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Published as a result of a contributions to a number of international seminars and workshop, this paper gives an overview of conviviality as a critique in response to current issues, a horizon for the future and conclusions for policy and... more

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- Theology, Diversity, Community Development, Dialogue

This chapter argues that incorporating children’s radical subjectivities and perspectives is necessary to re-imagine and enact justice and the good life in ways heretofore unseen. I first demonstrate how race/child/learning/human are entangled in a tragic knot that constructs the individualized hierarchical subject that severs humans from their relations with other humans and more-than-human others. I then review current theorizations that redefine any of these conceptions, exploring how they disrupt this assemblage by implicitly redefining other terms within this knot. The conceptual resources include Black studies, childhood studies, Indigenous Studies, postmodern curriculum studies, anthropology of sociality, and posthumanism. Integrating these insights entails an epistemic break that centers learning as a continual process of being and becoming convivial with children to allow liberatory figurations of being human to flourish

- by Maria Kromidas
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- Anthropology, Posthumanism, Learning and Teaching, Early Childhood Education
- by Britta Acksel and +3
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- Commons, Social transformation, Conviviality, Iván Ilich

Tout à la fois historien et critique social, polyglotte et professeur itinérant, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) connut un grand succès dans les années 1970, à travers sa critique de la société industrielle et de l’idéologie du développement.
Avec ses ouvrages (Une société sans école, La Convivialité, Le Chômage créateur, Du lisible au visible, La Perte des sens,…), il aura contribué à de puissantes réflexions et propositions sur « l’après-développement », dont les thèmes reviennent en force à présent avec les menaces qui pèsent sur la planète, le modèle économique en berne d’une croissance exponentielle et l’augmentation mondiale des inégalités.
Avec les contributions d’Olivier Assouly, Humberto Beck, Renaud Garcia, Martin Fortier, Thierry Paquot, Simon Ravenscroft, Jean Robert et Étienne Verne, tous fins connaisseurs de l’œuvre d’Ivan Illich, dont certains ont été son ami.

This Working Paper discusses entangled migrations as territorially and temporally entangled onto-epistemological phenomena. As a theoretical-analytical framework, it addresses the material, epistemological and ethical premises of spatial-temporal entanglements and relationality in the understanding of migration as a modern colonial phenomenon. Entangled migrations acknowledges that local migratory movements mirror global migrations in complex ways, engaging with the analysis of historical connections, territorial entrenchments, cultural confluences, and overlapping antagonistic relations across nations and continents. Drawing on European immigration to the American continent and specifically to Brazil in the 19th century, this argument is tentatively developed by discussing two opposite moments of entangled migrations, the
coloniality of migration and creolizing conviviality. To do this, the paper engages first with the theoretical framework of spatial-temporal entanglements. Second, it approaches the coloniality of migration. Finally, it briefly discusses creolizing conviviality.

- by Chahbar Abdelaziz
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- Religion, Jewish Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Jewish History
- by Galina Kabakova
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- Russian Studies, Hospitality Studies, Anthropology of Food, Food and Nutrition

The four stories in this book describe local Lutheran churches in Europe that have been working to become 'diaconal churches' which practice 'seeking conviviality'

- by Tony Addy and +3
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- Conviviality, Congregation, Diaconia

The paper focuses on the study of Late Antique stibadia and dining room found in Egypt with particular attention to the site of Amheida, ancient Trimithis, in the western part of Dakhla oasis. The analysis of the various types of architecture and contexts aims at a classification of semicircular couches according to their structural features and their function, private and public. The exam of their layouts and the comparison with the structures found in the Mediterranean area, highlight the connections with specific architectural models, in use since the 3rd century A.D., but also regional variations and their diachronic evolution. The connection between household, sacred and funerary building and convivial spaces emphasizes their role in the Late Antiquity urban landscape.

- by Stefania Alfarano
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- Late Antique Archaeology, Roman Egypt, Conviviality, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt

Social institutions such as the water-powered grain mills of Ottoman Cyprus are elaborately interconnected with a wide range of human and non-human players, from millers and villagers to water, gradient, stone and climate. When participants recognize their mutual dependencies and operate according to social and environmental limits, then following Ivan Illich we can call these watermills convivial tools. The European-owned sugar plantations, mills and refineries of medieval Cyprus, by contrast, divided and alienated their workforce, and their demands for water, labour, soil and fuel surpassed what their landscape and society could provide. They are, then, unconvivial tools. Conviviality is always precarious: it needs continual negotiation, conflict and compromise, as well as an acceptance of the mutual dependence of all participants, non-human and human. This politics of conviviality is particularly urgent in times of social and ecological crisis.

