2. EDGERYDERS
The unMonastery is a project born from the Edgeryders network;
EdgeRyders is a community that assembled itself as a “distributed
think tank” of citizen experts to advise the Council of Europe on
European youth policy.
3. Our Definitions
unMonastery: Typically a large building with several facilities,
including living and multipurpose working space, situated in a (small)
city or town in Europe, self-managed by an international team of
changemakers.
unMonasterians: Individuals living in the unMonastery invited by
the core team based on their existing skill-set, unMonasterians live
and work in the unMonastery for a set period, in service of its goals.
Community: The environment surrounding the unMonastery,
including the people that live there and local organizations (non-profit,
for-profit and political).
5. Social Space for the 21 Century
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Hackerspaces Social Centers Live/Work
6. un + Monastery
The historical role of the monastery in Europe involved a range of features, including:
1. A physical place - building or set of buildings;
2. set within or nearby a community;
3. members committed to a particular way of being within their home;
4. and to helping and serving the community that they were located in.
These are features that the unMonastery reproduces. It's the 'Monastery' in unMonastery.
7. un + Monastery
Monasteries historically also involved features
such as a strict hierarchy and submission to a
fixed religious ideology. These are features that
we're not interested in reproducing, which is the
reason for the 'un' in unMonastery.
8. unMonastery Network
unMonastery is designed with a network of buildings in mind, Matera
is the prototype, in the coming years we hope to roll out
unMonasteries across Europe.
9. Why?
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Large numbers of empty and disused housing stock.
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Brain drain from provincial towns and small cities.
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Austerity: the loss of state run services.
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High unemployment: a high number of young and
highly skilled individuals without work.
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Building resilient communities and infrastructure to
curb future crisis.
14. How we're building unMonastery
Regular co-design workshops throughout Europe.
15. What we know so far.
unMonastery is currently made up of three
components.
Internal Interface Outreach
might relate to an urban could take as it’s primary explicitly be focused on the
permaculture project concern local integration, kinds of projects that will be
focused on food security for perhaps in the form of a enacted outside of the
the unMonastery, equally it mapping exercise of social unMonastery during our
may focus on creating a assets in Matera or a series time there.
methodology or an open of convivial events designed
source social template for to better bridge interaction
reproduction of the between unMonasterians
unMonastery in the future. and the local population.
16. How to join unMonastery!
Make a pledge to the unMonastery and Matera.
International call for proposals goes out end of
April
17. Friends of unMonastery
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NEW IDEA
Not everyone will want to live in the
unMonastery but you might want to be involved.
How can that happen?
What how would the relationship work?
18. Co-Designing unMonastery Today
What we'd like to get out of today:
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Friendship
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Understand the geography of Matera from your
perspective
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Learn about existing and potential challenges
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Take the first step towards working together
Co-Design session is split into 3 parts, as follows...
19. Social Asset Mapping – Part 1
Tell the story of Matera, your memories, where
you go, which places are important to you?
