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.