Housing Cooperatives Day

Basecamp 16A Nijverheidsweg, Utrecht, Netherlands

Cooplink organizes an event (in Dutch) around housing cooperatives. How do you organize, finance, design and manage the property? Professor Tine De Moor from the Rotterdam School of Management, gives the opening speech. The event takes place on September 16, from 10:30h-16:30h in Utrecht. If you’re interested in coming to the Landelijke Wooncoöperatiedag, sign up and claim … Continue reading Housing Cooperatives Day

Charging the Commons #1 – (Be)Commoning

Pakhuis De Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam, Netherlands

This is the first episode of the series Charging the Commons and it will center around the process of becoming a commons. What does establishing such a community entail? What steps does a group of people need to go through in order to become a commons? This early setup stage can profoundly shape the development process of such communities, … Continue reading Charging the Commons #1 – (Be)Commoning

SEWF Fringe Day

From 9 to 13 October SEWF Week '23 takes place, organized by the Social Enterprise World Forum. On the 10th is Fringe Day: a collections of related (and mostly free) events independent of SEWF.

Free

Book launch + Q&A – Together: Towards Collaborative Living

During the book launch of ‘Together: Towards collaborative living’, the authors will explain why collaborative living is experiencing a revival in the Netherlands and what best housing practices enable this living form. Join us for an evening about why collaborative living is experiencing a revival and what best housing practices enable this form of living. Authors: … Continue reading Book launch + Q&A – Together: Towards Collaborative Living

Free

Webinar – Accelerating actions in living and caring for the elderly

We would like to invite you for an online session hosted by De Haagse Hogeschool and CollectieveKracht. During this webinar we exchange ideas about the collaboration between health institutions, housing cooperatives, local governments and organizations for the elderly in creating spaces where living and caring for the elderly are combined. This event is in Dutch. … Continue reading Webinar – Accelerating actions in living and caring for the elderly

Open Seminar Talk: Max Harleman (GCSU)

Max Harleman, Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Georgia College & State University, will start off the new season of the SEICA Open Seminars. He will present his upcoming paper: Can Collective Action Institutions Outperform the State? Evidence from Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage. This seminar is online. If you would like to attend, … Continue reading Open Seminar Talk: Max Harleman (GCSU)

SEICA Open Seminar Talk: David Soto-Oñate

Join us for the next Open Seminar Talk where SEICA visiting fellow Dr. David Soto-Oñate will present a work in progress project called "A polycentric approach for a post-growth social order". Below you can find the abstract. Please send an email to collective-action@rsm.nl if you would like to attend this seminar online. 

Research seminar -‘Together: The Dimensions of Collectivity in Collaborative Housing’

Professor Darinka Czischke and PhD researcher Sara Lia Brysch organize a discussion that will feature insights of two recent publications: 'Together: Towards Collaborative Living' (Czischke, Peute & Brysch) and 'Towards a new Existenzminimum: defining principles for the design of affordable collaborative housing' (Brysch). The seminar brings together a group of renown European scholars in the field of collective self-organized housing to reflect … Continue reading Research seminar -‘Together: The Dimensions of Collectivity in Collaborative Housing’

Workshop: Public Goods in History

The Oxford Centre for Economic and Social History organizes the workshop 'Non-rivalrous, non-excludable: an interdisciplinary workshop on the evolution of public goods in history'. It explores the evolution of public goods and how their provision is shaped by institutions and norms over time.  Economists have defined public goods as resources whose consumption by one individual … Continue reading Workshop: Public Goods in History

Oxford seminar series – Tine De Moor – ‘Spreading from below’

As part of the Economic and Social History Seminar, professor Tine De Moor from the Erasmus University Rotterdam will present a paper titled 'Spreading from below. on the diffusion and scaling of institutions for collective action in early modern Europe.' More information.