Patterns of C O M M O N I N G

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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

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

Finale