Presentation expressing some ideas concerning Reinventing/Transforming traditional spaces & institutions Communities & Collaboration beyond platforms, networks and events and how it could be regarded as a form of occupy 2.0 with other means. Presentation in the context of the OuiShare Fest 2014 topic: Turning Excess Capacity into Value

1. Occupy 2.0. ?
Reinventing/Transforming traditional spaces & institutions
Communities & Collaboration beyond platforms, networks and events
Presentation in the context of the OuiShare Fest 2014 topic:
Turning Excess Capacity into Value
What has been happening – increasingly since the turn of the millennium –
is the creation of new communities around online platforms
based on collaboration, openness and sharing.
Being disruptive to the way of
doing business as usual
arranging society and life
organizing themselves as individuals and community
Its modus operandi is a kind of work around.

2. What the Occupy protesters have done:
Brought to the fore the interconnectedness of separate inequalities and
their common, as well as distinct but interlinked, causes.
How the Occupy protesters have done it:
Connected the dots and brought together the 99%. It gained
- momentum and fast traction on the (grassroot)ground of self-organization and
- high visibility by occupying public spaces
- a new way of thinking and looking at concept by redefining the sense of occupation
The modus operandi of Occupy activism was:
Making visible the unjust in our society and making people aware of it.
(demanding from the 1% to chance their top-down defraudation and destructive
pattern by taking over, corrupting and abusing institutions.)
Occupy 1.0

3. Occupy 2.0. ?
What the Occupy co-creators are doing:
Self-organized communities not just evolve on the net,
but gain & occupy increasing presence in the material world.
- And stay: boots on the ground.
How the Occupy co-creators are doing it:
- Creating new spaces and institutions or
- Taking over traditional – sometime iconic - spaces and buildings and transforming them
Thus introducing different goals, rebase new sets of values experiment and
establish new forms of interpersonal dealings.
The modus operandi of Occupy co-creator seem to be:
Co-creation instead of confrontation.
Not fighting an unjust system, but to work on making the unjust system obsolete.

4. Examples of spaces &
former institutions
getting a second life – bottom up.

5. In 2010 Ela Kagel, David Farine und Zsolt Szentirmai discovered the former
supermarket. They convinced the owner, a housing cooperative, of their concept to
turn the place into a space of coworking, events and creative experiments.
Supermarkt 2.0

6. In 2003 Dida Zende turned the former petrol station into a multi-functional space for
creative projects of all kind like a makers market, sauna fire truck for the
neighbourhood, a yurt as an unconventional event location etc.
Since then he has transformed petrol station in several countries.
FIT – Schwedter Straße 261 - 10119 Berlin
Petrol station 2.0

7. In 2009 Bernhard Shaw turned the wasteland for over half a century into a famous
urban gardening and communal meeting ground in the centre of Berlin-Kreuzberg
Urban Waste land 2.0
2006 -> 2012

8. Airport 2.0
In 2008 Tempelhof, the first airport in the world was closed down. In 2010 it was made
accessible to the public and is now used as recreational area, urban gardening and
free-style sports ground. It is know as the Tempelhofer Freiheit (Liberty)
Tempelhofer Feld – 12101 Berlin

9. Parking Slots 2.0

10. In 2014 we were working and negotiating on taking over a former bank building
and turning it into a (connecting) hub of the collaborative and civic economy in
Berlin. Thus transforming a highly symbolic icon of the old economy into an entity of
the new economy, which is animated with openness, collaboration and sharing.
Bank 2.0

11. Questions for discussion:
Which places of the old (fossil, dinosaur) economy can be / will be transformed and
reinvented. Examples and where are they?
How might these local initiatives turn into an organically grown solid foundation for a
collaborative and sharing city and society?
What have the Occupy 1.0 and 2.0 (Sharing) Movement in common.
How should they collaborate?
What if we “occupied” buildings to create a culture of sustainable urban development
based on sharing and approaching global transformation through local initiatives?
What if we Occupied Language? How to Occupy Y/Our Imagination?

12. Thomas Dönnebrink
OuiShare Connector Germany
Freelancer Collaborative Economy
www.about.me/thomasdoennebrink
thomas@ouishare.net @tdoennebrink
Thorsten Wiessmann
Co-Founder www.think2share.de
Blogger: www.implizit.blogspot.de
koizuwie@arcor.de Facebook
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