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# <multi>[en]Preparing: Collective Conditions[nl]Voorbereiding: Gezamenlijke Omstandigheden[fr]Preparations: Conduite Collaborative</multi>

Materials for [a worksession on the conditions for/of collectivity](http://constantvzw.org/site/-Collective-Conditions,220-.html).

## About this session

* [Call for participants](http://constantvzw.org/site/Call-for-participants-Collective-Conditions.html) (deadline 10 September)
* [Worksessions](http://media.constantvzw.org/wefts/103/)

## Codes of Conduct, Community Agreements, Commitments, Codes of Conflict, Community Health Files, ...

<https://transhackfeminist.noblogs.org/community-agreement/>


<https://lereset.org/charte.html>




* Peter Hermans (2017), [Managing Expectations](https://soundcloud.com/w139/managing-expectations-by-peter-hermans-excerpt-7) (soundfile)
* Asians4Blacklives, [We are not an organization but we are organized.](https://a4bl.wordpress.com/who-we-are/)
* [London Hackspace Code of Conduct](https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Code_of_Conduct)
* Bidston Observatory [Values & Accountability](http://www.bidstonobservatory.org/?accountability)
* erg.be [R.E.I.N.E.](http://erg.be/m/images/c/cd/Erg_lereine_version270318.pdf)
* [Linux Kernel Documentation Code of Conflict](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/code-of-conflict.html)
* [Default Community Health Files at Github](https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-default-community-health-file-for-your-organization)
* [LibrePlanet speakers ask FSF board about Safe Space Policy, get no real answer](
https://announce.asheesh.org/2018/12/libreplanet-speakers-ask-fsf-board-about-safe-space-policy-get-no-real-answer/)
* Femke Snelting, [Codes of Conduct for Free, Libre and Open Source communities](http://snelting.domainepublic.net/wp-content/uploads/SNELTING-CodesofConduct0505.pdf) (2017)
* Caroline Sinders, [Machine Learning Harassment](https://xyz.informationactivism.org/en/machine-learning-harassment)
* [CONSTRUYAMOS UN TANGO SIN MACHISMO](https://www.sentirsebella.cl/movimiento-feminista-de-tango/) (El Movimiento Feminista de Tango) + [Protocolo de Actuación](http://constantvzw.org/documents/collectiveconditions/1-PROTOCOLO%20_%20Violencias%20en%20las%20Milongas.pdf)
* [A charter for advanced practices](https://advancedpractices.net/charter) (2019)

## Support structures


* [Des dynamiques inhérentes aux mouvements decontestation](https://zad.nadir.org/IMG/pdf/dynamiques.pdf)
* Marcia B, [The Field Guide to Consent](https://www.askingforwhatyouwant.com/consent-class-download/)
* Indigenous Action (2019) [Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex](http://www.indigenousaction.org/wp-content/uploads/Accomplices-Not-Allies-print.pdf)
* Shannon Mattern (2018), [Maintenance and Care](https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/?cn-reloaded=1)
* Celine Condorelli, [Support Structures](http://www.celinecondorelli.eu/texts/book/) 'a manual for what bears, sustains, props, and holds up. It is a manual for those things that encourage, give comfort, approval, and solace; that care for and provide consolation and the necessities of life. It is a manual for that which assists, corroborates, advocates, articulates, substantiates, champions, and endorses; for what stands behind, underpins, frames, presents, maintains, and strengthens.'
* [Guide to Allyship](https://github.com/almnt/guide-to-allyship)
* [Allyship Guide fanzine](http://www.peernetbc.com/wordpress2017/wp-content/uploads/allyship101_printer-friendly.pdf)
* [The Common Wallet Project](https://vimeo.com/295537042)

![Julie Kern Donck, [Core Values
https://www.juliekerndonck.com/selected-works/core-values
 (2020)](https://www.juliekerndonck.com/media/pages/selected-works/core-values/3228142773-1599060498/art-au-centre-core-values-julie-kern-donck-damba-miaoumiau.jpg)

