[GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Fwd: IASC Newsletter - August 2015

Sat Aug 8 12:26:11 PDT 2015

GeoForAll urban science thematic folks (especially in Europe) - see below.

It would be great if we had someone from GeoForAll Urban go to this and
present something...
I know this is a very different kind of conference, but I want to see
GeoForAll and OSGeo connect to IASC. There are common synergies.

Cheers,
Charlie

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From: IASC <iasc at mailservice.iasc-commons.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:26 PM
Subject: IASC Newsletter - August 2015
To: "Dr. Charlie Schweik" <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>

*[image: Logo IASC]*

*The IASC Newsletter *

*Newsletter of the International Association for the Study of the Commons
(IASC),*

*the leading professional association dedicated to the Commons*

*Just a few days left to submit your abstracts (DEADLINE 10 AUGUST, 0:00
AM) -  The City as a Commons: reconceiving urban space, common goods and
city governance (Bologna, 6-7 Nov. 2015)*

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*Date:* 6-7 November 2015

*Venue:* Bologna, Italy

*Conference Website**: www.labgov.it/urbancommons
<https://membership.iasc-commons.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1046&qid=107003>*

How can city squares, urban green spaces, cultural heritage, abandoned
buildings, roads and other urban infrastructure, services or other
resources and goods be governed as commons? Can cities be conceived as
institutions for collective action and therefore run as commons?

Inspired by the recently implemented Bologna Regulation on Collaboration
for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons, as well as by other
commons-based experiments in cities around Italy by the LabGov project
(e.g. Co-Mantova, Co-Battipaglia and Co-Palermo), the 1st IASC Thematic
Conference on the Urban Commons will bring together leading scholars,
researchers, policymakers, practitioners and social innovators to take
stock of the developments in the interdisciplinary study of the urban
commons and related questions of urban governance. Although the urban
commons has increasingly appeared as a topic of scholarly inquiry, there
has yet to be sustained attention to the research questions, methodologies,
and disciplinary approaches necessary to more fully conceptualize and
develop the idea of the “urban commons” and the new challenges and facets
it introduces into the ongoing study of the commons in diverse fields.

The conference will seek to better understand the idea of urban commons at
different scales, under what circumstances and contexts urban commons
emerge, what contributes to their durability and effectiveness, and what
undermines them. The conference will stress the importance of an "urban
commons narrative" for urban infrastructure, urban welfare, and urban
development. Additionally, the conference will focus on questions of urban
governance and will explore different frameworks for governing common urban
resources, and the city, in a collaborative manner. The conference will
highlight six thematic questions, which are:

   1. Conceiving the Urban Commons
   2. Mapping the Urban Commons
   3. The Urban Commons and Democratic Innovation
   4. The Collaborative/Sharing Economy as the Basis for a Commons-Based
   Urban Economy
   5. Social innovation as the Basis for a Commons-Based Urban Welfare
   6. Designing and Governing the City as a Commons

*ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*

The international call for papers is still open until *August 10th, 2015 at
12:00 AM CET*. Abstracts may be submitted to *urbancommons at labgov.it*
<urbancommons at labgov.it>.  Abstracts may be submitted for any of the six
thematic tracks described above. The abstracts shall consist of a 500 word
maximum description of the research or paper and its originality or value
for urban commons studies. All submissions will be reviewed by an
international review committee on the basis of scientific quality,
relevance to the conference themes, and originality. Those with accepted
abstracts must confirm attendance by registering and paying the conference
fee through the conference website. The deadline for registration by
presenters (to be included in the final program) is *September 13th, 2015*.
The registration deadline for other attendees is *October 2nd, 2015*. For
accepted full paper presentations, the paper must be submitted no later
than *October 12th, 2015 at 12:00 AM CET*. Conference organizers are
undertaking all efforts to ensure funding from to reimburse travel costs
and participation fees of presenters coming from non-OECD countries.

*Click here for the Call for Papers*
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The IASC, being the leading leading professional association dedicated to
the Commons, is planning to redesign its websites, transforming the current
members' platform CommonsNet (*https://membership.iasc-commons.org/*
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into the one-stop hub for all IASC-members to find all relevant information
on commons, such as new developments, bibliographies, audiovisual and
teaching materials, project descriptions, case studies, job offerings, et
cetera. To make the new websites fit to your needs as an IASC-member as
much as possible, we would very much like to know what you would expect to
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Deadline for filling out the survey is* 31 August 2015*.

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*Five new IASC-conferences coming up in the next two years*

* [image: Poster IASC Conferences 2015-2017]*

The Call for IASC-conferences 2015-2017 generated no less than nine
conference proposals. Of these nine applications, five conferences were
selected: two regional, two thematic, and one global conference. The IASC
Council is proud to announce these five new scheduled conferences and
invites all IASC-members to participate. The first (thematic) conference
will already be in November 2015, when the 1st IASC Thematic Conference on
Urban Commons will be held in Bologna, Italy (see also above); abstracts
for this conference can still be submitted until 10 August, 0:00 AM CET.

The scheduled conferences are:

*6-7 November 2015, 1st IASC Thematic Conference on Urban Commons (Bologna,
Italy)*

‘The city as a commons: reconceiving urban space, common goods, and city
governance’, see *http://www.labgov.it/wordpress/urbancommons/*
<https://membership.iasc-commons.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1052&qid=107003>

*10-13 May 2016, Regional IASC Conference Europe (Bern, Switzerland)*

‘Commons in a 'glocal' world: global connections and local responses’

*20-21 October 2016, 3rd IASC Thematic Conference on Knowledge Commons
(Paris, France)*

‘Advancing knowledge commons through legal and social changes’

*Fall 2016, Regional IASC Conference N. America/Arctic (Anchorage AK, USA)*

‘Reality, richness, and responsibility of an arctic commons’

*10-14 July 2017, XVI Biennial IASC Conference (Utrecht, The Netherlands)*

'Practising the Commons', see *http://www.iasc2017.org*
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his dedication and excellent work over the past years and to the National
Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and in particular Leticia Merino
for hosting the IASC Secretariat in the same period.

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