Patterns of Commoning
More than sixty frontline activists, academics and project leaders from twenty countries explain how commoning is empowering people to challenge the deep pathologies of contemporary capitalism and invent powerful, participatory alternatives. A special series of essays explores the inner dynamics of commoning - its ethics, social practices and worldview - to explain why the building of new worlds starts from within.
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Table of contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Overture: David Bollier and Silke Helfrich
PART I: PATTERNS OF COMMONING
- Helmut Leitner
Working with Patterns: An Introduction - Silke Helfrich
Patterns of Commoning: How We Can Bring About a Language of Commoning - Elinor Ostrom
Eight Design Principles for Successful Commons - German Commons Summer School
Eight Points of Orientation for Commoning - Marianne Gronemeyer
Conviviality - Intermezzo I: Can Commoners Become Self-aware of Their Collective Potential?
PART II: NOTABLE ACTS OF COMMONING ACROSS CULTURES & CENTURIES
Long-Lasting Commons
- Eric Nanchen and Muriel Borgeat
Bisse de Savièse: A Journey Through Time to the Irrigation System in Valais, Switzerland - Monica Vasile
The Role of Memory and Identity in the Obştea Forest Commons of Romania - Zelealem Tefera Ashenafi
The Resilience of an Indigenous Ethiopian Commons
Neighborhood Commons
- Soma K P and Richa Audichya
Our Ways of Knowing: Women Protect Common Forest Rights in Rajasthan - Véronique Rioufol and Sjoerd Wartena
Terre de Liens: Experiencing and Managing Farmland as Commons - Marcela Olivera
Water Beyond the State - Jannis Kühne
Notable Urban Commons Around the World
Biocultural Commons
- David Bollier
The Potato Park of Peru - Erika Styger
The System of Rice Intensification and Its International Community of Practice - David Holmgren
Twelve Design Principles of Permaculture
Arts and Culture Commons
- Michael Peter Edson
Fire and Frost: The Virtues of Treating Museums, Libraries and Archives as Commons - Dario Gentili and Andrea Mura
The Birth of a Theater Commons in Rome: Fondazione Teatro Valle Bene Comune - Salvatore Iaconesi
Digital Arts as a Commons - Alain Ambrosi and Frédéric Sultan
Remix The Commons: An Evolving Intercultural Space for Commoning - David Bollier
AS220 of Providence, Rhode Island: A Commons of, by and for Artists - Larry Harvey
The Principles of Burning Man
Collaborative Technology Commons
- Dorn Cox
Farm Hack: A Commons for Agricultural Innovation - Julio Sanchez Onofre
Arduino and the Open Hardware Revolution - Tristan Copley-Smith
The Growth of Open Design and Production - Interview with Architect Van Bo Le-Mentzel
On Openness, Commons & Unconditional Basic Work - Astrid Lorenzen
Fab Lab St. Pauli in Hamburg - Jacques Paysan
OpenSPIM: A High-Tech Commons for Research and Education
Code and Knowledge Commons
- Cameron Neylon
Open Access Pioneer: The Public Library of Science - Mike Linksvayer
Converting Proprietary Software into a Commons: The LibreOffice Story - Mary Lou Forward
OpenCourseWare and Open Education - Films and Videos About the Commons
Exchange and Credit Commons
- Jukka Peltokoski, Niklas Toivakainen, Tero Toivanen and Ruby van der Wekken Helsinki Timebank:
Currency as a Commons - Interview with Will Ruddick
How the Bangla-Pesa Tapped the Value of an Informal Community - James Stodder and Bernard Lietaer
WIR Currency – Reinventing Social Exchange
Tools and Infrastructure for Commoning
- Enric Senabre Hidalgo Goteo:
Crowdfunding to Build New Commons - Kate Chapman
Commoning in Times of Disaster: The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team - Ellen Friedman
Mapping Our Shared Wealth: The Cartography of the Commons - David Bollier
Licenses for Commoning: The GPL, Creative Commons Licenses and CopyFair - David Bollier, Lara Mallien & Santiago Hoerth Moura
New Ventures in Commons-Based Publishing
Spaces for Co-Learning
- Hannelore Hollinetz and Martin Hollinetz
Otelo – Open Technology Labs in Austria - Marcos García
Medialab-Prado: A Citizen Lab for Incubating Innovative Commons - Maria Bareli-Gaglia
Voyaging in the Sea of Ikarian Commons and Beyond - Claudia Gómez-Portugal M.
Learning as an Open Road, Learning as a Commons
Omni-Commons
- An Interview with members of Cecosesola
“We Are One Big Conversation”: Commoning in Venezuela - Ariadna Serra and Ale Fernandez Cooperativa Integral Catalana (CIC):
On the Way to a Society of the Communal - Intermezzo II: The Internal Dimensions of the External World: On Commons and Commoning
PART III: THE INNER DYNAMICS OF COMMONING
- Étienne Le Roy
How I Have Been Conducting Research on the Commons for Thirty Years Without Knowing It - Andrea J. Nightingale
Commons and Alternative Rationalities: Subjectivity, Emotion and the (Non)rational Commons - Anne Salmond
The Fountain Of Fish: Ontological Collisions At Sea - Nigel C. Gibson
The Ethical Struggle to Be Human: A Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa - Arturo Escobar
Commons in the Pluriverse - David Sloan Wilson
Generalizing the Commons - Andreas Weber
Reality as Commons: A Poetics of Participation for the Anthropocene
Finale
Index