In an age characterised by a range of interlocking crises, we urgently need to re-imagine the future.
All over the world, people are waking to the corruption and injustice at the heart of the current world order. The search is on for alternative kinds of future.
A kaleidoscopic range of initiatives is emerging in which collective, community efforts point the way. These living practices of resource-sharing and relationship building are called ‘commoning’.
This page offers resources and links through which you can begin to explore this exciting way of living. Get involved. Be part of a new common sense.
You can view the ‘Re-imagine the Future’ film by clicking the link immediately below:
Re-imagine the Future
‘We need a new common sense that recognizes that each individual’s survival depends on his/her relationship with others, with the community, and with the environment’. (Ugo Mattei)
Resources on commons and commoning
More Film/Media
What is the Commons? (David Bollier)
Interview with Great Minds: David Bollier discusses the Commons on the Thom Hartmann show
The Commons Movement in Italy—with Ugo Mattei
Commoning the City: A Collection of Videos from a 2013 Conference on Urban Commoning
The Commons—with David Bollier
Commons in Action—Knowledge Commons
Commons in Action—Grupo de Estudios Ambientales’ Story
Michel Bauwen on Peer-to-Peer Economy and the P2P Foundation
Organisations/Groups—Get Involved! Explore these links for information, opportunities, ideas, contacts, tool kits and more
Bollier.org
The Commons Strategies Group
Sustainable Economies Law Centre
International Association for the Study of the Commons
Further Reading and Research
New to the Commons? An Introduction
Patterns of Commoning—David Bollier and Silke Helfrich (eds)
State Power and Commoning: Transcending a Problematic Relationship—David Bollier
First Thoughts for a Phenomenology of the Commons—Ugo Mattei
The Commoner—A Web Journal for Other Values
Kosmos Journal: Commons Special Feature
New Heterodox Research on the Commons (In the Review of Radical Political Economics)
International Journal of the Commons
Maps in the Spirit of the Commons