Patterns of
COMMONING
Contents
Overture | David Bollier and Silke Helfrich
PART I: PATTERNS OF COMMONING
Helmut Leitner
Working with Patterns: An Introduction
Silke Helfrich
Patterns of Commoning:
How We Can Bring About a Language of Commoning
Elinor Ostrom
Eight Design Principles for Successful Commons
German Commons Summer School
Eight Points of Orientation for Commoning
Marianne Gronemeyer
Conviviality
Intermezzo I: Can Commoners Become Self-Aware of Their Collective Potential?
PART II: NOTABLE ACTS OF COMMONING ACROSS CULTURES & CENTURIES
Long-Lasting Commons
Eric Nanchen and Muriel Borgeat
Bisse de Savièse: A Journey Through Time to the Irrigation System in Valais, Switzerland
Monica Vasile
The Role of Memory and Identity in the Obştea Forest Commons of Romania
Zelealem Tefera Ashenafi
The Resilience of an Indigenous Ethiopian Commons
Neighborhood Commons
Soma K P and Richa Audichya
Our Ways of Knowing: Women Protect Common Forest Rights in Rajasthan
Véronique Rioufol and Sjoerd Wartena
Terre de Liens: Experiencing and Managing Farmland as Commons
Marcela Olivera
Water Beyond the State
Jannis Kühne
Notable Urban Commons Around the World
Biocultural Commons
David Bollier
The Potato Park of Peru
Erika Styger
The System of Rice Intensification and Its International Community of Practice
David Holmgren
Twelve Design Principles of Permaculture
Arts and Culture Commons
Michael Peter Edson
Fire and Frost: The Virtues of Treating Museums, Libraries and Archives as Commons
Dario Gentili and Andrea Mura
The Birth of a Theater Commons in Rome: Fondazione Teatro Valle Bene Comune
Salvatore Iaconesi
Digital Arts as a Commons
Alain Ambrosi and Frédéric Sultan
Remix The Commons: An Evolving Intercultural Space for Commoning
David Bollier
AS220 of Providence, Rhode Island: A Commons of, by and for Artists
Larry Harvey
The Principles of Burning Man
Collaborative Technology Commons
Dorn Cox
Farm Hack: A Commons for Agricultural Innovation
Julio Sanchez Onofre
Arduino and the Open Hardware Revolution
Tristan Copley-Smith
The Growth of Open Design and Production
Interview with Architect Van Bo Le-Mentzel
On Openness, Commons & Unconditional Basic Work
Astrid Lorenzen
Fab Lab St. Pauli in Hamburg
Jacques Paysan
OpenSPIM: A High-Tech Commons for Research and Education
Code and Knowledge Commons
Cameron Neylon
Open Access Pioneer: The Public Library of Science
Mike Linksvayer
Converting Proprietary Software into a Commons: The LibreOffice Story
Mary Lou Forward
OpenCourseWare and Open Education
Films and Videos About the Commons
Exchange and Credit Commons
Jukka Peltokoski, Niklas Toivakainen, Tero Toivanen and Ruby van der Wekken
Helsinki Timebank: Currency as a Commons
Interview with Will Ruddick
How the Bangla-Pesa Tapped the Value of an Informal Community
James Stodder and Bernard Lietaer
WIR Currency – Reinventing Social Exchange
Tools and Infrastructure for Commoning
Enric Senabre Hidalgo
Goteo: Crowdfunding to Build New Commons
Kate Chapman
Commoning in Times of Disaster: The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Ellen Friedman
Mapping Our Shared Wealth: The Cartography of the Commons
David Bollier
Licenses for Commoning: The GPL, Creative Commons Licenses and CopyFair
David Bollier, Lara Mallien & Santiago Hoerth Moura
New Ventures in Commons-Based Publishing
Spaces for Co-Learning
Hannelore Hollinetz and Martin Hollinetz
Otelo – Open Technology Labs in Austria
Marcos García
Medialab-Prado: A Citizen Lab for Incubating Innovative Commons
Maria Bareli-Gaglia
Voyaging in the Sea of Ikarian Commons and Beyond
Claudia Gómez-Portugal M.
Learning as an Open Road, Learning as a Commons
Omni-Commons
An Interview with members of Cecosesola
“We Are One Big Conversation”: Commoning in Venezuela
Ariadna Serra and Ale Fernandez
Cooperativa Integral Catalana (CIC): On the Way to a Society of the Communal
Intermezzo II: The Internal Dimensions of the External World: On Commons and Commoning
PART III: THE INNER DYNAMICS OF COMMONING
Étienne Le Roy
How I Have Been Conducting Research on the Commons for Thirty Years Without Knowing It
Andrea J. Nightingale
Commons and Alternative Rationalities: Subjectivity, Emotion and the (Non)rational Commons
Anne Salmond
The Fountain Of Fish: Ontological Collisions At Sea
Nigel C. Gibson
The Ethical Struggle to Be Human: A Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa
Arturo Escobar
Commons in the Pluriverse
David Sloan Wilson
Generalizing the Commons
Andreas Weber
Reality as Commons: A Poetics of Participation for the Anthropocene
