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…
Visiting: municipality South-East Amsterdam
Last week, Commons Network was invited to a presentation and co-creation session in the South-East of the city, organised by the municipality of Amsterdam. Civil servant Robertico Thomasa researched commons initiatives in…
What I Talk About When I Talk About Mental Health
We live in a society where stress is privatized. Inability to keep up with work/studies is too often considered as an individual weakness – a lack of strength in character. However, what…
This Week We Vote
Commons Network spent the last two years working on a programme called ‘Commons for Europe’. It was our way of streamlining our work in different fields into one coherent ‘campaign’, focused on…
The Top 10 Commons Network Publications: 2017-2019
It’s almost summer, so here is a selection of the ten most impactful publications (in no particular order) that we released in the past two years. 1. What can commoners do…
Commoners! What’s Next?
This essay was written by the organizing team behind the European Commons Assembly in Madrid. It was originally posted on the new ECA-platform. Go there. After the first European Commons Assembly…
Shared Spaces: New Paper on Urban Commons
Today, Commons Network is releasing the latest publication called ‘Urban Commons Shared Spaces’. The paper is a research project and report, based on 2 years of research in the cities of Berlin…
Neighbourhoods as Commons
How did I realize that a Commons Good based system was everything but utopian?
Commons Network co-hosts ‘the City as a Commons’ at Pakhuis de Zwijger-Amsterdam
Amsterdam 1 September 2016- An evening on the rich history and promising future of the commons. How can we govern urban commons in co-creation? In search of a new democracy we are…
Launch Commons Intergroup European Parliament May 26th
Article: What we Share, A Commons Integroup takes of in the European Parliament 2015-05-18 14:12:59 – Commonsnetwork