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May 10, 2017

Creating organizations of/for the commons

59 minutes

New challenges demands new institutions and forms of organization. How is civil society rethinking its forms of representation and organization? What new models are emerging? In this session we want to to discuss the urgency of reinventing the institutions from a civil society perspective and bring experiments that are pointing out to different paths.

Georgia Nicolau
Ela Kagel
Ricardo Ruiz Freire
Stephen Kovats

Institutions and Extitutions: The structural forms that organize the contemporary world needs to be reinvented. The institutions that emerged in modernity do not allow us to face the planetary challenges that are presented for the guarantee of the realization of rights and a sustainable citizenship. This sessions wants to discuss the urgency of reinventing the institutions from a civil society perspective and bring experiments that are pointing out to different paths. This panel wishes to reflect about new organizational models based on experiences from Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.

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