Plate with me A co-operative for clusterpurchasing among neighbors (Paris, France)
Tool Box Knowledge, space and tools for residents (Finland, Helsinki)
The best lunch box Food sharing in the neighbourhood (Japan, Tokyo)
Let’s go New friends along the way (Italy, Milan-Domus)
The co-operative network A co-operative network is a system of connection and information handling that enables different people to connect together and organise themselves to achieve a result.
The transition towards sustainability is a huge social learning process. It requires the adoption of decentralised, flexible organisation models to operate well. In other words, systems able to recognise the distinguishing features of a context, able to act and, above all, learn from experience. The best organisational metaphor to describe this optimal organisation model is a network: a network of sensor-actors who operate locally and exchange information and experience globally, by means of the network itself. On the other hand, although network is a widely used metaphor nowadays, it usually refers to activities and relationships that have nothing to do with the local or the problems of everyday. In fact it is exactly the diffusion of networks that is often considered to be one of the major causes of our loss of sense of place (and of interest for place). In turn this fuels ways of being and doing that are insensitive to the specific features of their context and, for this reason, are unsustainable.
Proposal » Foster network systems that mix short networks, on a local scale, with long networks that link the local to the global and generate local-global systems. » Develop socio-technical systems able to adapt to the context, act and learn from experience, so amplifying feedback and redirecting options. These are based on bottom up organisation models, open to debate and the flow of cosmopolitan ideas.
Characteristics The concept of co-operational network refers to an enabling platform similar to that described above, but oriented specifically towards creating networks of actors able to cooperate in resolving problems or developing activities together. Also in this case the intelligence of the system consists principally in developing the abilities, skills, and desire to be 117 ı SUSTAINABLE EVERYDAY