SLOW TRAVELLING & THE COMMONS: THE ROLE OF THE WTMG COMMUNITY (WORKSHOP)

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Why should we care about Welcome To My Garden being an open source initiative and how important are the commons for the slow travel community? Here’s your chance to get more insights on these questions!

During this last session of our slow travel mini festival, we are going to rethink the relationship between the slow travellers community and the commons. While being on a slow travel journey, many of us heavily rely, help maintain and benefit from natural and cultural resources such as clean air, water, nature, bivouac spots, freely accessible knowledge with Wikipedia as the best example, which are often help by groups of people or communities held in common, not owned privately. What can we as a community do to make slow travelling more inclusive and, yet, make sure that everyone takes care of our natural and cultural resources?

What role can the Welcome To My Garden community play in making basic principles like respect for nature, respectful use of bivouacs and leave no trace the guiding principles for all slow travellers? Let’s talk about the slow travelling and the commons!

On Tuesday 29 JuneWelcome To My Garden and Commons Lab are organising a panel discussion on the role of the slow travel community with regards to the commons. This event aims to gather all kinds of slow travellers and is absolutely open to everyone who wants to learn more about it.

Programme for this session:

  • A brief introduction to the commons

  • The different kinds of commons in practice: examples

  • The opportunities and pitfalls of a commons-led approach

  • Why Welcome To My Garden is an open source initiative: an example of the digital commons

  • Staying overnight in nature: how it works in Denmark (to be confirmed)

  • Panel discussion with Q&A

About this workshop:

This event is part of our slow travel mini festival, a series of 8 workshops to prepare your slow travels with the community. The festival is organized by volunteers of Welcome To My Garden. All workshops take place online.

Any specific questions or suggestions? Or want to talk about your ideas or initiatives? That's fantastic! Just drop us a message at team@welcometomygarden.org.

This workshop is organized in English.

Tickets: Slow travelling & the commons: the role of the WTMG community Tickets, Tue 29 Jun 2021 at 19:00 | Eventbrite

Koen Wynants