A presentation around the direct democracy methods, participation technologies and hybrid and commons oriented territories happening in Madrid. The presentation is a summary of what the city hall is doing, but includes some citizen practices too

1. Bernardo Gutiérrez // MediaLab-Prado (Madrid)
@bernardosampa // @medialabprado
Madrid, a global democractic lab

2. 15M

3. – #Global2011

4. LosMadriles.org projects maps the commons oriented spaces of the city
Los Madriles: the commons city

5. Self organization: commons
oriented spaces

6. From institutions to extitutions

7. “A cultural space that shines in a depressed Europe”
MediaLab Prado won the ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture in 2016
Medialab Prado

8. 6 labs

9. 6 labs

10. Participa LAB is a new lab inside MediaLab Prado. It works globally searching the
colletive intelligence for improving democracy
Participa LAB

11. #ICDemocracia: Collective Intelligence
for Democracy (2016)
Open Call 2017 Video 2017:
https://twitter.com/participa_LAB/status/872369429
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13. The adventure of learning

14. Self organization: commons
oriented spaces
MADRID: 3 ways of doing

15. 1. Decide Madrid: bottom up democracy
From Propongo (15M-Indignados platform) to Decide Madrid (free software participation
platform designed by Madrid 's City Hall), the hybrid participatory method of the
occupied squares is getting sofisticated. Decide.es has become a political virus: a free
software (Consul) that enables direct democracy and is alreday being used by 40 cities
of regional governments

16. The citizens over 16 years old registered in the city of Madrid could vote in february in what has
already been called #LaGranVotación (the great votation). People voter digitally or in ballot boxes
distributed throughout the city two citizen proposals, proposed from below, that obtained in
Decide Madrid enough support to reach the voting stage (1% of the census). The two proposals
were 'Madrid 100% sustainable' and the 'Public transport ticket'
The big votation

17. Participatory budget
Every citizen can propose with a
bottom up method concrete ideas for
the city budget. In 2017, there are 100
million euros for participatory budget

18. G1000: the citizen summit
G1000, the citizen summit,G1000, the citizen summit,
G1000, the citizen summit, was held in Madrid on March 4th, with people of all the
ideologies and thougths, to formulate proposals to Decide Madrid

19. 'Si te sientes gato' is a project for working
with children and teenagers around political
participation and engadgement in
Decide.Madrid.es

20. Madrid escucha: intra innovation
Madrid Escucha is a projecto to promote innovation among
public servers and citizens held in MediaLab Prado

21. #cocTELL: story telling for the 99%
You Tube: https://youtu.be/F1m8tHSivTc
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/LaCocTELLera/videos/vb.176664570014
1722/1786596564813302/?type=3&theater

22. 2. Decentralization: p2p democracy
hildren an
Los Labos is a project for decentralizing the culture of the city, with the
whole ecossystem of the culture, not only the official sectors

23. Experimenta Distrito: citizen labs
Short vídeo around the project >
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMzXehbFtlk

25. Local forums
Local Forums are open spaces for political deliberation and
proposals. There are 21 Local Forum, one for each district

26. MARES european project combines open source technology, mobility, recycling and
free and p2p energy. A project from DINAMIA S. COOP. MAD, Tangente Grupo
Cooperativo TXP Todo Por la Praxis, Acción contra el Hambre and Madrid City Hall.
Imagina Madrid

27. Processo for reshaping 11 squares in the out skirts of the City shifted though citizen
participation in Decide Madrid
11 squares

28. MARES european project combines open source technology, mobility, recycling and
free and p2p energy. A project from DINAMIA S. COOP. MAD, Tangente Grupo
Cooperativo TXP Todo Por la Praxis, Acción contra el Hambre and Madrid City Hall.
Mares Madrid Project

29. Madrid City Hall is puttin in the hands of collectives, social movements and citizen dozen of
spaces of the city, for encourage self-organization. The “public-social cooperation” and de
commons-public narratives is replacing the public-private.
Picture: Solar Almendro 3, in Latina neighbourhood
3. Commons oriented democracy

30. Image: Palacio de Sueca, recently transfered from the city hall to social movements

31. Image: The abandonned fruit market, that was about to be a “gourmet market”, is now the
headquarters of Econmy Secretary of Madrid and social movements. Espacio Vecinal
Arganzuela is a self organization movements that rules part of the market
Espacio Vecinal Arganzuela

32. The self organized Cinema Usera gets now some resources
from City Hall. Image: http://cinemausera.org/
Cinema Usera

33. Co-dessigning libraries
Image: San Fermin 's new library, dessigned during and
open process with more than 400 neighbours

34. Image: Campo de Cebada project, that will be ready in 2019
Campo Cebada: from occupation to
a new public-social partnership

35. City Hall included social clauses – feminism, equality, sustainability... – for all the
contracts. For example, the new energy contrat (115,8 millions euros) is 100% for renewal
energies, open to PYMES and cooperatives. Those who help with energy poverty get more
points in the public bidding.
Social contracts by law

36. La Ingobernable squatt:
“Make madrid great again”
Civil society sets the pace. The new social center La Ingobernable places the urban commons
and the self organization in the center of the debate

37. References
-MediaLab-Prado: http://medialab-prado.es/
-Participa LAB. Twitter https://twitter.com/participa_LAB Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ParticipaLabMadrid/
-Inteligencia Colectiva http://inteligenciacolectiva.cc/
-Proyecto La Escalera http://www.proyectolaescalera.org/
-The adventure of learning // http://laaventuradeaprender.educalab.es/-/medialab-prado
-lacocTELLera > https://twitter.com/LaCocTELLera
-366 sillas // http://www.maiderlopez.com/portfolio/366-sillas-2/
-Decide.es, core platform of the liquid federation around Decide Madrid
-G1000: https://www.opendemocracy.net/democraciaabierta/yago-bermejo-abati/random-election-
g1000-and-deliberation-to-change-madrid
-Si Te Sientes Gato (participation with chilndren) https://decide.madrid.es/sitesientesgato
-Madrid Escucha http://medialab-prado.es/article/madrid-escucha-ciudadanos-y-empleados-
publicos-mano-a-mano-convocatoria-de-proyectos
-Los Laboratorios http://medialab-prado.es/article/los-laboratorios
-Experimenta Distrito // https://www.experimentadistrito.net/
-Palacio Sueca Process https://twitter.com/proceso_sueca
-11 plazas https://decide.madrid.es/proceso/once-plazas
-Imagina Madrid // https://www.imagina-madrid.es
-Proyecto MARES http://www.uia-initiative.eu/en/uia-cities/madrid
-EVA> http://evarganzuela.org/eva/
Biblioteca San Fermin http://bit.ly/2qTY52c
-La Ingobernable https://t.co/0WOO4W4V3d

38. Bernardo Gutiérrez (@bernardosampa) /// bernardobrasil@gmail.com
Participa LAB // @participa_lab // participacion@medialab-prado.es
MediaLab Prado // @medialabprado