Grizedlae Arts (GA) is based in the English Lake District National Park and has over the last decade gained a reputation for pioneering new approaches to art production and exhibition. Unlike traditional institutions and, indeed, its own history in the British land art movement, GA does not have studios or exhibition space, but rather offers artists the opportunity to carry out projects using social media, cultural and economic of the territory and beyond. Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Text Source : Trans-Local-Act

Following numerous mobilizations since 2003 for the preservation of building 7, located in Pointe-Saint-Charles, in Montreal, Collectif 7 à Nous was born. Collectif 7 à Nous is a non-profit organization born in 2009 which brings together citizens, cultural, community, libertarian and social economy organizations. Its aim is to develop the Building 7 project on former CN land, south of La Pointe. It practices a democratic, horizontal and inclusive mode of management and practices principles of shared governance and non-violent communication. The organization is done in circles of evolving and not fixed responsibilities. Building 7 is now converted into a place of sharing and exchange. Today, the activities of building 7 are multiple; There you will find: Le Detour solidarity grocery store, managed by volunteers and offering inexpensive fresh products, a craft brewery, a Press Start cooperative which is a self-managed place of gathering, entertainment and debate, an arcade and a training school. art. Collaborative workshops, called ‘the B7 workshops’ are also organized around ceramics, DIY, bicycle repair, etc. The Building 7 project carries values of social justice, autonomy, respect, democracy and aims to be an engine of social, political, cultural, economic and environmental transformation, in the environment which gave birth to them and well beyond. Source : 100° Source : Bâtiment 7, 2019 Source : memento Text Source : https://www.batiment7.org/autogestion/

The activities of the Multimedia Institute [mi2] are vast: informal education, training in technology and digital media, development of free software, archiving and publishing of digital and printed media, management cultural and political work... The Multimedia Institute began in 1999 as a non-governmental spin-off of the Croatian Open Institute. In the public eye, the work of mi2 is primarily visible through the activities of its public members. space and cultural center - MaMa. Since its opening, MaMa has been a meeting place, a reference point for different communities ranging from political activists to media artists, electronic music creators, theorists, hackers and free software developers, gay and lesbian support groups. Guided by the ideal of sharing, it immediately offered young creators, independent cultural actors and citizen initiatives free access to facilities and its Web infrastructure. MaMa's facilities were important to the emergence of the local independent and alternative scene, but its activities were also very important. In recent years, the Multimedia Institute and MaMa have become significantly involved in the fight against gentrification in Zagreb and Croatia. Source : https://mi2.hr/ Source du texte : Trans-Local-Act

A laboratory for transforming public policies. La 27e Région inspires and invents the services, administrations and public action methods of tomorrow. It is a laboratory for public transformation, constituted as an independent association, which offers a multidisciplinary, reflective and experimental space to build desirable futures for public action. Convinced of the importance of reintroducing experimentation and trial and error into public action, we test new services, tools, methods and organisational modes with administrations. We mobilise concepts inspired by design, social sciences and alternative movements (do-it-yourself, free culture, popular education). The 27th Region relies on a community of practitioners and agents throughout France, who share and extend its approaches. Through projects and events, it works to animate and develop this community. The 27th Region seeks to put forward alternatives to the dominant ideologies of public transformation and to influence the debates. It documents its concrete experiences, develops prospective narratives, and publishes articles and books. Text source Image source: la27eregion.fr and modernisation.gouv.fr

Saprophytes Architects, landscape architects, visual artists, builders and graphic designers, the Saprophytes have been developing artistic and political projects around social, economic and ecological concerns since 2007. We claim a relational aesthetic that emphasizes social experience as a founding artistic and constructive act. For Les Saprophytes, the process of collective fabrication of the project is as important as its finished form. Seeking the specificities and potentials of each place, our projects of micro-urbanism, of concrete urbanism, weave their way between the scales of territory and express themselves through different types of actions. INSTALLATIONS ephemeral installations, surprising urban objects that go out to meet the inhabitants of cities to question the uses and meaning of public spaces. DURABLE Long-term actions on specific territories aiming at constituting groups of inhabitants-builders of collective projects for their neighbourhood. CONSTRUCTION Construction or help to self-construction of furniture, small architecture, public space or scenography. Source image Saprophytes Source image Saprophytes Source image Saprophytes

