This Friday 26 March we are kicking off the Cities for Change Forum, through which organizers, activists and artists, together with politicians and civil servants, will join forces for a more just,…
Fearless City Amsterdam: housing is about homes, not investment
Amsterdam is part of the global municipalist Fearless Cities network. Commons Network collaborates with activist groups in the dotank The 99 of Amsterdam that embodies the Amsterdam tranche of the Fearless Cities network.…
Vrij Beton: crowdfunding free cultural spaces
Amsterdam is gentrifying and becoming more homogeneous. Over the past few years, many free cultural spaces have been terminated. Diversity and creativity, said to be quintessential Amsterdam values, are disappearing. Our friends…
Urban commons: utilizing the Right to Challenge in Rotterdam
With a bang we published a booklet on urban commons two years ago: Urban Commons: Shared Spaces. Among the policy recommendations in the paper was the Right to Challenge, one of the…
Cape Town: Towards a Municipal Regulation for the Commons
Crowdsourcing a Commons Transition Plan in Cape Town
Another Amsterdam food coop is transforming the food system
Amsterdam has a long list of initiatives trying to change the way we look at the food on our daily plates. From global to local, from refined to organice, and from for-profit…
A big step towards sustainable and cooperative tourism
Last week Commons Network joined a virtual-but-local Amsterdam meeting hosted by FairBnB.coop. We learned from its founders about a new and promising model for sustainable and cooperative tourism. In this blog we…
Introducing our new board member: Sandra Bos
– – – S C R O L L D O W N F O R E N G L I S H – – – We zijn blij aan te…
“Nobody is in charge, but everything gets done”
- - [ S C R O L L D O W N F O R E N G L I S H ] - - Voor ons onderzoek naar de toekomst…
Conferentie Commons en de Omgevingsvisie: Een verslag
Conferentie Commons en de Omgevingsvisie: Een Verslag