤال، كيف حدث ذلك؟ ما الذي سبقه ؟ وما الذي كان قبل ما سبقه؟ … كل ذلك يتحول إلى علامات على الطريق الذي تتشكل فيه التحديات التي نواجهها، وهو الطريق ذاته الذي يتشكل على جنباته مجتمع في حالة مستمرة من التقدم. إنه مثل كتابة قصتنا في المستقبل … لكن بصورة عكسية. [/text-direction] The OpenVillage: Doing good while building better lives for ourselves Where we are going: A future to look forward to, collaborating freely in the quest for prosperous, lives full of meaning, love and respect in tight knit groups. It’s not about becoming reclusive tribes, nor is it about rejecting technology. We want to connect with one another, and with the world at large. To be well with ourselves and with one another. To thrive when failing institutions or existing large-scale centralised means of securing a good life no longer can be relied on. How we get there: We have a long-term map of different components needed in a good life. For most of us, accessing several of them through existing means is difficult or impossible. At least if you look to what is available in the mainstream where power and resources are concentrated. You need to venture out to the edges where people are experimenting with all kinds of solutions for building thriving individuals, communities and societies. On the new online platform we reach out to and connect people working on current issues and encourage them to share their stories, leave thoughtful reflections on the stories of others’ and respond to others’ comments on their own. We use community management and software to transform thousands of conversations into shared knowledge and concepts for how participants’ existing work can be connected to achieve impact at scale. Knowledge gained from hands-on practical experiences is transformed into wisdom powered by Collective Intelligence. We convene conversations around one priority area at a time. Right now it’s how we sustainably care for one another’s health: physical, mental and emotional. We support members to host events in different locations where participants meet in person, get to know one another and build big exciting ideas around which collaborate. People who participate in this process gain access to valuable information, new perspectives, and a huge network of contacts who can help unlock new opportunities for them. They understand where there are efficiencies to be gained, mistakes to avoid and skills to be developed. Individual changemakers use this collective intelligence to help them move their own efforts forward. Allies have access to new initiatives as they are being born and can get involved at an early stage. Existing projects and their business/sustainability plan are documented in a standard format then posted on the community for further development. Participants are free to use and modify them under condition that attribution is given to everyone else who has contributed to its development so far, and that they have contributed something time or money to the project. We collaboratively build an annual Festival. The objective of these events is to 1) build a hollistic, shared understanding of the topic at hand 2) demo a credible systems level solution made of interoperable, smaller scale projects 3) use the evidence-backed vision and impact strategy to generate backing (attention, skills and time) for participant’s projects. Deployment and maintenance. Participants will collaboratively deploy one instance of each selected project within our own open village to serve as collective learning opportunity and demo of what is possible. We then support those who participated in setting up the first instance, to do the same in their own local context. Over time we build a full set of connected techniques, knowledge, relationships and culture that supplies everything needed for long term healthy, sustainable and enjoyable living. We have become a critical mass of people who have developed the skills, infrastructure and resources needed to build and sustain ourselves. And have made many new friends along the way What sets Edgeryders apart is that we actually have the tools, methodology and organisational capacity to turn the participants’s “talking” into collective intelligence and action. The process is structured in a way that doesn’t require participants to give up what they are already doing or "join someone else’s project. It is designed to work both for people who wish to work on location, as well as those who wish to participate remotely. The not for profit organisation stewarding the process uses revenue from commercial work to finance the long-term coordination work needed to make this all possible. How we are getting there and how one can contribute: a number of challenges that are “constant”, and what you see on arrival. We start with what our ideal situation is (how life is in the open village) and then reverse engineer it. How did that happen? What came before that? And before that? These become our milestones around which the challenges are shaped and a growing community convened. Writing our shared story in the the future, backwards. Le village ouvert : Faisant du bien en construisant une vie meilleure pour nous-mêmes Une initiative pour promouvoir la jeunesse