Commons Fest 2015 Program

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15-17 May at Greek Archeologists’ Union

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Friday 15.05.2015, 8.00pm

Massimo de Angelis/ Stavros Stavridis | “The commons: from survival to a radical strategy of transformation” (*)

Saturday 16.05.2015

– 1.00pm Pat Conaty | Convivial Money and Co-operative Capital (*)

– 8.00pm Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation | For a Free Digital Society (*)

 

Keynote Talk Yard Seminar Exhibition Concert

 

FRIDAY 15.05.2015

HALL A0

TIME SPEAKER TITLE
17:00 Antonis Androulidakis History of the commons in Greece
17:30 Alexandros Kioupkiolis Commons, Hegemony and social change
Self-organization and sustainability. Moderator: Antonis Broumas
18:00 Costas Haritakis Factories to the workers and to society: the self-managed VIOME as a commons-based production model
18:15 Vangelis Karageorgos,  Efimerida ton Syntakton Information, Crisis and Cooperative Co-News
18:30 Panagiotis Koustas, ERTOPEN Self-management and social audit in the struggle of ERT
18:45 Nikos Katsiaounis, SynEditions, Ekdosis ton Synadelfon Cooperative ventures and the prospect of a social economy
19:00 Discussion
Keynote speech. Moderator: Peni Travlou
20:00 Massimo de Angelis/ Stavros Stavridis The commons: from survival to a radical strategy of transformation (*)

HALL A1

TIME SPEAKER TITLE
17:30 – 19:30 Peni Travlou/ Natalia Avlona Feminist approaches to the production of commons

Party – YARD

HOUR WHAT
22:00 Party

SATURDAY 16.05.2015

Morning zone

HALL A0

TIME SPEAKER TITLE
Monetary Reform. Moderator: Giorgos Papanikolaou
11:00 – 12:00 Sybille Sain Girons Trading Floor Game (*)
12:00 Matthew Slater Resilience through common tender (*)
12:15 Vasilis Perantzakis Money as a commons: Basic income
12:30 Discussion
Keynote speech. Moderator: Giorgos Papanikolaou
13:00 Pat Conaty Convivial Money and Co-operative Capital (*)

HALL A2

TIME SPEAKER TITLE
Public space as a common good. Moderator: Nikos Anastasopoulos
11:00 Alexandros Nousias Behaviours as a common good
11:15 Giorgos Sahinis Dourgouti Island Hotel Project
11:30 Panos Totsikas, Intiative for a public park at ‘Eliniko’ Building a park for Society and Movements at the former ‘Eliniko’ airport
11:45 Stelios Lekakis, MONUMENTA Recording and Promotion of the 19th and 20th century’s buildings in Athens
12:00 Koino Athina Practices of urban commons
12:15 Member of the open assembly of “Navarinou” park Self-managed public space – neighbourhood park or common good of a political community of struggle? Issues and perspectives
12:30 Discussion

Afternoon zone

YARD

TIME MODERATOR TITLE
The Yard is for parallel open workshops and discussions with the participation of the audience
15:00 – 16:30 Carmen Lozano Bright, p2p-plazas P2P practices reshaping public space in Greece (*)
Georgia Tsouderou The Mediterranean and Civilization
SEMS Researchers Network (Southern Europe Mutual Support Researchers Network) Researchers AND Grassroots Movements: LET’S GET INTERACTIVE & COOPERATE !!! (*)
David Juarez, Straddle3 Public Space Legal Toolkit (*)
Katalin Hausel, unMonastery MAPPING AND THE COMMONS – an unMonastery workshop (*)
Lauren Lapidge Reinventing the Wheel- Open Source Circular Economy Days and unMonastery (*)
Koino Athens Urban Commons practices
Manois Mpritzolakis/ Dimitris Koukoulakis/ Jann Kruse Next steps after the 3rd CommonsFest

HALL A0

TIME SPEAKER TITLE
Open technology and p2p networks. Moderator: Vasilis Chrysos
17:00 Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know Digital business models that respect the initial producer of information
17:15 Eleftherios Kosmas hackerspace.gr
17:30 Vassilis Salapatas, SciFy Open technologies and P2P networks
17:45 Panayotis Antoniadis DIY networking
18:00 Giorgos Klisiaris, Sarantaporo.gr Community Wireless Networks as a remote, rural areas development tool. The case of Sarantaporo.gr
18:15 Costas Latoufis, New Guinea Wind Empowerment and applications of open hardware wind turbines in the developing world
18:30 Diomedes Skalistis, Zeitgeist Open Source Ecology – Discovering new means of design and production
18:45 Discussion
Keynote speech
20:00 Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation For a Free Digital Society (*)

