Commons

Oceans have always played a key role for life on earth. In his lecture, marine conservation biologist and author Callum Roberts (University of York, England), describes the distressing dimension that the relatively short human rule of the seas has reached throughout the past decade.

Is our economy essentially wrong? It beliefs in abundant material resources and meanwhile infinite immaterial resources like knowledge and design are maintained artifically scarce, but there is an alternative.

Even if the commons economies cannot provide an answer to each and every question today, one thing is certain: they are emerging in practice in diverse forms all over the world. And: their growth is unstoppable!

Keynote "New Infrastructures for Commoning by Design" (Miguel Said Vieira ) - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy.

Opening speech by Barbara Unmüßig - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy.

A Keynote by Daniela Gottschlich.

While at the American Academy as a Bosch Public Policy fellow in fall 2012, David A. Bollier produced a strategy memorandum as a foundation for further action in the commons world. His December 4 lecture spoke to the continuing appeal of the Commons, which stems both from a critique of neoliberal economics and policy, as well as from its practical systems for managing value. 

In the south of Mexico people are regenerating the society from the bottom up. It is a new kind of revolution without leaders or vanguards, which goes beyond development and globalization. It is about displacing the economy from the center of social life, reclaiming a communal way of being, encouraging radical pluralism, and advancing towards real democracy.