et l’employabilité en Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du nord . Notre destination (ou allons-nous ?) : Vers un avenir qu’on contemple ensemble. Un avenir dans lequel nous collaborant librement dans la quête de prospérité, d’une vie pleine de sens, d’amour et de respect mutuel au sein de nos communautés interconnectés. Il ne s’agit pas de devenir des tribus restreintes, ni de rejeter la technologie. Bien au contraire ,Nous voulons nous connecter les uns avec les autres et avec le monde entier. Un échange en toute harmonie avec soi et avec autrui pour la création d’une vie digne ou on est capable d’exploiter nos talents et nos compétences. Notre chemin (Comment y parvenir) : Nous avons dressé une longue liste avec les éléments essentiels pour assurer une vie digne. Mais il nous est difficile, voire impossible d’aboutir à un résultat avec les moyens traditionnels qui sont à notre disposition . La solution réside dans l’innovation : Éloignons nous des idées galvaudées sortons des sentiers battus optons pour un nouvel esprit qui nous permettra de faire évoluer les individus, les communautés et les sociétés simultanément. Sur la plateforme électronique du village ouvert, nous communiquons avec des personnes qui militent pour des causes et des idées d’actualité. Nous les encourageons à partager avec nous leurs histoires et à laisser des réflexions sur les histoires des autres et ou à répondre aux commentaires des autres . Pour se faire nous utilisons la gestion communautaire et les logiciels pour convertir des milliers de discussions en connaissances et concepts qui seront partagés avec d’autres personnes afin d’atteindre un réel impact. C’est ainsi que nous transformons les connaissances recueillies en sagesse alimentée par ce qu’on appelle l’Intelligence Collective. A chaque fois que nous faisons cela nous choisissons un sujet à débattre selon les priorités : Par exemple notre priorité en ce moment est la façon dont on peut améliorer la santé de l’homme de manière durable sur le plan physique mental et psychologique. Nous soutenons les membres de notre communauté pour organiser des événements dans différents endroits où les participants peuvent se rencontrer en personne pour mieux se connaître et construire ensemble de grandes idées passionnantes autour desquelles ils collaborent pour les concrétiser. Les membres participants auront accès à de précieuses informations pourront découvrir, de nouvelles perspectives, en plus d’un énorme réseau de contacts des personnes qui peuvent leur offrir des opportunités. Ainsi, ils seront en mesure de cerner les facteurs clés de la réussite et la manière d’y parvenir tout en évitant les erreurs. Ils pourront de la sorte se focaliser sur les compétences qu’ils peuvent développer. Les alliés ont accès, également, à la plateforme à mesure qu’ils portent des initiatives et peuvent s’impliquer dans des projets à un stade précoce. Les projets existants et leurs plans commercial / développement durable sont documentés dans un format standard puis partagés auprès de la communauté pour le développement ultérieurement. Les participants sont libres d’utiliser et de les modifier sous condition que l’attribution soit donnée à tous ceux qui ont contribué à son développement jusqu’à présent, s’ils se sont investis en temps ou en argent pour développer le projet . Nous créons en collaboration un festival annuel. L’objectif de cet événement est de : Créer une compréhension holistique et communiquer les thématiques sur lesquelles nous travaillons Démontrer la crédibilité des solutions que nous proposons à une petite échelle. Utiliser la stratégie de vision et d'impact soutenue par des preuves pour générer un soutien (L’attention, les compétences et le temps) pour les projets des participants. Les participants collaborent sur un projet sélectionné dans le village ouvert , ce projet sera une opportunité d’apprentissage collectif et de démonstration de ce qui est possible. Nous soutenons ensuite ceux qui ont participé à la conception et la mise en place des premières actions, pour dupliquer ses actions dans leur contexte local. Au fil du temps, nous construisons un ensemble complet de techniques, de connaissances, de relations et de cultures connectées qui fournissent tout ce qui est nécessaire pour une vie saine, durable et agréable à long terme. Nous sommes devenus une masse critique de personnes qui développent les compétences, l’infrastructure et les ressources nécessaires pour qu’on puisse évoluer ensemble PS :Et on se fait de nombreux nouveaux amis sur la route Ce qui distingue Edgeryders, c’est que nous détenons de réels outils, de la méthodologie et de la capacité organisationnelle pour transformer la «conversation» des participants en intelligence et en action collective. Le processus est structuré d’une manière que les participants n’aient pas à renoncer à leurs travaux à l’avance ou à être obligé de participer au projet de quelqu’un d’autre. Notre initiative adopte une méthode de travail flexible dans le but de permettre à ceux sont dans un lieu physique spécifique de travailler côte à côte avec ceux qui préfèrent travailler à distance. Le rôle de notre organisation à but non lucratif se résume