HALL A2

TIME SPEAKER TITLE
Basic common goods. Moderator: Nikos Ioannou
17:00 Moderators ‘YARD’ Presentation of outcomes, ‘YARD’
17:15 Thodoris Karyotis, Movement 136 The proposal of Movement 136 for the social management of water
17:30 Froso Moureli, Social Medical Practice of Solidarity in Thessaloniki Health as commons in the mindset and practice of the Social Medical Practice of Solidarity in Thessaloniki
17:45 Maria Rota, Metropolitan Social Medical Practice of ‘Elliniko’ Social medical practices in the age of crisis and their role today
18:00 Tasos Kefalas, Prosynat Seeking the Commons in the model of decentralized, social management of waste
18:15 Markos Hatzipieras, Botanical Garden 6 Years occupation of the Botanical Garden – The reappropriation and production of commons in practice
18:30 Christos Giovanopoulos, Solidarity4all Practices of solidarity as the creation of commons
18:45 Discussion

Concert – YARD

HOUR WHAT
22:00 Concert: Dirty Fuse, Pirates City, Radiosol

SUNDAY 17.05.2015

Morning zone

HALL A0

TIME SPEAKER TITLE
Open Knowledge: legal and institutional matters. Coordinator: Prodromos Tsiavos
11:30 Giorgos Cheliotis Openness: What is it and how do we evaluate it?
11:45 Theodroros Hiou Creative Commons licenses vs collective management: Potentials and Challenges in the public performance of music in the food and beverage business
12:00 Alexandra Gianopoulou Voluntary Public Domain
12:15 Manos Kefalas The school of Wikipedia
12:30 Stefanos, Dromografos Movementist photojournalism and intellectual rights
12:45 Thanasis Deligianis, GFOSS Open Technologies in Education
13:00 Discussion

HALL A1

TIME SPEAKER TITLE
Agriculture and Common Goods. Moderator: Elias Haralampakis
11:45 Kostas Koutis, Aegilops Agriculture and common goods (seeds, water, knowledge) under doubt? How do we answer?
12:00 Vaso Kanelopoulou, Peliti The privitization of biodiversity through legislation and the regulation of seed trading
12:15 Agro-environmental Group of Biogrowers of Western Greece Agro-environmental Group of Biogrowers of Western Greece
12:30 Giannis Papatheodorou, Stagones Natural Building
12:45 Vangelis Mantzios, Eco-community ‘Epia Gi’, land of Epia Natural products of self-sufficiency with a presence in the city
13:00 Discussion

SEMINARS, HALL H1

TIME MODERATOR TITLE
11:00 – 14:00 Dcalk Games, Commons and Offline networks (*)
14:30 – 15:30 Collision Resistance CryptoParty

Afternoon zone

HALL A0

TIME SPEAKER TITLE
Transitional Models and Policies. Moderator: Dora Kotsaka
14:30 Apostolis Ksekoukoulotakis Peer production of material goods: practical issues and possible solutions
14:45 Vasilis Kostakis, P2PLab Three proposals for a commons-based restructuring of production
15:00 Antonis Broumas Policies for the Commons in Crisis – Ridden Greek Society
15:15 Manolis Terovitis Open Data and Protection of Privacy
15:30 Prodromos Tsiavos, GFOSS Policy proposals for open technologies
15:45 Giorgos Papanikolaou Commons-oriented public policies in education
16:00 Discussion
Discussion – Conclusions and Suggestions. Moderator: Dimitris Koukoulakis
17:00 – 18:00 Discussion Mooderators Discussion – Conclusions and Suggestions – Closing of the Festival

Concert – YARD

ΩΡΑ ΤΙ
19:00 Foklore and rembetika – Christos Tzitzimigkas and company

EXHIBITION

MODERATOR / COLLECTIVE TITLE DESCRIPTION
Peerbay Team PeerBay An alternative internet infrastructure that ensures privacy. Peerbay is software for an anonymous, encrypted and uncensored internet and p2p TV. http://peerbay.net
Vasilis Chrysos, Carmen Lozano CommonsPoly: Hacking Monopoly. A board game to play! A collaborative table game for the commons made in the hackcamp of 17ZEMOS98, Seville
Commons Lab DonationBox: open source box for micro-financing projects
Alexandra Gianopoulou Open Access Button
HestiaPi An Open Smart Thermostat  http://hestiapi.com
SciFy Tic-Tac-Toe for blind people Tic-tac-toe for the blind

(*) Talks and workshops with an asterisk are in English. The rest are in Greek. We will try to provide interpretation from Greek to English in the form of “whispering” but we cannot guarantee this for the whole of the festival as we are short of volunteers.

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