Welcome to the School of Commoning!

The School of Commoning is a growing worldwide community of people participating in the global and local commons. We support the developing commons movement, as well as interested organizations and individuals, with well-organized knowledge resources and educational programs on commoning and the commons.

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Making Worlds 2013: Building the Commons

School of Commoning members are working with The Future of Occupy to collaborate in this event, which aims to map, connect and build the commons in NYC and beyond. For more about the event see Making Worlds here (makingworlds.org). For resources and updates being published on an ongoing basis by The Future of Occupy click here and read more!

Take a Survey about Commons Education

Submitted by Anna Betz
on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 11:57

The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) is considering developing one or more training programs on the commons, in cooperation with Countryside and Community Research Institute of the University of Gloucestershire (UoG); the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales-UNAM; and the CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights Program (CAPRI). 

PsyCommons: The Richness of Everyday Relationships

Submitted by Anna Betz
on Sun, 05/05/2013 - 12:17
Just as psychiatrists have ‘enclosed’ mental illness as their domain of specialist practice, counsellors have done the same for human relations, argues Denis Postle.

The Remarkable Global Commons Advocate Silke Helfrich in London

 

Social Banking and the Commons

Submitted by George Pór
on Fri, 01/11/2013 - 21:28

"The Swiss are known for their highly secretive banking services for the super-wealthy. Who would have guessed that they would inaugurate a Summer School on Social Banking and the Commons?"

Re-posted from David Bollier's blog.

Seeds for a New Narrative of the Transition to a Commons-based Society?

Submitted by George Pór
on Mon, 12/24/2012 - 11:50

The title of the seminars series led by James Quilligan in London in May 2012 was The Emergence ofa Commons-Based Economy. In October 2012, and with the 5 more Commons seminars facilitated by James, we laid foundations for better understanding the potential of the Commons and commoning to usher in large-scale social renewal.

While we, at the School of Commoning, were working on co-organizing, hosting, and documenting those evens, unbeknown to us, a group of Commons scholars inspired by Elinor Ostrom’s work, at Indiana University, conducted a fascinating research in a Working Group on Managing the Health Commons.

The Practice of Commoning: (excerpt from) an interview with David Harvey

Submitted by George Pór
on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 17:09

I think the commons is a very important concept and it seems to me that we have to treat it as a political concept. It is about how we develop a common purpose. It is not simply about common usage, it is about developing a common purpose.

The Commons as a New/Old Paradigm for Governance, Economics and Policy

Submitted by Anna Betz
on Sun, 12/16/2012 - 21:53
Remarks by David Bollier
Commons Strategies Group
American Academy in Berlin
December 4, 2012
 

The Commoning of Patterns and the Patterns of Commoning: A Short Sketch

Submitted by Mark Jagdev
on Tue, 12/04/2012 - 00:00

In our increasingly complex urban age where the rate of change and innovation is rapidly increasing, the rigidity of outdated linear and analytic Cartesian design methods are being exposed as insufficient to meet the needs of the environment and the people.

From Labour as Commodity to Labour as a Common

Submitted by George Pór
on Fri, 11/23/2012 - 07:06

 

Excerpted from a draft of an article by Hilary Wainwright,  via Michel Bauwens:

Another implication for our own organisations, political and economic, is the importance of building into them the nurturing and development of this commons. We need to do this in both a prefigurative sense and as an immediate means of strengthening their transformative capacity.

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