Transition Town Totnes is a community-led organization that aims to strengthen the local economy, reduce our environmental impact and build resilience as we adapt to climate change. It is an organization run by a group of local volunteers, made up of a small team, who come together to work on projects. Anyone can get involved. It is a community organization with nearly 40 local projects and 9 thematic groups working to strengthen the social economy and prepare for a future outside of oil. TTT helps create thriving, healthy and caring local communities, where lifestyles take into account the needs of future generations as well as the present. Taking into account rising fuel prices, economic uncertainty and climate change which bring many challenges. However, TTT focuses on these elements by attempting to increase personal and community well-being, promote the local economy and find lifestyles in line with the values of our Earth. The Transition Network is here to support the ever-growing networks of transition initiatives across the UK and the world and help them to self-organize around the transition model, to create initiatives that work for resilience. Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org Text Source : Trans-Local-Act et Transitiontowntotnes.org

Siebenlinden is an intentional community/village of people committed to self-sufficiency and a low-emission lifestyle. Different organizational and legal relationships are organized in various cooperatives. The Sieben Linden ecovillage is a social and ecological establishment in Altmark in the region of Saxony-Anhalt (formerly East Germany). The concept of this Ecovillage was created around 1989. After 4 years, in 1993, a group of people came together to purchase a "project center" in order to more effectively search for land to settle on - and promote the concept with politicians and others. In 1997, they found the land on which they built (and continue to build) the Sieben Linden ecovillage. Here, adults and children live together on 100 hectares of land and build the large eco-village with a small ecological footprint. Ecology, social issues, culture and economics go hand in hand. Sustainable gardens, energy concepts and straw bale houses are important for the eco-village, but the real heart of Sieben Linden is friendliness. "At Sieben Linden, our goal is to provide a model for a future way of life in which work, leisure, economy, ecology, urban and rural culture can find a balance. We seek the answers to the problems pressing issues of our time; seeking human-centered solutions in a place of creativity and learning. This model aims to show how humans can live more responsibly with nature; than human communities have no need to exploit or destroy nature but can make a positive contribution to the quality and diversity of the environment. The many decisions that accompany the creation of a new community are organized at different levels, i.e. the scale of the village, or on the scale of a house." Source : Siebenlinden.org Source : Siebenlinden.org Source : Siebenlinden.org Source : Siebenlinden.org Source : Siebenlinden.org Text Source : Trans-Local-Act et Sieben Linden.org

Traficantes de sueños is an activist publishing project. It aims to be a meeting and debate point for different social movements. As well as an alternative to distribution to facilitate access to books, leaflets and magazines. Traficantes de Sueños is a project that aims to provide content and lead debates useful for collective action. It is also a social economy project, that is to say an entity without money, involved in the local market. Traficantes de Sueños started in 1995 with the aim of generating a space where materials for reflection meet; the tool used for this is the book, understood as a means of individual and collective transformation. They also organized the associative library, distribution; the space for self-training and production of Nociones Comunes. The space is not only the headquarters of the library, but it is a collective space, open to the city, which hosts a multitude of presentations, projects, meetings, exhibitions and debates. The TdS associative library specializes in the critical analysis of social movements and stories from other worlds. The TdS editorial publishes background and sharing texts with the Creative Commons license which allows free copying and downloading. The TdS distribution offers books from other parts of the world and many texts from small alternative publishers. Source : Wikimedia Common Source : SrPerro.com Source : Traficantes.net Source : Traficantes.net Text Source : Trans-Local-Act et Traficantes.net

Dartington Trust is home to two faculties, Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School, which – through undergraduate and postgraduate programs and short courses – offer a radically transdisciplinary approach to education. More broadly, this site is a center for learning, arts, ecology and social justice, with the student campus being a key element in the life of the estate. Schumacher College aims to help participants experience what founder Leonard Elmhirst called “the abundant life.” The College's community life takes place in and around a medieval house near Totnes, England. During the day, lectures, discussions and small groups take place. In the afternoons it is possible to take excursions to the coast or to Dartmoor, walks, study visits, tutorials or specialist conferences. There are meditation times, a group meeting and a session in which participants help prepare food and maintain the surrounding environment. This aspect of the courses is an essential element of College life: integrating intellectual discussions into daily activities related to building maintenance promotes a level of understanding in which personal values and course objectives are combined. Source : L'arbre aux étoiles Source : Scholarship Positions Source : Schumacher College Text Source : Trans-Local-Act et https://campus.dartington.org/about/

Meet.coop is a multi-stakeholder cooperative with two types of members: Our operational members occupy specific functions within three sociocratic circles, in order to provide reliable video conferencing services to our user members. It is a cooperative video conference service platform (alternative to Zoom) whose governance is based on the commons and which supports an infrastructure of international dimension and a form of hybrid or integral cooperativism: it integrates producers and users. Remix is co-founder of the cooperative. Source : https://www.meet.coop/ Source : https://www.meet.coop/ Source : https://www.meet.coop/ Text Source : https://www.meet.coop/