dear Geert I would love to meet you and your crew, however, my agenda is already full for this very short trip to belgium,
in the spring though, I will be 3 months in Ghent and will definitely visit, Michel On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Geert de pauw <[email protected]> wrote: > dear all, > > > Commons Josaphat <https://commonsjosaphat.wordpress.com/> is a Brussels > collective that believes in the commons as a paradigm for urban > development. > To realize this, we worked out a proposal for the development of the > Josaphat site, one of the last undeveloped pieces of land in our Region > (24ha). > The owner, the Brussels Region, wants to sell a big part of the land to > developers. We propose to develop this futur urban neighborhood in a new > way, in cooperation with existing civic initiatives: cohousing groups, > community land trusts, energy cooperatives,... > The principles are collective land ownership, anti-speculation, > solidarity, collective management. (more info in the french version of our > proposal for this Commons Neigbourhoud > <https://commonsjosaphat.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/commons-josaphat_josaphat-en-commun01light.pdf> > ) > > The presence of so many European commoners in Brussels is the ideal > occasion for us to discuss our proposal with you and to learn of your > experiences. That's why we organize a *workshop on Tuesday, 15/11 from 16 > to 19h* at Zinneke, Place Masui 13 in Brussels. We want to organize > exchanges between members of our collective and people who work elsewhere > in Europe in the development of urban commons. > We are mainly looking for concrete and inspiring examples. We would like > to focus on: > > - The drafting of a charter > - Developing a governance model to scale of a neighborhood > - Citizen funding of such a large-scale project > - Models for the collective management of the public and common space > > Can you let us know if you are enthusiast (and available) to participate > the 15/11 from 16 to 19h? Thanks! > > Annexed you'll find a short description of what we do. If you're > interested, let us know, we'll send you a short presentation with more > inof. Hope to meet you on our workshop (or at on other moment of the > European Commons Assembly), > > Geert De Pauw, Sophie Ghyselen, Verena Lenna, Loic Géronnez for Commons > Josaphat > -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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