Adrien LabaeyeHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin | HU Berlin · Department of Geography
Adrien Labaeye
Doctor of Philosophy
Transformation catalyst. Working with commoning, seeds, biodiversity credits, embodiment, spirituality, intimacy.
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Introduction
Doing a PhD on the role of information/data commons in urban sustainability transitions.
Co-founder of the transition>>lab located in the co-working space Thinkfarm Berlin: http://transitionlab.de
Core contributor in the TransforMap collective: http://transformap.co
DISCLAIMER: Please note that so-called conference papers were presentations unless a full-text is available (Research Gate's classification is misleading).
Additional affiliations
December 2013 - present
September 2012 - present
April 2012 - December 2013
Position
- The Role of Cities in the Socio-Ecological Transition of Europe
Description
- Part of the project Welfare, Wealth, Work for Europe www.foreurope.eu
Education
September 2008 - October 2010
Publications
Publications (16)
This article describes the phenomenon of commoning the city. It is understood as the co-production of new resources and/or the process of reclaiming existing assets (public or private) as a commons. We report on two original case studies (in New York City and Berlin) where the constitution of a data commons has been the starting point of a wider pr...
The goal of this article is to inform practitioners and researchers alike about the emerging practice of collaboratively mapping alternative economies. The paper draws from an inventory of over 200 maps, action research, and semi-structured interviews to explore how collaborative mapping – a practice that is largely citizen-driven – may be leverage...
For smart cities scholars, ICT-enabled information and knowledge would contribute to optimize urban systems (Chourabi et al. 2012) promising sustainability (Toppeta 2010). While these claims generally lack empirical support, they usually stress the technological side of innovation rather than its social dimension, and focus mainly on the public and...
Diese Doktorarbeit untersucht die Rolle die Bürgerinitiativen an der Schnittstelle zwischen städtischen und digitalen Räumen spielen können. Sie folgt drei Untersuchungslinien. Zunächst wird untersucht, wie die Forschung zu aus Graswurzelbewegungen entstandenen Alternativen für nachhaltige und gerechte Städte von einer besonderen Art des digitalen...
![The sharing spectrum [1] (p. 254).](publication/335142988/figure/tbl1/AS:791431811719168@1565703456041/The-sharing-spectrum-1-p-254_Q320.jpg)
Sharing Cities are emerging as an alternative narrative which promotes sharing as a transformative phenomenon for just and sustainable cities. This article shows that Sharing Cities are conceived within the alternative political economy of the commons. Bringing a theoretical contribution into dialogue with a practice-oriented book, this paper aims...
![Figure 1. Key dimensions of sharing [1].](publication/337292489/figure/fig1/AS:825720880263168@1573878607166/Key-dimensions-of-sharing-1_Q320.jpg)
![The sharing spectrum [1] (p. 254).](publication/337292489/figure/tbl1/AS:825720880238592@1573878607203/The-sharing-spectrum-1-p-254_Q320.jpg)
Sharing Cities are emerging as an alternative narrative which promotes sharing as a transformative phenomenon for just and sustainable cities. This article shows that Sharing Cities are conceived within the alternative political economy of the commons. Bringing a theoretical contribution into dialogue with a practice-oriented book, this paper aims...
The goal of this article is to inform practitioners and researchers alike about the emerging practice of collaboratively mapping alternative economies. The paper draws from an inventory of over 200 maps, action research, and semi-structured interviews to explore how collaborative mapping – a practice that is largely citizen-driven – may be leverage...
While venture capitalists are rushing to find business models allowing the appropriation of vast chunks of "idle capital" calling it the sharing revolution, an older and more complex transformation of the socio-economic system is at work with the emergence of alternative economies - this include among others: sharing, collaborative, commons, social...
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The distributed nature of the internet offers plenty of opportunities for grassroots initiatives to prosper and pioneer innovative forms of collective action towards sustainability. Online initiatives aiming to provide information-based tools for local sustainability are mushrooming. First this presentation will present an inventory of those grassr...
While venture capitalists are rushing to find business models allowing the appropriation of vast chunks of "idle capital" calling it the sharing revolution, an older and more complex transformation of the socio-economic system is at work with the emergence of alternative economies - this include among others: sharing, collaborative, commons, social...
At the Resilient Cities 2011 congress, the case of Ho Chi Minh City was presented and discussed by participants during the Reality Check Workshop. The current paper provides a comprehensive overview on the challenge of integrating climate-related risks in the urban development trajectory of the city as well as a short summary of the discussion that...
Questions
Questions (5)
Future urbanization - urban growth - seems to always be presented from a positivist standpoint as a neutral fact. However, from a critical perspective, it seems obvious that urbanization as well as economic and material growth are tightly intertwined and mutually feeding phenomena. Urbanization is embedded in a system of policies, economic incentives, cultural norms, etc. Urbanization is rooted in a political economy. It is not neutral. It is at the same the condition of and the requirement for economic growth through the availability of workforce for industry and services, accumulation of capital, etc.
Do you know of any academic work that has articulated a proper critique of the premise that urbanization would be an inescapable future or necessity? In other words, a critique of the fact that urbanization projections may well be performative? I am particularly interested in a critique from a socio-ecological point of view.
It seems to me that the whole sustainability discussion is entirely accepting current business-as-usual urbanization projections not only as an inescapable phenomenon, but a desirable one. And because it is accepted as the only scenario and goes unchallenged it will inevitably be self-fulfilling. In other words this business-as-usual urbanization projection is performative.
But, I see a few points where this premise can be challenged and I would expect that scholars have already done it. Still I have hard time finding it. Any hints?
I would anticipate critique from neo-marxist theorists of urbanization like David Harvey or from academic communities as #degrowth, #postgrowth, #DiverseEconomies, #FeministEconomics, etc.
Dear peers,
Have some of you have been actively editing Wikipedia to ensure the body of knowledge about diverse economies is reflected in Wikipedia? Is there any collective endeavor to do so? Have you experienced difficulties?
Have some of you been integrating Wikipedia editing in seminars with students? How is the experience
You may be aware that on Wikipedia, article series are possible to expand the reach of the collaborative encyclopedia.
For teaching with Wikipedia, a great stack of resources is available: http://wikiedu.org/for-instructors/
For those wondering about that broader question of how academia should interact with Wikipedia I would point to https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/mar/29/wikipedia-survey-academic-contributions
Thanks for your answers!
I am involved in a grassroots project that I plan to study following an action research approach. In order to be able to reflect in the future on my participation/role/influence in this project, I have started a diary to document my activities in this project.
Has anyone done that in the past and would have recommendations, tips to make it easy and productive? I walk in the dark at the moment!
I can already see that I won't document every single email or communication but try to aggregate a little bit as it would then be extremely time-consuming.
I am using a google spreadsheet (easy to structure, columns can be filtered, and accessible anywhere).
I am also using twitter quite a bit as part of the project activities and using a hashtag to be able later to look at my twitter activity selectively.
For the background: this project is about analyzing how a grassroots online community is developing shared information resources.
I would like to count automatically how many times each text value is present in a column. In each cell of this column there are multiple text values separated by ";" (e.g. "Barcelona; Freiburg"). Any help? By automatically, I mean that I don't want to ask for each text value specifically.
I am using SPSS but it might not be suited to this purpose. Any hint on existing tutorials, manuals would be great. Or alternatively a better suited software (R?).
