The Civic Economy

Joost Beunderman has published a ‘compendium for the civic economy’ in which he explains in detail how the ‘civic economy’ represents another approach to entrepreneurship rooted in value creation, resilience and social entrepreneurship. He is interested in projects which make use of new organisational tactics, new ways of connecting and new approaches toward collaborative investments. He is convinced that the ‘civic economy’ is a real, vital and growing component of many local economies, actively contributing to community resilience, everyday innovation and shared prosperity. He will describe a range of international projects with their potentials and challenges.

Joost Beunderman is one of the directors of the London-based design and strategy office 00:/ [zero zero]. In 2010 the office launched the Hub Westminster network, and is also the owner of the very first Hub established in 2004 in Islington (London). Joost graduated as an Urban Geographer at Utrecht University, and completed a MSc degree in City Design & Social Science at the London School of Economics. From 2005 to 2008 he was a researcher at the British policy think tank Demos, and also worked with the Urhahn Urban Design agency in Amsterdam and London. www.architecture00.net