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…
Commoning and Mental Health: The Way Forward
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…
Generation Hope, Commons and Municipalism: Ecopolis Festival 2019
Commons Network is participating in the Ecopolis Festival in Brussels, organised by our friends at think tank Oikos and the Green European Foundation. During this event, Commons Network’s Thomas and Sophie will…
Is The New Dutch Environment and Planning Act Good For The Commons?
Every week or so, our colleague Ruth will keep us updated on her ongoing research into the new Dutch law for the planning and design of the physical environment and how it…
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…
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…