à la supervision de cette opération et à l’investissement des revenus récoltés des autres travaux lucratifs pour avoir la capacité de financer le plan de notre village ouvert à long terme. Comment arrivons-nous à notre destination et comment participer ? Il existe un certain nombre de défis auxquels vous devrez faire face dès le début Puis, vous aurez à réfléchir à une conception idéale de ce que nous faisons , c’est-à-dire (Comment devrait être la vie au sein du village ouvert) Ensuite nous inversons l’orientation de la question « Comment ceci est arrivé ?» « Et qu’est ce qu’il y’a eu avant ce qu’il a précédé » Tout ceci se transforme en des marques sur le chemin sur lequel se forment les défis qu’on s’est lancés. Un chemin qu’on construit en même temps de construire une société dans un état constant de développement. Ceci est comme écrire notre propre histoire dans le futur …Mais avec une image renversée Profiles OPEN&Change A group where we make progress to build a massive funding application for MacArthur’s Foundation call. In short | In full Our guiding process: Galway2020 A new collaboration to meet people, projects and communities doing work for the common good in Galway, Ireland. Project funded by the Galway City Council for Galway European Capital of Culture 2020 (March - May 2016). If you want to get involved, sign up on edgeryders.eu and create a post in this discussion group. Alternatively, write to noemi[at]edgeryders[dot]eu. LOTE1 “Living On The Edge” On June 13-16 we are coming together to play the policy game. There will be no spectators, no sitting back! The difference between a mediocre and awsome conference is made by the participants, i.e you! Everyone can help somehow, before and/or duringn the event (starting from a tweet and stepping up to moderate a session). In other words every talent is welcomed and everyone can be useful. For now we are coordinating out of a shared google doc . Jump right in and start building an awsome conference with us! 700 smart people in a community can do alot of cool things OSCE Days The Open Source Circular Economy Days is an open and globally distributed event on Open Source for a Circular Economy. Activists and experts from open source hardware, software, data, design, waste management, resource management and the collaborative economy will work together, globally connected, in order to develop, exchange and prototype ideas for an Open Source Circular Economy. What is an Open Source Circular Economy? Read the Mission Statement. Culture Squad Web Content Contains the content that is displayed on the Culture Squad website. This category exists for technical reasons: a software developed by @hugi and others relies on it to retrieve content by API that is then displayed on a website. OpenVillage Workspace Our open-to-all, informal workspace where we work on the OpenVillage vision and strategy, including the MENA Youth Platform project and the emerging Edgeryders Reef Alliance. (House projects and their activities are organized in the “Houses” category.) What is OpenVillage? Edgeryders is building a self-sustaining R&D ecosystem for next generation social innovation and political renewal. It is constituted by co-living and co-working spaces in different sites; managed by local entities; nourished by the social and economic flows of the whole ecosystem; connected by the dynamic online community of changemakers on edgeryders.eu. What is the MENA Youth Platform? A project of Edgeryders OÜ about building an online / offline incubator that promotes experience exchange and resource sharing, collaboration, problem solving skills and entrepreneurial spirit geared towards the public good. It sets the stage for experimenting with social innovation strategies and subsequently spreading social entrepreneurship and innovation as a legitimate livelihood for / by / with the Youth in the Southern Mediterranean region. Pilot countries are Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia. The first phase happened between May and December 2017, commission and funded by the World Bank Group. What is The Reef Alliance? The time has come to grow the partnerships that can enable the OpenVillage connective layer, in order to: scale membership and sites broaden resourcing inputs including P2P knowledge sharing and funding pathways foster a vibrant symbiotic R&D ecosystem For that, The Reef Alliance is a dynamic and committed network of civil society and SME partnerships that contribute to the growth of The OpenVillage connective layer and self-sustaining smart communities. OCI Lab Events (Replace this first paragraph with a brief description of your new category. This guidance will appear in the category selection area, so try to keep it below 200 characters.) Use the following paragraphs for a longer description, or to establish category guidelines or rules: Why should people use this category? What is it for? How exactly is this different than the other categories we already have? What should topics in this category generally contain? Do we need this category? Can we merge with another category, or subcategory? OCI Lab Topics Travel A not project specific workspace where you get assisted booking of Edgeryders-related travel. For documentation how this works, see the Travel Manual.   