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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
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