Presentations

Presentations and Workshops 2017-2021

• 6/17/21. Participation at an online discussion organised by the Member of the German Parliament Lars Castellucci, “Erstickt das Ehrenamt in Bürokratie? So unterstützen wir unsere Ehrenamtlichen” (Is voluntary engagement being suffocated by bureaucracy? This is how we support our volunteers.”
• 3/7/20. Workshop on Common Good Service as a contribution to eliminating precarious employment conditions for women, at the Second Feminist Barcamp Mannheim.
• 10/16/19. Workshop “Giving Color to Economic Transformation”, TransitionHaus Heidelberg.
• 10/8/19. Lab: Designing feedback loops to promote shared mobility, at Shared Mobility Rocks, Brussels.
• 6/18/19. Workshop on how to promote investments in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings in the Südstadt of Heidelberg, held in the TransitionHaus Heidelberg.
• 6/6/19. Lecture and discussion, together with Friederike Habermann, “Collective goods and  commoning – insular solutions for utopians or necessary to save the Earth?” Kulturelle Landpartie im Wendland.
• 5/22/19. International Conference on Climate Action (ICCA): Climate Neighborhoods. Participation in a workshop and a book presentation.
• 4/27/19. Workshop “Südstadt setzt Impulse” at the community living project HageButze.
• 4/10/19. Podium discussion at the Mica Initiative Heidelberg about consumer society. Details here: Micha-HD-Podium-Flyer-2(1)
• 3/10/19. “Less is More” video-interview at the Greenpreneur Show, Chicago.
• 11/17/18. Workshop: Strategien zur Lösung sozialer und ökologischer Problemlagen: Methoden für einen Wandel zum Positiven (Strategies to solve social and ecological problems: methods for positive change). Volkshochschule Heidelberg.
• 11/10/18. Presentation about visualization of complex ecological systems at Rhine-Neckar Night of Science on the UNESCO World Science Day.
• 6/7/18. Input Poor & Rich. Part of a Series of Events “Wie reden wir miteinander?” (How do we talk with each other?), organized by the Student Council of Heidelberg University, the German American Institute Heidelberg und Real World Economics. Video of an interview given at this occasion.
• 4/14/18. Workshop “Erarbeitung gesellschaftlicher Lösungsstrategien: Einführung in eine Methode, Ansatzpunkte für einen positiven Wandel aufzuspüren” (Conceiving of strategies to solve societal problems: introduction to a method to find leverage points for positive change) at the Volkshochschule Heidelberg. See report: Systems Graphic Workshop VHS Heidelberg April 2018
• 3/21-23/18. Participation at Agora for the Great Transition, Smart CSOs Lab, Paris.
• 3/13/18. Presentation of the proposal of a self-determined service for the common good, Urban Innovation Open House, Heidelberg.
• 2/27/18. Book Event on Rethinking Economy at the Volkshochschule Offenburg (Baden-Württemberg, Germany).
• 12/2/17. Presentation of the concept of a “self-determined service for the common good” at the  Café Ahhh, BUND-Youth Stuttgart.
• 11/30/17. Book event “Paths to a Green Economy” with the Greens in Göttingen County.
• 11/22/17. Discussion on democratic methods of decision-making in economy and politics with the Young Greens Heidelberg.
• 10/24/17. Book Event with Attac in Waiblingen.
• 9/14-15/2017. Participation as a representative of Shareable at the conference Learning for Change: A Journey through the Theory & Practice of Transformative Social Innovation, Rotterdam. Report on the Workshop.
• 9/4/2017. Participation at the Workshop “Kein Ausverkauf der Natur: Schutz und Nutzung (globaler) Gemeinschaftsgüter demokratisch gestalten,” (No selling out of nature: democratic design of the protection and use of (global) common goods), Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung, Berlin.
• 7/15/2017. Led a workshop on the development of problem solving strategies using systems graphics (example: how can the share of organically produced food in the school and kindergarten cafetgerias of a city be increased?),  Sommerakademie 2017 der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
• 6/27/2017. Book event with the Green Party in Sigmaringen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany).
• 6/12/2017. Book event with Transition Town Heidelberg.
• 5/11/2017. Institutions and Commons. Contribution to a Lecture Series, Critical Economics at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Internalisig Externalities: Do the New Markets Keep their Promises?