This is work in progress. Do not use yet. Soon! OCI Lab OTO Sessions OCI Lab Alumni Ambassadors of Do-ocracy Internal workshop for the Ambassadors of Do-ocracy and Participatory Design project. Software (General) A not project specific workspace where you can ask for help with the Edgeryders website, Matrix server or our other software. Or help develop it with your feedback or code. Please use our Software (SSNA) category for anything related to our tools Open Ethnographer and Graphryder. Please post issue reports and feature requests directly to our issue tracker on Github. Currently, @matthias heads our support and development efforts. Edgeryders Events Websites Spot the Future Romania Edgeryders in Romania taking action for change, helping ourselves grow as a community, become each other’s resource and build durable projects together. No strings attached, if you need help or connect with like minded people in our global network, just shout! https://player.vimeo.com/video/138055115 Meet more community members in this playlist. Why we started this movement in this context. What we did so far: collected beautiful stories of beautiful people and shared them in this group. met offline, cooked together, biked together, and supported one another's initiatives hosted a workshop on collaboration in 2015 with 35 community members attending. Everyone contributed to make it happen! Takeaways here. organized more informal meetups on several topics and partnered up with local events like Babele.co and OuiShare drinks, Hey Mărie's Sezătoare, Noaptea Caselor. Welcome on board! Please introduce yourself in a post below (see Create a Post), we look forward to getting to know you! For detailed info contact noemi@edgeryders.eu Between May-July 2015, Spot the Future was funded by ARCUB, the Cultural Centre of Bucharest Municipality. ARCUB is the entity coordinating the city’s European Capital of Culture 2021 (ECOC) bid. Ours is a pilot project that can hopefully inform new directions for the Bucharest 2021 programme. For more info about the bid visit Bucuresti2021 website. Edgeryders.eu is an open platform built in Drupal, an open source technology. The content is public and everything here is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Learn more. Future Makers Where we work together with UNDP and UNV on the Future Makers Global project. Software (Participio) A development lab within Edgeryders to build experimental software and methodology for decentralized organizations and co-created culture. Software (SSNA) A not project specific workspace for announcements, support and development for Edgeryders’ stack of custom-made semantic social network analysis (SSNA) software. This software suite consist of the following tools: 1. Open Ethnographer The online ethnography tool “Open Ethnographer”, which we use here on edgeryders.eu. What’s this? Open Ethnographer is a software to add ethnographic coding right into live online content. It is an open source plug-in for Drupal, and we use it to add semantic markup to edgeryders.eu content, empowering both our ethnographic research, website visitor’s navigation and discovery, and semantic search engines. Open Ethnographer is developed by the Edgeryders LbG company, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. What’s innovative? In contrast to existing QDA software, semantic markup (“coding”) is not inserted into an offline copy of the online conversation, but right into the live content. This preserves the context, enabling extended analysis later. In addition, the semantic markup can be created collaboratively, the saved coding effort allowing more detailed research later. Lastly, the semantic markup can be public, enhancing the original author’s content with semantic web integration “for free”. We believe this innovation to have potentially disruptive applications for how ethnography is done and what role it plays in societal advancement – see also our more detailed explanation. This project is open! Which means, you are invited to browse through our project workspace below, contribute to the discussion, to software development, and of course to using the free and open source software application when it’s ready (about end of 2015-01). Core documents and tools for collaborating here: Project workspace. You are already there Our project home and central discussion space. Core documents: Project plan Prototype Evaluation Software requirements Software design paid tasks and how to collaborate Manual Hackpad workspace. For drafting / co-writing texts, which are then later transferred to this project here on edgeryders.eu. Github repository and issue tracker. Contains Annotator and its two Drupal integration modules that we use as base software as git subtrees. See the manual for how to deal with them. 2. Graphryder This is an interactive dashboard to explore and analyse semantic social networks. You interact with it with the browser. Developed in the course of the OpenCare project by the University of Bordeaux and Edgeryders. More on the Github repository 3. Edgesense Note that we Intend to make Graphryder take over the functions of this tool in the medium term. Edgesense is a social network analysis tool, which we use here on edgeryders.eu. It uses network analysis techniques to map relationships in online communities in near-real time – think Google Analytics, but for relationships between users. A prototype of this software has been used to perform a network analysis of the first Edgeryders community. This project was initiated by @alberto and various collaborators – some of them Edgeryders. It has since morphed in a component of a EU project called CATALYST. Since January 2015, Edgeryders officially partners up with CATALYST to test two of their tools, Edgesense and Assembl (learn more). 