Laboratório dos Comuns para a Empregabilidade

: projecto de intervenção

Abstract

The project now presented and denominated “The Laboratory of Commons for Employability”, has for goal the development of an intervention process in vulnerable communities aiming to create sustainable human development possibilities for employability, in a collaborative and common sharing socioeconomic system. Work has forever been present in societies. It evolves with the evolution of man, acting simultaneously as a catalyst for that same evolution process. Man sees work as an integration feature in society to which he belongs and there builds part of his identity. Just as in the Industrial Revolution era, we are nowadays experiencing troublesome moments in the working market. Formerly machines withdrew employment from man; currently it’s the untamed technological development that keeps a significant number of employable men and women out of work. A new socioeconomic system is emerging and it’s within it, with it and for it that the “The Laboratory of Commons for Employability” wants to build its social intervention. We are referring to the Common Collaborative and Sharing Economy. Several signs, as well as actual practical cases, help us understand the shaping of this new system. Communication technologies are vital to be part of it, as well as the ability to work for a whole (individual, collective and ecological dimension). More than competition, we’ll be living in a cooperative system, with all the transformation it implies. We analyse the shaping of the system. Sketch, although shyly and prudently as common sense advises, the careers and doings of this new system. We shall analyse the social technologies existing today which are, primordially, social inclusion tools: human participation and relationship tools. Meaning, they are assets to help us transform conscience, where compassion and the sense of common good, the respect for natural resources, the respect for our fellow human beings, sharing and giving are the corner stones. “The Laboratory of Commons for Employability” is, as such, an integrative project in the sense it works employability beyond de development of technical skills. The process begins in the individual, the integrity of his system of principles and standards, in a greater awareness of himself as well as of others. The transformation lies in the transition of competition to cooperation, egocentrism to eco-centrism, consuming habits to simpler ways of life, ownership to common availability, purchase to trading and sharing, global to local, waste to reutilisation, monetary to non-monetary, materialist to non-materialist.

Date of Award	12 Oct 2016
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Maria Inês Martinho Antunes Amaro (Supervisor)