Healing Communities: PhD thesis

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.

Author: Fabio Balli

Supervisors:

• Marguerite Mendell, social economy
• Warren Linds, arts-based participatory research
• Satoshi Ikeda, political sociology
• Philippe Caignon, experiential learning (chair)

Programme: Individualised PhD in Social Science, a programme "to promote innovative and creative approaches to issues that are outside the normal boundaries of investigation"

Institution: Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, Canada

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

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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