The P2P Lab is happy to announce the launch of “Co-create with Tzoumakers: Open source agriculture workshop”, celebrating the gathering of designers, makers and farmers who are adapting to the digitised world. The workshop will be hosted at the rural makerspace “Tzoumakers”, which is located in NW Greece.

 1.
Introduction and background

The P2P Lab is a not-for-profit organisation based in Ioannina, Greece. It is dedicated to research around peer-to-peer dynamics in technology, society and economy. It works for the development and maintenance of a global knowledge commons, encompassing a global community of researchers and activists.

Currently, the
P2P Lab aims to create awareness and promote an emerging collaborative
productive model of agriculture, based on the conjunction of commons-based peer
production with desktop manufacturing. Agriculture
is a key activity in the peripheral and less-developed regions of the EU and a
crucial productive sector. It is a field in which ready-to-apply open source
hardware and software solutions have already been produced and, thus, can be
implemented and improved. Considering the fragmentation of the existing
abundant ​open source projects in relation to agriculture, the replication,
sharing and improvement of solutions is hindered.

To facilitate
interaction and create ​feedback loops among makers, designers and farmers, the
P2P Lab is organising a 5-day workshop
in Ioannina (NW Greece). The workshop will build upon our experience gained
from the previous year, when makers around Europe gathered at a local
makerspace for asylum seekers in Ioannina and co-created solutions with a local
refugee community. The workshop will now take place at Tzoumakers, a rural
makerspace situated in a small mountainous village called Kalentzi. The latter is
part of the village cluster of Tzoumerka in Ioannina, a place abundant in
cultural and natural wealth but scarce in the economic means of welfare.

The main aim of
the workshop is to familiarise the local community with open source
technologies developed within the EU and, ideally, connect hubs (e.g. Fab Labs)
that provide technical infrastructures for development. This may create a
network of open source software/hardware communities and local farmers that
overcome barriers through knowledge diffusion and collaboration for their
mutual benefit.

2. Invitation to apply

The P2P Lab is
looking for 4 designers, makers or
enthusiasts to join the workshop in Kaletzi (Ioannina). Selected designers
will introduce their technological solution related to agriculture to the local
community and manufacture it with their help, while keeping local biophysical
conditions in mind.

Travel, accommodation
and per diems of the grantees will be covered by the P2P Lab.

Ηere are the general requirements for applicants:

• The designers should be based in the EU, while
  the solution may originate elsewhere.
• The solutions must be available under a Creative
  Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0).
• Each solution should be fully developed within 3
  days or less.

Please find below
the selection criteria and timeline for this call. If you would like to apply,
we ask you to fill in the application form and send it to us no later than Friday, 8 March 2019 22:00 CET.

3. Selection criteria and conditions

The submitted
applications will be reviewed and selected by the local community in light of
the criteria and the conditions described below:

• Does the solution fit with the values and
  principles of small-scale farming systems?
• Is the solution developed according to expressed
  user needs?
• Is the solution easily reproduced and adaptable?

4. Procedure and timeline

To apply for this
call, please fill in the application form via this link.

The deadline is 8 March 2019 22:00 CET. The decision
will be announced at the P2P Foundation blog on Monday, 25
March 2019.

The workshop will take place in June 2019 (exact dates to be confirmed).

For queries, you may contact us at research@p2pfoundation.net.

This event is organised in the context of the Distributed Design Market Platform Creative Europe project.

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