Webinar: What is the surplus we are generating?

In this 3rd seminar in the New European Bauhaus meets Community Economies series, we map what NEB initiatives generate beyond monetary surplus.
 
If you just look at our practices from a financial perspective, seeking funding after funding to support our projects you just see the struggle for continuity. But in reality what we building on is both planned and unplanned, recognized or unrecognized, or seen and unseen WORK. Our practices struggling to find financial stability within this frame might be seen as unable to produce any SURPLUS. But what value are we really generating?! What about the social cohesion, ecological regeneration, wellbeing, and so on?
 
During this webinar we are going to dissect the surplus concept currently stuck in the extractive processes that are depleting the communities and ecosystems around the planet. We will look at the effects of our endeavors from the perspective of Community Economies and Multispecies Justice.
Together we will try to evolve and answer the questions given in the surplus chapter from the Take back the Economy book from the feminist economic geographers Gibson-Grahm. Who are the human and more-than-human communities that help our practices survive and create a surplus? How [a]do we include them in our work and share the surplus we create together?
 
We create a map of layers that will help you identify the unseen work(ers) and the multispecies communities helping your practice thrive and produce the surplus. By recognizing and responding to new inputs and outputs we regenerate our practices and those involved.
 

Co-funded by the European Union as part of Erasmus+: Small Scale Partnership in Adult Education – KA210-ADU-EBA01025_2. The project is a collaboration between La Foresta – accademia di comunità and Trajna.
 
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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