- by Michael Given
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- Medieval Archaeology, Cyprus, Conviviality, Water mills

Purpose: How can people be involved within their geographic location in the new ideas and activities in emerging the circular fashion industry? This paper is written by a systems designer (author1) who worked alongside two textile design researchers. The systems designer found ways to explore, articulate and visualise the range of possibilities for future stakeholders in circular fashion contexts through a framework of practices, places and projects (PPP). Design and methods: Author1 became immersed in the Circular Design Speeds project via an opportunity to relocate to Centre for Circular Design, University of the Arts London. A systemic design approach based on a cross-observation of various practices, places and projects, and the use of visual artefacts, enabled the creation of a rich picture of the convivial complexity within circular design concepts. Author1 used the PPP framework to adapt tools and propose four strategic approaches to support designers in the creation of new c...

- by Rebecca Earley
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- Sociology, Fashion design, Design Tools, Conviviality

Brexit shocked — or should have — anyone complacently thinking that the UK was a paragon of multi-racial, cosmopolitan, or globalised harmony. It announced a starkly quantified state-of-the-nation, which revealed unresolved divisions on class, race and migrant diversity, and threatened to rewind everything back to rivers thought to have been crossed in the 1960s or 70s. The UK found itself plunged into a nasty referendum that pulled a fragmented country out of Europe, and left all kinds of minority and foreign-origin residents — whether of colour or not — wondering if they were still living in a place called home. University of Sussex geographer Ben Rogaly is certainly a scholar who saw what was coming. The fruit of a nearly ten year ethnographic study of disadvantaged and marginalised populations in the provincial city of Peterborough, Stories from a Migrant City addresses the fallout of recent British politics by looking for hope. Its fundamental aim is to dislodge the academic reflex that invariably only goes looking for this in big core cities — such as London — in the shape of “everyday” or “convivial” multiculture.

- by Adrian Favell
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- British Politics, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Conviviality

Since the early 1990s, the study of food and cities has become a much more central concern in a range of academic disciplines. Increasingly, there is research interest in the gastronomic possibilities of urban space (Zukin 1995, 1998) focusing on how food can offer positive support for making cities sustainable by nurturing convivial food spaces and practices.
A significant area for investigation is the double-sided nature of ‘food quarters’ and the questions these raise for planning research that delves into their real character. While the emergence of new kinds of food spaces and practices may underpin positive sustainability, food-centred regeneration may also lead to either the increasing commodification of space based on food and design improvements, or to gentrification, where food is part of the place marketing strategy. These discrepancies between convivial intentions and its paradoxical effects have become subjects of heated debate among planners and policymakers. For example, how is it that food quarters have operated simultaneously as zones of gentrification that may have excluded some, yet equally appeared to defy dominant spatial trends that are producing food related sprawl and ‘obesegenic’ environments (Lake and Townshend 2006)? How is it that they have developed in a more convivial, gastronomically rich and sustainable way than some other areas? Can the benefits they offer involve people of all classes or are they for gentrification’s winners?
Against the backdrop of these questions and debates, Market Place: Food Quarters, Design and Urban Renewal in London critically examines the renewal of three food-centred spaces in formerly rundown areas of London – Borough, Broadway and Exmouth Markets – and questions why food quarters have emerged in each place, becoming paradoxically the loci for food-led gentrification. In exploring these quarters, the book has also reflected and drawn theoretically upon an increasing interest in food, the body and everyday life within sociology (Amin and Thrift 2002, 2004; Beardsworth and Keil 1997; Lupton 1996; Zukin 1995).

- by Lidia K.C. Manzo
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- Design, Spatial Practices, Hospitality Studies, Hybridity

Guest Editors, Jeremy Hunsinger and Gustavo Esteva, join co-editors Dana L. Stuchul and Madhu Suri Prakash to present this special issue titled, Conviviality for the Day After “Normal.” The end of an era of “normal”—given a confluence of... more

- by Franco Augusto
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- Ivan Illich, Conviviality, Coronavirus COVID-19

Virality has lent itself to popular culture over the course of the 21st century with the continuous rise of digital and visual culture (Rushkoff, 1996). This dissertation mainly aims to investigate the concept of virality in relation to journalism in the context of news outlets in Malta by analysing the content they post on social media. The study will be reinforced by theories centred about virality, social networking sites and journalism. This dissertation focuses on a relatively new area of study centred about the intersection of virality and journalistic practices and considers virality as a potential factor in the emerging and changing practices of journalism in Malta.

