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Edgeryders is...

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I understand it as a community

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we are from all around Europe and

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in a daily basis, collaborate through an online platform

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it's a gathering of people who have diverse backgrounds and skills

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but are all capable and

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have a commitment to making the world better in some way

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And a fairly aligned conception of what 'better' means

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for me it is a community and a structure

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to foster open consultancy

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the best way I can explain it is

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in terms of a shared response to systemic crisis

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if you switch on the TV or you read the news

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you see ecological, economic, and socio-political crises

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that our society seems unable to

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generate credible responses to

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and really it's beyond the ability of any one person

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any one decision maker, to be able to address them

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you need collaboration on a massive scale in order to do that

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1500+ community members
CONNECTED - DIVERSE - CONSTRUCTIVE - OPEN - COMMUNICATIVE - CREATIVE

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we're in a city in the south of Italy called Matera

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this is the location of this year's Living On The Edge

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a community-driven, community-organized, community-populated event

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Matera is the place that has

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proved a lot of forward-thinking and courage because it chose

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to support one of our main community-borne projects 
which is called the unMonastery

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10-20 diverse residents

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co-living, co-working 
3-6 month residencies

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focused on local community projects

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we are here to strengthen the ties with
the local community

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and find ways in which we can build

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and co-design this project and see if it
can be replicated in other parts of the

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world as well

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the idea for the unMonastery

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came about in a room about 30 people

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from quite disparate communities like
social innovation, hacking,

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makerspaces,

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squatters, activists, and artists, who came together
with the realization

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that in order to continue to do the work that they
were doing and not burn out

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and not become alienated there was the need
to build

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infrastructure on which to do that work

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the unMonastery is basically a structure

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that enables you to not worry about
roof over your head,

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food, and be able to invest in
that pre-market,

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blue skies, 'you don't know the solution yet

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so you're just trying to solve the problem'
phase of the innovation process

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I think our unplugging from everyday life
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period is a very potent way to get
perspective

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and to achieve something that would
otherwise get distracted or stuck

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Focus for the unMonastery

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so the three primary issues

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that the unMonastery is focused on is

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high unemployment; a massive amount of
unused

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housing stock and commercial stock throughout Europe

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and with the onset of austerity you see the
rolling back of state service provision

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and the need to plug that gap

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if we are to continue. And then there's two other
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are less primary, but that's brain drain
from small towns and cities to capital cities

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there's the desire to roll that back in some way.

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there's a focus on resilient processes,

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infrastructure, and ways of working that can

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be sustainable in the event of future

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and existing crises.

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unMonastery Matera Projects
February-May 2014

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Community WiFi Mesh Network

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Multi-generational play and learning

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Re-engineering Matera's water cycle for urban farming

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Open source system to drive solar panels

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Real-time public transport information

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How can Edgeryders and Materani work together towards these goals?

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this is a big question -

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how can we create solutions for

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local problems, being global?

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I don't know, but I believe we should try

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but it will be a challenge

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resilience is a deep thing

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it can't be induced

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it's not taught

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there's no such thing as a teacher of resilience

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it's the community that acquires, over time

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the knowledge to learn how to react to catastrophic events

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to economic crises, to social crises

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but it's the community that does this.

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as I see it the guests have to integrate themselves with the community

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it can only work if they integrate themselves

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Matera should experience

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what the Edgeryders are bringing to this city

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but the edgeryders should get to know our spirit

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we came here -

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one on the taglines on our posters was 'with minds wide open'

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which for me it means that we are looking for
different angles for collaborating with

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the people here

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and we not only... we want to feel
well received, but we are also looking to

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be proactive in establishing connections with the people here and

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paying specific attention to what their needs are

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and how exactly we can work together

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if the people of Matera and the Edgeryders

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have the same point of view

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it will be a wonderful thing