Healing Communities: PhD thesis

A thesis by Fabio Balli, with supervision from professors

Part of the Individualised PhD in Social Science at Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, Canada

Author
Institution	Marguerite Mendell, social economy Warren Linds, arts-based participatory research Satoshi Ikeda, political sociology Philippe Caignon, experiential learning (chair)
Programme
Supervisors
Title	Healing Communities. What if we collectively had the capacity to overcome any crisis in a matter of days? A method for teams of teams to: listen to each other, agree on priorities, put in commons resources, create few but essential and freely adaptable solutions.
Structure	Introduction Journey to the PhD Research context and methodologies Some theory on the commons Breathing freely: creation-as-research Commoning across disciplines Commoning across territories Commoning across commons Four levers for solidarity-driven ecosystems Bringing diverse people together for ludic events to overcome loneliness Generating collective value to overcome material scarcity Facilitating agreements across teams of teams to overcome power plays Revisiting collective narratives to break free from self-servitude How thousands people could end misery within weeks Festival ’taking care together’ Translating Wikipedia in 80 hours: the Captcha example Solving collective crises within hours Applications to regain joy in our daily lives Closing and references Bridge to the future References

Structure

Defence

• Balli, Fabio. (2023, April 3). How an Individualized PhD provided me with the resources to imagine a future where all humans could live decently, and rally people across territories to generate $2 million collective value. Concordia University INDI Research Day, Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7794656