- by George Grima
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- Journalism, Cybercultures, Conviviality, Virality

In widely publicized experimental research, a team of psychologists found that white children believed that Black children felt less pain than white children. 1 The study extended the findings of previous research wherein both Black and white health care professionals exhibited this belief. The research was designed to find the point in development when children acquire this bias, and found it absent among five-year-olds, emerging at age seven, and " strong and reliable " by age ten. Framed differently, this study illustrates that by ten years of age, some white children fully inhabit our racial common sense, its core structure and logic. They have learned that they and all others belong to a hierarchy of human types, wherein some are less than human and others are more fully human. This highlights that our humanity is always at stake when race is the question. The indisputable fact that there are no natural types of human beings, 2 but at some point we just " see " these types as such, should inspire an awe-inspiring wonder that the question properly deserves: how does this happen? How does one learn to chop up humanity into different types, to consider oneself a type of human and encounter another as a different type that is more or less human? Can these processes possibly be smooth and unproblematic? Is race easy to learn? This book addresses these questions and joins a group of scholars who insist they can be answered only by grounding them among particular children situated in specific places and times, amid the multiple, overlapping contexts, processes , and practices of their everyday lives. 3 Instead of presenting racial learning as something that just happens in development, these anthropologists, sociologists , and geographers document how children struggle to make sense of the constantly shifting terrain of race, racial categories, and racial meanings " over time, through multiple interactions with those who are the same and those who are different " as well as " in relation to the social divisions, real inequities,

Commensality, the act of eating together, is an important human ritual that benefits beyond the biological need for food and it is well established amongst food studies scholars. At the same time, novel forms of social eating are emerging in urban contexts, especially mediated by new technologies. Yet, ICT-mediated urban food sharing and the moments of commensality they generate have received limited attention to date. In response, this paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork with three urban food sharing initiatives in London - a city which exhibits an active and dynamic urban food sharing ecosystem, to explore the experiences of commensality that are produced. By employing qualitative methods of enquiry, I illustrate how these initiatives go beyond the food offered by engaging with the material and affective elements of cooking and eating together and how they attempt to nurture collective spaces of encounter. Social isolation and loneliness emerge within this research as central drivers for participating in food sharing initiatives. The paper concludes that these collective spaces and the affective qualities that they generate are particularly vital in urban contexts in times of austerity, as these initiatives have capacity to embrace social differences and to facilitate the circulation of ideas and practices of care and hospitality. They operate as provisional bridging mechanisms between people, communities, projects and services, providing the connective tissue in ways which are hard to measure through simple quantitative measures and, as a result, are rarely articulated.

- by Brigida Marovelli
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- Human Geography, Urban Geography, Ethnography, Space and Place
- by Richard Kahn
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- New Media, Educational Technology, Democratic Education, Critical Pedagogy
- by Marek Wecowski
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- Greek Archaeology, Archaic Greek history, Ancient Greek History, Conviviality

The notions of conviviality, everyday multiculturalism, ordinary cosmopolitanism focus on how people live together in contexts of cultural diversity. However, discussion has been to a large degree limited to the context of the postcolonial Global North metropolis. Taking it further afield helps reveal a number of conceptual flaws. To resolve them the debate should move from looking at techniques for living together to the politics of living together.
This paper brings post-communist Eastern Europe into the debate through the case study of a street market in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is argued that the everyday encounter of different social strata in an urban space gives rise to similar tensions as the mixing of cultures and ethnicities. The notion of social multiculture is therefore introduced along the lines of Paul Gilroy’s “everyday multiculture”. Importantly, in the East European context deeply ingrained norms of civility do not protect from outspoken expressions of racism, nor is cultural or social mixing much celebrated. It is such social contexts that permit a study of how inter-ethnic and inter-class diversity are truly negotiated from below.

- by Nikola Venkov
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- Multiculturalism, Cosmopolitanism, Everyday Racism, Central and Eastern Europe
- by Rob Fletcher
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- Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Conviviality

Schooling is a form of misopedy and a fundamental structure in conditioning societal acceptance of domination in other registers. The subordination of children begins with the misguided notion that they are incapable of autonomy, reinforcing a dichotomous understanding of adult/child or teacher/student. Schooling should not be confused with education. The former represents the interests of oppression, molding societal consciousness to accept the conditions of subjugation. In contrast, education in its idealized form is a process of self-discovery, an awakening to one’s potential, and a desire to see such abilities realized. To ensure the absence of coercion in education children need to explore for themselves, making their own decisions about what their interests are, and how those curiosities might be fulfilled. Presenting a broad range of opportunities is crucial, but the decision about what path to follow should be determined by the child. When bound to a classroom we often mistake obedience for education. Yet learning, as geographers recognize, best occurs 'through the soles of our feet' and when children explore the world through unschooling, they live into their creative potential, opening an aperture on alternative ontologies. Unschooling is, in short, one of the most powerful forms of anarchism we can engage.

