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 Empowering citizens
Strengthening civil society
Reconfiguring states and markets

 

Centre for Civil Society

 


 
Social Innovation. Social Enterprise. Social Change.
Civil Society, State and Markets in the New Paradigm
 
PROGRAM
 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Berlin 9-10 July 2012
 



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Day One: Monday 9 July 2012

8.30      Registration

9.15      Welcome and Opening Remarks
            Vern Hughes  Civil Society Global Network

9.30      Civil Society, State and Markets in the New Paradigm: Introduction to the Conference Agenda

            Introduction to key concepts
            Project ideas and proposals for strategic collaboration

9.45      Setting the Scene: Three Snapshots of Civil Society, State and Markets
 
            Greece  Konstantina Zoehrer
            United Kingdom  Mark Napier
            Uganda  Karen Sugar  
 
11.00    Morning Tea
 
11.30    Foundations: Concurrent Sessions

            Session 1A: Civil Society - Formation and Development
           
            Chot Tavorn
 Khon Kaen University, Thailand
           
Civil Society in West and East
            Mohammad Rafi Yousufzai 
Afghan Youth National Confederacy, Afghanistan
           
Building Autonomous Civil Society
            Djamel Ait Ameur
National Union of Algerian Youth, Algeria
           
Social change and a strong civil society   

            Session 1B: Communitarianism, Mutualism, Distributism

            Simply Yuvenalis Yayasan Kiper HAM Indonesia
            Communitarianism, mutualism and distributism in Asia
            Susannah Black Solidarity Hall, USA
            Civil society, urbanism and distributism
            Simon Adderley University of Chester, UK
            The Big Society agenda (UK) and its historical and philosophical roots

            Session 1C: Locality and Community Formation
 
            Lee-Sean Huang  Meu Rio (“My Rio” in Portuguese), Brazil
            Culture and community innovation in the formation of place
            Jess Steele  Locality UK
            Self-renovating neighbourhoods
            Beatrice Maria Carola Gropp   PUC University São Paulo, Brazil
            Integral Local Development: Is It Possible?

12.45    Lunch

1.30      Keynote Address

            Ezio Manzini  Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 
            "Creative communities and sustainable qualities: How social innovation is proposing new ideas
            of time, place, work and economy. And what design can do with/for them."

2.30      Collaborations and New Projects

             Introduction to process for participants to flag project ideas and proposals for collaboration.

2.45      Afternoon tea

3.15      Plenary Collaborations and New Projects

            Open Space for participants to flag project ideas and proposals for collaborations for Day Two.

3.45      Insights from Case Studies: Concurrent Sessions

            Session 2A: Social Innovation

            Nicholas McKinlay  Aga Khan Foundation, Switzerland
            Civil Society in social development, private energies for public good
            Ruth Owen  FEANTSA, France
            Social Innovation to Address Homelessness
            Poppy Jaman  Mental Health First Aid England CIC, UK
            Social Innovation and Enterprise in Mental Health

            Session 2B: New Economy

            Sophia Dassyra  Loft2work, Greece
            Loft2work: Social enterprise collaboration for sustainable development in Greece
            Glen Scott Allen  Leone, USA
            Facilitated Diaspora Networks: Building a New Development Paradigm
            Marcia Pally  New York University, USA
            Common-Good Capitalism: Entrepreneurialism and Economic Justice

            Session 2C: State and Civil Society

            Daniela Stojkovic Jovanovic  Danube Civil Society, Serbia
            Facilitating civil society development: what role for the state?
            Michael Narberhaus
Smart CSOs Lab, Germany
            Civil Society Organisations: Time for Systemic Strategies
            Mark Napier  Centre for Public Innovation, UK
            Civil society and public sector innovation

5.00      Close

7.30      Dinner

         
Day Two: Tuesday 10 July 2012

9.00      Registration

9.15      Keynote Address:

            Vern Hughes Centre for Civil Society, Australia

            "Strategic Thinking for a New Social Economic and Political Paradigm"

9.45      Strategies for a New Paradigm

             Peter Ramsden EU Social Innovation Initiative, UK
            
Strategies for Social Innovation
             Kelvin Campbell
  Smart Urbanism Alliance, UK
             MASSIVE SMALL: The Operating System for Smart Urbanism
             Marc Philpart
  Policylink, USA
             Lifting Up What Works: Scaling up local ideas and solutions
 
11.00     Morning Tea

11.30     Ways of Working Concurrent Sessions
 
             Session 3A: Cyberspace, Social Networking and Social Change

             Ehud Uziel  Association for Civil Rights in Israel
             Activism: Beyond Initiating Protests
             Yolanda Fueda Fernandez  Fundación Cibervoluntarios, Spain
             New technologies for social entrepreneurs and citizen empowerment
             Patricia Munro World Cafe Europe
             Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration

             Session 3B: Reinventing Politics

             Michael Stafford  ResPublica America, USA
             The Politics We Yearn For
             Alejandro Adán  CFICD, Spain
             The New Paradigm in Politics
             Pietro Cella  Un Soggetto Politico Nuovo, Italy
             Un Soggetto Politico Nuovo

             Session 3C: Women, Gender and Civil Society
  
             Burcu Hatiboğlu  Hacettepe University, Turkey
             Women's needs and gendered urban renewal
             Karen Sugar  Women's Global Empowerment Fund, Uganda
             Civil Society and Women's Empowerment
             Wafa Abdulrahman Ahmed  Adhwa'a Almajd Women's Organization, Yemen
             Women's Organisation and Civil Society

             Session 3D: Collaborations and New Projects

             Workshop on participant-nominated project ideas and proposals for collaboration.

12.45     Lunch

1.30       Plenary Collaborations and New Projects  

             Open Space for participants to flag project ideas and proposals for collaborations

2.00       Collaborations and New Projects: Concurrent Workshops       

              Session 4A: The Voice of Civil Society
              Facilitator: Pietro Cella, Italy
             
              Session 4B
: Creating Solutions Together
              Facilitator: Angela Courtney, Northern Ireland

              Session 4C: Scaling Up What Works
              Facilitator: Eileen Mountford, UK

2.45       Collaborations and New Projects: Concurrent Workshops

              Session 5A: A Common Ideology for Social Change Movements?
              Facilitator: Glenn Roberts, Australia

              Session 5B: Consumption, Non-Consumption and the New Economy
              Presenter: Eva Percic, Co-Working Slovenia

              Session 5C: The Role of Design in Catalysing Social Movements
              Facilitator: Lee-Sean Huang, Brazil

3.30        Final Plenary

              Strategic Initiatives for the New Paradigm

4.30        Close and Afternoon tea


Further information:

Vern Hughes
Conference Convenor
Director Centre for Civil Society
vern@civilsociety.org.au
+61 3 5629 8400
+61 425 722 890

Conference

The conference will be held in Berlin at:

Konferenzzentrum Beletage der Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin

Civil Society Global Network

The Civil Society Global Network is a worldwide network which aims to develop collaborative strategies to strengthen civil society and empower citizens and communities around the planet.

Join the Civil Society Global Network
here. There is no cost to join.

Social Innovation Europe

The Social Innovation Europe initiative (SIE) is run by a consortium of partners including Euclid Network and the Danish Technological Institute and led by the Social Innovation Exchange (SIX). Funded by the European Commission’s DG Enterprise, it is our goal to become a hub—a meeting place in the network of European networks—where innovative thinkers from all 27 member states can come together to create a streamlined, vigorous social innovation field in Europe, to raise a shared voice, and to propel Europe to lead the practice of social innovation globally.

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