## Collaboration


* Eve L. Ewing (2019), [Mariame Kaba: Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People](https://adimagazine.com/articles/mariame-kaba-everything-worthwhile-is-done-with-other-people/)
* Primer / Diakron, [Hybrid Organisations](https://diakron.dk/Projects/Primer):  A project on how to work across engineering and artistic collective.
* [Scores for co-writing](http://mindthedance.com/#foreword)
* Alex Martinis Roe, [To Become Two](https://alexmartinisroe.com/To-Become-Two)
* Annie Abrahams + Pascale Barret + Alix Desaubliaux, [Constallations](https://constallations.hotglue.me/)
* Simon Yuill, [All problems of notation will be solved by the masses](http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/all-problems-notation-will-be-solved-masses)
* [Constant orientations for collaboration](http://media.constantvzw.org/wefts/123/)
* [PAF basics](http://www.pa-f.net/basics)
* Thomas Vailly, [Collaborative Context](http://vailly.com/projects/collaborative-context/)
* OSP [collaboration agreement](http://osp.kitchen/tools/collaboration-agreement/tree/master/collaboration-agreement.pdf)

### Scoring > new poetics > new politics

Re-iterations of common movements and positions

* [The DAOWO Open Score for Artworld Commoning](https://www.librarystack.org/daowo-resource-1/)
* [School Of Love (SOL) Protocol](https://www.schooloflove.info/protocol/)
* Manthia Diawara (2009), [Edouard Glissant: One world in relation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTNVe_BAELY)
* [Key Signing party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party)
* [Practices of Attention / Practices of Notation / Practices of Conversation / Practices of Wit(h)nessing](http://www.choreo-graphic-figures.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Choreo-graphic-Figures_publication_extract.pdf)
* Lilia Mestre: [Writing Scores](https://apass.be/writing-scores-the-book/)

### Revisited Open Content Licenses

* [The Consumers Dilemma License](http://piracy.americanassembly.org/the-consumers-dilemma/)
* [Decolonial Free Media License 0.1](https://freeculture.org/About/license)
* [Non-white heterosexual male license](https://nonwhiteheterosexualmalelicense.org/)
* [Peer Production License](https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License)
* [Free Fermentation License](http://constantvzw.org/documents/authorsofthefuture/koji_spores.txt)
* [Climate Strike Software License](https://climatestrike.software/)

## Complaints, bugreports, open letters

* Daria Medic (2019) [Terms of Service Fantasy Reader](http://syntaxerrror.com/sites/default/files/terms-of-servie-fantasy-reader-radio-play.mp3)
* Andrew Ross, Sunaura Taylor (2017), [Disabled Workers and the Unattainable Promise of Information Technology](https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796017699812)
* [Open letter to the Free Software Foundation](https://ps.zoethical.org/t/open-letter-to-the-free-software-foundation/2845)
* Daniel Montáñez, Juan Vicente Iborra (2019) [Los comunes coloniales y la descolonización de la izquierda](https://www.elsaltodiario.com/1492/los-comunes-coloniales-y-la-descolonizacion-de-la-izquierda)
* Miriyam Aouragh (2018) [De beperkingen van Wit Privilege: Shortcuts in de antiracisme strijd](https://socialisme.nu/de-beperkingen-van-wit-privilege-shortcuts-in-de-antiracisme-strijd/)
* Collective Tech Action (2019): [Open Letters](https://collectiveactions.tech/?query=open_letter)
* Tunde Adefioye (2018) [Tienstappenplan voor de kunstensector](https://www.rektoverso.be/artikel/tienstappenplan-voor-de-kunstensector-)
* Jillian York, [More than words](https://xyz.informationactivism.org/en/more-than-words-complexities-platforms-responding-online-harassment): The complexities of platforms responding to online harassment (2018)
* [#wetoo: waar dansers over spreken wanneer ze spreken over seksisme](https://www.rektoverso.be/artikel/wetoo-waar-dansers-over-spreken-wanneer-ze-spreken-over-seksisme-) (2017)
* Natasha Berting, [INSTANT WARNET](https://hub.xpub.nl/warnet/index.php/The_Game), a live-action role-playing game which pokes and prods at networks of harassment on social media
* [Queering Damage](https://queeringdamage.hangar.org/)
* [100 letters to British Airways](http://www.lgsmigrants.com/100-letters)
* [How female sounding voice assistants respond to harassment](https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613569/female-voice-assistants-fuel-damaging-gender-stereotypes-says-un-study/) (2019)
* Sarah Ahmed, [What does it mean, and what does it cost, to make a complaint?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j_BwPJoPTE) (2018)
* [An Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion / Una carta abierta a Extinction Rebellion](https://www.redpepper.org.uk/an-open-letter-to-extinction-rebellion/)
* Constant: [Dear Cultural Institution, there is an elephant in the room](https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/elephant) (2018)
* [<del>Diversiteit, diversifiëren, wereldmuziek, superdiversiteit, hyperdiversiteit, interculturaliseren, diverse etnisch-culturele groepen, gekleurde armoede, divers, roots, niet van hier, emotioneel verhaal, moeilijke jeugd, geradicaliseerd, geïntegreerd, geassimileerd, exotisch, orientaals, ...</del>](
https://demos.be/sites/default/files/181016_-_macht_herverdelen_-_interactieve_brochure_citylab.pdf) (2016)

