Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe is a collection of essays, case studies and interviews that showcase the wealth of transformative ideas that the commons have to offer. Featuring reflections on the enclosure of knowledge and the monopolisation of the digital sphere, stories about renewable energy cooperatives and community foodwaste initiatives and urgent pleas to see the city as a commons and to treat health as a common good, this book is a political call to arms for all Europeans to embrace the commons and build a new Europe. Our Commons features contributions by David Bollier, Sheila R. Foster, Benjamin Coriat, Silke Helfrich, George Monbiot, Kate Raworth, Trebor Scholz and many others.
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In the debate about smart cities, an alternative to a dominant top-down, tech-driven solutionist approach has arisen in examples of ‘civic hacking’. Hacking here refers to the playful, exploratory, collaborative and sometimes transgressive modes of operation found in various hacker cultures, this time constructively applied in the context of civics. It suggests a novel logic to organise urban society through social and digital media platforms, moving away from centralised urban planning towards a more inclusive process of city-making, creating new types of public spaces. This book takes this urban imaginary of a hackable city seriously, using hacking as a lens to explore examples of collaborative city-making enabled by digital media technologies. Five different perspectives are discussed. Hacking can be understood as (1) an ethos, a particular articulation of citizenship in the network era; (2) as a set of iterative and collaborative city-making practices, bringing out new roles and relations between citizens, (design) professionals and institutional actors; (3) a set of affordances of institutional structures that allow or discourage their appropriation; (4) a critical lens to bring in notions of democratic governance, power struggles and conflict of interests into the debate on collaborative city-making; and (5) a point of departure for action research. After a discussion of these themes, the various chapters in the book are briefly introduced. Taken together they contribute to a wider debate about practices of technology-enabled collaborative city-making, and the question how city hacking may mature from the tactical level of smart and often playful interventions to a strategic level of enduring impact.
While smart maintenance is gaining popularity in professional engineering and construction management practice, little is known about the dimensions of its maturity. It is assumed that the complex networked environment of maintenance and the rise of data-driven methodologies require a different perspective on maintenance. This paper identifies maturity dimensions for smart maintenance of constructed assets that can be measured. A research design based on two opposite cases is used and data from multiple sources is collected in four embedded case studies in corporate facility management organizations. Through coding data in several cross-case analyses, a maturity framework is designed that is validated through expert consultation. The proposed smart maintenance maturity framework includes technological dimensions (e.g., tracking and tracing) as well as behavioral dimensions (e.g., culture). It presents a new and encompassing theoretical perspective on client leadership in digital construction, integrating innovation in both construction and maintenance supply networks.
Om een nieuwe economie te realiseren die zowel aardse grenzen respecteert als voorziet in menselijke behoeftes, is nieuw ondernemerschap nodig. Huidige vormen van eigenaarschap belemmeren pionierende ondernemers. Nieuwe vormen van eigenaarschap kunnen deze ondernemers helpen. Steward-Ownership (SO) lijkt hiervoor geschikt en wint bovendien aan populariteit in Nederland. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat SOpositieve effecten heeft voor eigenaren en werknemers, het is echter nog niet bekend of SO ook daadwerkelijk helpt in het realiseren van de transitie naar een duurzame economie en wat de effecten zijn op andere stakeholders. Het doel van dit onderzoek is om uit te zoeken in welke mate en op welke manier bedrijven met SO een bedrage leveren aan de transitie naar de nieuwe economie. De onderzoeksvraag luidt: Welke inzichten levert het beschrijven en evalueren van de Common Good-thema’s bij een aantal SO-bedrijven op over de waarde van SO voor deze en andere MKB-bedrijven die overwegen om SO in te zetten als eigendomsvorm voor hun onderneming? We gebruiken daarvoor de Common Good Matrix (CGM),een gevalideerde methode om brede impact vast te stellen. In het onderzoek wordt samengewerkt met 3 MKB-praktijkpartners, te weten We are Stewards, Bord & Stift en NCR. Dit onderzoek is een verkennend onderzoek. Op basis van de uitkomsten zal een meerjarig onderzoeksproject worden opgesteld, om de betekenis van nieuwe vormen van eigenaarschap voor de nieuwe economie te onderzoeken.