Unifying Commons-based Projects in a Self-organized Solidarity Economy
There are also numerous commons-based projects focusing on the self-organised production and distribution of goods.
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Beyond Economism: The Prospect of the Commons
Nowadays, the social imagination is effectively being modelled in the framework of economism.
A Moment That Illuminates Our Structural Challenges
If nothing else, the election of Donald Trump illuminates many of the deep structural problems that we need to face squarely.
Terre de Liens: Experiencing and Managing Farmland as Commons
In this small, pastoral village of the French Pre-Alps, establishing young farmers is an act of will.
Disrupting Capitalist Democracy
This article analyses how platform businesses disrupt industries and suggests how emerging technologies and ownership models are ushering in a fundamentally new, truly democratic economy.
The Future of Work
Most of us are so busy playing this game, we hardly realise that we must step away to play a different game altogether.
The Case for “Disruptive Normality”
How should we prevent the social potential of sharing practices from being neutralized by the power of the neoliberal ideas and economy?
Patterns of Commoning
Just like farmers, we cannot really know how big and copious the harvest will be, or when exactly it will come. But we keep seeding to help make the commons visible at different levels…
The Quiet Revolution: Community Buyback in Wanlockhead, Scotland
Is the Scottish government truly sparking a revolution through land reform?
Working with Patterns: An Introduction
Using patterns enables people to communicate common ideas about complex relationships more easily and to seamlessly combine theoretical research with its practical application.
Crowdsourcing the Food Commons Transition: De-commodifying Food one Movement at a Time
Today, the purchasing power of any given person determines how much and which type of food he can get access to – or physically produce it by own private means- as almost every single piece of food on Earth is already a private good. Or not?
Commoning in Times of Disaster: The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
The project amounts to a “mapping commons” whose freely available geographic data is invaluable to humanitarian responders to natural disasters and crises.