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Published: 25 July 2021

In the societal discussion about alternative economic models, the concept of the commons is gaining significance and attracting broad attention. ➤ On this page, you will find current articles, publications, and thematic focuses on the commons.

Dossier: Patterns of Commoning

Published: 25 January 2016

The book Patterns of Commoning is a special series of essays which explores the inner dynamics of commoning - its ethics, social practices and worldview. In our dossier you can find a selection of nine texts to stimulate your appetite for more.

Articles

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Fire and Frost: The Virtues of Treating Museums, Libraries and Archives as Commons

Published: 19 January 2016

Civilization can't affort to lose archives and libraries. Free, unrestricted digital access is the key, and the creativity and action of citizens is what turns it in the lock. From the book "Patterns of Commoning"

By Michael Edson

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Free, fair, and alive: the insurgent power of the commons

Published: 6 September 2019

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Ambitious, sophisticated, and resolutely grounded in everyday realities, "Free, Fair and Alive" present a compelling vision of a future that can actually work. Written by two highly experienced commons activists, this book is at once a penetrating cultural critique, table-pounding political treatise, and practical playbook for building a new world of commoning.

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Changing Societies through Urban Commons Transitions

Published: 8 February 2018

Why are urban commons so crucial for a social-ecological transition? A review on grassroots initiatives for urban commons transitions in the global north and south and the construction of an institutional framework.

By Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros

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Supporting the Commons: Opportunities in the EU policy landscape

Published: 30 April 2017

This policy document reflects on some of the EU policy barriers and opportunities in the areas of participatory democracy, the urban environment and knowledge in the digital environment.

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Re-imagining Value: Insights from the Care Economy, Commons, Cyberspace and Nature

Published: 7 March 2017

What is valuable in society and how shall we protect it? This report, written by David Bollier, draws upon three days of discussion by twenty thinkers and activists convened by the Commons Strategies Group.

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Value in the Commons Economy: Developments in Open and Contributory Value Accounting

Published: 1 February 2017

Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros of the P2P Foundation explore how new value regimes - such as for example open and contributory value accounting practices - can represent a shift towards post-capitalist practices.

By Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros

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Trade Agreements and the Supply of Public Goods

Published: 16 June 2016

This is the report of a Berlin workshop that was designed to serve as a space for experts with backgrounds in international trade, law, the environment and public health to review the draft of a WTO Agreement for the Supply of Global Public Goods as proposed by KEI and provide technical and strategic advice on how to move forward.

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State Power and Commoning - Transcending a Problematic Relationship

Published: 15 June 2016

The report summarizes the outcome of a workshop of the Commons Strategies Group in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation with a diverse group of twenty commons-oriented activists, academics, policy experts and project leaders for three days in Lehnin, Germany, outside of Berlin, from February 28 to March 1, 2016.

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Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons

Published: 15 January 2016

This "Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons" report is a rare synthesis of perspectives for rethinking money & finance, even if a more complete commons agenda on this topic remains to be developed.

By David Bollier

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Commons

Dossiers

Commons

Dossier: Patterns of Commoning

Articles

How the coronavirus is forcing us to think beyond market and state

The Potato Park of Peru

How the Bangla-Pesa tapped the Value of an Informal Community

Farm Hack: A Commons for Agricultural Innovation

Venezuela: "We Are One Big Conversation"

How I Have Been Conducting Research on the Commons Without Knowing It

The Ethical Struggle to Be Human: A Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa

Fire and Frost: The Virtues of Treating Museums, Libraries and Archives as Commons

Publications

Free, fair, and alive: the insurgent power of the commons

Changing Societies through Urban Commons Transitions

Supporting the Commons: Opportunities in the EU policy landscape

Re-imagining Value: Insights from the Care Economy, Commons, Cyberspace and Nature

Value in the Commons Economy: Developments in Open and Contributory Value Accounting

Trade Agreements and the Supply of Public Goods

State Power and Commoning - Transcending a Problematic Relationship

Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons

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