System design for establishing The Internet of People in a post-oil-world, a Thingscon workshop December 12, AMS

A THINGSCON Workshop.

Rob van Kranenburg and guests

In 2011 Christian Nold and me wrote The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World.
Downloadable here.

We had a conversation informed by what we saw happening in Internet of Things and open source 3D Printing like the RepRap. Discussion went on on the bricolist that is still active (sometimes).

Another part: The temporary alliance that you are describing reminds me of the Belgian town of Geel where inmates from the psychiatric asylum are living with families. This is a practice that has a 700-year history. In recent decades, researchers examined this living together of “sane” and “insane” people and found that it was an incredibly successful model for “community recovery” where communities strive to live with, rather than fear, mental illness. It created local solidarity.

In this workshop we want to discuss whether our solutions are pure nostalgia or actually workable as systems that may be resilient to what we saw and see: the breakdown of current technological setups because of peak oil, climate c change and massive unease of citizens with decision making structures all around.
And if so, where do we start? 
Maybe by aligning with current protest movements? Design and engineering classes?