- by Simon Springer
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- Critical Theory, Sociology, Geography, Human Geography

El objetivo general de esta tesis ha sido analizar las relaciones entre la diversidad cultural y los conflictos sociales y considerar por qué se dice que algunos conflictos sociales son intrínsecamente culturales. He propuesto abordar esto a través de lo que llamo un “estudio de caso extendido multi-escalar” de la construcción social de un problema y sus soluciones. Una aproximación innovativa que esclarecen los múltiples procesos locales y globales intrínsecos al fenómeno, cuyo punto de partida ha sido una etnografía urbana de una ciudad en el norte de Cataluña. He analizado la transformación simultáneamente local y global de las migraciones y de las sociedades, conectando a los procesos locales de producción de espacio y la creación de lugar con los procesos de migración, crisis económica y transformación social, para finalmente analizar las respuestas de las asociaciones, ONGs y grupos sociales a estos cambios. Los conflictos sociales son aquí concebidos como una herramienta analítica favorable que permite un entendimiento más profundo de la compleja transformación social que la migración, como fenómeno, es parte de, pero también afectado por, a la vez que lo impulsa y articula culturalmente. Me he enfocado particularmente en la interacción entre movilidad y asentamiento, a través de un lente geográfico-histórico, y en los procesos socio-culturales a diferentes escalas de las cuales forman parte y en las cuales juegan un rol importante. Así como el modo en el cual tienen un impacto local y global a través de los vectores de producción y reproducción.

- by Martin Lundsteen
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- Political Economy, Multiculturalism, Urban Anthropology, Cultural Politics
- by Agnese Cretella
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- Tourism Studies, Food and Nutrition, Sustainable Tourism, Social Practice

An ethnographically revised linguistic landscape study can be used as a sensitive methodological tool for detecting the complexities of urban space in superdiverse areas. The data used in this book are from an inner-city neighborhood in Antwerp (Belgium), which has become superdiverse over the past decade and a half. Rather than analyzing the contemporary patterns in terms of synchronically juxtaposed 'pluralities' of scripts as indexes of cultural 'belonging', this new methodology enables us to historicize individual signs and complexes of signs, so that they begin to inform us of the multiple histories that coincide in superdiverse space. Multiplicity is thus replaced by complexity: nonlinear, multifiliar and stochastic patterns of presence, entitlement and power in social space.

- by Jan Blommaert
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- Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, Cultural Studies

"Humanity needs a global reset because the unjust, pre-pandemic world is not worth going back to. Return to normal would also mean a return to old social structures inspired by self-sufficiency, nationalism, protectionism, isolation, individualism, and excluding our poorest brothers and sisters. Is this a future we can choose?" 1 - P. Francesco

In "A ‘Splendid Idiosyncrasy’: Prehistory at Cambridge 1915-50" Pamela Jane Smith charts the development of prehistoric archaeology from an amateur ‘haphazard’ pastime to a fully ledged academic discipline. Smith argues persuasively that the formalization of prehistory as a university subject emerged
out of the daily round of informal exchanges centred around the tearoom of the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The convivial atmosphere engendered by the exchange of tea and cakes established a close relationship of trust amongst the participants which necessarily prepared the way for academic exchanges. Reflecting the centrality of food and drink in Smith’s analysis of the birth of prehistory, the Editors broke with the recent tradition of book reviews in these 'Proceedings' to talk to Pamela Jane Smith over a convivial lunch at Wolfson College, Cambridge. What follows is an annotated transcript of our conversation, which critically reviews her recent study.

- by David Barrowclough
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- History, Cultural History, Sociology, Archaeology

In The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet, Wecowski offers a comprehensive account of the origins of the symposion and its close relationship with the rise of the Greek city-state or polis. Broadly defined as a culture-oriented aristocratic banquet, the symposion—which literally means 'drinking together'—was a nocturnal wine party held by Greek aristocrats from Homer to Alexander the Great. Its distinctive feature was the crucial importance of diverse cultural competitions, including improvising convivial poetry, among the guests. Cultural skills and abilities were a prerequisite in order for one to be included in elite drinking circles, and, as such, the symposion served as a forum for the natural selection of Greek aristocracy.

