Commoning and Radical Care, A SPACEX RISE Symposium
This symposium considers how commoning and radical care practices offer an alternative path beyond the neoliberal discourse of value.
Commoning and Radical Care, A SPACEX RISE Symposium
Friday 3 March, 2023, 09:30 – 20:30 GMT
This symposium considers how commoning and radical care practices offer an alternative path beyond the neoliberal discourse of value.
Commoning is a desire for a more socially equitable society. Its central tenet is the belief that social relationships can replace financial ones, and, to these ends, commoners aim to reverse Capitalism’s ‘enclosure’ of the commons so that all can have an equal share in humanities’ resources. This event considers how commoning and radical care practices, with their goal of producing forms of social wealth (rather than monetizable values), offer an alternative path beyond the neoliberal discourse of value.
This event forms part of the SPACEX-RISE research action. Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic EXchange (SPACEX) is an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral knowledge-transfer and research initiative. It aims to test the ways in which spatial practices in art, architecture and design instigate public exchange and promote empathetic ways of living together in urban space. It responds to the troubling rise of populist nationalism and conflict in European societies, which has come about as a result of mass immigration, the perceived surrender of national sovereignty to remote international bodies, and the demise of public spaces in which people can meet and exchange diverging opinions and conflicting interests. Central to spatial practice is the goal of engaging new publics and fostering meaningful partnerships, thereby forging a culture that embraces diversity, difference, and discursive exchange within cities, towns and urban sites.
LOCATION
National College of Art and Design (NCAD), 100 Thomas Street, D08 K521, Dublin 8, Ireland.
BOOKING LINK
Places are limited. Please book early to avoid disappointment.
ITINERARY Friday 3 March, 2023, 09:30 — 20:30 GMT
9.30AM—11.15AM
Theories of Commoning.
Speakers Stavros Stavrides (SpaceX-RISE Researcher, Laboratory of the Urban Common, Athens) and Gary Hall (SpaceX-RISE Researcher, Coventry University). Chaired by Emma Mahony (SpaceX-RISE Researcher, NCAD).
11.15-12.00PM
Break; Closed session for SpaceX-RISE researchers only
12.00PM—1.00PM
Principles of Space Detection.
Performance by artist Irina Gheorghe. Link irina gheorghe.ro. Hosted by Anne Kelly (SpaceX-RISE Researcher, NCAD).
1.00PM—3.20PM
Break; Closed session for SPACEX researchers only
3.20PM—4.30PM
Commoning as Care Practices in the Community - Part 1: Organisations,
Speakers Rosie Lynch, Callan Workhouse Union, workhouseunion.com; Siobhan Geoghegan, Common Ground, commonground.ie. Chaired by Tom O’Dea (SpaceX-RISE Researcher, NCAD).
4.30PM—4.45PM
Break
4.45PM—5.45PM
Commoning as Care Practices in the Community - Part 2: Artists,
Speakers Fiona Whelan (SpaceX-RISE researcher), fionawhelan.com; Evelyn Broderick, A People’s Shed evelynbroderick.com. Chaired by Michelle Browne (SpaceX-RISE researcher).
6.00PM—6.20PM
Our Table
Ellie Kisyombe introduces Our Table a social enterprise which focuses on producing an inclusive community through food and campaigning to end direct provision in Ireland ourtable.ie
6.30PM—8.30PM
Trad Around Our Table
Event in NCAD Gallery and Foyer with a live Trad music session led by Evelyn Broderick, evelynbroderick.com; and sustenance by Our Table
Commoning and Radical Care is part of the third SpaceX-RISE training event taking place in Dublin from 2-3 March 2023. The focus will be on Behavioural Economics and Commoning Practices. It is being delivered by SpaceX-RISE researchers from the National College of Art & Design (NCAD) in conjunction with the Geary Institute, School of Economics at University College Dublin (UCD) and Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
The SpaceX-RISE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) project number 872561. H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019
