<aside> ❀ These are the keynotes and flash talks from the 2023 London gathering of Beyond Cultures of Ownership: Emerging Strategies for Interdependence hosted by RadicalXChange and Serpentine Arts Technologies. To get involved in shaping the future of this project please head over to the Beyond Cultures of Ownership: Emerging Strategies for Interdependence main page.
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https://youtu.be/9hZUBXCiSzc?si=3bN60b15Xi8DlsU2
Introduction to Beyond Cultures of Ownership with Matt Prewitt and Victoria Ivanova
President of RadicalxChange and R&D Strategic Lead at Serpentine Arts Technologies provide an overview of the larger collaboration that this event is part of, explaining the relevance of art and culture in transforming the imaginaries and practices of ‘ownership’.
https://youtu.be/A1S1s2Zmh9Q?si=obfZ6KABbYyDu2lU
Re-commoning work and ourselves | Hilary Cottam
Dr Hilary Cottam OBE is an internationally acclaimed social entrepreneur working with communities and governments around the world to design collaborative, affordable solutions to big social challenges. Innovations include new approaches to employment, ageing and chronic health conditions. Hilary’s current work focuses on the need for a ‘fifth social revolution’: to enable widespread flourishing in this century as work, society and our economies go through deep structural change.
https://youtu.be/vfxAYvMHfQ4?si=H_VDUIgeNqEDVoQr
Living in an entangled world | Indy Johar
**Indy Johar** is an architect, co-founder of Architecture 00 and Dark Matter Labs. Indy’s work is focused on the strategic design of new super scale civic assets for transition; specifically at the intersection of financing, contracting and governance for deeply democratic futures.
https://youtu.be/dYLspmyiBx0?si=YtNFwlXzsoSlylTN
Challenging theories of labour through care work
Care is abundant: the more we rely on each other, the stronger we become. As humans and non-human agents get increasingly instrumentalised by theories of labour and the market, Hilary Cottam and Indy Johar discuss care as a powerful foundation for interdependent systems.
https://youtu.be/MCDiKjDGdkg?si=_KxRbow8ykI49X4F
How can reparations challenge existing notions of ownership? | Sam Sivapragasam
Sam Sivapragasam is a Black and Mixed (Black Jamaican, Sri Lankan) writer, grower and organiser with Land In Our Names (LION), a grassroots collective based in London, Britain. LION works towards land justice through a reparative justice and racial justice framework. They are passionate about agroecological methods and see food justice and climate justice as essential parts of work.
https://youtu.be/FzC1u-y7gC0?si=6D5fvXLsWq2U9nT0
Who owns artificial intelligence? | Divya Siddarth
Divya Siddarth is the co-founder of the Collective Intelligence Project, which advances collective intelligence capabilities for the democratic and effective governance of transformative technologies. She serves as Associate Political Economist and Social Technologist at Microsoft’s Office of the CTO. She also holds positions as a research director at Metagov and a researcher in residence at the RadicalxChange Foundation.