How to share everything… with a map! Here’s what happened at the Map Jam in Sweden
About
News
Stories
Adopt and Support
Founders
Team
In Italiano
En Español
The Alpha Release
Have you ever Googled an address? Looked at a digital map ? Maybe you have even found a new restaurant with the help of your mobile phone? Ten years ago, this might have sounded like a fantasy. Today, you probably think that these questions look stupid…
Read on to learn about the experiences from the Swedish Map Jam, organised by DelaEko (Stockholm) and Kollaborativ Ekonomi Göteborg (Gothenburg), where sharing- and collaborative economy initiatives were mapped out in Sweden’s two biggest cities: Stockholm and Gothenburg.
What if, with a simple internet search, you could receive the address to the nearest tool library ? Or what if you could pull out your Smartphone from your pocket and find a map of your town’s communal gardens, where you could go to plant an avocado pit or pick an onion ? Now this is possible in over 80 cities in the world! For the second year in a row, between 13 and 26 October, places where we can share, exchange, give, receive, borrow and rent goods, services and spaces through the collaborative economy were mapped out in cities around the world, including Kenya, Norway, Indonesia and the United States. It was time for the global Map Jam initiated by Shareable!
Two of the cities involved were located in Sweden: Gothenburg and Stockholm. In Stockholm, DelaEko was in charge of the Map Jam. As the name suggests, the event was dedicated to “jamming” a map together, in other words: building the map collaboratively. The mapping was done spontaneously without overly inhibiting planning, and just like the music in a jazz-jam, the map in a Map Jam never gets completed. The idea is that the maps grow and evolves as new opportunities and projects pop up.
The idea behind a Map Jam, to co-create rather than alone put together a map, was successful also in practice. During DelaEko’s Map Jam, it was clear how the participants’ different experiences and perspectives contributed to the map. Someone was looking for premises for homework support sessions, someone else offered free dance lessons. A third ” jammer” googled Enthusiastically for staff cooperatives. The Map Jam was co-creating in practice.
The collaborative movement is largely about openness and transparency. Therefore, all maps are obviously open, meaning you can constantly add new points to them. In this way, we build up a commons, based on the collective knowledge of our local area. So far there are gift shops, libraries, “shared creativity ” (for example, jointly owned artist groups ), carpooling groups, cooperatives and joint cultivation communities on the Stockholm map.
What else would you like to see?
Here you find the Stockholm map . Here you find the Gothenburg map .
Original By Angelica Wågström , DelaEko
Translated by : Stina Heikkilä
Photo Credit: DelaEko
We are looking for your stories! Do you know a cool initiative in your locality that you think contributes to a collaborative society based on fairness, openness and trust? Please send it to: info@sharitories.net
Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *
Name *
Email *
Website
Comment
You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>
« Jul