- by Marek Wecowski
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- Archaic Poetry, Greek Lyric Poetry, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek Religion
- by Adele Cozzi
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- Political Science, Ivan Illich, Filosofía Política, Conviviality

Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a post-industrial convivial society of ‘autonomous individuals and primary groups’ (Illich 1973), which resembles present-day manifestations of ‘convivialism’. Paul Gilroy refashioned conviviality as a substitute for cosmopolitanism, denoting an ability to be ‘at ease’ in contexts of diversity (Gilroy 2004). Rather than replacing one concept with the other, the fourteen contributors to this book seek to explore the interconnections – commonalities and differences – between them, suggesting that creolisation is a necessary complement to the already-intertwined concepts of conviviality and cosmopolitanism. Although this volume takes northern Europe as its focus, the contributors take care to put each situation in historical and global contexts in the interests of moving beyond the binary thinking that prevails in terms of methodologies, analytical concepts, and political implementations.

- by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and +1
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- Anthropology, Cosmopolitanism, Creolization, Conviviality

This chapter examines the social and collective dimensions of urban gardening. Through a review of recent literature and cases around the world, it examines urban community gardens in terms of their multiple modalities, specifically as a convivial space, a cultural space, an inclusive space, a restorative space, a democratic space, and a resilient space. As convivial spaces, urban gardens build and nurture agency of individuals as well as social ties in a community. As inclusive, cultural spaces, urban gardens can function as a place for cross-cultural learning and understanding and building of connections across social and cultural divides. As restorative space, urban gardens contribute to individual and community health and well-being. As democratic spaces, urban gardens serve as a vehicle to engage individuals and communities in efforts toward other social and environmental initiatives. As resilient space, urban gardens function as social safety nets and provide for the community in time of calamity and struggles. Through these different expressions and opportunities for active engagement by communities and citizens, the chapter argues that urban gardening can serve as a model for other urban greening strategies to incorporate considerations for multiple social, cultural, and economic goals.

- by Jeffrey Hou
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- Social Production of Space, Urban Agriculture, Conviviality, Community gardens
- by Carolina Ramirez
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- Ethnic Studies, Ethnography, Space and Place, Migration
- by Marek Wecowski
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- Archaic Poetry, Greek Lyric Poetry, Archaic Greek history, Ancient Greek History
- by Mariana Egri and +1
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- Celts (Archaeology), Conviviality, Carpathian Basin, Late Iron Age

A study about kyosei (conviviality) discourses in Japan today.

This paper concentrates on a new understanding of multicultural societies which emerge from routine interaction between the recent arrivals and established individuals. These new emerging patterns of interaction are a result of what Gilroy (2004) calls conviviality. While the literature on conviviality tends to focus on non-white ethnic minorities, this study fills the gap in research by concentrating on convivial experience of recent migrants coming from a predominantly white society to super-diverse cities, who become significant actors of the transformation of the daily life in these cities. This research empirically explores how conviviality emerges in encounters between Polish migrant women and the local population in Manchester and Barcelona, in the context of post-2004 migration. This paper draws on the combination of methods, including participant observation, focus groups and narrative interviews conducted with Polish migrant women in Manchester and Barcelona. It stresses the importance of a person-centred approach through a use of cases. The empirically explored encounters are situated at particular times in real, lived environments where individuals interact with one another in a myriad of quotidian situations in various spaces of the neighbourhoods and in the workplaces. These encounters illustrate different forms of conviviality not necessarily free from tensions and classed, racialised, and gendered perceptions of the Other.

- by Alina Rzepnikowska
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- Gender Studies, Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Gender

Recent research projects have looked for social innovations, i.e., people creating solutions outside the mainstream patterns of production and consumption. An analysis of these innovations indicates the emergence of a particular kind of service configuration—defined here as relational services—which requires intensive interpersonal relations to operate. Based on a comparative analysis between standard and relational services, we propose to the Service Design discipline an interpretative framework able to reinforce its ability to deal with the interpersonal relational qualities in services, indicating how these qualities can be understood and favored by design activities, as well as the limits of this design intervention. Martin Buber’s conceptual framework is presented as the main interpretative basis. Buber describes two ways of interacting (“I-Thou” and “I-It”). Relational services are those most favoring “I-Thou” interpersonal encounters.

- by Marek Wecowski
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- Homer, Greek Epic, Archaic Greek history, Ancient Greek History

This edited book includes four stories of Lutheran churches in Europe, which are implementing the concept and practice of Seeking Conviviality with the perspective of Radical Welcome. There is an introduction, reflection and a chapter... more

- by Tony Addy and +1
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- Slavery, Cultural Diversity, Conviviality, LGBTQ Rights
- by Zane Goebel
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- Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, History, Sociology