Healing Communities: PhD thesis
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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
Methodology: xxx
Ethics:
Indiviual funding: Concordia University (67 KC$), Quebec bursaries (TBD) – see also project value
Thesis: to be released under CC BY-SA licence in editable LaTex format
Synthesis
Structure of the thesis
- 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
Timeline
| Period | Focus | Detail |
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| 1 September 2015 | Preparation | Meetings with supervisors to build my committee. |
| 16 September 2015 | Application | Research project v1. Question: How does personal growth (emerging group regulation) and collaborative production (peer work released under commons licence) affect individuals in their optimal experience (flow) and autonomy, and organizations in their integrity and societal impact? |
| 20 November 2015 | Admission | Admitted in MA as previous graduate studies are not acknowledged as research with option to fast-track and have credits transfered after courses are done. |
| January 2016 to August 2017 | Coursework MA |
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| 13 April 2017 | Fast-track | Request to shift from MA to PhD. Research project v2. Question: How can co-created and freely adaptable games and devices for respiratory health help prevent, recognize, diagnose and treat chronic respiratory diseases at individual, local and international scales? How does the structure of the commons evolve over time? How does the experience of commoners evolve over time? How many individuals use the games/hardware and how (ludic experience, knowledge acquired, health practice)? What are the data gathered throughout the commons and how do they inform about health outcomes? |
| June | Admission | Admitted to the PhD. |
| 05 September 2017 | Conversion | 3 of 19 MA credits recognized for the PhD. |
| September 2017 to March 2018 | Coursework PhD |
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| 5 October 2020 | Exam | |
| 28 February 2021 | Proposal | |
| 14 January 2023 | Thesis submitted | |
| Summer 2023 | Defence |
Key outcomes
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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