Cooperativism

Co-designing with Energy communities

Digital Platform Co-design In November 2021, OLA had the opportunity to get involved in the development of a digital platform for the internal functioning of energy communities with cooperative Sociality and Greenpeace Greece. OLA was responsible for the co-design process of specific functionalities of the platform, but the workshop structure worked also as an overall […]

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Kalotrofa | Food Sovereignty and Sustainability Hub

Kalotrofa is a research program about Food sovereignty and the diffusion of Social and Solidarity Economy, coordinated by the Department of Social Policy of Panteion University of Athens and funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. It aims to build on existing research findings and materials by using diverse participatory tools and processes […]

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PDC Places Athens | Politics of Participatory Design

Politics of Participatory Design in Greece: how people participate for/through technology  Athens and Greece brings a particularly interesting context in relation to the politics of place and designing in ways that wouldn’t conventionally be understood as PD. As such, this PDC place will focus on non-conventional ways of designing together, particularly in relation to solidarity […]

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H2020 gE.CO Living Lab

gE.CO Living Lab aims at creating a platform for bringing together and supporting formal groups or informal communities of citizens who manage fab-lab, hubs, incubators, co-creation spaces, social centres created in regenerated urban voids.

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Solidarity School

Groups of teachers in collaboration with local grassroots collectives kicked off solidarity school-tutoring, demanding the use of local schools for this function or holding solidarity classes in local social centres.

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Metadeftero.gr

As Open Lab we want to explore the motivation for radio usage from social movements and use the radio broadcasting setting as a space for participatory design.

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Synpraxis.tech: A Digital Commons coalition

We participate in Synpraxis, a digital commons coalition in Greece bringing together teams from different backgrounds to work together on promoting digital commons as well as share experience, skills and projects.

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MediaLab

OLA is interested in mapping Medialab’s activities, both in theory and in practice so as to understand how grassroots processes are transferred and crystallized into institutional practices and methodologies that facilitate citizenship participation in innovative ways.

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Kalomathe.gr: A learning platform for the Social Solidarity Economy

An educational platform aiming to support the spreading of the Social & Solidarity Economy in Greece

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Perno Abariza and no-middlemen coop of Galatsi

We were approached by the group to contribute to the creation of an online and offline participatory platform for the city, a platform that will extend the group’s current outreach practices by involving citizens in developing proposals for the city.

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