COMMON PLACE: Talking about co-housing and communities of sharing - Event Report
- Date
- Saturday 6 March 2021
- Time
- 15:00 (WET)
- Location
- Online, Portugal (Europe, Middle East & Africa)
- Organisers
- Micol Brazzabeni and Kitti Baracsi, TuTela Learning Network
On Saturday 6th March 2021, the eleventh Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising hundreds of events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. Thanks to generous support from key funders, the Open Knowledge Foundation was able to support the running of more than 60 of these events via our mini-grants scheme.
This event received an Open Knowledge Foundation mini-grant thanks to support from Mapbox.
How did your event celebrate open data?
We launched a call for participation among individuals, activists, researchers, collectives, NGOs to share their knowledge on co-housing and communities of sharing in Lisbon and beyond. More specifically, this workshop aimed at starting a debate about how municipal estates could play a role in rethinking housing, commons and care, going beyond the models of property we usually work with.
We asked the participants (16 persons) to share experiences, knowledge, information, ideas about the following topics: concepts of community and sharing, social architecture, inspirations/models, local initiatives, available data and mapping and legal framework. Engaging in a horizontal discussion and using a collaborative whiteboard provided the structure for mapping experiences, data sources and ideas. The participants decided to follow with monthly meetings.
The group - approximately 25 people including those who expressed interest but couldn't participate this time - will be invited to continue forming a working group to learn, explore and build an advocacy strategy.
There are different lines of action we would like to follow:
• Exploring visions about urban space based on the concepts of commons and care to develop concrete projects and imagine a more comprehensive change, including legislative one.
• Learning from other initiatives and study their advocacy strategies, as well as sharing the learnt lessons to spread and replicate projects.
• Creating alliances with other housing rights movements to join forces and discuss conflicting interests and intersecting processes.
• Mapping and visualising data about municipal and state-owned real estate - based both on the public inventory of vacant properties and grassroots mapping initiatives.
• Looking at data on housing inequalities. Using data visualisation as a tool of advocacy.
Hoje!
— TuTela Learning Network (@TuTelaNetwork) March 6, 2021
LUGAR COMUM: Para falarmos de habitação colaborativa e comunidades de partilha
Organizam:
Micol Brazzabeni & @BaracsiKitti #OpenDataDay2021 pic.twitter.com/V6ATklRYfN
Lessons learned from your event
The event provided an occasion for mapping relevant actors and knowledge and established a starting point for a process that holds the potential to create alliances and set up a joint advocacy strategy. The workshop highlighted the importance of creating, reinforcing and connecting grassroots initiatives and movements that promote alternative perspectives on housing by creating spaces of collective learning.
Why do you love Open Data Day?
We believe in and work towards the vision of knowledge as commons. Indeed, the collective TuTela Learning Network bases its initiatives on the idea of radical sharing and the importance of connecting and sharing activist knowledge. We see Open Data Day as an opportunity to raise awareness among activists on the opportunities that engaging with open data holds for movements. Our workshop joined people from different perspectives and backgrounds in a horizontal discussion and sharing between participants. Open Data Day provided an opportunity for connecting people and starting a joint work.
