Peer2Politics

“Whether you were born into the networks or simply interested in digital creation, nowadays there are places and communities where you can learn, create and share knowledge. These laboratories (labs) are mediation spaces dedicated to practice, expression and creation as much as critical commitment on the role of technology in art and society. Individual users, artists, engineers, researchers and designers go there to research and produce in the free culture spirit.

From September 23rd to 28th, as a parallel program of the International Meeting on Culture and New Technologies, the SESC Vila Mariana will hosts the Human Ecosystems project, by the Italian artists Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico (Art is Open Source).

“We observe a rapid expansion of social movements and initiatives around degrowth, solidarity economy, cooperatives, p2p initiatives, collaborative consumption, commons and others. New initiatives are appearing all overthe world. Making them visible on a common map (Open Street Map based) will provide useful tools for practicioners, activists and academics, for personal or collective use.

An invitation to contribute to an exciting new interoperative system for mapping economic alternatives based on Open Street Map.

These mapping projects bring to mind the very successful Wikisprint project that the P2P Foundation helped organize several months ago. Dozens of peer production projects throughout Spain and Latin American held events on the same day. They shared live video feeds and presentations with each other, and posted a listing of all of the projects throughout Latin American and Spain on a single map. What matters is that a new body of shared knowledge comes into being, about which everyone is self-aware. This truly is how new movements take shape — by self-organizing a new mental map of the world that lets people begin to navigate in new ways.