Yes, Amanda is part of it. On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 13:35, Tom Keene <t...@theanthillsocial.co.uk> wrote:
> Ahh, I believe a very old friend of mine (Amanda Getrup) is building with > you on Church Grove... > Thanks for sharing the event details! > T > > > On Fri, 3 May 2019, at 12:17 PM, Graziano Milano via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Hello, > > I’m actively involved with Rural Urban Synthesis Society (RUSS) > <https://www.theruss.org> which is a members-led Community Land Trust > based in Lewisham (South East London), founded in 2009 with the aim of > creating sustainable community-led neighbourhoods and truly affordable > homes. > > It was a long and hard journey for us, but in June 2018 our first housing > project was finally granted planning permission by Lewisham Council and > soon after that we managed to get a £988k pre-development grant from the > Mayor of London. Our story started a few years earlier when, after a > campaign led by RUSS members, we successfully completed a public > procurement process and signed a Development Agreement in April 2016 with > Lewisham Council for a ‘community-led, affordable, self-build housing > development’ in a derelict former school and industrial site at Church > Grove in Ladywell, South East London. > > The project will provide 33 new sustainable, customised, high quality > homes (including 5 social housing) that will be permanently affordable and > partly self-built in order to reduce construction costs. Have a read at the > Innovative > Approach to Community-Led Housing > <https://issuu.com/ruralurbansynthesissociety/docs/russ_prospectus> > brochure (which I designed) for more detailed info about RUSS’s vision. > > In summer 2017, I also successfully led a Spacehive crowdfunding campaign > <https://www.spacehive.com/ladywellselfbuild> to raise £50k+ to > self-build (this summer) a community hub on the same site as a training > facility for would-be community self-builders (may well be used for > community arts projects as well). If you wish to find more about it, you > can book a free ticket for the RUSS Community Hub - Build Launch Event > <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/russ-community-hub-build-launch-event-tickets-60878784082?fbclid=IwAR2HNnvBJGqgL-xgaSl9Cz46gtb_JgrYFL_qOYNSuHwid1emCT25OrlkiAU> > on Wednesday 15th May. > > Graziano > > On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 10:31, Tom Keene <t...@theanthillsocial.co.uk> wrote: > > > Hi all, > Interesting thread. > > On Cressingham Gardens Estate where I live, we're currently setting up our > own tenant management organisation and explored a coop option, but as we > have a very complex relationship with Lambeth Council (i.e intention to > demolish through regeneration) the coop structure didn't seem to fit. We > are now about to become a Community Interest Company (CIC). > > Interestingly, Lambeth appointed itself as the UK's first 'cooperative > council' though in reality this is meaningless. When housing officers > attempted to enact a cooperative approach they didn't have a clue what it > meant in practice, and said as much. The officers (and councillors) > practice is based around tight control of information through existing > technical systems, though they don't particularly recognise the role of > technology. Weirdly, Lambeth Labour party councillors partnered and > campaigned under a joint Labour/Coopertive Party banner. In other words, > they co-opted (I do like a pun;) the term cooperative to make their > policies of social cleaning through urban regeneration more palatable. > > What I've learnt through my experience of housing activism (trying to stop > a council demolishing my home) is that multiple organisational structures > are required to intervene in, alter, or instigate new power dynamics. On > Cressingham, for example, there's a Residents Association, Community > Interest company, Save Cressingham Campaign (organised around an anarchist > model), and a formal council structure based on a written constitution. > Each of which presents different possibilities of action - you need this > fluidity or ability to participate in different structures to address a > problems from multiple, simultaneous, directions. This multiplicity is > required because they things we are dealing undergo constant change which > is a central problem of capitalism... Can you tell i'm in the middle of my > PhD writeup ;) > > Tom > > > On Thu, 2 May 2019, at 10:06 PM, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Dear Julian, > > It's great to hear that you have finally got some traction for the > development work that you want to do. I would be v. interested to hear how > it goes. > > I've been interested in cooperatives as one (incomplete and partial I > know) route to democratising work and money flows - following the debates > around platform cooperatives, open cooperatives, and the Preston model > (where the local authority has committed to favouring local and > cooperatively run services in public procurement decisions, with great > benefits to the local economy). > > I've followed the rocky journey of Resonate to build a blockchain-based > cooperative music service. And what I know of their experience chimes with > the article when it says... > > "cooperatives are more difficult to bootstrap than corporations because > they don’t have access to the same capital markets. Historically, it’s been > a lot harder to coordinate investment from members with shared values than > it is to raise funds with the singular goal of maximizing profits" > > We have often entertained formalising more cooperative organisational > forms for Furtherfield projects, but have been put off by the > administrative overheads and legal complexities and costs. The potential > for DAOs to lighten the bureaucratic load is therefore very attractive! > > Look forward to hearing more about CoopDAO > :) > Ruth > > > > On Mon, 29 Apr 2019, 10:39 Julian Brooks, <li...@julianbrooks.net> wrote: > > Hey Ruth, > > Yeah I also found that article of interest too. > Insight from VC's, who'd a thunk it. > > I've been digging into Coops for the last couple of years. For me stems > from a visceral reaction to DAO's & 'Code as Law'. I just immediately > thought it'd be better to consider them more human-centric - with DAO's > being such a potential for collectivising power. > > So started putting this kinda mental construct together 'Cooperative > Autonomous Organisations', a sort of 'DAO, Coop, Mutual, Union' - type > structure. This was to house the participants in the music licensing / > smart contracts / IP-reinvention post-doc project that I have been > attempting to raise research funding for (unsuccessfully so far). > > I always thought the CoAO would be the trickiest part to put together, > and was actually planning to work in this during years 3-5 in a 5yr > project. After getting rejected for funding last October (working w. > UoMcr proposing to AHRC) I started exploring and getting involved with > the 'Aragon Project' community (cool people with some astonishing [& > really-existing] crypto tech-tools). > > A small Aragon group started seriously considering and engaging in what > a Cooperative DAO could be in practice. To this end I put togehter a > small funding proposal that was voted though by $ANT holders (the Aragon > token) a couple of days ago (whoop whoop!). So there'll be two of us > working a couple of days a week each, with additional funds for CoopDAO > members to also propose paid work a day p.w. to formulate and put into > practice what this org can actually be. > > Quite excited:) > > https://twitter.com/AragonProject/status/1122172288462356484 > > > https://forum.aragon.org/t/agp-40-discussion-aragon-cooperative-dao-funding-proposal/783/12 > > Totally agree Coops are definitely 'a thing' atm. For me, this is a very > good thing. Also fascinating that (Ethereum mainly?) crypto is very much > engaging in this too. > > I don't know where this is all going, perhaps this is what I like most. > > J. > > On 28/04/2019 15:21, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Thanks Rob, > > Full of great nuggets as always > > > > Past, Present, Future: From Co-ops to Cryptonetworks - > > > > https://a16z.com/2019/03/02/cooperatives-cryptonetworks/ > > > > > > Coops seem to be on the upsurge. > > I'd be interested to know whether people here are already members of > > coops as workers or customers and if so why? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NetBehaviour mailing list > > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > > <mailto:NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> > > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > > > > -- > > Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised > > Arts Lab > > +44 (0) 77370 02879 > > > > *Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through > > exhibitions, labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free > > thinking. > > furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org/> > > > > *DECAL* Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 > > technologiesresearch hub > > > > for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now. > > > > decal.is <http://www.decal.is> > > > > > > Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company limited by Guarantee > > registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. > > Registered business address: Ballard Newman, Apex House, Grand Arcade, > > Tally Ho Corner, London N12 0EH. > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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