Healing Communities. What if we collectively had the capacity to overcome any crisis in a matter of days? [thesis abstract preprint]

<em>Version française. </em> Ever since I was young, I have sought to find how to contribute meaningfully to the community, while being fully myself. Called to different interests than my peers, I began to explore the mysteries of group dynamics. Many cycles of study and practice led me to an awareness: <strong>suffering, misery (physical and spiritual), violence, are often generated by stories we learn as children, and pass on through generations</strong>. I became convinced that, <strong>within months, we could ensure that all people could live decently and in harmony</strong>, if we dared to listen – literally and symbolically – to our Heart, to the Other’s. <strong>We would commit ourselves to a path that celebrates our Humanity, connects us to Nature within and beyond, and nourishes our Souls</strong>. Indeed, <strong>tackling complex, wicked challenges requires abandoning the logic of a machine-body, the illusion of technical solutions built without personal commitment, so that we can raise our collective, human consciousness. This means providing ways for the whole population to listen to their different realities, and to quickly reach a popular consensus on how to overcome these challenges in ways that strengthen solidarity.</strong> According to the creator of Captcha tests [1], <strong>a million people could translate Wikipedia into a new language in 80 hours. Let us imagine what such a group could achieve if they had the capacity to sincerely agree on essential common projects, and implement them in a matter of days</strong> – free/libre and open source knowledge and infrastructures that could easily be adopted, reproduced and enriched across territories? * * * This five-part thesis documents six years of intense creation and research that enabled me to design how such a process could unfold. <strong>First, I present my journey to the PhD, and how my research took shape through cycles of prototyping. I introduce the idea of the commons</strong>, which is to understand that people – not corporations or the state – have all the resources needed to overcome the challenges we face. This builds on the oeuvre of Elinor Ostrom [2], who showed that ordinary people can self-organise efficiently to preserve resources, and Stefano Rodotà [3], who pledged that any resource that meets basic needs must be managed in a participatory way, regardless of who owns it. ./. <strong>Secondly, I talk about Breathing Games </strong>[4]<strong>, a commons I co-founded to make respiratory health fun</strong>. I show how this initiative, which initially objectified the children concerned – by thinking their health in their place –, then opened up a space for young people to share their subjective experience in a playful way that was beneficial to their peers. I share how an ethic and aesthetic of commoning enabled us to engage over 450 volunteers, and mutualise resources from Canada, Switzerland, France, Italy, and South Korea. <strong>Thirdly, I propose four levers to build solidarity-driven ecosystems.</strong> We need to: bring diverse people together for ludic events to overcome loneliness. For example, the online hackathons that mobilised 150,000 people at the start of the crown-crisis [5]. generate collective value to overcome material limitations. For example, the autonomous networks of makers, who shared designs and manufactured over 48 million medical supplies while industry was at a standstill [6]. facilitate agreements across teams of teams to overcome power games. For example, the Emerging Change, developed in Quebec schools and Swiss multinationals, which enables teams to thrive and excel by establishing a ritual dialogue between the whole team and its leader, thus avoiding competition between individuals [7]. revisit collective narratives to break free from self-servitude. For example, challenging the belief that an authority – parent, teacher, employer, politician, caregiver – can take care of our needs better than we can [8]. <strong>Fourthly, I present the Geneva festival 'taking care together' </strong>[9]<strong>, a nine-day event created in 122 days thanks to 115 co-hosts. I quantify the collective value created by the Breathing Games and the festival at 2.2 million Swiss francs, 4/5 of which was generated by volunteer contributions.</strong> <strong>Next, I provide a step-by-step facilitation method that could help thousands of people coordinate their efforts around a limited number of modular projects</strong>. I then outline how this model could re-create education, outdate systemic corruption, resurrect democracy, and heal our dis-ease when we over-invest in the mind. <strong>Finally, I summarise what I have learnt</strong>, and list about 600 references that inspired me. This creation-as-research [10] can be freely reproduced and enriched (CC BY-SA licence, editable LaTeX format). Concordia Salus [11]. _____ Von Ahn L. Massive-scale online collaboration. TEDx CMU 2011. https://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration Ostrom E. Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems. Nobel Prize lecture 2009. https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/ostrom_lecture.pdf Mattei U, Reviglio E, Rodotà S (eds). I beni pubblici : dal governo democratico dell’economia alla riforma del codice civile [Public goods: from democratic economic governance to civil code reform]. Accademia nazionale dei Lincei 2010. http://www.scienzeelettere.it/book/35940.html Balli F, Jeanmaire G, Ibbotson R, Gervais Y, Kellner E, Gingras S, Gaudy T, Tse SM, Bransi M, Chelabi K, Silva-Lavigne N, Pelaez S, Montalbano L, Cilluffo G, la Grutta S, Sermet-Gaudelus I, Mohammad Y. Open-source games for health, multiplayer and gamepads. Co-creating fun care with children with asthma, young adults with cystic fibrosis, elders with COPD. General meeting of the Global Alliance against chronic Respiratory Diseases 2020-2021. Zenodo 2021. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5515638 Balli F. Team-building and information flow for large groups such as online hackathons. Zenodo 2020. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3743244 Open Source Medical Supplies and Nation of Makers. Design, make, protect. A report on the open source maker and manufacturer response to the Covid-19 PPE crisis. 2021. https://opensourcemedicalsupplies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Design-Make-Protect_21.01.27.pdf Laugeri M. Les clés du dialogue hiérarchique. InterEditions 2015. https://www.dunod.com/sciences-humaines-et-sociales/cles-du-dialogue-hierarchique de la Boétie E. Discours de la servitude volontaire ou Contr’un [Discourse on Voluntary Servitude]. 1530. http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/la_boetie_etienne_de/discours_de_la_servitude/discours_servitude.html Balli F. Preserving our health: a common heritage. Festival 'prenons soin ensemble' (festival 'Taking care together'). Zenodo 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7833388 Chapman OB, Sawchuk K. Research-Creation: Intervention, Analysis and "Family Resemblances". Canadian Journal of Communication 2012; 37(1). https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2012v37n1a2489 <em>Concordia Salus</em>, which means <em>Salvation through a state of peaceful agreement</em>, is the motto of Concordia University, and of the city of Tio'tia:ke / Montreal.

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