## Gaming Conduct

* Fox D. Harrel, [Grayscale](
https://www.csail.mit.edu/research/provoking-critical-reflection-gender-discrimination-chimeria-grayscale) (2019) "_As a step toward this aim as it relates to sexism, we present our interactive narrative called Grayscale. The experience is intended to provoke players to reflect critically on sexism in the workplace, both overt & hostile and more subtle._ " [Play Grayscale](https://groups.csail.mit.edu/icelab/chimeria-grayscale/v5/)


## Other materials for a reader/listener/viewer

* The Social Contract / thinking about animals, interview with Martha Nussbaum (2008), [part 1](https://abcmedia.akamaized.net/rn/podcast/2008/11/pze_20081122.mp3) + [transcript](https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/martha-nussbaum---part-1---the-social-contract/3174420#transcript), [part 2](https://abcmedia.akamaized.net/rn/podcast/2008/11/pze_20081129.mp3) + [transcript](https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/martha-nussbaum---part-2---thinking-about-animals/3166892#transcript)
* Sanaura Taylor and Judith Butler taking a stroll in [Examined life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0HZaPkF6qE) (2010, video)
* Lucía Egaña Rojas, Jara Rocha (2019) [Triunfar en vano, no. De connivencia [1] Km 0 y estraperlo simbólico](https://a-desk.org/magazine/triunfar-en-vano-no-de-connivencia-km-0-y-estraperlo-simbolico/) (EN: [Thriving in Vain, No. On Zero Mile Connivance [1] and Symbolic Smuggling](https://a-desk.org/magazine/triunfar-en-vano-no-de-connivencia-km-0-y-estraperlo-simbolico/))
* Paul Gilroy, The Negative Dialectics of Conviviality. In: Postcolonial Melancholia, 2005
* Sarah Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press, 2012
* Sarah Ahmed, Women of color as diversity workers https://feministkilljoys.com/2015/11/26/women-of-colour-as-diversity-workers/
* Sara Ahmed (, [An affinity of hammers]
* Jo Freeman (1970), [The Tyranny of Structurelessness](http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm)
* Roel Roscam Abbing (2019), [The Fediverse @ Networks with an attitude](https://video.constantvzw.org/Networks_with_an_Attitude/11.04.2019_roel_roscam_abbing_federation.mp4) (video)
* Lauren Berlant (2016), [The commons: Infrastructure for troubling times](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263775816645989?journalCode=epda)
* [Rough Consensus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_consensus)
* Aymeric Mansoux (2017), [Sandbox Culture: A Study of the Application of Free and Open Source Software Licensing Ideas to Art and Cultural Production](https://www.bleu255.com/~aymeric/dump/aymeric_mansoux-sandbox_culture_phd_thesis-2017.pdf)  (thesis)
* Marie Bardet (2017), [Making a front with our backs](https://wp.nyu.edu/esferas/making-a-front-with-our-backs-marie-bardet-translator-ellen-heaghney/)
* Jane Bennet (2010), _Political Ecologies_ (p94-109). In: Vibrant Matter
* ELLA, [Handleiding Kruispuntdenken](http://www.ellavzw.be/sites/default/files/Handleiding%20Intersectionaliteit%20ELLA%20VZW.pdf)

Sarah Ahmed on the [gap between statements of commitment and institutional practice](https://feministkilljoys.com/2015/11/26/women-of-colour-as-diversity-workers/):   
_"This 'not translation' is something we experience: it is a gap between symbolic commitment and lived reality. Commitments might even be made because they do not bring something about. I have used the term 'non-performativity' to describe this: how a commitment can be made to something as a way of not bringing something about"_

## Genealogy

* [Iterations](https://iterations.space/): investigating the future of artistic digital collective work
* [Relearn 2019](http://relearn.be/2019/) edition Rotterdam (June 2019) and Paris (September 2019)
* [Protocols for transmission](http://vj13.constantvzw.org/) (2011)
* [The language of sharing](http://archive.constantvzw.org/events/vj9/) (2005)