4. Assembl Note that we only tested this tool for a time – we don’t actively use or develop it right now. A data science tool that allows you to exercise your skills as community manager, researcher or social networks enthusiast. Next to Edgesense, it is the second of the CATALYST tools that Edgeryders is testing since the start of our official partnership in January 2015 (learn more). We want to see if they can help us better make sense of big conversations between networked citizens. The ultimate goal? Harness the knowledge into social innovation and real world impact. Spot the Future Belarus This project prototyped a “slow-motion” version of the Spot The Future methodology in Belarus. With UNDP Belarus as a client, the project ran from August to December 2014 and is now finished. The materials generated and conversations had remain available and accessible from the Edgeryders platform. NGI Form Responses (temporary) Communication Agency A new kind of agency for the bleeding edge. LOTE2 “Spinning Off” Living On The Edge 2 (#LOTE2) was a gathering of the Edgeryders community in December 2012 in Brussels. This is where we as the Edgeryders community decided to stick together and become a self-reliant spin-off of what started as a project by the Council of Europe in 2011. This group contains all the organizational discussions and the documentation from LOTE2. Future Makers Nepal Welcome to the public coordination space for the Future Makers Nepal project (2015-04-01 to 2015-07-31). This is where the team that coordinates the project discusses how to do that. You and everyone else is welcome to offer feedback and proposals, ask questions and help etc. – it’s a public space. Community A not project specific workspace where we post updates about, and work on the development of the Edgeryders community and company as a connected whole. Especially also for the Edgeryders community to involve itself in the direction of what Edgeryders is and does. Friendly and constructive, please! Ci2i Global Ci2i Global: Co-creative Impact and Innovation Practitioners Ci2i Global is a global support network of practitioners who use co-creative methods to achieve social impact and innovation. We're testing out the Edgeryders platform to see whether this is a place where our conversations and working groups might live. Spot the Future Georgia We focus on social innovation, smart communities, resilient societies and economies in Georgia. And we would like to hear from you. Based on observation, a recurring obstacle to engage support for innovative work seems to be making the connection between projects/ efforts to tackle challenges at a micro-scale, and larger problems that ‘would be’ supporters are faced with. Let’s be creative about how our individual projects and work can work together to make a bright future happen for Georgia. Many people are doing a great job already, but there is a lot left to do for all of us. Either share your story here, or meet up with us on our regular meetings. Just keep an eye on the group to see when and where we meet. Or get in touch with @Inge, she can help you with whatever questions you may have. Spot the Future This group was used to coordinate the Spot The Future project in March-July 2014. It was a “foresight from the edge” exercise for UNDP in Armenia, Egypt and Georgia. The project is now over. Materials remain available, and final reports are downloadable from this page. Viral Academy The Viral Academy is no longer under the stewardship of the Edgeryders and our relationship with the promoters has been concluded. All enquiries should be directed to the originial promoters. Training young people to create business and mobile applications. The training is complete when students have, in turn, taught other students; this is what makes the learning viral. Civic Innovation Network Edgeryders partners up with Comitato Matera 2019 to prototype small-scale actions to enable, encourage and support civic innovation. “Civic” means both oriented to the collective good and citizen-led. FormStorm May be FormStorm can not only be the post but the group, as the FormStorm doesn’t necessarily end with the deadline on the 11th of December, anyone who wants to be a formstormer can assign related posts, thoughts and questions to this group. Resilient Cities Challenge Edgeryders and some European cities cooperate to enter the 100 Resilient Cities Challenge of the Rockefeller Foundation. This project works under tight time constraints and restricted disclosure contraints, so