[energiadecreixent] 2 Barcelona transicionistas participating in Transition Network conference @ Liverpool 2011

dij jul 7 11:49:19 CEST 2011

2 Barcelona transicionistas participating in Transition Network conference @ 
Liverpool 2011

Tomorrow the Transition Network conference begins in Liverpool (Friday 8th till 
Monday 11th of July). Barcelona en Transició is sending over 2 of its members to 
plug in and participate; Juan del Río and Duncan Crowley. The first is from the 
island of Mallorca and has been living in Barcelona for some years (he speaks 
Catalan fluently), the second from the island of Ireland who also has been 
living in Barcelona for some years (he doesent speak  Catalan, but understands 
it more or less). They will contribute their  inputs from the Barcelona 
perspective into the conference; transició, decreixement, local initiaves and 
projects… As well as offering views on the #SpanishRevolution and the 
acampadaBCN (which was finally evicted last week from Placa Catalunya, after 6 
weeks of occupation and action. Even the urban garden was taken out) with which 
both have been participating heavily.

Juan del Río

Juan  is one of the pioneers of the transition movement in Barcelona. In  2009, 
he travelled to the cradle of the transition movement, Totnes, to  investigate 
on the ground and to see if it was applicable to the reality  of Barcelona. This 
investigation resulted in his final thesis in a Masters in Sustainability at the 
UPC. Continueing on from that, here is an interview with Juan for the Semana de 
la Sostenibilidad (week of sustainability) of pueblo de Rivas, in the community 
of Madrid
Duncan Crowley

Duncan is an Irish ecoarchitect, city tourguide, #acampadaBCN global 
communications activist, part founder of Barcelona en Transició. He has been 
involved with setting up community gardens in Dublin, Ireland and proposed the 
Botanic Spine,  an 18km greenway, CPUL (continous productive urban landscape) 
and eco  corridor for his city. In Barcelona his work on similar proposals for  
the city have been published in recent book by IAAC (Institute for Advanced 
Architecture of Catalonia); THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY: Envisioning the habitat of 
the future. He also participated in some of the UK climate camps and the Irish 
one in 2009. A recent interview with Duncan appeared in the May edition of BCN 
MES: Let’s plant some seeds :// GARDENING FOR CHANGE.
Barcelona en Transició
So far this year, things have been very good for the group. Good ground has been 
made, here are some of the highlights…
	* The first local Transition Initiative in Barcelona city is up and running: 
San Marti La Verneda. Some weeks back the hub group partcipated in a series of 
events for the local barrio festival; thursday the cuba film, fri an eco urban 
presentation Barcelona 2030?, saturday a bike ride to participate and the party, 
sunday Taller d’economía social… It rocked!!! All this has come from hub member 
and resident in the barrio Ricart, and all his compañer a s in the barri.
	* A 6 week TRANSITION TRAINING course was given in Fabrica del sol (the sun 
factory). This training programme will hopefully become one of  the key tools to 
helping set up local barrio (neighbourhood) initiaves.  It was very well 
recieved and more civic centres have invited the group  to set up similar 
training programmes around the city.
	* In December Barcelona did a live video conference with Camden based 
transitioner Alexis Rowell, part of the Agenda 21 events.
	* We participated in the multi way vid stream conference with Transition 
Scotland: International Transition Conference 2010: Transitions: diverse routes 
to belonging
	* A successfull open space event happened  about growing food in the city, more 
community gardens exist now in the  city, related post event article: 
Greening Barcelona
	* We participated in a few No money picnics in parc ciutadella
	* In October we did a very successfull local barrio wander: Poble Sec en 
Transició: Cicle de caminada i xerrades 2010
	* Previous years events: Eventos y aventuras de Barcelona en Transició en 2010
#SpanishRevolution

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Following the Transition Network Conference:
Conference highlights from our very own Rob
As  the Transition movement grows, deepens and spreads, it is developing  
strongly around themes such as localisation and social enterprise, the  
practicalities of making projects happen on the ground, and the critical  
importance of building good strong groups to underpin the whole process  (to 
name but a few).
The conference offers the opportunity to  reconnect with what’s emerging, what 
people are doing, as well as to  hear new ideas from a range of other 
areas/organisations.  You will meet  people doing Transition in cities, towns, 
villages and universities up  and down the country, as well as some from further 
afield.
Every Transition conference has had its  own distinct identity, from the first 
one at Ruskin Mill to last year’s  event at Seale Hayne.  This year will be 
another unique experience,  drawing on the passion and experience of Liverpool’s 
Transition groups  and also a variety of other local food/community development 
groups in  the city.
It promises to be a rich, exhilarating  and energising weekend.  You will also 
get a very real taste of what the  soon-to-be-published ‘Transition Companion’ 
will look like and how it  presents Transition in a very different way to the 
‘Transition  Handbook’.  Soul food for Transition.   See you there.
List of links and information:
	* Conference main page
	* Conference programme
	* Conference tickets booking page
	* Please complete the Transition Project Support Survey
	* Steph Bradley’s  marvelous blog about the conference
	* Rob’s blog on the conference
	* An extraordinary looking Liverpool exhibition of work by the artist Rene 
Magritte
	* Add a conference banner to your website! Go on!
	* Follow the conference on the Transition Conference 2011 blog

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