This week, activists from all over the world get together in Amsterdam to kick-start the local municipalist movement. The event is a 4-day festival with speeches, debates, workshops, Q & A sessions…
Amsterdam University’s New Research Field: Urban Mental Health
Commons Network researcher Taru is investigating the links between capitalism, mental illness and commoning as a possible remedy. On our blog, she regularly posts updates from her project to keep us in…
Participation or Real Ownership?
Our colleague Ruth is researching the ‘Omgevingswet’, a new set of Dutch laws to manage the designing of the physical environment. Does this new system help the commons? On our blog, she…
Commons Network Joins the Amsterdam Fearless Cities Team
This summer, Commons Network started a new partnership with the municipal government of the city of Amsterdam. The city is where we re-invent politics and re-organise politics. Change happens in neighbourhoods, movements…