some material might be set up as private at some point. Other than that, everyone welcome! The discussion on principles stays open anyway. LOTE3 “The unPilgrimage” . OCI Lab A mutual support program for social entrepreneurs powered by the Edgeryders Community. We use our collective intelligence to help one another navigate the complexities of building self-sustaining solutions to social, economic and ecological challenges. Using the Future Using the Future is an experimental initiative organised by Unesco in collaboration with Edgeryders This project took place in the summer and fall of 2014 Participants contribute thought leadership articles to one or more learning goals for Using the Future and meet to discuss the contents over a series of 5 video-conferences lasting 1 hour. The articles and discussions are documented and curated into a digital publication as a foundation for future collaborations and partnerships. Everyone participates on volunteer basis as a shared investment into developing new knowledge and opportunities to do interesting, meaningful work together. How you can participate: As a Curator: This is an opportunity to reflect on lessons learned from the bleeding edge of different fields, as well as how they apply to your work and organisation. Time commitment: 11 hours spread over preparing and participating in 6 virtual meetings scheduled in advance. As a Contributor: To prepare we invite you to share relevant experiences and lessons learned from your work and life in the form of an article of no more than 2000 words for publication on usingthefuture.com. It does not need to be original content, we only ask that it is relevant to the topic for that week. This is a good opportunity to shape and be involved in novel collaborations emerging out of the conversation. Time commitment: don’t spend more than a couple of hours on the article if you don’t already have one that can be edited down to below 1500 words. As a Partner organisation: You get to position yourself at the center of a global interdisciplinary conversation and collaborations with a broad range of stakeholders. Regardless of how you wish to be involved we ask that you/your organisation starts by following the usinthefuture twitter and sharing 1-3 status updates/day. Contact nadia@edgeryders.eu for more information on partnership opportunities. To get started just register an account for yourself here, and then post your contributions in this group (www.edgeryders.eu/using-the-future). P.s. Our Terms of Use, legals and Privacy statement are available here. Logo and flyer design by Ola Möller for Edgeryders. Hatchery A not project specific workspace for projects and initiatives that do not have their own workspace category. This applies to all new ones until they become active, revenue generating projects – or until they become too large to host them in this category, whichever comes first. We recommend that projects inside this category use their own project-{projectname} tag to keep their content together. Tags allow to subscribe to them (you can change notification levels just as with categories), which solves how to get updates about selected projects only. Forms This is where we post editable sandboxes for our template forms: https://register.edgeryders.eu https://freelancers.edgeryders.eu/join https://covid19-summit.netlify.app/#join http://er-campaigns.surge.sh/get-involved LOTE4 “The Stewardship” Living On The Edge (#LOTE4) is a gathering of the Edgeryders community. The physical gathering took place on 23-26 October 2014 at the unMonastery, one of many projects to emerge from the community. We chose it because it is a spectacular place, and because is was very relevant to this years theme. This group contains all the documentation from Lote4. Feel free to browse through the below (posts, wikis) or alternatively, check out the Blog for curated insights. Edgeryders South Africa As a nation reborn South Africa, and everyone involved in building its future, are in a unique position of both learning from and contributing to the experiments of people trying to build a better tomorrow together. The aims of this workshop is to connect the green new shoots acting in the local scene with one another and with their edgeryding peers in other parts of the world. And to surface opportunities for collaboration between them which generate value for everyone involved. Every member of this group shares responsibility for creating the means to make things happen, and if needed can use the Edgeryders Social Enterprise to do so. This is a feature not a bug: At Edgeryders we are experimenting with new ways of getting things done and collaborating on a massive scale. So if we can we do better than “Business as usual” together, we will be contributing towards not only our own ability to generate change together, but open new avenues for others. How to get started? Read and leave comments on the posts by other members of this group below! OCI Lab Conversations Share your story or project about creating a better life. (Arabic intro inside.) Photo by Christian Arballo, CC BY-NC 2.0 [text-direction=rtl] اهلا ومرحبا بكم نحن نأتي من جميع مناحي الحياه من اكثر من 30 بلد في أوروبا وخارجها ,ويالها من رحله نتخذها معا من اجل حياه افضل لنا ولمجتمعنا وللعالم اجمع ! معظمنا يأخذ المخاطر ولا يخشاها حتى لو انتهينا أحيانا ببعض الكدمات ولكن هكذا نأمل أن نتعلم أسرع ونساعد بعضنا البعض يمكنك القيام هنا بامرين اولا عرفنا قليلا عن نفسك وشارك قصتك مع رفاقك قل لنا ما تحب أن نعرفه عنك و ما الذي تناضل من اجله أو اخبرنا عن مشروعك او فكرتك او تجاربك وكيف يمكن أن ندعمك فى هدفك ؟ يمكنك البدأ من هنا عن طريق الضغط على New Topic ثانيا, يمكنك التعرف على مجتمعنا بتصفح المشاركات التاليه والقاء نظره على المشاريع المختلفة , وان امكن أن تقدم بعض النصائح المفيدة او المساعدة .حيث أنه فى كثير من الأحيان وجود شخص يستمع ويسأل الأسئلة الصحيحة يمكن ان يؤدى الى أفكار جديده مثيره للاهتمام تساعدنا على المضي قدما! وفى نفس الوقت كأثر جانبي لطيف ستتعرف اكثر على موقعنا وكيفيه التعامل معه حيث انه المكان الذى نتعاون من خلاله تريد أن تعرف المزيد عن مجتمعنا ؟ يمكنك أن تجد المزيد عنا في هذا الفيديو. إذا كنت بحاجة إلى مساعدة يمكنك مراسلتنا على البريد الإلكتروني : edgeryders@gmail.com شكرا لانضمامك , نتمنى لك قراءه وتواصل سعيد [/text-direction] Guide to the Future Workspace of the “original” Edgeryders project with Council of Europe, in 2011-2012. Where we developed the “Edgeryders Guide to the Future” manual about the state and innovative life choices and lifestyles of European youth in a time of crisis and precarity. This is only for organizational content. See tag #project-edgeryders-coe to see all content of this project. OCI Lab Hack 4 Environment Hello! This is the place where everyone who participates in a hack 4 Environment uploads their materials. And then answers questions from the OCI Lab team as well as from other members of the International community. The way it works is Log in to the platform here: https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login Come back to this page Click on the + New Topic button, and then answer the questions there. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PREPARED THE FOLLOWING MATERIALS: A presentation of the team members (names and 1-sentence introduction to each one) The problem statement and what are the targeted SDGs The project idea Please upload the following documents Product design template (Deliverable 1) Sales presentation (Deliverable 2) A plan of action with detailed budget to develop a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) (Deliverable 3). Did you make a 1-2 min video in which the team presents your idea? If yes, please add a url to where we can find it it ! (it can be on youtube, vimeo, google drive etc) LOTE6 “OpenVillage Festival” LOTE6 “The OpenVillage Festival” happens 19-21 October 2017 in Brussels And this is where it’s organized. We are making the good life happen for us in the post-industrial economy. Meet the people who are doing it already. Learn how to do it. Build it together. Show more A Unique Experience We will have several roles: session leaders, curators, support team. But not spectators. We will have diverse kinds of activities: Project Talks and Panels to get on the same page, Fishbowls/ Workshops/ Masterclasses to dive deep, Co-design Sprints and work-together sessions to transform knowledge into outcomes. Not least, self-organised evening sessions will fill up the schedule. The event is designed to: encourage maximum manageable diversity of participants in a process engineered to ensure respectful and constructive interaction between everyone involved. Themes How do we take care of one another as welfare models and systems are failing us? The program is curated to cover community questions and areas of inquiry which have emerged over the last 18 months of conversations, workshops, project collaborations. Each theme approaches care provision from a different angle and includes several sessions in-the-making. Open Science and Citizen Science for more inclusive healthcare How are people all over the world using open knowledge, open source hardware and software solutions to meet care needs? What are we learning about citizens helping advance groundbreaking research? Curated by Winnie Poncelet (Reagent, Ekoli, Open Insulin global). A mix of engineer, biologist, entrepreneur and storyteller. Works to render science and technology more accessible to diverse groups, including the traditionally marginalized. Architectures of Love: Creating the conditions for open care We’re collecting deep insights from citizen-led care to illuminate the enabling factors that encourage our natural impulses as human beings to care for one another. How might these insights reshape how we understand the role of policy so it enables rather than displaces peer-to-peer care. Curated by Gehan Macleod (GalGael Trust). A community organiser who co-founded GalGael - a social solidarity organisation whose collective works together on the demanding common tasks that demonstrate ways of living with more humanity in our times. Gehan lives in Glasgow, Scotland. Health Autonomy: Living and working well together Learning from the people and projects who experiment with new tools and practices embedded in communal living and working. How do we build autonomy, sustainability in the backdrop of failing health systems, political and socioeconomic crises? Curated by Francis Coughlin (Woodbine.nyc). A