 

 

 

Presentations and workshops 2008-2016

• June 22, 2016. “Wirtschaft neu denken: Wie können Landes- und Kommunalregierungen zur Entwicklung einer zukunftsfähigen Wirtschaft beitragen?” Presentation at the Working Group on Economy, Heidelberg County Chapter of the Green Party.
• June 11, 2015. “Commons als Bausteine einer Post-Wachstums-Wirtschaft.” Lecture at the Technical University Dresden.
• November 2014. Workshop on „Commons“ at a state-level meeting of the Young Greens of North-Rhine-Westfalia in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
• November 20, 2014. “Wirtschaft der Lebensfülle.” Presentation organized by Transition Town Heidelberg as part of the One-World Days of the One-World Center Heidelberg.
• June 18 to 21, 2014. Two presentations, “The NORA Knowledge Base of the Commons Abundance Network,” and “Needs, Organizational Forms and Resources for Abundance as a Route toward Common Ground among Diverse Movements,” at the “Workshop on the Workshop” of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
• September 27, 2013. “The Commons Abundance Network: An Online Commons for an Economy of Abundance.” Presentation as part of the  Community Commons Colloquia series, The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
• May 2013. Workshop on economics of abundance in an open space format at the
  „Geld oder Leben“ (money or life) Symposium in Schrems, Austria.
• February 21, 2013. “The Commons Abundance Network: Needs, Organizational Forms, and Resources for Abundance.” Presentation at the Faculty Research Conference, Truman State University.
• August 3, 2012. “Economics of Abundance.” Presentation in Barcelona for the Free Knowledge Institute and the Institut di Govern i Polítiques Públiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
• July 21, 2012. “Abundance Score: A Proposal for Mapping Our Common Wealth.” Presentation at the Green Economics Conference, Oxford, UK.
• June 22 to 30, 2012. Participation at the first Commons Summer School in Bechstedt (Thuringia, Germany), organized by Silke Helfrich and Brigitte Kratzwald; gave a presentation about networks and an economy of abundance.
• March 23, 2012. Presentation about the book “Economics of Abundance” at the Department of Economics, University of Missouri Kansas City.
• November 2011. “The Role of the Commons and Common Property in an Economy of Abundance.” Presentation at the conference of the ICAPE (International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics) in Amherst, Massachusetts. In addition participation at a round table on The solidarity economy as a conceptual framework for understanding & transforming the economy.”
• November 2010. Abundant Mobility: One Town’s Resources. Shareable
• September 25, 2010.“Is there a Future for Abundance in San Francisco?” Presentation at the Faculty Research Conference, Truman State University.
• July 2010. Economics of Abundance Workshop. Shareable
• April 16, 2010. “Green Solidarity Community Abundant Economy and Political Ecology: Can they generate a shared urban agenda?” Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C.
• August 1, 2009. “Measuring Abundance: The case of Cittaslow’s attempts to support better quality of life.” Presentation at the fourth Annual Green Economics Conference, Oxford.
• March 2009. Taking Responsibility to Build a Liberatory, Equitable, and Sustainable Economy. Workshop in cooperation with Nina Gregg, at the Forum on the Solidarity Economy, Amherst, Massachusetts.
• February 16, 2009. “Cittaslow: Campanilismo or Lebensqualität? Translations and Betrayals in a Quest for the Ideal City.” Presentation at the Faculty Forum, Truman State University.
• April 2008. “Cittaslow: globalizing imagination from below or competitive place-marketing in a neoliberal world?” Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts.