The City Taking the Commons to Heart
Ghent is engaging with the Commons by re-imagining its structures around citizen participation, the sharing of resources, and ‘translocal’ cooperation.
Organizing and Governing the Commons: A Coop-Commons Multilevel Dialogue with Municipalities and Labour
Facilitating the convergence cooperatives, social and solidarity economy, commons (and open source and collaborative platforms), cities and trade unions.
Changing Societies through Urban Commons Transitions
A report examining the rise of the urban commons as both a bottom-up emergence by citizens/commoners and a radical municipal administrative configuration.
The Catalan Integral Cooperative: an organizational study of a post-capitalist cooperative
What does a post-capitalist, cooperative and open source society would look like? A full study on the Catalan Integral Cooperative.
Peer to Peer and the Commons: A matter, energy and thermodynamic perspective
Commons Transition presents this report in two volumes by Céline Piques and Xavier Rizos, with the support of P2P Foundation founder Michel Bauwens. The Commons movement is facing a challenge: to articulate the optimum rate at which a resource can be harvested or used without damaging its ability to replenish itself. The next economy will […]
The History and Evolution of the Commons
Is it possible to historicize the commons, to describe the evolution of the commons over time? This is our first draft and preliminary attempt to do so.
A Commons Transition Plan for the City of Ghent
Michel Bauwens documents the emergence and growth of the Commons in Ghent and suggests the bests public policies to support commons-based initiatives.
Cities Against the Wall
Two years into its governing mandate, how is Spain’s municipalist movement fighting back against the impositions of global capital?
Building a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth
Jessica Gordon Nembhard lays out the vision for a 21st century Cooperative Commonwealth characterised by interlocking ownership and solidarity structures.
Commons in the time of monsters: How P2P Politics can change the world, one city at a time
Can Commons and P2P practices offer viable solutions for our present and future social, political and ecological crises? This is the story of how it's done.