How an Individualized PhD provided me with the resources to imagine a future where all humans could live decently, and rally people across territories to generate $2 million collective value
Creators: name: Balli, Fabio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: interdisciplinary research
open scientific knowledge
transforming the university
commoning
mutualising resources
open educational resources
transdisciplinary education
cohabitation of knowledge systems
UNESCO recommandation on open science
multidisciplinarity
emancipatory pedagogy / andragogy
scientific prejudices
academic biases
collective governance
Canada

description: "Ever since I was young, I have been searching for a way to make a meaningful contribution to the community while being fully myself. Called to different interests than my peers, I began to explore the mysteries of group dynamics. Many cycles of study and practice led me to an awareness: suffering, misery (physical and spiritual), violence, are often generated by stories we learn as children, and pass on through generations.

I became convinced that, if we dared to listen – literally and symbolically – to our hearts, to the heart of the Other, we could, within months, ensure that all people could live in dignity and harmony. We would commit ourselves to a path that celebrates our Humanity, connects us to Nature within and beyond, and nourishes our Souls." [1]

These few lines are the story of a personal journey.

A journey inspired by pioneers of Commoning [2, 3] and nourished by walking alongside my soul sister.

A journey made possible by the unwavering support of my parents, and four professors, who embraced the madness of their student.

A journey of love and hate relationship with an institution that summoned me to its academic tribunal and simultaneously awarded me the title of "Engaged Scholar".

A journey in which learning, research questions and methodologies served as tools to transcend them, and emancipate from the flaws rooted in academic discipline, in any scientific research. [4]

A journey that unfolded thanks to a programme that values autonomy, [5] antidisciplinarity, [6] and multirationality [7].

What if such a programme became the standard for doctoral studies?

What if students started to build congruent projects that benefit the whole community?

If just ten doctoral students joined forces to build a commons, they would have created a collective value of $1.2 million by the end of their studies... [8]

 





Balli F. HEALING COMMUNITIES. What if we collectively had the capacity to overcome any crisis in a matter of days? A method for teams of teams to: listen to each other, agree on priorities, put in commons resources, create few but essential and freely adaptable solutions. Thesis submitted. To be released at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5007168




Lauger M. Emerging Change: a new Transactional Analysis frame for effective dialogue at work. Transactional Analysis Journal 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/03621537.2020.1726660




Frangos M, Pearce HM, Brastaviceanu T, Mahmoud AA, Khalid A. Democratising design in scientific innovation: Application of an open value network to open source hardware design. Cumulus Working Papers 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3331281 




Capra F, Mattei. The Ecology of Law: Toward a legal system in tune with Nature and Community. Berrett-Koehler 2015. https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/the-ecology-of-law 




Berne E. What do you say after you say hello?: The psychology of human destiny. Grove Press 1972. https://ericberne.com/what-do-you-say-after-you-say-hello/ 




Ito J. The Antidisciplinary Approach. Research-Technology Management 2017. https://doi.org/10.1080/08956308.2017.1373047 




Gelinas A. Evaluation et multirationalité. Des pratiques évaluatives 1984 https://cap.banq.qc.ca/notice?id=p%3A%3Ausmarcdef_0000017356& locale=fr




10 people x 90 credits x 45 hours x $ 30 (minimal hourly rate for doctoral students) = $ 1,215,000



 

Thesis as PDF (95 Mo) – Abstract – Abstract in French – Visual synthesis – Defence presentation – LaTeX files – Zotero