Early registration is now open for the New European Bauhaus meets Community Economies Spring School.
The 4-day in-person event will take place from March 25 to March 28, 2025, in Rovereto, (TN), Italy.
The School is based on a two-year Erasmus+ project that is investigating how…
A team of CERN and CEI researchers from Aotearoa New Zealand have been awarded a Marsden Fund grant to investigate collective actions to reduce waste.
Conventional approaches to waste reduction focus on getting individuals to change their attitudes and behaviours, often through actions like recycling.
Instead this…
The fifth Community Economies Research Network (CERN) LIVIANA 2024 International Online Conference was held Monday 4 November to Friday 15 November, with 28 sessions covering topics that ranged from diverse democracies and diverse economies, Indigenous-led co-design, diverse economies in more-than-human worlds, art-based practices, and decolonising…
Congratulations to CERN member Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein for the publication in May 2024 of The Banker Ladies: Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks.
The book focuses on the informal co-operative banks and rotating savings and credit associations (…
The Department of Decolonial Economics at El Cambalache, based in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, is running two online workshops, September to November 2024 (in English and Spanish).
The first workshop, ‘Liberatory Methods for Investigating and Generating Non-Capitalist / Anti-Colonial Social Power,’…
This article came out of many years of thinking and talking together about our earlier work in an urban youth garden in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. We were really interested in the way youth talked about the changes in themselves as people who could learn to care for each other and shared spaces (commons). We had the opportunity to publish in a special issue of Cities on storying the 'counter-city', so we used our thinking
We wrote this piece about JK Gibson-Graham's thinking on space and place. It is an updated version of Wendy Larner's earlier chapter.
I wrote this piece for a special issue on emerging methodologies in care and care-giving in Asia Pacific. In it, I reflect on some of the embodied aspects of ethnographic methods that we sometimes overlook. I use Anna Tsing's idea of awkward engagements, but apply it as an embodied method for sensing and responding to different pluriversal realities. The context is myself as a Pākehā New Zealand European person doing research work in the
La Foresta is a community academy that is located at the train station of Rovereto in the valley of Vallagarina, Trentino, an autonomous province in the North of Italy. The project was collectively founded in 2017, the initiators were motivated by the desire to create a space where different cultures and the various civic actors in the area could come together to learn from each other, both in theory and practice, in order to
What can it mean to shift from a critical to a caring design practice? I raise this issue as urgent and significant within the interdependent planetary dynamics of climate breakdown, rapid species extinction and the vertiginous exacerbation of social inequalities spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic. To explore this question, I take my own participatory and research-led design practice as a reference point that helps me to ref lect on
