6th Inclusion Symposium

Ricardo Antón Troyas

REAS Euskadi / Colaborabora, S.Coop

A native of Bilbao through thick and thin, since 1974. Explorer, ignorant teacher, dis-artist, designer in transition, late father. Perhaps because he is practically blind, his main powers have to do with providing a critical view, synthetic vision and systemic focus. In his everyday work, he strives to foster collaborative DNA, shifting between strategic consulting, designing innovation processes, fooling people, composting knowledge and hacking convention.

He inhabits ColaBoraBora, a community initiative cooperative that works to redefine WHATs by changing the HOWs. Wikitoki, in the San Francisco neighbourhood, offers strategic design and process facilitation services aimed at exploring, nurturing and laying foundations for opportunities connected with alternative ways of relating, organising and producing together. They try to situate themselves in the middle of everything and at the centre of nothing, working in inter-related areas like the ecosocial transition, community development, innovation ecosystems, forms of public-community partnership, the social and voluntary economy or health and care seen in an intersectional way.

When he gets up in the morning, he repeats like a mantra, LESS-THINGS-MORE-CARE-LESS-THINGS-MORE-CARE-LESS THINGS. For the moment he's really only fooling himself, but... He's working on it!