Shareable: Urban Villages & Sharing Cities Community Discussion | Oakland

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join Shareable for an interactive “World Cafe” style discussion to collaboratively dig into questions about the current state of Urban Villages here in the Bay Area, where we would like be, and what we need to do to get there together.

This event will also serve as the official Bay Area release of our new book, “Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons.”. We’ll have plenty of copies on hand that will be available for 20% off.
This event is free to attend and light food and drinks will be provided. We are asking for a suggested $15 donation from those who can afford it to cover the cost of refreshments and the space rental. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Please note there is limited street parking so please consider taking public transportation. The best option is BART, as Oakstop is located above the 19th Street Station in Oakland (17th st exit).

This event is Co-Sponsored by NorCal Resilience Network, Berkeley CoHousing, and Bay Area Green Tours.

About Urban Villages:

“Urban villages are traditionally much more than their physical space,” Amanda Abrams wrote in a recent feature story published by Shareable. “It’s a network of relationships; a community of interrelated people. It’s a term that refers to a collaborative way of life — a relatively small, place-based urban community where people cooperate to meet one another’s many needs, be they residential, economic, governmental, or social. In the process, they wind up transforming their own experience of that community…

Cities like Berlin and Copenhagen host do-it-yourself communities like Holzmarkt and the long-running Christiania. Israel is seeing a growth in urban kibbutzim. In South Korea, Seoul is aiming to establish “sharing villages” throughout the city. While ecovillages and intentional communities are still more popular in rural areas, where agriculture plays a key role, urban villages are seen by their proponents as a natural and obvious antidote to the problems of climate change, economic inequality, and social isolation.”

About Shareable:

Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation.

What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges, which old, top-down institutions are failing to address.

Behind these failing industrial-age institutions are outmoded beliefs about how the world works – that ordinary people can’t govern themselves directly; that nonstop economic growth leads to widespread prosperity; and that more stuff leads to more happiness.

Amid crisis, a new way forward is emerging – the sharing transformation. The sharing transformation is big, global, and impacts every part of society.

New and resurgent solutions are democratizing how we produce, consume, govern, and solve social problems. The maker movement, collaborative consumption, the solidarity economy, open source software, transition towns, open government, and social enterprise are just a few of the movements showing a way forward based on sharing.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.