Results tagged by Commons

24-Mar-2022

Art, Design and Architectural Practices Beyond Precarious Working and Living Conditions

Precarious working and living conditions are daunting, but they can be a launch pad for creating worlds that are socially and ecologically just. Artists, designers and architects can turn their skills towards creating economies, support structures and modes of life that can move themselves and others beyond precarity. To do so, this essay invites them to draw on feminist and posthumanist approaches to the world as points of orientation and inspiration for individual and collective action.

01-Jun-2019

Reinventing the Commons

a conversation with Pascale Gatzen, head of the fashion design's Master programme at ArtEZ University of the Arts & David Bollier, director of 'Reinventing the Commons' program at the Schumacher Center for New Economics

30-May-2019

Re-imagining Fashion as an Ecosystem of Commons

This paper describes how diverse commoners around the world are pioneering creative, post-capitalist forms of provisioning, peer governance, and social practice. The principles of commoning—autonomous ‘world-making’ of provisioning and peer governance from within market/state polities—may hold some answers in helping to imagine a new ecosystem of commons for fashion design, provisioning, and distribution.