도시적 삶이 주는 소외감과 불안감, 피로감이 커지면서 공동체적 관계의 복원과 확장을 통해 삶의 안정성과 지속성을 높일 수 있기를 기대하는 사람들이 늘어나고 있다. 최근 들어 ‘도시’와 ‘공동체’의 새로운 만남, 즉 ‘도시공동체’에 대한 관심이 크게 높아진 이유도 이 때문이다. 오늘날 도시공동체는 도시민들이 당면한 공동의 과제를 해결하고, 생활에 필요한 공공재를 공동생산하며, 도시지역 전체를 상호 의존적인 관계망으로 만들어가기 위한 역할을 새롭게 부여받고 있다. 이 점에서 생활의 구체적인 필요들을 조직해서 협동의 힘으로 자립 기반을 만들어가는 협동조합은 도시공동체운동과 관계가 밀접하다. 따라서 오늘날 협동조합의 모델 도시로 주목받고 있는 원주 지역의 사례를 구체적으로 살펴보는 것은 의미가 있다. 협동조합 지역사회를 향한 원주의 실천 사례들은 외부 지원에 의존하기보다 민간 영역의 자율적 노력으로 아래로부터 상호 협력 체계를 만들어온 특징을 보여주고 있다. 특히 주목할 점은 개별 민간 주체들이 가지는 역량의 한계를 ‘네트워크’를 통해 극복해오고 있다는 점이다. 즉, 원주 지역사회에 축적된 협동의 경험과 역량들을 현재의 활동으로 체계적으로 연결시키는 데 경계를 넘어선 네트워크가 중요한 역할을 하고 있다는 것이다. 원주의 협동사회경제 네트워크 조직들은 ‘사상‑사업‑활동’은 물론 ‘사람‑돈‑물품’을 유기적으로 연결시켜왔으며, 나아가 지역사회 전체를 협동사회경제의 ‘블록’, ‘생태계’, ‘그물망’으로 만들기 위한 전망들을 세워 ‘협동조합이 이끌어가는 지역공동체 만들기‘를 단계별로 실천해오고 있다. 협동조합 지역사회를 향한 원주 모델이 가진 이러한 경험과 특성들은 우리 사회에 자율과 자립, 자치에 기반한 지속가능한 도시공동체를 만들어가는 데 중요한 함의를 제공해주고 있다.

In accordance with the extend of alienation, anxiety and fatigue coming from urban life, the people who are expecting to raise up the stability of life through the restoration and expansion of communal living. For reason of above, recently people are more interested in the new contact between ‘city’ and ‘community’, the ‘urban community’. Today, urban community is newly tasked to solve the urban residents’ common problem and to co‑produce the required public good and also to develop the whole city as the mutual relationship. In this point, the cooperative has important role in organizing the actual needs in daily life and building its self‑reliance foundation through the cooperation, and it is closely related to urban community movement. For this reason, it is meaningful to see the specific case of Wonju area where has been the focus of the cooperative model city of today. The cases of Wonju for cooperative community shows the feature of establishing mutual cooperation system from below with the autonomous efforts of autonomous sector, not depending on external support. Especially, it overcomes the limit of each individual private subjects’ capacity by establishing mutual aid and cooperation system through the ‘network’. And this is worthy of notice. In other words, it makes cross‑sectoral collaboration system through the network, systematically connecting all the experience and capacity of local areas to current activity. Moreover, Wonju cooperative social economy network organizations are connecting not only ‘Thought‑Business‑Activity’ but also, ‘Man‑Money‑Product’ organically to build a vision of establishing whole Wonju area as the bloc, ecosystem and web of cooperative social economy. Further more, they change and also expand the role system by stages such as from community based cooperative movement to cooperative driven community. These experience and features of cooperative local community model of Wonju can provide important implication to our society to build sustainable urban community based on autonomy, self‑reliance and self‑governing.

In accordance with the extend of alienation, anxiety and fatigue coming from urban life, the people who are expecting to raise up the stability of life through the restoration and expansion of communal living. For reason of above, recently people are more interested in the new contact between ‘city’ and ‘community’, the ‘urban community’. Today, urban community is newly tasked to solve the urban residents’ common problem and to co‑produce the required public good and also to develop the whole city as the mutual relationship. In this point, the cooperative has important role in organizing the actual needs in daily life and building its self‑reliance foundation through the cooperation, and it is closely related to urban community movement. For this reason, it is meaningful to see the specific case of Wonju area where has been the focus of the cooperative model city of today. The cases of Wonju for cooperative community shows the feature of establishing mutual cooperation system from below with the autonomous efforts of autonomous sector, not depending on external support. Especially, it overcomes the limit of each individual private subjects’ capacity by establishing mutual aid and cooperation system through the ‘network’. And this is worthy of notice. In other words, it makes cross‑sectoral collaboration system through the network, systematically connecting all the experience and capacity of local areas to current activity. Moreover, Wonju cooperative social economy network organizations are connecting not only ‘Thought‑Business‑Activity’ but also, ‘Man‑Money‑Product’ organically to build a vision of establishing whole Wonju area as the bloc, ecosystem and web of cooperative social economy. Further more, they change and also expand the role system by stages such as from community based cooperative movement to cooperative driven community. These experience and features of cooperative local community model of Wonju can provide important implication to our society to build sustainable urban community based on autonomy, self‑reliance and self‑governing.

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