medical doctor, resident in a public hospital in NYC and a member at Woodbine, Frank is dedicated to build infrastructure for generative communal health care. Program The most up to date program is announced here. Also: A Note from the Curators. Want to lead a session or host an event? Submit your proposal here! Registering a session starts with posting online reflections about your work and where you see the role of communities in advancing it. Once your proposal is posted other community members will leave thoughtful comments to help refine your proposal. When the Program team will contact you with a proposal for allocated time within two weeks from the time of posting. Tickets To get your ticket create an edgeryders account, then write to community@edgeryders.eu. Contact #OpenVillage Festival Follow us: Facebook, Twitter, Newsletter General inquiries: contact@edgeryders.eu Contributions & Partnerships: company@edgeryders.eu Culture Squad Culture Squad is Edgeryders’ culture unit. We connect artists, producers, researchers who use culture as a tool for social change. We do community building, research, cultural interventions (urban games), participatory community events. This is a coordination space where anyone interested can participate or propose new projects, depending on their passion. Introduce yourself below! We have a more general and easy to grasp website too! https://culturesquad.org/ Show more Our track record: Trust in Play European School of Game Design (2019-2020, in Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin and nomadic!) OpenVillage Festival (Brussels, 2017): interactive showcase of community based care services unMonastery Matera (Italy): helping the city of Matera win the European Capital of Culture 2019. Georgia’s Futurespotters (Georgia): helping UNDP country office reach out to innovators on the ground. Spot the Future Bucharest (Romania): helping the city of Bucharest bid for European Capital of Culture 2021. Network building for Galway 2020 (Ireland): helping the city of Galway win European Capital of Culture 2020. Webcontent Sandbox LOTE5 “Fail / Unfail” This is where the magic of building the Living on the Edge 5 event happened. Background: this space builds on the discussions around different proposals from community and takes fully on the proposal still standing - an unconference based on FuckUp nights and fuckup moods and failure as main theme. “We commit ourselves to the art of being wrong and of openly talking about failure” – @ireinga in Brussels (learn more). Baltic Edge The “Baltic Edge” project from early 2013, together with Global Challenge. This space is only for organizational content. See tag #project-baltic-edge for the project contents. OpenCare Here we coordinate(d) a research project on community-driven care services. The project is complete now and its full contents are available under https://edgeryders.eu/tags/project-opencare The idea first came in the context of a LOTE4 session proposed and led by Rémy Cagnol. We wrote a proposal in February-March 2015, which got funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 framework programme. Everyone is welcome to participate._ What is OpenCare all about? We are a global community working together to make health and social care accessible for all, open source, privacy-friendly and participatory. https://vimeo.com/162811723 OpenCare is a research project executed by a global consortium of partners. It starts from the assumption that state and private institutions will be unable to meet the demands for care in the 21st century and that new, more open, participatory, community-based methods are required. Related: the OpenVillage Festival. unMonastery “When it comes to work it is increasingly difficult to reconcile making money with making sense. People do work to make a living. Others do work to make meaning. But the two works are not the same work.” The unMonastery is an ambitious and radical response to the challenge of bridging this gap. It draws inspiration from the 10th century monastic life to encourage radical forms of social innovation and collaboration. A sort of lay, off-grid mendicant order striving for a society that can better withstand present and future systemic crises. This place-based social innovation, is aimed at addressing the interlinked needs of empty space, unemployment and depleting social services by embedding committed, skilled individuals within communities that could benefit from their presence. The unMonastery aims to develop a new kind of social space, akin to co-living and co-working spaces, drawing influence from both Monasteries and HackerSpaces, with a focus on the process of co-creation and co-learning between the community and unMonasterians. At the core of the unMonastery concept is a desire to recreate the best social functions of the traditional monastery: by giving the participants a collective purpose, a chance to develop deep relationships with one another and a reduced need to generate personal income so time can be dedicated entirely to serving the local community and contributing to global efforts in creating new digital tools. Click here for a list of current unMonastery projects.